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Miscreants are actively exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities to wrangle routers and video recorders into a hostile botnet used in distributed denial-of-service attacks, researchers from networking firm Akamai said Thursday. You mean that internet-connected cameras might be used to spy on people?
'Miscreants'. Try to work it into a sentence or three today.
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Video recorders are not necessarily cameras, and using it as a botnet is not spying...
But yes... Surpriseeeeeee!!!!
M.D.V.
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Ah the joy of open source where nobody pays attention before shipping 100 million devices. But the project was done in time.... Next up, "AI query bots used to develop code introduce back doors."
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Forget the four-day week—Microsoft founder Bill Gates is anticipating a three-day work week could be possible thanks to artificial intelligence. Do I hear two? Two, two, anyone with a two?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Do I hear two? Two, two, anyone with a two? I see your 2 and rise to 1
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When AI comes into its own (Real Soon NowTM), we'll have a 0-day work week!
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Google has added some new features to Bard, including a way to chat about specific content of YouTube videos So it will watch the cat videos for me?
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The question is... will it "AAWwww" as well as you?
M.D.V.
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All Android and iOS users can soon tap a headphone icon and start chatting. Hopefully no one will recreate the events of 'Her'
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The crypto exchange will continue to operate following a $4.3 billion settlement with the Justice Department. A crypto guy did something wrong and/or immoral? Say it ain't so!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A crypto guy did something wrong and/or immoral? Say it ain't so! It's not like something new and badly understood isn't going to be taken advantage of. I'm sure that our EU crypto, in the firm hands of bureaucrats, will be much safer
(Germany celebrated 100 years ago the end of hyperinflation, so what could go wrong?)
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year. This business decision brought to you by Microsoft Edge
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That's why a host file is more effective than an ad-blocker. Block the server, not the ad.
Also, if you use Chrome, you deserve it
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Question: does the hosts file support having a couple of million domains in it?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Half a megabyte right now. No adblockers, no virusscanner, no problems. And it works for everything that accesses the internet, as it is not just a browser-plug in. Works for everything accessing the internet as it is on the OS-level, without me having to block stuff on the router.
How did you come up with the number?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I was just wondering because my custom ad blocker that I've been working on now for two years is currently supporting over 4 million domains to block, and I want to get some idea of what the competition is like.
Off hand, I would say that half a megabyte of domains is not anywhere close to 4 million domains, because my ad blocker's SQLite database is over 430 megabytes. True, I'm storing more data per domain than the hosts file, but maybe you could open your hosts file in notepad++ to see how many lines it has.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: I was just wondering because my custom ad blocker that I've been working on now for two years is currently supporting over 4 million domains to block, and I want to get some idea of what the competition is like. It's not competition and it is not an ad blocker. I'm mostly running the MVPS' host file, with a very few domains merged into it.
Hosts files do support wildcards; so it ain't 430 Mb in size, naming every domain. You could do similar but more advanced with a nice regex
It is a way of blocking like the router does; it does not actually detect or know if something is pushing ads. So, yes, your solution may be better - I just have an app that downloads the MVPS' file and adds a few lines from me to it. I'd prefer something that can actually update the router, so any device using it would be more secure.
In another location I'm using a Pi. Good firewall, if not too many users.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I was just wondering if the hosts file can support millions of domains. Thanks for your explanation!
(I totally understand if you don't know the answer, as I do not either.)
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It doesn't; the machine becomes rather slow if you go above 4 Mb. At least, a few years ago it did and I doubt that it changed.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Was it not in debate to change something in the way traffic is redirected through the nodes that would render the host file blocking useless if it gets implemented and rolled out?
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That's fine, until Chrome starts mandating DNS over HTTPS "for security reasons". That bypasses the hosts file and sends the DNS queries directly to the chosen DOH server.
Then, when someone starts offering a DOH server with built-in ad-blocking, Chrome will suddenly mandate that you have to use Google's DOH server "for security reasons".
And oh, what a surprise: they'll "accidentally" introduce an annoying delay in responses when looking up any of their competitors. They may not be able to force you to use their advert malvertising search engine, but they can sure as hell make it as difficult as possible to use anything else.
What they won't tell you is that the "security" they're interested in isn't your security; it's the "security" of their corrupt business model.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Time for a DOH Pi-hole.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Well, it just works and I love the pricing
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The DNS over HTTPS can still be hacked with a man-in-the-middle attack as long as Windows can be made to trust any certificate we choose. But Microsoft may soon disallow that, as well.
The difficult we do right away...
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