"Blaming these misdeeds on China is unacceptable," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a news briefing in Beijing, according to The Telegraph.
"Hacking is an international problem and China is also a victim. The claims of so-called Chinese state support for hacking are completely fictitious and have ulterior motives."
Because Netflix isn't losing that much business, and knows that going after password sharing is a futile undertaking. The MPAA on the other hand, does care about every little dime they can squeeze and doesn't worry about the futility of its own actions.
Yeah, but unfortunately Walmart probably set ecology back 100 years by decimating the small, walking distance corner markets. Lower prices, higher emissions.
I read border and cyber security, but it all looks like blah-blah-DMCA-blah-blah-Patriot Act-blah blah. This is a smoke screen. There's no Canadian/US boarder problem. There's only a CMPDA/MPAA & CRIA/RIAA problem. Oh yeah, and we gotta git d'em turrists with a stronger North American wide Patriot Act!
AT&T and Verizon do this all the time, and this won't stop them. I didn't read the full document, but from the summary I find this laughable. They'll just get creative. Instead of "Buy 1 iPad and get another Free! (w/ new contract)", they'll say, "Buy 2 iPads and get a $499 Loaded Visa(r) Card back(w/ new contract)".
They don't need to say free, rebate, or anything. They could do these on credit as well. "Purchase an iPad with our new Consumer Debit Card!" and on a different poster "Spend at least $499 with our new Consumer Debit Card and you're automatically entered to win to have it paid off for you!"
Quite honestly, Apple may know all the ways to lock something down, but they are RANK AMATEURS if they think retailers won't find each and every loop hole.
It let's you print off backup verification codes in case you lose your phone or the battery dies which you can put in your wallet, safety deposit box, or caved in mine shaft. Also, you can authorize a computer/ip for up to 30 days. So, as long as your phone is good at least once every 30 days, you'll be fine.
I use Lastpass (which got hacked recently, but my LastPass crypto password was pretty secure). I also use the Google 2 Step Authentication. Once Facebok implements this as well, I will switch immediately. I log in to most sites with either Google or Facebook. I prefer Google, because it's usually just confirming the email, whereas apps that log in to Facebook want access to data, my wall, my friends, etc. That's as stupid, imo, as an app or site asking, "Login with Google, and give us permission to read your email and send email as you."
What many people don't know is that Google has some privacy features built in if you know where to look. At the bottom of the page it says something like:
Last account activity: 4 minutes ago at this IP (127.0.0.1). Details
Click Details and you'll see:
This account does not seem to be open in any other location. However, there may be sessions that have not been signed out.
Browser * United States (NY) (127.0.0.1) 5:45 am (0 minutes ago) Browser United States (NY) (127.0.0.1) 5:39 am (5 minutes ago) Mobile United States (NY) (127.0.0.1) 4:03 am (1.5 hours ago) Mobile United States (CA) (127.0.0.2) 6:19 pm (11 hours ago) Browser United States (NY) (127.0.0.1) Jun 1 (18 hours ago) Mobile United States (NY) (127.0.0.3) Jun 1 (20 hours ago)
Now, unless you were in CA recently (or have a proxy), this shows that someone hacked your account 11 hours ago from California.
Click the "Sign out all other sessions" button, then go change your password ASAP and enable 2 Step Authentication if you haven't already.
Indiana. They give out sales tax wavers to Internet businesses, have no specific Internet tax. Just call and ask the Amazon offices already located here.
Indiana is also home to the Internet 2 NOC, many ISPs to choose from, and with the Superbowl coming to Indy next year, cell companies (expecially AT&T) are running major upgrades to 4G here.
We also have a low cost of living, and the recession has not hit us particularly hard. And unlike California, we're not bankrupt.
Politically, we're very centrist. All our major cities are liberal, and rural are conservative. But neither is wildly so. We've had a democratic governor and senator, and now a republican governor (while at the same time, voting for Obama).
Indiana's main advantage is being the the midwest's major hub, both commercially and digitally. Our state motto is "The Crossroads of America".
Even Apple must abide by the law of pick two out of three In this case, it's secure, easy, and cheap. The Apple Mac and mobile app stores must abide by this as well.
It doesn't "just works" if its circumvented so soon. To be exact, "it just works... like any other anti-virus." And until Apple charges for it, it must fund the effort completely on its own. The same goes for it's walled garden. That comes at an expense to them. It lowers their offerings, and costs them to monitor everything.
It is also a case of secure, easy, and private. If it is invisible, automatic, and self-updating, the user loses privacy so long as Apple can reach out and destroy any piece of software on your Mac that it deems bad. After all, if there is no user interaction, it is not asking your permission to do whatever it wants.
So grandparent is right. Windows has built in malware protection and third party virus and malware protection. And just like windows, it will continually be broken. From my perspective as a Network Administrator, this is exactly like corporate windows. In this case, the sysadmin is Steve Jobs, and he decides what is malware and what is not. Simply by running a Mac, you are under his control, as though Apple were simply leasing the machine to you. In a corporation, it is the company's machine, and they retain total control, even to spy on all activities there. So a move by Apple to make unilateral decisions on equipment you own really means you no longer own it in the traditional sense.
And while Windows licensing says that MS has many options, how many people remember the uproar about MS shutting down what it deemed were pirated copies of Windows? MS backed away from that very quickly, and changed it's methods (though not its goal). But, that was MS and that was their Windows license. This is Apple, and the application is on software that it DOESN'T legally own. This idea that companies perpetually own devices you "buy" is troubling to me. They have enforced it on iPhone/Pad/Pod. This looks like they are creeping this control to the Mac. No, they let you run outside of any Mac walled garden... so far. But this level of automatic/invisible control can be just as affective in limiting what they think you should or should not be running.
This is supposed to be an ominous threat to anonymous? FYI to NATO, not only is nobody and everybody "anonymous", but they are and aren't at the same time. Some people might have hated Scientology, but could give a shit about Sony, and vice-versa. Even if you could put names and faces on anonymous, it would be an old list within a few months.
They're not terrorists like Al Qaeda. They're not organized, have no purpose, have no leader, have no aims, and have no "members". Anonymous is a group of people who find a like minded cause, go do whatever, then break back up. They take the name "Anonymous" for the time being, for the mystic and FUD it produces, and drop it for someone else to pick up. Saying you'll go after them is as absurd as saying you're going after "The Boogie Man". It's just a name of a group of people who have no name and don't exist as a group except when it forms and acts.
There are people that heard Anonymous was doing X, did something they thought helped, called themselves Anonymous... and hadn't even HEARD of 4chan or Chanology. And yet... they're Anonymous too!
It's like ice. Ice can form under certain conditions in a lake. But you can't say to the lake, "Hand over your ice and no innocent water gets hurt!" The lake is the ice, the ice is the lake. You can't dip your glass into the lake, pull out water and go, "A-ha! I've captured the ice!"
I really don't know how many fucking metaphors we have to go through to explain this to the technophobes.
Look at where that link leads... Lookout anti-virus software for Android. People's entire lives live on these phones. Why would people not protect it?
I find it sad that so many "power" users scoffed at anti-virus/anti-malware for their phones. Waste of space and resources they said. I run Lookout, which does more than just anti-virus. It scans new files I download, then goes away quietly to the background, backs up files, etc. I also run a firewall and adblock software (rooted). I conduct private, work, and finances on my phone. People that do that need to get out of their dreamworld that their phone is hacker proof, regardless of who makes it or what OS it runs. Even if they are behind a walled garden or you never download from unknown publishers, they all run browsers and all browsers can be exploited.
The more powerful phones get, the more they will be targeted. I'm surprised major zombie trojans haven't infected more phones yet. Millions of cheap cpu's for a botnet is a very tempting target, and as they can frequently jump on different wifi and cellular networks, with changing hosts and IPs, They would be hard to block for spam. They would also make for one heck of a DDOS weapon. And with storage ever increasing, they could be hijacked for file sharing.
I've never flown into a rage after viewing porn. Also, they view movies and television shows in prisons with moderate amounts of nudity. Have any riots started because of cleavage?
While I understand prison is punishment, I would sooner believe that forced sexual repression can probably cause manias and lead to deviant/violent behavior. It's like the effect of Drunk Tank Pink. Several municipalities have tried it. And while the color does create calm for a while, after an extended period and over exposure, the effect is completely reversed causing violent attitudes.
I want to hear what a real psychologist has to say about this.
I remember reading about these over the past decades. The number 1 thing stopping them (besides cost) was safety. Apparently, they've figured out the right materials to prevent micro-fractures from building up and exploding these things like small nuclear bombs. I wonder if they are safe enough for home use, yet. Anyone have a link to a safety analysis and the rate at which they need replaced versus the time between fractures?
They always need excuses to raise rates. This is their excuse, even before usage goes up. "Projections show we need to quintuple bandwidth!" 500% increase in rates on all users, purchase a new routers for major urban areas, screw everyone else.
Microsoft doesn't want to go the XBox route (which I think is a mistake, since it worked so well for them) which would mirror Apple. But, because they own the code, they feel that going the Google route isn't right either. It seems to me control for control's sake. I can imagine placing restrictions, just as they did on PCs. But to restrict based on the manufacturers themselves, which will lock all others out... they are treading dangerously close to another anti-trust lawsuit, IMHO, IANAL.
No company worth their salt will put all the company data "on the cloud" No way in HELL is my customer DB and accounting DB going on the cloud.
While I sympathize with you, that doesn't make sense. Google's data is on Google's cloud. Facebook's data is on Facebook's cloud. Now, the question is, are you big enough to build your own cloud, or can you leverage the advantage of another, larger company's cloud? As long as you remember that cloud is not perfect, and you do proper backups, you are completely fine. A server on premises can fail as, or more, easily than a server in a cloud. If you never back up either, then it's the same mistake, not some new "how dare you trust the cloud?!?" mistake.
It's the difference between treating cloud as "a" server, and not "the" server.
Apples are also wax polished. People really have no idea what they eat. When they find out, they tend to freak out. This is the same with cellphones causing cancer. Radiation can cause cancer, and many things we use cause radiation. It's not like we're getting it in any significant amount, but people still freak out, just like they may freak out about apples being wax polished. But has anyone crapped a candle yet?
Absolutely correct. Unfortunately to many reporters, even tech reporters, lack of money means technology dies. With (L)GPL and similar licenses, it's lack of use that really kills a project. As long as something is used widely, someone will develop it, or at least keep it running as new hardware comes out. Money helps, certainly, but it is not everything. For instance, Torvalds certainly is no billionare who pays others to make all of his software. Though, that is another option for creating software.
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"Blaming these misdeeds on China is unacceptable," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a news briefing in Beijing, according to The Telegraph.
"Hacking is an international problem and China is also a victim. The claims of so-called Chinese state support for hacking are completely fictitious and have ulterior motives."
Here is a picture of the spokesman.
Because Netflix isn't losing that much business, and knows that going after password sharing is a futile undertaking. The MPAA on the other hand, does care about every little dime they can squeeze and doesn't worry about the futility of its own actions.
... they already have a surgical assassination team trained in both WoW and Farmville.
Yeah, but unfortunately Walmart probably set ecology back 100 years by decimating the small, walking distance corner markets. Lower prices, higher emissions.
But Uranus must use natural gas. Solar power doesn't work where the sun don't shine.
I highly doubt a man pedaling a stationary bike powering an Atari is an act of war.
I read border and cyber security, but it all looks like blah-blah-DMCA-blah-blah-Patriot Act-blah blah. This is a smoke screen. There's no Canadian/US boarder problem. There's only a CMPDA/MPAA & CRIA/RIAA problem. Oh yeah, and we gotta git d'em turrists with a stronger North American wide Patriot Act!
AT&T and Verizon do this all the time, and this won't stop them. I didn't read the full document, but from the summary I find this laughable. They'll just get creative. Instead of "Buy 1 iPad and get another Free! (w/ new contract)", they'll say, "Buy 2 iPads and get a $499 Loaded Visa(r) Card back(w/ new contract)".
They don't need to say free, rebate, or anything. They could do these on credit as well. "Purchase an iPad with our new Consumer Debit Card!" and on a different poster "Spend at least $499 with our new Consumer Debit Card and you're automatically entered to win to have it paid off for you!"
Quite honestly, Apple may know all the ways to lock something down, but they are RANK AMATEURS if they think retailers won't find each and every loop hole.
It let's you print off backup verification codes in case you lose your phone or the battery dies which you can put in your wallet, safety deposit box, or caved in mine shaft. Also, you can authorize a computer/ip for up to 30 days. So, as long as your phone is good at least once every 30 days, you'll be fine.
I use Lastpass (which got hacked recently, but my LastPass crypto password was pretty secure). I also use the Google 2 Step Authentication. Once Facebok implements this as well, I will switch immediately. I log in to most sites with either Google or Facebook. I prefer Google, because it's usually just confirming the email, whereas apps that log in to Facebook want access to data, my wall, my friends, etc. That's as stupid, imo, as an app or site asking, "Login with Google, and give us permission to read your email and send email as you."
What many people don't know is that Google has some privacy features built in if you know where to look. At the bottom of the page it says something like:
Last account activity: 4 minutes ago at this IP (127.0.0.1). Details
Click Details and you'll see:
This account does not seem to be open in any other location. However, there may be sessions that have not been signed out.
Browser * United States (NY) (127.0.0.1) 5:45 am (0 minutes ago)
Browser United States (NY) (127.0.0.1) 5:39 am (5 minutes ago)
Mobile United States (NY) (127.0.0.1) 4:03 am (1.5 hours ago)
Mobile United States (CA) (127.0.0.2) 6:19 pm (11 hours ago)
Browser United States (NY) (127.0.0.1) Jun 1 (18 hours ago)
Mobile United States (NY) (127.0.0.3) Jun 1 (20 hours ago)
Now, unless you were in CA recently (or have a proxy), this shows that someone hacked your account 11 hours ago from California.
Click the "Sign out all other sessions" button, then go change your password ASAP and enable 2 Step Authentication if you haven't already.
Indiana. They give out sales tax wavers to Internet businesses, have no specific Internet tax. Just call and ask the Amazon offices already located here.
Indiana is also home to the Internet 2 NOC, many ISPs to choose from, and with the Superbowl coming to Indy next year, cell companies (expecially AT&T) are running major upgrades to 4G here.
We also have a low cost of living, and the recession has not hit us particularly hard. And unlike California, we're not bankrupt.
Politically, we're very centrist. All our major cities are liberal, and rural are conservative. But neither is wildly so. We've had a democratic governor and senator, and now a republican governor (while at the same time, voting for Obama).
Indiana's main advantage is being the the midwest's major hub, both commercially and digitally. Our state motto is "The Crossroads of America".
Even Apple must abide by the law of pick two out of three In this case, it's secure, easy, and cheap. The Apple Mac and mobile app stores must abide by this as well.
It doesn't "just works" if its circumvented so soon. To be exact, "it just works... like any other anti-virus." And until Apple charges for it, it must fund the effort completely on its own. The same goes for it's walled garden. That comes at an expense to them. It lowers their offerings, and costs them to monitor everything.
It is also a case of secure, easy, and private. If it is invisible, automatic, and self-updating, the user loses privacy so long as Apple can reach out and destroy any piece of software on your Mac that it deems bad. After all, if there is no user interaction, it is not asking your permission to do whatever it wants.
So grandparent is right. Windows has built in malware protection and third party virus and malware protection. And just like windows, it will continually be broken. From my perspective as a Network Administrator, this is exactly like corporate windows. In this case, the sysadmin is Steve Jobs, and he decides what is malware and what is not. Simply by running a Mac, you are under his control, as though Apple were simply leasing the machine to you. In a corporation, it is the company's machine, and they retain total control, even to spy on all activities there. So a move by Apple to make unilateral decisions on equipment you own really means you no longer own it in the traditional sense.
And while Windows licensing says that MS has many options, how many people remember the uproar about MS shutting down what it deemed were pirated copies of Windows? MS backed away from that very quickly, and changed it's methods (though not its goal). But, that was MS and that was their Windows license. This is Apple, and the application is on software that it DOESN'T legally own. This idea that companies perpetually own devices you "buy" is troubling to me. They have enforced it on iPhone/Pad/Pod. This looks like they are creeping this control to the Mac. No, they let you run outside of any Mac walled garden... so far. But this level of automatic/invisible control can be just as affective in limiting what they think you should or should not be running.
Biologists studying Pandas can appreciate successful and relatively effortless procreation.
This is supposed to be an ominous threat to anonymous? FYI to NATO, not only is nobody and everybody "anonymous", but they are and aren't at the same time. Some people might have hated Scientology, but could give a shit about Sony, and vice-versa. Even if you could put names and faces on anonymous, it would be an old list within a few months.
They're not terrorists like Al Qaeda. They're not organized, have no purpose, have no leader, have no aims, and have no "members". Anonymous is a group of people who find a like minded cause, go do whatever, then break back up. They take the name "Anonymous" for the time being, for the mystic and FUD it produces, and drop it for someone else to pick up. Saying you'll go after them is as absurd as saying you're going after "The Boogie Man". It's just a name of a group of people who have no name and don't exist as a group except when it forms and acts.
There are people that heard Anonymous was doing X, did something they thought helped, called themselves Anonymous... and hadn't even HEARD of 4chan or Chanology. And yet... they're Anonymous too!
It's like ice. Ice can form under certain conditions in a lake. But you can't say to the lake, "Hand over your ice and no innocent water gets hurt!" The lake is the ice, the ice is the lake. You can't dip your glass into the lake, pull out water and go, "A-ha! I've captured the ice!"
I really don't know how many fucking metaphors we have to go through to explain this to the technophobes.
Look at where that link leads... Lookout anti-virus software for Android. People's entire lives live on these phones. Why would people not protect it?
I find it sad that so many "power" users scoffed at anti-virus/anti-malware for their phones. Waste of space and resources they said. I run Lookout, which does more than just anti-virus. It scans new files I download, then goes away quietly to the background, backs up files, etc. I also run a firewall and adblock software (rooted). I conduct private, work, and finances on my phone. People that do that need to get out of their dreamworld that their phone is hacker proof, regardless of who makes it or what OS it runs. Even if they are behind a walled garden or you never download from unknown publishers, they all run browsers and all browsers can be exploited.
The more powerful phones get, the more they will be targeted. I'm surprised major zombie trojans haven't infected more phones yet. Millions of cheap cpu's for a botnet is a very tempting target, and as they can frequently jump on different wifi and cellular networks, with changing hosts and IPs, They would be hard to block for spam. They would also make for one heck of a DDOS weapon. And with storage ever increasing, they could be hijacked for file sharing.
I've never flown into a rage after viewing porn. Also, they view movies and television shows in prisons with moderate amounts of nudity. Have any riots started because of cleavage?
While I understand prison is punishment, I would sooner believe that forced sexual repression can probably cause manias and lead to deviant/violent behavior. It's like the effect of Drunk Tank Pink. Several municipalities have tried it. And while the color does create calm for a while, after an extended period and over exposure, the effect is completely reversed causing violent attitudes.
I want to hear what a real psychologist has to say about this.
I remember reading about these over the past decades. The number 1 thing stopping them (besides cost) was safety. Apparently, they've figured out the right materials to prevent micro-fractures from building up and exploding these things like small nuclear bombs. I wonder if they are safe enough for home use, yet. Anyone have a link to a safety analysis and the rate at which they need replaced versus the time between fractures?
They always need excuses to raise rates. This is their excuse, even before usage goes up. "Projections show we need to quintuple bandwidth!" 500% increase in rates on all users, purchase a new routers for major urban areas, screw everyone else.
...to honeypots?
Microsoft doesn't want to go the XBox route (which I think is a mistake, since it worked so well for them) which would mirror Apple. But, because they own the code, they feel that going the Google route isn't right either. It seems to me control for control's sake. I can imagine placing restrictions, just as they did on PCs. But to restrict based on the manufacturers themselves, which will lock all others out... they are treading dangerously close to another anti-trust lawsuit, IMHO, IANAL.
No company worth their salt will put all the company data "on the cloud" No way in HELL is my customer DB and accounting DB going on the cloud.
While I sympathize with you, that doesn't make sense. Google's data is on Google's cloud. Facebook's data is on Facebook's cloud. Now, the question is, are you big enough to build your own cloud, or can you leverage the advantage of another, larger company's cloud? As long as you remember that cloud is not perfect, and you do proper backups, you are completely fine. A server on premises can fail as, or more, easily than a server in a cloud. If you never back up either, then it's the same mistake, not some new "how dare you trust the cloud?!?" mistake.
It's the difference between treating cloud as "a" server, and not "the" server.
Apples are also wax polished. People really have no idea what they eat. When they find out, they tend to freak out. This is the same with cellphones causing cancer. Radiation can cause cancer, and many things we use cause radiation. It's not like we're getting it in any significant amount, but people still freak out, just like they may freak out about apples being wax polished. But has anyone crapped a candle yet?
Absolutely correct. Unfortunately to many reporters, even tech reporters, lack of money means technology dies. With (L)GPL and similar licenses, it's lack of use that really kills a project. As long as something is used widely, someone will develop it, or at least keep it running as new hardware comes out. Money helps, certainly, but it is not everything. For instance, Torvalds certainly is no billionare who pays others to make all of his software. Though, that is another option for creating software.
You let me know when survivability ever reaches 1. At that point, you will have proved existence of an immortal being. :)