Of course UEFI comes with its own risks, as we have recently seen, so it is more imperative that you trust your hardware maker when using UEFI. Not that trusting them wasn't always essential, but their toolkits for being naughty have expanded.
Piggy backing on one of the other threads. If it was an insider, how do you think the FTC would have grounds to sue? I don't think there is a way to stop something like this unless no employees have access to the data.
Be kind of hard for the FTC to sue a Canadian company.
Haha good point. It was just a hypothetical about this type of situation.
I understand the additional points such as automated validation and the open records, but you can get free SSL certificates through StartSSL. The companies who don't want to pay for an SSL certificate (or do the research to find a free one) are most likely using shared hosting or some kind of managed hosting that costs extra to enable the SSL certificate anyway. So if they aren't going to pay the money for the cert, I can't see them paying extra per month to enable the free cert on their hosting.
I suspect that some of these articles you are reading are simply wrong.
Very possibly. Many are major news outlets though and I had the news sent to me by political correspondents in Madrid who work with the government, so there is a little extra credibility there.
We recently had to set up an L2TP tunnel for our apple devices, since the last iOS 10 update took PPTP out of the picture. It was a huge PITA too, because I didn't figure out for a while that the secondary tunnel wouldn't let me reuse existing user accounts in our Watchguard.... that was some fun trial and error. And the WG how-tos never specified anything about needing different user accounts. It sucks to do all the steps right and then get login errors... makes ya feel like an amateur.
A SpiceMember at our local SpiceCorps just got back from DEF CON. Got some official swag, always good. That bit about controlling a car is something I was waiting to happen. Pretty messed up.
Yeah I was wondering how he was going to handle that ALL manufacturers today are pretty much guaranteed to be doing some sort of tracking. Granted that tracking is so they can make the product better.
The author also didn't mention if they did a fresh install of Windows when they received the machine - to me that was his first downfall, but the fact that Lenovo has already shot itself in the foot, this doesn't help.
Some good points. I like the one that stated keep it lean and keep it mean.
I've not gone over my Linux install as much as my Windows boxes,.. and not done nearly enough on Windows, but I generally attempt to shut down anything I am able to that isn't needed on Windows. It's not a good way to judge things, but when I see a system running 100 or more processes, I wonder what is going on.
That wouldn't last long if I were a coder there... Theme of my coding practices: Oops, let's try that again... Followed immediately by "What do you mean unexpected end of file?!"
