Sue the mine in China that supplied the raw materials that went into the dielectric material in the capacitors in the power supply of the computer that facilitated the downloading of illegal content….
OJ declared bankruptcy. If Trump did that he’d be opening up his finances to a ton of scrutiny he doesn’t want. He’d also be admitting to the world that his status as a successful billionaire is pure horseshit.
Yeah, I don’t think too many people click on those “educational” phishing emails but it does happen once in a while. We have a slack channel where people can contact the security team and I do regularly see people asking about suspicious emails. They never admit if they’re test emails but always thank folks for reporting them.
I remember reading an article by a penetration tester years ago at this point. His company is hired by all sorts of companies to test their network security etc. He described one client that thought it had the best network security money could buy. The pen tester took a novel approach (at that time) and put a benign Trojan on a bunch of random usb sticks then scattered them around the employee parking lot, outdoor smoking areas, etc. sure enough some of them started “phoning home” from inside the clients network fairly quickly.
My own employer has been the target of phishing and other attacks over the years. Our security team now contracts with a company that randomly sends out well crafted phishing emails to employees to see if they can detect it or if they click on a questionable link in the message. If an employee clicks on one of these then they are immediately told that they failed a test and are automatically signed up for a training session on spotting phishing and other scams.
Since we're an iPhone family I use iCloud3 in HomeAssistant to track our devices. After setting that up and associating the phones with people in HA it was just a matter of creating triggers based on us entering the home zone:
alias: Somebody Arrives Home
trigger:
- platform: zone
entity_id: person.jack
zone: zone.home
event: enter
- platform: zone
entity_id: person.jill
zone: zone.home
event: enter
We live at the end of a dead-end, so I set up the home zone to extend down the road a bit. That gives iCloud3 enough time to figure out we're home and trigger the automation in HA while we're still approaching. I combine the above with a check to see if it's roughly sunset to sunrise, and if it is then turn on the outdoor lights.
For doing things like turning off the lights when nobody is home, I have a similar trigger for everybody leaving the home zone, followed by a conditional that verifies everybody is away:
condition:
- condition: or
conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{{ states('person.jack') != 'home' and states('person.jill') != 'home' }}
I came up with these myself over time, they started 10+ years ago using a Mac platform called Indigo, but since moving into our new house a year ago I've switched over to Home Assistant as well. I have a background that includes 10 years of software development & another 15 of IT, so these sorts of things come fairly easily to me when I think about it a bit.
My wife and I use iPhones and I found iCloud3, which is a great add-on that tracks locations based on those devices. I started out with the washer/dryer notification with the simple realization that we regularly forgot about laundry in our washer in the basement since we'd forget that we had started a load. So I figured out how to have HA send us alerts when the washer or dryer finished. But I quickly realized that wasn't all that useful if one or both of us was at work, shopping, etc. I then realized I could set up a trigger based on a time schedule that checks if we're home or not, and only sends the alert if we are. So I have a HA automation that is triggered every 10 minutes by a timer, but the timer is disabled by default. That automation uses iCloud3 to check if either of us are home. If we are then the automation calls a script to notify us. If we're not home then the automation resets the timer for 10 minutes. When the washer completes it triggers an automation that just starts that timer running. That gives us a little time to park the car, bring in any groceries, etc. before being reminded that we have laundry waiting.
Texting me and/or my wife whenever the washer or dryer in the basement finishes a load of laundry, but only if we’re home. If neither is home then it waits until one of us is and only texts that person.
Turns on exterior / driveway lights when one of us arrives home after dark.
Turns off exterior / driveway lights when we have both left home.
Sets our Ecobee thermostats to “away” when we have both left home, and to “home” when somebody arrives home.
I also have a “bedtime” button that ensures all lights are off, thermostats are set to their “sleep” profile, and doors are locked.
Those are the nicer things we use pretty much daily. We have others as well.
I recall a TV show years ago that covered this sort of thing. One part I still clearly recall was video of a white light “dancing” in the sky a few miles away for a minute or two before quickly dropping out of sight (behind a mountain range I think). The typical claims of alien crafts were made along with “no man made aircraft could do this” etc.
A researcher was able to quickly debunk if all by pointing out that the people who made the video were in a straight line with an airport runway on the other side of the mountain. They were seeing the headlights of airplanes as they turned onto final landing approach. From directly lined up in front of the runway you would see the headlight appear almost motionless, with a little wobbling, as the aircraft lines up and approaches the runway. Then the light would quickly drop as the airplane descended to land. “No man made aircraft could do this” indeed… Most people just never watch them from that angle.
Hate to break it to you but all the major CDN providers do the exact same things. My employer runs multiple websites mainly for US and European users. We use Akamai for both CDN and WAF services. For any CDN and/or WAF to operate properly it needs access to unencrypted content. Part of Akamais WAF tools includes what they call Bot Manager, which can identify traffic coming from over 1000 known bots and can also classify unknown ones. Part of how it works is by browser fingerprinting as well as TLS session fingerprinting and other proprietary fingerprinting.
So any time you visit a large website you’re likely being fingerprinted and otherwise analyzed by the CDN and security tools used by those sites.
They terminate the TLS sessions at their servers and reencrypt to forward to the backend. This allows them to analyze the data to spot spam, optimize compression and such
And any organization that utilizes a CDN/security provider, like Akamai, AWS, Fastly, etc. knows that they all do this. They need access to the unencrypted content in order for services like CDN and WAF to work properly.
That still wouldn’t stop Trump from campaigning and pushing the MAGA crowd to write him in. If he’s not the GOP candidate then he’ll do everything he can to destroy the GOP.
The line is that only Trump can do anything with impunity. That same power doesn’t apply to Biden or future presidents.
I wonder if anybody has tried to explain to Trump that if he wins the argument that presidents have absolute power that Biden could immediately jail him and his entire family for no reason at all…
The company I work for probably doesn’t see as much traffic as Reddit, but we provide services via the web in the US and roughly 15 other countries. We make use of Akamai for CDN, security, etc. and one of the things they do is provide us with raw logs of every request made to our sites. That generates a lot of data that we feed into Splunk for analysis, debugging, etc.
One of the nicer things Akamai does in their logs is to classify if they believe the request came from a bot, and if so then what bot it was. They are able to identify over 1000 individual bots, and can also detect traffic from new/unknown bots. There is a LOT of bot activity on the internet these days, and many originate from cloud providers like AWS, where it’s clear it’s a machine making the request and not a human.
If we had a legal request for logs I’d have to look at the data to see how to respond. If Akamai showed a lot of bot activity from consumer ISP IPs then I’d likely include that data in an effort to show that end users may be victims of botnets. But if bot activity was mostly originating from cloud providers etc. then I probably wouldn’t include it. Let the lawyers try to figure out from the raw data what traffic originated from humans vs bots.
Quora was just Ask Jeeves 2.0… Both relied on human “experts” and neither could figure out a long term monetization plan.