It only becomes a problem when the manufacturer of the TPM decides that the consumers shouldn't be able to determine what constitutes acceptable software.
Or when the software mfgr. is forced by law (or National Security Letters, or Executive Orders, ...) to collude with elements of a fascistic police state (NSA/FBI/CIA/DEA/...), or with bought by special interests (MafiAA) laws like interminable copyright.
Oh look, both of those are already happening! I'm glad I'm not in the USA. Have a lovely revolution (sooner rather than later, preferably)!
... and the only people willing to fill them are the migrants who just want work.
Imagine what would happen to the US' agriculture industry if it couldn't rely on cheap Chicano labour. Millionaires would be lining up at food banks, or more likely emigrating elsewhere.
I would not have a problem with open borders either if we got rid of the welfare state.
Absolutely! Those banksters getting trillion dollar bailouts from taxpayers to save their greedy asses from their stupidity riles me to no end! Think of all the poor children we could put through college if those parasites weren't bleeding us dry.
Or, did you mean something else? You should cut down on the koolaid they've been feeding you. That stuff rots your brain and your teeth.
So you are actually saying that Civilized nations have some responsibility to take on these people but NOT do anything about the terror that they flee from?
Where did I say that? Are you listening to voices inside your head? I can't hear them from where I am you know?
Many nations are (in theory) fighting that terror, while others (including the USA) are fomenting that terror. ISIS was created by the USA, Saudis, and Israel, all in a proxy war attempt to destabilize Iran and Assad's Syria. If I had my way, we'd blockade Syria and starve the terrorists. Damned right we should be taking in refugees!
If they will not take a stand to resolve the problems in their own country then they are directly attempting to bring their problems to mine!
Not everyone's a trained warrior or is free to abandon their families to take on bad guys, nor should they have to! No one wins in war. The winner only loses less than the loser.
Calling this xenophobic is pure intellectual dishonesty and EVIL AS HELL!
Back at ya! Would you prefer racist or escapist or NIMBY or just hiding your head in the sand like the proverbial ostrich? Leaving civilians in the crosshairs of fanatics doesn't speak well of you. Nor does building walls to keep out the hordes of refugees. Would you prefer those children grow up in the hands of ISIS, or that they should learn civilized behavior instead?
You need to re-think this hate mongering you're into. It won't bring anything positive to anyone. There are *good* things that could be done instead.
My, what a compliant little consumer you are. Such a cutie!
This is another area where your rights, even if real, are simply not the sole basis for decision. There's legal liability besides, which even if you categorically waive against GM for mechanical damage your tweaks caused, you've not insured others against for when, not if, tweaks cause the fly-by-wire system to go full throttle and endanger others.
Tell that to the banksters running amok on the Wall Streets of the world, robbing *anyone they can* to save their butts from their own greed. Bite me, slave. You go ahead and serve your master, but don't try to wrap those chains of yours around me too. Either I control what I own, or I don't own it. If I don't own it, it's not really mine and isn't welcome in my life. My life is precious and so is your own if you had the sense to realize it. I'm sad that you don't.
It's not the 20th century any more, you child-geezers. You'll be increasingly hampered by corporations and prevented from doing harm. Enjoy.
Yeah, and ever since the Magna Carta, it hasn't been theirs, and they're not going to get that back no matter how hard they try. Feudalism is dead and gone and it matters not whether you or they like it or not.
Hey kid, remember Charlton Heston? There's not a lot I agreed with him on, but I know of at least one: "From my cold, dead hands!"
Now, you hustle on down to Walmart and enrich your corporate overlord royalty, while you have time. There's a revolution on the way, so hurry!
No nation on earth can ever or will ever survive a migrate influx of this magnitude and the EU is proving it already, all of these people will only bring in greater economic strain, criminal and civil unrest.
BS! They're people fleeing tyranny and war, trying to find peace where they can live in peace and raise their children as productive citizens.
It should also be mentioned this is "last mile" traffic, direct from the users' ISP to their location, since Netflix installs servers inside ISPs to serve the data. This doesn't step on anyone else's bandwidth and certainly shouldn't enter into any discussions about rolling out faster or bigger pipes. They're already there when the customer's signed up.
There must be some sort of Heisenberg Principle applicable to hacking. The very act of observing creates the hacking.
Is Vint Cerf a co-defendant? "ping -c 1 $IP_ADDRESS"
If it's on-line and you haven't a valid login on it, is it illegal now to touch it in any way? Is there an RFC that says anything about what we can and cannot do to a machine connected to a network that was designed to make all connected hosts valid connectivity paths?
Obviously, it's in Bhatia's interests to push for redefining "hacking" as purely a nefarious activity ...
This ship sailed about a decade and a half ago. Nobody'd listen to us. "Hacking" has a long distinguished history (cf. MIT's "model railroad club", et al). It's about curiosity about how things work. We tried to distinguish "white-hat hacking" from "black-hat cracking", but the media'd have none of that. It didn't fly. Meh.
Krebs is a credible security researcher and reporter. He would not mis-read an email, ffs.
However, thanks for warning me about Canadian law. I should shut up more often it seems.
Not to mention, the cost of wages to the competent person to maintain it generally blows the doors off the price of the equipment itself. Hardware's cheap, amortized over time, and a tax deductable business expense. That competent person is not cheap, was expensive to train, is difficult to find and hire, has to be negotiated with for compensation or even to get them to reside where you want them to work, plus add healthcare and taxes and yada yada, ...
Complaining about the cost of hardware is idiocy. "Morans!" [sic]
I don't know that there's any evidence that any "meet ups" ever actually took place, outside of hearsay reports. I do know lots of credit card activity took place, which was enough for ALM to look forward to floating an IPO later this year, assuming this mess never happened (aka, "blew up in their face").
Again, I don't approve of malicious "hacking", but I've got to admit this's evidence of one seriously, righteously, peed off and motivated "hacker."
That is a reasonably good article. I especially enjoyed reading about them dancing with legal counsel about their ToS and how they blatantly lied to the California AG's reports of fraudulent activity against their users.
Ashley Madison began as total scam.
Yes, yet with millions of users, there's a market for it out there. Dating sites are not a new thing. ALM may just be one of the scammiest of them ever "outed." I don't approve of malicious "hacking", but ALM certainly deserved this mess.
All this Techdirt piece does is divert attention from the criminals who knowingly scammed millions of idiots for tens of millions of dollars.
This TD piece is just reporting on a very weak lawsuit. Going after Amazon and GoDaddy for hosting the hack data and websites offering to search it for victims is ridiculous.
On side note, just noticed huge ID leak in a Linux: the network tray gadget has check box (set ON by default) that gives "permission" to query icanhazip.com for my real external IP address!
Not in my "network tray gadget." What are you using?
Besides that, just getting TD's front page downloads around TWO megabytes, mostly javascript trying to uniquely identify.
Really? I don't see that on my system (Debian testing/stretch). It sounds to me that you need to hire someone to secure your system (as you're apparently incapable of doing so yourself).
Everywhere you turn, people, especially where and when you don't suspect, you are the monetized product, like sausage!
If you're not paying for it, you are the product. Why (for you) that translates into TD hate is something I can't be bothered to speculate about. Don't care.
PS. Consider avoiding Gizmodo. They don't appear to know how to serve the web. Even after pages were finished loading, both of my CPU cores were blasting away at 40% utilization. Perhaps that's your real problem. Did you close that tab before coming to TD? I suspect not. I won't be back there soon.
While I do have some sympathy for those whose lives have been negatively affected by the dissemination of this data,
...why should you? People using that site knew what they were doing, and that it involved risk.
Those negatively affected were not only the users of the site. I'm the front of the line calling them and their users dirtbags, but their innocent SOs who were (perhaps against their wishes or even under duress ("for the children")) standing by their vows to "honour and obey", and their offspring have been hit by a bolt out of the blue not of their making ("Ha haaaa, your {mom|dad}'s a cheater! Ha haaaa.").
I can understand the "hackers" wanting to take down ALM for being the !@#$s they are/were, but there's lots of friendly fire and innocent non-combatants in the line of fire here too. They do not deserve becoming involved in their mess.
We don't publish the names of parents who abuse their children, to avoid further abusing the children by the justice system and the news media.
I hope ALM and its principals pay dearly for this mess. I hope their victims learn from it. I hope their "hackers" have got their jollies and are satisfied to fade into obscurity.
Yeah rule 101 of telecom sockpuppetry, ignore the fact that a ton of this infrastructure was paid for fifty times over by taxpayers.
Meanwhile, New York (is it?) is still waiting for them to roll it out, and when called on the outright theft they lie and scream and bitch and moan, "It's not our fault!"
Robbed via taxation to pay politicos pals for vast sums in subsidies, lax to non-existent oversight, caps on "unlimited", 3/4 of a million bucks to the likes of Sunnunu for paywalled propaganda lies preaching to the converted, and still they have the gall to accuse us and Netflix of taking advantage of them! The cable TV business must be in serious trouble. Ha, ha. Suck on it!
It beggars the imagination that they can get away with this in the USA. This is the sort of story you'd expect to read about from banana republics or the likes of Kazachstan, not the USA.
Couldn't the Jamaican artists who don't agree with this just say they waive the extension for anything they personally created ...
There was an idiot or two here just last week who refused to believe Dan Bull still controlled his copyrights once he told anybody who wanted to use his stuff to have at 'em for free.
Then again, he's an artist/creator, so why would they care about his opinion? It's not going to fill their wallets.
"Make no mistake: The bandwidth used by Netflix is paid for."
"But ..."
This's "Moocher Capitalism." If you can get away with the big lie slandering the honest players, you can weasel out an unearned cut of their profits with hardly any work at all on your part. Greed and laziness for hookers and blow. It's arrogant, cynical, and typical Wall St. behavior, enriching yourself while creating nothing for anyone but yourself.
Lots of people will make money. The politicians and judges have their bribes and will soon be buying new boats, planes, and real estate, renovating their palaces, and padding their retirement packages. Performance rights orgs will have a field day shaking down small business. The tax man may make some too, but considering how corrupt these people tend to be, likely not much (just like the bribed politicos who sell out for peanuts).
I doubt much will wind up enriching artists though. Good job, MafiAA!
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Or when the software mfgr. is forced by law (or National Security Letters, or Executive Orders, ...) to collude with elements of a fascistic police state (NSA/FBI/CIA/DEA/...), or with bought by special interests (MafiAA) laws like interminable copyright.
Oh look, both of those are already happening! I'm glad I'm not in the USA. Have a lovely revolution (sooner rather than later, preferably)!
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Imagine what would happen to the US' agriculture industry if it couldn't rely on cheap Chicano labour. Millionaires would be lining up at food banks, or more likely emigrating elsewhere.
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Absolutely! Those banksters getting trillion dollar bailouts from taxpayers to save their greedy asses from their stupidity riles me to no end! Think of all the poor children we could put through college if those parasites weren't bleeding us dry.
Or, did you mean something else? You should cut down on the koolaid they've been feeding you. That stuff rots your brain and your teeth.
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Where did I say that? Are you listening to voices inside your head? I can't hear them from where I am you know?
Many nations are (in theory) fighting that terror, while others (including the USA) are fomenting that terror. ISIS was created by the USA, Saudis, and Israel, all in a proxy war attempt to destabilize Iran and Assad's Syria. If I had my way, we'd blockade Syria and starve the terrorists. Damned right we should be taking in refugees!
Not everyone's a trained warrior or is free to abandon their families to take on bad guys, nor should they have to! No one wins in war. The winner only loses less than the loser.
Back at ya! Would you prefer racist or escapist or NIMBY or just hiding your head in the sand like the proverbial ostrich? Leaving civilians in the crosshairs of fanatics doesn't speak well of you. Nor does building walls to keep out the hordes of refugees. Would you prefer those children grow up in the hands of ISIS, or that they should learn civilized behavior instead?
You need to re-think this hate mongering you're into. It won't bring anything positive to anyone. There are *good* things that could be done instead.
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My, what a compliant little consumer you are. Such a cutie!
Tell that to the banksters running amok on the Wall Streets of the world, robbing *anyone they can* to save their butts from their own greed. Bite me, slave. You go ahead and serve your master, but don't try to wrap those chains of yours around me too. Either I control what I own, or I don't own it. If I don't own it, it's not really mine and isn't welcome in my life. My life is precious and so is your own if you had the sense to realize it. I'm sad that you don't.
Yeah, and ever since the Magna Carta, it hasn't been theirs, and they're not going to get that back no matter how hard they try. Feudalism is dead and gone and it matters not whether you or they like it or not.
Hey kid, remember Charlton Heston? There's not a lot I agreed with him on, but I know of at least one: "From my cold, dead hands!"
Now, you hustle on down to Walmart and enrich your corporate overlord royalty, while you have time. There's a revolution on the way, so hurry!
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Not true, and you should stop helping to pimp that lie. They can yammer on any way they want, but it doesn't change reality.
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BS! They're people fleeing tyranny and war, trying to find peace where they can live in peace and raise their children as productive citizens.
You're a fearmongering xenophobe.
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Is Vint Cerf a co-defendant? "ping -c 1 $IP_ADDRESS"
If it's on-line and you haven't a valid login on it, is it illegal now to touch it in any way? Is there an RFC that says anything about what we can and cannot do to a machine connected to a network that was designed to make all connected hosts valid connectivity paths?
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This ship sailed about a decade and a half ago. Nobody'd listen to us. "Hacking" has a long distinguished history (cf. MIT's "model railroad club", et al). It's about curiosity about how things work. We tried to distinguish "white-hat hacking" from "black-hat cracking", but the media'd have none of that. It didn't fly. Meh.
Krebs is a credible security researcher and reporter. He would not mis-read an email, ffs.
However, thanks for warning me about Canadian law. I should shut up more often it seems.
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Complaining about the cost of hardware is idiocy. "Morans!" [sic]
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I don't know that there's any evidence that any "meet ups" ever actually took place, outside of hearsay reports. I do know lots of credit card activity took place, which was enough for ALM to look forward to floating an IPO later this year, assuming this mess never happened (aka, "blew up in their face").
Again, I don't approve of malicious "hacking", but I've got to admit this's evidence of one seriously, righteously, peed off and motivated "hacker."
Golf clap, I guess.
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Yes, yet with millions of users, there's a market for it out there. Dating sites are not a new thing. ALM may just be one of the scammiest of them ever "outed." I don't approve of malicious "hacking", but ALM certainly deserved this mess.
This TD piece is just reporting on a very weak lawsuit. Going after Amazon and GoDaddy for hosting the hack data and websites offering to search it for victims is ridiculous.
Not in my "network tray gadget." What are you using?
Really? I don't see that on my system (Debian testing/stretch). It sounds to me that you need to hire someone to secure your system (as you're apparently incapable of doing so yourself).
If you're not paying for it, you are the product. Why (for you) that translates into TD hate is something I can't be bothered to speculate about. Don't care.
PS. Consider avoiding Gizmodo. They don't appear to know how to serve the web. Even after pages were finished loading, both of my CPU cores were blasting away at 40% utilization. Perhaps that's your real problem. Did you close that tab before coming to TD? I suspect not. I won't be back there soon.
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Those negatively affected were not only the users of the site. I'm the front of the line calling them and their users dirtbags, but their innocent SOs who were (perhaps against their wishes or even under duress ("for the children")) standing by their vows to "honour and obey", and their offspring have been hit by a bolt out of the blue not of their making ("Ha haaaa, your {mom|dad}'s a cheater! Ha haaaa.").
I can understand the "hackers" wanting to take down ALM for being the !@#$s they are/were, but there's lots of friendly fire and innocent non-combatants in the line of fire here too. They do not deserve becoming involved in their mess.
We don't publish the names of parents who abuse their children, to avoid further abusing the children by the justice system and the news media.
I hope ALM and its principals pay dearly for this mess. I hope their victims learn from it. I hope their "hackers" have got their jollies and are satisfied to fade into obscurity.
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Meanwhile, New York (is it?) is still waiting for them to roll it out, and when called on the outright theft they lie and scream and bitch and moan, "It's not our fault!"
Robbed via taxation to pay politicos pals for vast sums in subsidies, lax to non-existent oversight, caps on "unlimited", 3/4 of a million bucks to the likes of Sunnunu for paywalled propaganda lies preaching to the converted, and still they have the gall to accuse us and Netflix of taking advantage of them! The cable TV business must be in serious trouble. Ha, ha. Suck on it!
It beggars the imagination that they can get away with this in the USA. This is the sort of story you'd expect to read about from banana republics or the likes of Kazachstan, not the USA.
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There was an idiot or two here just last week who refused to believe Dan Bull still controlled his copyrights once he told anybody who wanted to use his stuff to have at 'em for free.
Then again, he's an artist/creator, so why would they care about his opinion? It's not going to fill their wallets.
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"But ..."
This's "Moocher Capitalism." If you can get away with the big lie slandering the honest players, you can weasel out an unearned cut of their profits with hardly any work at all on your part. Greed and laziness for hookers and blow. It's arrogant, cynical, and typical Wall St. behavior, enriching yourself while creating nothing for anyone but yourself.
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Lots of people will make money. The politicians and judges have their bribes and will soon be buying new boats, planes, and real estate, renovating their palaces, and padding their retirement packages. Performance rights orgs will have a field day shaking down small business. The tax man may make some too, but considering how corrupt these people tend to be, likely not much (just like the bribed politicos who sell out for peanuts).
I doubt much will wind up enriching artists though. Good job, MafiAA!
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Spam.
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That didn't stop them from executing the Rosenbergs. Reality doesn't have to be an impediment when you're government.
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