South Korean here, it's all over the news but it sounds rather pointless. Faulty batteries can catch fire even when not in use. And the airlines still allow each passenger to carry up to 5 power banks, 100Wh each. That's enough power to blow up any aircraft.

The U.S. also has only two parties that really matter, with overlapping establishment interests. What makes the difference?

Find me a consumer IPv4 router sold in the last ~10 years that does that by default.

Security comparisons should be between proposed new tech vs. existing tech, not vs. hypothetical straw-man tech.

Find me a consumer IPv6 router sold in the last ~10 years without a restrictive firewall enabled by default. I have never seen one.

Ugh, this is part of the reason why I left them, but https://free.fr still does this AFAIR. They were deploying IPv6 to all their consumers well before the other ISPs (more than 15 tears ago), but they have stagnated since.

IPv6 firewall disabled by default. There is only one config for the firewall: on / off. Accept all inbound or reject all inbounding.

To think that they used to brand themselves as "for the geeks", with reverse DNS customization, built-in user-configurable server on the router (all of their routers offer a Wireguard VPN, torrent client, audio output with DLNA & others), a m3u for IPTV, etc. I wouldn't advise anyone to use them due to this issue.

This ticket said they would reopen an internal ticket, back in 2022: https://dev.freebox.fr/bugs/task/27613

Their basic firewall dates back to 2019: https://dev.freebox.fr/bugs/task/27268 (a lot of spam in the replies there). There was none before, and it is still off by default.

This is no small ISP either, they have more than 50 millions clients (including mobile), and are in the top 10 ISPs in Europe. Baffling.

Mine lol. My ISP sent a Nokia Beacon 3.1. When I first logged into its web GUI, it had a "Security" tab with these dropdowns.

Security level

High: Traffic denied inbound and minimally permit common service outbound.

Low: All outbound traffic and pinhole-defined inbound traffic is allowed.

Off: All inbound and outbound traffic is allowed.

It was actually set to "Off" interestingly enough.

That's not the same thing: does it actually forward martian packets? Because that's what's required for this to be exploited.

Consumer IPv4 router has both firewall and NAT enabled by default, and such packet is blocked by its firewall functionality.

Agreed, it just means "linear" for most people.

I think the obsession with a linear master/main is a leftover from the time when everyone used a centralized system like svn. Git wasn't designed like that; the Linux kernel project tells contributors to "embrace merges." Your commit history is supposed to look like a branching river, because that's an accurate representation of the activity within your community.

I think having a major platform like github encourages people to treat git as a centralized version control system, and care about the aesthetics of their master/main branches more than they should. The fact the github only shows the commit history as a linear timeline doesn't help, either.

Akamai doesn't have to, because they don't go attracting the kind of clientele who would host pirated soccer videos.

Fun fact: tatami mats are slightly smaller in Tokyo than in other parts of Japan.

Reminds me of older recipes that will say things like "can of tuna" or "can of beans" but what that means has changed somewhat.

I don't think anybody loses sleep over the kilogram issue because, well, it's metric after all. A kilogram is exactly 1000 grams, so the gram is just as perfectly well defined. Nothing would really change if they were to promote the gram to be the standard unit of mass (not weight!) someday.

I am annoyed by it. We should be using gravs instead. Then there would not be this special unique unit with prefix as base unit.

I was actually unfamiliar with the history of the grave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_(unit)

> This will make blocking websites very difficult if they use shared services like cloudflare or cloud VPS hosting.

Until some clueless judge orders all of cloudflare to be blocked.

True!

Though I worry that instead western governments will beat the judges to the punch and start asking things like DNS providers or even HTTPS servers to keep logs that can be subpoenaed much like a telecom company keeps a log of each phone call ("metadata"), or else be blocked...

Western governments just send a court order to the hosting provider to shut the site down / revoke their domain name. Site blocking is more of a problem for small counties trying to block sites the rest of the world allows to be hosted.

In terms of privacy, your DNS history probably isn't very interesting. It's almost all going to be requests for the top social media sites. Which governments have full access to the stuff you post there.

Also, this web is so dense it looks like a solid sheet of silk, studded with the remains of its past victims. Wouldn't that be a little too conspicuous? I thought spider webs were supposed to be nearly invisible to the prey.

Well the article claims cave is pitch dark, so I guess the invisible part is granted anyway.

Cave-dwelling animals don't just crash into walls all the time, so by "visible" I mean large enough and dense enough to be recognized as an obstacle in whatever navigation system they use.

They do rest on walls though.

In this case every part of the wall is actually just a spiderweb.