Posts by Charles 9 16605 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
That's what I mean. They don't conceal their techniques but pass them on to newcomers, raising the baseline knowledge. Sort of like how in WW2 the US would send pilots who survived their tours home to teach what they knew to the new pilots so they would be going in already with some useful knowledge.
Problem is, in cyberspace, burglars tend to blog their exploits, meaning newcomers come in already at a certain level of skill which keeps rising. That said, it can be tricky to obfuscate destination packets (masking post destinations) without getting proxies and the like fingered unless you've previously compromised legitimate sites for it.
"Multinationals these days are a problem, but they aren't directly ruling continents and could be brought under control with far less difficulty. The problem is largely bribary"
It's not just carrots but sticks. Today's multinations are much more mobile, so a bribe combined with a threat to pull up stakes (and take a lot of their tax revenues with them) makes governments sit up and take notice.
But you don't play it all the way. Discontent among the proles has limits before, as they say, the crap hits the fan. At some point, it either goes over the edge and gets ugly (resulting in things like populist revolutions and economic collapses like the Great Depression) or something else happens to force an equalization (like the World Wars and the Black Death).
I disagree. The problem comes from up top, so it's going to affect all aspects of the bureau. Plus, drug shipping's still relatively fresh on their minds, so cargo entries tend to get scrutinized just as if not more thoroughly than people. At least cargo can be put through scanners similar to those used for checked baggage.
Put it this way. If it's coming into the country, regardless of the legitimate means, customs is going to want a look. Might as well have it on your person so it stays under your eye for as long as possible.
Cancer, like radiation sickness, tend to be things that take a long time to become obvious, making it very tricky to trace what caused them in the first place. That's what makes things like radioactivity, genetic engineering, etc. so scary: you can't see the side effects right away, and by the time they do show up, it could well be too late to do anything to stop a disaster.
"Plugs and sockets wear out, so that's one advantage of plugless charging."
Qi charging inevitably generates heat: the bane of phone batteries. I gave up on Qi charging after long-term use forced me to replace several phone batteries as they started to bulge.
PS. I'm personally wondering how they get around the known physics issues of "power at a distance" and why it never really took off: then or now.
Then why publish it open-source on Github? Any backdoor Facebook would want to include would have to be included in that code, wouldn't it, meaning they could be found out and pretty easily, too?
Not that I like Facebook, mind you, but in this case we're talking about an Enemy of My Enemy situation. Facebook hates The Man as much as you do.
Thing is, edge cases don't STAY edge cases for long.
"The point I'm trying to make is that companies that tout the security of their products should endeavour to good security practice."
Problem is, security clashes with ease of use, and the prole prefers the latter to the former and is not likely to take training. How do you do a secure solution for someone who doesn't care about security (and yes, you MUST care about their security since they become weak links to compromise others)?
"This kind of thing is extremely bad practice, most people who work in security and AV vendors have been telling people to not do it for at least a decade, at least as far as active protection goes. Race conditions playing around in kernel memory space is bad juju."
Isn't placing your trust in ONE vendor who by nature can't catch everything ALSO bad juju? This sounds like a Catch-22. You either choose one and lose when something slips through or try to avoid monoculture and get bricked when they clash.
Simple. It's a CYA move. If they force the issue and business-critical computers get bricked as a result, companies lose money and Microsoft can face a lawsuit as a result. At least an un-updated system can still run, and if they're not in a position to update when they get pwned, then that's Intel's fault, not Microsoft's.
Wanna bet? Cable companies STILL won't let you buy third-party converter boxes (like the OLD AT&T days when you couldn't buy a phone, only RENT them). And before you say "Switch ISPs," (1) most places only have ONE ISP due to infrastructure issues, and (2) those with more than one can easily choose to act in cartel.
New York and California are historically Democratic states. Congress is currently Republican-led with a Republican president. They can easily paint is as a case of the Big Dems trying to take freedom away from the rest of the country. Don't count it out.
So what if they just take the "from the outside in" approach and become interstate businesses by default? Then fed regulations can kick in and trump the state ones. When it comes to loopholing, business are if anything cleverdicks (or as we Americans term them, smartypants).
"Pai has stated the FCC will try to block such state level laws but it is unclear how he could do that"
Simple. Internet traffic is normally interstate if not international in nature. He'll just invoke the Interstate Commerce Clause and cite that since most Internet traffic (like a lot of road traffic) is interstate in nature, the federal government is mandated to step in.
"These senators must realise that at some point this is going to bite them in the ass, don't mess with peoples internet as it will harm your votes. Therefore I predict it will be kicked into touch."
The Internet as we know it is already gone, and people are congregating into easy-to-manage echo chambers where any sort of challenge is quickly shot down. Consider why so many Congressional elections are uncontested.
Where in the Patriot Act or wherever is the jamming restriction specifically relaxed, because the restriction is in the Communications Act of 1934 (FCC link with the pertinent details). Note it doesn't list exceptions and they specifically instructed local LEOs to knock it off some time back.
I believe insurance companies demand regular housecleaning in order for silo owners to keep their policies. The risk of a YOYO after the next silo explosion probably makes for a good motivator.
If you think dust explosions are intense, you should see what happens when you switch out dust for fuel mist (the end result is a nightmare called a Fuel-Air Explosive).
But it can still be a warning sign of parental neglect, which CAN result in delinquency. Instead of focusing on the porn, look at the bigger issue of parental abdication. If you want to reduce delinquency, you're going to need to make parents own up and take responsibility. Got any ideas against such things as broken and abusive families and parents who simply don't give a soaring screw?
Been reading up on it. The need to reduce context switching is helping to drive a push to move the network interface into userland, much as graphics have been making the transition as well. It makes me wonder if there are certain interfaces that still need to remain in the kernel yet are so frequently accessed as to suffer in terms of context switching.
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