“We have won the election, so we obviously don’t need to change or do anything and just keep everything as it is…”

Bin ich der einzige, den diese “Wendung” irgendwie überhaupt nicht überraschst?

PS: Ebenso werde ich nicht überrascht sein, wenn das Thema trotzdem immer wieder auftaucht, weil jeder die ursprüngliche Nachricht mitbekommen hat, aber niemand dies hier (oder es gar bewusst ignoriert…).

I was speaking more broadly about “most cases you heard of in the last weeks”… Yes, in some case it might have been actual hacks involved because basic security was adequate, which also included noticing the issue in time to prevent actual consequences in this specific case.

Anger at corrupt right-wing populists mobilizes people and drives change.

Which only means they need to shift focus and spend even more to guide the voters anger into a better direction, like evil minorities and totally imaginary threats…

Because people are f***ing idiots.

Getting a remotely accessible freezer sounds dumb, but you can save money because now you don’t need to pay someone to check and document the temperature for compliance reasons anymore.

Not securing that device at all sounds really stupid, but it saves you money to not pay someone to actually set the devices up properly. Bonus points: anyone even midly competent would have told you that remote control instead of just read access for temperature logging is incredible stupid. And then you would need to spend money on better devices after already having paid someone for competent advice. Better save that money.

Speaking of mildly competent people you don’t want to pay… They would also have told you beforehand that a limited time-frame in which you still get security patches for your devices is a stupid idea, too. But hey… buying the product with only 10 years or so guaranteed support saves you –again– money today.

And let’s be honest. After your device reached EOL you are not actually replacing it anyway. You didn’t care about basic security before, so what’s the problem now with unpatched devices not getting any support anymore? After all they still cool things without costing any additional money…

Wow… look at all the savings. That will totally get you a bonus. One you will definitely not need to pay back after everything went to shit because you are an idiot.

It gets worse once you realize that in most cases you heard of in the last weeks there was no actual hack to speak of involved (although a lot of them were unpatched EOL devices, too), but just accessing them with the default password.

So having remotely controllable freezers in the first place isn’t even the beginning of the stupidity involved. They are also often completely unsecured and nobody cares.

Barely… foreign policy firmly belongs with the president’s executive power

Getting 10 R senators willing to vote to convict, regardless of regarding the actual evidence

FTFY

aber ob die Deutschen soviel besser sind?

Korrupte, rechte Scheiße in Schwarz, korrupte, rechte Scheiße in Blau und sogar noch Reste von korrupter, rechter Scheiße in Gelb: zusammen mit deutlicher Mehrheit, nach Sitzen im Bereich ⅔.

Also Nein. Die Deutschen sind sogar noch dümmer und dazu noch geschichtsvergessen. Nur halt auch etwas langsamer…

Fox News

Have they already started to lament the national debt again or are they waiting for ~24 hours for the cult’s brains to cool down and their memories to reset?

Aber es ist ja so nett alles via App steuern zu können

Es ist aber auch nicht zielführend, das als Argument voranzustellen, wenn das Hauptproblem die absolute Dummheit von ungesicherten, nicht mehr regelmäßig gepatchten und mit Standardpasswörtern versehenen Geräten ist.

Klar, kann man sich fragen, was überhaupt wirklich Fernzugriff braucht. Aber das kommt halt erst viel, viel später, in der detaillierten Sicherheits- und Bedrohungsanalyse, nachdem man das absolute Minimum abgehakt. Aber das schaffen die ja scheinbar schon nicht.

Das ist in etwa so, als wenn wir die Diskussion über das nicht allzu hochwertige Türschluss starten, während die Tür tatsächlich nicht nur eh offen, sondern auch noch ausgehängt neben dem Türrahmen steht. Der Wunsch Geräte aus der Ferne überwachen zu wollen, ist hier nicht das primäre Problem.

Aber wurden sie ja hier laut Artikel nicht. Die werden nur zentral überwacht und wenn was schief geht (Zitat:)“fährt ein Techniker hin”. Dass sie dann a) überhaupt auch steuerbar im Netz hängen, b) längst ohne weitere Updates und Patches zu erhalten, und diese c) auch nicht mal nötig waren, weil jeder Idiot einfach das ungeänderte Standardpasswort benutzen konnte, ist dann aber einfach nur völliger Irrsinn.

That might be an argument if you are sane and actually building up renewables and storage.

But for a government that spends its time sabotaging renewables and blocking storage (in fact the whole definition of energy security and why gas peakers are the only option was written directly by an energy company for their corrupt puppet of a minister) it is just a pretense.

‘I don’t think the US is God’s kingdom on Earth’

I can’t even express how insane the notion of even discussing if “the US is God’s kingdom on Earth” is a true statement looks to anyone outside of the US (and probably a lot of people inside, too)

“Verkehrsminister möchte in alle Autos filmen”

Dass es zufällig gerade der Verkehrsminister ist, der für den aktuellen Schritt auf dem Weg zur gewünschten totalen Überwachung, immer und überall, zuständig ist, ist eher Zufall und nebensächlich…

What are you talking about? The police takes their own neo-nazis and their like-minded friends very serious and supports them whereever possible.

That’s the incredible thing when you build up a base of nearly brain-deads swimming in cognitive dissonance: You can say like: “He is very bad, because <random summary of morally wrong things you actually do>”, and your idiot followers will just stop at “he’s bad!” while only those with a working brain will hear the rest. And some of them might believe the lie and come to the conclusion that everyone is just as bad.

That’s the reason both sides bullshit is a working right-wing tactic. For everyone else this is an argument to give up voting while their own followers are filtering out every fact that does not fit their chosen view. “They are just as bad as we are!” only registers to their own voters as “They are bad!”. Because the “We are good” part is already a given in their damaged minds and so the other contradicting half of the statement just disappears.

Actual headline: “Corrupt conservatives cement fossil fuel dependency for their donors under a pretense”

They pretend that those gas power stations are needed, then sabotage renewable upbuild and grid improvements while blocking storage to create that scenario in the first place.
Also they will justify the price increases (flowing right into the pcoket of fossil fuel producers) somehow as costs caused by renewables…

Sind wir wirklich so verblödet

Ja.

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