• 0 Posts
  • 16 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: July 21st, 2023
  • v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU@programming.devtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the worldEnglish
    0·
    11 months ago

    I mean - this is just a giant test of disaster recovery plans. And while there are absolutely real-world consequences to this, the fix almost seems scriptable.

    It seems like it is, I’m not responsible for any computers that had this issue, but I saw this powershell script posted on reddit for a group policy.

    Though, I think some systems had more unique problems, I also saw different steps for repairing an Azure VM.

    There were also that didn’t understand how to get around Bitlocker, and people on reddit posted solutions for that too.

    Though, even with all of this, I was surprised that hospitals had issues. It seems like there’s other issues in deployments, and I saw some people on YC claim this was related to organizations filling checkboxes for regulatory requirements. That they likely had this software because they were concerned with failing an audit. I don’t know if there’s truth to that, but I am surprised there wasn’t more redundancy in critical infrastructure.

    edit: I want to stress again that I’m not responsible for any computers that had this issue and haven’t tried to use any of the above solutions myself. I’ve just noticed lots of people still commenting on reddit not understanding that they can fix this issue because of one of these 3.

  • v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU@programming.devtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Active combat against surveillance instead of passive defense
    23·
    1 year ago

    I think all 3 are likely detectable.

    AdNauseam is my favorite though, and probably currently the least detectable. It purposefully costs advertisers the money they bid against each other for clicks. Though, if abuse of it becomes too high, I think Google would very likely separate out users they have detected as likely bots. Though, for people who do not browse the internet very often, there might not be very much data to be confident they’re a bot.

    I really don’t like that modern advertising is based on highly invasive spying. A billboard is a nuisance, but someone watching everything I do online is a stalker.

    edit: It’s about making predictions about behavior worse. An issue is that advertising has conversions or sales, which most fake clicks will not become conversions… but part of it is just creating data that might cause predictions against other people for content they don’t desire. (resulting in less impactful advertising)