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Old 03-22-2018, 08:12 PM
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We don't seem to have a miscellany thread related to tech although we have miscellaneous other miscellany threads apart from the miscellany thread.

So here it is.
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The miscellaneous finding I wanted to post is this:
The http protocol (you know, the one that's the backbone of the web, famous for 404 errors :404: ) has a separate error code for Unavailable For Legal Reasons. The protocol equivalent of "this video is not available in your country".

The error code is 451.
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HTTP 451 - Wikipedia
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Old 03-24-2018, 01:42 PM
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Is this where I complain about how slow my Windows 10 laptop is compared to my Windows 10 Alienware computer?
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No, you want the grumpy old retired man thread.
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I think that the main reason why I never adopted Pyhton as a scripting language is that I can never, ever type it correctly (including in this sentence. :( ).
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$ pyhton
No command 'pyhton' found, did you mean:
Command 'python' from package 'python-minimal' (main)
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I think Lisarea is writing this strip now.
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You could have been a little nicer, you know.

Also: "will" go down the tubes? It went down the tube decades ago!
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I finally bought a PC this year. The last one I bought was in 2000. On that one, at least I had a system software disk to load if my software ate itself.

Now, don't have a clue what to do when my software gets stuffed.
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* JoeP mutters about free operating systems and boot from USB and recovery USB sticks
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Perhaps we should create a blockchain start up called BoogerCoin that works on a similar principle.

Mining for boogers = mining for BoogerCoins!
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Seeing as people were trying to buy PonziCoin with their Equifax Grade Security, I say cash the fuck in.
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On This Day 25 Years Ago, the Web Became Public Domain
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Comcast website bug gives out router passwords because of course it does.
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FBI Seizes Control of Russian Botnet

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The payload itself is non-persistent and will not survive if the router is restarted,” Thakur added. “That payload will vanish.”
I don't even know if I have anything vulnerable but I'm going to reboot everything that even resembles a router tonight and look for firmware updates.
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(1) Everybody has a vulnerability
(2) I knew photobucket was evil
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For supernerds:

Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group Blog: New VPNFilter malware targets at least 500K networking devices worldwide

An IT director at a large organization directed me to this.
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I finally bought a PC this year. The last one I bought was in 2000. On that one, at least I had a system software disk to load if my software ate itself.

Now, don't have a clue what to do when my software gets stuffed.
Assuming you bought a big brand name PC they almost always include software for creating your own recovery disks nowadays.
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More on Routermageddon:

FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices | Ars Technica
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Misleading headline.

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advised users of affected router models to perform a factory reset, or at a minimum to reboot.
The core of the malware in question survives a reboot. I haven't seen a claim that the photobucket account and the knowitall dot com or whatever fallback domain are the only channels it has.
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