Because they were caught. The CIA only wants employees smart enough to not get caught doing these things. Honestly, if you're dumb enough to get caught stealing from a !@#$ vending machine, how can they trust you to steal from the Russians?
My concern is this gives the government the ability to track your movements, something they should only be able to do with a warrant. Sure, it starts with this camera in a few places, next thing you know, they'll have all sorts of cameras tracking all sorts of offences. And if the red light cameras are any indicator of future behavior, they'll start gaming the system to increase revenue. "We need more income from these red light cameras, let's make the light cycle shorter!"
Then there's the income the contractors make. 50% pretty substantial sum, and now they're also interested in gaming the system to increase revenue as well. There's also a pretty good chance of corruption involved. With such lucrative revenue streams, the contractors that get awarded the deal are more than willing to offer kickbacks to the decision makers, or the deal goes to the friend of the governor or something. I love capitalism, but I hate crony capitalism.
Just what we need, more of the government telling us how to raise our kids. I personally haven't given my kids smartphones until they were 15. But I can certainly see circumstances other people might have in giving their kids smartphones and everyone's circumstances are different. Just because it may be a bad idea in general, doesn't mean it's a bad for everyone. Keep the decision making in the hands of those who know the kids and their circumstances best.
The good ol' days, when Intel just announcing the Itanium caused all the other proprietary Unix vendors' stock to crash. Everyone was sure that within one generation, all the SPARC & POWER chips would shrivel up and die. HP rolled over immediately and gave up their line of PA-RISC procs to use Itanium. But Intel crippled their Xeons in fear that the Xeons would eat into their Itanium line, and then AMD walked in and gave people what they really wanted with their Opterons. There were a few years when things were really rocky for Intel, and it was very entertaining to watch, especially since I worked for them at the time:)
The point of periodic password changes is to protect against an *UNKNOWN* breach, where the password has been compromised and the user doesn't know. Is there some other method of mitigation for this attack?
Except, many times the new password is easily guessable if you knew the old password. Say the old password was: HelloWorld1, there's a pretty good chance the new password is HelloWorld2. If you use the complete set of NIST recommendations, you'll be in really good shape. MFA, a dictionary of common passwords and sets of known passwords from compromised systems (hackers will test against those before they bother brute forcing), and you'll be in pretty good shape.
I answered in a very simple-minded voice, and told "Paul," after he explained that they're tracking all sorts of malicious traffic coming from my computer that I liked it that way. When he tried to confirm that statement, I told him I liked to share. By that point I was far enough off of his script that he gave up and hung up the phone.
I think next time I'm going to sound all cagey and worried that people were finding out about the kinds of malicious scripts I've been writing.
Since the CIA & FBI are keeping the vulnerabilities they find secret, these companies just need to start planting spies in the CIA & FBI to find out what bugs they have on their software.
I had been laid off and ended up quickly taking a new job for $15k less than I was making before, but offered me a chance to build some additional skills I wanted. After about a year, I found a job I was a perfect match for, and while talking to the recruiter, she asked how much I was currently making. I gave her the answer, which was probably $40-50k less than what the job was likely to pay. She laughed and hung up on me. I was not amused.
I'm just waiting for someone to make flying bird drones and then launch them against the whitehouse. If you make a flock of them, they could do some serious damage, or take out the helilcopter. I don't see a good way we could defend against such an attack.
I'm just waiting for the next movie where the main character is being chased down either by a draconian government or some super hacker. The main character clearly knows the risk, so he's driving a 1969 Mustang, but suddenly, all the cars on the freeway start chasing him down and trying to run him off the road.
Cut the poor guy some slack. He clearly has been living with a slow internet connection and hasn't quite figured out that bandwidth and learning don't scale linearly together.
If you didn't like the game, you clearly don't have a sense of humor. Here, watch these Monty Python vids and then come back and play the game again. It really will help.
Many companies won't give more information than this. I know Intel doesn't for legal reasons. That's why I list my employers, but my references are colleagues I've worked with.
Um, the W's are Workstation grade laptops. They come with high end graphics cards meant for heavy CAD use, quad core CPUs and 32G of RAM, and high res screens. My w520 is fully loaded and kicks serious butt. It's in the same league as the Dell Precision and HP Elitebook W series laptops.
My wife had very strict requirements in the naming of our kids. She scrutinized every suggestion I ever made, just to see if there was some strange connection to technology that I was trying to sneak in there.
When it came time to name my son, I managed to massage the suggestions in such a way that his initials came out to be TTY. As she mulled the name over in her head, she said, "Hmm, TTY. I've heard of that, what does that stand for?" I replied with an uninterested voice, "Um, I think it stands for teletypewriter. I think they use it for deaf people on phones."
That didn't sound very geeky to her, so she let it slide. To this day, she doesn't realize how awesome it is that my son's initials are TTY:)
The war between China and Google will certainly become more interesting when Google develops its own nuclear weapons. They probably have all the information they need to complete them, all they have to do is... google it.
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Because they were caught. The CIA only wants employees smart enough to not get caught doing these things. Honestly, if you're dumb enough to get caught stealing from a !@#$ vending machine, how can they trust you to steal from the Russians?
My concern is this gives the government the ability to track your movements, something they should only be able to do with a warrant. Sure, it starts with this camera in a few places, next thing you know, they'll have all sorts of cameras tracking all sorts of offences. And if the red light cameras are any indicator of future behavior, they'll start gaming the system to increase revenue. "We need more income from these red light cameras, let's make the light cycle shorter!"
Then there's the income the contractors make. 50% pretty substantial sum, and now they're also interested in gaming the system to increase revenue as well. There's also a pretty good chance of corruption involved. With such lucrative revenue streams, the contractors that get awarded the deal are more than willing to offer kickbacks to the decision makers, or the deal goes to the friend of the governor or something. I love capitalism, but I hate crony capitalism.
Just what we need, more of the government telling us how to raise our kids. I personally haven't given my kids smartphones until they were 15. But I can certainly see circumstances other people might have in giving their kids smartphones and everyone's circumstances are different. Just because it may be a bad idea in general, doesn't mean it's a bad for everyone. Keep the decision making in the hands of those who know the kids and their circumstances best.
The good ol' days, when Intel just announcing the Itanium caused all the other proprietary Unix vendors' stock to crash. Everyone was sure that within one generation, all the SPARC & POWER chips would shrivel up and die. HP rolled over immediately and gave up their line of PA-RISC procs to use Itanium. But Intel crippled their Xeons in fear that the Xeons would eat into their Itanium line, and then AMD walked in and gave people what they really wanted with their Opterons. There were a few years when things were really rocky for Intel, and it was very entertaining to watch, especially since I worked for them at the time :)
The point of periodic password changes is to protect against an *UNKNOWN* breach, where the password has been compromised and the user doesn't know. Is there some other method of mitigation for this attack?
Except, many times the new password is easily guessable if you knew the old password. Say the old password was: HelloWorld1, there's a pretty good chance the new password is HelloWorld2. If you use the complete set of NIST recommendations, you'll be in really good shape. MFA, a dictionary of common passwords and sets of known passwords from compromised systems (hackers will test against those before they bother brute forcing), and you'll be in pretty good shape.
Today I learned that the emergency weather warning service can double as an air raid service as well!
I answered in a very simple-minded voice, and told "Paul," after he explained that they're tracking all sorts of malicious traffic coming from my computer that I liked it that way. When he tried to confirm that statement, I told him I liked to share. By that point I was far enough off of his script that he gave up and hung up the phone.
I think next time I'm going to sound all cagey and worried that people were finding out about the kinds of malicious scripts I've been writing.
Since the CIA & FBI are keeping the vulnerabilities they find secret, these companies just need to start planting spies in the CIA & FBI to find out what bugs they have on their software.
I had been laid off and ended up quickly taking a new job for $15k less than I was making before, but offered me a chance to build some additional skills I wanted. After about a year, I found a job I was a perfect match for, and while talking to the recruiter, she asked how much I was currently making. I gave her the answer, which was probably $40-50k less than what the job was likely to pay. She laughed and hung up on me. I was not amused.
... they'd just replace the command shell with the linux bash shell they just added!
I've always used the CAPSLOCK as a CONTROL key, just where the good lord always intended it to be. Making this the escape seems a bit blasphemic.
I'm just waiting for someone to make flying bird drones and then launch them against the whitehouse. If you make a flock of them, they could do some serious damage, or take out the helilcopter. I don't see a good way we could defend against such an attack.
I'm just waiting for the next movie where the main character is being chased down either by a draconian government or some super hacker. The main character clearly knows the risk, so he's driving a 1969 Mustang, but suddenly, all the cars on the freeway start chasing him down and trying to run him off the road.
The first rule of localization procedures is that you don't talk about localization procedures!
Cut the poor guy some slack. He clearly has been living with a slow internet connection and hasn't quite figured out that bandwidth and learning don't scale linearly together.
If you didn't like the game, you clearly don't have a sense of humor. Here, watch these Monty Python vids and then come back and play the game again. It really will help.
I'm reading this while wearing my three wolf moon shirt. It's the best shirt in the world, if only it glowed in the dark.
Many companies won't give more information than this. I know Intel doesn't for legal reasons. That's why I list my employers, but my references are colleagues I've worked with.
Here, I'll RTFA for you, hopefully you're not too lazy to read this reply :)
It's dangerous if you're using virtual keyboards, as they can then track where your mouse is and potentially work as a keylogger.
Um, the W's are Workstation grade laptops. They come with high end graphics cards meant for heavy CAD use, quad core CPUs and 32G of RAM, and high res screens. My w520 is fully loaded and kicks serious butt. It's in the same league as the Dell Precision and HP Elitebook W series laptops.
Easy, just write them on post-its and attach it to your monitor at work. It's the most secure location there is.
...with the body turned all the way around with the free hand hitting the screaming kids in the back seat.
My wife had very strict requirements in the naming of our kids. She scrutinized every suggestion I ever made, just to see if there was some strange connection to technology that I was trying to sneak in there.
When it came time to name my son, I managed to massage the suggestions in such a way that his initials came out to be TTY. As she mulled the name over in her head, she said, "Hmm, TTY. I've heard of that, what does that stand for?" I replied with an uninterested voice, "Um, I think it stands for teletypewriter. I think they use it for deaf people on phones."
That didn't sound very geeky to her, so she let it slide. To this day, she doesn't realize how awesome it is that my son's initials are TTY :)
You could always use "Forward", which includes the original message along with the list of original recipients.
The war between China and Google will certainly become more interesting when Google develops its own nuclear weapons. They probably have all the information they need to complete them, all they have to do is... google it.