I was serious. BBSes would be an ideal long-distance communication method under some circumstances.

Or perhaps an unassuming office building that only has outbound VPN connections.

A few of us have a long-running joke that World War III will be started because somebody can’t reach Pornhub anymore.

Still have a modem?

Depends on which lines are affected.

Originally it was a portmanteau of “stalker-fan.” Think “super fan.”

Not all of these kids have any other computer.

Just as securicams in schools in the 90’s conditioned a lot of people to accept on-street surveillance.

That’s pretty much what it’s for.

• https://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2010-02-18/high-school-issues-laptops-uses-them-to-spy-on-students/
• https://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2010-02-23/more-from-the-lower-merion-school-district/
• https://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2010-03-08/lower-merion-quietly-places-two-of-their-it-staff-on-leave/
• https://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2010-04-18/lower-marion-school-districts-stash-of-surveillance-photos-found/
• https://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2010-08-22/an-interesting-development-in-the-lower-marion-school-district-s/

That article is from 2014.

Gee. What a shock.

I’ll just leave this here: https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/nordvpn-confirms-its-no-logs-claims-for-the-fourth-time-with-security-audit

I use it when I’m on travel. It’s pretty decent, and it wasn’t hard to import the Wireguard configs into Network Mangler.

Seagull consulting has come to marketing, I see.

Yeah. They’re background radiation on the Net.

Nope. The summary is a dog’s breakfast of words.

Businesses invest where there’s money to be made. Microsoft will probably try the same with Azure in the next two or three years.

Guess I won that bet.

lol

The only interesting thing here is that they’re partnering with Microsoft. Palantir has been a government contractor since the very beginning. Maybe - maybe - they’ve got their workflows standardized by now (before every single thing they did was a bespoke engineering effort).

If the article is serious about the TS classification (and not just saying “top secret” to get the idea that it’s classified at some level across to the civilian reader) it means they’re re-engineering something to work in the TS side of Azure Classified Cloud and possibly making it available on JWICS.

Okay, I see where I went wrong. Thank you.

I don’t think 0.0.0.0 works for broadcasts anymore, either - I think those get filtered by default these days.

I think that’s to slow down copyright bots.

Ethics out here are kind of a joke in general.

Everybody who could explain it well is at Hacker Summer Camp right now.

I’m inclined to agree. This looks like a misunderstanding of RFC 5735.

It’s even nicer than the Financial District.

Word’s getting around.

Nobody tell them that generic mouse drivers are part of every USB driver devkit.

They have stuff going on that would wind up in the data sold and are moving to cover their butts?

(It’s DC. There’s always “stuff going on.”)

Thing is, how well is it really going to work? How much is it going to cost to sue one of these companies? Because they certainly have legal representation on speed dial, and way more money available than any of us.

https://drwho.virtadpt.net/graphics/ani-bullshit.gif

ICS manufacturers routinely ask some stupidly horrifying things of customers as part of their support contracts.

I don’t think it is.

That would make too much sense, something in short supply in companies these days.

People want to be lied to.

Figures he’d crib the name Anduril.

Bullies love other bullies.

I guess it’s back to hacked voice confs?

One of me caught this this morning: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-leads-efforts-among-federal-international-and-private-sector-partners

We had a betting pool at work that this would happen.