HBGary is Black Hat. And Mercenary. They are a boot on the neck of the American people.
Is torture "White Hat Interrogation" when done by the US, as opposed to the former DDR?
No. Only if your name is Rumsfeld, Gonzalez or Yoo, would you disagree.
HBGary is a fascist tool - more akin to the "Ministry of Information" of Brazil, than any recognisable "White Hat" group - say Rapid7.
HBGary trades in 0-Days for profit, to organisations which act without regard to Constitutional provisions. They advertise tools and methodology to conduct PsyOps and openly advocate methods to subvert the democratic properties of modern public communications channels.
HBGary colludes with insiders to use Government power to cement corporate advantage over the interests of the citizens and tax-payers of the United States, in the name of "national security".
They are a fraud and a blight on the purported claims of a free and open society. Like in the movie "Brazil", the methods of Mr. Barr have identified individuals in error. In the age of Abdulrahman Zeitoun and Bradley Manning, the consequences are quite possibly as dire for those individuals, as they were for Mr. Buttle and Sam Lowery.
Maybe Gartner is marketing BS. I know they have a LOT more of their bread buttered by MS, than they do by VMW.
You wan to jump from datacenter-oriented storage and network capability to cloud abstraction? That's not really an argument as it is a diversion.:-)
> Microsoft is basing Azure on Hyper-V,
Red herring. Azure is PaaS. The comparison is like saying TiVo is based on Linux. In this case the service-orientation of the IaaS layer (HyperV) services the cloud data center operators, not the end customers.
> There's a reason Amazon, Rackspace, and most other > commerical "cloud" services are based on Xen rather > than VMWare.
Whoa! You already split your line of evidence down one separate path - yet you want to fork the argument again?
1) Rackspace resells Amazon technology. They are not a multiplier.
2) Amazon spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop cloud management and operations frameworks around Xen, their commodity hypervisor of choice (free). If you want to strip virtualization value down to the core, Ring-0 technology and develop your own cloud service for similar costs, go right ahead. Amazon had a business model to develop, not a technology choice. And, I wish 'em good luck in achieving security and compliance targets. That said? Great customer choice for cheap, elastic, "bursty" raw compute cycles. They will thrive as a part of hybrid cloud architectures with application standards.
When MS produces an equivalent to the DVS, and has basic FT like muti-path uplink, I'll pay them some attention. They have no clue about network virtualization, beyond local resource abstraction. They want to scale on VLAN tags and IPsec. Good luck.
And look at this. I have never seen a technology so completely dominate the upper right corner of a Gartner quad in years. MS is admirable to be above the horizon in 3-4 short years, but there is no contest, nor will there really ever get to be one.
Management? MS will still try and convince you of SCCM and the broken DCM.
Security? IPSec isolation everywhere - which your failover times on the IKE renegotiation!
HyperV is a great, cheap QA and Dev lab solution, because it's free with 4 v-instances on Enterprise SKUs. But if you have to tool dev/test different for deployment that you do production? The savings are a false economy.
You don't know of the storage technology in VMware, nor of the value of the cooperative storage ecosystem that SAN and NAS players have invested hundreds of millions into.
This really removes the basis on which you make your further claims.
In short, VMware is successful as the most capable solution of enterprise-scale, exactly because it virtualises not just server hosts, but brings a virtual model to storage - not to mention networking. There is nothing comparable in the MS world, which seeks to leverage existing cluster technology from Server2008 to present a model for VHD storage.
Microsoft has a sad hack to commit memory in a way that shaves a fraction off of the VMware machine density advantage. They are still competing with a 2006-era VMware - they have no clue how to get out of this, aside from dumping a billion dollars into compete marketing efforts.
The massive executive and senior-engineering exodus from MS is a clear sign that -- even in the halls where sacred Kool-Aid is draughted -- the days of leadership are over, almost before they were enjoyed.
MS crap storage development doesn't bode very well for their hopes to catch up with VMware's 6-year tech lead against Hyper-V, does it?
Storage and networking, things MS is either negligent, ignorant or haphazard at understanding and delivering, are key to a fully abstracted virtual environment. The MS plan seems to amount to having Citrix solve these issues - when they manage to think of these technologies at all.
Storage partners will stay married to VMware, and occasionally take MS cash to compensate themselves for producing solutions with a limited audience - who like MS, see virtualization through server-centric glasses.
The real matter is that Dumbshit's actions are exactly in line with the CIA/Military playbook for discrediting Wikileaks.
You could have predicted his split from this.
He produces ad-hominem about Assange, some of which may have basis in fact. His team then cripples wikileaks anonymity and responds with vapourware.
He's promising an improved alternative or replacement which has not produced any output, nor fully disclosed the technology or methodology on a point-by-point basis that demonstrates improvement.
If this is not enough to have serious concerns that Dumbshit-Borg is either an agent, or a useful idiot? He gives his press release from the retreat at Davos, aligning himself with the forces of oligarchal global corporate power.
"The American intelligence community is an important market for our company," said General Dynamics spokesman Kendell Pease. "Over time, we have tailored our organization to deliver affordable, best-of-breed products and services to meet those agencies' unique requirements."
In September 2009, General Dynamics won a $10 million contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command's psychological operations unit to create Web sites to influence foreigners' views of U.S. policy. To do that, the company hired writers, editors and designers to produce a set of daily news sites tailored to five regions of the world. They appear as regular news Web sites, with names such as "SETimes.com: The News and Views of Southeast Europe." The first indication that they are run on behalf of the military comes at the bottom of the home page with the word "Disclaimer." Only by clicking on that do you learn that "the Southeast European Times (SET) is a Web site sponsored by the United States European Command."
Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.
The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing.
The government's goal is to have every state and local law enforcement agency in the country feed information to Washington to buttress the work of the FBI, which is in charge of terrorism investigations in the United States.
Remember, this is in the hands of people who have done things like improve the quality of your air travel experience, over the last 10 years.
I don't believe in the "trade-off" we have had no choice in making. I'd rather risk the chance of a bomb on my plane. The odds are greater that I'll drown in the pool at my destination, or die in a taxi to the hotel, than any so-called "terror" incident.
I get these from Googlemail users about once a month. Someone is mining social contact info through allowed APIs, which don't require authentication as the user in question.
Go fanboi yourself.
Google is a tool of the incipient fascist state. Period.
Slashdot Mirror
HBGary is Black Hat. And Mercenary. They are a boot on the neck of the American people.
Is torture "White Hat Interrogation" when done by the US, as opposed to the former DDR?
No. Only if your name is Rumsfeld, Gonzalez or Yoo, would you disagree.
HBGary is a fascist tool - more akin to the "Ministry of Information" of Brazil , than any recognisable "White Hat" group - say Rapid7.
HBGary trades in 0-Days for profit, to organisations which act without regard to Constitutional provisions. They advertise tools and methodology to conduct PsyOps and openly advocate methods to subvert the democratic properties of modern public communications channels.
HBGary colludes with insiders to use Government power to cement corporate advantage over the interests of the citizens and tax-payers of the United States, in the name of "national security".
They are a fraud and a blight on the purported claims of a free and open society. Like in the movie "Brazil", the methods of Mr. Barr have identified individuals in error. In the age of Abdulrahman Zeitoun and Bradley Manning, the consequences are quite possibly as dire for those individuals, as they were for Mr. Buttle and Sam Lowery.
He's more like a Dago version of Rupert Murdoch - one who gets his nut off rather more frequently, with juvenile victims of human trafficking.
He must have seen Tinto Brass' Caligula 30 years ago, and thought: "Thats'a Me!"
Perhaps we build this large, wooden Badger...
Maybe Gartner is marketing BS. I know they have a LOT more of their bread buttered by MS, than they do by VMW.
You wan to jump from datacenter-oriented storage and network capability to cloud abstraction? That's not really an argument as it is a diversion. :-)
> Microsoft is basing Azure on Hyper-V,
Red herring. Azure is PaaS. The comparison is like saying TiVo is based on Linux. In this case the service-orientation of the IaaS layer (HyperV) services the cloud data center operators, not the end customers.
> There's a reason Amazon, Rackspace, and most other
> commerical "cloud" services are based on Xen rather
> than VMWare.
Whoa! You already split your line of evidence down one separate path - yet you want to fork the argument again?
1) Rackspace resells Amazon technology. They are not a multiplier.
2) Amazon spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop cloud management and operations frameworks around Xen, their commodity hypervisor of choice (free). If you want to strip virtualization value down to the core, Ring-0 technology and develop your own cloud service for similar costs, go right ahead. Amazon had a business model to develop, not a technology choice. And, I wish 'em good luck in achieving security and compliance targets. That said? Great customer choice for cheap, elastic, "bursty" raw compute cycles. They will thrive as a part of hybrid cloud architectures with application standards.
http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_40_new_feat.html
Whatever.
When MS produces an equivalent to the DVS, and has basic FT like muti-path uplink, I'll pay them some attention. They have no clue about network virtualization, beyond local resource abstraction. They want to scale on VLAN tags and IPsec. Good luck.
Where does it lack?
VMFS is an ESX native, cluster filesystem - Hyper-V nor Windows have such.
ParaVirtualzed SCSI (PVSCSI) with certification and support from every major storage player.
Vendor integration, with specialized solutions for ESX that are unavailable Hyper-V.
No LUN dedication per VM (!) to enable failover and migration.
Of course, the killer is Storage vMotion - where ESX abstracts the storage location from the actual arrays, etc.
There is no reasonable comparison of Hyper-V's deficiencies to ESX capability.
And look at this. I have never seen a technology so completely dominate the upper right corner of a Gartner quad in years. MS is admirable to be above the horizon in 3-4 short years, but there is no contest, nor will there really ever get to be one.
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/cloud/Gartner-VMware-Magic-Quadrant.pdf
Management? MS will still try and convince you of SCCM and the broken DCM.
Security? IPSec isolation everywhere - which your failover times on the IKE renegotiation!
HyperV is a great, cheap QA and Dev lab solution, because it's free with 4 v-instances on Enterprise SKUs. But if you have to tool dev/test different for deployment that you do production? The savings are a false economy.
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/cloud/Gartner-VMware-Magic-Quadrant.pdf
You don't know of the storage technology in VMware, nor of the value of the cooperative storage ecosystem that SAN and NAS players have invested hundreds of millions into.
This really removes the basis on which you make your further claims.
In short, VMware is successful as the most capable solution of enterprise-scale, exactly because it virtualises not just server hosts, but brings a virtual model to storage - not to mention networking. There is nothing comparable in the MS world, which seeks to leverage existing cluster technology from Server2008 to present a model for VHD storage.
Review VMFS for starters:
http://www.vmware.com/products/vmfs/
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/VMware_VMFS
Microsoft has a sad hack to commit memory in a way that shaves a fraction off of the VMware machine density advantage. They are still competing with a 2006-era VMware - they have no clue how to get out of this, aside from dumping a billion dollars into compete marketing efforts.
The massive executive and senior-engineering exodus from MS is a clear sign that -- even in the halls where sacred Kool-Aid is draughted -- the days of leadership are over, almost before they were enjoyed.
MS crap storage development doesn't bode very well for their hopes to catch up with VMware's 6-year tech lead against Hyper-V, does it?
Storage and networking, things MS is either negligent, ignorant or haphazard at understanding and delivering, are key to a fully abstracted virtual environment. The MS plan seems to amount to having Citrix solve these issues - when they manage to think of these technologies at all.
Storage partners will stay married to VMware, and occasionally take MS cash to compensate themselves for producing solutions with a limited audience - who like MS, see virtualization through server-centric glasses.
SMELL the FAIL!
When private address books become public "friends" lists, trouble starts...
Yahoo and Hotmail were the most egregious. Where do I opt out!
These are the APIs for the social netwoking "features"
3rd party for sure. These ALSO comeions from Yahoo and Hotmail spoofed accounts on a more regular basis.
The sender is spoofed - to genuine contacts on that account owners list. This makes it a form of targeted phish - if not really spearfishing.
The problem lies in web-API access for social networking functions. This will always be a privacy exploit, waiting to happen.
Google doesn't have "magic security pixie-dust" to make a design problem go away.
I wish I hadn't blown all my mod points to increase the visibility of a couple titty jokes. You should have got one.
you mis-interpret me.
D-B shows BAD FAITH. Period. I don't care about how this position is justified.
Amnesty didn't reduce Wikileaks technical capabilities for privacy.
They didn't break a site, leaving a vacuum and vapourware.
The real matter is that Dumbshit's actions are exactly in line with the CIA/Military playbook for discrediting Wikileaks.
You could have predicted his split from this.
He produces ad-hominem about Assange, some of which may have basis in fact. His team then cripples wikileaks anonymity and responds with vapourware.
He's promising an improved alternative or replacement which has not produced any output, nor fully disclosed the technology or methodology on a point-by-point basis that demonstrates improvement.
If this is not enough to have serious concerns that Dumbshit-Borg is either an agent, or a useful idiot? He gives his press release from the retreat at Davos, aligning himself with the forces of oligarchal global corporate power.
When they cripple the functional technical operation of efforts to equalise asymmetrical dynamics of government and corporate power?
Yes.
Now, go obfuscate the issue with another fallacy.
National Security Inc.
"The American intelligence community is an important market for our company," said General Dynamics spokesman Kendell Pease. "Over time, we have tailored our organization to deliver affordable, best-of-breed products and services to meet those agencies' unique requirements."
In September 2009, General Dynamics won a $10 million contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command's psychological operations unit to create Web sites to influence foreigners' views of U.S. policy. To do that, the company hired writers, editors and designers to produce a set of daily news sites tailored to five regions of the world. They appear as regular news Web sites, with names such as "SETimes.com: The News and Views of Southeast Europe." The first indication that they are run on behalf of the military comes at the bottom of the home page with the word "Disclaimer." Only by clicking on that do you learn that "the Southeast European Times (SET) is a Web site sponsored by the United States European Command."
Mubarak Obama or Barack Honecker?
Monitoring America
Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.
The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing.
The government's goal is to have every state and local law enforcement agency in the country feed information to Washington to buttress the work of the FBI, which is in charge of terrorism investigations in the United States.
Remember, this is in the hands of people who have done things like improve the quality of your air travel experience, over the last 10 years.
I don't believe in the "trade-off" we have had no choice in making. I'd rather risk the chance of a bomb on my plane. The odds are greater that I'll drown in the pool at my destination, or die in a taxi to the hotel, than any so-called "terror" incident.
Risk management - not risk elimination.
Everything is in the percentages - but you need to know the real rules of the game, and true odds.
Dumbshit-Borg is an "asset", bought-out by corporate proxies, for the TLA's that want this crushed.
His splitting "OpenLeaks" is pure playbook from the US Gov plan to destroy WikiLeaks:
US Intelligence Planned to Destroy Wikileaks What! Past-tense?
CIA, State Department Apparently Acting on Plan to Destroy Wikileaks
The guy is a stooge, or a pawn. He serves the purposes of State and Corporate collusion in secrecy, to manage their globalist Empire.
Nokia and Microsoft join mobile forces? Two great FAILs, that taste better together!
No one will be unobserved.
Yours,
Laszlo Toth
I get these from Googlemail users about once a month. Someone is mining social contact info through allowed APIs, which don't require authentication as the user in question.
Go fanboi yourself.
Google is a tool of the incipient fascist state. Period.