NaibofTabr

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A camera wouldn't have prevented anything, it would only make blame slightly easier.

Blame isn't necessarily the important thing for the outcome of an investigation. It is important to determine fault for the sake of preventing future failures. Did the crew flip the wrong switch, or did the system change state without the crew doing anything? Is there a training issue, or an overwork issue, or design flaw, or a maintenance problem?

You can't answer these questions without knowing the sequence of events prior to the failure, and the flight recorder data that shows a system state change might not be enough if you can't determine how or why that change happened.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes, but it might be very important to determine: did the pilot/copilot flick the switch, or did the switch change state without user input?

Is the crew at fault (training issue/operator error) or is the manufacturer at fault (design flaw) or was the ground crew at fault (improper maintenance)?

A camera could help determine that, if it had the right field of view.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 points 2 days ago

OK, so what is a VPN?

A Virtual Private Network is a virtual network that lives on top of a physical network. In the case of the Internet, basically what happens is that your network traffic goes into the VPN on one side and comes out of the VPN provider's network somewhere else, rather than out of your ISP's network. All this really does is move any privacy concerns from your ISP to your VPN, which may or may not protect you from any legal inquiries.

For a more thorough explanation look here: https://www.howtogeek.com/133680/htg-explains-what-is-a-vpn/

Is it possible to use torrent without a VPN?

Certainly, however your torrent traffic will be visible to and inspectable by your ISP. If a copyright holder chooses to, they may sue your ISP for the personal information of the person whose IP address matches the illegal traffic that they found. After they have your personal information they can prosecute you directly. A VPN might shield against this by changing the apparent IP address associated with your torrent traffic, but then you are at the mercy of the VPN provider and the government of whichever country they operate in.

It should be noted that if you are not paying the bill for the Internet, and you use it for illegal activity, then the person you are putting at risk is the person who pays the bill. It's their name attached to the ISP records.

If you are caught, or if they just don't like torrent traffic on their network, the ISP may decide that you are simply too much trouble and it's not worth keeping you as a customer, and just cut off your service (for your whole house).

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Umm, but then your VPN leads to a server rented from a web host which you are paying with (presumably) a credit card, and if they're reputable at all then you had to register with a government ID. The ones that don't check ID are the ones that host ransomware gangs and CSAM distributors.

A VPN provides no privacy at all if it's linked to an IP address or domain name and hardware that is registered to you.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 8 points 3 days ago

"...for us"

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 21 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Peter Dinklage would like a word...

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

In this study on mice...

Took them 7 paragraphs to get around to mentioning that.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 4 days ago

Ah, the magical fruit.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

200 years ago naturalists were still stealing human bodies from fresh graves to try to learn something about anatomy and causes of death, because Christians believed that dissecting the body would prevent the deceased from being resurrected when Christ returned to Earth. And they were still debating the germ theory of disease.

By the time of the American Civil War (1861-1865) there was enough understanding of infections that field doctors knew they needed to remove damaged limbs to prevent disease from spreading through the body, which led to amputation being the most common surgical procedure performed during the war:

Over the course of the Civil War, three out of four surgeries (or close to 60,000 operations) were amputations.

...because they knew the infection would spread but they didn't have any method for stopping it short of hacking off the entire limb as cleanly as possible.

It just... it hasn't been that long that we've had anything that you would consider actual medical practice.

The discovery of penicillin would not happen until 1928, and useful cultivation and production would not happen until 1939. Anytime earlier than that you'll have really high odds of dying from an infection acquired through what we would consider a common, simple injury.

So... best of luck with that.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 14 points 4 days ago

In other news, water is wet.

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