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Microsoft Promises To Defend World Chess Champion From Russian Hackers (telegraph.co.uk)
"World chess champion Magnus Carlsen has asked Microsoft to protect him against Russian hackers, as he expects to become the target of cyber attacks launched before the match with grandmaster Sergey Karjakin next week," reports Softpedia. An anonymous reader shares more details from The Telegraph:
The man dubbed the 'Mozart of chess' has spent months using high-powered chess computers to meticulously prepare moves for his grueling 12-game match against challenger Sergey Karjakin. But any leak of his analysis would hand a significant advantage to Crimean-born Karjakin, the fiercely-patriotic darling of Russian president Vladimir Putin... "The element of surprise is vitally important in chess," explained the Vibeke Hansen, from Microsoft Norway... She said Microsoft Norway will "ensure that he has a safe training environment and secure communication and collaboration tools".
HAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAAAHAHA!!!
We're sick of it. We didn't believe it when the corrupt clinton campaign used it, and we don't buy it now. Repeatedly beating this dead horse is only going to turn more people against you.
Not quite true. One of our main investors is a former Microsoft EVP so we have to use their garbage. Servers crashing has protected us several times against hackers. If you Windows server crashes, no one can hack into it.
This just disgusting marketing propaganda. Poor the fool who signed up for this. And fsck the brain that conjured up this steaming pile of bulldroppings!
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It's like asking Hannibal Lecter for cooking tips. Just use OSX or Linux. Problem solved.
He's reached out to a number of companies for help in various areas besides Microsoft. He's asked Yahoo to help him put together a profitable long-term business strategy, along with Twitter in case the Yahoo deal falls through. He's also asking Exxon to help with a clean-energy plan. And he's reached out to the DNC for help securing his email server.
With all his corporate partners he's set up for success!
Do you have ESP?
From when I ran a honeypot server in a dmz for a while, I detected a pattern in where the attackers were from, and how flexible and smart they were.
Disregarding script kiddies and botnets, visitors from Russian and German IP addresses were at the top of the list, snooping around manually and looking at configuration files and kernel parameters, and sometimes recognizing that they were in a honeypot. Visitors from Indian and American IP addresses were at the bottom, doing brain dead stuff like uploading and trying to run x86 programs on a mips computer, and when it failed, trying it again as if it would magically work the second or third time...
That's the most braindead thing I've probably ever seen posted on an IT security article on Slashdot.
The idea that changing OS can magically give you absolute security is an astoundingly dangerous myth to peddle.
Please, step away from the keyboard before you cause someone some kind of data or financial loss.
Magnus Carlsen is much, much stronger than his opponent. He's the highest rated in history, and there is a huge gap between him and everybody else.
Highest rating achieved normalized to an equivalent (ELO) rating system:
2893 - Fischer
2882 - Kasparov
2880 - Botvinnik
2878 - Carlsen
2870 - Capablanca
So if by "highest rated in history" you mean 4th highest... sure.
source, with a very nice historical graph animation system
He is significantly higher rated than his opponent, but his opponent isnt even in the current active top-5 rated at the moment (he is in 9th):
2853 - Carlsen
2823 - Caruana
2811 - MVL
2810 - Kramnik
2795 - Aronian
There is no doubt that Carlsen (2853) has a big edge against Karjakin (2772), so there is no need to be dishonest about it.
"His name was James Damore."
While corruption is an issue in Russia, it does need a strongman. 8 years of Boris Yeltsin exposed what would happen if Moscow tried to be truly democratic, and allow anyone to do anything. You had the Chechens revolt, and carry out unspeakable terrorist attacks in Moscow, Beslan and anywhere they liked.
Also, people look at the territory covered by the Russians - from the Bering Strait to the Baltic Sea - and conclude that they are one big bully. But the historic reason that Russia got so big was that they had to. In their history, aside from being threatened by countries on their West - like the German states and Sweden, they were also the target of attempted conquests by the Mongols/Golden Horde, Tatars and Turks. Also, reason Tsarist Russia conquered Central Asia - it wasn't a lebensraum issue, but rather, the fact that the Kazakhs would conduct raids on the border and enslave Russians living on their borders. Same issue w/ the Crimean Tatars, who people now hold up as helpless victims of Russia: the Crimeans would launch raids into Russian and Polish lands to enslave people, and even burnt down Moscow on one occasion. But everybody assumes that they were this small tribe sitting in Crimea and minding their own business when the evil Russkies marched in
You are absolutely right about Islam & Muslims, and the insane thing about events since 2001 is that even while the West came face to face w/ Jihadist movements in their countries, they turned a blind eye to the identical threats towards Russia and China. If one is against the stated goals of theirs, there is no reason to support it anywhere. And the US, which was supported by Uzbekistan after 9/11 w/ 2 military bases there, stupidly supported the Islamic Movement of Turkestan in an attempted coup, and that resulted in them being kicked out of those 2 bases and getting into the shit list of the Tashkent regime. Granted that President Karimov (and now his successor) were not Jefforsonian democrats, but one can't be that if the opponents are Jihadists who want to restore the Timuride empire.