Uranus, like Myanus, loses atmosphere often. I usually blame it on Dogsanus.

OK, so if I grab your spare key under your front door mat, did your Schlage deadbolt get "picked"? No, poor OpSec. If I drop my key fob to my car, and you use the remote open door feature to find it and steal my car. Did GM's laser cut key database get "hacked?" No. GM isn't at fault because I made a mistake. A hack is when someone gets a system to act in an unintended way. Ring is performing as expected: put in a valid username and password, then gain entry. They don't report to have biometrics or other means to authenticate it's you. Hell, a sophisticated threat would clone your phone anyway, making the 2-factor call your phone as well as his. This happens often for higher value targets, but rarely makes the news because the threat is much more sophisticated. That said, yes, you're right. Ring could add sophisticated measures but it's not my bank account we are securing. They're cameras. All of mine are outside so I really don't care if you hacked my 4 Ring cameras. You would see my neighbors doing their laundry and me leaving every morning and coming home 6 hours later. This is why my Echo Show has the camera disabled 99.999% of the time. Hack it and you see nothing.

Right. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD do it. This is what separates good engineers from geniuses. To me this is the classic Android versus Apple argument as well. Sure you can do everything on both, but the Apple is more polished. A 2nd grader and a 72 year old can figure an iPhone out without instructions. As you mention, you can spend hours on it, just to be hacked anyway. Or, just buy the Ring and turn on 2-step authentication like you probably should do anyway (RPi, or commercial).

That's akin to saying, "I have absolutely no sympathy for idiots who buy a house when someone breaks in and stabs them. This goes for garages too." The person who took over their account is breaking the law. Period. Not everyone understands security and often re-uses passwords. Do you realize Titan, Schalge and Defiant reuse keys for deadbolts and door locks? Is it ok if I use a set of keys to get into your house and steal everything? "We have no sympathy for idiots who don't understand tumblers and pins of the locks inside their home." How about your car? How about I hack the OBD2 system to make your transmission shift into reverse while you do 70mph down the highway? "I have no sympathy for idiots who don't understand their cars on-board diagnotic system." How about your grandmother who is in intensive care at the hospital? Hospital Wifi is known to be unsecure. Do you have zero sympathy when a hacker shuts down her life supporting systems? Grandma deserves it since she doesn't understand encryption and information security, right?

Turn on two factor authentication and don't reuse passwords. That's the simple lesson here. This 'Crap' you mention has saved a little girl who was kidnapped right in front of their house, led to arrest and prosecution of home invaders who nearly killed a homeowners dog, and cut down on crime in many areas.

I think 9/11 is so far back and most Americans are so apathetic they either didn't know or have forgotten 9/11 wasn't the first attack. It wasn't the 2nd. It was in the teens.. Meaning we were in well over double digits. Khobar Towers sound familiar? USS Cole sound familiar? The Twin Towers in NYC had already been bombed once before. We ignored them. We "kept our troops at home." Problem is, the camps in Afghanistan kept pumping out skilled personnel who learned how to bomb and kill people.

Imagine you have a meth lab next door. Would you tell the cops, "Well, don't invade their home. Just arrest the street dealers. That will solve the problem. Leave the meth lab alone." That's exactly what you're saying when you say, "Don't invade Afghanistan." We had to invade Germany to stop Hitler. We had to nuke Japan to get them to stop suicide attacking throughout the Pacific, and we had to invade Afghanistan to stop the Osama Bin Laden sponsored and Taliban (the government back then) hosted terrorist camps. We also invaded Iraq to get them to stop shooting at F-16s and threatening neighbors, but that narrative has been hijacked by the whole "no WMDs found" false flag. Any one recall how many UN security resolutions were passed telling Saddam to knock his shit off?? Anyone? How many talked about WMDs? (hint: almost none)

The problem however, as we learn everywhere is, "Power abhors a vacuum." If you take out one evil power, you are an open host to what ever else can take its place.

Correct. 350k was nothing compared to the rate we were losing soldiers as we island hopped and tried to defeat Japan. They also refused to surrender and would fight to the last person. They were also convincing local populations to commit suicide rather than wait to see what happened when the Allies liberated their lands, although some were also just murdered. Hard to say how much is fact and fiction in these stories. For anyone skeptical, take a look at how many Russians died kicking Germany out. 26 million... and that was mostly on defense. Going onto the offense makes attrition rates go up.

Beeftopia seems to be the only response I've seen that really understands PsyOps (Psychological Operations in warfare), and the differences.

I worked at Home Depot for over 5 years, and have spent time inside the loss prevention office. They are not face scanning and tracking you through the store. If they are tracking you, it's a guy who's watching a dozen camera feeds and switching between them. If they catch you stealing, it takes awhile for them to take the video from the different cameras and make a CD for the arresting officer. The time depends on how long you spent in the store and how much you moved around.

Those cameras on the aisles are stand alone and not part of the system. They're really just to make you aware they're focusing on that high-theft part of the store (e.g. power tools in Hardware, and $90 circuit breakers in Electrical). Each store has a staff of Loss Prevention, and most employees will ignore you even if you're an obvious thief. They are instructed not to touch you and in some cases I was admonished for asking them "Can I help you?" I got pissed because your thieving takes away money from my bonus. My store probably easily lost over $1M a year to thieves. If you walk in, grab a torch from hardware, a bluetooth speaker, and a $90 Klein electricians backpack.... everyone in the store knows what's happening. And walkie talkies... I did the math. For every pair of walkie talkies sold, 2 were stolen. $200k sold in a year, and about $600k stolen.. just in walkie talkies from my store alone.

Yes, they track people by sales receipts and your Drivers License. This is how they catch people who fraudulently return very high numbers of products. Usually it's stolen but not always. Again, you're robbing the people who work there when you fraudulently return products. That "shrink" reduces revenue, which reduces the employee bonus.

Great question!! As in 1991 I reported to 2 SOPS which performed C2 of a non-existent (according to this article) satellite system. We created navigation uploads based on fake Pseudo-Ranging from about 20 fake satellites received by fake monitoring stations. The Khalman filter took the fake PRs and created fake navigation uploads. I, as the Satellite Operator, started GPS (by name alone) satellite supports by slewing ground antennaes to a fake location (we used wiijii boards and random number generators for az and elev ) to then radiate into blank open space. Funny thing is watching Patrick AFB have fake launches!! They would load billion dollar Delta2 rockets on the pad, pretend they were fitting a GPS satellite onto the top, and then launch nothing into space. We would do pretend thruster firings to get it into a transfer orbit, and then de-spin the fake satellites.

So many fake things I did. OH! And we even stood up a Training Squadron, 534th TRS at Vandenberg to train fake satellite operators!! It's a shame only my last years teaching was to people flying real satellites. I guess we had good practice from years of faking it.

Your net is too small. Middle Easterners have been murdering millions for thousands of years, not hundreds. Look up the origins of Wahhabism. It started shortly after the death of Christ. The "Crusades" is often cast as a response in 1095 to Christians being murdered by Muslims, while crossing the Mediterranean. So that's 925 years ago that people on a large scale started getting pissed off about it.

The book "5 Pillars of Islam" really explains it well. And it's depressing when you realize just how long people have been killing each other over their invisible friend, beliefs, etc.

I used to say, of all the facts, press get about 40%. Of the 40% they probably only capture and understand 40%. Leaving us with 16% of the original. With the 16% they accurately present 40% in context, which leaves the reader with the ability to discern about 7% of what's actually going on in any situation. The more of an expert you are in ANY field, the more you realize how stupid our press, media, etc have become. They're great at sensationalism, but suck at everything else. Miley Cyrus gets front page while genocide runs on page 6. We are also at fault. 100% of teens can identify Miley Cyrus, while probably 20% can ID Biden, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, etc.

Great Britain thought this too in 1750's, 1760s, and not so much after that. :D

Don't be so quick to attribute deaths in Syria to gun related deaths. I personally watched ISR video where they decided to save ammunition by switching to a large blade (looked like a machete). They lined up people near Yazadi on a bridge over a river. They had the people lean over the bridge railing, and then slit their throats. The lifeless bodies were then kicked into the river. Thousands died without a single bullet.

Makes sense. Most anti-social behavior appears when populations are stressed. Low numbers, there are a low number of social issues from anti-social behaviors. Start over-crowding or making resources scarce and then issues start popping up. Probably is statistically linked to depression, suicide, and similar problems. I'm guessing though.

Holy shit balls. I wish people with your capability to understand basic tenants of gun ownership wrote our laws. Not dumbshits who say ARs left them crying, and somehow making a magazine release illegal (bullet buttons, etc) is safer. If gun ownership was an underlying root cause, homicides would be huge in Oklahoma and Texas compared to the NorthEast (Maine, NH, NY, etc). I do think there's a social-economic link, so I don't 100% agree with your points. However, you are able to logically work through the debate. Phuck I wish there were more people like you in the national debate on guns.

At the layer 2 or Rf layer yes. However the news is never that technically educated or contextual. They're referring to layer 5, or application encryption.