Comment Re:Probably just a policy problem (Score 1) 396
Just use chkrootkit or rkhunter as "AV" for servers.
Just use chkrootkit or rkhunter as "AV" for servers.
A broken/compromised Playstation is the least of your worries.
Lost personal information is a well understand problem, credit monitoring, blah blah blah. Nightmare scenario for sony is a million PS3's updated with a firmware that no longer accepts updates. That would require a mass recall which would be very slow. It'd be utter destruction of the PS3 brand.
Uhh no, if the southwest states want to do that, let them. It makes sense there. But there are many states that they'd be more of a liability then of any real value.
I disagree, collection agencies whole intent is to be immoral (keyword being agencies, there's nothing wrong with collections). The only reason it's profitable to pay an outside company to collect debts is because they can cross those lines of morality and decency that would have landed Comcast in a PR nightmare. It's a shell game to avoid the consequences of their actions.
Customers should be responsible to pay their debts and companies should bear scrutiny for how they treat their customers.
Lengthening the time of the amber light decreases accidents without the trade-off.
No it just shifts those accidents to other intersections. People will adapt to push the yellow to the limit no matter how long you make it. Consistency is the most important thing with yellows.
Domains are your identity on the web. IPs are your location. Certs verify identity of computer you're talking with, they don't need to contain IPs.
I can't violate the DMCA. Sorry.
Seriously, the guy's been dead for 11 years...
So only 59 more years to go on his copyright. I'll consider downloading it then, until then I'm supporting the artist.
Yes the conversion to DC is inevitable. This makes a lot of sense when you're using a UPS. When on battery power it converts from DC-AC so your PSU can convert from AC-DC. WTF?
This is exactly the confusion. The user thought he bought a product. If a product isn't delivered it can become fraud.
Then the lawyers come in and no one buys anything. They license permission to use. It's a bunch of handwaving but ultimately a deception against the consumer.
Just like now when someone else opens an account in my name, it's no longer fraud but "identity theft". The bank would be at fault for fraud, but now the individual is at fault that someone else claimed to be him and the bank didn't verify.
Not only are there significant technological hurdles, of course, since you have to make your self-driving car capable of coping with all the regular cars and pedestrians and so on, but there are legal hurdles. The first time your car gets in a major accident, you are getting sued big time and it'll be humans, not car computers, on the jury. Say your car hits and kills a pedestrian because there was simply no way to avoid it at all. Their family will sue you for tons.
Not a problem. Insurance will take care of it. Which is why the "legal hurdles" on autonomous cars is meaningless. If the cars are safer (and it'd be hard not to be within 10 years) insurance will be happy to insure you at the same rate and use the increased margins from real damage to quash those bogus lawsuits.
you've got a 64Gb ssd on SDB it say's it's 50Gb partition
You buy a 50GB drive. Linux sees it as 50GB drive. However it's overprovisioned to 64GB (in your example) and the controller manages that extra space. On the plus side the controller is naturally going to want to zero out that overprovisioned space so it can be rewritten to.
that cat/dev/urandom >
Or, if you are really paranoid, repeatedly do cat
Linux won't actually remove files that processes have open file descriptors to (it removes the link but doesn't deallocate the space). That means their cwd dentry (and all it's parents) will be intact (just unlinked) on disk. So your cat won't actually destroy these phantom blocks. Those dentries could have incrimating filenames of files that their space was deallocated.
A format will however overwrite this metadata and the SSD garbage collection should still be able to clean up.
Just to demonstrate this phantom file on linux:
echo 123>x; sleep 9999 >> x &
rm x
cat
stat
Nope.. it works just fine; it will write a new value to each end every storage location in the device. Eventually this will overwrite every bit of data stored there including the coolstuff.rar file. It cannot fail, also see my previous post; there is no secret extra storage for the data to hide in and avoid overwriting.
No, hitting all the logical blocks with random data won't hit all the physical blocks because of overprovisioning. There is a ~7% extra space the OS doesn't get access to that is used to improve performance and control bad sectors. This is not a big deal since it's not addressable and the firmware should clean it up eventually.
Secondly you'll overwrite the MFT/Superblock with random data and then the SSD firmware won't be capable of doing garbage collection. Which is fine if you have the time to finish a long process of overwriting every sector. But if it gets interrupted your data will be left and the GC won't be able to clean it up on next power-on.
Paul Stamets had a ted talk on this subject. His research shows that fungi can cause the creation of fertile topsoil for plants to grow.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html
You're the one who said security is a process not a product, but are you questioning whether physical security is worth spending an amount of money which effectively looks like a rounding error on a government department balance sheet?
Airgapping a network in a room is cheap. Airgapping a network in a building is not trivial (separate network infrastructure and auditing to make sure no one swaps the red and black ethernet cables). Airgapping a network in a WAN is financially irresponsible for almost anyone. Satellite links, wireless, and vlans aren't airgap.
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