Because a system with disabled USB mass storage, a DVD ROM drive, and no network connection, would be ignored by most IT/security people as not having a data ex filtration risk. It can get data onto it, but not off, so the security people would probably think "Even if someone gets malware onto it, it can't send data off it, because there's no way to do it. They can't even burn a DVD."
Getting the malware on it would probably be easier than getting data off it in some mass storage kind of way.
our data warehouse is very secure. tons of data gong in but nobody can get anything out of it no matter how hard we try.
Sounds like this is only useful if the computer is already compromised and has this special "fan-signal" malware on it.
If you've already got malware on your isolated system, it sounds like you've already got other problems.
yeah; the secure system has to be infected with the malware, and you have to be close enough to it to pick up the sound of the fan very precisely and decode it. if you're going to all that trouble, might as well have the infected system just read the damn data out to you over the speaker.
In the early 1980's one of my neighbors, a Honeywell employee, warned me that people could tell what I was printing out on my daisy-wheel printer just by listening through my open window. Apparently, each character of the Diablo 630 printer made a unique noise when struck.
As I was only printing teaching instructions for using the accounting software I trained users on, I thanked him kindly for the warning and carried on.
and the other direction; people would write music which was strings of ascii characters which would be played by printing them through a printer, given that the pitch of the printer whine would vary with what was printing.
Why? Because as soon as you air gap a machine, you need humans to ferry the data back and forth.
Now humans can exploited to be the exflitration path.
If you had a wire, you could control the protocol on the wire, put in overlapping constraints on traffic on the wire, and keep the humans out of the room.
There is more thorough analysis available, which basicly states, that the groups Remain and Leave have very distinct properties.
Remainers are younger than 45, live in large towns and have an university degree or are students at an university.
Leavers are older than 45, live in rural and small town regions, mainly in the East and North of England and in Central Wales, and have no university degree.
I found these comments really interesting because you're basically saying that the UK has now become just like the USA. We have the same issues here. People in small towns with no higher education have completely different values and desires from the educated people who live in cities. I can't speak to UK politics, but some of this in the US is the fault of the Republican Party, who in the past decade started embracing anti-intellectuals as a valued voting bloc. In fact, I'd point out that Sarah Palin has made her career out of promoting anti-intellectualism as the solution to all of America's problems. Sorry to hear you're now one of us, UK people.
from the US, it's reassuring; as we tend to have a bit of an inferiority complex relative to England in the intellectual field (anybody who appears in the US with an English accent is assumed to know what they're talking about), so it's nice to see the UK is as full of the cognitively challenged as the US is, maybe more.
Leavers are older than 45, live in rural and small town regions, mainly in the East and North of England and in Central Wales, and have no university degree.
A bit like Trump supporters? I wonder if they can be traced back to a common ancestor.
yes, prince herman the islamophobe of bavaria, 1674.
There is more thorough analysis available, which basicly states, that the groups Remain and Leave have very distinct properties.
Remainers are younger than 45, live in large towns and have an university degree or are students at an university.
Leavers are older than 45, live in rural and small town regions, mainly in the East and North of England and in Central Wales, and have no university degree.
In general, Remainers are profiting or hope to profite from Globalization and free movement, because they are young, well educated and live close to the economic centers. Leavers are much older, less well educated and live in regions which are hard hit by globalization and are in a long economic downturn. They were children or young adults, when UK joined the EU, and they feel they never got anything back during their lifetime, while all the profits from the economic cooperation went somewhere else.
ironically, the remainers, being younger, will ride out the market collapse caused by the leavers, as it corrects itself over time; whereas the leavers, having less time left and being more on fixed incomes, have torpedoed themselves in both feet nicely.
take the $199 and set up a Roth IRA by buying an index fund. then go out and get a job.
You can only contribute to a Roth IRA from earned income of a job. No job, no contribution. Spending $199 on a new suit for job interviews is better advice.
The bigger question is are you willing to invest in yourself? Paying $199 per month might be worth it. Most people who seek free learning materials on the Internet lack commitment because they don't have any money on the line.
take the $199 and set up a Roth IRA by buying an index fund. then go out and get a job.
Boring, clueless, nearly irrelevant and stuffed full of cash, Google has become the new Microsoft.
Once seen as a 'cool' and 'hip' place to work by many, the evil has set in, the stupid is strong, and it has become painfully clear that the Google is the new Microsoft: doomed to hilarious attempts to create/acquire new tech by throwing wads of cash randomly and hoping something sticks to it.
Yes, Google, the innovator: home of the wonderful AdSense, purveyors of quality thermostats, self-driving cars RealSoonNow (tm) (because I always wanted to buy me some top-shelp navigation software from an ad agency), and of course those really neat glasses and a plethora of spiffy here-today-gone-tomorrow web-apps.
Not just innovation, but innovation at WEB SCALE.
google's fine once you realize that everything they produce is always in beta.
"The company has partnered with Udacity to offer a "nanodegree" class designed for people with no programming experience at all. "
So aside from the improvement in quality, won't be much difference.
but here we still have to pay the school tax but get none of it in rebate.
That's probably because your state is run by Democrats and their teacher union allies hate home schooling. So like most government programs they take your money and give you nothing, especially if you're (a) white and (b) middle class. Isn't socialism wonderful?
So you're saying the education system has definitely failed you.
What is the reason that this is organised as one team instead of multiple teams?
Developers working in different locations on different projects for different customers sounds like the definition of multiple teams to me.
i was thinking the other day..... about dogsled racing. you know like the iditarod. that started me wondering whether there was a top speed record for dogsleds, that started me thinking about designing a world land speed record dogsled.
first think i thought of in the design: hook up a hundred dogs.
Once they're working for you and you understand your developers, either you'll figure out something, or you won't.
Quit trying to stuff them into boxes before you even know what makes them tick.
management technique most popular; stuff them into boxes before you even know what makes them tick; then when you find out what makes them tick, nail the box shut.
> build cohesion, alignment and trust for my team of embedded software developers in this new three-dimensional distributed matrix organization
I say create a common enemy for those people, and then use that to steer them away from certain things. Fear and anger can accomplish great things together. So any kind of management would do, i guess. As for the three-dimensional distributed matrix organization, i have no idea. Perhaps look into the Borg.
i for one welcome the new three-dimensional masters of Flatland.
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Xenophobes have destroyed the UK. Scotland will leave to join the EU. We're not going to let our hate-fueled Trump supporters do the same in America.
good news for all of us americans who used to think british were on the average more intelligent just cause they talk good.
Because a system with disabled USB mass storage, a DVD ROM drive, and no network connection, would be ignored by most IT/security people as not having a data ex filtration risk. It can get data onto it, but not off, so the security people would probably think "Even if someone gets malware onto it, it can't send data off it, because there's no way to do it. They can't even burn a DVD."
Getting the malware on it would probably be easier than getting data off it in some mass storage kind of way.
our data warehouse is very secure. tons of data gong in but nobody can get anything out of it no matter how hard we try.
Sounds like this is only useful if the computer is already compromised and has this special "fan-signal" malware on it. If you've already got malware on your isolated system, it sounds like you've already got other problems.
yeah; the secure system has to be infected with the malware, and you have to be close enough to it to pick up the sound of the fan very precisely and decode it. if you're going to all that trouble, might as well have the infected system just read the damn data out to you over the speaker.
In the early 1980's one of my neighbors, a Honeywell employee, warned me that people could tell what I was printing out on my daisy-wheel printer just by listening through my open window. Apparently, each character of the Diablo 630 printer made a unique noise when struck. As I was only printing teaching instructions for using the accounting software I trained users on, I thanked him kindly for the warning and carried on.
and the other direction; people would write music which was strings of ascii characters which would be played by printing them through a printer, given that the pitch of the printer whine would vary with what was printing.
Air gapping machines is not effective.
Why? Because as soon as you air gap a machine, you need humans to ferry the data back and forth. Now humans can exploited to be the exflitration path.
If you had a wire, you could control the protocol on the wire, put in overlapping constraints on traffic on the wire, and keep the humans out of the room.
no; you train capuchin monkeys to ferry the data.
"[...] that can be picked up by the human year." I think they meant ear?
yuge mistake.
run all the machines in a vacuum.
endemic is my password!
It was a very English election:
Pride and Prejudice 52%,
Sense and Sensibility 48%
This is a local country, for local people!
Hello Dave?
There is more thorough analysis available, which basicly states, that the groups Remain and Leave have very distinct properties.
Remainers are younger than 45, live in large towns and have an university degree or are students at an university.
Leavers are older than 45, live in rural and small town regions, mainly in the East and North of England and in Central Wales, and have no university degree.
I found these comments really interesting because you're basically saying that the UK has now become just like the USA. We have the same issues here. People in small towns with no higher education have completely different values and desires from the educated people who live in cities. I can't speak to UK politics, but some of this in the US is the fault of the Republican Party, who in the past decade started embracing anti-intellectuals as a valued voting bloc. In fact, I'd point out that Sarah Palin has made her career out of promoting anti-intellectualism as the solution to all of America's problems. Sorry to hear you're now one of us, UK people.
from the US, it's reassuring; as we tend to have a bit of an inferiority complex relative to England in the intellectual field (anybody who appears in the US with an English accent is assumed to know what they're talking about), so it's nice to see the UK is as full of the cognitively challenged as the US is, maybe more.
A bit like Trump supporters? I wonder if they can be traced back to a common ancestor.
yes, prince herman the islamophobe of bavaria, 1674.
There is more thorough analysis available, which basicly states, that the groups Remain and Leave have very distinct properties.
Remainers are younger than 45, live in large towns and have an university degree or are students at an university.
Leavers are older than 45, live in rural and small town regions, mainly in the East and North of England and in Central Wales, and have no university degree.
In general, Remainers are profiting or hope to profite from Globalization and free movement, because they are young, well educated and live close to the economic centers. Leavers are much older, less well educated and live in regions which are hard hit by globalization and are in a long economic downturn. They were children or young adults, when UK joined the EU, and they feel they never got anything back during their lifetime, while all the profits from the economic cooperation went somewhere else.
ironically, the remainers, being younger, will ride out the market collapse caused by the leavers, as it corrects itself over time; whereas the leavers, having less time left and being more on fixed incomes, have torpedoed themselves in both feet nicely.
take the $199 and set up a Roth IRA by buying an index fund. then go out and get a job.
You can only contribute to a Roth IRA from earned income of a job. No job, no contribution. Spending $199 on a new suit for job interviews is better advice.
huh. gotta admit i didn't know that.
The bigger question is are you willing to invest in yourself? Paying $199 per month might be worth it. Most people who seek free learning materials on the Internet lack commitment because they don't have any money on the line.
take the $199 and set up a Roth IRA by buying an index fund. then go out and get a job.
By that logic all of the people who fell for "Trump University" are now billionaires.
well trump is. he says.
the question is where in the curriculum do you learn about zero sum games.
Boring, clueless, nearly irrelevant and stuffed full of cash, Google has become the new Microsoft. Once seen as a 'cool' and 'hip' place to work by many, the evil has set in, the stupid is strong, and it has become painfully clear that the Google is the new Microsoft: doomed to hilarious attempts to create/acquire new tech by throwing wads of cash randomly and hoping something sticks to it. Yes, Google, the innovator: home of the wonderful AdSense, purveyors of quality thermostats, self-driving cars RealSoonNow (tm) (because I always wanted to buy me some top-shelp navigation software from an ad agency), and of course those really neat glasses and a plethora of spiffy here-today-gone-tomorrow web-apps. Not just innovation, but innovation at WEB SCALE.
google's fine once you realize that everything they produce is always in beta.
Because you can earn a prestigious nano-degree!
quite the resume builder.
"The company has partnered with Udacity to offer a "nanodegree" class designed for people with no programming experience at all. " So aside from the improvement in quality, won't be much difference.
"a nano-degree class"
This course is actually designed to produce the managers of tomorrow.
In the future, rather than one big manager, everybody will have billions of nanomanagers.
Why would I pay $200 a month for 0.000000001 of a degree? That doesn't seem like a good deal.
it's global warming!
but here we still have to pay the school tax but get none of it in rebate.
That's probably because your state is run by Democrats and their teacher union allies hate home schooling. So like most government programs they take your money and give you nothing, especially if you're (a) white and (b) middle class. Isn't socialism wonderful?
So you're saying the education system has definitely failed you.
What is the reason that this is organised as one team instead of multiple teams?
Developers working in different locations on different projects for different customers sounds like the definition of multiple teams to me.
i was thinking the other day..... about dogsled racing. you know like the iditarod. that started me wondering whether there was a top speed record for dogsleds, that started me thinking about designing a world land speed record dogsled.
first think i thought of in the design: hook up a hundred dogs.
Once they're working for you and you understand your developers, either you'll figure out something, or you won't.
Quit trying to stuff them into boxes before you even know what makes them tick.
management technique most popular; stuff them into boxes before you even know what makes them tick; then when you find out what makes them tick, nail the box shut.
After reading the article again i see:
> build cohesion, alignment and trust for my team of embedded software developers in this new three-dimensional distributed matrix organization
I say create a common enemy for those people, and then use that to steer them away from certain things. Fear and anger can accomplish great things together. So any kind of management would do, i guess. As for the three-dimensional distributed matrix organization, i have no idea. Perhaps look into the Borg.
i for one welcome the new three-dimensional masters of Flatland.