Actually they have a very good understanding of what happened in this case. It's nothing spectacular. In the past some serious leaks and attacks happened with pretty much nobody paying attention. This here is a publicity stunt of an old hack by the ANSI (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité Informatique - National Agency for IT Security) saying : - Since we now have more important prerogatives (very recent change) this kind of attack won't happen again - Also, we need more money - And, that will teach you about not following our recommendation. Next time you WILL use an open source alternative to Adobe Reader. Smart move but the tech part of the story is irrelevant.
Screw the middle step. If you're confident in your "learning skills", just find a 3 months internship. That's what I am currently doing and it's amazingly rewarding. Put your studies on hold for a semester and work.
I can't say I had no experience with the middle step. I did code some little projects. But nothing impressive, really.
Where I am, I have to learn things very fast, all the time if I don't want to drown. And what is great is that I get help from co-workers whenever I need it ( = tried for hours, didn't manage). Not everyone can learn vi commands by themselves. The senior cobol dev knows it, just ask.
Seriously, I am just so happy I found this job. Going back to school soon, but then I can say I know some coding.
A little offtopic, but I think a Live CD of Ubuntu that accomplishes this would be great. Just give my kid an older computer with no harddrive and the CD and let them go...
That would be edubuntu right ? Didn't try it. Just guessing from its name...
With both your explanations, I can finally understand TFA. It lacked maths. Badly.
Could you just explain your sentence "Of course, the one running the code would be able to figure out exactly what algorithm you're using." I don't think it means what I (currently) think it means.
(I don't thank you for the Time Cube reference though)
Kaminsky is incredibly enthusiastic about DNSSEC.... to the point where someone not too knowledgeable (like I am) wonders if DNSSEC really is that amazing or if he was just high.
When you like technology, you want to be able to share your passion/hobby with people. And you go look for geek friends.
Yet, I have found that those who became my best friends are not geeks at all. It's amazing to discover how many things you have in common with people who can barely start a computer. Music, vodka, politics, whatever. Even shopping with girls can actually be a lot of fun (exhausting though) if you just like those people.
You should train to talk to people you don't know at all in the streets and such. Often it leads to real disasters but sometimes, you find people who are actually very happy to meet someone and chat for a while.
Might require some training but worth the effort. Consider vodka or beer if you lack confidence.
I am at the point where I have to chose a working field and my studies give me a broad range of choices.
I love IT, have studied it both for my studies and on my free time. I never considered doing anything else... until recently. Like you've said, because I enjoy technology and love programming doesn't mean I *have* to work in IT. More precisely, I don't feel like it's a field where I could stay a nice guy for too long. And I don't want to become a BOFH (or similar).
Yet, chosing not to work in IT is a much difficult choice because it means finding another field in which I could enjoy my working life...
Reading your optimistic answer helped me. Thanks.
PS : Hope this post doesn't look too stupidly emo. ^^
"Mode me troll" or "bye, karma" seem to be the ultimate way to have mods react in the opposite manner ("poor guy thinks I'm too stupid to see how Insightful his post is").... Corallary being that this very post would be modded troll... if I hadn't pointed it out ?
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Actually they have a very good understanding of what happened in this case.
It's nothing spectacular.
In the past some serious leaks and attacks happened with pretty much nobody paying attention.
This here is a publicity stunt of an old hack by the ANSI (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité Informatique - National Agency for IT Security) saying :
- Since we now have more important prerogatives (very recent change) this kind of attack won't happen again
- Also, we need more money
- And, that will teach you about not following our recommendation. Next time you WILL use an open source alternative to Adobe Reader.
Smart move but the tech part of the story is irrelevant.
This one hasn't been updated for more than 3 years.
I guess its author is still trying to remove Kaspersky from his Botnet...
Remove all warning labels and let the problem fix itself
I wouldn't call this approach 'ethical'.
Can anyone give me an example of a situation where someone would want to clone RFID tags ?
Who would be using them for authentication ?
All the hype was used for Wave's release.
You are wrong:
windows + disaster is a partition (usually called c://)
"Do no harm or I pown you" worked for Celestial Being. ... but they had gundams so the comparison may fall short.
Indeed old G5 have only one side button.
New ones have 2 and I prefer their color as well. (I got one of each. :p)
And like GP said, the G5 is an amazing mouse for a very reasonable price.
Screw the middle step.
If you're confident in your "learning skills", just find a 3 months internship.
That's what I am currently doing and it's amazingly rewarding.
Put your studies on hold for a semester and work.
I can't say I had no experience with the middle step. I did code some little projects. But nothing impressive, really.
Where I am, I have to learn things very fast, all the time if I don't want to drown.
And what is great is that I get help from co-workers whenever I need it ( = tried for hours, didn't manage).
Not everyone can learn vi commands by themselves. The senior cobol dev knows it, just ask.
Seriously, I am just so happy I found this job.
Going back to school soon, but then I can say I know some coding.
The example in the presentation explains well how stupidly powerful windowing functions are.
A little offtopic, but I think a Live CD of Ubuntu that accomplishes this would be great. Just give my kid an older computer with no harddrive and the CD and let them go...
That would be edubuntu right ?
Didn't try it. Just guessing from its name...
Actually, a very insightful comment above says that they're very unlikely to repeat offend.
Oh god. LaTeX. I'm gonna have nightmares again...
Only my hands know my passwords and I can't login after watching some pr0n.
Thank you.
With both your explanations, I can finally understand TFA.
It lacked maths. Badly.
Could you just explain your sentence "Of course, the one running the code would be able to figure out exactly what algorithm you're using."
I don't think it means what I (currently) think it means.
(I don't thank you for the Time Cube reference though)
Kaminsky is incredibly enthusiastic about DNSSEC. ... to the point where someone not too knowledgeable (like I am) wonders if DNSSEC really is that amazing or if he was just high.
Maybe it happened the other way round...
Kidding.
Looks kinda cool.
The guy's ghost finger is very impressive.
More like a very enterprising kid than a prodigy ... which is better in a lot of ways.
That's a little harsh.
Convoluted writing was annoying (since English isn't my mother tongue) but TFA was a decent read IMHO.
Worked incredibly well for me.
And god was I a bad dancer in the beginning. ^^
Very true.
When you like technology, you want to be able to share your passion/hobby with people.
And you go look for geek friends.
Yet, I have found that those who became my best friends are not geeks at all.
It's amazing to discover how many things you have in common with people who can barely start a computer.
Music, vodka, politics, whatever.
Even shopping with girls can actually be a lot of fun (exhausting though) if you just like those people.
You should train to talk to people you don't know at all in the streets and such.
Often it leads to real disasters but sometimes, you find people who are actually very happy to meet someone and chat for a while.
Might require some training but worth the effort.
Consider vodka or beer if you lack confidence.
Wine is the real fuel of French research.
No wine no fusion.
That was a good read. Thanks a lot.
I am at the point where I have to chose a working field and my studies give me a broad range of choices.
I love IT, have studied it both for my studies and on my free time. I never considered doing anything else ... until recently.
Like you've said, because I enjoy technology and love programming doesn't mean I *have* to work in IT.
More precisely, I don't feel like it's a field where I could stay a nice guy for too long.
And I don't want to become a BOFH (or similar).
Yet, chosing not to work in IT is a much difficult choice because it means finding another field in which I could enjoy my working life...
Reading your optimistic answer helped me. Thanks.
PS : Hope this post doesn't look too stupidly emo. ^^
"Mode me troll" or "bye, karma" seem to be the ultimate way to have mods react in the opposite manner ("poor guy thinks I'm too stupid to see how Insightful his post is"). ... Corallary being that this very post would be modded troll ... if I hadn't pointed it out ?
*head explodes*