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Comment Re:Does not make me like the IT guys (Score 2) 84

What does the underlying operating system have to do with phishing links that take unsuspecting users to lookalike websites where they are prompted to enter their credentials? A lot of (most?) of the phishing doesn't try to use a zero day, exploit a bug, or find some vulnerability in the browser or operating system, it attempts to get the user to cough up valid credentials which are then used by the attackers to perform operations on behalf of the user. The phishing tests that my company uses don't attempt any exploit (other than social engineering) and we still have lots of employees that fail. Getting off Microsoft doesn't solve this core issue - there may be other reasons to do so, but the knee jerk comment that it's all Microsoft's fault isn't really helpful here.

Comment Sounds like a logistical headache (Score 1) 124

So every kid needs to have a brokerage account now? Their parents needs to have a sub account in their kid's name? Are brokerage firms going to be happy with all these accounts containing a single share? Will these accounts be free? If not brokerage accounts, is each kid going get a real paper share certificate, and is SpaceX or some transfer agent going to be able to handle and track that many single shares? How about the privacy aspects of this - to issue all of these shares, SpaceX would need the names, addresses, and Tax IDs for all the kids in the US? How in the heck would this actually work?

Comment It's AI and "the algorithm" (Score 5, Insightful) 107

For me social media used to be a way that I could keep up with what my family, friends, and peers were doing. I saw what they posted and they saw what I posted. Now feeds are overrun with stuff I don't care about (the algorithm) and stuff that isn't real (AI), so it is becoming less and less worth my time to post stuff (my intended audience won't see it, and is also leaving the platforms) and likewise I don't see stuff my peers post. On top of this there is all the political crap and advertising.

Comment Re:I'm sure. (Score 1) 72

The light wouldn't have to be a visible spectrum or one that is interfered with by normal lighting, the camera just needs to be sensitive to it. Even if it used normal spectrum, it wouldn't have to work in all lighting conditions, as it doesn't have to detect tampering immediately, it only needs to detect that tampering has happened at some point in the past. The algorithm could be to wait for testable conditions and then test, if a test hasn't completed in 24 hours, disable the camera and instruct the user to put the glasses somewhere dark, and maybe have a 3 strikes you are out rule before bricking the camera.

Comment Surprised that automatic unlock is a risk? (Score 2) 69

Bitlocker without a PIN is a setup where a normal boot of the machine decrypts the disk without any user interaction. Why would it be a surprise if it was possible to alternate boot from USB and also be able to automatically decrypt the disk? This would be true for any disk encryption software that doesn't require the user to enter a PIN or password at boot time. If you can boot from alternate boot media, pretty much any operating system would allow that alternate boot to have access to the underlying file system, while bypassing the original operating system accounts, logins, and permissions.

Comment Odd risk assessment (Score 2) 75

So foreign routers and related firmware is too risky to continue to allow for imports, but it's not too risky to allow the same risky sources continue to give us new firmware? Seems to me if a foreign entity wanted to screw us, now with be the time. It's like, those guys over in the US are going to cut us off, so we should use this last chance to send them backdoored firmware.

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