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Yes, it's definitely a economic decision. They're going to run this type of software on their own fleet and want it on everything connecting to the network. If you're willing to ru…

Enforcing/auditing sane security settings on the device. Very much required for compliance, zero trust, protection of IP, and foundational to a reasonable security plan.

I don't see this as drastically different than the extreme push to force migrate everyone to SaaS on most software. Most business plans appear to be migrating to rent seeking.

Some of my local restaurants are doing this - effectively becoming concierge grocers who will break down bulk quantities for their customers. Call an order in and pick it up in ~24…

This actually isn't all that strange a failure mode. We have several large ZFS arrays in service and replace 1-2 failed disks every month. About 90% of the time the first warning y…

And non-unique MAC addresses and lower stability, at least when we tried to use them a few years ago. Bought 3 and they all had the same MAC.

Sure. First and foremost, do you have permission from your customers who you're researching and reporting on here? If you do, great, ignore me. If not you'd be breaching (my) trust…

Not to support his fairly trashy post in particular, but I believe his comment has utility. As an infrastructure person this post was concerning; this company is collecting a lot o…

I would argue there are several sections in the GDPR that appear to allow for a 3rd party to request data on behalf of the data subject. For example: A20(2): In exercising his or h…

Honestly, it's not my call to raise prices or not, but it doesn't seem like they intend to hide it, should it happen.

Yes, it's being considered.

I was thinking a solid new business plan is to register gdpr.me (or whatever) and offer a service. $40, fill out a form, and I will send a GDPR request to every company in the worl…

If this is the sort of enforcement we can expect, this could suck: https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/sse-energy-... (there are several others, this one is just inter…

I got a pair of odriod's based on price/performance to act as NTP servers and have since removed them from service. They both had the same MAC address on the NIC, which was not imp…

It was many years ago now but I was living in an apartment complex that sold a shared connection on a wireless backhaul to a regional ISP - the ISP handled everything from building…

It reminds me of the old short "The Parlor": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmDPdCzCfFM

They don't accept lower case - if you have capslock on you'll still be logged in. I don't think they accept all special characters either.

My sister (several years ago) was flying United solo (minor, 17, first solo flight) from CA to ME, connecting in LGA. Her flight came in late and she missed the connecting flight (…

If they can't do simple math, yes. In their "debunking" they forgot that a day is not equal to an hour, and most of it is nonsensical.

Most of them get the fingers pointed at China (PLA or otherwise) or Russian Mafia.

They have a 'security department' within their company, which is a security/analyst company. They have Richard Bejtlich running their network defense and policy.