It's not the right of privacy of the daughter, that the ruling was about, it's the right of privacy of the people she was talking to (probably mostly other minors the parents of the daughter were not legal wardens of). And those conversations thus are protected by the Secrecy of correspondence.
Devil's advocate: The other people (legal adults) should know that at any time the minor's parents are legally able to view any of their child's communications/accounts. The fact that the child is dead shouldn't matter.
Also, to the best of my knowledge, there is no explicit right to privacy in Germany or the USA. We like to think we have privacy from the government (which we do to a certain point: 4th amendment), but we don't necessarily have total privacy from parents or spouses. And I know in the USA, courts have ruled that way in the past.
Bristol, Silicon Valley, whatever....it doesn't matter. Yes, ESPN messed up and there is still time to correct the ship because they still are the leader in US sports broadcasting. But location doesn't matter when you're setting up an online presence.
I'm not sure about German laws on this topic, but it seems to me that most nations consider the age of 15 to be a minor and that their legal guardians have total control of their possessions, including accounts of this nature. Rights of privacy wouldn't kick in until they are a legal adult.
I'm sure others will know more about this than me. I'm just starting the conversation...
I have viewed it from his PoV. There was no request ever made for "Andy" to do this project. He did it on his own. No authorization. No get out of jail free card for breaking company policy. There was no deadline. There was no hole. He wanted to play around, was careless with company data and unknowingly exposed sensitive information to people outside of the company. He should have been terminated on the spot.
Is this what we're calling people who are security nightmares for organizations now? The script kiddie who thought it would be fun to store data in Excel/Access files outside of company control and outside of the ERP? They thought it would be cool to store vital company data in multiple spots, so none of it matched and meant that all of the reports conflicted with each other. Is that what we mean by tech savvy?
Cool. Let me know how that works out for you cause I'm done cleaning up those messes.
COO: Hey did you know that Andy has a really cool report that shows our operational KPIs? Me: Really? How's he doing it? COO: I don't know but it's really nice. Me: [goes to employee] Andy, how are you getting those reports for management? Andy: Oh, I just setup a little Excel/Access/DB over here on this site and then I copy/paste some stuff into from application ___ and then manually fill in some of the other info as I get it. Me: Oh, so you're violating company policy by storing that data separately and even outside of company control? Andy: Yeah, I guess so. Me: Well, I'd like to run a consistency check on the data against our DB. Can you get me a data dump? Andy: Sure. Me: [runs checks against production data] Me: Hey COO, most of the data in Andy's reports are crap. There are serious data integrity issues. You shouldn't base any decisions on those reports. COO: what? You need to fix this. Me: No, I already provide the reports as you have requested. Those reports are based on the actual data in the system. Not something copied half-assed by a kid with no DB experience.
This attack happened because the US Government didn't do it's job. It's primary task is national defense. It kept a vulnerability to itself to attack foreigners instead of protecting it's own infrastructure, businesses and individuals. The government had these tools taken and passed around for everyone to use.
And crap like this is why governments can never be allowed to have backdoors. The secrets will always get out. Everyone is vulnerable.
I don't use screen protectors or cases on my smartphones because I don't treat them like shit. I can count on one hand the number of times I have dropped them in the last 10 years. My 3 year old Dell Latitude E7440 doesn't have any scratches. It's in mint condition and I use it 5-6 days a week or more.
I don't care if it's my device or my companies device. It is going to last for it's designed lifespan and then some.
is that there are too many software packages in use by organizations that require legacy support that won't work within many new browsers. My company has software that requires IE9 with outdated plugins that haven't been developed since 2003. It's the only software that the company makes avaivable to interface with their engines. And the same employees have requirements for newer versions of IE, Firefox or Chrome. Then there are the Java apps that won't run in Firefox or Chrome anymore even with the latest Java release installed.
If you're looking for government waste to be outraged about I'm sure you can find something orders of magnitude higher than a failed R&D project.
It's things that like this over a very long period of time that got us the huge amount of debt we're in. The amount of bad spending doesn't matter - it is all very bad and it all contributes to the problem. Our current debt isn't just the fault of Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc... It is the fault of tens and hundreds of thousands of federal employees who misspent the taxpayers' money.
I would assume the 787 design is essentially finished, which I assume means a big reduction in engineering. Is there anything else in the pipeline, or has commercial aircraft design become too expensive? Hire & fire is nothing new in aerospace.
I thought the same thing. Wouldn't a slow sales period mean that you need less manufacturing workers?
While my dad would occasionally bring his portable computer home from work for me to use, my family's first computer was in the fall of 1993.
Gateway 486/33SX 33MHz Intel processor 4MB RAM 1MB Video RAM 212MB hard drive 3.5" floppy 5x ISA expansion slots Gateway AnyKey Keyboard DOS 6.x and Windows 3.1
Eventual upgrades included: 6X CD-ROM SoundBlaster sound card 32MB RAM Pentium 83MHz Overdrive processor 3Com 10mbps NIC Windows 95/98 750MB hard drive Parallel ZIP drive
Let the students schedule their class time, just like they do now. Let early morning risers take their morning classes. Let the bums schedule their afternoon and evening classes.
Why even contemplate changing the start time to a later time?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but its already happening and the industry can't wait for it to happen mainstream. Check out the stories of OTTO and their shipments of Budweiser using driverless technology.
Weird. I have 2800 series routers and 3750 series switches that have over 10 years uptime. Never powered off. Never restarted. Running since June 2006. They are solid.
Now I will admit that I'm behind on my IOS updates.
That means someone would have to be dumb enough to 1) Have the mgmt of the switch be publicly available 2) Have Telnet enabled.
Don't get me wrong, it's a bad bug. But a security-minded admin should not have these problems.
Err.. yes/no..
If I was going to attempt to exploit something like this, I'd assume most would be inaccessible from the internet as a general use or would be white listed only..
What I WOULD do is use this in conjuction with a machine level hack/compromise inside their network and then run amuk from there.. That's much easier to do and less will have full firewall off from within their networks from all PC segments.
That means someone would have to be dumb enough to 1) Have the mgmt of the switch be publicly available 2) Have Telnet enabled.
3) Purchase from a vendor that does not understand security well enough to disable telnet.
Telnet is not enabled by default on any interface on Cisco switches. I've been using them since 1999 and I can't think of a time when an out-of-the-box switch had Telnet enabled.
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It's not the right of privacy of the daughter, that the ruling was about, it's the right of privacy of the people she was talking to (probably mostly other minors the parents of the daughter were not legal wardens of). And those conversations thus are protected by the Secrecy of correspondence.
Devil's advocate: The other people (legal adults) should know that at any time the minor's parents are legally able to view any of their child's communications/accounts. The fact that the child is dead shouldn't matter.
Also, to the best of my knowledge, there is no explicit right to privacy in Germany or the USA. We like to think we have privacy from the government (which we do to a certain point: 4th amendment), but we don't necessarily have total privacy from parents or spouses. And I know in the USA, courts have ruled that way in the past.
As opposed to another type of servers? Do they have building & grounds servers? Operations servers? Receptionist servers?
Just curious...
Bristol, Silicon Valley, whatever....it doesn't matter. Yes, ESPN messed up and there is still time to correct the ship because they still are the leader in US sports broadcasting. But location doesn't matter when you're setting up an online presence.
I'm not sure about German laws on this topic, but it seems to me that most nations consider the age of 15 to be a minor and that their legal guardians have total control of their possessions, including accounts of this nature. Rights of privacy wouldn't kick in until they are a legal adult.
I'm sure others will know more about this than me. I'm just starting the conversation...
And aren't there existing insurance policies that cover this stuff?
I have viewed it from his PoV. There was no request ever made for "Andy" to do this project. He did it on his own. No authorization. No get out of jail free card for breaking company policy. There was no deadline. There was no hole. He wanted to play around, was careless with company data and unknowingly exposed sensitive information to people outside of the company. He should have been terminated on the spot.
Except he didn't go to I.T. first.
Is this what we're calling people who are security nightmares for organizations now? The script kiddie who thought it would be fun to store data in Excel/Access files outside of company control and outside of the ERP? They thought it would be cool to store vital company data in multiple spots, so none of it matched and meant that all of the reports conflicted with each other. Is that what we mean by tech savvy?
Cool. Let me know how that works out for you cause I'm done cleaning up those messes.
COO: Hey did you know that Andy has a really cool report that shows our operational KPIs?
Me: Really? How's he doing it?
COO: I don't know but it's really nice.
Me: [goes to employee] Andy, how are you getting those reports for management?
Andy: Oh, I just setup a little Excel/Access/DB over here on this site and then I copy/paste some stuff into from application ___ and then manually fill in some of the other info as I get it.
Me: Oh, so you're violating company policy by storing that data separately and even outside of company control?
Andy: Yeah, I guess so.
Me: Well, I'd like to run a consistency check on the data against our DB. Can you get me a data dump?
Andy: Sure.
Me: [runs checks against production data]
Me: Hey COO, most of the data in Andy's reports are crap. There are serious data integrity issues. You shouldn't base any decisions on those reports.
COO: what? You need to fix this.
Me: No, I already provide the reports as you have requested. Those reports are based on the actual data in the system. Not something copied half-assed by a kid with no DB experience.
The Windows XP Embedded OS is still supported by Microsoft. It still receives security updates.
This attack happened because the US Government didn't do it's job. It's primary task is national defense. It kept a vulnerability to itself to attack foreigners instead of protecting it's own infrastructure, businesses and individuals. The government had these tools taken and passed around for everyone to use.
And crap like this is why governments can never be allowed to have backdoors. The secrets will always get out. Everyone is vulnerable.
I don't use screen protectors or cases on my smartphones because I don't treat them like shit. I can count on one hand the number of times I have dropped them in the last 10 years. My 3 year old Dell Latitude E7440 doesn't have any scratches. It's in mint condition and I use it 5-6 days a week or more.
I don't care if it's my device or my companies device. It is going to last for it's designed lifespan and then some.
is that there are too many software packages in use by organizations that require legacy support that won't work within many new browsers. My company has software that requires IE9 with outdated plugins that haven't been developed since 2003. It's the only software that the company makes avaivable to interface with their engines. And the same employees have requirements for newer versions of IE, Firefox or Chrome. Then there are the Java apps that won't run in Firefox or Chrome anymore even with the latest Java release installed.
It's a fricken nightmare anymore.
If you're looking for government waste to be outraged about I'm sure you can find something orders of magnitude higher than a failed R&D project.
It's things that like this over a very long period of time that got us the huge amount of debt we're in. The amount of bad spending doesn't matter - it is all very bad and it all contributes to the problem. Our current debt isn't just the fault of Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc... It is the fault of tens and hundreds of thousands of federal employees who misspent the taxpayers' money.
I would assume the 787 design is essentially finished, which I assume means a big reduction in engineering. Is there anything else in the pipeline, or has commercial aircraft design become too expensive? Hire & fire is nothing new in aerospace.
I thought the same thing. Wouldn't a slow sales period mean that you need less manufacturing workers?
While my dad would occasionally bring his portable computer home from work for me to use, my family's first computer was in the fall of 1993.
Gateway 486/33SX
33MHz Intel processor
4MB RAM
1MB Video RAM
212MB hard drive
3.5" floppy
5x ISA expansion slots
Gateway AnyKey Keyboard
DOS 6.x and Windows 3.1
Eventual upgrades included:
6X CD-ROM
SoundBlaster sound card
32MB RAM
Pentium 83MHz Overdrive processor
3Com 10mbps NIC
Windows 95/98
750MB hard drive
Parallel ZIP drive
Let the students schedule their class time, just like they do now. Let early morning risers take their morning classes. Let the bums schedule their afternoon and evening classes.
Why even contemplate changing the start time to a later time?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but its already happening and the industry can't wait for it to happen mainstream. Check out the stories of OTTO and their shipments of Budweiser using driverless technology.
So, does that mean I can run BlackBerry on my Cisco hardware? ;)
My friends that hate BB and Cisco will shit over that. :)
Weird. I have 2800 series routers and 3750 series switches that have over 10 years uptime. Never powered off. Never restarted. Running since June 2006. They are solid.
Now I will admit that I'm behind on my IOS updates.
I would love to see this done with Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge! I loved those games.
I can't think of *ANY* Cisco switch that had telnet enabled by default.
That means someone would have to be dumb enough to
1) Have the mgmt of the switch be publicly available
2) Have Telnet enabled.
Don't get me wrong, it's a bad bug. But a security-minded admin should not have these problems.
Err.. yes/no..
If I was going to attempt to exploit something like this, I'd assume most would be inaccessible from the internet as a general use or would be white listed only..
What I WOULD do is use this in conjuction with a machine level hack/compromise inside their network and then run amuk from there.. That's much easier to do and less will have full firewall off from within their networks from all PC segments.
Which would still require Telnet to be enabled.
That means someone would have to be dumb enough to
1) Have the mgmt of the switch be publicly available
2) Have Telnet enabled.
3) Purchase from a vendor that does not understand security well enough to disable telnet.
Telnet is not enabled by default on any interface on Cisco switches. I've been using them since 1999 and I can't think of a time when an out-of-the-box switch had Telnet enabled.
That means someone would have to be dumb enough to
1) Have the mgmt of the switch be publicly available
2) Have Telnet enabled.
Don't get me wrong, it's a bad bug. But a security-minded admin should not have these problems.
That's always true.
I didn't type that correctly. I meant to say "That's not always true."
Ugh. Need an edit function...