More generally, CDNs aren't "in-network services" in the same sense as middleboxes and thus aren't hampered by TLS. When properly deployed they don't sit between the page server and the browser, but rather the page server links to CDN URLs for images, scripts, and other referenced content. From that standpoint they are essentially just another farm of web servers specialized for static content.
The "in-network services" TFA talks about can only work because they can freely inspect, collect copies of, transform, redirect, and generally tamper with the data streams without the end user explicitly opting into them. Most of these I have encountered primarily add value for the network owner, and more often than not actually subtract value for the individual user forced to go through them.
... and that would be Ninite, whose Pro offering includes command line scriptable updates of all your favorite security holes from Adobe, Oracle and more, and can also automatically decline partner offers and disable updater popups.
The free edition no longer updates Flash, as a compromise with Adobe who appears to rely on bundled partner offers with every patch as a revenue stream from Flash Player home users. Ninite Pro has more software package options, over-the-network install/upgrade/uninstall, and a desktop UI instead of web-based.
No affiliation here, just a happy customer.
Leave it to a Great Old One to figure out a way to completely befuddle the password policy enforcer.
The potassium hydroxide electrolyte used in typical alkaline batteries will dissolve its way through the zinc canister over time even when not under load. The other common electrolytes, zinc chloride and ammonium chloride, will do the same. Zinc will corrode if exposed to acid, alkali, or sometimes if you just look at it cross-eyed, but the ease with which it gives up electrons makes it an effective primary cell anode.
One workaround is to swap positions of the electrodes: make the canister out of carbon and use a zinc center electrode shaped to give it as much surface area as a canister would have. I imagine you'd have problems with the carbon breaking easily from rough handling, though, and it might cost more to make. Maybe powdered carbon with a plastic binder instead?
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Pfffft. I should have expected Korny jokes. (Ba-dum-csh.)
Also the scientific method of formulating a hypothesis and performing an experiment to test it.
Slow down, cowboy! The article is about anthropology — 'social studies' — with some speculation thrown in. It doesn't have to be science, just 'news for nerds', whatever that means.
Now lets say some well meaning and compassionate politicians decided to take care of them and built high rise apartments for all of them who were having trouble paying their rent to live in. Sounds good and compassionate right?
By Hanlon's razor as modified by Clark's law, this is more likely a simple backfire of what was intended to be a helpful act rather than some sort of evil plot; nothing deliberately planned would have gone so horribly right.
Starting with an assumption is not an action that is compatible with science.
Wait, what? At its core, to apply the scientific method is to create a hypothesis and attempt to falsify it. Creating a relevant hypothesis usually requires some sort of initial assumption, though one must be open to the possibility the process will demonstrate that said initial assumption is incorrect.
The technical solution would be to design their storage in such a way that it is _impossible_ for the company to read a customer's data.
"Impossible to read a customer's data" is not a strong enough condition. For example, if a provider uses a convergent encryption scheme, they clearly cannot read their customers' data, yet it becomes possible to deduplicate encrypted data — and consequently to identify everyone who has copies of a given plaintext, or perhaps to guess at a password embedded in a configuration file.
A shell / powershell script is plain text.
Well then, the obvious solution is to disable #! recognition and set-executionpolicy restricted, so shell scripts become useless!
Oh well, back to the drawing board.
Doesn't this create an awkward tension between two objectives of lawful authority? On the one hand, collecting taxes on income generated by commerce; on the other, extinguishing that commerce that tempts the wrath of other laws of the land (and with it the taxable income that commerce ostensibly generates).
"Remember, extremism in the nondefense of moderation is not a virtue." -- Peter Neumann, about usenet
