Friday, June 11
Daily News Stuff 11 June 2021
Rickrolled By Moona And By The Internet Generally Edition
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Rickrolled By Moona And By The Internet Generally Edition
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- Got delayed by network problems at work, so I'll keep this short and then maybe add some stuff later.
Update: Network is back up.
Update 2: Network is suffering 97% packet loss and 340ms ping times.
Update 3: Network is down.
Update 4: Network still down. Wait, up, no, down, updown, downup... Up!
- Intel has made a $2 billion offer to buy embedded processor startup SiFive. (Tom's Hardware)
The whole attraction of SiFive is that their instruction set is an open specification, so anyone can implement it themselves if they want. Most companies wouldn't want all that work and would rather license a design or buy an existing chip, but you can.
Intel is pretty much guaranteed to fuck things up. It's not in their DNA to be open.
Tech News
- Back 12 M.2 NVMe drives into your DVD bay. (Tom's Hardware)
Don't have a DVD bay? Tough.
- Dirt as a service: Backblaze is offering online Chia farming. (Tom's Hardware)
Backblaze has an enormous number of disk drives, perhaps enough to actually make a dent in Chia. You'd still need to prepare your farm locally before uploading it - it's the preparation that burns out drives; after that they're mostly idle.
Or, you know, not do any of that at all.
- Food services supply company Edward Don has been hit by a ransomware attack and is offline. (Bleeping Computer)
Exactly how do these companies have their networks configured?
- Slilp, a market for stolen logins, got stolen itself by law enforcement agencies from four countries. (Bleeping Computer)
They'll be up again somewhere else tomorrow.
- Hackers broke into Electronic Arts' network, and are now desperately trying to forget what they saw. (Bleeping Computer)
The horror.
- Samsung security kind of sucks. (Bleeping Computer)
Though the bug that gave random apps admin rights over your phone was hard to miss because it also deleted all your other apps.
- The one thing worse than being in Bat Plague Lockdown in a communist dystopia is being stuck in Bat Plague Lockdown in a communist dystopia with bad weather and no internet. (ZDNet)
Must check in on my brother living inHellMelbourne.
Disclaimer: The internet was a bad idea.
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"Exactly how do these companies have their networks configured?"
The factory machines probably aren't affected, but the email/ERP/whatever servers, people's desktops, and so on. Can't process orders because you can't get into the order entry software, can't check email, can't run payroll, etc.
The factory machines probably aren't affected, but the email/ERP/whatever servers, people's desktops, and so on. Can't process orders because you can't get into the order entry software, can't check email, can't run payroll, etc.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, June 12 2021 12:46 AM (eqaFC)
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Imagine a world where people didn't connect every stupid machine to the internet. Maybe, once enough people have paid enough idiot tax we can get there.
Also, imagine a world where the internet client machines have zfs snapshots being generated every 15 minutes, and where the shared storage is backed up frequently enough (in addition to some snapshot-like mechanism) that a ransomware attack is pointless.
Also, imagine a world where the internet client machines have zfs snapshots being generated every 15 minutes, and where the shared storage is backed up frequently enough (in addition to some snapshot-like mechanism) that a ransomware attack is pointless.
Posted by: normal at Saturday, June 12 2021 01:03 AM (LADmw)
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Normal, the way I hear it, some of the ransomware will encrypt your backups for months before nailing your regular files, supposedly, precisely so you can't restore from backup unless you want to use a 4-month-old one, and you simply can't do that with something like payroll.
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