@scottalanmiller said in Qubes OS - Using Xen to Secure Linux:

I think that you have the wrong tool for the job. Others are correct, you just want a normal KVM install. Qubes is the wrong tool here.

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@Tim_G said in Edge the Big Loser at Pwn2Own:

The most impressive exploit by far, and also a first for Pwn2Own, was a virtual machine escape through an Edge flaw by a security team from “360 Security.” The team leveraged a heap overflow bug in Edge, a type confusion in the Windows kernel, and an uninitialized buffer in VMware Workstation for a complete virtual machine escape.
The team hacked its way in via the Edge browser, through the guest Windows OS, through the VM, all the way to the host operating system. This impressive chained-exploit gained the 360 Security team $105,000.

I thought VMWare fixed the possibility of this from being possible? This is now the third time I've heard of VM escape on the VMWare platform.

I wonder who is tracking VM escape rates.

@Ambarishrh said in QTox: A Free, Open Source Skype Competitor:

The link directs to How Canonical makes money from Ubuntu!

Fixed

This all goes back to the CIA triangle. Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. An attacker will try to compromise 1 of those 3 components.

@jhtech86 said in 3D Printed House:

These can easily be deployed in poor countries to print houses. The best part in my opinion is the lack of a need for any concrete. These machines can print houses with nothing but dirt and water. For those of you that want the machine to build bigger perfect homes complete with duct work, electrical, and wiring that might not sound great, but for homeless people in poverty stricken countries that's a win.

Concrete mix is a far cry form dirt and water.

My answer to the OP. I mean I am not saying MS is good or bad, or Linux OS's are good or bad. But the OP was just a whiny bitch.

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@travisdh1 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

@dafyre said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

@travisdh1 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

@DustinB3403 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

So this isn't something @travisdh1 would want to build and leave around?

Maybe in someone else's house. I haven't jumped on the automated assistant thing yet, I'm still quite leery of having something like that in the house.... yes, I know I carry one around in my pocket with the phone. Doesn't mean I use it.

Also doesn't mean you want yet another one reporting everything you say to the NSA.

@dafyre Are you sure you don't wear a tin foil hat as well? 😉

*quickly whips something shiney and metallic looking behind his back*

Who? Me. Never! *coughs to cover the sound of crumbled up tin foil landing in the trash can*

I'm not going to knock the article, cause I do agree, Linux Distros are constantly becoming better, and software developers are realizing they can still make a dime by developing their software so it works on Linux.

My issue is in the work-space and stupid black box appliances that require archaic software to operate that keeps me tethered to Windows.

If I could rip those solutions out, I'd be using CentOS as my daily office driver.

@stacksofplates said in Ubiquiti vulnerability:

@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti vulnerability:

@stacksofplates said in Ubiquiti vulnerability:

@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti vulnerability:

None of that is the EdgeMax series.

That is all the original wireless stuff before even the Unifi line.

Yes it is all still currently available, but not nearly as horrible as that article is trying to insinuate.

All that gear should be behind a router normally.

Ya I was looking through it and noticed that. The tough switch was in there, but that's the only non bridge type device I saw.

The tough switch has been a dead product for years.

Ah didn't realize that. I've seen it for sale a few places, but never noticed they weren't produced any more.

It might still be produced, but it has not been developed against at all.

@JaredBusch said in UK to block Kodi streams:

@scottalanmiller said in UK to block Kodi streams:

@JaredBusch said in UK to block Kodi streams:

@scottalanmiller said in UK to block Kodi streams:

@JaredBusch said in UK to block Kodi streams:

@scottalanmiller said in UK to block Kodi streams:

So in the UK, sports franchises now have "ownership" of the Internet and can determine your right to use your own data? Reading the ruling, they are going to block any Kodi server they want, even if you own it and are using it for your own content. They literally "own" you now, at least during the hours under which they are doing business - which is something that they determine.

No, they have copyright of the media. The servers being blocked are illegally providing a feed of that media.

Where is the disconnect here?

The league is required to show proof of the illegal stream before the site is blocked.

That's what I was missing, and what I was asking. In that case,it seems reasonable, if hard to do.

According to the article, it is no longer hard to do. That is part of the point.

Although also according to the article, the process is secret, so we don't know what they are doing at all. It does imply that they are supposed to only be blocking illegal streams. I question that it must be obscure to work. They haven't said how they would offer proof, only that they came up with their own method for determining who to block.

This line here insinuates it is simply a digital fingerprint.

Judge Arnold states that technological advances in video fingerprinting can identify illegal streams in near real-time, allowing ISPs to be notified of new servers "nearly instantaneously."

So streaming over HTTPS wouldn't be prevented. Seems like this is going to become more and more useless as the internet moves to encryption as a standard.