This isn’t a hack in the way you’re thinking of, nor is it a product of government mandated interception, or a back door. The salt typhoon event you’re referring to is nothing more than the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger problem, which is abuse of the dated SS7 system we’ve known about for decades.
There’s exactly zero chance of that happening given the abundance of air traffic in the U.S. (Also specifically where these “drone” sightings are for obvious reasons).
As someone from the area: It’s airplanes. If you map out all the sightings, the biggest concentrations are people who live by/underneath approaches to Philadelphia Airport and Newark Airport. And anything thats not a plane or a hobbyist drone is probably Boeing testing the military helicopters they build just across the river, or Dragonfly Pictures testing their military cargo drones next to that.
This is exactly what the “Taxation is theft” morons don’t understand. They think if the government no longer takes their cut, everybody will just have X amount of money more, and the market won’t just swallow that up without giving you a single thing in return.
TikTok used to be Musical.ly and it was far more niche than what TikTok is today. It was populated primarily by tweens and it was for making musical lip-sync videos.
I’ve never seen a CyberPower not cut power to its battery ports when the battery failed, which I’ve seen dozens of times since the failure rate on them was bordering on the absurd. When contacting CyberPower to warranty them, they told us that was normal and that the units were designed that way.
The problem is when you do, instead of their units continuing to power your devices via power from the wall, they shut off power to all their battery ports. So CyberPower battery units can and will cause outages for your devices without you even having a power outage event. It’s a critical design flaw their competitors don’t share.
Despite your odd luck with batteries, CyberPower has an issue that disqualifies it from use personally or professionally for me, which is that if there’s a problem with the battery, which there too often is, a CyberPower will cut power to the entire unit, even if it’s still receiving power from the wall outlet.
With an APC, at least if the battery dies your devices stay on.
Someone’s not really going to “get into” your virtual machine through a simple web server serving static files. Though it’s not impossible that you have some vulnerability with your web server software that allows for remote code execution on it, at which point its ability to do anything outside of that machine depends on a lot of things. If you’re exposing things to the public but don’t like the idea of the public interacting with machines on your home network, your best bet is to just host this on a VPS itself.
Well what “danger” are you talking about exactly? Traffic being forwarded to a port is not a danger. If the traffic being forwarded is going to a web server, proxying the exact same traffic through a different web server beforehand isn’t going to be any different.
He’s not forced to go to YouTube.com, he wants to watch YouTube videos. He’s forced to watch ads on those videos.