Comment Typo; Missing the "p" in "Cryptolocker" (Score 1) 1
Typo; Missing the "p" in the word "Cryptolocker"
Typo; Missing the "p" in the word "Cryptolocker"
Actually, telecommuting has caught on big time. Problem is that you don't have high-paid locals telecommuting from Phoenix, AZ. They've been replaced by low-paid serfs Telecommuting from Mumbai.
> RTFA. They're not talking about phones; they're talking about assorted
> Internet-of-Things devices--how your toaster and your microwave talk to your Roomba.
[...deletia...]
> Of course, if someone hacks the network and reprograms your meter,
> that's bad. But don't we have the same risk now?
NO. Right now my toaster and microwave do not talk to, or take orders from other devices, let alone the guy in the car parked out in front of my home, or terrorists on the other side of the planet. This is downright stupid, and treasonous in how it makes us vulnerable to terrorists. All you need is a really hot summer day, with everybody's air-conditioners going full blast, and the electrical utilities pushed to their limits. Now imagine a botnet of things (toasters/microwaves/ovens/whatever) suddenly ramping up a in a couple of million households in a large city. The local system overloads and we have a local blackout. Properly co-ordinate 3 or 4 large cities simultaneously, and you've got a major regional blackout, possibly cascading to a national scale. Who dreamt up this "advance"? Some Al-Quaeda mole?
"Remotely-programmable"... aaaarrrrgggghhhh. How long before bad guys start hijacking people's equipment?
> Most airlines have or are adding Internet service to their planes
And if you have VOIP set up on your notebook, that's a connection right there, cell towers not required.
The link in the summary is http://slashdot.org/submission/3188113/ArielleSchlesinger which leads back to Slashdot. A bit of Googling turned up http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/11/26/feminism-and-programming-languages which looks like the correct link.
While we're at it, here are Facebook's IP address blocks
31.13.24.0 - 31.13.31.255 aka 31.13.24.0/21
31.13.64.0 - 31.13.127.255 aka 31.13.64.0/18
66.220.144.0 - 66.220.159.255 aka 66.220.144.0/20
69.63.176.0 - 69.63.191.255 aka 69.63.176.0/20
69.171.224.0 - 69.171.255.255 aka 69.171.224.0/19
74.119.76.0 - 74.119.79.255 aka 74.119.76.0/22
103.4.96.0 - 103.4.99.255 aka 103.4.96.0/22
173.252.64.0 - 173.252.127.255 aka 173.252.64.0/18
204.15.20.0 - 204.15.23.255 aka 204.15.20.0/22
It's a parody site, folks. Not real.
In linux we have
I'm surprised nobody has commented on this. If a server can confirm your keyboard/mouse activity profile, what's to stop advertisers from doing so via javascript on the the web? This is scary. Even if you log in to site A as John Smith with Firefox, and site B as Jane Doe with Opera, and with Flash supercookies disabled, they might still be able to match your profiles. This would solve the advertising dilemma, of what ads to show on a shared computer used by multiple family members. This would be worse than Facebook.
Law enforcement would love this too. Let's say you're a "meek mild-mannered reporter" (or whatever) by day and "super-hacktivist" by night. It wouldn't matter if you're using multiple layers of TOR/ONION or working via a compromised machine in China, a LEA would still be able to match your daytime work profile to your nighttime alter-ego.
This might start start an arms race. Given websites that analyse user keystrokes, would a random delay inserter work? Also, I assume that doing stuff like typing this comment into a separate text editor, then copy-pasting into the posting submission form might help cover your tracks.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
