#snakeoil
#Canada wants to ban the #FlipperZero
Pursuing all avenues to ban devices used to steal vehicles by copying the wireless signals for remote keyless entry, such as the Flipper Zero, which would allow for the removal of those devices from the Canadian marketplace through collaboration with #law enforcement agencies.
#SecurityTheater: The old game of stupid politics. They ban the tools instead of providing real security. Then a few teenagers get caught who want to learn to hack with the tool and the criminals laugh because they use other tools.
#snakeoil #security #car #crime #politics #hack #hacker #tool #fail #problem #government #news
My experience with #ZeroTrust in the IT #industry.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/how-to-apply-zero-trust-to-your-active-directory/
After my company switched to Zero Trust, I received an email with instructions and that I should print out the telephone list from the intranet in case of an #emergency. But I didn't had access to the list. So I opened a ticket. The #support sent me the list by email. When I asked, if this is how it should work now, that I can't access even the simplest documents. The answer was that I can request them via support. Zero Trust therefore means that you only have access to your own documents, and perhaps those of the project team. It's a mad world with a lot of security theatre and snake oil.
#security #access #network #trust #problem #CyberSecurity #snakeoil #problem
(gagging) So only a brief intro: I saw this story on Twitter, alongside a comment :
Would like someone to challenge Alex Jones to settle their differences in a ring. My money wouldn't be on Mr. Big Bad Vitamin-Seller.
Alex Jones Raked in $165 Million Over Three Years Selling Supplements and Prepper Gear
My suggestion for an opponent would be fellow snake-oil and #TrumpVIrus fan, Dr. Oz. (wrestling/boxing/MMA?) Better yet, #DJT !
#slime #alexjones #charlatan #snakeoil #grifter #GQP #crazytown #MakeAmericaSaneAgain
#BusKill = Bullshit nonsense #snakeoil ... for people who likely use operating systems with #backdoors that they naively trust. How much is the media paid to promote BS?
Sounds like #snakeoil piggybacking brands. The safety of the code matters, not some add-ons. https://siliconangle.com/2021/12/07/git-cybersecurity-startup-gitguardian-raises-44m/
The advice here it poor; operating systems with back doors are not secure and the solution isn't in them but outside them, and not AV #snakeoil https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/still-paying-antivirus-software-experts-say-probably-dont-need-rcna6335
No, more #proprietarySoftware likely does not make you more secure. Moving away from proprietary OSes helps, and then you don't need all this #snakeoil at all. https://linuxtechlab.com/how-to-increase-your-online-protection-with-antivirus-software/
Replacing one #proprietarySoftware #snakeoil with another... without tackling the underlying root causes. https://www.hecticgeek.com/time-upgrade-from-antivirus-network-security-solutions/
#manilastandard reprints spammy trash for #snakeoil peddler whose #ProprietarySoftware poses more risk than whatever it claims to tackle https://manilastandard.net/tech/tech-news/362662/kaspersky-hybrid-cloud-security-enhances-protection-for-linux.html
The precipice. (We went over it earlier than most USAians probably think.)
The Last Honest Speech by a U.S. President
I was sixteen when President Jimmy Carter gave his so-called Malaise speech in 1979. Focusing on America’s wasteful energy consumption, Carter vowed to cut America’s dependence on oil imports while pushing alternative energies such as solar. In crafting his speech, he listened to regular Americans and diagnosed a national peril far worse than America’s wanton consumption of energy.
And for his honesty, Carter got voted out of office in 1980. The sunny optimism of Ronald Reagan arrived, though the “sunny” part didn’t include the solar panels that Carter had added to the White House. (Under Reagan, these were quickly removed.) For Carter’s expertise in science (he was formerly a naval nuclear engineer under Admiral Hyman Rickover) came Reagan’s fossil-fuel-friendly policies and Nancy Reagan’s penchant for astrology. It was morning again in America in the sense that profit once again took priority over policy and people – and fantasy took precedence over reality.
[Carter's speech was prophetic.]
... _ Carter told Americans in 1979 that: “We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I’ve warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure.”_
[And that is the path we chose. We have not ventured from it since.]
The second, much to be preferred, path was: “the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values. That path leads to true freedom for our Nation and ourselves.”
Does anyone have any doubt about which path America chose under Reagan and his successors?
The “certain route to failure.” A route where tens of millions of Americans lose their health care during a pandemic; a route where the government bails out the richest corporations first and the poorest Americans last, if at all; a route where division and fragmentation are the order of the day, embraced by a president who revels in chaos and his own self-interest. And a route where that same man is likely to be reelected as president in November, despite his colossal mismanagement of a health crisis that he can’t even bring himself to understand, let alone attempt to control.
... Is it any surprise that real wages for workers in America have basically been flat since the time of Carter? Reagan instituted Robin Hood in reverse, facilitating an economy where the rich got far richer, mainly by trampling on the backs of the middle class and poor.
So, we collectively bought a cancerous fantasy in 1980, one which has now metastasized with a malignant and sociopathic exploiter, Donald Trump, at the helm.
[The whole article is a must-read.]
