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Roku stops its users watching TV until they accept a new ToS, the line between journalism and computer fraud and abuse, and when using jumbo frames on a network makes sense.

 

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Roku disables players and TVs with attempt to coerce arbitration agreement

Over 15,000 hacked Roku accounts sold for 50¢ each to buy hardware

Op-ed: Charges against journalist Tim Burke are a hack job

 

 

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We were asked about using jumbo frames on a network.

 

 

 

 

 

Kolide

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The boss of Nvidia says kids don’t need to code because they can just use AI, companies sell their users’ data to train models, and why 2.5Gbps networking probably isn’t worth bothering with.

 

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Jensen Huang says kids shouldn’t learn to code — they should leave it up to AI

Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data

Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

 

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We were asked about adding 2.5Gbps gear to your network.

 

 

 

 

Kolide

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More cameras leak footage, Avast is fined for selling user data, a vending machine quietly scans students’ faces, using a small NVMe drive with ZFS, and taking snapshots of VMs.

 

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“So violated”: Wyze cameras leak footage to strangers for 2nd time in 5 months

Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data

Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students

 

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We were asked about using a small NVMe drive with ZFS, and taking snapshots of VMs.

 

 

 

Automox

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Why it’s not a great idea to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, quantum computing hype has been replaced by AI, toothbrushes can’t be part of a botnet, Google has killed cached search results, and testing your backups.

 

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Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs

Investors threw 50% less money at quantum sector last year

Viral news story of botnet with 3 million toothbrushes was too good to be true

Google has killed cached results in search

 

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We were asked about testing your backups.

 

 

 

 

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/25a to learn more.

 

Automox

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Nginx is forked, Broadcom/VMware kills ESXi, dedup is finally fixed in ZFS, using multiple network interfaces on a NAS, and more.

 

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announcing freenginx.org

Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software

OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns

Fast Dedup is a Valentines Gift to the OpenZFS and TrueNAS Communities

 

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Kolide

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Trying to report a security issue lands a consultant in trouble, a new take on the drop shipping scam, setting up your first NAS – including the benefits of RAID, picking a distro, choosing the right disk size, and more.

 

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IT consultant in Germany fined for exposing shoddy security

Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud

ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain

 

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We were asked about setting up your first NAS – including the benefits of RAID, picking a distro, and choosing the right disk size.

Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS

Part 2: Tuning Your FreeBSD Configuration for Your NAS

3.5″ internal drives sorted by price/TB

 

 

 

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Microsoft’s rudimentary error that allowed an attacker access to its executives’ emails, Pixel phones have another serious storage bug, hidden malware payload found at Ars Technica, and when to upgrade your hardware for Windows 11.

 

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BSDCan 2024 – Call for papers

 

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In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges

Pixel phones are broken again with critical storage permission bug

Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation

 

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We were asked about when to upgrade your hardware for Windows 11.

 

 

 

 

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Y2K was a pretty serious problem and 2038 is coming soon, work on Arm servers is improving the experience on the desktop, and what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.

 

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OpenZFS Best Practices: Part 2: File Serving and SANs

 

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The ‘nothing-happened’ Y2K bug – and how IT squashed it

What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks

 

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We were asked about what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.

Xpenology

How can I use a PC to recover data when my Synology NAS malfunctions?

 

 

 

 

 

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Hard drives are pretty much an enterprise product now, GitHub’s malware problem, and spreading services across different machines and VMs to keep downtime to a minimum.

 

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OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases Part 1: Snapshots and Backups

 

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Hard disk drives are next in line to become mostly enterprise hardware — as Nvidia (and AMD) could be planning to focus on AI, leaving consumers as second-class citizens

Seagate unveils 30 TB+ Exos HAMR disk drives – Blocks and Files

Miscreants absolutely love using GitHub to sling malware

Flying Under the Radar: Abusing GitHub for Malicious Infrastructure

 

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We were asked about spreading services across different machines and VMs to keep downtime to a minimum.

 

 

 

Kolide

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Automox

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Why the problems with open source licenses aren’t quite as easy to fix as some people think, the reasons you should never pay ransomware gangs, and running a Nagios distro on a Raspberry Pi.

 

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What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it

A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not

The State of Ransomware in the U.S.: Report and Statistics 2023

 

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We were asked about running a Nagios distro on a Raspberry Pi.

NEMS Linux

 

 

 

 

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