Adobe has completely gone to the dark side - new lightroom is completely on the cloud!

I kid you not.

According to Peter Bright at ARS:

New cloud-imprisoned Lightroom has 1TB of photo storage, same UI across desktop and mobile

You can read it yourself, but I'll pull out the best bits (further emphasis mine):

For the time being, the desktop-based Lightroom Classic will continue to be developed.

The current Lightroom CC is being renamed to Lightroom Classic CC, and a new product with an old name, Lightroom CC, will take its place.

The new Lightroom CC offers most of the photo processing features of Lightroom Classic

"likely" contentious feature: it uploads *ALL* your photos to cloud storage.

Adobe is using that cloud storage to perform object detection (and more!) on your pictures

Umm -  WHAT.  THE.  HUCK. ?

Well, CyberReason is one of the good guys!

Their claim to my respect is that they got an actual "legal" threat from a malware company's "lawyers"!  The company is "TargetingEdge", the malware is "OSX.Pirrit", and it runs on Macs.

Nice, this will tell the FBI exactly who to chase :-)

TargetingEdge claims the software isn't malware, but based on the following, this is like claiming Wilbur in Charlottes Web isn't a pig. According to Amit Serper, who wrote the analysis of the code: Maker of Sneaky Mac Adware Sends Security Researcher Cease-and-Desist Letters

As for OSX.Pirrit malware, it runs under root privileges, creates autoruns and generates random names for itself on each install. Plus, there are no removal instructions and some of its components mask themselves to appear like they’re legitimate and from Apple. And don’t forget that TargetingEdge used domains that appeared to be generated by some sort of DGA and made many attempts to hide any link between the domains and TargetingEdge.

Slashdot starts a good thread: Maker of Sneaky Mac Adware Sends Security Researcher Cease-and-Desist Letters (zdnet.com)

CyberReason's  analysis of the code can be found here

Amit - If I run into you in Boston area, let me buy you a beer!

Even the AP and the New York Times understand that the FCC is lying about Net Neutrality

Here's the AP article making a point-by-point case why Ajit Pai released "his own incomplete and misleading talking points when he suggested that internet providers had never influenced content available to their customers before neutrality rules took effect in 2015."


The New York times has even weighed in to tell us "The F.C.C. Wants to Let Telecoms Cash In on the Internet"
From Slashdot and Ars Technica - As the FCC builds barricades, they won't delay the vote in spite of outstanding court cases that would affect it stating: 

This is just evidence that supporters of heavy-handed Internet regulations are becoming more desperate by the day as their effort to defeat Chairman Pai's plan to restore Internet freedom has stalled. The vote will proceed as scheduled on December 14.

 [ If the opponents are getting so desperate, why did the FCC wait until Thanksgiving week  to announce that the vote killing net neutrality would be in mid December ?

For those who think that the ISP's ( Along with the politicians they bought and paid for, the only beneficiaries of this mess ), won't abuse their monopoly/duopoly in killing the internet,  here's "A brief history"  of ISP internet abuse from Freepress.net ]