* Posts by FILE_ID.DIZ

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Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL

FILE_ID.DIZ

Re: Stretching

I think you're conflating two different things.

The plaintiff (don't know what it's called in what'd be a US equivalent German civil courts) was missing required components so that they could update that LGPL-covered code to do what they wanted with that component's logging. Whether those changes were persistent across reboots or entered in manually via CLI after reboot doesn't have any bearing here.

The concern here was that uclibc's license requires where it is statically linked to an application, that that application be provided at a minimum as an object, so that, in the author's own words, "[t]his will (in theory) allow your customers to apply uClibc bug fixes to your application." [0]

Also, I am presuming that AVM statically linked the library in their application, since uclibc's license states, "[y]ou can distribute a closed source application which is linked with an unmodified uClibc shared library. In this case, you do not need to give away any source code for your application." [0]

As I stated previously - it was the prior decisions made by AVM here that forced their own hands before the Court, not the plaintiff.

[0] - https://uclibc.org/FAQ.html#licensing

FILE_ID.DIZ

Re: Stretching

It's great having access to the full stack and to be able to properly fiddle with the systems *but* I really can't see where the GPL/LGPL itself is responsible for granting the level of rights implied here.

Had AVM written code themselves to do whatever uClibc does (without violating uClibc's copyright), then Herr Steck would have had no standing to request AVM's code.

But because AVM advantaged themselves of someone else's work licensed under LGPL, they were obligated to adhere to its terms.

Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed

FILE_ID.DIZ
Holmes

Re: Don't get it

If the endpoint was already infected when the domain was valid but not detected, what makes you believe they're capable of finding failed connection attempts now.

I think that's a clear case of the former negating the latter

Akamai to quit its CDN in China, seemingly not due to trouble from Beijing

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Holmes

Re: Anyone else not buying into this?

Not that I know much about CDNs or whatnot, but my casual recollection of a smattering of NANOG maillist posts over the years seems to indicate to me that with the transition to all HTTPS for web content, CDN providers seem to feel really uncomfortable having their cache boxes outside of their physical care, custody and control since those devices are required to also store a copy of the TLS keys for all their customers loaded on any specific boxen.

That could be a reason. It could also be a completely wrong analysis and incorrect synthesis of incorrectly recalled impressions.

Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68%

FILE_ID.DIZ
Boffin

Re: Replacing Imports

UNICOR is the trade name for Federal Prison Industries.

You can see all that Federal prisoners make here: https://www.unicor.gov/

The prices seem reasonably cheap on many items.

IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4, argues APNIC's chief scientist

FILE_ID.DIZ
Holmes

Re: phone numbers are easy

Compared to FE80:CD00:0000:0CDE:1257:0000:211E:729C? Or even FE80:CD00:0:CDE:1257:0:211E:729C??

Sure, DNS can fail.

However - a /64 should be what's assigned to a host. While that's not as short or easy to type as 192.0.2.2, (colons suck for the shift component - can't type with a single hand on a 10-digit number pad, for example) FE80:CD00::0CDE is all that you should need to locate a single host on a network if you're not assigning /128's like a numpkin.

Note:

(FE80 is a terrible example - in the real-world, that machine would have a /64 somewhere within 2000::/3)

FILE_ID.DIZ
Boffin

Re: Opinions do differ

We should have also started serious work on IPv7 and IPv8 and IPv9. Iterative progress would have put us where we are at now 15 years ago.

We already had IPv7, IPv8 and IPv9 - June 1993, May 1994 and June 1992, respectively.. So those started around 30 years ago and longer. (Also, IPv5, but who's counting.)

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1475.html (IPv7)

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1621.html (Supplement to RFC 1475, so next in order? [The RFC doesn't directly refer to IPv8, just the merger of two minds, including IPv7.])

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1347.html (Apparently another swing at the Heir-Apparent, IPv6, like the two above?)

https://www.iana.org/assignments/version-numbers/version-numbers.xhtml is the source.

Boeing's new captain promises U-turn after Q3 nosedive

FILE_ID.DIZ
Trollface

Re: "...after Q3 nosedive..."

Maybe the bean counters were replaced with all the failed 737 MCAS units?

Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI

FILE_ID.DIZ
Trollface

Re: School rules

Which is a sphere! Or spheroid, if they weren't so accurate in machining and manufacturing it.

FILE_ID.DIZ
Boffin

I'll disagree with you on your second point.

When I was in college, I frequently used Wikipedia as what it is, an encyclopedia.

I could not cite an encyclopedia[0], because it is not a first-hand account. It is a third-hand account of first-hand information gathered, sorted and collated.

I frequently recall using it's citations to go to the source material, gather what I needed and cite that. It made easy work, at least for me, in finding first-hand information on some random topic which I hadn't been familiar with.

[0] - I haven't had to cite anything since college. I'm sure you can cite encyclopedias. My instructors' rules were that we could only use first-hand sources, which an encyclopedia is not.

FILE_ID.DIZ

Re: School rules

Schools aren't supposed to be self-cleaning ovens like the real-world can be.

FILE_ID.DIZ
Headmaster

Re: School rules

Well the article was written this way:

Students should "not use AI tools during in-class examinations, processed writing assignments, homework or classwork unless explicitly permitted and instructed," the policy states.

I presume that the quoted part is from the manual and the two words preceding and three words following it are the author's words.

Digging a bit more at the linked court filing (starting at PDF page 5), it states in an ordered list:

Students shall:

* Not use AI tools during in-class examinations, processed writing assignments, homework or classwork unless explicitly permitted and instructed. Blah blah blah....

* More points listed.

China’s infosec leads accuse Intel of NSA backdoor, cite chip security flaws

FILE_ID.DIZ
Trollface

No shit sherlock...

major defects in product quality and security management show its extremely irresponsible attitude towards customers

Intel has many published vulnerabilities and other issues, both in hardware and in software. Between all the side-channel vulnerabilities and enclave vulnerabilities, one wonders if China's looking at this not through the lens of Hanlon's razor.

And speaking to "irresponsible attitude towards customers", one only has to look as far back as to the differences (if you can really find any) between 13th and 14th gen processors at the consumer level...

Would banning ransomware insurance stop the scourge?

FILE_ID.DIZ
Holmes

What about China or Russia with respect to compromised companies?

While hacks and breaches are published far and wide from companies based in the US/Canada and Western Europe, what's going on with companies that are big in China or Russia with respect to their users and the like?

Is the lack of news because there are no breaches, or because it's not as well publicized here?

Not for the fact that misery likes company, but misery DOES like company.

FILE_ID.DIZ

Re: Cyber Insurance?

Without wading into whether cyber insurance specifically is valuable or a hindrance or an indirect facilitator in the furtherance of crime, let's discuss insurance in general.

So, first issue I'll point out is the assumption that the insurance company is exposed to open-ended costs. All policies have maximums, period. Maximums, per individual policy can vary, but is proportional to the policy's premium paid.

Tangentially, unlike a physical property insurance carrier as a counter-example, who may have hundreds or thousands of claims during a specific weather event over a specific geography (think tornado, severe hail storm, hurricane and the like), one cyber insurance claim likely has nothing to do with the next claim. Therefore, a single cyber insurance issuer is likely to experience a claims due to a single catastrophic event.

And while I'm no expert in insurance (or really anything), there's insurance for insurance companies, called reinsurance - further distributing the financial burden beyond the insurer. And beyond that, there's a whole bond market colloquially called "CAT" bonds, or Catastrophe Bonds that helps further distribute exposure from any event across even more entities.

At the end of the day, there's not too many insurance companies that go out of business (at least those that are well run - and that's not the topic of this response). That's because they know how to manage risk [0] and adjust their exposure and premiums appropriately.

[0] There's been a whole bunch of insurance companies who did property and casualty insurance over the past half-decade who have gone bankrupt. While I haven't dug into the specifics of any one company - I'd suspect that some of those failed insurance companies fell into the same rising interest rate trap that caught a few banks who failed during the same time frame. Insurance companies, if properly run, bank a crap ton portion of their money in various investments and other hedges against inflation.

Ryanair faces GDPR turbulence over customer ID checks

FILE_ID.DIZ
Trollface

How'd you get back home?

Microsoft hits go on Windows 11 24H2: Fresh features, bugs, and a whole lotta AI

FILE_ID.DIZ
Trollface

Re: plastic can melt

I was chatting with a colleague of mine earlier this week, wondering when this CoPilot shit would be added to Windows Server.

His position was a strong "never".

If that holds out, maybe my next Windows OS will be Windows Server if this CoPilot crap can't be avoided easily enough.

Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances

FILE_ID.DIZ
Boffin

Re: Cash is king

A few things -

First off, as some in Western North Carolina have recently discovered - having some cash on hand in your emergency kit, is useful. No power and/or no telecoms = no ATMs or working banks or debit/credit card machines at stores.

And an emergency doesn't always mean a catastrophic storm. A banking outage can qualify. Heck, ever since the Change Healthcare debacle earlier this year, I've made it a point to keep 7-10 days of prescription drugs that me and my better three-quarters depend on, have been put aside and rotated from time to time (for freshness), preparing for the next cyberattack that cripples that industry.

Secondly, I'm sure most people who complained about BoA's outages were people with DDAs (Demand Deposit Account) with BoA. DDAs don't generally pay interest, so second hole in your interest-stealing cat thief.

Third, looking at NOW accounts at BoA, they pay a paltry interest, even in today's high(er) interest rates. In my area, they're currently paying between 0.01% APY and 0.04% APY, depending on the Preferred Rewards Tier with Interest Rate Booster, whatever that means. So, third hole - BoA doesn't really reward you for keeping your extremely liquid funds with them anyways, so what's a few hundreds dollars in a safe or dresser drawer or even under your mattress actually losing?

And for those with more liquidity - there's better places than a DDA or NOW account to keep it, but that'd make the money a bit harder to get at in a moment's notice.

This is not financial advice.

Boeing's Starliner set for extended stay at the ISS as engineers on Earth try to recreate thruster issues

FILE_ID.DIZ
Pirate

Re: In a nutshell..

It's always pilot error at the end, isn't it? :)

Advance Auto Parts: 2.3M people's data accessed when crims broke into our Snowflake account

FILE_ID.DIZ

Re: WHY, in deity's name does an autoparts store require

Well, it was explained elsewhere in the article, "The general version mentioned that the data accessed by the criminals was gathered and stored as part of the company's job application process..."

So, yes - the collection of SSN numbers would be part of a job application's data acquisition task.

And because their employees may do deliveries to local repair shops, storing drivers license data also makes sense.

The fact that they stored many multiples of people's data than they currently employ is possibly concerning. But I don't know record retention laws or regulations may require post-separation, both with respect to IRS (SSN) or any traffic-related civil or criminal suits (DL) and I don't know what their employee turn-over rate is. I mean, if they hire and separate from 20K people every three months, having a few million over the course of several years seems reasonable.

But - most likely, this company simply didn't know the breadth of all the data that they were storing.

You also bring up a good point with respect to returns and drivers licenses - I don't know about Best Buy specifically, but I know that there are third-party companies that do provide such fraud checks. Whether or not that data is domiciled with Best Buy or with that third-party entity, couldn't tell you.

You can always refuse to have them scan in your drivers license. Just say you don't have one. Purchasing from their store wasn't conditioned on having one, returning can't either. (FYI, IANAL, YMMV.) Or just return it online - no DL needed that way.

ViperSoftX variant spotted abusing .NET runtime to disguise data theft

FILE_ID.DIZ
Boffin

I think the point being made here is that regular powershell auditing and logging that enterprises do by sifting continuously through PS Module Logging, PS Script Block Logging and PS Transcription data streams could be thwarted with this technique.

Tesla shareholders agree to pay Musk staggering sum of $48B

FILE_ID.DIZ
Holmes

Re: Pay the workers better?

Sorta.

First off, the $56 billion is paper money. That's why it's worth only $48 billion now.

Secondly, it's value is derived solely from the price of a share of TSLA.

Thirdly, in order for Musk to convert that paper money to real money, he's going to have to find literally billions of dollars from other investors who want to buy his shares at the time he divests. Given the enormous quantity of shares he has, any considerable selling off his shares will cause the price to drop in a very noticeable way. (It happened when he sold a ton of TSLA to get cash to buy Twitter, for example.)

Finally, a company's share price - or the sum of the total or fraction thereof of shares - has no direct effect on the company's books, except when that company chooses to issue more shares or buys back shares. The value of a company from the lens of it's stock price is the value that investors give it. No more and no less. It (seemingly and more rarely in a general sense) has little bearing of the company's actual value creation.

Your last statement can only be true for employees (former or otherwise) who own shares of TSLA AND voted to give Musk that massive traunch of stock.

FILE_ID.DIZ
Unhappy

Re: The occupants of the deck cabins will quietly assemble at the lifeboats.

In a few words, many institutional investors can't divest Tesla because TSLA is part of the S&P 500 index and if you're going to have ETFs that track S&P 500, then you're going to need to keep TSLA around.

Sorry.

US watchdog chases Waymo robocars to catch violations

FILE_ID.DIZ
FAIL

Re: Oh got to love US tech bros

Or even deal with this thing called "weather".

They're operating in some of the most weather-less cities in the US; Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles.

Numpkins.

Ex-Space Shuttle boss corrects the record on Hubble upgrade mission

FILE_ID.DIZ

Probably because Freon is sold and measured by weight... pV=nRT and all.

Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell

FILE_ID.DIZ
Terminator

If COVID and its lockdowns taught us anything about billionairs' survival plans, it's not in 'Murica but in New Zealand.

I don't know if that terror-beast would be allowed there.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/rich-americans-activate-new-zealand-pandemic-escape-plans/

Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again'

FILE_ID.DIZ
Thumb Up

I prefer O&O's Shutup10 (also works for 11, but they've kept the name the same) to keep me up-to-date on Microsoft's shenanigans of resetting settings' choices and when adding and splitting settings from time to time. Oh, and all the bullshit in Edge too.

https://www.oo-software.com/shutup10

I usually run it on the middle setting (yellow) and haven't found it to break anything I've noticed.

Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists

FILE_ID.DIZ
Pirate

Good question.

Interestingly, there was an article in The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/14/waymo_files_recall_after_pheonix/) where two Waymo cars hit the same cock-eyed towed vehicle behind a tow truck within minutes of each other because the software responded identically to the input stimulus. (Makes sense, if you think about it.)

I'd say they're all identical and therefore should all be considered a single driver. A software update is like remediation and/or additional court-required training.

Accumulate enough infractions however, or abuse/use all your ways to shed points and you're off the road until those infractions reset on whatever time-scale and/or court visits a regular meatbag might require.

Unless and until the congress critters (likely local governments and/or state governments) choose to change the laws for robots and until then, the robots are no different than the meatbags, in the eyes of the law.

FILE_ID.DIZ
Thumb Up

https://old.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1ca1z8m/longer_video_of_the_wrong_way_incident/ works for me.

But yes, something's up with the www version linked.

Edit: The link in the article is fine. For me, it seems to be related to NoScript in nuke mode on my machine. Probably why the old.reddit.com works, since that's an older format/code and probably doesn't have all the bullshit code and requirements that www.reddit.com has.

FILE_ID.DIZ
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Thanks for pointing out that video Cornetman. I bypassed it on the first read. Have a thumbs up!

Seeing that video and re-reading this article after seeing the video, the article only mentioned "a half minute". That doesn't do justice to just how severe of a traffic infraction and dangerous situation that robot created. From my count (and I'm not from the area), it looked like it traveled in the on-coming lane for nearly two full blocks.

And Waymo's explanation is bullshit. That's not "passing" an obstruction by any stretch of the imagination.

WayMoreFailure here.

Digital Realty wants to turn Irish datacenters into grid-stabilizing power jugglers

FILE_ID.DIZ
Boffin

The few datacenters that I'm familiar with (eg: have stuff in cages) use rotary UPS instead of batteries of any chemistry.

Batteries have maintenance demands and can leak or off-gas hydrogen which burns basically clear if you don't have sensors to detect hydrogen buildup.

The few data points that I have doesn't make a trend, but there seems to be plenty of datacenters which either fall over due to poor UPS maintenance and/or battery hold time wasn't as expected or the/a UPS might have been the cause or the chemical accelerant for a fire, like OVH in France.

Edit: That's not to say that rotary UPSs also don't have maintenance. But at least you're not pitching tons of batteries every few years if you're not doing some type of wet battery that have life-spans that can reach 20 years, iirc.

Sacramento airport goes no-fly after AT&T internet cable snipped

FILE_ID.DIZ
Boffin

Problem with airports is that it is basically a government property that it run by nothing but contractors and possibly private investors (LAX and JFK come to mind).

Outside of FAA and TSA and the "airport authority", everything else inside that structure and outside is run and owned by non-governmental third-parties.

In many cases, the check in kiosks, the self-service baggage collectors, the check in counters, the gate counters, the reservation systems, baggage reconciliation systems, the departure control systems and all the other acronym soup which makes up airport systems, are all run by entities who are not the three named above.

And if the airport authority never engineered diverse cable paths, then the local LEC doesn't have any way but one into the premises.

The problem with physical data connection providers is that they're all kissing cousins. At the end of the day, whether you're on Cogent, ATT, GTT, NTT or any other dataline provider... you're riding in on the local authority's fiber at the last mile, except in rare cases of over-engineering.

US insurers use drone photos to deny home insurance policies

FILE_ID.DIZ

Re: Guns

Sorta.

That article only spoke to a civil suit. What isn't noted was if there was a criminal complaint filed for the same incident.

FILE_ID.DIZ
Facepalm

Re: Slow down there... They ain't starving

State Farm pulled 80-90 Billion in profit?

Perhaps revenue, but not profit.

FILE_ID.DIZ
FAIL

Re: Slow down there... They ain't starving

If we're talking about State Farm, that's demonstrably false.

They are setup as a Mutual Corporation, meaning that their policyholders are shareholders. I recall back in the 90's getting dividend payments once a year. And outside of a check sometime in 2020, I haven't seen a dividend payment in a really long time because they have to bank more and more into their disaster funds.

And as a policyholder/shareholder, I do get to participate in their AGM, if I so choose.

FILE_ID.DIZ
Boffin

State Farm lost $14.1 billion in property/casualty coverage in 2023. They lost $13.2 billion in the same sector in 2022. That's just one insurance company that I am familiar with.

Not sure how many companies be able to sustain many multiple billion dollar losses in the last two years alone a specific business category and NOT make changes to that business line's function.

People need to stop living in disaster-prone areas of the country or bear the costs of living there. According to NOAA that 40% of the US population lives in coastal counties with a population density four times greater than the interior of the country. [0]

[0] - https://coast.noaa.gov/states/fast-facts/economics-and-demographics.html

Cyberattack hits Omni Hotels systems, taking out bookings, payments, door locks

FILE_ID.DIZ
FAIL

In some hotels that I've stayed, they've integrated the door key system with the reservation system. Seems like a smart play.

The problem it seems is that there was no redundancy, no "what if the internet or reservation system or insert some other system fails considerations/conversations. What's our backup plan? How do we go manual?

X's Grok AI is great – if you want to know how to hot wire a car, make drugs, or worse

FILE_ID.DIZ
Trollface

Re: Guardrails my ass

I don't know if you're referring to the illicit drug ecstasy (slang: X) or that shitty renamed website.

Musk probably agrees either way that goes.

Nikola founder faces ranch forfeiture following fraud conviction

FILE_ID.DIZ
Mushroom

Another Hindenberg Bullseye...

https://hindenburgresearch.com/nikola/

Icon... because well, they blew up a house of cards.

Also... Nikola was a SPAC listing. I don't think there's been too many SPACs that weren't outright fraud and/or just fizzled, leaving the fresh new owners of that SPAC's stock (lots of retail investors) holding a bag of shit.

It is a bird, a plane or a Chinese spy balloon? None of the above

FILE_ID.DIZ
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Re: China insisted was an errant weather balloon

Well, if I'm looking at something from 10 miles away "horizontally", then yes, all the heat between my camera and the object are at play.

But, if I'm on top of you, 10 miles away, then any "heat shimmer" effect is drastically decreased, given any localized heat shimmers are, well, local.

I mean, any modern satellite (read Google Earth) image showing the color and details of a car or window of a high-rise blow through your heat shimmer theory.

FILE_ID.DIZ

Re: China insisted was an errant weather balloon

Given that private satellites are able to capture 30 centimeters per pixel from space (https://www.geowgs84.com/post/what-is-the-highest-resolution-satellite-imagery-available), I'm highly confident a lower altitude isn't going to bring in unknowable details that are otherwise lost.

You can make out quite a lot with that resolution.

That same article makes an unverified claim that some governments may have low single-digit centimeter per pixel resolutions already. You can read a license plate if that resolution does exist. If that statement about resolution is true, I'm sure China would be one of those countries with such technology.

FILE_ID.DIZ

Re: China insisted was an errant weather balloon

That's because the wing-nuts in a certain circle of the US population are, well, crazy AF.

Sure.... that Chinese balloon could have been photographing stuff... but so do satellites, every frigging day! Both private companies and government entities. The private companies being the ones I'd be most worried about, since they will sell any image to any buyer. (Think of all those fitness trackers....) Governments tend to want to horde their data.

Sure.... that Chinese balloon could have been intercepting RF signals.... but so do a lot of other things, every frigging day! I mean, back in the day of satellite communications, crafty spies would setup shop "behind" the transceiver and listen to the RF beam's wide spread on the ground.

I'm quite positive that sensitive USG properties have thought of all the ways information can be leaked/gathered/etc. In fact, I'm sure they do it every day against other entities every day. I would think (hope) that anyway we can acquire intelligence, someone considers if we ourselves are also sensitive to that same method of leakage.

At least that's what a reasonable person should consider... and I do believe that those in charge of sensitive sites think of these things.Except in cases of a novel data leaks, such as the aforementioned fitness trackers. That's a solved problem now.

Europe loosens the straps tying Apple and Microsoft to tough antitrust rules

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Re: mmmm

Neat trick.

Who the fuck uses Word often enough to warrant that non ADA-compliant key combo. I'd take Excel over Word every day.

But then again, I keep it pinned to my taskbar, so unless I have 12 screens like some traders do (finding where the mouse is hiding can't be fun), right-clicking the Excel icon on the taskbar is easier than those key combos.

Waymo services driverless car software after Phoenix truck collision

FILE_ID.DIZ
Facepalm

Stupid Computers.

Improperly towed is a different statement than illegally towed.

If I had to guess - since the vehicle was towed backwards, it was a rear-wheel drive vehicle and the front wheels were locked to an angle (other than TDC) by the steering column lock, causing the front of the vehicle to shift out a bit to the side.

The tow truck driver chose not (for whatever reason) to place the front wheels on dollies.

I can tell you that in my city, relocation tows for temporary No Parking areas (construction/tree trimming/etc) are pretty rough if you have AWD/4WD or have your parking brake on. Every tow I've seen with an AWD/4WD vehicle, the rear wheels aren't dollied and the vehicle is dragged down the street with the rear wheels fighting who gets to spin forwards and who is relegated to spinning backwards. (No locked differential I guess on those few examples I recall.)

Improperly towed means that Waymo was still at fault for failing to detect the otherwise legal condition, albeit "different".

Also, proof positive that computers do exactly as they're programed... since a second Waymo car performed an encore performance just minutes later.

Wonder how or why the Waymo car didn't pay attention to the likely lit amber strobes of the tow vehicle.

QNAP vulnerability disclosure ends up an utter shambles

FILE_ID.DIZ
Boffin

Only relevant if you're planning on hanging one of these off the internet at-large.

Don't do this, ever. With a QNAP or any other device that is not purposefully designed to be a security/edge device. Even "security/edge" devices have critical vulnerabilities... SSL-VPN seem to be the flavor of the day.

On a private network with trusted devices on it, they're relatively safe devices for home use.

Sure, your home computer could catch something and then they move to a vulnerable QNAP...

Deepfake CFO tricks Hong Kong biz out of $25 million

FILE_ID.DIZ
Boffin

Re: Root cause

Exactly - I think back to the case where Citibank accidentally wired $900M USD instead of about $8M USD back in 2020 to several lenders. They intended to make a $8M USD interest payment, but someone at Citi accidentally paid off the entire Revlon loan.

Oopsie.

That took a lawsuit that Citi lost (weird NY State law at play) but they won on appeals.

Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished

FILE_ID.DIZ
Boffin

Re: Pardon?

Not if you have the proper controls and of course the consent(s) in place, preferably buried deep into all the paperwork a patient (eventually) and/or an authorized party to the patient, (eventually) signed. (However, IANAL, so YMMV.)

For example, https://avasure.com/telesitter/

Where I know this is used is for patients who may be in some type of altered mental state (psychos, postictal state, dementia, so on and so forth). This allows for directly monitoring patients, making sure that they're safe in their bed, to prevent any fall injuries or getting lost and possibly confused/angered.

Helpful when hospital rooms are designed so that it's not very easy to peer far into a room, even with the door open.

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