You do realize that for an organization like the NSA to trust anybody, even their own employees, would be exceedingly foolish.
As far as I know, the people of the United States have had the right to bear arms for over two centuries. However if you think this means an American can go out on a whim and buy a heavy machine gun then you are mistaken.
Not sure why all of a sudden people are locking their doors in New Zealand, but I would suspect it has more to do with an uptick in local crime than American foreign policy.
Well, if he is referring to SELinux, he is wrong. If he is referring to many other technologies that the NSA has subverted either thru cooperation with the company or by covertly infiltrating their engineering into the company... then he is correct.
If you run such a company making security products and you strangely have a few workers who seem to be very familiar with the Baltimore metro area but nothing on their resume shows that they worked or went to school there, you may want to take a closer look at their work.
Most of these hurdles and testing are performed by so called "Information Assurance Engineers" who could not hack it as a sys admin. Most of what they do consists of installing from an approved kick-start media, running various scripts to configure and test the machine.
Dispel yourself of the notion of some super security guru setting up this machine. It is some drone following a checklist he/she doesn't really understand using media given to them, running the STIG scripts, running their verification scripts, and move on to the next machine. If there is a problem, they have a troubleshooting script which they run. If there is still a problem after that they turn the machine off, completely unplug it, note it, and move on.
These hurdles you speak of are mostly with accreditation and media/hw trust.
However very soon there are going to be thousands of unemployed contractors on the street, scratching their heads as to why they can;t get a job... becuase they have forgotten that a security clearance is not a substitute for competance, and they can no longer use it as a crutch.
>> How often do we have to repeat that 4.0 and 4.1 were not meant for end users and that the 3.5.10 release (which happened AFTER 4.1) is proof of that?
That line is some backpeddling bullshit if I ever heard it. And I have heard a lot of that sort of thing.
The KDE team royally fucked up, Don't know why they can't admit it.
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>> We don't use them much anymore.
I am sure the (former) Iraqi Republican Guard would beg to differ.
You do realize that for an organization like the NSA to trust anybody, even their own employees, would be exceedingly foolish.
As far as I know, the people of the United States have had the right to bear arms for over two centuries. However if you think this means an American can go out on a whim and buy a heavy machine gun then you are mistaken.
Not sure why all of a sudden people are locking their doors in New Zealand, but I would suspect it has more to do with an uptick in local crime than American foreign policy.
IIRC Windows is quite portable, having run NT on x86, PowerPC, Alpha, MIPS, and I heard Windows 8 runs on ARMv7.
Audit the code yourself. It's all there for one to obsess over.
The fact that this is happening is well known.
One such example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG#Back-doored_machines
But I guess that might be too hard for you the believe.
In America it also means you are lying. At least in some places.
Well, if he is referring to SELinux, he is wrong. If he is referring to many other technologies that the NSA has subverted either thru cooperation with the company or by covertly infiltrating their engineering into the company... then he is correct.
If you run such a company making security products and you strangely have a few workers who seem to be very familiar with the Baltimore metro area but nothing on their resume shows that they worked or went to school there, you may want to take a closer look at their work.
Most of these hurdles and testing are performed by so called "Information Assurance Engineers" who could not hack it as a sys admin. Most of what they do consists of installing from an approved kick-start media, running various scripts to configure and test the machine.
Dispel yourself of the notion of some super security guru setting up this machine. It is some drone following a checklist he/she doesn't really understand using media given to them, running the STIG scripts, running their verification scripts, and move on to the next machine. If there is a problem, they have a troubleshooting script which they run. If there is still a problem after that they turn the machine off, completely unplug it, note it, and move on.
These hurdles you speak of are mostly with accreditation and media/hw trust.
Clearly you haven't traveled much in the West.
Too bad your point is not very... coherent. hawhawhaw
The attitude your sig conveys belies your age.
Bah, DOD work varies wildly.
However very soon there are going to be thousands of unemployed contractors on the street, scratching their heads as to why they can;t get a job... becuase they have forgotten that a security clearance is not a substitute for competance, and they can no longer use it as a crutch.
>> How often do we have to repeat that 4.0 and 4.1 were not meant for end users and that the 3.5.10 release (which happened AFTER 4.1) is proof of that?
That line is some backpeddling bullshit if I ever heard it. And I have heard a lot of that sort of thing.
The KDE team royally fucked up, Don't know why they can't admit it.
Oh well it is history now.
...then I guess we are screwed.
Ha! I know a Senior Architect at NVIDIA who writes most of his stuff in FORTRAN.
Your post is absurd, and displays the narrow mindedness that is pointed out in the article as a weakness of older workers.
C++ is an extrememly powerful tool.
Powerful tools can cut off your fingers... but they can also allow a skilled work to create something incredible.
Disagree.
Writing a GUI in C, maybe. Writing an embedded controller, not a problem.
...make a lot of money.
For obvious reasons.
I can see you are a relative noob, since you do not recall the horrendous and devastating flame wars over this very topic.
Linus said "lee-nooks"
Euros said "lin-ucks" which is now the American standard and has been since about 2001ish.
Americans said "line-icks"
Well, I was a KDE 3.x hold out for the longest time... but then I gave it a chance again.
I am glad I did.
It really has improved greatly since the 4.0 debacle. Try it, from one 4.0 hater to another.
Americans pronounced it "Line-icks."
Well after using Windows for well over a decade, I just learned the "No to All" trick last year.
It isn't even mentioned in the help.
Or at least *telling* the user that holding down shift key while clicking No accomplishes the same thing as a "No to All" button!
>> Way back, in the Win98 days, McAfee actually destroyed an installation of Windows
For once McAfee worked!