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"Customers that have found a compromised customization object should follow their incident response process"
Haha haha hahaha, nice one Centurion, nice one :D
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"Hi, my name is Chuckie, do you want to play?"
Seriously, what kind of fucked up idiot thinks that it's a good idea to imprint on children the concept that their 'doll' is alive.
Of course children believe their toys are alive, but that's the power of their imagination. If they don't have to imagine it, then poof, there goes the imagination. Not only that, but how will a child ever grow out of thinking their toys are alive if they do actual behave as if they were alive?
Someone is going to have a lot of fun hacking the response servers >:^}
"It does not mean that there was any deliberate wrongdoing on the part of the security and intelligence agencies"
In other words, the ends justify the means. How is it that these people, who presumably have some degree of training in the classics as part of their background, can be so blind to the lessons of history?
I was over there many years ago when I was 15 and we were walking through Tabuk when we were accosted by a crowd and pushed to the front to view whatever it was they were looking at.
They were stoning a woman to death. For adultery. Apparently her husband had cast her off and she took a lover, but technically still being married she was sentenced to death and they tried to force us (children) to watch them carry out the sentence.
Fotrunately I was already 6ft and the other lad with us was quite stocky and we forced our way out of the crowd, but it makes my blood boil to this day.
Fucking animals.
OMG, Paradroid on the C64 loaded from a 1541 disk drive using the @ loader in around 1.5 seconds.
I bet you any money you couldn't get a game to load up on a modern PC in that time, even a simple one like Paradroid!
Taking on a 999 with a poor 100-series was always a tough ask, timing was essential to have the last erg of energy to flip the switch to your side :)
Hmm, I couldn't find that quote in the page you linked to. In fact, there was only one mention of the word 'codebase' and that was (ironically) in the phrase 'A big complex codebase can have many lurking holes that will take many years to uncover.'
I'm going to have to agree with the previous poster about you not understanding what quote marks are for (as applied to Google search terms).
Look for "the entire codebase of Windows has been rewritten from the ground up" and you will only find reference to your post (plus possibly this one now that I've repeated it).
The closest I could find (within the edit window of this post) is this:
"“We have re-imagined Windows from the ground up.” ~ Steve Ballmer"
from here
https://techpinions.com/8-questions-for-windows-8/10010
The biggest problem for Brother is that of scaleability. It takes a lot of man-hours to sift through all the data for anything meaningful.
Sure, computers are getting better at doing it, but ultimately it comes down to how many people are in a position to look through the info.
This is why we should stop this kind of thing in its tracks before spying on one another becomes the 'norm'. Once the public start doing their job for them they have solved the labour problem and we will no longer even be able to resist.
Seriously, we need to get people to understand the 'nothing to hide' shite is just that...shite.
Next time someone says that to you ask them to let you look through their phone for photo's, texts and contacts etc. If they're happy with that then ask them if they would wear transparent clothing.
*Everybody* has something to hide, it doesn't have to be for nefarious purposes. It would also be a breach of my human rights for someone to remove that choice from me (i.e. to hide personal things).
In my experience, most people spouting that nonsense don't understand what they are saying and soon change their tune once they do.
"I know, I am sacrificing security for convenience"
Everyone is entitled to judge for themselves what level of security/convenience they are happy with, as long as it is informed and not something slipped under the mat!
My wife and I have heated discussions around politics and religion (don't worry, we won't be appearing on Gogglebox anytime soon) - the potential ramifications of a stealth monitoring system in the guise of a TV is just a tad too far imho, ymmv of course.
I have an older d8000 that doesn't have this 'feature', but last March I stayed somewhere that had a Samsung TV with voice commands enabled and it creeped me out so much I just unplugged the thing.
Now I know why.
I'm not paranoid, I'm just sufficiently experienced to expect the worst I can imagine.
@AC I can understand where you are coming from, but in general there has been increased awareness and resistance to state snooping since Snowden.
If the populace can be swayed by smoke and mirrors, they can also be swayed by truth and eloquence.
It's a lot harder to sell the truth obviously, but not actually impossible. Whilst I have breath in my body I will not give in to oppression, whatever 'brand' it hides behind.
I'm not disputing the effectiveness of this ruling, but we can't dismiss the symoblic effort that it represents.
It's a start.
The only sure-fire way to fail in this regard is to believe we have already been beaten.
We might actually already be beaten, but I would prefer to go down swinging as they say :)
"You DO know that Hershey is the happy owner of Cadbury, right?"
And they make Cadbury's chocolate that tastes nothing like the real Cadbury's chocolate. How they managed to take a bar that was parallel to, and practically touching, the ground and lower it considerably to create 'Hershey' I have no idea. Human ingenuity knows no bounds apparently.
Thankyou Ogi, that's pretty much exactly the model I was describing with some additional bells and whistles.
However, the risks I mentioned about it's users still stand. It could be a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but without first-hand knowledge I am just guessing - but considering human nature in general I expect there to be a large element of that there.
I think it might be because it will open up the doors to political manipulation of how the internet is developed (i.e. at a state level rather than a techie level).
If the US did that now, everyone could see it was them trying to take control and everyone would be up in arms.
If all governments had a say, then the US can work behind the scenes to get it to go the way they want and that gives them a chance to cover their tracks/nominate patsy's. etc.
In order to do that effectively it would require everyone to utilise the same VPN cloud (presumably from a trusted source) who is set up to assign bespoke DNS and private IP allocations (fixed or otherwise).
It can be done, but it would have to start slowly since initially there would be shag all content on it.
I would also recommend that all vpn implementations disable split-tunneling and the VPN cloud have no access to the rest of the internet except potentially via an anonymous forward proxy which also stripped out all unsafe protocols, only allow outbound connections etc. - although I would err on the side of no access at all myself - much safer.
That way, all subscribers to 'FreedomNet' could publish what they like via their own IP and register DNS entries that could even overlap internet ones without problem.
The main issue you have then is how to protect this FreedomNet from it's own subscribers - how would you control who gained access and determine if they have nefarious purposes - be they undercover agents or criminals etc.
It would cost a lot of money and involve a lot of risk and headaches for whomever sets it up - that's probably why it hasn't taken off yet*.
*I'm sure there are already networks out there like this, even ones you haven't heard of.
PS If you want to create a secure network just for trusted parties that you already know - then you could always just set up a VPN between your ADSL routers, or for the super-secure, between PC's (after applying all the OS and app hardening guides you can put your hands on).
"The only time I've not been happy was when my missus passed away, I went to stay with a mate for a while, get away from things, and he had 100mbit...when I finally came back home, 40mbit seemed almost archaic."
I don't wish to sound callous, but the wording of your post seems to imply that you were more unhappy about only having 40mbit instead of 100mbit than your wife passing away.
I'm sure I'm wrong, I just wanted to get clarification so I didn't misunderstand.
It's all very well boosting existing 20mbps connections up to 500mpbs and upwards etc. but I just wish they would pay a little more attention to the people who can barely scrape 1mpbs or even less.
Like houses near schools and transport links, houses with access to decent fibre links are going to appreciate more than those without.