The General Technology Thread

[KLB]

IANAE, but is not the most common form of MA the receipt of a second 'password' (authentification code) via cell phone? Could I not circumvent simply by stealing/cloning your phone?

Historically, yes. Although they didn't have to clone your phone. There are ways for them to hijack your SMS messages.

That is changing though. There are dedicated apps for MFA that are far more secure. Someone can still steal your actual phone and use it for the second factor, but it would have to be the actual device.

If you have the option to use MFA, always choose to do so. Do not use SMS or email to receive the codes unless there is no better option available.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Equifax website hacked again, this time to redirect to fake Flash update.

 

[bwframe]

I got sucked in by an Amazon email. Ended up ordering a Fire HD 10 2017 . The 10.5" 1080p screen for $150 got me, (old Nexus 7 about done.) We'll see how much we can Android/Googlize the Amazon OS.

 

[wtburnette]

I got sucked in by an Amazon email. Ended up ordering a Fire HD 10 2017 . The 10.5" 1080p screen for $150 got me, (old Nexus 7 about done.) We'll see how much we can Android/Googlize the Amazon OS.

That's tempting. I paid a bit more for that for my 8.9 HD when it came out and I love it.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Hah this is pretty cool. LGR took a look at some 80s home automation software for MS-DOS.... and... it still works! Really neat

[video=youtube;pm33KB2Th9M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm33KB2Th9M[/video]

 

[thej27]

Hah this is pretty cool. LGR took a look at some 80s home automation software for MS-DOS.... and... it still works! Really neat

[video=youtube;pm33KB2Th9M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm33KB2Th9M[/video]

His Tech Tales and Thrifts vids are great.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Copied at time

Microsoft's director installing Google Chrome in the middle of a presentation because Edge did not work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELI2J-CpZg&feature=youtu.be&t=37m10s

 

[hoosierdoc]

I hate edge

 

[wtburnette]

Copied at time

Microsoft's director installing Google Chrome in the middle of a presentation because Edge did not work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELI2J-CpZg&feature=youtu.be&t=37m10s

That's awesome. Even better than years ago when they had a BSOD in the middle of some presentation...

 

[ArcadiaGP]

So this is pretty ****ed up. Net censorship getting to dangerous levels.

People are getting locked out of innocuous Google Docs for supposedly violating Terms of Service

People working in their own documents stored on Google's cloud are getting ToS violation/lockouts based on whatever content in the document is deemed "bad"

Sure, it may be a glitch, but it shows that Google might be monitoring the content of your files/documents.

 

[BugI02]

So this is pretty ****ed up. Net censorship getting to dangerous levels.

People are getting locked out of innocuous Google Docs for supposedly violating Terms of Service

People working in their own documents stored on Google's cloud are getting ToS violation/lockouts based on whatever content in the document is deemed "bad"

Sure, it may be a glitch, but it shows that Google might be monitoring the content of your files/documents.

Might? Ha ha ha ha ha

 

[Phase2]

Might? Ha ha ha ha ha

Yup. Their business model is based on it. The glitch was a hiccup in a long-running system. No "might" about it.

 

[JettaKnight]

People working in their own documents stored on Google's cloud are getting ToS violation/lockouts based on whatever content in the document is deemed "bad"

Sure, it may be a glitch, but it shows that Google might be monitoring the content of your files/documents.

Google's reporting that it is a glitch.

https://9to5google.com/2017/11/02/google-explains-tuesdays-drive-and-docs-bug/


Just remember, there's no cloud - it's just someone else's computer.

 

[BugI02]

Just remember, deja vu is a glitch in the matrix - and there is no spoon

 

[ArcadiaGP]

NASA has awarded contracts to five companies to start researching how to power its proposed Deep Space Gateway, a way station that may one day orbit the moon and serve as a launch pad for flights to deep space.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability"

 

[actaeon277]

Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability"

Not much to the article.

 

[Jordan_J]

Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability"

I've recently taken a break from Facebook and got more active on message boards and Reddit in my spare time. Now that I don't have the FB app on my phone I don't scroll it endlessly seeing the same things over and over again. It has really made me happier and actually freed up a lot of time for me to read some books or play games.

When FB and Instagram decided to bombard everyone with things they thought you'd like to see it really took a turn for the worse. No matter how many times I change the setting for my FB newsfeed back to chronological it always gets changed back to "top stories". Instagram doesn't offer that option at all and they really should. I could have just liked someone's post because it was funny but otherwise I don't like much of what they post and next thing I know all I see is their stuff all the time. There were a lot of cool pages I followed on Instagram but I never see anything they post anymore. Instead I see like 3-4 people who spam memes all day long and occasionally post a family photo or a hobby they do. So Instagram thinks I only want to see that stuff because I like 1 out of every 100 pictures they post and I just get tired of scrolling through their trash all day long.

The good think about message boards, Reddit, and similar sites are that I can actually see what I want to see. I have started going through Facebook and blocking pages (any news and political site I see, politicians, celebrities who spew their opinions and other opinions sites, and anything that would just clutter up my newsfeed with trash). I am just as religious and political as the next person but when you can never take a break from it and the depressing news, it just wears you out. Maybe one day people will treat Facebook like MySpace and move on but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Secret Service agent stole 1,600 Bitcoins from Silk Road wallet

 

[BugI02]

Not much to the article.

a bit more

https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-unloads-on-facebook-2508036343.html