You’ll still have the ability to install arbitrary drivers and support software obtained directly from the manufacturer, this change only means that Microsoft won’t automatically supply OEM driver files via Windows Update.
Holy moley, my first “real” computer ran 98SE and had BLACK ICE, which behaved exactly the way you described.
I remember I would take the IP addresses of the “attackers” and plug them into a McAfee graphical tracert tool, and it felt like nothing short of something out of GoldenEye.
Maybe so, but regardless of the facts this would almost certainly not be worth pursuing… In the US, courts are generally prohibited from enforcing foreign libel judgements against US persons if the country in which the judgement was won has looser libel standards than the US.[0]
Yeah no idea if that would apply or not. But Canadian code I was looking at was the criminal code - there might be a difference between civil and criminal libel here.
An interesting tidbit from the Bloomberg live thread[0]:
>The FDIC prefers to close a bank over the weekend, shutting it down on Friday and reopening Monday, Steven Kelly, senior research associate at the Yale Program on Financial Stability, told me.
>“The midday takeover suggests the bank couldn’t responsibly operate until the end of the day,” Kelly said.
I just watched it -- aside from the very interesting mechanics of the FDIC coming in and taking over a bank, I thought Sheila Bair (the then FDIC chair) came off as very knowledgeable, realistic, and critical of the risks posed by big banks. She went on to become a university president after the recession / banking bailout.
That interview with the chairman (chairwoman?) is just great. She straight up says that maybe they shouldn't bail out the big banks and instead apply a similar process to them.
Related to (2) is an RWSL[0] system, which was supposedly in use at the time of this event and is designed to stop exactly this sort of thing… whether it was functioning, the pilots didn’t see it, etc, will surely come out in the ensuing investigations.
ETA: another comment suggests that while JFK has RWSL, it was not installed at the intersection where this occurred.
