Werewolves?

On one site I look after running Exchange with LetsEncrypt certificates, the certificate is updated every month and had been migrated to the new certificate chain several months ago. For 9 out of 10 users, there was no impact, but for one iPhone X user, the certificate error popped up. Despite updating the phone to the latest OS and ensuring all apps were up to date, the problem persisted. The solution was to delete the account from the phone and add it back.

Strange thing is, two others users had the same phone, and did not experience a problem. It appeared to me the phone in question had cached an older certificate and was trying to use that. You would think the client would check for an updated certificate on every connection attempt, but apparently not in some cases.

Nope, that is one of the uses of a TPM, but a TPM can also be used to store RSA certificates, with a public key and a private key. Public key can be sent to the media or software provider, and part or all can be encrypted in a way that only your device can decrypt, as it is the only device with that private key.

In use, the keys on a TPM are used to sign and encrypt other more useful keys that are stored on disk, in ways to reduce the need to continuously bang away at the TPM, but in essence that's how it can work.

Effectively, this can tie a software or media purchase to a device. The change is that no one buys software on DVD any more, it's downloaded, which gives the opportunity to create a uniquely encrypted version for every customer.

Exactly. If Frodo had not made it to Mt. Doom, life would have gone on, but dark and terrible until a new hero arose. If Luke hadn't landed those missiles, I'm sure it would have meant the tragic end to a few more planets, but life for most in the Galaxy would have just continued on as it had been under Empire rule.

Then again, maybe Sauron wouldn't have been so bad, especially for many who, not through any fault of their own, weren't perhaps as innocent as your average Hobbit.

The new version of Maps that incorporates this driving mode is pretty good. I noticed it about a month ago, as I usually use Maps rather than Auto, and I think the new layout is good, especially if the phone is in a holder. But I'd like to know how to "activate" this mode... because I also noticed that if I swiped then say sent a text, when I swiped back half the time it was in normal maps mode.

The closest related experience recently has been going from an HDD to an SSD.... that was an impressive jump.

The CPU doesn't always do the encryption. There is an AES chip built into many SSD and most if not all NVMe storage. The hardware in the storage always encrypts the data, it's hardwired, it's just by default uses a known private key. The chip can decode and encode data faster than the storage can store and retrieve it, it's not a bottleneck. All BitLocker does is set a new private key and store that key in the TPM.

But yes for storage without an AES chip it takes CPU cycles.

... thought bubble ...

If we cut down more trees, but leave a bit so they grow back, and we don't burn any of the cut down trees, like we use them to build houses or make paper or furniture or whatever, does that not solve the problem of where to put the new trees? I believe some trees grow back. For the ones that don't, a heavy pruning should suffice.

Putting aside the terrifying ramifications for a minute, in theory, if we cut down another 2tn trees, but didn't burn the wood, wouldn't the regrowing trees pull just as much carbon out of the air as new trees would?

I do realise it's a bad idea.

A lot of the DPU replacing going on at the moment is replacing the original DPU's with ones that support G.fast, and will deliver up to 1gbps on FTTC. Sure I'd take fibre any day, but if FTTC is going to deliver me 1gbps as well as its delivering 100mbps now, which is pretty much flawlessly, I can't complain.

But you don't hear anywhere near a majority of people complaining and clamoring for something "better" than their current ICE vehicles....that's the thing.

You're right, and that's true now. What you don't see is where gas prices are going over a 5, 10, 20 year time frame. Held artificially low by COVID for the past 18 months, what we're seeing at the pumps right now is illusory. Oil consumption in Asia and India is set to skyrocket, because 3 billion people want to drive a car, like we do, and their economies are catching up to the point where the middle class can afford to.

It won't take a lot. Maybe it's double the current price, maybe it's quadruple. But there will be a point where using gas or deiseal will become a luxury compared to electricity. People think they're going to be forced by climate change wackos or big government taxes, and there is that, but in the near future for most people when the time comes to buy a new car, the economics of gas just aren't going to work out. Once that scale tips? It's game over for the ICE.

It is not possible to write secure software. Or to rephrase, it is not possible to give a guarantee. Any update can introduce new vulnerabilities, and vulnerabilities get discovered in widely used code that have been there for decades.

When will they learn that the only way to even start ensuring a system is secure is to air gap it. No Internet. If the system needs to be networked between physical locations, you need to exclusively own and control the network medium. System designers need to start with that as a premise, and solve the problems that approach generates in other ways.

It's only when you get into programming that you see it. Software is like a magician, it makes you look over here, with shiny bells and whistles, but under the surface, there is a shambolic mess. You can't trust it. I have never seen an EULA from a software vendor that promises you can trust it; there is never a guarantee that the software can't be compromised. Go and ask a software vendor, but they'll never make that commitment. For a reason.

Does NewsMaxx or OANN show Democrat attack ads? Should they be required to?

The case was made long ago that cable TV businesses were exempt from FDA regulations around equal access. Which makes a lot of sense, they are private businesses utilising their own infrastructure.

If you want to compare apples to apples, you have to take into account the fact that influenza is massively under reported too. I know I've had the flu a few times and not bothered going to the doctor or being otherwise formally diagnosed. I mean what's the point? It's a virus, doctors don't have anything to help you anyway. The vast majority of flu cases are seen off with a week in bed, chicken noodle soup and in my case, a few jam doughnuts.

For almost every transmissible disease, you can almost certainly be assured that there are some people who get it, who never know about it. Many others who are infected by it only mild symptoms.

It is fallacious to compare one statistic with another if you multiply one of the statistics by some arbitrary number, in your case, 20.

The WHO statistic of 1% fatality rate for influenza is also based on "confirmed cases," and even that is subject to change, based on the particular type of influenza you're referring to.

This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Just think about how much plastic you purchase is recycled. Virtually none. Now think about how much you "recycle." Where is it going, who is buying it?

Aside from the occasional item, nothing we buy has been recycled.

You do realise this was patched in last months cumulative update right?

The only reason the security researcher was able to code the proof of concept exploit was that MS published the CVE after it was patched....

If you think any OS, including Linux, doesn't have unpublished or unreported or undiscovered vulnerabilities, you're dreaming.