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Comment Re:You said "cheap" and "Wifi", but... (Score 1) 147

This whole story is about CCTV, therefore NVR or cloud keys as these are where CCTV is hosted.

Having to use a different device in addition to the NVR defeats the point, especially considering a lot of users are on networks where they're forced to use the ISP-supplied gateway.

Even if the gateway does DDNS that's not relevant on a modern IPv6 network as the actual NVR device will have its own address rather than forwarding a port from the gateway address. Keep in mind that a good percentage of the world is stuck behind CGNAT so the gateway has an unreachable legacy address and home devices are only reachable over IPv6 (or not at all if the ISP is so lousy that they've not deployed v6 yet).

Comment "security through obscurity" (Score 1) 61

Within days of the trade-secret-protected algorithm being leaked in 1994, a researcher demonstrated a cryptographic attack

ah yes, that. Don't DO that.

Anything that can be destroyed by public review deserves to be destroyed by public review.

So if you're afraid of releasing your security code, your code is probably TRASH.

Comment Re:Sums it up nicely (Score 1) 174

Musk has two important skills:

1) He's very inspiring. His employees like working for him (tbh it's not hard to be more inspiring than the average CEO, but he manages to pass that low bar, and his employees respond by doing good work).

2) He's good at getting funding, especially government funding.

Both of these are real skills, and they have led to all his success.

Comment "Nuclear device" (Score 0) 70

Look, I know "nuclear device" is correctly generic, so that RTGs and things like them, legitimately count. But let's be serious: right around the very same time this real stuff happened, some really great fake stuff happened too: the movie Goldfinger.

And once you've watched Goldfinger, "nuclear device" is just a euphemism for a bomb. So don't go calling RTGs "nuclear devices," please.

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