Actually we are. You'd be surprised, though, how hard it is to find suitable people. "No police record" and "years of IT security experience" is a combo that seems to be really rare...
Python is easy to pick up and can do anything (on high level) that C can. On the other side, its drawbacks include being an interpreted language, meaning both that whoever wants to run Python scripts has to have the relevant interpreter on his system, which is arguably easier and more likely to work in Linux than Windows and that it will run slower and need more resources than a comparable C program.
So whether Python will become the dominant language will mostly depend on
1) Whether enough people with little to no programming experience feel the urge to create code. 2) Whether enough people can be bothered to install the runtime to run said code. 3) Whether we continue to have no problem wasting resources on inefficient code or whether we move towards more virtualization/containerization where the individual VMs have to do with very little CPU time.
"Invoice" trojans are hardly anything that has never been seen before. From "invoice.exe.pdf" to macro virus in Word and Excel files. The new part is, essentially, that you now ALSO have to hover over a link.
So, compared to the Word-Macro trojans, where it's enough to just open a file, you now have to hover the mouse over a link after opening it for infections to happen?
I can't delete anything anyway. But nobody really can. You see, our backups cannot be deleted by the admins. "Deleting" here means that you mark it for deletion which is executed at a later moment by the storage... thingamajig (don't ask me, storage really isn't my strong side). Now, marking a recent backup for deletion pretty much instantly hits some of the storage upper echelons in the face because that isn't proper procedure and he'll ask 5 minutes after the mark gets set and about 5 days before it actually gets deleted what's going on.
Believe me, if I need that data, he WILL be awake and available! I do know where my coworkers live. And there isn't a single point of failure, meaning that there are always at least 2 people capable of doing any job, and one of them IS within reach.
No, we don't simply subject our workers to such conditions. We pay handsomely for that privilege.
I'm talking about the definition of hate crime ("[...]a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her membership (or perceived membership) in a certain social group", according to Wikipedia) being a hate crime when someone does it against a group he hates, but gets decorated with medals if he does it against a group the government hates.
Sorry, but this is fucked up. Not so much the part where it's a crime. More the part where you get praised and decorated for it.
They're as unique as fingerprints. So does that make them valuable? Probably not.
What would make some of them valuable is if there were many identical ones and only a select few that are special. Because despite being unique, none of them is special.
No, quite the opposite. They might consider us way more advanced than we are.
Take our Acecibo message. To decipher that message, you need to have a civilization with advanced radio equipment to detect it in the first place, with the capability to store it so it isn't just received and potentially missed, the knowledge of statistics to understand that this is actually not a natural phenomenon but a coded message, enough mathematical understanding to decipher it...
And all that also pretty much assumes that they wanted to communicate with us. More likely, though, if this actually IS some sort of messaging system, we're just the natives sitting on our island while the interstellar cargo ships send messages in ways we can't even possibly understand, and what we see there might as well have been an explosion from a transformer that cooked off.
What we could have observed is the equivalent of a transformer from the radio equipment blowing up and us Napoleonians thinking it's some kind of light signal.
The very last thing I want is to let a marketeer say a few last word. Because you know how they are, they ask you for a minute of your time and before you know it an hour is gone.
If a junior developer can FUBAR the company, these are the two that fucked up royally. Very obviously processes are crap and gross negligence is running rampart.
No. Just sound like you're some confused, crazy old geezer. Keep asking the same questions over and over, ask them to say it again because "you're not hearing so well anymore" and berate them ("kids these days") if they somehow start to get impatient with you.
Keep them running in a circle and eventually they will be frustrated enough to just be really pissed at you for wasting their time. They might call again if the agent is a bastard and tries to waste some coworker's time as well, but so far I haven't had more than 3 calls from the same scammer group.
Maybe not difficult to decrypt but simply sending it in a way we cannot detect. Imagine you're sending using radio equipment and are trying to communicate with a society with a medieval technology standard. What kind of information will they get from you?
It's funny how many people consider the second their defense against an oppressive regime, but the first is far more powerful. The second allows you to have a gun. The first enables you to raise an army.
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Actually we are. You'd be surprised, though, how hard it is to find suitable people. "No police record" and "years of IT security experience" is a combo that seems to be really rare...
Yeah, let me see how coherent you are before you had your first coffee... but you're right, of course.
Python is easy to pick up and can do anything (on high level) that C can. On the other side, its drawbacks include being an interpreted language, meaning both that whoever wants to run Python scripts has to have the relevant interpreter on his system, which is arguably easier and more likely to work in Linux than Windows and that it will run slower and need more resources than a comparable C program.
So whether Python will become the dominant language will mostly depend on
1) Whether enough people with little to no programming experience feel the urge to create code.
2) Whether enough people can be bothered to install the runtime to run said code.
3) Whether we continue to have no problem wasting resources on inefficient code or whether we move towards more virtualization/containerization where the individual VMs have to do with very little CPU time.
There are no stupid questions, only stupid people.
For your convenience, that file will be mailed to you.
Yes, but how is this new. I.e. NEWSworthy?
"Invoice" trojans are hardly anything that has never been seen before. From "invoice.exe.pdf" to macro virus in Word and Excel files. The new part is, essentially, that you now ALSO have to hover over a link.
So, compared to the Word-Macro trojans, where it's enough to just open a file, you now have to hover the mouse over a link after opening it for infections to happen?
I can't delete anything anyway. But nobody really can. You see, our backups cannot be deleted by the admins. "Deleting" here means that you mark it for deletion which is executed at a later moment by the storage ... thingamajig (don't ask me, storage really isn't my strong side). Now, marking a recent backup for deletion pretty much instantly hits some of the storage upper echelons in the face because that isn't proper procedure and he'll ask 5 minutes after the mark gets set and about 5 days before it actually gets deleted what's going on.
Believe me, if I need that data, he WILL be awake and available! I do know where my coworkers live. And there isn't a single point of failure, meaning that there are always at least 2 people capable of doing any job, and one of them IS within reach.
No, we don't simply subject our workers to such conditions. We pay handsomely for that privilege.
Depends on the guy and what "his house" actually means.
In my case it means another data center. Yes, I live in one. The air condition is awesome!
You did a restore test, right?
I'm talking about the definition of hate crime ("[...]a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her membership (or perceived membership) in a certain social group", according to Wikipedia) being a hate crime when someone does it against a group he hates, but gets decorated with medals if he does it against a group the government hates.
Sorry, but this is fucked up. Not so much the part where it's a crime. More the part where you get praised and decorated for it.
They're as unique as fingerprints. So does that make them valuable? Probably not.
What would make some of them valuable is if there were many identical ones and only a select few that are special. Because despite being unique, none of them is special.
And what people want is special, not unique.
His name kinda gave it away.
Because both make me puke?
I tell them the story of how I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at that time.
Ah, ok. So according to that definition shooting enemy soldiers is simply not a crime, else it would fit.
Good that we got that out of the way.
No, quite the opposite. They might consider us way more advanced than we are.
Take our Acecibo message. To decipher that message, you need to have a civilization with advanced radio equipment to detect it in the first place, with the capability to store it so it isn't just received and potentially missed, the knowledge of statistics to understand that this is actually not a natural phenomenon but a coded message, enough mathematical understanding to decipher it...
And all that also pretty much assumes that they wanted to communicate with us. More likely, though, if this actually IS some sort of messaging system, we're just the natives sitting on our island while the interstellar cargo ships send messages in ways we can't even possibly understand, and what we see there might as well have been an explosion from a transformer that cooked off.
What we could have observed is the equivalent of a transformer from the radio equipment blowing up and us Napoleonians thinking it's some kind of light signal.
The very last thing I want is to let a marketeer say a few last word. Because you know how they are, they ask you for a minute of your time and before you know it an hour is gone.
If a junior developer can FUBAR the company, these are the two that fucked up royally. Very obviously processes are crap and gross negligence is running rampart.
Fire these two bozos. Out of a cannon.
No. Just sound like you're some confused, crazy old geezer. Keep asking the same questions over and over, ask them to say it again because "you're not hearing so well anymore" and berate them ("kids these days") if they somehow start to get impatient with you.
Keep them running in a circle and eventually they will be frustrated enough to just be really pissed at you for wasting their time. They might call again if the agent is a bastard and tries to waste some coworker's time as well, but so far I haven't had more than 3 calls from the same scammer group.
Damn. Finally we get a message from outer space and of course it has to be spam.
Maybe not difficult to decrypt but simply sending it in a way we cannot detect. Imagine you're sending using radio equipment and are trying to communicate with a society with a medieval technology standard. What kind of information will they get from you?
It's funny how many people consider the second their defense against an oppressive regime, but the first is far more powerful. The second allows you to have a gun. The first enables you to raise an army.