I left a small anonymous text file asking the owner to secure the laptop in the future, and wrote out step-by-step how to do it.
That wasn't very elegant way to handle that. Snooping into other people's files and telling them what to do is not cool, no matter if the objects are password-protected or not. I guess that's why the woman freaked.
And if I were to get a little text file like that, how would I know that you didn't actually tamper something else in the process.
+1 for this. Most of the cases DD-WRT is more secure and stable than the manufacturer-provided firmware.
But still, these kind of community-built firmwares should not be required to have a good experience. As paying customers, we should demand high-quality firmware and consistent security updates directly from the manufacturer.
Ehh... 40 bits would give 1000 billion addresses instead of the current 4 billion. I'm fine with IPv6's 128 bits, let's go by that, but even 40 bits would absolutely be fine for an extremely long time.
"Hey Joe, what's your IP address?"
"Oh, let me see... it's fe80:0:0:0:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf"
Holy crap that's long. The second IP addresses become this difficult to exchange verbally, we're going to stop referring to them altogether.
I find that very annoying too. Why didn't they make it look like IPv4 but with just one extra value, i.e. 123.123.123.123.123. Much more user-friendly.
Even through all addresses have been given out, there's still so much slack to shuffle things around in the IPv4 space. We will still go another good 10 years before moving into IPv6 in a large scale.
Well, she'd better keep it out of Sweden. Apart from the Swedish opinion on hookers and blackjack, the Swedish FRA loves giving all data passing through the country to the NSA.
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I left a small anonymous text file asking the owner to secure the laptop in the future, and wrote out step-by-step how to do it.
That wasn't very elegant way to handle that. Snooping into other people's files and telling them what to do is not cool, no matter if the objects are password-protected or not. I guess that's why the woman freaked.
And if I were to get a little text file like that, how would I know that you didn't actually tamper something else in the process.
I know you were just trying to help, but still...
It sucks that your experience was lackluster, though :/ Have you checked if there's been newer releases of DD-WRT for your D-Link?
And if the problem persists, submitting a detailed bug report might be a good idea too.
Shit, man - I can do that with a Raspberry Pi, a copy of FreeBSD, a multi-GB MicroSD stick, and I'd get an infinitely more secure solution to boot. :/
So the idea of the Asus product is that you don't have to do the hours of manual crafting that your solution requires.
Just install DD WRT and have done with it.
+1 for this. Most of the cases DD-WRT is more secure and stable than the manufacturer-provided firmware.
But still, these kind of community-built firmwares should not be required to have a good experience. As paying customers, we should demand high-quality firmware and consistent security updates directly from the manufacturer.
Ehh... 40 bits would give 1000 billion addresses instead of the current 4 billion. I'm fine with IPv6's 128 bits, let's go by that, but even 40 bits would absolutely be fine for an extremely long time.
That is simply not true anymore.
I was talking about a solely 40-bit address space -- something different than IPv6.
Exactly, that was my point.
Avoiding subnet masks is definitely a plus.
What's holding it back is the absolute refusal of consumer-grade network device makers to support it.
Most consumer networking gear supports IPv6 these days.
Obviously my suggestion assumed a 40-bit address space.
"Hey Joe, what's your IP address?" "Oh, let me see... it's fe80:0:0:0:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf"
Holy crap that's long. The second IP addresses become this difficult to exchange verbally, we're going to stop referring to them altogether.
I find that very annoying too. Why didn't they make it look like IPv4 but with just one extra value, i.e. 123.123.123.123.123. Much more user-friendly.
That's odd. I could have sworn that a couple years ago it was reported that the final bunch was handed out somewhere in Asia.
Even through all addresses have been given out, there's still so much slack to shuffle things around in the IPv4 space. We will still go another good 10 years before moving into IPv6 in a large scale.
I heard the boycott was extended with another week.
Yeah, I guess that was it.
Mmkay.
I still am redirected to the wiki page when I access Soylent News.
I have a similar feeling about the story.
VP8/VP9. Include VLC Portable on your USB stick and you're fine.
And make the recipient of that stick to execute untrusted software?
Well, she'd better keep it out of Sweden. Apart from the Swedish opinion on hookers and blackjack, the Swedish FRA loves giving all data passing through the country to the NSA.
That's also why Finland wants an alternative pipe to mid-Europe and not be routed through Sweden.
Or run to a proprietary dungeon like OSX or Windows.
"Proprietary dungeon". :D
That was funny.
Yeah, I've been thinking about that sometimes. A healthy discussion kind of needs a smidge of trolling.
That would lead to a miserable and stressful life.
It might still be the best way (of various choices which are all bad in some way).