TV is a Sewer.. Twitter can be quite an informative beginning source for news and current events if you limit follows to subject matter experts judicious with their tweets and not people tweeting what they ate for breakfast or retweeting everything that comes into their feed.
Where an old operating system like W7 is more secure because it doesn't get updates.
Just purchased a prebuilt refurbished box that always come preinstalled with Windows. I activate Windows and get it working, then pull and replace it with a Linux boot. This way in a couple of years I can put the Windows drive back and sell it or give it away. They still had Windows 7 boxes. The same box with Windows 10 pro cost $20 less. I chose to pay the $20.
Visa could conceivably sell my purchase history to Google
Worse, it can be sold to insurance companies and credit score companies who use predictive algorithms based upon crackpot theories to evaluate you as a risk. i
There is no reason an IoT device needs to have a public IP address. Force IoT makers to only allow IPs set in the private space. This forces the user to have a router/firewall between them, script kiddies, and search engines.
This is fascinating if true. Why would the NSA of all places allow anything to be uploaded to Kaspersky or anyone outside their network without manual sign off? Do their Windows 10 boxes all send telemetry back to Microsoft?
My cameras are on an isolated LAN that is air gapped. Since all IP cameras require credentials I use the same username and password for each one. That's only one thing to remember 18 months from now when I might need to mess with one. I don't want a different password that I have to keep track of for each camera. There are many layers to security and user credentials are only one. We don't need legislatures making things more complicated. KISS is the best security.
Draft Kings is clearly gambling yet it is endorsed by MLB, NHL, NFL, and (possibly) NBA. How can these "regulators" go after such pettiness that are loot boxes and ignore the 800 pound elephant in the room. Is is because regulators are big sports fans and like to play Draft Kings?
Is it that hard to air gap IoT devices? I'm not concerned about someone hacking into my cameras, you should see all the bullshit those cameras want to send back home. IoT devices will never be secure. Why even fight that battle?
Trump is the only reason I read Twitter after he became the R nominee for POTUS. Reading his tweets over the years both fascinate and scare the shit out of me because this is POTUS acting like the biggest crank you used to read on alt.conspiracy. I have yet to read a single tweet of his that would even remotely qualify as inappropriate to suspend his account. They may be inappropriate coming from the so called leader of the free world but that's not Twitter's problem. Sure he once threatened North Korea with nuclear annihilation but isn't it better he tweets about it than actually does it? Trump's twitter feed is by far the most entertaining account on Twitter.
The vast majority of devices I see are Iphones. Since most all forwarding ports are blocked torrenting isn't going to work too well. There are always ways and someone determined could do it but then they would be flagged by a bandwidth monitor I check every now and then.
I started reading r/the_donald to learn a little about Trump supporters. There are only two possible truths after reading that group and many of the comments in this thread; either they are all complete delusional lunatics who may represent up to 41% of the US population or I'm a complete delusional lunatic. There is no middle ground. If I were the delusional lunatic would I know? Never before have I been so frightened over politics.
I have been running an open wifi in a densely populated city neighborhood since Jan 2012. Average about 30 unique visitors per day, 180 per month... I blocked all ports other than well known commonly used ones like 80, 443, etc. Kind of screwed up Skype but who cares. Not once has anyone even attempted to torrent anything. Nowadays it's almost all Iphones and android. I don't think they have the capability of torrenting. Many of their users may not know they connect every time they walk by. It would be interesting to see if other parts of the city are different, like those with a lot of teenagers.
... compared to usenet daily volume of 27 terrabytes/day
Did I read that correctly? I thought Usenet was pretty much dead. Many very popular newsgroups, like rec.sports.baseball, that received 1000+ posts/day back in the day were completely empty as of a couple years ago.
“I guess it is a good, precautionary thing,” Andrea Kirsh said, a 22-year-old student from Corvallis, Oregon, who was traveling through Los Angeles’ Union Station on Tuesday. “It makes me feel safe. As a civilian I think we often don’t know what to look for or what we would be looking for.”
It works because it makes Andrea feel safe. That's what security theater is all about.
...and you never have to worry about password or any of this BS. My open wifi in a densely populated neighborhood has been running for 6 1/2 years getting around 30 unique visitors/day, 200 unique visitors/month. Why are people so stingy with their wifi? Most everything is encrypted end to end nowadays.
Reddit supports anonymous users. If I get compromised on one of my accounts the worst that can happen is someone posts praising Obama in r/the_donald making me lose 10,000+ karma points. Not terribly important IMHO.
All IOT devices should automatically cease functioning after 1 year without a firmware update.
You are assuming your vision of a security profile onto everyone. If your device isn't on the Intertubes there is nothing to worry about with security. Firmware updates should always follow if it ain't broke don't fix it -- not break it if you don't fix it.
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TV is a Sewer.. Twitter can be quite an informative beginning source for news and current events if you limit follows to subject matter experts judicious with their tweets and not people tweeting what they ate for breakfast or retweeting everything that comes into their feed.
Now, I am a big fan of automated testing, but not as a replacement for qualified QA professionals.
You need QA professionals to write automated tests.
Where an old operating system like W7 is more secure because it doesn't get updates.
Just purchased a prebuilt refurbished box that always come preinstalled with Windows. I activate Windows and get it working, then pull and replace it with a Linux boot. This way in a couple of years I can put the Windows drive back and sell it or give it away. They still had Windows 7 boxes. The same box with Windows 10 pro cost $20 less. I chose to pay the $20.
Visa could conceivably sell my purchase history to Google
Worse, it can be sold to insurance companies and credit score companies who use predictive algorithms based upon crackpot theories to evaluate you as a risk. i
There is no reason an IoT device needs to have a public IP address. Force IoT makers to only allow IPs set in the private space. This forces the user to have a router/firewall between them, script kiddies, and search engines.
This is fascinating if true. Why would the NSA of all places allow anything to be uploaded to Kaspersky or anyone outside their network without manual sign off? Do their Windows 10 boxes all send telemetry back to Microsoft?
My cameras are on an isolated LAN that is air gapped. Since all IP cameras require credentials I use the same username and password for each one. That's only one thing to remember 18 months from now when I might need to mess with one. I don't want a different password that I have to keep track of for each camera. There are many layers to security and user credentials are only one. We don't need legislatures making things more complicated. KISS is the best security.
Draft Kings is clearly gambling yet it is endorsed by MLB, NHL, NFL, and (possibly) NBA. How can these "regulators" go after such pettiness that are loot boxes and ignore the 800 pound elephant in the room. Is is because regulators are big sports fans and like to play Draft Kings?
I remember that site around the turn of this century. How did they get around this ban?
Exactly, which is why I block all those ports on my open wifi. The determined can still work around it but it deters the casual bittorrent user.
Is it that hard to air gap IoT devices? I'm not concerned about someone hacking into my cameras, you should see all the bullshit those cameras want to send back home. IoT devices will never be secure. Why even fight that battle?
Trump is the only reason I read Twitter after he became the R nominee for POTUS. Reading his tweets over the years both fascinate and scare the shit out of me because this is POTUS acting like the biggest crank you used to read on alt.conspiracy. I have yet to read a single tweet of his that would even remotely qualify as inappropriate to suspend his account. They may be inappropriate coming from the so called leader of the free world but that's not Twitter's problem. Sure he once threatened North Korea with nuclear annihilation but isn't it better he tweets about it than actually does it? Trump's twitter feed is by far the most entertaining account on Twitter.
The vast majority of devices I see are Iphones. Since most all forwarding ports are blocked torrenting isn't going to work too well. There are always ways and someone determined could do it but then they would be flagged by a bandwidth monitor I check every now and then.
I started reading r/the_donald to learn a little about Trump supporters. There are only two possible truths after reading that group and many of the comments in this thread; either they are all complete delusional lunatics who may represent up to 41% of the US population or I'm a complete delusional lunatic. There is no middle ground. If I were the delusional lunatic would I know? Never before have I been so frightened over politics.
I have been running an open wifi in a densely populated city neighborhood since Jan 2012. Average about 30 unique visitors per day, 180 per month ... I blocked all ports other than well known commonly used ones like 80, 443, etc. Kind of screwed up Skype but who cares. Not once has anyone even attempted to torrent anything. Nowadays it's almost all Iphones and android. I don't think they have the capability of torrenting. Many of their users may not know they connect every time they walk by. It would be interesting to see if other parts of the city are different, like those with a lot of teenagers.
... compared to usenet daily volume of 27 terrabytes/day
Did I read that correctly? I thought Usenet was pretty much dead. Many very popular newsgroups, like rec.sports.baseball, that received 1000+ posts/day back in the day were completely empty as of a couple years ago.
How is this really going to work?
Here's an excerpt from TFA:
“I guess it is a good, precautionary thing,” Andrea Kirsh said, a 22-year-old student from Corvallis, Oregon, who was traveling through Los Angeles’ Union Station on Tuesday. “It makes me feel safe. As a civilian I think we often don’t know what to look for or what we would be looking for.”
It works because it makes Andrea feel safe. That's what security theater is all about.
Anyone is authorized to pull it even if there isn't a fire.
...and you never have to worry about password or any of this BS. My open wifi in a densely populated neighborhood has been running for 6 1/2 years getting around 30 unique visitors/day, 200 unique visitors/month. Why are people so stingy with their wifi? Most everything is encrypted end to end nowadays.
Reddit supports anonymous users. If I get compromised on one of my accounts the worst that can happen is someone posts praising Obama in r/the_donald making me lose 10,000+ karma points. Not terribly important IMHO.
All IOT devices should automatically cease functioning after 1 year without a firmware update.
You are assuming your vision of a security profile onto everyone. If your device isn't on the Intertubes there is nothing to worry about with security. Firmware updates should always follow if it ain't broke don't fix it -- not break it if you don't fix it.
Squeezing through tight passages, wondering if you're going to get stuck is just part of the fun.
How can anyone think that is fun?
Scott Pruitt didn't have olives for his martini.
and I didn't speak up because most all memes suck and I can't stand looking at them.
How about adding blockchain?