If your post wasn't modded troll I am going to take the Karma gamble here and see if mine gets modded that way.
If evolution is just a theory which has yet to be proven, and is equally valid to intelligent design. Then God has the hand of intelligent design is just a theory, which also have yet to be proven. However there has been a heck of a lot more time to prove the existence of God than to prove Evolution? By that logic it seems much less likely, given the time invested, that God will be validated before Evolution. So by that measure lets just teach Evolution on the basis that they haven't proved God over all these years, so its going to be even more difficult to prove intelligent design.
I am a religious person.... but seriously Intelligent Design has no place in school
Exposing this kind of corruption is what makes WikiLeaks necessary in my mind. Despite the (sometimes valid) criticism of WikiLeaks you don't see anyone else exposing this kind of stuff.
1. Move to Easter Europe 2. Learn to speak Russian and Moldavian 3. Tell everyone you meet you are a super 1337 h@x0r 4. ??? 5. Profit 6. Get arrested and prosecuted locally. 7. Accept slap on wrist 8. Profit
The only "cyber-skilled" (that word if from tfa, not my creation) high schoolers I can think of that would be interested in this competition, and in being cool for their leet security skills are the same people frequenting 4chan... They have plenty of experience with LOIC ddos tools, but I somehow doubt they are going to be viable candidates long term.
If the gov wants more "world class" security professionals how about offer some free training to those already established in the field. Oh and offer pay that is competitive with the industry.
I am wondering how the widespread adoption of these sites might affect people in a position to leak documents. Will we see more legitimate leaks of benefit to all like the recent banking leaks etc, or will we start to see leaks that are more harmful then beneficial such as random joe leaking all ssn's in the customer DB because he thinks parent company is evil etc.
This social login is supposed to increase security? What about privacy. It seems like this feature can be leveraged to harvest pics from facebook, not that they weren't already available to the highest bidder anyway. Hopefully they have something in place to prevent harvesting...
Because step 7 wasn't "Profit!" I have to assume your solution is not commercially viable, please re-submit using appropriate meme for consideration. Also your solution reeks of completeness, a bit of uncertainty ( Step 6. ????) would further your cause.
Certifications are an excellent example of what is going on in the academic world. They are ridiculously easy to obtain, whether by cheating, test prep or even just plain studying. So the end result is they lose their value on your resume, my employer completely disregards any certs when hiring new employees. My advice to prospective cheaters is to take a low grade in the class you were going to cheat on and get an internship in your career of choice. Work experience is worth more than a good grade imo, and you can say you are still "ethical".
This is like putting buckets over your flowers in advance of a hurricane...while living in New Orleans.
On the other hand it is really interesting they are scared enough about the Wikileaks release to take these fairly absurd measures. I wonder what public opinion of Wikileaks will be like if they expose some serious corruption in a major bank.
I worked at good old profitable Circuit City a while back. We had the same policy we couldn't match our online prices, but we were instructed to help customers buy online and pick up in store rather then take em to the cleaners. Which was nice for the customer.
On the other hand we charged 25$ for a USB printer cable, and offered a "gold" one at 35$. Also on the day before Black Friday we had to go through and mark up all the prices on things that weren't door busters. So not only are you crazy 3:00 AM shoppers out of your minds, your also paying a premium for the crap you grab by the handfuls.
They also instructed us to charge 130$ to image your PC, which was almost always the recommended solution when a customer had malware. Not really because of the profit (im sure there was a lot) but because we could tell customer it wasn't our fault when they got re-infected.
Oh and as a consumer you should know if you want to extended warranty on a product (don't bother) never get one without having the cost of the product you are purchasing discounted. For example on an expensive TV if you get the extra warranty, ask a MANAGER for 10-20% off the cost of the TV.
Never pay for any service at a big box retailer either, its almost certainly a rip off and something you can do yourself. The "new pc setup" was like 45$ and all we did was turn it on, delete the crapware, and install Office.
Too many more stories, I am starting to have flashbacks of screaming customers though. Everyone should work in a bix box retail store to see the underhanded stuff that goes on.
Clinging too strongly to one ideology or another without using your head leads to you being less informed! Fox is just a great outlet for individuals matching this characteristic, but there are others...
There are already established guidelines for the things you describe ie rules of ware etc. The online equivalent of those items can have substantially more impact and scope then the in person. Hence it makes complete sense to at least establish some guidelines for how to go about those things. Right now online there is nothing to dictate what form warfare over the internet might take. If we have an opportunity to take proactive steps to limit those things in a sensible manner, we should do so.
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If your post wasn't modded troll I am going to take the Karma gamble here and see if mine gets modded that way.
If evolution is just a theory which has yet to be proven, and is equally valid to intelligent design. Then God has the hand of intelligent design is just a theory, which also have yet to be proven. However there has been a heck of a lot more time to prove the existence of God than to prove Evolution? By that logic it seems much less likely, given the time invested, that God will be validated before Evolution. So by that measure lets just teach Evolution on the basis that they haven't proved God over all these years, so its going to be even more difficult to prove intelligent design.
I am a religious person.... but seriously Intelligent Design has no place in school
My three letter scrabble skills are leet (1337):
4O3 as in the garden implement alternatively known as hoe.
First comment compliant with RFC 6217, seriously go look...
I vomited my mod points gratuitously all over the place, mmm april fools I feel your pain.
Exposing this kind of corruption is what makes WikiLeaks necessary in my mind. Despite the (sometimes valid) criticism of WikiLeaks you don't see anyone else exposing this kind of stuff.
You sir have made my day, and resulted in a keyboard full of coffee.
1. Move to Easter Europe
2. Learn to speak Russian and Moldavian
3. Tell everyone you meet you are a super 1337 h@x0r
4. ???
5. Profit
6. Get arrested and prosecuted locally.
7. Accept slap on wrist
8. Profit
Err that NMAP was used, no comment on the movie...
The Matrix reloaded had NMAP though and that was awesome. http://nmap.org/movies.html
Your comment is too fuzzy, "Enhance!"..."Enhance!"..."Enhance!"..."Enhance!"..."Enhance!"..."Enhance!"... ahh yes now I see it perfectly.
My first thought when I read this was that it was neat but not all that useful... then I saw I could block Experts-Exchange!!!! Awesome feature!!!
Kreb's writeup is pretty good as well, not that anyone reads tfa.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/02/revisiting-the-spyeyezeus-merger/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KrebsOnSecurity+(Krebs+on+Security)
Finally! Slashdot found some news for nerds, that should shut up all those complainers...
The only "cyber-skilled" (that word if from tfa, not my creation) high schoolers I can think of that would be interested in this competition, and in being cool for their leet security skills are the same people frequenting 4chan... They have plenty of experience with LOIC ddos tools, but I somehow doubt they are going to be viable candidates long term.
If the gov wants more "world class" security professionals how about offer some free training to those already established in the field. Oh and offer pay that is competitive with the industry.
Hey as long as it weeds out a few bad apples
I am wondering how the widespread adoption of these sites might affect people in a position to leak documents. Will we see more legitimate leaks of benefit to all like the recent banking leaks etc, or will we start to see leaks that are more harmful then beneficial such as random joe leaking all ssn's in the customer DB because he thinks parent company is evil etc.
This social login is supposed to increase security? What about privacy. It seems like this feature can be leveraged to harvest pics from facebook, not that they weren't already available to the highest bidder anyway. Hopefully they have something in place to prevent harvesting...
Because step 7 wasn't "Profit!" I have to assume your solution is not commercially viable, please re-submit using appropriate meme for consideration. Also your solution reeks of completeness, a bit of uncertainty ( Step 6. ????) would further your cause.
Security Engineer... someone has monitor website access to keep those overpaid Software Engineers in line!
Certifications are an excellent example of what is going on in the academic world. They are ridiculously easy to obtain, whether by cheating, test prep or even just plain studying. So the end result is they lose their value on your resume, my employer completely disregards any certs when hiring new employees. My advice to prospective cheaters is to take a low grade in the class you were going to cheat on and get an internship in your career of choice. Work experience is worth more than a good grade imo, and you can say you are still "ethical".
Its finally come, they are building the iChurch...
This is like putting buckets over your flowers in advance of a hurricane...while living in New Orleans.
On the other hand it is really interesting they are scared enough about the Wikileaks release to take these fairly absurd measures. I wonder what public opinion of Wikileaks will be like if they expose some serious corruption in a major bank.
I worked at good old profitable Circuit City a while back. We had the same policy we couldn't match our online prices, but we were instructed to help customers buy online and pick up in store rather then take em to the cleaners. Which was nice for the customer.
On the other hand we charged 25$ for a USB printer cable, and offered a "gold" one at 35$. Also on the day before Black Friday we had to go through and mark up all the prices on things that weren't door busters. So not only are you crazy 3:00 AM shoppers out of your minds, your also paying a premium for the crap you grab by the handfuls.
They also instructed us to charge 130$ to image your PC, which was almost always the recommended solution when a customer had malware. Not really because of the profit (im sure there was a lot) but because we could tell customer it wasn't our fault when they got re-infected.
Oh and as a consumer you should know if you want to extended warranty on a product (don't bother) never get one without having the cost of the product you are purchasing discounted. For example on an expensive TV if you get the extra warranty, ask a MANAGER for 10-20% off the cost of the TV.
Never pay for any service at a big box retailer either, its almost certainly a rip off and something you can do yourself. The "new pc setup" was like 45$ and all we did was turn it on, delete the crapware, and install Office.
Too many more stories, I am starting to have flashbacks of screaming customers though. Everyone should work in a bix box retail store to see the underhanded stuff that goes on.
Clinging too strongly to one ideology or another without using your head leads to you being less informed! Fox is just a great outlet for individuals matching this characteristic, but there are others...
There are already established guidelines for the things you describe ie rules of ware etc. The online equivalent of those items can have substantially more impact and scope then the in person. Hence it makes complete sense to at least establish some guidelines for how to go about those things. Right now online there is nothing to dictate what form warfare over the internet might take. If we have an opportunity to take proactive steps to limit those things in a sensible manner, we should do so.