Well before 2 days ago, there was the CIA World Factbook, widely considered the most regarded and cited source of world statistics (yes, even given the source - the reason behind its creation and it’s maintainers was quite interesting).
Of course, in an an administration made up of bullshit, facts are the enemy, so it has been removed and probably destroyed.
And IR blocking glasses
Peace tapas… Just a little peace… Unironically funny.
Our interventionist actions (to undermine a thriving, rather progressive country, in terms of the Middle East) directly led to Komeheni’s rule and the imposition of shiara law.
Like… piss… from an overfilled adult diaper…
There are many states that have 2-party consent laws regarding being recorded. In my jurisdiction, what the glasshole did might have been illegal. (I’m not a lawyer or judge)
I don’t have a link right offhand, but the indicator led is defeatable. There’s people on ebay offering the modded glasses for only (iirc) like $100 more than msrp.
Isn’t it the one getting the blocks knocked out of him?
Nah, they’re run by the laziest chucklefucks you’ve ever met - they’re plugged right into a broadband modem with no firewall running bog standard teamviewer or RDP awaiting any connection (no filtering) because the people setting up and using these systems have no concept of infosec. They know how to set up their industrial system, plug it into the ‘computer thingy’, and hand it off the the municipal water dude who is a flat earth, anti-fluoride, moon-landing hoax, J6-denialist who knows nothing about technology, but wants to run the town’s water treatment from his cell phone.
(not that I’m jaded by small town dynamics or anything)
The comment still stands ;)
Shoulda stripped the heads off the bolts! But otherwise, damn fine work!
70s and 80s yes. Not so much the 90s. Those were the salad years. Glasnost, the end of the cold war, the Internet… Everything was looking so positive. Hell, even the music was happier (although that might be selection bias).
The 70s and 80s were terrifying by comparison.
Well, the man’s retired so he can be I suppose? When (if?) I’m able to retire, I plan on being as out of touch as possible :D
I think when people say “destruction of the planet” they are really meaning “our ecosphere and the multitude of species that are currently going extinct”.
Many recognize that we are in a 6th mass extinction period and understand that as the ecosystem goes, so do we. Is the spheroid body of the planet going to crumble or plate tectonics stop working because we’re gone? With all deference to George Carlin, no we know better (we’ll, there is the question about racking-induced earthquakes, but that’s a bit in the weeds).
All good… I mistook the attribution of intent.
But they’ll just slow drip the release anyway, going back for more and more ransom if they do pay.
I guess my thing is (not knowing the company from Adam) I’d assume they’d rather not have the kid’s info released rather than simply not caring about it. Being hacked doesn’t necessarily mean they’re careless - I think that is what I was trying to convey.
I’m almost solely responsible for cyber security at my job. I do my best, make the case for better protections, and secure things as best I can. If we got ransomwared, I’d be tempted to blow my head off. I have to get it right every single time. They have to get right or lucky just once.
My understanding of your first sentence in the first comment was that you were saying that the hackers were trying to ‘intimidate the group (the company) into protecting the privacy of the children’.
That is what I based my response on. If I misunderstand, I apologize. (also, I didn’t down vote you, for what it’s worth, I appreciate the sincerity).
Please don’t try to whitewash these criminals as heroes in this story. They know their target, chose it deliberately and chose to release sensitive information about the victims of their own accord for their own gain.
Doing cybersecurity 100% right 100% of the time is damn hard work. Anyone that says ‘lol their security sucked, they deserved it’ has no idea how much work it takes to keep not only a complex system free from compromise, but also keep the users from shooting themselves in the face and taking the network down with them.
Sorry it’s a Yt link, but its germaine…
https://youtu.be/ANNX_XiuA78