Archiv für den Monat: Juni 2014

24 Jan 2014

Letztes Mal angesprochen, danach weiterdiskutiert: Bonjour zwischen Subnetzen; ein paar Links:

Auch noch vom letzten Mal der Hinweis auf das Simple Mac Pro Lock.

Seit dann hab ich, meinem Pinboard zufolge, und trotz ausbrechender Panik, vor allem längeres gelesen:

Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it. In the process, he figured out how to get total administration access over a network. He put it in a script, and ran it to see what would happen, then went to bed for about four hours. Next morning on the way to work he checked on it, and discovered he was now lord and master of about 50,000 computers. After nearly vomiting in fear he killed the whole thing and deleted all the files associated with it.

[…]

Your average piece-of-shit Windows desktop is so complex that no one person on Earth really knows what all of it is doing, or how.

Now imagine billions of little unknowable boxes within boxes constantly trying to talk and coordinate tasks at around the same time, sharing bits of data and passing commands around from the smallest little program to something huge, like a browser — that’s the internet. All of that has to happen nearly simultaneously and smoothly, or you throw a hissy fit because the shopping cart forgot about your movie tickets.

[…]

NASA had a huge staff of geniuses to understand and care for their software. Your phone has you.

Plus a system of automatic updates you keep putting off because you’re in the middle of Candy Crush Saga every time it asks.

[…]

People say “You should apply this, it’s a critical patch!” and leave off the “…because the developers fucked up so badly your children’s identities are probably being sold to the Estonian Mafia by smack addicted script kiddies right now.”

[…]

Next time you think your grandma is uncool, give her credit for her time helping dangerous Russian criminals extort money from offshore casinos with DDoS attacks.

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Every malware expert I know has lost track of what some file is, clicked on it to see, and then realized they’d executed some malware they were supposed to be examining. I know this because I did it once with a PDF I knew had something bad in it. […] If some of the best malware reversers around can’t keep track of their malicious files, what hope do your parents have against that e-card that is allegedly from you?

[..]

There’s your choice: constantly risk clicking on dangerous malware, or live under an overpass, leaving notes on the lawn of your former house telling your children you love them and miss them.

Oder auch:

Da und dort aber auch was aufgeschnappt:

Für jetzt aber Abschied, mit einer Frage und einem Brief, mindestens bis Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2014, wie immer um 18:45, wie immer im Gloria.

PS: Zur WWDC muss ich ja nichts sagen, oder?