Criminals Want To Use Your PS3's Processing Power... And Other Tales To Keep You Up At Night
from the be-afraid,-be-very-afraid dept
There are companies out there that make their money by keeping you very, very afraid of all that new technology out there. That isn't to say that there aren't new security concerns from new technologies, but there seems to be a tendency to hype the risk well before it's clear that it's really a serious risk. There are some firms that have a long history of doing this. Meta Group was especially famous for once saying that all companies should ban all cameraphones from their offices -- which seemed both extreme and shortsighted, since there are plenty of benefits to cameraphones as well. Sometime after that, Gartner bought Meta Group, and they seem to have learned how to overhype the threat of new technologies from them. First, there was the big threat of iPods in the office, and now Gartner is warning everyone that criminals want your PS3s. It's not to steal them and resell them, but they want to access the processing power on your brand new PS3 for a new generation of botnets. Now, it's certainly possible at some point that this will become an issue -- but it seems a little early to make that claim without any real evidence that this is happening.
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Unsigned code
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All over again
http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/e/2003/01/23-saddam_hussein.php
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Linux
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Everythign that can be invented has been invented
He wanted to petition to have the patent office closed / or stop issuing patents since all worthwhile things had already patents issued on them...
Too funny.
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Adama
Real world take-away: Powerful, intelligent firewalls, antivirus and secure practices.
If some n00b turns off his computers firewall, and disable WEP and hardware based firewalls on his router because some other n00b told him it lowers his ping (or some other such silly thing), do I feel bad that hackers walk through the gaping hole left open by these people spreading their legs to the whole intarweb? Nope.
Gmail filters the spam mighty fine.
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GIMPS
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Ridiculous
Everyone knows that Sony has already made a deal with NSA to sell all those spare processor cycles to the US government. No way they are going to leave any openings for criminals to steal those cycles. ;-)
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Re: Ridiculous
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One small factor.
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