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Re: Re: Re: Re: Sounds good - until...
I am a meat popsicle.
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So they want to reauthorize the surveillance law that likely has yielded sigint which can probably show collusion between trump's team and Russia during the election?
Ballsy. Stupid, but ballsy.
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So does this mean GG will stop harassing people online? Or that it works and they'll now harass more people?
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So...wait...this actually is about ethics in game journalism?
Huh.
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"They just don't want to become a dumb pipe."
No, they want to be AOL and Prodigy for the 21st century and control not just your internet experience, but all media and communication.
Gatekeeping is control, control is money.
Re: Configure to prevent exploitation at the source
While I agree with you, most of the design of the control software on these devices doesn't even assume that a home network would have more than 1 broadcast domain or subnet. This leads to apps not being able to connect from wireless if the IoT thing is on another subnet/etc.
It causes some issues from time to time, especially when they auto-discover their counterparts or control devices on one subnet and don't think there might be another locally. I recently had an issue with chromecast like this: It was joined to the 2.4gHz wireless, which was technically being used as a sort of "device wifi" and my phone on the 5gHz wireless (on another subnet/vlan) wouldn't allow me to enter an IP - it just kept trying to search the one vlan/subnet.
That was before they released chromecasts with 5gHz support, so maybe they fixed this, but things like these non-considerations for more complicated home networks turn me off to most IoT devices. That and I trust the security in them so little I doubt I would let the vlan they are on out to the internet, which probably breaks most of them.
tl/dr: agreed, but that breaks a lot of the functionality of these things.
Re: Not just cable providers.
Unfairly benefit where there is no sun? In Phoenix?
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Fine! I'll go make my own internet with blackjack and hookers!
...or you know, use the one that already has that.
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Jesus I need an editor to fix my shit before I post.
...or maybe just to grab my crotch.
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So DHS is going to "secure" elections/voting the way they "secured" the airports, eh?
Will being crotch-groped is the new form of secure ID?
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Has anyone submitted this to Lifehacker's Go bags or "How I Work" series?
Re: duh
Man I feel like I go breathless trying to explain this to people.
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"Protect our trade craft" is a statement a surveillance outfit, not a law enforcement agency, makes. That's the terrifying disclosure: The FBI just admitted they aren't interested in law enforcement, they are interested in espionage.
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Anyone else a little disturbed that April Fool's Day is the day to comment on the first amendment to the Copyright Office?
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M-O-O-N that spells FBI.
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I could have become a lawyer and probably would have wanted to be a District Attorney, but I opted for honest work as a home invasion burglar.
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I'm sorry, can someone check the temperature in hell please?
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There's no place like home...There's no place like home...There's no place like home...
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Oh Michael. That's not the only reason we don't take you seriously...
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It's very clear that they've moved on from not downloading cars to not downloading a clue.