Posts by elvisimprsntr

I'll give you one guess which administration appointed this a $ $ h a t.

I am sure I will soon be receiving unsolicited emails from CK/Intuit about credit offers/services, in spite of having a promotional block, fraud alert, and credit freeze set at the three US credit bureaus.

...removed nearly 600 Android apps from the Google Play Store and banned them from its ad services for violating its policies on disruptive advertising...

So Google only takes action if affects their bottom line in either excessive advertising payouts or re-direction.

So because M$ built in Flash into Edge, I am still vulnerable until the end of 2020. Nice going, Satya!

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4520411/adobe-flash-end-of-support

Having survived 2 (voluntary) domain transfers, I know what a PITA it can be. Having learned a lot from the first experience, the second time around was to commingle all services in one place (noip.com) for better pricing (Domain, DDNS, MX, eMail hosting, etc.) and took less that 15 minutes.

Too bad Oracle did not provide much detail, advance notice, and made the announcement at a time when most employees are winding down the year and looking forward to the holidays. Too bad some admins did not have a secondary account verification email on file to protect again some of the scenarios listed.

I bet Muilenburg got to keep his golden parachute. Passengers were not so fortunate.

And where are the C-Suite Execs who were all patting themselves on the back for the billions in new airframe development they saved by bolting on a new engine on a 50+ yo platform when they got caught with their pants down by the Airbus A320neo?

Note to self: Don't flash your ill gotten loot on social media. Someone just might be watching.

Let's hope it was Zuck himself that was the victim of the reported smash-n-grab. I would not be surprised if the victim was targeted. Not that difficult when employees post all their personal details on social media. Wait! What?

Now that ATT and iOS perform speech to text (STT), although not very well, I can read my voice messages. Never seen an interruption on my end.

Disabled Java years ago. Don't even miss it. Java needs to be put out to pasture, with Flash.

It's just another vulnerability to be exploited. https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/java-biggest-security-hole-your-computer/

And I'm sure all these fines levied (real or imagined) are tax deductible against future Equifax earnings, lowering their tax liability. The net effect will be less US tax revenue, which middle class America will have to make up for or just gets piled on to the US national debt. So who are the real criminals here? The thieves who stole the data, or the government officials and politicians?

so, ABCD1234 is not a good PW?

Clearly, there is more to this story than we are being told. If her motivations were notoriety, she could have practiced responsible disclosure. Unless her motivation was spite, becasue she was the one responsible for the misconfigured systems and/or was fired from AWS. Photos of her from some articles, she looks like she might be a tweaker and may have some prior experience in the custody of the state. Perhaps a product of a prison educational program.

Meanwhile, the real criminals continue to get away with it. Namely the predatory CC companies and WS.

The average IQ of the human species would tic up a few points if the driver stopped sucking up oxygen and unnecessarily contributing to CO2 emissions.

It's 2019, why does anyone use anything from Adobe?

FIFY

The Russian proverb quoted by RR, "Trust, but verify," needs to be replaced with with "Trust no one (TNO)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_no_one_(Internet_security)

Better yet, pull a Jason Bourne and pay cash for a pre-paid burner phone in country.

How many executive board meetings did that take? Reminds me of THHGTTG B-Ark

Why am I not surprised?

Reminds me of one proprietary RTOS vendor with run time licenses based on CPU core. We quietly funded a project to switch all our systems to RTLinux. They tried to pitch the benefits of their RTOS with 1 msec interrupt service times and 1-2 msec of jitter. It was fun when we broke the news that we were getting 10 usec interrupt service and 10 usec jitter, thus we did not need them anymore. They begged us to at least let them bid on the server hardware. Between switching from PPC SBCs to Intel commodity servers, and RT licenses per CPU core to per installation, we saved quite a bit of coin.

DXC, a name synonymous with a part of the male anotomy. Already says it all.

As much as some complain about iOS being proprietary, at least security updates get rolled out as soon as (or in most cases before) CVEs are disclosed. Android on the other hand, the majority will have to wait weeks/months (assuming the manufacturers/carriers bother) for security updates. Until then, miscreants have time to target those vulnerabilities. The average consumer does not take the time to make an informed decision, thus makes their choice based on initial acquisition cost without taking taking risks into consideration. The average consumer also uses social media which poses it's own set of risks to security/privacy.

Never heard of it!

Glad I excommunicated M$ from my home 15+ years ago. Life could not be better.

if Perceptics can't keep their own house in order, what does this say about their ability to keep license plate, and any other data used to track vehicles and citizens out of the hands of miscreants?

Google != security | privacy

Disabled HT on my Mid-2014 MBP i5. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210108

Thanks Apple! Let me know when you kick INTC to the curb and switch to AMD/ARM, similar to what you did for QCOM 5G modem chips.

I have noticed an uptick in WAN side port 3389 scanning out of Russia and China.

You lost me at "Adobe"

FB != security | privacy

Use a "password manager" from one demonistrated trustful company. Easy to create random new ones, store, sync, and retrieve.

Thanks to the US OPM hack, the Russian and Chinese gov't already have many US citizens personal details, including biometric fingerprints.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach

We do not have a mandatory national federal photo ID. Instead, we have a social security number (SSN) card, which is a piece of cardboard, with a 9 digit number and a signature. We have federally mandated RealID requirements for state issued photo IDs, which requires multiple forms of ID (including the cardboard SSN card) and other documentation proving who you are and where you live.

Let's stop the charade and embrace our "Idiocracy" destiny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R40EG3AmDHs

Who thinks the Galaxy Fold would survive the beach sand test?

I wear a ghillie suit while in public. Fools em every time.

Proof FB is an open sewer and Zuck is a worm. Let's just hope he does not procreate.

Universal law: Good, fast (lead time), or cheap. You can have any two, never all three. Intel obviously did not pick Good.

If this doesn't push Apple over the edge to migrate some of their laptop line away from Intel, nothing will.

- Do you get a free toaster with the loan you have to get to finance it?

- What is the software update plan, delay, and how long before they stop issuing updates after sales fail?

- Looks fragile.

- The screen warp at the seam (watch some of the launch demo videos)

- Too big to put in a pocket.

- How does it hold up to scratches?

- Is it IP67/68?

- Can't put a case on it and still use it.

- How much does it cost to replace a cracked screen?

- Contains two batteries that could become an IED.

- Contains 5G, which means you have potentially cellular level alternating, millimeter wave antenna. (https://www.saferemr.com/2017/08/5g-wireless-technology-millimeter-wave.html)

I don't see the use case given all the drawbacks. Just because you can, does not mean you should.

I uninstalled everything from Adobe years ago and excommunicated M$ for my home 10+ years ago.

Unfortunately, people will continue to use Flash well beyond the announced EOL in 2020. https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

The only real way to kill it off is if Adobe or the OS/browsers implement a master kill switch which is activated on a particular date.

Problems like this occur when a user enables WAN facing services (port forwarding, UPnP, MyQNAPcloud, etc.) Hackers can profile the device based on responses, then gain access using known vulnerabilities.

Put all the lawyers on the B-Ark and send them ahead to populate the next planet.

Ref: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Ship_B

"The Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B was a starship designed to relocate the (largely redundant) useless part of the population from the planet of Golgafrincham."