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singular_me
29th November 2016, 05:10 AM
now this said, transhumanists believing that uploading their minds into computers is the path to immortality are just fooling themselves. The longer are live spans the bigger the challenge becomes. Knowledge grows exponentially both ways, the forces on both sides of the fence match one another, for the best and the worse,

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Mirai bots' cyber-blitz 1m German broadband routers – and your ISP could be next
Malware waltzes up to admin panels with zero authentication
nov 29

‘A widespread attack on the maintenance interfaces of broadband routers over the weekend has affected the telephony, television, and internet service of about 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany.

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) issued a statement indicating that the cyber-assault, which was detected on Sunday and continued into Monday, has also targeted government networks, but has been inconsistent in its effect due to protective measures.

A modified version of the Mirai worm – which commandeered huge numbers of CCTV cameras and other Internet-of-Things gear – is now scanning home routers for security vulnerabilities, and either crashing or hijacking devices.’
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/28/router_flaw_exploited_in_massive_attack/