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Article? I just read the headline / summary.
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We built a fake web toaster, and it was compromised in an hour. I don't know if I want to live in a world where we can't even trust our Web-connected toasters
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Interesting idea and article. Amazing that they found it in an hour.
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So they've basically replicated security research from 20 years ago, wrapped it in OMGWTFLOLBBQ and called it journalism. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm actually surprised it took that long. I remember setting up my very first Win 2K server exposed to the internet some 15 years ago, and it was under attack within 10 minutes. I hadn't even finished downloading all the updates. If I hadn't turned off IIS, it would have been taken over before the 30 minute mark is my guess.
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"Renting a small server from Amazon..."
Questionable test since that range of IPs are likely being constantly monitored (to be fair, the author deconstructs his own "test" with the same point.) Moreover, a web-connected toaster deserves to be hacked.
modified 31-Oct-16 12:13pm.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Questionable test since that range of IPs are likely being constantly monitored
Its IPv4, the range of addresses being constantly monitored by script kiddies is running fire and forget attack scripts is: [0-255].[0-255].[0-255].[0-255]. The m04r l33t h4x0rz will filter that to remove non-routable addresses from the total theoretical range.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It is not "inevitable" if you take security a little bit serious.
Problem is that companies (e.g., a Dutch hospital) is not responsible for their lack of security and/or any costs that this may create for you as a client. No entrepeneur will spend money on something that won't cost him if anything goes wrong. As soon as they become responsible for the data they keep, things change.
It is also the only industry where you hold something from the client without any liability.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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New training technique would reveal the basis for machine-learning systems’ decisions. "Then a miracle happens..."
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Mozilla is overhauling its Gecko-based web engine so that it's better at handling the dynamic features of modern websites. When in doubt, rewrite?
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Interesting that they seem to be doing this in Rust. Nice to see a safe-by-default (native) language beginning to hit mainstream.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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A lot of Mozilla's internal rewrites are being done in rust now. Eventually they want the entire core of the browser in it; but since Servo (the rust based rendering engine) is a huge project other bits and pieces are being forked off as doable.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This easily avoidable mistake continues to put our finances at risk. 'INSERT INTO db_refresher WHERE data =' + hack
Good old Bobby Tables
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For the 3rd month in a row the share of worldwide desktop computer users running Linux has been above 2%, according to data from web analytics company Net Market Share. Marketshare is like golf right? Lower is better?
You know what this means don't you? It's The Quarter of Linux!
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Wooohooo! Yeah, taking over the world!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Yet Wikimedia shows a decrease of Linux share to around 0.6%. Yet another site has it at ~1.5%. All seems like within the margin of error.
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Admins can take users out of the equation with feature ported from Office 2016 Coming soon: "How to disable the macro blocker to get any work done"
I was going to say, "I thought they had it already", but that's in 2016. They back-ported it.
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Watson technology will touch hundreds of millions of people by the end of this year, CEO Rometty says Not mine. That's what my spouse is for.
Yes, it sounds like a horribly sexist and/or stereotypical joke, but in my case it's true.
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I'm going to have to ask Watson before I buy that pair of socks?
I guess that may make things easier.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: that may make things easier.
Than asking your wife? Well, don't forget the time of arguing with her afterwards... 
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Only until he gets a Mrs. Watson.
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"In 5 years, Watson A.I. will be behind your every decision. And by every, we mean some health care and that small number of GM customers actually using OnStar."
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...and you will be happy, and .... controlled.
[star trek dramatic music cue]
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The title seems far-fetched, the quote not that much. But to correct the title, never will an AI be in control of "every decision" of a biological entity.
Even though that would be preferable in some circumstances, since it would mean that some people would not be able to decide to take another breath as soon as the power goes 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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