The problem is the plastic those disks are made of has a minimum guaranteed life span of about 12 years. Sure, you might be able to keep them for 20 or 30 if you keep them out of direct sunlight and don't read them too much, but even then the rotational speeds they have to endure makes the risk of one shattering in the drive an inevitability over the long term. Stored in sunlight or exposed to too much temperature change and even the dye they use for the writable disks can break down, leading to data loss.
Also, I wouldn't gamble that those CDRs are "EMP proof" for anything constituting a weapon-strength EMP. Ever put one in the microwave for 10s?
It really can't, at this point, or they'd have at least been able to fix it by now.
And... LOL... I'm no Microsoft shill. If you're that bad at reading the context cues maybe you should stop telling yourself you know fuck-all about computers.
It's just the simplest, most brain-dead way to code it that supports any form of multiple-matching entries. Probably not coincidentally it is also the method that takes the least amount of server load while still supporting the ability to test for any partial or full string equality whatsoever. I highly doubt whoever wrote that code even spent enough time thinking about it to realize this would be an inherent weakness to such an approach. If they did, they certainly didn't expect it would be handed over to someone who doesn't pay attention to detail.
Someone else suggested it first but I'd also place my bets on "disgruntled employee" as the primary threat vector. Furthermore, I'd even go so far as to postulate "a few free days to goof off without any work to do" as the motive.
The part that bugs me is that the effect is completely indistinguishable from the equally likely probability of completely accidental cross-contamination from an employee's personal USB device.
This is the inevitable outcome anyone could have foreseen would arise from letting people who don't care about security sell millions of computers to people who don't understand security. If there had been a backup server I guarantee it would have just been hacked too.
Also, I strongly advise against you gambling anything important on that whole "proximity to broadcast radio towers never impacted cancer statistics" fantasy.
The cancer risk of pointing a "standard 3 watt" flashlight at your face at close range year after year for hours per day hasn't really been carefully evaluated yet either, you know.
They've had their own share of shady behavior though, what with the glaringly simplistic XSS vulnerabilities in their front-end web code and the way their system starts spamming you to join if you don't already have an account when someone else searches for you on the site but then lets them think you do have an account by not distinguishing search results for "people other people have searched for" from "people who actually have accounts already."
I never had a Facebook account at all. That didn't stop someone else from signing up under my name and catfishing people I knew for years before anyone bothered to mention it to me. So, I think we're kidding ourselves if we think that deleting Facebook will actually stop them from harvesting anything.
The whole point of the article is to point out that your canard is at best hopelessly out-of-date and at worst provably wrong for the majority of the geographical region of the continental United States during the majority of the year.
The part neither of you dick-measuring shitheads get is that this isn't about the candidates or their apps. This is about Facebook's API for apps, of which this friends-list-harvesting ability is the primary design feature. Neither of these candidates' apps did anything that can't be done by every single other facebook app. You are all just noticing now because someone finally figured out how to mix AI with all that data and turn it into an automated PSYOP SPAM machine that steals credit card information and got caught doing it.
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Sociopath.
Withdraw.
Bots?
Judging by how you used them together, you seem to be unfamiliar with the fundamental definition of at least one of these terms. Are you a bot?
Microsoft answers "Yes!" then launches into a prerecorded sales-pitch.
Solving yet another "problem" that is better left unsolved.
The problem is the plastic those disks are made of has a minimum guaranteed life span of about 12 years. Sure, you might be able to keep them for 20 or 30 if you keep them out of direct sunlight and don't read them too much, but even then the rotational speeds they have to endure makes the risk of one shattering in the drive an inevitability over the long term. Stored in sunlight or exposed to too much temperature change and even the dye they use for the writable disks can break down, leading to data loss.
Also, I wouldn't gamble that those CDRs are "EMP proof" for anything constituting a weapon-strength EMP. Ever put one in the microwave for 10s?
It really can't, at this point, or they'd have at least been able to fix it by now.
And ... LOL... I'm no Microsoft shill. If you're that bad at reading the context cues maybe you should stop telling yourself you know fuck-all about computers.
+1 underrated.
It's just the simplest, most brain-dead way to code it that supports any form of multiple-matching entries. Probably not coincidentally it is also the method that takes the least amount of server load while still supporting the ability to test for any partial or full string equality whatsoever. I highly doubt whoever wrote that code even spent enough time thinking about it to realize this would be an inherent weakness to such an approach. If they did, they certainly didn't expect it would be handed over to someone who doesn't pay attention to detail.
Someone else suggested it first but I'd also place my bets on "disgruntled employee" as the primary threat vector. Furthermore, I'd even go so far as to postulate "a few free days to goof off without any work to do" as the motive.
The part that bugs me is that the effect is completely indistinguishable from the equally likely probability of completely accidental cross-contamination from an employee's personal USB device.
This is the inevitable outcome anyone could have foreseen would arise from letting people who don't care about security sell millions of computers to people who don't understand security. If there had been a backup server I guarantee it would have just been hacked too.
Also, I strongly advise against you gambling anything important on that whole "proximity to broadcast radio towers never impacted cancer statistics" fantasy.
The cancer risk of pointing a "standard 3 watt" flashlight at your face at close range year after year for hours per day hasn't really been carefully evaluated yet either, you know.
Just wait until someone notices how much worse AM and FM radio bands are for you.
Well, the real problem is that it's now officially a bad idea to even know someone who downloaded it.
Pointless, but also hilarious.
Personally I wonder how many of the other 98% of Facebook employees lied for fear of persecution.
They've had their own share of shady behavior though, what with the glaringly simplistic XSS vulnerabilities in their front-end web code and the way their system starts spamming you to join if you don't already have an account when someone else searches for you on the site but then lets them think you do have an account by not distinguishing search results for "people other people have searched for" from "people who actually have accounts already."
I never had a Facebook account at all. That didn't stop someone else from signing up under my name and catfishing people I knew for years before anyone bothered to mention it to me. So, I think we're kidding ourselves if we think that deleting Facebook will actually stop them from harvesting anything.
Hello Facebook employees. Google "Stockholm Syndrome" and meditate on why it it's obviously relevant to anyone reading these two posts.
I wonder what all that birdshot does to the lead levels in Texas surface water.
More people should be asking this question. And not just about Texas, either.
Hipsters didn't think of that first. They just made it popular.
The whole point of the article is to point out that your canard is at best hopelessly out-of-date and at worst provably wrong for the majority of the geographical region of the continental United States during the majority of the year.
The part neither of you dick-measuring shitheads get is that this isn't about the candidates or their apps. This is about Facebook's API for apps, of which this friends-list-harvesting ability is the primary design feature. Neither of these candidates' apps did anything that can't be done by every single other facebook app. You are all just noticing now because someone finally figured out how to mix AI with all that data and turn it into an automated PSYOP SPAM machine that steals credit card information and got caught doing it.
A Faraday cage might do the trick.
It would actually have to be tin foil. Aluminum foil would just turn you into an antenna.