Comment Re: A Niche Device on a Great Update Cycle (Score 1) 20
Comment Re:It's about the size of some big Phablet phones (Score 1) 20
Comment Re:Competition (Score 1) 38
Their algorithm has never been great, but it's just straight up ass now. It keeps recommending me either videos that I've already seen, or ones that have no relevance to anything I've searched for, or subscribed to.
Comment Re:Phishing Tests (Score 1) 82
No, in this case, the real problem is that most employees would expect a superbowl ring to come from a third party vendor. And as such, they'd expect the domain name to be a third party domain name.
Comment Re:Fuck These Tests! (Score 1) 82
These gotcha games suck, but they're necessary. And it's not just email, it's phone calls, it's social engineering, it's fake paper invoices, it's fake AI voices, it's deep fake live videos, etc.
And yes, automate your defenses, automate as much as possible, but that's not enough. Every day, there is a new scam out there, or a new vector of attack, that automation doesn't take into account yet. It's a never-ending list of problems that requires never-ending education.
And yes, let's not make fun of people, but let's assume that people are going to make mistakes (even after having been trained), so let's continue to do penetration testing (in addition to all the other precautions we take and all the defensive automation we create).
Comment Re:Banning hosts? (Score 1) 132
Yes, enforcement can take place *after* a police report has been made. Because if a crime has been committed, there is a process to follow and there is a criminal to catch.
After all, if a hidden camera is found, it could have been planted there by a host, or by an employee, or by a contractor, or by a previous guest, or may be the camera could have been planted by someone trying to make a fake allegation (for instance a local competitor, or a guest who's trying to extort the host)
Who knows? It's the same thing with hotels. Hotel rooms have been found with hidden cameras in them also. If you find a hidden camera in your hotel room, you do not contact their headquarters first, you do not tell the front desk first, you contact the police first! The police can secure the evidence. The police can record what happened. The police can even try to catch the perpetrator.
Comment Re:PHP (Score 2) 100
Wow, BIND, though? Do a quick search on "history of BIND vulnerabilities." Sure, people run all these tests on it now, and in the past, and the history has been there's been a lot of causes of concern.
Comment Re: PHP (Score 1) 100
Because it embeds into html, rather than rendering the html. It makes for very fragmented code.
Yeah, that's pretty old-fashioned. In my experience, it's barely done now. Kinda like how nobody writes JavaScript like it's Pascal anymore.
Comment Re:Banning hosts? (Score 2) 132
Secret recordings should be a police issue, not an AirBnB one. It's not like AirBnB can inspect a location like the police can. And it's not like AirBnB can prosecute a case. This is a matter for the local justice system.
Or am I missing something?
Comment For more details.... (Score 2, Informative) 60
Read the prior story that was posted to the front page just prior to this one.
Good jorb, editors. In a crazy world like we're living in now, it's reassuring to know that some things like slashdot editors not reading the site will never change.
Comment Re: "Fun" fact (Score 2) 137
The only truly unique thing associated with Musk is Starship. That piece of tech is important for our species and everyone else is a solid 20 years behind.
"Important for our species"
Comment Re:Synergy (Score 2) 137
if you look at his track record with DOGE, then you can see his diktats can easily go awry. He walked away from the Fed. Gov. after he screwed it up, he won't be able to walk away from GonzoWhopper Elmo, Inc.
Screwing up the federal government, which was conducting multiple investigations into his companies and himself personally, was exactly his goal. He destroyed the agencies that were trying to regulate him, and investigate him. Being able to steal everyone's data was just a nice side effect to him. Being able to kill funding that was helping to keep hundreds of thousands of African children alive was his way of giving a giant FU to them.