I hate to go all grandma “I don’t need a phone, if people want to talk they can just come over” but I agree.
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Thanks!
I’m rereading a book I first read about 6 or so years ago that I just love. It’s by an Israeli writer, Amir Gutfreunde. It’s a surprising novel called Our Holocaust. It’s surprising because it’s charming and quite often really funny and the subject is not at all charming or funny. It’s beautifully written. It’s told from the standpoint of two Israeli children who are best friends, and who are one and half generations from the Holocaust. It’s about how they try to learn about and understand the Holocaust through the people around them who are all from the same parts of Eastern Europe and are survivors.
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Whatever happened to Internet II?
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About the same thing that happened to Biosphere II.
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I have my toilets connected to the interwebs, in case I need to flush remotely.
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Got a true laugh from me. Seems to me that there might be a use for that with potty-training.
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Betcha somebody finds one. hahahahaha
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Will you be here all week? They decided to go with Internet 2.0 instead.
One of the big problems, imo, is not just the malicious but the irresponsible state-level actors. In addition to the obvious you-really-ought-to-secure things issues, there’s the pretty much universal fact that the people responsible for (some parts of) securing things are perfectly happy to make duplicate car keys for whoever walks in the door. Internet II was (sorta kinda) based on the idea that only the Right Kinds of People would have access to it, but that assumes that the category Right Kinds of People exists in a meaningful way. And when intelligence agencies are forging certificates, and countries are sponsoring hacking teams etc, the question of who gets to vet folks becomes, uh, complicated.
There are other ways of doing it (MIT pioneered the idea of secure computing on a network filled with adversaries, or even on an adversarial machine, back in the late 70s and early 80s) but it’s expensive and difficult and requires constant discipline. And modern shareholders and managers operate on the notion that they will have cashed out before disaster strikes.
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Florida man, meet Texas energy company.
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Yeah, it’s all definitely worrying and almost has me longing for the days of low tech. I’m old enough to remember the days of no answering machines and having to get up to change the channel. Fortunately, there were only three (not counting PBS).
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Not to mention the Ring webcam you’ve got hooked up to the guest shower.
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This is a perfect example of why infrastructure funding cannot be limited to solid road and bridges (I forget what the Republican term is for that).
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Good. Once they find the kid’s house, maybe a quick bombing run with an F-35 and the resulting hole in the ground will serve as a friendly warning to other hackers that our responses can be measured or disproportionate as we need them to be.
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I’m not sure how they do it but I’m sure they do. Protect themselves that is. In my case I use Windows 10 server which gives you a ton of options. My system makes several images each day and writes them to a invisible disk as well as uploads to a protected cloud location. The backup disk auto-disconnects at predetermined times and must be manually brought back online.
I’ve been ransomed twice ( when it was a new thing ) was locked out about 2 hours and back up without a glitch. Assholes ( one China and one Russia ) never got a dime.
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When you figure how to relive yourself remotely without getting up, let me know how it’s done. That may come in handy during the night for me.
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I find it hard to believe that this company will be down any longer than it takes to format the stricken servers and reload with back ups… Check for worms and go back online. Maybe for a big outfit like them 2 days.
Mayonnaise jar worked for me when I was in collage.
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They have the option using low collateral impact weapons now, no Kaboom!! but more like a really fast ride through a hay baler or grain combine.
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