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Google Cloud Executive Who Sought Pentagon Contract Steps Down (nytimes.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

Diane Greene, whose pursuit of Pentagon contracts for artificial intelligence technology sparked a worker uprising at Google, is stepping down as chief executive of the company's cloud computing business (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). "Ms. Greene said she would stay on as chief executive until January. She will be replaced by Thomas Kurian, who oversaw product development at Oracle until his resignation in October. Ms. Greene will remain a board director at Google's parent company, Alphabet," reports The New York Times. From the report: The change in leadership caps a turbulent three years for Ms. Greene, who was brought on to expand Google's cloud computing business. Google Cloud has struggled to make major inroads in persuading corporate customers to use its computing infrastructure over alternatives like Amazon's A.W.S. and Microsoft's Azure. In a blog post published by the company, Ms. Greene said she had initially told friends and family that she was planning to run Google Cloud for only two years but stayed for three. Ms. Greene, a widely respected technologist and entrepreneur, said that after leaving Google Cloud, she planned to help female founders of companies by investing in and mentoring them. Ms. Greene joined Google in 2015 when it acquired Bebop, a start-up she had founded, for $380 million. Ms. Greene defended Google's pursuit of a Defense Department contract for the Maven program, which uses AI to interpret video images and could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes. In March, she said it was a small contract worth "only" $9 million and that the technology would be used for nonlethal purposes.

82 comments

  1. Re: GAYPK Hosts File Engine w/ straight filtering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK is a Nazi. Just read his comments about Jews and how he wishes the horrors of the Holocaust on them.

  2. Good for him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    His own company screwed him over some hypersensitive snowflake employees. Iâ(TM)m glad he quit so he can go somewhere that understands how enterprise and government business works in the real world.

    1. Re:Good for him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      1) It's "her" not "him"
      2) She's still part of the board for Alphabet

    2. Re:Good for him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      When a Quisling company pimps Trotsky-slut poodles you can expect yeoman patriot workers to get screwed . Best to remove your financial support for the company ... do not use their products ... and refuse your daughters to bitch mongrels of the SJW poodles. Of-course playing vids of brakeless GOOGLE buses crashing down SanFran hills is another idea more in keeping with a "direct action" asymmetric warfare model.

    3. Re:Good for him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There are some consequences from working as a "government contractor". These have been posted here before:

      Some defence companies won't give out references when you leave, because they don't ever expect you to ever leave, as part of the contract, they need someone to be the sustaining/maintenance engineer when the project finishes. That can be decades. Go abroad and you will be questioned by national security as to the purpose of your journey. Even departing from your regular commute routes, you may find people following you around.

    4. Re: Good for him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Which is false? Board or itâ(TM)s a him?

    5. Re:Good for him by novakyu · · Score: 0

      Or she's a bad boss who didn't understand what her "underlings" would want to work on with excitement and motivation and what they would rather quit before being forced to work on.

    6. Re: Good for him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, bullshit. Nice lies, Ivan. I know that's true in your country, but not here.

    7. Re: Good for him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      For real though! No shenanigans in MY country!

    8. Re: Good for him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Go back to your safe space and work for a non profit. These same people will flee to their next gig the moment they think they can get better compensation.

  3. With clouds come lightning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And Google got struck

  4. Re: GAYPK Hosts File Engine w/ straight filtering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ulyanov, I mean Lenin and his jewish cohorts killed A LOT more than Hitler...

  5. VMWare by 110010001000 · · Score: 2

    She was also one of the founders and CEO of VMWare. No idea what BeBop was/is.

    1. Re:VMWare by mnmn · · Score: 4, Informative

      She was part of the best leadership VMWare ever had. There's a crowd of developers who want to follow her. It's sad that she had to leave GCP this way, but I agree with the ethics of it. She will do well wherever she will go.

      --
      "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
  6. Funny how they are happy to play with China... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Funny how they seem to have reservations about the US, but happily help China with surveillance and oppression. This is ironic, because China bans Google from doing business on their soil.

    1. Re: Funny how they are happy to play with China... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just watch for the think pieces about how Chinese companies treat engineers as slave labor to justify permenant crunch plus low wages.

    2. Re: Funny how they are happy to play with China... by bsDaemon · · Score: 2

      Given all the Chinese they hire, its probably for the best anyway to keep them from working on Us govt things. Google (and silly com valley) doesnâ(TM)t have a monopoly on smart people, but does seem to have an out-sized share of weirdos and people who think more highly of their themselves and their abilities than they can necessarily back up.

      That they would rather spend their precious time on earth working at an ad agency that has tricked people into believing it is a tech company is interesting, but so long ad theyâ(TM)re over there doing that, i can be where I am not having to interact with them. Consider it a indirect side-benefit of Federalism, I suppose.

    3. Re:Funny how they are happy to play with China... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Juuboi companies are like that. Worldwide. Ever notice ?? Birds-of-a-feather .....

  7. A man would’ve stayed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They forced the woman out - even after she agreed with the employees demands - and was replaced with a man.

    Where’s this vaulted diversity the company talks about?

    1. Re:A man would’ve stayed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      They forced the woman out - even after she agreed with the employees demands - and was replaced with a man.

      Where’s this vaulted diversity the company talks about?

      The man is not white. Intersectional victimhood studies ranks male people of color as more oppressed, and therefor more deserving, than a white women who is not gay.

    2. Re:A man would’ve stayed by kenai_alpenglow · · Score: 1

      Is there an (updated) link to the current hierarchy of oppressed? Wouldn't want to make an honest mistake and find a ring of antifa brownshirts around my house.

    3. Re: A man would’ve stayed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      People donâ(TM)t want improved drone strikes. They want continued bombings of hospitals and wedding parties.

  8. Way to go by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Listen to the foreign employees who hate to see a strong american military.

    1. Re:Way to go by Highdude702 · · Score: 1

      yea yea we know you hate the USA.

    2. Re:Way to go by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      Listen to the foreign employees who hate to see a strong american military.

      It is patriotic to hate to see an american military this strong. That's what the second amendment was all about. Ironically, most 2a supporters probably don't know that, but anyway

      --
      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  9. Men need not apply by K.+S.+Van+Horn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "[Green] planned to help female founders of companies by investing in and mentoring them."

    Since this is apparently OK, I take it that if a male executive wants to exclusively help male founders of companies by investing and mentoring them, rejecting female founders solely because they lack a Y chromosome, that's OK too, right? What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, after all.

    1. Re:Men need not apply by mentil · · Score: 1

      Y chromosome is best chromosome! /s

      --
      Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
    2. Re:Men need not apply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh look another white male whitesplaining about victimhood.

    3. Re:Men need not apply by imidan · · Score: 0

      I mean... yeah? That's okay. I'm sure there are venture capitalists out there who make decisions that way.

      Or were you trying to use your incredibly strained butthurt here to provoke some kind of outrage?

    4. Re: Men need not apply by dnaumov · · Score: 0

      Youâ(TM)re describing how it has worked for millenia, but what is also thankfully on itâ(TM)s way out

    5. Re:Men need not apply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Almost all libtard snowflakes are white beneficiaries of their parents' white privilege.

    6. Re: Men need not apply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Apparently it's not, as the parent poster points out. Just a different gender now.

    7. Re:Men need not apply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Some white men have it very good (e.g. the billionaires). Other white men have it very bad (e.g. the ones without a college degree trying to support their families on minimum wage).

      I'm not sure about "persecuted", per se, but there are plenty of white men who are exploited in that they are forced to work long hours for very low pay in menial jobs. There's no fundamental reason an industrialized democratic country like the USA should be unable to provide good jobs to anyone (white men or not) who is willing to do an honest 9-5. That's not really about "help", though, it's more about a society with basic human decency.

    8. Re:Men need not apply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Oh, no, look at the poor persecuted white male here. Listen to his cries for help.

      I am a white male. I grew up in a society that believed discrimination by gender, race, etc. is morally wrong. I have gone out of my way to follow this rule.

      A serious question: If the social norm against discrimination has changed so that it is acceptable to favor one gender over another, why should I continue to abide by the old rules?

      Suppose that women at my place of work are, on average, worse teammates than men. I get paid by what my team produces. Why shouldn't I refuse to work with women? These women cheer when an executive says they would not help me based on gender. Why should I risk my success to uphold a principle that my female coworkers brag about not believing in?

    9. Re:Men need not apply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Oh, no, look at the poor persecuted white male here. Listen to his cries for help.

      I am a white male. I grew up in a society that believed discrimination by gender, race, etc. is morally wrong. I have gone out of my way to follow this rule.

      A serious question: If the social norm against discrimination has changed so that it is acceptable to favor one gender over another, why should I continue to abide by the old rules?

      Suppose that women at my place of work are, on average, worse teammates than men. I get paid by what my team produces. Why shouldn't I refuse to work with women? These women cheer when an executive says they would not help me based on gender. Why should I risk my success to uphold a principle that my female coworkers brag about not believing in?

    10. Re:Men need not apply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If we could all just live as NEETs in our moms basement the world would be a peaceful place!

    11. Re:Men need not apply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Q: "How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"
      A: "That's not funny!"

    12. Re:Men need not apply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You sexist, racist piece of conservative Trump voting shit

      When all else fails, resort to name calling.

    13. Re:Men need not apply by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1

      So discrimination on basis of gender is wrong, and we're going to prove this by discriminating on basis of gender.

      --
      Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
    14. Re:Men need not apply by serviscope_minor · · Score: 1

      Suppose that women at my place of work are, on average, worse teammates than men. I get paid by what my team produces. Why shouldn't I refuse to work with women?

      Let's suppose what you say is true: that the small number of women you worke closely enough with to judge their work are on average worse team mates than the men. Which presumably means not all of them since we're talking averages.

      You're generalising your experience of a few women to the entire population and appear to not be extending the same actions to men.

      That's pretty much the textbook definition of sexist.

      --
      SJW n. One who posts facts.
    15. Re:Men need not apply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      He said the opposite
      > I grew up in a society that believed discrimination by gender, race, etc. is morally wrong.

      And many people now do not believe that, and discriminate.

      A rational actor cannot forever remain anti-discrimination whilst also being part of a group which gets increasingly discriminated against on the basis of gender, race etc., it just means you get marginalized quicker and have no defence. This is why identity politics is a polarizing evil.

    16. Re:Men need not apply by imidan · · Score: 1

      I mean, I don't think discrimination on basis of gender is uniformly great, but I do think there are jobs that, in general, men or women are better at than each other. In reality, there are certainly women who can do a 'typically male' job better than some specific men. And vice versa.

      Some rich lady has the right to discriminate on the basis of gender when she decides whom to give her money to. The fact that I don't think gender is the best predictor of success isn't important to her. Or, at least, she hasn't consulted me, yet.

      I could muster some outrage for a federal grant program discriminating in this way, but I think Diane Greene should do whatever she wants to do. I just won't expect any of her funding.

    17. Re:Men need not apply by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      rejecting female founders

      Why do you assume that if he wants to help female founders he would have to reject male founders? Doing the former doesn't imply the latter.

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      const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
    18. Re:Men need not apply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Which makes it all the more funny: a liberal mob drives another woman out of tech and eating their own in the process.

    19. Re:Men need not apply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Show me one case of a male venture capitalist who openly will accept only male founders. If you can find one, I can guarantee he's getting a lot of crap about it.

    20. Re:Men need not apply by K.+S.+Van+Horn · · Score: 1

      The point is that if Diane Green were Dale Green, and discriminating against women instead of against men, he would be denounced by one and all. The news article certainly would not have passed that over without comment. Massive double standard.

    21. Re:Men need not apply by K.+S.+Van+Horn · · Score: 1

      He? Why are you assuming that Diane Green is male?

      As for your question, nobody says "I'm planning to help female founders", making sure to including the limiting adjective "female", if they plan to treat male and female founders equally.

    22. Re:Men need not apply by Highdude702 · · Score: 1

      Don't waste your time. He will just throw facts and logic out the window to try to spin what you say and insist YOU mean something you don't until he is satisfied that he has proven he is better than you because you commit thought crime.

    23. Re:Men need not apply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's pretty much the textbook definition of sexist.

      Of course it is sexist. My personal belief is any discrimination by gender is morally wrong. My question is: If no one else in the situation believes sexism against me is wrong, why should I feel an obligation to not be sexist against them?

      Diane Green left to mentor and fund female founders of startups. If a man had left Google to "mentor and fund make founders of startups" he would be pilloried in the press and excluded from polite society forever. Diane Green is being sexist by favoring one gender with money and mentorship. The press is being sexist by only caring about sexism when the victim is one gender. Clearly many people who claim to be opposed to sexism apply it in a sexist way.

      If sexism is wrong, then Diane Green should be punished just as a man would be. Why should I be held to a higher moral standard than her?

    24. Re:Men need not apply by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      Unless they think that female founders are treated less favourably, in which case adding "female" would emphasis their commitment to equal treatment.

      --
      const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
    25. Re:Men need not apply by imidan · · Score: 1

      Yeah, so? Is there a rule that we can't have double standards? Is the point you're trying to make that you have some childish concept of "fairness" that everyone else needs to adhere to? Diane Green is preferentially supporting women because she perceives that men are already preferentially supported in the industry. Is she right? I dunno, I don't have that data. But what's the consequence if she's wrong? That some number of women get VC support who wouldn't without her?

      Oh, no. Someone, please protect us from the bad lady giving out money.

  10. Dian Greene had a clue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    She really did.and was trying to get Google to be market problem, and sales and business led. Not technology led.

    I'd blabbed here on Slashdot that there would be sales execs quitting. I'm not sure that the pentagon deal is causal to her stepping down, but that'd make sense.

    Now, back to ad words subsidized sjws blabbing about fuck all...

  11. Shitty Management Techniques 101 by NicknameUnavailable · · Score: 1

    1) Get locked into low value government contract everyone opposes.
    2) Anticipated worker uprising ensues.
    3) CEO "steps down."
    4) CEO replaced by new person.
    5) "I don't like it either guys, but if we don't finish the contract they'll close us down." 6) Silently acquire new contracts "we need to break even guys, we're bleeding money and this tech directly translates to this other tiny contract with only a small change."
    7) Rinse and repeat, jumbling steps as desired.

  12. GCP is dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    hiring oracle product guy from their fâ(TM)ed up cloud division is a boat anchor around the neck of googles cloud division, only certain to sink it faster. Oh well it was nice having three providers for awhile.

    And then there were two.

  13. Reciprocity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    uses AI to interpret video images and could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes. In March, she said it was a small contract worth "only" $9 million and that the technology would be used for nonlethal purposes.

    I wonder if China also has trouble recruiting engineers to work on that technology.

    Hmm.

  14. SJW 1 - Logic 0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Idiots, you dont turn down contracts like that.

    Id take the contact in a second, and if any of my employees complained, they would no longer be an employee.

  15. Google Cloud? what? only 9 mil by AndrewFlagg · · Score: 1

    1st, google cloud versus aws & azure -- did someone fall and bump their head.. that is like bing trying to join google and yahoo in the search engine market. no room for a 3rd wheel on that date card. 2nd, 9 mil? really? stepping down over 9 mil? her balloon golden parachute is probably 10x that. 3rd, why is this even an issue.. Do no evil... she did or tried to... alas, TGIF. let's get back to helping the Earth and mankind rather than destroy it by greed.

    1. Re:Google Cloud? what? only 9 mil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      9 mil? really? stepping down over 9 mil? her balloon golden parachute is probably 10x that.

      It's not just that one contract. The people Google caved to don't want *any* military work done by Google. She stood in front of the cloud org and promised that it would never happen again. Promising not to do business with the US DOD forever because some employees cried sends a strong signal that your customers don't matter.

  16. Re: GAYPK Hosts File Engine w/ straight filtering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Chris, you banned yourself.

    https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com/2017/10/02/why-i-had-my-ten-year-old-slashdot-account-deleted/

  17. Ever worked for a government contractor? by SvnLyrBrto · · Score: 1

    Setting aside the ethical quagmire you descend into when you take on that work... especially under the current administration... it's just in every way awful all-around.

    I worked for a government contractor my first job out of college. Yah, I was young and dumb and had student loans that were going to need to be repaid. And no. Just... no. I'm never going to make that mistake again... not for 45, not for his successor, not for Obama if they were to amend the constitution so he could run again, not for Kennedy or Lincoln if they could raise the dead. It's just awful in every conceivable way.

    The culture is toxic. You're a tiny cog in a gigantic machine without any way for your own contributions to be meaningful. It's cubes as far as the eye can see in warehouse-sized buildings. The technology, both hardware and software, is older-than-dirt and will serve you nowhere in any other job. It's super-political. And I don't mean R vs D. I mean every single little person who attains the slightest bit of power is king of his little hill and will require tribute if you need access to any resource in their domain, productivity be damned. It's like those old adventure games where you might be tasked with saving the kingdom, world, or galaxy. But every... single... NPC... wants you to do stupid shit before they'll aid you in the smallest way. Tasked with going to person A to get item X? Before A will give you access to X, he will require you to goto person B to get item Y. B will require you to get Z from C before giving you Y. And C will make you go out and grind, killing orcs or boars or womprats or something similarly stupid and pick up 100 item drops before giving you Z. And a task that should take no more than a day winds up taking up two weeks. (That two weeks, by the way, is BEFORE administrative overhead. Expect to do about a page and a half of paperwork for every line of code.) And there'd better actually be a god to help you if you need to deal with procurement to get something from a vendor.

    And all of the even remotely interesting work is reserved for people with security clearances. These force you to submit to being investigated and treated like a criminal before-the-fact. And they take anywhere between 6-18 months to attain, depending on how backed-up the government is, and how hard your employer is inclined to push for you. And until then, you're stuck doing boring scut-work that builds neither your skill set nor your resume.

    That's government work. And I don't blame a single Google engineer, or anyone else, for wanting no part of it; both from a work environment AND a "don't be evil" (Remember that? Remember how /. used to admire and celebrate that sentiment?) standpoint.

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    Imagine all the people...
    1. Re:Ever worked for a government contractor? by mikael · · Score: 4, Interesting

      It was the same decades ago. And it's the same with a lot of embedded/electronics companies. They stick to hardware they know that will work, even if it is decades old, because that's what the whole company and the principal engineers used back then. And if they do have the newest/latest hardware, all the software must be backwards compatible with the old hardware, so you won't get to use the new features of the new hardware. Anything career building will be outsourced to a contractor, to make sure you don't learn anything transferrable. You'll have a three month or six month notice period which makes it impossible to change jobs.

      They might have found it so hard to find staff that they offshore some work. So then they need headhunters to literally hunt down people with embedded experience. And I literally mean "hunt down". Stalking people via LinkedIn by looking for keywords. Even getting GCHQ to monitor Emails and social media for anyone posting a CV, then using those Email addreses and accounts to make connections. Sometimes even sending anonymous Emails or Linkedin messages providing "careers advice".

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    2. Re:Ever worked for a government contractor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's government work. And I don't blame a single Google engineer, or anyone else, for wanting no part of it; both from a work environment AND a "don't be evil" (Remember that? Remember how /. used to admire and celebrate that sentiment?) standpoint.

      You are confused. Google was offering to let government contractors USE the services on http://cloud.google.com. They were not offering to have their employees go work for a government contractor.

    3. Re:Ever worked for a government contractor? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1

      This ridiculous anti government attitude is what is killing us. We need more government, not less. Less government just leaves a power vacuum. Leave your Ayn Rand stupidity behind and move into the 21st century.

      --
      Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
  18. Google was seeded by in q tel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And now they donâ(TM)t wanna work for Military/industrial complex? Please. Itâ(TM)s all political posturing.

  19. Non-Lethal?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Who does she think she is, Dr. A Heller?

  20. Re:APK Hosts File Engine w/ port filtering... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My voice sounds as if I'm breathing helium.

  21. It's a merit correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "[Green] planned to help female founders of companies by investing in and mentoring them."

    Since this is apparently OK, I take it that if a male executive wants to exclusively help male founders of companies by investing and mentoring them, rejecting female founders solely because they lack a Y chromosome, that's OK too, right? What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, after all.

    Women actually have a much harder time both in the technical space (where they will be condemned for acting in ways that mediocre male employees act regularly), and in the entrepreneurship space (look up the women who invented the male co-founder because it was the only way they could get people to respond to their emails).

    I don't think any program should be *exclusively* dedicated to one non-merit-based group of people or another, but I have zero problem with someone deciding a big part of their goal in a personal project is to help people whose merit is overlooked for stupid reasons get stuff done.

    1. Re:It's a merit correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Women have a harder time at x"

      You do realise that this is just bullshit.

      Women, western women in a particular, are the most spoiled, pampered and privileged people to ever walk the face of the Earth. They are spoiled children who cry and demand more and more all the time.

  22. Batching about software designed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Spins like you worked for one of the aerospace forms where you actually have to do software architecture and engineering instead of kluging together code. Sorry you got butt hurt because you had to follow sound engineering practices instead of this year's agile clone. However, when my pink ass is strapped into the airplane, I'd rather you get it right the first time than find the bug in the bleeding edge hardware or the edge case in your software after it killed me.

  23. Re: Funny how they are happy to play with China.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Brilliant. If I werenâ(TM)t a coward I would mod you up

  24. Intel issues: U may be right/not portfilter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    1st U FAIL a PORTFILTERING TEST https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... (IF hosts could DO it I'd implement it in my work & I STOP THAT ERROR - test for yourself & see using my program) & Hosts can stop portsmash (blocking downloads of it) "You basically have to already be able to run your own evil code on a machine in order to PortSmash it." from https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

    * In fact, hosts MAY prevent the OTHER forms of Intel CPU weakness per ACADEMIC RESEARCH I read:

    SPECTRE "As an attempted mitigation for our JavaScript-based attack" https://spectreattack.com/spec...

    MELTDOWN "We presented Meltdown, a novel software-based attack" https://meltdownattack.com/mel...

    APK

    P.S.=> Like portsmash? Academics NEEDED TO RUN CODE LOCALLY like portsmash which hosts can prevent harm to you via Spectre/Meltdown - & the ONLY thing I question would be can something like RPC make them work (that MAY be considered 'remote')... apk

  25. IMPERSONATING ME AGAIN? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Zach Paterson/ZIP + c6gunner 'Greatest Hits': "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082)

    BIG TALK - ZIP has no programs to show as proof.

    I do https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

    (From registered /.ers liking/using/praising my work + 100k users worldwide)

    ZIP tried to take credit for what I solved before him https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

    He codes? He can't EVEN READ!

    I show 2 ways to do it YOURSELF https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... - he can't.

    Delphi/FreePascal/ObjectPascal HAS no null-term'd string bufferoverflows https://developers.slashdot.or... - C does, C++ can UNLESS you do what I said 1st.

    He likes CODE SIGNING (it's been STOLEN & ABUSED) https://www.helpnetsecurity.co...

    MY METHOD CAN'T BE (upmodded +2 INTERESTING in CODING FOR DEFCON) https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    ZIP says he has no /. acct "I don't have an account so I don't have mod points" https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet ZIP says he downmods me (IMPOSSIBLE w/ no /. acct.): "I down-modded a few of your post" - by Anonymous Coward "ZIP" on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:31AM (#57461058)

    APK

    P.S.=> KEEP IMPERSONATING ME like https://science.slashdot.org/c... (I'd never say that OR bitch to do-NOTHING "ne'er-do-wells" like ZIP OR c6gunner https://linux.slashdot.org/com... (he 1st mocked me & impersonated me TWISTING /.ers words & after I FAIRLY challenged him to show HE DID BETTER & that was his response (weak))!

    Above EXPOSES your BLOWHARD incompetence... apk

  26. Double standards by blind+biker · · Score: 1

    Helping the Pentagon for profit is bad, but helping the Orwellian Chinese surveillance network is acceptable.

    --
    "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.