99% of customers not reading this Slashdot article (and probably about 10% of the ones who are) won't even have the wherewithal to realize the device didn't just break due to natural causes. They'll assume their kid pressed the buttons too hard or pissed on it then just buy something else from the same brand. This will repeat for generations before awareness seeps into the greater population by osmosis.
It's kinda sad that it's not common knowledge by now, but USB itself has physical hardware vulnerabilities that are not fixable at the driver level. Fixing the security flaws in the USB drivers is kinda like fixing the security flaws in a lock on a paper window.
The situation for them on Linux is still a lot more hit-and-miss than that. Even Intel and Nvidia have managed comparatively broad compatibility and stability on Linux by now. AMD has made great strides in closing the performance gap on Linux lately, but for commercial game compatibility they still have a long way to go.
Nobody cares. Nobody smart is gonna buy any of these phones, and any of them forced to use one by their employer is just gonna tape over the lens anyway.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
Developers should be required to QA all their own code, but there still needs to be a second QA pass done by someone who did not write it. Basic human psychology causes natural blind spots in one's own logical thought processes. It's impossible to be completely unbiased about stuff you wrote yourself. So, while a developer is the best person to QA their own work, they're also usually inherently incapable of completing the task with reasonable accuracy in a reasonable time frame. Therefore, 2 people at minimum should evaluate every bit of code, but yes, one of them should be the primary maintainer of the code and the other one should be someone from a different team.
They'd never hire anyone capable of actually securing it anyway. They'd just hire Microsoft, who would backdoor it then outsource it to someplace in India, who would take money on the side to put backdoors in for China and Russia too, in the mean time accidentally leaking all 3 backdoors to the world, enraging NZ and the UK, who'd both paid for what they thought were exclusive backdoors, and while they're all fighting about it, someone will find a REAL vulnerability and exploit it unnoticed for decades.
I tried this once at a place I worked. The CEO blithely suggested I was welcome to take up smoking and have as much free break time as desired, too. (And incidentally in case you were wondering; No, they're not in business anymore.)
Well the issue at hand is that it was assumed that the vast majority of US citizens were good people who generally did not desire the total destruction of the country followed shortly by the world and possibly the entire planet through global thermonuclear war. Unfortunately, baked into this admittedly possibly naive but up until recently provably true assumption was the additional and quite fatal assumption that hostile foreign entities weren't participating in the conversation at all so it didn't need to be validated or secured in any real way from such a threat.
Good, you're capable of rational thought. Now, consider the possibility that they did it not by "exposing what the Democrats have been doing" but simply by just lying about what everybody has been doing. Seriously consider the possibility that this very premise of your initial assumption is false and start over again from the beginning to see what your capacity for rational thought comes up with then.
The true irony here is that in the end, we didn't actually even charge them. They have the same exact unrestricted access to all the social media networks that our own citizens do, and aside from the bad grammar, nothing to invalidate them as such.
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99% of customers not reading this Slashdot article (and probably about 10% of the ones who are) won't even have the wherewithal to realize the device didn't just break due to natural causes. They'll assume their kid pressed the buttons too hard or pissed on it then just buy something else from the same brand. This will repeat for generations before awareness seeps into the greater population by osmosis.
Amazon, Google, and CloudFlare have all had massive, critical, damaging outages repeatedly, yet nobody cares.
It's kinda sad that it's not common knowledge by now, but USB itself has physical hardware vulnerabilities that are not fixable at the driver level. Fixing the security flaws in the USB drivers is kinda like fixing the security flaws in a lock on a paper window.
It's time to start putting the universe back in order.
The situation for them on Linux is still a lot more hit-and-miss than that. Even Intel and Nvidia have managed comparatively broad compatibility and stability on Linux by now. AMD has made great strides in closing the performance gap on Linux lately, but for commercial game compatibility they still have a long way to go.
Glad to see someone is paying attention, at least.
*lenses
Nobody cares. Nobody smart is gonna buy any of these phones, and any of them forced to use one by their employer is just gonna tape over the lens anyway.
Don't bring up Shadowrun. You'll just give these assholes more ideas.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
Understatement of the millennium.
Their "smart" TVs' built-in media players suck ass anyway.
If you do twice as many projects that suck twice as much you don't get much repeat business. Great plan if you don't have to worry about next month.
Developers should be required to QA all their own code, but there still needs to be a second QA pass done by someone who did not write it. Basic human psychology causes natural blind spots in one's own logical thought processes. It's impossible to be completely unbiased about stuff you wrote yourself. So, while a developer is the best person to QA their own work, they're also usually inherently incapable of completing the task with reasonable accuracy in a reasonable time frame. Therefore, 2 people at minimum should evaluate every bit of code, but yes, one of them should be the primary maintainer of the code and the other one should be someone from a different team.
No way it's less than 20%. I suspect it's pushing 30% actually.
This is what happens to your big Friday launch when you try to make the lowest-bidding contract web programmers also manage the servers.
Come on, you can do better than that. You didn't even try to tie it to Hillary Clinton's email server once.
I'm just curious if they're also monetizing the traffic with advertisements. Not curious enough to actually look, mind you.
Don't use your own IP to download it either. Better safe than sorry.
Some dumb assholes convinced them that the best way to fight terrorism is with more terrorism.
They'd never hire anyone capable of actually securing it anyway. They'd just hire Microsoft, who would backdoor it then outsource it to someplace in India, who would take money on the side to put backdoors in for China and Russia too, in the mean time accidentally leaking all 3 backdoors to the world, enraging NZ and the UK, who'd both paid for what they thought were exclusive backdoors, and while they're all fighting about it, someone will find a REAL vulnerability and exploit it unnoticed for decades.
I tried this once at a place I worked. The CEO blithely suggested I was welcome to take up smoking and have as much free break time as desired, too. (And incidentally in case you were wondering; No, they're not in business anymore.)
Well the issue at hand is that it was assumed that the vast majority of US citizens were good people who generally did not desire the total destruction of the country followed shortly by the world and possibly the entire planet through global thermonuclear war. Unfortunately, baked into this admittedly possibly naive but up until recently provably true assumption was the additional and quite fatal assumption that hostile foreign entities weren't participating in the conversation at all so it didn't need to be validated or secured in any real way from such a threat.
Good, you're capable of rational thought. Now, consider the possibility that they did it not by "exposing what the Democrats have been doing" but simply by just lying about what everybody has been doing. Seriously consider the possibility that this very premise of your initial assumption is false and start over again from the beginning to see what your capacity for rational thought comes up with then.
The true irony here is that in the end, we didn't actually even charge them. They have the same exact unrestricted access to all the social media networks that our own citizens do, and aside from the bad grammar, nothing to invalidate them as such.