Wireless is UNTRUSTED. Even wired is UNTRUSTED.
The Internet is untrusted. Period.
Even an intranet should generally be untrusted. Every machine needs to be responsible for defending itself; no machine should assume that other things on the network are good actors.
I was expecting this to be a homeowner fail, but:
Q: Why Didn’t you check this before you moved? A: Oh, but I did. Having broadband of some kind was an absolute requirement for our new home. Before we even made an offer, I placed two separate phone calls; one to Comcast Business, and one to Xfinity. Both sales agents told me that service was available at the address. The Comcast Business agent even told me that a previous resident had already had service. So I believed them.
Another option would be to write availability of high speed internet into the purchase contract for the house - make it a condition of purchase. I took this approach to ensure I wouldn't find out after closing that my house could not get high speed Internet. My offer and contract basically said that I would buy the house if I could successfully have high speed internet installed in advance of the purchase at my cost. The seller accepted the contract, I paid the ISP (in this case DSL from the telephone company) to install the service, the ISP installed the service, and then we closed the house sale. My realtor didn't like it because it was an "unusual" offer, but I said it was a contract and I could put any conditions in it I wanted - the seller just had to agree (and did).
The TSA security theater causes more delays than bad weather.
Citation please. While I agree that the TSA is mostly annoying security theater, my personal experience has been that bad weather has delayed me in getting to my destination more that the TSA has.
I travel sometimes every week and it's a pain in the ass. Because of this I always opt out of being scanned and force the pat down.
If you travel that often, why haven't you signed up for the PreCheck program? It lets you go back to the pre 9/11 security screening procedure. Truly frequent travelers can get in the program free via their airline, otherwise the application fee is not significant with respect to other travel costs and is worth it.
I get special satisfaction in doing it especially if I haven't used deodorant that day.
You intentionally frequently travel on a plane in tight quarters with lots of other people and you opt not to use deodorant?
Smells like astroturf in here.
Says the AC. You can check my other posts to see if I have a history of shilling or not (I don't).
Believe it or not I am just a customer who is generally happy with the service. They are more expensive then the lower tier companies, but this is business travel and I am not paying for it. Their cars are generally not very interesting, but I am not a car guy and I just want to get where I am going. Sometime the cars are not new and dirty, this bugs me. But all these things are generally outweighed by the ease of the checkout process.
Anyway my point wasn't to shill for a particular company, rather to point out that I doubt the largest rental car companies are going to mess with ding and dent scams.
How about cameras at enter and exit of the rental place?
No we can't do that as it will end our ding and dent scam.
I travel for business and rent cars a couple of times a month. My experience with Hertz and Avis (top tier business targeted rental companies) has been that they don't do the ding and dent scam. If you return a car to one of these guys and it has all for tires, runs, and has no obvious accident dents, you won't get hassled. On the other hand, companies like Thrifty, Budget, and independents tend to give me the super picky inspection process when you check out and return the cars.
I did just rent from Hertz a couple of weeks ago and it had the new camera thing. It got the post it note treatment. Putting aside the new camera thing for a moment, I get really good service from Hertz. I arrive at the airport, walk to the stall number displayed on the big reader board (or in an email I receive about the time I land), get in the car, drive to the exit, show my ID, and I am on my way. No paperwork, sales attempts at upgrades, etc.
the average job offer these days is a toilet brush of bullshit
While I agree with the rest of your post, I have to ask: "How do you get a bull to use a toilet?"
(Disclaimer: I'm a member of Google's Android security team, but the above represents only my own opinions not an official statement. You can certainly believe that they're opinions I will be sharing/pushing internally, though.)
Sweet. Please consider taking this concept back to the team. On the unlock screen have three unlock codes: 1) The normal unlock code, 2) A "limited" unlock code that would allow access to a limited set of applications (and perhaps make the device look like it was mostly empty), 3) a "wipe" unlock code that wipes the device (or nukes the encryption key.) An additional "distress mode" unlock code could be useful as well - this mode would start audio and video streaming to some off-phone storage. The key feature is that these special modes are activated by entering an alternate unlock code (or pattern). That way if the officer (or adversary) is asking you for the code and entering it on your behalf, you would still be able to activate these features.
So, I imagine the 3rd party is like a big call center with a bunch of people in it. When you say the activation phrase, "OK TV" it connects your tv to somebody's terminal and they hear you say your commands "Channel 20, volume medium" and they push the remote control buttons on their terminal for you.
More likely the recognition software assigns a confidence score to its recognition. High levels of confidence for a command are just executed. Low levels of confidence are probably filed for human review - probably not in real time, but for later analysis to tune the software.
It should be illegal to spoof caller ID. It's fraud.
Fraud is already illegal. Perhaps we should enforce that.
A device that broadcast over sufficiently large range random flood of mouse clicks would be a very effective DoS tool in a corporate settings.
Or a device that broadcast a very specific non-random set of keystrokes. For example you could send the keystrokes to open up a command window followed by the keystrokes to download and execute malware. You could even send the keystrokes to type in the source code and compile the malware or a malware bootstrap process.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
