“Grandma, there are lots of scammers around, if anyone calls and claims to be me, ask for the password”
Yes, it only works if we also appropriately educate our at risk family members and instill a healthy level of caution. But if we aren’t willing to do that, then there is nothing that can be done.
Have a safeword with your grandparents. If anyone claims to be you, they have to know the safeword.
Aside, this isnt new, and doesnt require AI. You dont need to do fancy voice matching or anything special, just claim that the phone connection is bad.
I dont even think this is related to the intelligence community, who are happy to spy on anyone regardless of age, I think it’s just a poorly thought out law.
They definitely need to own the responsibility though. When these ID databases leak, and they will, hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people are going to be caught up in the mess, such as:
Doxing/Outing these people will result in significant harm, upto and including death. These inevitable deaths with be on the politicians hands.
And the worst part? It won’t stop kids getting online or bullying each other.
Personally, I may just intentionally leak my drivers licence online, and get it reissued or something. Give plausible deniability to anything that happens associated with the ID. Not sure exactly what the ramifications are for doing that though.
This isnt about protecting kids, its about age verifying and de-anonymising everyone. Australia has already gone down this road, dont fall for the trap.
They might mean gui-less. Log into a tty shell, use vim/emacs/editor of choice.
What CPU is it? 32bit only hardware would be ancient, I’m surprised you found something that old with a working battery?
I’m guessing they can rip the other end of the lock out of the wall tbh.
But realistically, theifs aren’t that sophisticated, they aren’t going to waste time trying to find and destroy the DVR, the will grab whatever valuables they can carry and pawn and leave as fast as possible.
The cameras are really just a deterant, they will move on to an easier house instead of risking it with mine.
Home security first of all, with cameras to deter thiefs. That alone mostly solves the problem, but I’m in a relatively safe area.
My “lab” is just a switch, nuc and unifi cloud key, and while they are warm in their closet, its not super hot.
I have a Kensington lock on the security camera box, but someone could theoretically yank that out of the wall.
The rest really isnt worth breaking in to steal.
When I used to have SSH on a nonstandard port, I got login failures from bots. It really depends on the bot and how aggressive they have set it up.
Booming?
https://www.afghanembassy.au/art-and-culture/travel-and-tourism.html - This claims 20k per year, with the peak being in the 1970s at 90k.
Antarctica claims 80k in one year: https://iaato.org/news-room/data-statistics
If those sources are too biased, feel free to supply your own.
Either way, when the entire countries women and girls are unable to access education, a small bump to tourism doesnt quite add up to a net positive in my eyes.
Absolutely, they have to fix their own problems. But we have seen how the change has gone since the US left, and so far its not been on positive path.
I hope for all our sakes that you’re wrong, but who knows. I personally dont think importing skilled slave labour is a winning strategy long term, disgruntled engineers aren’t going to be doing their best work.
The other problem is that no matter how bad it goes, they can spend the next 15-20 years blaming their problems on the Americans, so itll be a while before any real introspection occurs.
Absolutely agree how depressing this all is. :(
They need them, they just won’t be getting them.
They are in for a shitty couple of decades.
Somehow, I dont think that’ll matter to much in a Taliban university. May as well just go back to “earth, water, air and fire”.
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Haven’t changed much really…
Bummer. You could get a cheap IoT light bulb/smart plug and ping it in a script, when it times out, start the shutdown. Could be a fun project.
Some (most?) UPSs have a way for them to communicate to the PC so that the PC can automatically cleanly shutdown. You should look into that if its available on your UPS.
Look for the additional storage section under the app settings: