Well of course it does. This is because they know very well that the orders are neither lawful nor appropriate. Furthermore they consider their ability to continue undermining national security a process that is vital to national security. So in order to maintain security, they must keep violating our security and must not allow public discourse to reach an informed consensus about what even constitutes security.

*sigh*

And that's not even touching on the privacy issues. Does anyone actually even need this shit unsealed to see the blatantly obvious logical flaw in the reasoning behind it being sealed in the first place?

In most cases all this would accomplish is alleviation of some load on our firewalls. 99.9999999999% of the traffic we get from out of the country is unprofitable garbage.

You're on the right track, but even if you add a second ethernet device the Raspberry Pi itself only has enough throughput to keep up with basic DSL speeds. There are other, less popular single-board ARM computers that would be better suited for this task.

An education, or at least better help.

An old used PC with 2 or more ethernet ports that's running OpenBSD also does just fine.

Linksys stopped being good sometime shortly after being sold to Cisco. NetGear is usually fine but will fall over under heavy traffic if you add too many custom routes.

That's not how you beg for us to give you our old toys.

The C64's soundcard is in this drive. Even if they aren't using floppies anymore (and hadn't just taken this picture inbetween swapping disks) they probably still leave the drive connected and on just so they can hear the stock software sound effects.

There's plans online for SD card readers for them and such. Its a solved problem.

I assume the issue is that the employee was acting on their own, in violation of Verizon's terms of service. It would have been perfectly legal if they'd been selling the data to advertising partners instead, who would have absolutely no restrictions on who they then re-sell the data to. Honestly this P.I. is an idiot and threw someone in the line of fire for really no reason other than perhaps convenience.

Sorry, we didn't realize any of you were smart enough to notice! LOL!

Yes, sage advice indeed. Don't bother securing your servers, everything will be fine, we promise! What was your router IP again?

... is that its far cheaper and more effective to pay someone to float lies and falsified data like this "research" to convince their competition not to bother securing their networks than it is to just pay market prices for the customer data they want.

Yea, I'd also like a bit clearer accounting of what type of "security solutions" average more than $200,000... I think maybe these guys need a second opinion on what constitutes security.

The tools, which enable [salaried government employees] (who don't understand how they work) to exploit software flaws in computer and communications systems (which they also don't fundamentally understand), from [American companies] such as Cisco Systems and Fortinet Inc, (whose customers and reputations and overall integrity they also don't care about), were dumped onto public websites last month by a group calling itself Shadow Brokers.

There, FTFY.

I think you meant remotely interesting... [conversationalists].

Plenty of people in our own civilization study insects and vermin all day long, as a profession, for science. We're far more technologically advanced than ants and rats yet there is still much we can learn from them without their consent...

What makes you think we'd be any different to aliens?