Get rid of the registry? And replace it with what? A rolodex stored in a filing cabinet behind a door with a sign that says “Beware of the tiger”? That’s like suggesting getting rid of a baby because it got a cold.
Most of these came from a massive code review Cisco has been doing through their entire software codebase, which across all their products is truly massive. They found a good number of flaws, and honestly these backdoor accounts mostly look like debugging features left in inadvertently.
I don’t think people do.
But maybe they search for “duck” in the browser’s address bar expecting it to find DuckDuckGo instead it adds
Your objection is nonsensical. It’s impossible to know how many planets exist in the universe, yet I can unequivocally affirm it is not less than four.
You can be unable to state a number yet be assured it must be bounded in some way.
Call the OECD rankings fake news?
The root of many issues in our society is inequality. The solution is wealth-sharing, aka socialism.
The world needs new a socialist revolution. One problem may be that too many equate socialism with communism. younger people seem more likely to support wealth sharing since they have no wealth, but their voting weight is unbalancingly low right now due to the aging population. When those older people stop voting or die off, I suspect things will right themselves off. If it happens soon enough, it might fix things peacefully. If it takes too long, fascism may take root, dismantle democratic institutions and it will take a revolution and civil war. I’d rather we try to fix inequality earlier rather than get there.
This was not dns hijacking. It’s BGP hijacking. The routing protocol is horribly outdated and has no security at all. No authentication, no validation. We need a new version of BGP that includes some way to authenticate updates and ensure the routes are for addresses the AS number is authoritative for in some way.
Have name printed on the ticket, require id, and force ticket sellers to reimburse you, minus a reasonable cancellation fee. They can resell your ticket to somone else at face value after.
Actually, stubhub is owned by eBay. Getmein.com is the resale site owned by Ticketmaster. Doesn’t change your point, of course but still it’s important to be factual.
Correction: Microsoft made coding errors leading to an exploit. The NSA found the exploit. They left their exploit tool and code on a server that was hacked by somone else (russians?). The Shadow Brokers (russians?) leaked those. Then the north koreans used it in wannacry.
So you can blame Microsoft, the NSA, Russian Intelligence AND the North Koreans. It's an equal opportunity blame game!
Not for the average Slashdot reader, no. But for most people out there who buy these things, it is.
Ransomware that infects TVs and Mirai botnets are "paranoid nutter scenarios"?
You can't sue them, since the law in most countries accepts EULAs as valid, specifically the so-called "limitations of liability".
We need legislative changes first, whether you want regulations or not, to make manufacturers liable for security defects in their products.
Police violence, rape and autism only appear to have increased recently. The evidence shows they haven't.
What seems to be happening is that they are reported/accounted/diagnosed better. You hear more about them thanks to new channels. Violence against blacks in many areas of the US (as well as violence against minorities in general worldwide) has been common and stable over the recent past (correcting for the general drop in violence in industrialized countries since the late 70s that many attribute to removal of lead in gasoline). The general media had mostly ignored some of those issues. But they can't do so anymore now because of the prevalence of cell phones (video evidence), citizen reporting (blogs, twitter, facebook, etc) and new ways of organizing movements online.
Note that I chose those three exemples because of their clear recent increase in reporting and news coverage. For what it's worth (and will do to my karma) I support #BLM, social justice movements and I am convinced vaccines have nothing to do with autism.
Gawker is a terrible bottom feeder. But when the next billionaire gets pissed at Slashdot for reporting on how his newfangled techo-marvel is a POS, and forces it into bankruptcy and closure, you might care more.
This is not about Gawker anymore, this is about a billionaire using his money and influence to destroy someone using the legal system as a proxy.
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs
