I can not install this stuff on remote servers and docker images. I would like multiple backbends to execute commands and gather informations (local, ssh, docker).
It should be installable locally, and run commands on remote machine via ssh! And via 'docker exec' commands.
> I unsubscribe to everything I do not absolutely need
I get like 500 daily messages between multiple email accounts, and this just does not scale. Some messages are needed once year, monthly, some weekly, some are fed into LLM and automation. It is very convenient to have everything organized into folders.
I really have no time, to look for some esoteric details, in some obscure report, on website that stopped working 5 years ago! I just use full text search over my local email archive!
It also keeps paper trail. If GitHub goes down, or I get fired, I still have most comments and decisions.
Without email I would start reinventing alternatives like RSS.
This. I receive several hundred non-junk emails every day. I don't need to read all of them at the time, but I do need to receive them. Many of them lend themselves to some form of segmentation.
No idea how I'd realistically manage it without rules/folders/etc. Even when I try "one inbox, just use search" that inevitably results in saved searches, which is, practically speaking, the same as rules/folders/etc.
Honestly curious what kind of email falls into this?
A regular status report of some sort, that is never read but only consulted when needed?
Or are these emails that are needed for legal or business cover my ass type of arguments?
How many emails do you think you could have unsubscribed from while typing your reply? You're going to check your email daily for years to come. Why not cull a few every now and then?
> It also keeps paper trail. If GitHub goes down, or I get fired, I still have most comments and decisions.
You obviously keep/archive the important things...
I actually have to make money. Deleting everything is a bit nihilistic.
And I am not going to unsubscribe from daily status reports on my servers. Those are not "absolutely needed", but it is better to have them locally in my email. Landing all incoming emails into inbox just does not scale!
I was getting at culling surplus/extraneous things you had subscribed to, but if all 500 emails are needed, you do you (and make that money with a heavy cognitive load!)
But it is not heavy cognitive load. Thanks to filters and automation...
I get like 20 emails daily that get through filters, land in my inbox and need my urgent attention. I can not imagine being directly exposed to unfiltered stream of junk, and trying to fish out emails from my boss.
> But Lucianna is critical of the fact the Egyptian navy had to rely on volunteers. "We waited 35 hours. I don't understand how there are no divers on the Egyptian military boats."
Why should divers risk their life to save anyone?! The boat was unstable, going inside would be dangerous! Some people are adrenaline junkies, and will volunteer for such thing, but you can not expect professionals to do that!
Some people are just wired differently. It's the difference between the person who will get out of their own car and help someone push theirs or the person who will intercede when someone is being assaulted instead of walking past. It's not adrenaline, it's the need to help. Luckily for others, some of us have this flaw.
I would bet there is a gulf of difference in equipment and training between rich countries' first responders and personnel on some random navy ship in poor and curruption-ridden Egypt.
Real life is not Paw Patrol! Watch latest interviews with firefighters from California!
Rescuers already put themselves into dangerous situation (operation on stormy sea). But at some point risks are too great, and there is no point to pile up more bodies. Or demand more rescuers, to rescue original rescuers...
Our society isn’t low-trust. It may not be as high trust as Scandinavia, but until you’ve lived in a real low-trust society you don’t know how bad it can get.
Why would the military navy or coast guard risk their lives to save some tourists from a sinking boat, when they could professionally watch from a distance through binoculars? /s
It proves it might be possible to backdoor it. Maybe.
I don't know of any modern systems that will execute anything on a newly inserted drive, nor boot from an external drive in the default configuration.
So we are missing a couple of things. First, a vulnerability in the OS/system. Second, an implementation of that vulnerability in a device like this.
Should this design be phased out? Perhaps. There is relatively little difference between not populating the flash memory part of the board and a proper network-only implementation.
1) China is a country, and in that country people use Windows and make /stuff/ that runs on Windows. A flash tool, which was only intended to be distributed to OEMs, only being found on obscure forums is in line with what I've experienced with similar NAND or BIOS flashers.
2) Any USB storage can contain malware. The driver that this one stores is digitally signed by Microsoft as mentioned in the article.
3) If there was a MBR boot block or EFI file, sure. But there isn't. See 2. And that would still require the user to have Secure Boot disabled and USB as the first boot option.
4) So any device with a universal USB controller is "prove[d] backdoored"?
> 1) downloading Windows exe files from Chinese forums
VMs exist. I highly doubt the author daily drives windows XP.
> 2) the USB storage provided by network card can still contain malware
Well yes, but so can any other drivers. Downloading from the manufactures website isn't any more secure. Even signed drivers have been caught doing nasty stuff.
> 3) or can be accidentally booted from
True, but again this is quite a convoluted, noticeable, and unreliable way to compromize a system. Just injecting a handful of keystrokes will do it, and once the dead is done, the device can hide all evidence of malicious intent.
> 4) it has universal USB controller, so can become any HID device: keyboard, mouse...
This isn't wtf: a lot of devices nowadays are just microcontrollers hooked up to a USB connector. Quite a few normal USB drives can be reprogrammed to act as keyboards, and be used to get up to all sorts of shenanigans, including ones made outside of China.
Branding is one of a few valuable assets those car companies have left.