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Confessions of a Cyber Warrior
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Roger Grimes interviews a longtime friend and cyber warrior under contract with the U.S. government, offering a fascinating glimpse of the front lines in the ever-escalating and completely clandestine cyber war. From the interview: 'They didn't seem to care that I had hacked our own government years ago or that I smoked pot. I wasn't sure I was going to take the job, but then they showed me the work environment and introduced me to a few future co-workers. I was impressed. ... We have tens of thousands of ready-to-use bugs in single applications, single operating systems. ... It's all zero-days. Literally, if you can name the software or the controller, we have ways to exploit it. There is no software that isn't easily crackable. In the last few years, every publicly known and patched bug makes almost no impact on us. They aren't scratching the surface.'"
Voting machines?
Dude could save the country and be a national hero. I can see CNN on election night 2016 now...
Wolf Blitzer: "In a shocking turn of events, not a single Republican or Democrat, or anyone on the ballot for that matter, won a single national election today. The entirety of the Senate is now made up of 20 random engineers, 15 doctors, 10 accountants, 10 school teachers, 10 construction workers, 5 disabled veterans, the 5 honest cops, and the rest are mexican day laborers. There's not a single lawyer or millionaire among them, and the new President is comedian Doug Stanhope."
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Exploit = pipe wrench.
duct tape, not duck tape. That's a bug in 1 out of 3 lines. :P
> Most of the world really is barely held together by bubble gum and duck tape
i read the fine article and he was working on software that finds flaws called a fuzzer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing
with the eminent arrival of computer intelligence software that automatically detects and rewrites zero day exploits is soon at hand. then it will be systemically used against everyone at the speed of light to all spheres with computers on them thorough the entire galaxy. just look at modern game engines, if a simple chip or two lets you run a complex 3-d world with billions of operations, well imagine the same machine taking control of computers of all types.. and deciding if those machines can still operate...
i for one welcome our new robotic overlords as long as i can play planetary annihilation.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html