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General Software Discussion / Re: TeamViewer hacked?

« Last post by Deozaan on June 06, 2016, 02:57 PM »

police not going to do anything.
but do push the bank, itunes, and paypal as they have the ability to reverse transactions.

-mouser (June 06, 2016, 02:04 PM)

I was a victim of "identity theft" about 10-15 years ago (holy carp has it been so long?). I notified my bank of fraudulent activity, and the bank required me to send them a police report.

AFAIK, even though the police investigated the crime, they never found the perpetrator, who I assume got to keep the stuff he bought with my money¹. But the important thing (to me) is that I got my money back.

But the point is that it required a police report to do so.



¹ Actually, he didn't spend much of my money because he overdrafted my account (which is how I noticed the fraud so soon), so most of the money he spent wasn't really mine.

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Living Room / Re: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone: Choosing between tiny DIY computer kits

« Last post by Deozaan on June 06, 2016, 01:33 PM »

Here's a summary/comparison of 81 open spec SBCs:

http://hackerboards....acker-friendly-sbcs/

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General Software Discussion / Re: TeamViewer hacked?

« Last post by Deozaan on June 06, 2016, 02:02 AM »

Small update: TeamViewer still say there is no evidence of a vulnerability on their end. They still think it's due to reused passwords; poor, easy-to-guess passwords; or malware:

The vast majority of the cases that we see have to do with there being a lot of data breaches lately, and whenever we're pointed to potential TeamViewer account abuses, we check internally to determine what we can see. And in virtually every case we see that the passwords and account credentials have been used elsewhere.

Another factor that plays a significant role is that people aren't using very strong passwords. They use the name of a spouse, of a kid, of a pet, or they simply do not have strong enough security measures in place like antimalware, antivirus, the type of thing that belongs on every computer these days.

-http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/teamviewer-says-theres-no-evidence-of-2fa-bypass-in-mass-account-hack/

They're not denying that TV accounts are being abused, they're just saying it's not due to a hack or vulnerability on their end:

We're not doubting TeamViewer accounts have been abused. It's just this is not because of a TeamViewer weakness. [...] Obviously, what we're not doubting is that yes, people have been ripped off by online criminals and their bank accounts may have been emptied, but again that's not [due to] a TeamViewer vulnerability.

-http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/teamviewer-says-theres-no-evidence-of-2fa-bypass-in-mass-account-hack/

Read more in the Ars Technica interview.

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Living Room / Re: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone: Choosing between tiny DIY computer kits

« Last post by Deozaan on June 06, 2016, 12:23 AM »

Ello is quite a bit more expensive that most of the other options but interesting nonetheless

-Target (June 05, 2016, 02:17 AM)

Yeah I don't get this one. They say it's both more expensive and less powerful than other things out on the market right now... Anyone who is OK with that already owns an Apple product (), so why would they go for an Ello?

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General Software Discussion / Re: TeamViewer hacked?

« Last post by Deozaan on June 06, 2016, 12:15 AM »

Update

-Asudem (June 05, 2016, 03:24 AM)

I suppose the next step would be to dispute the charge with your credit card company or bank and be sure to file a police report.

Also, might be a good idea to go the other way and do as PayPal suggested, which is to contact Amazon (or wherever the charges were placed) and dispute the charges.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TeamViewer hacked?

« Last post by Deozaan on June 04, 2016, 11:24 PM »

So when I use TeamViewer to connect to one of my family's pcs, I need to either know credentials for the PC, or have to get the user to say OK before I can connect. What am I missing? Is everyone's desktop unlocked, or you have a no password required setting somewhere?

-x16wda (June 04, 2016, 10:22 PM)

It's possible to set up unattended access, so you can remote into your own system without having to have someone there click OK or tell you a code. But in order to do so, someone would still need to be logged in as you, using your TeamViewer account username/password combination. Or something.

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Living Room / Re: Re: Autobackup with OneDrive

« Last post by Deozaan on June 04, 2016, 05:00 PM »

I just use hard links for "cloud backups". One version of each file is enough for me.

-Tuxman (June 04, 2016, 07:24 AM)

what do you mean by hard links?

-kalos (June 04, 2016, 04:54 PM)

It's "like a shortcut" to the original file. Not a backup at all.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TeamViewer hacked?

« Last post by Deozaan on June 03, 2016, 01:29 PM »

TeamViewer just announced some new features that appear to be related to this: Trusted Devices (2FA on devices connecting for the first time) and Data Integrity (forced password reset due to suspicious activity)

https://www.teamview...-and-data-integrity/

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General Software Discussion / Re: What website has the fewest files?

« Last post by Deozaan on June 02, 2016, 04:17 PM »

I just discovered HyperDev, which you may find useful/interesting:

https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=42697

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General Software Discussion / Re: Open Source is secure. Unless doing so would make you lose ad revenue.

« Last post by Deozaan on June 02, 2016, 04:13 PM »

How would using HTTPS result in lost advertisement revenue? HTTPS makes it harder to block ads...

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DC Gamer Club / Re: GOG Connect - DRM-free access to your Steam library

« Last post by Deozaan on June 02, 2016, 04:05 PM »

Surgeon Simulator 2013

-Deozaan (June 02, 2016, 01:00 PM)

That didn't really look like a game to me.  Do you like it?  (A bit OT I know... but was curious when you said that)

-wraith808 (June 02, 2016, 01:55 PM)

I've never played it. I guess I got it as part of a bundle or something. It's not something I'd spend money on.

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Developer's Corner / HyperDev - A Developer Playground for Building Full-stack Web-apps, Fast!

« Last post by Deozaan on June 02, 2016, 01:51 PM »

Joel Spolsky recently announced on his blog that Fog Creek Software have just launched the public beta of HyperDev.

HyperDev is going to be the fastest way to bang out code and get it running on the internet. We want to eliminate 100% of the complicated administrative details around getting code up and running on a website. The best way to explain that is with a little tour.

Step one. You go to hyperdev.com.

Boom. Your new website is already running. You have your own private virtual machine (well, really it’s a container but you don’t have to care about that or know what that means) running on the internet at its own, custom URL which you can already give people and they can already go to it and see the simple code we started you out with.

All that happened just because you went to hyperdev.com.

Notice what you DIDN’T do.

• You didn’t make an account.
• You didn’t use Git. Or any version control, really.
• You didn’t deal with name servers.
• You didn’t sign up with a hosting provider.
• You didn’t provision a server.
• You didn’t install an operating system or a LAMP stack or Node or operating systems or anything.
• You didn’t configure the server.
• You didn’t figure out how to integrate and deploy your code.

You just went to hyperdev.com. Try it now!

-http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2016/05/30.html

Be sure to read the rest of the blog post for more details, especially this important caveat:

Literally every change you make is instantly saved, uploaded to the server, the server is restarted with the new code, and your browser is refreshed, all within half a second.

[...]

“What if I literally type ‘DELETE * FROM USERS’ on my way to typing ‘WHERE id=9283’, do I lose all my user data?”

Erm… yes. Don’t do that. This doesn’t come up that often, to be honest, and we’re going to add the world’s simplest “branch” feature so that optionally you can have a “dev” and “live” branch, but for now, yeah, you’d be surprised at how well this works in practice even though in theory it sounds terrifying.

Announcement blog post here: http://www.joelonsof...tems/2016/05/30.html

HyperDev.com

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DC Gamer Club / Re: GOG Connect - DRM-free access to your Steam library

« Last post by Deozaan on June 02, 2016, 01:00 PM »

I put my request in yesterday morning and wasn't able to redeem the games from my account until this morning. But it does seem to have settled down quite a bit.

And it looks like they added another game to the collection in the meantime. I didn't notice Surgeon Simulator 2013 among the eligible titles yesterday, but now it's there. I wonder if they'll announce which games are part of the GOG Connect feature as they come (and go) or if they expect us to just check it every few days to make sure we don't miss anything.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: GOG Connect - DRM-free access to your Steam library

« Last post by Deozaan on June 02, 2016, 12:32 AM »

The demand for this is crazy. It seems the Steam API is overloaded and throttling requests. It may take days for them to process all the requests. So definitely do it sooner than later, due to the time-limited nature of this. AFAIK there has been no clarification from GOG as to whether or not the time limits will be extended due to delays beyond all our control.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TeamViewer hacked?

« Last post by Deozaan on June 01, 2016, 09:27 PM »

Should we perhaps changed the topic to a question, instead of stating it like fact?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Deozaan on June 01, 2016, 05:26 PM »

Also, The Game:

You just lost

-http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20game&defid=609015

-Edvard (June 01, 2016, 03:15 PM)

Wrong link:

http://losethegame.com/

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DC Gamer Club / GOG Connect - DRM-free access to your Steam library

« Last post by Deozaan on June 01, 2016, 01:14 PM »

GOG just announced GOG Connect, where you can link your Steam account with your GOG account to get DRM-free access to eligible titles from your Steam library.

https://www.gog.com/connect

It seems the "eligible titles" are time-limited and will change every so often, so be sure not to procrastinate in linking your accounts.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Oracle v. Google and Resulting Implications for GPL

« Last post by Deozaan on May 28, 2016, 12:48 PM »

I don't know if it's my browser, but the two links you provided are the exact same article on two different sites?

-Jibz (May 28, 2016, 09:49 AM)

It's not just you. It's the same article, same author.

I also don't get what's being proposed in the article (or the OP). A public API is, by definition, open to the public.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Tips

« Last post by Deozaan on May 27, 2016, 01:48 AM »

Here's one I just discovered today:

You can click and drag icons in the tray to rearrange them or move them to/from the little ^ icon to easily make it always show or hide:

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by Deozaan on May 27, 2016, 01:42 AM »

My four foster kittens have been returned to the shelter to be adopted.

However.. One of them is coming back home with me tomorrow to live with me

-mouser (May 26, 2016, 09:19 PM)

Pics or it didn't happen!

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by Deozaan on May 25, 2016, 02:51 AM »

Here's one that may be surprising to Futurama fans. Or maybe not that surprising if you're really a super Futurama fanatic.

Pierre Henry's 1967 Psyché Rock

For reference, here's the original Futurama intro:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nice video intro to video compression degredation

« Last post by Deozaan on May 24, 2016, 02:23 PM »

Interesting. I knew about video compression and bitrates and stuff, but I never noticed/knew that confetti or snow cause problems with video quality.

I enjoyed it.

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Living Room / Re: Goodbye to my father

« Last post by Deozaan on May 24, 2016, 03:02 AM »

That was a really beautiful and touching eulogy, mouser. Thank you for sharing that with us.

My condolences.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by Deozaan on May 23, 2016, 01:19 AM »

What's the MD5 hash of the file you're downloading? I just downloaded it and it appears to be working for me.

MD5: 77669563d6c10112c890bee0edcaaaaf

Size: 2.16MB (2,267,016 bytes)
Size on disk: 1.96MB (2,056,192 bytes)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Request: Deepdream frontend.

« Last post by Deozaan on May 22, 2016, 02:01 AM »

OK, does this count as an easy enough front-end for you?

https://DeepArt.io/