The TVs do not need routable IP addresses; they just need to behind a router that supports The UPnP Internet Gateway Device (IGD) profile -- and most home routers support this protocol. Then it is a simple SOAP request to the router by the app to get a port mapped.

In some cities like D.C., New York, Paris the time between the time you join the hotel network and are attacked is less than 5 minutes. It is fun to travel with WireShark and watch this, but not with a computer you care about. So yes, use your cell phone, not the hotel network.

It is more common than people realize that these BusyBox based cheap commodity network servers suffer a regression where test code is accidentally included in a given release. When that happens, the devices are quickly owned. That may not be the case here, but have seen this exact issue in a worldwide hotel chain almost 5 years ago.

I can at least respect Cage's work ethic. He's a weirdo, but when he blew all his cash on absurd things, instead of just declaring bankruptcy and fading into the sunset he decided to take every possible job that came his way, in whatever quantity that entailed. Some good. some horrible. most meh.
I've got "normal" friends who would shy away from that level of fix.

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These attacks prove that leaving individual cities to fend for themselves on the open commercial internet is a complete failure of public governance. The fact that small towns in these states are actively fighting off what U.S. officials believe are foreign, state-sponsored adversaries like Iranian hackers highlights the sheer absurdity of our decentralized approach. Cybersecurity inherently scales; while Fortune 100 companies protect thousands of endpoints for pennies per user using enterprise-grade automation, resource-starved municipalities are forced to survive with tiny budgets and skeleton IT crews.

South Dakota is the only state that endeavors to give a protected network to its municipalities. Five years after Oldsmar Florida exposed this exact vulnerability, we are watching the exact same script play out as utility operators across the country are forced to switch to manual workarounds to keep their treatment plants online. For a fraction of the millions spent reacting to these disruptions, states could easily pool their buying power to build a single, hardened network infrastructure for every municipal utility. The refusal of almost all of our states or the federal government to implement a sane, centralized defense model like South Dakota's means American critical infrastructure remains an open, fragmented playground for cybercriminals.

And an "I told you so": I stated in the first post on this when Minnesota was the only state named that the rest of the states were simply incapable of noticing. Now we have 7 states -- the attacks are likely against all.

The attorneys for Op-Fortitude do not seem to know the difference between encryption keys and encrypted content.

"If the DCP is encrypted, please have the keys open from the time the asset lands through EOD on 6/16. This timing allows us to test the content and ensure a streamlined screening." In other words, Netflix expressly requested that the Film's DCP be either unencrypted or unlocked.

A request that keys be valid for a given time period is very different from a request that content be a-priori unlocked. Everything following "In other words" is a false assertion and this assertion is then a lynchpin for following claims. So claim 23 being false unravels much of the pleading.

The fact that there is no mention of the movie industry standard Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) in the pleading while referring to the event as a "screening" is a giant red flag. Keys are always time bounded in DCI and Netflix was likely assuming that they would be receiving DCI protected content when they made this request in this way. Either these attorneys are not too bright or more likely they are working with a client that requires a certain amount of willful ignorance on their part (In which case they already are expecting to lose this but are going to bill as many hours as possible in the process).

except: why produce anything of value if AI is simply going to suck it up and reserve it to people? Why spend time on "original reporting, proprietary data, real expertise, or genuinely distinctive analysis" if in the end, everyone will ask AI and AI will repackage your work?

The only issue , though, is as we go forward. The quality of results will fall off. If a website or forum can't get anything but AI scouring it, they'll simply cease to exist, and AI output ( based on input) will fall off considerably.

Klarna always sounds to me like something a Klingon would say.
"Klaaaaaaarna" as he runs towards you with one of those funky Klingon blades.

They can tax the prediction companies based on the wager returns to the state's citizens effectively making it too expensive to do business with the state's citizens. There is no federal law preventing states from implementing taxes.

At the time it was still providing "Reputation Ruining as a Service" among the many shady ways it made money, and they had no qualms about breaking the law in the process. There is likely some company that has risen since to fill this need.

I doubt Minnesota was specifically targeted; they are simply the first state to notice that multiple attacks occurred.

At some point, any given channel will go from "trusted recommendations" to "they're shilling for a company". And once you lose that authenticity, you're just another commercial in a long lifespan of commercial advertising everywhere.

You seem like a reasonable person. Thank you. There seems to be far too little of that now.

Speaking as a Californian, nothing good comes from continual one party voting. I'm assuming someone in a completely Red state would also agree with that assessment. Here's a hint: you want a mix between the two. Sure there's gridlock, but gridlock is better than one party rampant corruption. It's only minor corruption then.

The telco had to wait for more layoffs to hit the books so they could afford to pay for the rural infrastructure. Or for President Biden's infrastructure program. The problem is that so many wealthy retirees moved out to a country estate. The working class is tired of subsidizing their expensive lifestyles.