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There are options for much lower power hardware. I may do an experiment to see. Be kinda interesting but also hard to duplicate traffic effect and CPU loads.
However the reliable updates, advanced firewall, physical multi LAN, and durable VPN can't be understated for my use.
Its pretty obvious that Microsoft made a deal with the studio and Broadcasting companies. Just like the popularity of auto bots to pick Chevys and the Decepticons some how fine de-badged fords or the fact that Marvel is full of Audi's. If you open your eyes you will find brand placement everywhere.
Now to the Surfaces, Currently I have switched over three departments to Surface Pros last year (2017). Each employee has a docking station hooked up to duel monitors, keyboard and mouse. So far I have been surprised how well they worked out, mostly that no one has dropped them. I have had few complaints. They run good, they can be used off site and are easily portable. I have also used in with the kick stand on my lap with no issue. Maybe we have different body types. Overall was not a big fan when they decided to do the first department upgrade but I would deploy them with no problem now.
Nope but one orange has 12-17g of sugar and one cup of OJ has 21g. So maybe about two. I could easily eat that in one sitting.
Also I'm sure they will see less soda being bought inside the city, that is a win right? Except people are just shopping outside city limits. Kinda like dry counties were you just pick up your booze on the way home.
Not sharing your information is a good step and when you do compartmentalize it. Different emails and phone numbers for different things. I have a few google numbers I give out besides my actual number. Lots of my information on online fourms is completely made up but documented. I use keepass to keep strong passwords and notes on accounts. If it doesn't need my real name, it doesn't get it. Limiting information on the web about you is good over all.
Shopping in store doesn't give you security unless you use cash. The Target Breach was all in store and they actually said that "There are no indications at this time that the breach affected customers who shopped at Target’s online stores." Home Depot was malicious software installed on the self-checkout lanes.
As for living life like its 1900, you can as long as your job is not in computers or using one. Grabbing cash from the bank, paying for cash in store. No online bill pay or banking, no hacker news. I have known a lot of guys that do it daily. Even have dumb phones that were super cheap.
When we start to talk about government surveillance I think people go over board and start looking at IOT devices over aggressively. It not hard to bug a house, people are usually gone for at least 8 hours a day on weekdays. If I was doing an ops, it be easier to break into their Wi-Fi and infect a device that way or break into their house and just plant a bug or two rather than wait and get a warrant for their data from Google or Amazon which is time consuming and filled with paper pushing, plus the added fact that Google and Amazon have both pushed back in recent years in court battles.
When it comes to "Big Brother" you are fighting a rather big monster with zero days, money and time on its side. Even as someone with enterprise grade networking equipment in his house and a security background, I just know its a time game if you fighting the "MAN". I had a friend that was super paranoid. Enterprise gear, no IOT, custom linux router with live patching, some pretty cool stuff. Asked me to pentest him. A door left unlocked (planned to use a bump key) by his wife before leaving the house and a PoisonTap attack on a windows computer and he was pawned. GAME OVER.
You would probably need to edit your question to "Why do you think millions of people bought an [Amazon] Echo Dot or a Google Home [Mini]" The evidence is clear both are the lowest costing home assistant device for their respective lines. At $30 on sales this season it could make it even into many gift swaps with that budget. Just as a few years ago the Firestick and Chromecast did.
LOL. That is one of the reasons I hated Alexa. She turned on when a podcast said something about her, the TV ad came on, we talked about our friend Alexa and when anything sounded kinda like Alexa. Ended up changing it to Echo, which worked a bit better. Amazon was out of the question when order to much from there and so common conversation have Amazon in them.
I enjoy Googles way more and no one I know still uses "OK, Google" its much simpler and rolls off the tongue to say "Hey, Google!". First world problems after all.
>Google's products don't feel like they are designed by humans.
And Amazons does? Over half of the stuff I said to Alexa comes back as "I don't know how to help with that" even simple facts. Alexa seems to be very limited in researching and answering. While google has there powerful search engine. Also with google I can build shortcuts for even the most advanced, long winded commands and wrap it into "Hey google, protocol seven" or whatever I want.
Internet bandwidth and speed are increasing and cheaper which was the main reason for offline in the past.
There is also the fact that they don't have to support outdated or multiple versions of a server or distribute updates. The end devices like Google home, Echo and the video fire stick, Chromecast are basic input > send to server > output. That is cheaper to support. Plus you get all the data to improve your product.
When I was young I setup up my first Home Server. Much like an enterprise server. It had share folders, computers backup to it, print server. Though it was the future and in a decade every house would have one. Now a days they don't but they do have stuff like Google Drive and Google Cloud Print and many more options that give you those options in the cloud.
If you're important to them, then people will do whatever they need to keep in touch with you. Inconvenience is when they don't care enough to keep in contact with you. While in a perfect world everyone would accept your impose line of communication, in your case Facebook, everyones preference is different.
You can drop $600 every 3 years with google devices and have monthly security updates. You could save $17 every month for that 3 year time to buy the next phone.
If you want to stay secure you will, if it not a priority you wont.
You are a walking vulnerability. KRACK, Blueborne, just to name a few recently highly publicized vulnerabilities.
You are like the perfect exploit, just waiting to get pwned. You are, Bill Harper.
Here is one: "They connected computers to their network" The assumed security risk are endless and 100% of companies do it!! Such idiots, to connect a computer to a network!
That is a crazy amount of bandwidth usage to VPN out and then back into the the network through the same pipe is a waste. Not counting the licenses and even the ability to maintain that many connections at a given time. Going off of the use cases I have actually done.
It not hard to setup WPA2 Enterprise with assigned VLAN access, heck you can even assign it based on the device, meaning Joe signs in on his laptop and he gets internal access but when he signs in on his cellphone it goes straight out. Each connection is assigned based on need and checked by the IT department.
The OP doesn't even say they are given internal access just network access, which could be straight out to the internet. The majority of cellphones used in my company are VLAN straight to the internet but there are cases where tablets and cellphones need access to server and shares that they are assigned to a VLAN they are on.
"Sep 29 '08" ohhh LOL