On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 02:54:32PM -0400, jonetsu wrote:
OK. Meanwhile there is currently a cyber attack going on on the US,
with at least one segment down affecting the east. Diaspora is still
available at the moment. Soundcloud is not (depending on your
location).
The map shown at USA Today is getting worse than it was earlier today:
Good. And it's only going to get better. Maybe this will make those
in power think about mandatory security standards for the Things that
make up the IOT. Today you can hire botnets consisting of half a
million video recorders, fridges and toothbrushes. And that's because
neither the manufacturers nor the users of those things care about
security.
Funny, I thought about that just today : I once knew a world without
IT security. I was a child, 8 or 10 and my school had a late 70's
CIE MITRA15 mainframe, complete with the white blouse operator and
the punch-card reader, and an array of "consoles" in another room.
You had to fill the blanks in a Bob Dylan song (man gave name to all
the animals, in the beginning...) that was big on the radio at that
time. Yes, I'm that old, don't tell my fans :D Come to think of it,
even at that times, there must have been pirates. There are always
pirates. Still, how fantastic is a world where