If the next town over does not follow this strategy, you will quickly find yourself in a diminished community with less public services and available jobs.
Consumer electronics are becoming more durable. Where once I might have replaced a cell phone every year and my home router every two, I now have had the same phone for four years and my router for six. Second hand sellers and repair shops need the factory reset feature, but we all benefited when our firmware allowed the devices to become safely transferable and repairable.
From the cited paper, most of the acquired devices were not even reset:
> Not reset devices: A surprising number of devices (61% ) were not
reset by the previous owners. Due to the setup of our experiment,
we had no possibility of asking the previous owners any questions.
I'm doubtful this exists, but I'd like it if it were possible to perform a factory reset or account transfer completely online, and other features around improving the security in the resale market.
For those curious like me how the wifi password was actually leaked:
> WPA-supplicant is responsible for connecting to configured
access points after provisioning. We found that it creates its con-
figuration files on the user data partition in the folder “misc/wifi/”.
Here the file “wpa_supplicant.conf ” contains the Wi-Fi credentials,
such as the SSID and PSK.
> The last major reason the F-35 has seen so much criticism is that it was the first jet developed in the social media age. The paradigm shift, cost, and early problems, coupled with concurrency, led to an explosion of negative social media that grew into mainstream media coverage.
Whether the F-35 will be successful or not does not matter whether there are armchair journalists or mainstream reporters covering the project, but in this case we can enjoy the increased accountability. This should be seen as a positive effect of social media, if anything.
This had me wondering how many mistakes in previous projects were smoothed over by clever marketing, and how many are being exposed now. Does social media make it easier or harder for the general public to get accurate information on this sort of thing?
Peer-to-peer routing is challenging because you aren't sure where to send your data to reach your peer, even if you know their cryptographic public key and address. It's hard because the network physically is splayed out in a big hub-and-spoke tree. A node might know who it's physical neighbors are, but does not necessarily know much about there locations of any of its peers.
If a router receives a peer-to-peer packet, where should it send this packet? With pinecone, this is answered by looking at a cheatsheet, where each node is assigned a specific virtual neighbor that they are in charge of finding among the physical routing tree. This cheatsheet is generated by connecting neighbors who are ordered by their cryptographic public keys.
As peers find routes to their neighbors, they are also discovering routes to other nodes along the chain, helping speed up the entire process of deciding where to send packets.