Back in the mayhem of 08 and 09 I remember both parties talking about death penalties for banks that pulled shenanigans that harm the economy. This seems like the perfect test case for that death penalty and they didnâ(TM)t do it.
The death penalty is not the solution to the problem. The Glass-Steagall Act should have never been repealed.
Now it's acceptable to sign people up for services they were never requesting and take money for them as long as they don't 'catch you'. What a wonderful new world we're headed for.
It's never been acceptable to commit fraud and that's precisely what that is. You go to federal pound me in the you know where prison and always have gone there if you commit such an act. That's where Bernie Madoff is right now and will be there until he dies.
Where is the claim that GDPR would ban WHOIS? Are you making things up?
The part of the summary that is related to GDPR is that the current WHOIS service is not compatible with GDPR:
On the other hand, the organization must also accomodate laws like the GDPR that are the only bulwark against the wholesale of individuals' data by internet giants like Google and Facebook." In 2014 ICANN suggested a "gated" registry that would only authorize access to people who identified themselves and their purpose for accessing the data. But progress has been slow, according to the article, which adds "It's uncertain when ICANN will have a finalized protocol for a next generation version of WHOIS, but an overhaul of this nearly 30-year-old protocol is long overdue.
The notion that individual data should require a requester to also provide their own data is both equitable and intuitive -- the only remaining question is how to make it work.
I am going to create a piece of legislation that states "all citizens have a right to be able to time travel". I guess since it's the law we have to invent the time machine. Apparently the best approach to decision making is to shoot first and aim later.
There is a corollary here, in that the tax system for corporations is similarly the result of bribery.
Define "tax system for corporations". Let me introduce you to logical syllogism that you seem to be unaware of. First of all, you have two conceptual ideas. You assert there exists a "tax system for corporations" and you assert that corporations used bribery in some manner to influence the nature of this so-called "tax system for corporations". In order to take your claim seriously which sounds like it was all invented in your mind and probably sounded good before you posted it to slashdot, you must do the following:
1) Define "tax system for corporations". What is it? Where is it defined? How can I read up on it? Can you provide any citations for it?
2) Define "corporate bribery" as it relates to somehow influencing this so-called "tax system for corporations"?
3) Once we know that both of this terms are being used to refer to something real that we all have common understanding of, you need to explicitly connect the two concepts together to substantiate your claim
When you can make a claim that isn't based on nonsense hyperbole, come back and we can have a more serious discussion on the topic. That is, if it's really that important to you or you're simple interested in trolling.
For funsies, consider this, Corporation A in 1950 lobbies the federal government to get a part of the tax code changed to benefit them. The law remains unchanged to the day. Several corporations including B, C and D that had nothing do with Corporation A's actions use that part of the tax code in filing their version of "Turbo Tax" to lower their effective tax rate. Did Corporations B, C and D do anything wrong? Did you do anything wrong taking the child tax credit as opposed to doing your patriotic duty to pay your taxes for the benefit for everyone else?
Oh and just so you know. There was probably another part of this conversation:
Product Owner: Shouldn't we give them a way to control this behavior in settings? Developer: Probably but this is a bug that came in out of band that we didn't plan for in sprint planning. If you want to do that it probably won't go out in the next release. Product Owner: Ok, let's do the quick solution for now and get it in the next release. I'll create a new ticket for adding the setting in a future release
I kid you not. That's how stupid things are in Agile software development because no one can really effectively manage workloads or priorities.
Of course, the real question is: why didn't they do this when they put the slowdown software in in the first place? Treating your customers like milk cows makes it harder, not easier, to sell next-generation hardware.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
More likely sequence of events:
Customers keep calling complaining that their batteries are dying too fast because they don't understand the science behind Lithium Ion batteries
Customer support keeps logging cases with this issue and eventually creates a Jira ticket titled "iPhone batteries are dying too quickly" because they are sick of being bitched at by customers
Eventually the issue gets escalated
The Product Owner becomes aware that this is a super highly escalated ticket and pulls the team together to talk about solutions
One suggestion is to replace all the batteries but that would be too expensive and eventually the same problem would resurface later, no go
Developer: I know! What if we made a software change such that when we detect that the battery is passed a certain point in its life we'll proportionately slow down the CPU so the battery life is roughly the same? Product Owner: How long does it take to implement that and how much effort is involved? Developer: It would be super easy and we could get that out in the next update! Product Owner: Perfect! Let's do that and close this escalated support case and go have a beer to celebrate!
That's how all stupid software decisions get made. You see the PO and the developers probably got tired of people bitching about this problem and just wanted to not hear about it anymore but it didn't work quite like they thought it would.
Every time I've taken an iphone into an apple store and requested battery service, they have come up with an excuse not to do it. They instead heavily pushing me to exchange for a refurbished phone of the same model.
Then learn how to be more assertive. They are required per Apple's corporate policy to replace your battery for $29.99. Tell them if they don't do what you ask you'll call the corporate office and complain right in the middle of the store and ask them to give you their Employee ID so you can complain specifically about them. I guarantee you'll get your replacement battery for $30. If that doesn't work threaten to make a State Attorney General complaint. You need to grow a pair. Don't let those high pressure sales people walk all over you. You show them who is boss.
It is a bad thing, because it's just another tax break for companies that are already evading taxes
Ok let's try your logic out here. By using Turbo Tax to comprehensively evaluate the tax code to get you the biggest tax refund aren't you also evading taxes by your definition? Corporations are basically using a more sophisticated version of "Turbo Tax" to lower their effective tax rate. Isn't that what you and everyone else is doing too? So much in fact that Turbo Tax, Tax Act, etc. all created profitable software businesses around it...
Intellectual property aka the knowledge about how to build something that you may or may not have a patent on is not technically transferable. What is transferable are the patents, copyrights, trademarks and any other rights to use the intellectual property. This article is really mincing words. No matter how you spin it, we are talking about repatriating money (assets of monetary value is you prefer) that is held abroad in foreign countries. We've been talking about it for years now. Whether it has something to do with intellectual property, subscriptions, licenses, patents, etc. is of no real interest. That's just partitioning the pile of money into categories. I don't care about that. What I care about are large sums of money sitting in a foreign country and there being no compelling reason for the holder of said funds to repatriate it to the United States to be used for the benefit of our country. We all know the primary reason that money isn't more frequently repatriated and that's because of prohibitive taxes on the money when it is transferred. No matter what your principles are or how much of a bunch greedy sacks of crap the 86% that holds 1% of the wealth is, lowering corporate taxes and tax holidays DO IN FACT make it more worth their consideration to repatriate the taxes. But we already know this and it's already be discussed ad nauseum on slashdot, why are we talking about it AGAIN?
You really ought to have put a trigger warning on your post to avoid microaggressions. Someone could have been mildly offended at what you wrote, or been inflicted with PTSD!
I know man. Nature and reality are so offensive. Life should come with warning labels too. It might offend someone. Seriously, there has got to be someone to complain to about how unfair reality and nature is. Whoever created this place is so not cool because it wasn't made special to suit all my personal preferences and I am soooo special, Mommy and Daddy told me so. eyeroll
Using Tinder at Starbucks, not wise. Not setting up a guest WIFI network at your house, not wise. Leave your front door open and put a sign in the middle of it that says "Please come and steal all my shit", not wise.
I would actually love to see the United States devolve back to 19th Century homestead life just to watch Millennials be completely clueless about how to survive. What are they going to do protect their homestead from bandits and brigands, have an academic discussion them with them about empathy and progressive idealism? No. You protect your shit, anticipating that someone is going to potentially trespass on your property as it's always been. That's your responsibility as an animal in nature. This is what survival of the fittest is all about. All these happy, feely, unicorn loving millennials would disappear as a result of natural selection in a generation or two if they had to really come face to face with the nature they've been insulated from by their helicopter parents.
When that grizzly bear is chasing you through the woods because it wants to eat you for dinner and you're trying to educate it about what a safe space is, let me know how that goes. Or rather, you won't be able to for obvious reasons.
Social media makes your personal information public! Film at 11! Another amazingly, intellectual stimulating contribution by msmash! It's a HOOK UP app for one night stands for crying out loud!
It's not about maximizing profits necessarily. Investors prefer to see subscription based revenue rather than one time purchases or contracts with optional renewal. They are more likely to invest in your stock if you are publicly traded. This has to do with how financials are reported in SEC filings using GAP. You see after the Enron scandal, the government stepped in and changed how financials should be reported in SEC filings because Enron "cooked their books". Sometimes the ripple effects of regulation aren't what you would expect. There needed to be something done in terms of regulatory reform for that issue but I wonder if there was a better solution.
The same thing can happen again to things like Photoshop and Autocad. But in fact there are already non-subscription based programs that do the majority of what most users need in a package.
Can someone here remind this person how long slashdot has been saying GIMP is a suitable replacement for Photoshop, yet it's never happened. Has it already been 20 years? Wow... some things never change.
I can't find statistics quickly enough, but I'll bet that more households go looking for a washing machine each year than go looking to buy solar panels. Let's see what happens when Joe Sixpack notices that the prices have jumped 30%.
Joe Sixpack doesn't buy solar panels. Joe Sixpack also buys the cheapest economy top load washing machine possible around $400 USD. That means Joe Sixpack's washer may cost upwards of $530 USD in the future if the entire cost is passed on and it's manufactured in China. Considering that Joe Sixpack probably only replaces his washing machine every 10 years or so, it's probably going to take awhile for Joe Sixpack to even notice.
"Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Washing Machines"
And where is the information about the already existing 150 tariffs that these two are going to be added to? Ah... it would spin quite as well that way now would it when we're looking at the actual facts. If we admitted there are already 150 existing tariffs and it hasn't completely flipped trade upside down, we couldn't as easily make it appear as though two additional tariffs would completely destabilize free trade with FUD.
This study has a few problems. For one, the participants were all adults; the argument is usually that violent video games have a harmful effect on children whose minds are still developing, and these experiments don't assess that
I'm sure it's fairly similar to teenage readers of Playboy objectifying women in adulthood or listening to satanic/immoral/whatever music. We have enough data for that.
Given the rise in popularity of music streaming, Netflix, and online shopping, I would think a LOT of the time "on the internet" is what in prior decades would have been spent watching TV, listening to radio, playing albums on various media, or in the local mall.
Ikr?? I mean my IoT fridge is connected to the damn internet.
I have seen this myself. I had a DevOps job (which I leaped from, to a far better place) where the Scrum master (who had the power to recommend terminations, and managers rubberstamped them) where the dev team was always in a sprint
And then one day management and the scrum master awoke on a bright cheery morning. Sun shining bright, birds chirping. What a glorious morning! They got their Starbucks coffee, kissed their wives and kids and drove into work with cheerful positive music and thinking very highly of themselves and how fortunate their company was to have them. For without them, the company wouldn't be able to function. The scrum master skips through the door, smile on their face and spring in their step and goes into the empty meeting room where the daily stand up is supposed to be. 5-10 minutes pass after the stand up was supposed to start and there was still no one there but the Scrum Master. Why could this be? Where is everyone? They must be late! Those lazy no good slackers! And then it dawned on the Scrum Master, I fired everybody because they didn't meet my ridiculous expectations and I can't write a line of code to save my life. Without anyone to scapegoat the problem onto, because they were all fired, the Scrum Master panicked, chaos ensued, angry customers called the CEO and eventually the business closed its doors and faded into history as another failed startup.
1) Corporate Cultural issues aka employee engagement - seriously if upper management is toxic and plays psychological games, who is going to give a shit about your software on any level let alone security?
2) Lack of software engineers with appropriate level of skill, education and experience. But you know it's because we can't find qualified candidates aka ones that are unicorns that will take minimum wage as compensation.
3) Companies that don't take security and risk seriously because hey why do we need to take this seriously now? We didn't take it seriously 20-30 years ago and now you're asking me to spend more money than I used to on "best practice"? You're just trying to trick me into giving away my precious money on things we really don't need like all those RAD tools I've been pitched over the years...
I could go on ad nauseum here but the TL;DR is: if you treat your employees like expendable pieces of shit that can supposedly be replaced by interns and contractors and tell them they should be thankful for it, your software is going to be shit on every level not just security.
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Back in the mayhem of 08 and 09 I remember both parties talking about death penalties for banks that pulled shenanigans that harm the economy. This seems like the perfect test case for that death penalty and they didnâ(TM)t do it.
The death penalty is not the solution to the problem. The Glass-Steagall Act should have never been repealed.
Now it's acceptable to sign people up for services they were never requesting and take money for them as long as they don't 'catch you'. What a wonderful new world we're headed for.
It's never been acceptable to commit fraud and that's precisely what that is. You go to federal pound me in the you know where prison and always have gone there if you commit such an act. That's where Bernie Madoff is right now and will be there until he dies.
Which part would ban WHOIS?
Where is the claim that GDPR would ban WHOIS? Are you making things up? The part of the summary that is related to GDPR is that the current WHOIS service is not compatible with GDPR:
On the other hand, the organization must also accomodate laws like the GDPR that are the only bulwark against the wholesale of individuals' data by internet giants like Google and Facebook." In 2014 ICANN suggested a "gated" registry that would only authorize access to people who identified themselves and their purpose for accessing the data. But progress has been slow, according to the article, which adds "It's uncertain when ICANN will have a finalized protocol for a next generation version of WHOIS, but an overhaul of this nearly 30-year-old protocol is long overdue.
The notion that individual data should require a requester to also provide their own data is both equitable and intuitive -- the only remaining question is how to make it work.
I am going to create a piece of legislation that states "all citizens have a right to be able to time travel". I guess since it's the law we have to invent the time machine. Apparently the best approach to decision making is to shoot first and aim later.
Before you post, do a 5 second Google search and locate this nice, easy to parse GDPR Key Changes document
There is a corollary here, in that the tax system for corporations is similarly the result of bribery.
Define "tax system for corporations". Let me introduce you to logical syllogism that you seem to be unaware of. First of all, you have two conceptual ideas. You assert there exists a "tax system for corporations" and you assert that corporations used bribery in some manner to influence the nature of this so-called "tax system for corporations". In order to take your claim seriously which sounds like it was all invented in your mind and probably sounded good before you posted it to slashdot, you must do the following:
1) Define "tax system for corporations". What is it? Where is it defined? How can I read up on it? Can you provide any citations for it?
2) Define "corporate bribery" as it relates to somehow influencing this so-called "tax system for corporations"?
3) Once we know that both of this terms are being used to refer to something real that we all have common understanding of, you need to explicitly connect the two concepts together to substantiate your claim
If you need help start here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When you can make a claim that isn't based on nonsense hyperbole, come back and we can have a more serious discussion on the topic. That is, if it's really that important to you or you're simple interested in trolling.
For funsies, consider this, Corporation A in 1950 lobbies the federal government to get a part of the tax code changed to benefit them. The law remains unchanged to the day. Several corporations including B, C and D that had nothing do with Corporation A's actions use that part of the tax code in filing their version of "Turbo Tax" to lower their effective tax rate. Did Corporations B, C and D do anything wrong? Did you do anything wrong taking the child tax credit as opposed to doing your patriotic duty to pay your taxes for the benefit for everyone else?
Oh and just so you know. There was probably another part of this conversation:
Product Owner: Shouldn't we give them a way to control this behavior in settings?
Developer: Probably but this is a bug that came in out of band that we didn't plan for in sprint planning. If you want to do that it probably won't go out in the next release.
Product Owner: Ok, let's do the quick solution for now and get it in the next release. I'll create a new ticket for adding the setting in a future release
I kid you not. That's how stupid things are in Agile software development because no one can really effectively manage workloads or priorities.
Of course, the real question is: why didn't they do this when they put the slowdown software in in the first place? Treating your customers like milk cows makes it harder, not easier, to sell next-generation hardware.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
More likely sequence of events:
Customers keep calling complaining that their batteries are dying too fast because they don't understand the science behind Lithium Ion batteries
Customer support keeps logging cases with this issue and eventually creates a Jira ticket titled "iPhone batteries are dying too quickly" because they are sick of being bitched at by customers
Eventually the issue gets escalated
The Product Owner becomes aware that this is a super highly escalated ticket and pulls the team together to talk about solutions
One suggestion is to replace all the batteries but that would be too expensive and eventually the same problem would resurface later, no go
Developer: I know! What if we made a software change such that when we detect that the battery is passed a certain point in its life we'll proportionately slow down the CPU so the battery life is roughly the same?
Product Owner: How long does it take to implement that and how much effort is involved?
Developer: It would be super easy and we could get that out in the next update!
Product Owner: Perfect! Let's do that and close this escalated support case and go have a beer to celebrate!
That's how all stupid software decisions get made. You see the PO and the developers probably got tired of people bitching about this problem and just wanted to not hear about it anymore but it didn't work quite like they thought it would.
Every time I've taken an iphone into an apple store and requested battery service, they have come up with an excuse not to do it. They instead heavily pushing me to exchange for a refurbished phone of the same model.
Then learn how to be more assertive. They are required per Apple's corporate policy to replace your battery for $29.99. Tell them if they don't do what you ask you'll call the corporate office and complain right in the middle of the store and ask them to give you their Employee ID so you can complain specifically about them. I guarantee you'll get your replacement battery for $30. If that doesn't work threaten to make a State Attorney General complaint. You need to grow a pair. Don't let those high pressure sales people walk all over you. You show them who is boss.
It is a bad thing, because it's just another tax break for companies that are already evading taxes
Ok let's try your logic out here. By using Turbo Tax to comprehensively evaluate the tax code to get you the biggest tax refund aren't you also evading taxes by your definition? Corporations are basically using a more sophisticated version of "Turbo Tax" to lower their effective tax rate. Isn't that what you and everyone else is doing too? So much in fact that Turbo Tax, Tax Act, etc. all created profitable software businesses around it...
Intellectual property aka the knowledge about how to build something that you may or may not have a patent on is not technically transferable. What is transferable are the patents, copyrights, trademarks and any other rights to use the intellectual property. This article is really mincing words. No matter how you spin it, we are talking about repatriating money (assets of monetary value is you prefer) that is held abroad in foreign countries. We've been talking about it for years now. Whether it has something to do with intellectual property, subscriptions, licenses, patents, etc. is of no real interest. That's just partitioning the pile of money into categories. I don't care about that. What I care about are large sums of money sitting in a foreign country and there being no compelling reason for the holder of said funds to repatriate it to the United States to be used for the benefit of our country. We all know the primary reason that money isn't more frequently repatriated and that's because of prohibitive taxes on the money when it is transferred. No matter what your principles are or how much of a bunch greedy sacks of crap the 86% that holds 1% of the wealth is, lowering corporate taxes and tax holidays DO IN FACT make it more worth their consideration to repatriate the taxes. But we already know this and it's already be discussed ad nauseum on slashdot, why are we talking about it AGAIN?
You really ought to have put a trigger warning on your post to avoid microaggressions. Someone could have been mildly offended at what you wrote, or been inflicted with PTSD!
I know man. Nature and reality are so offensive. Life should come with warning labels too. It might offend someone. Seriously, there has got to be someone to complain to about how unfair reality and nature is. Whoever created this place is so not cool because it wasn't made special to suit all my personal preferences and I am soooo special, Mommy and Daddy told me so. eyeroll
Using Tinder at Starbucks, not wise. Not setting up a guest WIFI network at your house, not wise. Leave your front door open and put a sign in the middle of it that says "Please come and steal all my shit", not wise.
I would actually love to see the United States devolve back to 19th Century homestead life just to watch Millennials be completely clueless about how to survive. What are they going to do protect their homestead from bandits and brigands, have an academic discussion them with them about empathy and progressive idealism? No. You protect your shit, anticipating that someone is going to potentially trespass on your property as it's always been. That's your responsibility as an animal in nature. This is what survival of the fittest is all about. All these happy, feely, unicorn loving millennials would disappear as a result of natural selection in a generation or two if they had to really come face to face with the nature they've been insulated from by their helicopter parents.
When that grizzly bear is chasing you through the woods because it wants to eat you for dinner and you're trying to educate it about what a safe space is, let me know how that goes. Or rather, you won't be able to for obvious reasons.
Social media makes your personal information public! Film at 11! Another amazingly, intellectual stimulating contribution by msmash! It's a HOOK UP app for one night stands for crying out loud!
And by the way if you have a 401K or a 403B, you are a potential investor and driving this behavior as well...
It's not about maximizing profits necessarily. Investors prefer to see subscription based revenue rather than one time purchases or contracts with optional renewal. They are more likely to invest in your stock if you are publicly traded. This has to do with how financials are reported in SEC filings using GAP. You see after the Enron scandal, the government stepped in and changed how financials should be reported in SEC filings because Enron "cooked their books". Sometimes the ripple effects of regulation aren't what you would expect. There needed to be something done in terms of regulatory reform for that issue but I wonder if there was a better solution.
The same thing can happen again to things like Photoshop and Autocad. But in fact there are already non-subscription based programs that do the majority of what most users need in a package.
Can someone here remind this person how long slashdot has been saying GIMP is a suitable replacement for Photoshop, yet it's never happened. Has it already been 20 years? Wow... some things never change.
I don't use it unless I need it for my job. Then I let my employer pay for it.
I can't find statistics quickly enough, but I'll bet that more households go looking for a washing machine each year than go looking to buy solar panels. Let's see what happens when Joe Sixpack notices that the prices have jumped 30%.
Joe Sixpack doesn't buy solar panels. Joe Sixpack also buys the cheapest economy top load washing machine possible around $400 USD. That means Joe Sixpack's washer may cost upwards of $530 USD in the future if the entire cost is passed on and it's manufactured in China. Considering that Joe Sixpack probably only replaces his washing machine every 10 years or so, it's probably going to take awhile for Joe Sixpack to even notice.
"Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Washing Machines"
And where is the information about the already existing 150 tariffs that these two are going to be added to? Ah... it would spin quite as well that way now would it when we're looking at the actual facts. If we admitted there are already 150 existing tariffs and it hasn't completely flipped trade upside down, we couldn't as easily make it appear as though two additional tariffs would completely destabilize free trade with FUD.
This study has a few problems. For one, the participants were all adults; the argument is usually that violent video games have a harmful effect on children whose minds are still developing, and these experiments don't assess that
I'm sure it's fairly similar to teenage readers of Playboy objectifying women in adulthood or listening to satanic/immoral/whatever music. We have enough data for that.
Given the rise in popularity of music streaming, Netflix, and online shopping, I would think a LOT of the time "on the internet" is what in prior decades would have been spent watching TV, listening to radio, playing albums on various media, or in the local mall.
Ikr?? I mean my IoT fridge is connected to the damn internet.
Well I say: You spend one day week posting stupid articles to slashdot
I have seen this myself. I had a DevOps job (which I leaped from, to a far better place) where the Scrum master (who had the power to recommend terminations, and managers rubberstamped them) where the dev team was always in a sprint
And then one day management and the scrum master awoke on a bright cheery morning. Sun shining bright, birds chirping. What a glorious morning! They got their Starbucks coffee, kissed their wives and kids and drove into work with cheerful positive music and thinking very highly of themselves and how fortunate their company was to have them. For without them, the company wouldn't be able to function. The scrum master skips through the door, smile on their face and spring in their step and goes into the empty meeting room where the daily stand up is supposed to be. 5-10 minutes pass after the stand up was supposed to start and there was still no one there but the Scrum Master. Why could this be? Where is everyone? They must be late! Those lazy no good slackers! And then it dawned on the Scrum Master, I fired everybody because they didn't meet my ridiculous expectations and I can't write a line of code to save my life. Without anyone to scapegoat the problem onto, because they were all fired, the Scrum Master panicked, chaos ensued, angry customers called the CEO and eventually the business closed its doors and faded into history as another failed startup.
1) Corporate Cultural issues aka employee engagement - seriously if upper management is toxic and plays psychological games, who is going to give a shit about your software on any level let alone security?
2) Lack of software engineers with appropriate level of skill, education and experience. But you know it's because we can't find qualified candidates aka ones that are unicorns that will take minimum wage as compensation.
3) Companies that don't take security and risk seriously because hey why do we need to take this seriously now? We didn't take it seriously 20-30 years ago and now you're asking me to spend more money than I used to on "best practice"? You're just trying to trick me into giving away my precious money on things we really don't need like all those RAD tools I've been pitched over the years...
I could go on ad nauseum here but the TL;DR is: if you treat your employees like expendable pieces of shit that can supposedly be replaced by interns and contractors and tell them they should be thankful for it, your software is going to be shit on every level not just security.