Did you know even some *humans* live there in the wilderness? Even though it looks like a ghost town, if you look carefully, you can sometimes still find a home that still has someone living in it.

If you can intercept the traffic, you can also take over control over the peripheral and write. Once you control someones mousepointer, you suddenly have a lot more power, no?

I do hope they realize this isn't legal in quite a few countries. Since combining WiFi AP mac addresses, SSIDs and geographical location can be used to locate people that make use of these APs, some countries legally treat this information as private, even though it can be "freely acquired from a public road". Google has been having legal trouble in several European countries for this already and I don't think Mozilla would want to have the same thing happen to them.

Hashes are *always* one way. So you can't ever decrypt something that you only have a hash from. The best you can do is compare the hash to a hash of something you have as well and see if the hashes are the same. Unless you've chosen an algorithm that is known to have a lot of collisions, you can be fairly certain that your original text is probably the same thing as the other person's original text if the hashes are identical. Encrypting something with hashes so others can read it therefor doesn't work and this can't be based on "cryptographic hashes"

It is up to you to decide if you may or may not be incriminating yourself. You are presumed innocent until proven guilty by a court of law. Anything you say can and will be used against you. Therefore, saying nothing is *always* the best defence. Ask any lawyer about that.

Unless they can prove without a doubt that that USB sticks holds evidence, they can't prove you are obstructing justice. If they can already prove without a doubt that there's evidence on that stick, they don't need the contents any more and they already have their proof, so you're not obstructing either because they already have the evidence.

They got full data, much more than was on the mag stripes. The whole database of customers including their address data and all that has been stolen. Mag stripes don't hold all the information described here so there must be a database that has been broken in to.

Model airplane engines don't have piston rings because those would be cost prohibitive, not because it's better technology. Model airplane engines wear extremely fast, have a low efficiency when you compare the burn energy to the output of motion and are extremely polluting.

The 3 digit security code, expiration date and the account holder name is not on the magstripe. Since those got stolen too, we know it's a database that got ripped from a computer system. A database that should not have existed, since it's illegal for anyone processing card data to store the 3 digit security code. Assuming this is because of a magstripe skimming device in *every* Target store card reading device at the same time is just not logical at all.

These back doors may exist in new devices, but any older device is likely to have a back door. If the vendor updates the devices at all, they usually stop doing that shortly after they stop sales of the device. Your perfectly fine WiFi router or DSL box will most likely have vulnerabilities on it that make it just as insecure as these new devices.

I actively check my DSL router and I know my ISP and several security minded customers do the same. Any WiFi router in my home runs a modified Linux distribution like Tomato, openWRT or DD-WRT that is actively maintained. While it's bad that A-brand companies evidently don't do this this the stuff they buy from other vendors, most devices in the field are just as vulnerable as these boxes are, simply because they don't get updates.

Burning vendors for selling insecure devices is good practice to get this problem solved. Burning them for not being responsible for their sale and updating or liberating the devices they sold should be just as normal as burning them for new equipment. You can't expect people to buy a new device every year simply because the vendor refuses responsibility once it's left their factory.

Any old/small PC will use way more electricity than the small embedded box you are replacing. Even if you get the PC for free, you'd have spent more on extra electricity in a year than you would have paid for a new device that was ready to run and has no back doors.

Really, if you can't be arsed to actually deal with coins, you obviously don't need the money that much. If those coins would be valuable enough to warrant carrying around, you wouldn't mind the strategy at all. Why doesn't the USA adapt coins for anything up to 20 dollar? You wouldn't need to carry paper money around anymore, just coins and plastic. Still the same strategy and it would save a lot of printing and recycling cost.

I don't know what the exact laws on net neutrality is where this happened. However, if an ISP were to do this in the Netherlands, they would get hit with fraud, net neutrality and "criminal organization" charges. You'd have to have some pretty good lawyers to be able to stay in business at all

First of all, Amazon doesn't get a very high percentage of affiliate tagged traffic/purchases. If every ISP would do this, it would get 100% and the whole business model wouldn't work any more. Amazon would have to pay out way too many affiliate bonuses. Second, any affiliate that the user might choose, would lose out because their tag would get replaced by that of the ISP.

Modern systems often aren't a single purpose hardware server any more. Mobile devices that have to switch on services like GPS, several networking modems, voice over IP, hotplug hardware and start/stop associated services and such will make you have to run numerous daemons that control just restarting the one small group of services and hardware for every corner case you can imagine if you keep using RC scripts.

Even servers often have nested dependencies these days. You'd want the system to restart a failing middleware application in the correct sequence after you've fixed the filesystem on the storage that ran out of space that caused it to remount r/o on all your web server platform VMs. Try doing a bunch of init.d scripts for that. Either you custom write a script to do it remotely just for your app, or you have the systemd-like control that will just figure out what to do all by itself.

Yes, it adds complexity to very simple single use systems, but it makes dealing with all the glue you have to do to get dependencies on other services and corner cases so much easier. I used to think it was a solution looking for a problem too, until I found out that I could now stop worrying about getting my systems up again after I just solved the single cause of all the problems that got them down in the middle of the night.

You can really really use all the RAM you can get with video editing. The same applies to the 1TB SSD. If you're a pro photo or video editor, you're wasting time waiting on your computer processing and time is money. In a 3 year write off period, you can make a business case for spending $5K more on a computer that will easily save you over $100 a week in hours you can bill a customer. I bet that if these were supported hardware for Linux, AutoDesk would waste no time whatsoever getting these tested and certified as hardware for their Discreet Logic video editing product line. They use HP stuff now and those are more expensive than this apple with less video editing power in them.