The attacks in that article pertain to edge devices in corporate networks that they are attempting to hijack to use as proxy/exit nodes. That’s not really related to getting cloud accounts compromised which is not the motive of those attacks. The primary goal is to gain control of those devices and sell/rent them to malicious actors (since traffic coming from known corporate addresses are mostly trusted). I doubt the attackers care about someone’s photos/videos in the cloud. Brute force attacks can be thwarted in several ways, and as the article mentions, just making sure those edge devices are updated and patched with the latest security updates will largely protect them. Besides, any corporation with a competent security team will be able to recognize if their network devices are being used maliciously.

He’s exactly what I imagine a nepobaby techbro who calls himself Big Balls would look like.

As a dude, drinking sweet cocktails instead of beer and not having more than one or two drinks. First of all, I have the asian flush so I get red very easily. Even if I’m not drunk at all, I look like it. So I nurse my drink and sip slowly. I also usually don’t have more than 2 in a night. And if I’m gonna nurse a drink, I might as well have something that tastes delicious.

there’s always the potential for a very near future breaches or compromise

That is a goalpost that will never stop moving. There is always a potential threat and you can never reduce your risk to zero. Right now, encrypting the data yourself before uploading it is your best option outside of encrypting AND hosting the data yourself. You’re basically anticipating that the well-known secure encryption algorithms will eventually be broken, which is not impossible no doubt, but at the moment not likely. You also have to step back and figure out your threat model, in order to come up with an adequate solution.

I’m not familiar with the lore. Who is the villain?

If you don’t mind having to take an extra step to access them and probably not having the convenience of online sharing, you can encrypt your photos/videos before uploading them to online cloud storage.

[email protected] has a bunch of active users, including me.

I believe most banks will have residency requirements to allow you to open an account. Not permanent residency per se, but proof that you’re at least legally residing in the country at the time of opening an account. But as the other commenter said, Canada might have options since it shares lots of stuff with the US. Of course the rich are always exempt from the rules, and I’m just guessing here, but maybe they do it via corporations/businesses; so maybe you can set up an LLC or something.

It depends. What were you expecting and what was your takeaway after watching? Because to me, it didn’t have anything to do with the time travel or scifi aspects at all.

The main point of the film is summed up with the line “If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?”. It was about free will and the main character’s decision to let things play out knowing her daughter will die at an early age, because if she didn’t have her, she wouldn’t have experienced the life she had with her daughter at all. It’s a philosophical story wrapped in a scifi film.

This is why Mint is what I always recommend to people who are switching over for the first time. Congrats and welcome.

One of the best trailers ever made: The Handmaiden. If you’ve seen the film or know the director, Park Chan-wook, you know it’s anything but what the trailer implies.

For such a large org, they did not have 2-party review/approval for high risk changes prior to this incident. You’d think there would be at least peer review and approval before a change is implemented.

hey can be used for a bunch of things, not just leak sensing.

I’m curious. Like what?