You do know that YouTube's algorithm actually allows people to sink channels they don't like? All that (quite a few, but still, if you piss off enough people...) people have to do is go there, downvote it and flag every video in the "related" list that belongs to you as "not interested".
And unlike them flagging it for improper content, you can't even report it. Hell, you don't even notice it. At least 'til YouTube no longer recommends your videos to people because enough people flagged your videos as "not interested", when you notice that nobody watches your videos anymore except those that already subscribed, clicked the bell-notification and actually care enough about those notifications to click on your video.
After living a life being told what they want, from parents, friends and most of all advertising, is it such a surprise that people stop trying to make up their own mind?
You have to know how to use Facebook. It's an advertising platform. Use it as such. Lie. Present yourself. Pretend that you rub shoulders with the greatest and best in your profession. Never say anything controversial. Have interests like volunteering for some bullshit social crap and, depending on whether you're aiming for companies in that area, the religious woo local to you.
So why would I mind if that information gets published? Free ad space, yay!
So if I pick up a debate with a Nazi to stop him from being the only one talking to the audience and provide a counterpoint to his, well, let's call them arguments for a lack of a better word, I am a Nazi?
Well, it can be done right, take a look at Europe. Of course, everyone has to pay, too, it's not just that everyone should be going to get cheap pills.
Quite frankly, the main reason employees are a security problem is the way we security professionals are handling our responsibilities: By offloading them onto the employees. What's the usual consequence of needing a secure way to access a computer? Requiring some ridiculously convoluted passphrase that no sane person could possibly remember, with requirements like capital and lowercase (but not more than 2 next to each other), numbers and special characters, at least 16 characters long and no more than 4 consecutive characters may form a coherent word in at least 20 languages. What will they do? Write it down. Duh. Preferably on a post-it note tacked onto their screen.
It seems that some security professionals have that pressing urge to build a security monument that demonstrates their awesomeness. Only to produce ridiculously convoluted and unworkable monsters that people will HAVE TO start to work around to do their job. My favorite example was a security door that had an auto-shut mechanism and required workers to slip a keycard into a reader and punch in a 4 digit code every time they went through. Unfortunately, they had to go through this door CONSTANTLY, usually carrying heavy boxes.
How long do you think it took until a wedge held that door open? Not even 2 hours.
And people will not even have any kind of feeling of wrongdoing because they do it so they can do their work more efficiently. It's not like they circumvent the company firewall to go on Facebook or that they drill a tunnel to their home computer so they can listen to their iTunes library at work. They can perfectly justify their actions with being able to work better.
It's time we start to rethink this, people. It's time that we, as security professionals, do our job right. Perfect security is not a monumental work-denial monstrosity. Perfect security is invisible, because what the worker doesn't even notice, he also cannot fuck up.
Any extremists don't like dissenting views. Or even comments. Because then people would see that they are a tiny fringe minority that the rest of the world rightfully views as nutcases.
Yup. Here it highly depends on who fears the cellphone going away more. The child who'd lose his best friend or the parent who'd lose the leading-string.
I wouldn't call it respect. Fear, ok, but respect? Hardly.
Mostly fear of getting caught. But it did teach us a lot of problem solving, since the parents were pretty much the last people we'd willingly turn to with a problem.
A multidimensional array of database objects? Any C dialect lets you do that. Granted, in C++ it gets a bit easier with the objects bringing along their own manipulation and cleanup code, but aside of that... hell, you can do it in Javascript, in Python...
Come to think of it, is there a language you canNOT do it in?
I know, I know, I'm still not done preparing. For some of the programs I use I still don't have a suitable Linux replacement, not to mention the lack of drivers for quite a few hardware pieces.
Ok, but given that I don't even accept the existence of a higher power unless presented with evidence for the existence of something like this, I guess this is still a no-go.
Sorry, but you can't make me believe in bullshit, even if court mandated.
Heroin actually isn't a problem. The problem is that people use it.
Consider this: It is well known, and drilled into the heads of EVERYONE that heroin is an addictive drug that will fuck you up and probably kill you. Still, people use it.
The problem is not the drug. The problem is why people use it. Can you imagine how fucked up your life has to be that you consider a slow, agonizing death as a worthwhile alternative to whatever your life is like?
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Which probably hurts the average neckbeard more. I mean, we know that we're ugly. That's why we spend our Saturdays at home writing code.
But if you call my code ugly, you're pwobably gonna huwt my widdle feelings!
You do know that YouTube's algorithm actually allows people to sink channels they don't like? All that (quite a few, but still, if you piss off enough people...) people have to do is go there, downvote it and flag every video in the "related" list that belongs to you as "not interested".
And unlike them flagging it for improper content, you can't even report it. Hell, you don't even notice it. At least 'til YouTube no longer recommends your videos to people because enough people flagged your videos as "not interested", when you notice that nobody watches your videos anymore except those that already subscribed, clicked the bell-notification and actually care enough about those notifications to click on your video.
After living a life being told what they want, from parents, friends and most of all advertising, is it such a surprise that people stop trying to make up their own mind?
Only this time you can be a part of it. Yay!
Fun fact: "Gift" is the German word for poison.
So ... yeah...
That joke works best with Fahrenheit.
If you can't avoid being in their database, start controlling what's said in that database. Feed it with information that makes you look good.
No, it doesn't have to be true. I never said that.
You have to know how to use Facebook. It's an advertising platform. Use it as such. Lie. Present yourself. Pretend that you rub shoulders with the greatest and best in your profession. Never say anything controversial. Have interests like volunteering for some bullshit social crap and, depending on whether you're aiming for companies in that area, the religious woo local to you.
So why would I mind if that information gets published? Free ad space, yay!
So if I pick up a debate with a Nazi to stop him from being the only one talking to the audience and provide a counterpoint to his, well, let's call them arguments for a lack of a better word, I am a Nazi?
Are you high?
You DO know that Google is a for-profit corporation and not a student's YouTube channel, right?
Well, it can be done right, take a look at Europe. Of course, everyone has to pay, too, it's not just that everyone should be going to get cheap pills.
Must be all the hot air.
Who gives a fuck? Quite frankly, what's that have to do with this story? Or anything, for that matter.
Quite frankly, the main reason employees are a security problem is the way we security professionals are handling our responsibilities: By offloading them onto the employees. What's the usual consequence of needing a secure way to access a computer? Requiring some ridiculously convoluted passphrase that no sane person could possibly remember, with requirements like capital and lowercase (but not more than 2 next to each other), numbers and special characters, at least 16 characters long and no more than 4 consecutive characters may form a coherent word in at least 20 languages. What will they do? Write it down. Duh. Preferably on a post-it note tacked onto their screen.
It seems that some security professionals have that pressing urge to build a security monument that demonstrates their awesomeness. Only to produce ridiculously convoluted and unworkable monsters that people will HAVE TO start to work around to do their job. My favorite example was a security door that had an auto-shut mechanism and required workers to slip a keycard into a reader and punch in a 4 digit code every time they went through. Unfortunately, they had to go through this door CONSTANTLY, usually carrying heavy boxes.
How long do you think it took until a wedge held that door open? Not even 2 hours.
And people will not even have any kind of feeling of wrongdoing because they do it so they can do their work more efficiently. It's not like they circumvent the company firewall to go on Facebook or that they drill a tunnel to their home computer so they can listen to their iTunes library at work. They can perfectly justify their actions with being able to work better.
It's time we start to rethink this, people. It's time that we, as security professionals, do our job right. Perfect security is not a monumental work-denial monstrosity. Perfect security is invisible, because what the worker doesn't even notice, he also cannot fuck up.
And stupid people make toxic videos.
The vicious circle is turning.
Any extremists don't like dissenting views. Or even comments. Because then people would see that they are a tiny fringe minority that the rest of the world rightfully views as nutcases.
Yup. Here it highly depends on who fears the cellphone going away more. The child who'd lose his best friend or the parent who'd lose the leading-string.
I wouldn't call it respect. Fear, ok, but respect? Hardly.
Mostly fear of getting caught. But it did teach us a lot of problem solving, since the parents were pretty much the last people we'd willingly turn to with a problem.
A multidimensional array of database objects? Any C dialect lets you do that. Granted, in C++ it gets a bit easier with the objects bringing along their own manipulation and cleanup code, but aside of that... hell, you can do it in Javascript, in Python...
Come to think of it, is there a language you canNOT do it in?
The problem is that they run better on Win7.
Quite frankly, I have fewer crashes and more performance on a Win7 box I have that has worse specs than the Win10 one.
I know, I know, I'm still not done preparing. For some of the programs I use I still don't have a suitable Linux replacement, not to mention the lack of drivers for quite a few hardware pieces.
War is more fun if you don't get to die in it. Ask any General.
Ok, but given that I don't even accept the existence of a higher power unless presented with evidence for the existence of something like this, I guess this is still a no-go.
Sorry, but you can't make me believe in bullshit, even if court mandated.
Well, my cellphone has a map and a GPS, so...
Heroin actually isn't a problem. The problem is that people use it.
Consider this: It is well known, and drilled into the heads of EVERYONE that heroin is an addictive drug that will fuck you up and probably kill you. Still, people use it.
The problem is not the drug. The problem is why people use it. Can you imagine how fucked up your life has to be that you consider a slow, agonizing death as a worthwhile alternative to whatever your life is like?