Privacy is Dead | TechSNAP 312

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Show Notes:

Internet privacy

• The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

• Vote Summary

• Who represents You in the U.S. Congress

• Five Ways Cybersecurity Will Suffer If Congress Repeals the FCC Privacy Rules

• A VPN can stop internet companies from selling your data — but it’s not a magic bullet

• How ISPs can sell your Web history—and how to stop them

Alleged vDOS Owners Poised to Stand Trial

• Police in Israel are recommending that the state attorney’s office indict and prosecute two 18-year-olds suspected of operating vDOS, until recently the most popular attack service for knocking Web sites offline.

• On Sept. 8, 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story about the hacking of vDOS, a service that attracted tens of thousands of paying customers and facilitated countless distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the four year period it was in business. That story named two young Israelis — Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri — as the likely owners and operators of vDOS, and within hours of its publication the two were arrested by Israeli police, placed on house arrest for 10 days, and forbidden from using the Internet for a month.

• According to a story published Sunday by Israeli news outlet TheMarker.com, the government of Sweden also is urging Israeli prosecutors to pursue formal charges.

• Law enforcement officials both in the United States and abroad say stresser services enable illegal activity, and they’ve recently begun arresting both owners and users of these services.

ZFS is what you want, even though you may not know – Dan talks about why he likes ZFS

• The following is an ugly generalization and must not be read in isolation
• Listen to the podcast for the following to make sense
• Makes sysadmin life easier
• treats the disks as a bucket source for filesystem
• different file system attributes for different purposes, all on the same set of disks
• Interesting things you didn’t know you could do with ZFS

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Feedback

• Dealing with waste heat

• PostgreSQL vs MySQL

The following were referenced during the above Feedback segments:

• Dan has bought custom & standard size air filters for computers from these folks

• Dan’s first MySQL post from January 2000

• 17-Year-Old Corrects NASA Mistake In Data From The ISS

• Dan’s first PostgreSQL post from September 2000

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Round Up:

• Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs

• Dishwasher has directory traversal bug

• Apple Says It Fixed CIA Vulnerabilities Years Ago

• Data breach disclosure 101: How to succeed after you’ve failed

• LastPass releases fix browser extension security flaws

• Google takes Symantec to the woodshed for mis-issuing 30,000 HTTPS certs

• 17-Year-Old Corrects NASA Mistake In Data From The ISS

• That Time I Trolled the Entire Internet

• Dan’s external Nagios instance

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