Somebody called "Rabidreindeer" cannot see why project management is more important than technical chops for a large government contract. Then accuses me of being rabid when I point out how this story is clearly click bait...
That many IT projects of all sizes fail is no surprise, but do try to get over your indignation when hearing that a big multi-department contract clearly setting out to standardize and upgrade government IT security needs project management of a type you are unfamiliar with. You just look ignorant to those who aren't. The organization that Raytheon is bringing does not guarantee that the project will be successful just that it will be accountable.
You've never seen multi-million dollar projects face-plant because the project management was deficient. I've seen a few.
This story is much akin to the whipped up outrage on AF toilet seats that cost thousands, Macdonalds coffee lawsuit, Monsanto GMO lawsuit, etc. Someone with an axe to grind cherry picks a few details, whips up indignation with an inflammatory & extremely one sided resume, submits it to facebook, reddit & unfortunately more & more often/. and awaits trumped up steam from those ignorant of the full context.
But for you the ignorant whipped up indignation may be just what you're looking for.
There are valid reasons for an entity with lots of experience working for the government to win contracts like this. "Bob's corner firewall shop, viruses killed ded" isn't going to win any 1B multi department government contracts & would fail miserably if they tried.
Anyone claiming that because Raytheon isn't a well known name in software, networking, cyber security that this contract was awarded for cronyism, lobbying etc, has clearly never managed a large governmental project like this one is and knows nothing of how these projects are awarded. These projects are not looking for the prime contractor to be technically proficient in any of these technical fields but to have the best project management skills & to farm the technical parts out to subcontractors/suppliers.
That/. admins have promoted such a basic misunderstanding of what the issues are speaks to how far/. has fallen.
If you think that Android isn't a major security train wreck currently and getting worse then I have a few bridges I could let you have -- cheap.
Mitigation has been completely bypasssed. That you think that infection ==> botnets or it doesn't exist and has no consequences merely shows how 1990s your thinking is. Corporate network penetration and stealthy data snooping attacks are already fairly widespread because that is where the money is but given how widespread the weaknesses in Android are known sooner or later a teenager is going to put together a DDOS tool.
That sufficient exploits exist in android for the great majority of devices to be victimized cannot be denied. That these exploits can be propagated from phone to phone is also public knowledge. And we all know that there is money to be made by people writing code to exploit thes vulerabilities.
No. Xcode isn't included in OS X. The boobytrapped Xcode version was a separate download & now everyone knows that they need to download directly from Apple & not some dodgy site in China.
The usual method of getting developers to install a backdoored version of an IDE is to make them think they are downloading the legit one.
Certainly, as long as you are referring to the usual methods of installing backdoored versions of IDEs for Android. As has been repeatedly pointed out, this is NOT how XCode is normally distributed.
Your suppositions of automated and largely useless validation reeks of "this is how Android does it & though I'm ignorant of how Apple does it, I'll still offer baseless conjecture that they use the same methods as Google when authorizing apps". None but the true zealots can doubt that Apple's walled garden has made it much more difficult for malware to spread on iOS versus Android.
The idea that Android is somehow riddled with malware is nonsense. Where are the vast botnets that would exist if it were? The Play store seems to be just as safe as the Apple app store, from a user's perspective.
Android's inability to perform timely updates has prepped it's users for global exploitation. Sufficient weaknesses are well known and the platform has horrendous update propagation so they're not getting fixed. The only thing missing is mistake by a virus author and a worm/virus will propagate like wildfire When it happens it'll make the Morris worm that shut down the Internet look benign.
That's easy enough for everyone to figure out: It gives iOS users a more secure environment than the farce that is android today without imposing more than a tiny hardship on the vast majority of it's users.
I don't see this as being a major problem for iOS after this incident. Other than laziness there is no good reason for people to get their Xcode anywhere else than apple (as Xcode is a free download). AppDevs have now been warned that Xcode must be inviolate if they want to avoid their apps getting banned.
Now, what exactly was it that stopped you from making this simple deduction? Zealotry in favor of a rival platform perhaps?
I've driven by the Orly Concorde a few hundred times (It's on the way to a client's offices) but that's the only time I've ever seen it opened or even anyone waling around it. Most of the time it just looks abandoned. If you follow the map link I gave you can see a picture or two.
There are three Concordes around Paris that I know of: - The air & Space museum at Le Bourget has one in a hanger that you can walk through. It was of the first 2 built & was used to prove Concorde's air worthiness. It's in the state it was left in in the mid 70s -- no seats or cabin furnishings, just late 60s recorder instrumentation. - They have one up on a canted stand to make it look like it's taking off and banking left as you leave Charles de Gaulle Airport towards Paris. I assume it was stripped and strengthened to make it secure on it's stand. https://www.google.fr/maps/pla... - There is one parked behind Orly Airport at the Musee Delta. This one looks fairly operational but abandoned. https://www.google.fr/maps/pla...
About 2 months ago was driving by the one behind Orly and noticed that they had pulled access ramps up to it, opened the doors & people were walking in & out. It was back to it's abandoned state on the next day. I wonder if this project has anything to do with the people examining the Concorde?
Yeah, you would ignore that the insincere 1 star reviews are from people who transparently want to bash apple & not people who wanted to migrate their contacts, pictures etc off android & to an iPhone. Better off keeping to Android than being accused of apostasy eh?
Given the present state of the Calypso, you'd be better of using "was" instead of "is" when referring to it. After having sunk after a collision almost 20 years ago & then being abandoned for about 10 years, It was taken apart for a near total restoration over 5 years ago after. Should the funds ever be found to pay for the dismantlement and reconstruct it will have very little in common with the boat as Cousteau knew it.
My Home Win7 VM tells me that I CANNOT update to Win10 because the VMWare display adapter is incompatible with Win10 (until/unless I upgrade to the latest VMWare this is exactly what I want). Here's hoping that Win10 hasn't stealth downloaded anyway.
Given how Philae was unable to harpoon itself onto the surface of Churyumov-Gerasimenko, I have extremely little confidence in JPL's plans to use a harpoon to perform massive deltaV changes sucessfully.
As I said elsewhere in this thread, I'm a Cisco partner & work regularly with their engineers & people sent from the US for workshops here in Paris. The users of non-Apple hardware are rare enough to be remarkable. As for your uniformed opinion that we don't have the tools on OS X to do our jobs, lets chalk that up to your ignorance of just what tools are available and an assumption on your part that if it isn't the same tool as under windows then it doesn't exist.
Everyone in my experience that uses Macs at Cisco also uses OSX as rMBPs are the most popular model used and only OSX has stable support for hot plugging thunderport devices. The people who prefer Linux/Windows use Dell/HPs. That said, everyone uses VMware so if they need Linux/windows its there too.
Cisco Engineers massively prefer Macs over PCs to the point that those that use anything other than Macs are rare. By improving their products on Macs, they are helping their employees even before any clients are considered.
Perfect application of laws isn't the subject. Wide-spread regime-condoned discrimination of minorities is. No other nation with anything approaching their level of economic development practices Apartheid in the 21st Century as Malaysia does.
Then you're a moral relativist intent on seeing the transgressions of one side while ignoring those of the other. In sum a hypocrite. Spare us your moral judgements, you have no basis for forming any.
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Only true if iFixit had repeatedly broken NDA which is false.
Up to now their teardown were of publicly available Apple gear.
Dumb move guys...
Somebody called "Rabidreindeer" cannot see why project management is more important than technical chops for a large government contract. Then accuses me of being rabid when I point out how this story is clearly click bait...
That many IT projects of all sizes fail is no surprise, but do try to get over your indignation when hearing that a big multi-department contract clearly setting out to standardize and upgrade government IT security needs project management of a type you are unfamiliar with. You just look ignorant to those who aren't. The organization that Raytheon is bringing does not guarantee that the project will be successful just that it will be accountable.
You've never seen multi-million dollar projects face-plant because the project management was deficient. I've seen a few.
This story is much akin to the whipped up outrage on AF toilet seats that cost thousands, Macdonalds coffee lawsuit, Monsanto GMO lawsuit, etc. Someone with an axe to grind cherry picks a few details, whips up indignation with an inflammatory & extremely one sided resume, submits it to facebook, reddit & unfortunately more & more often /. and awaits trumped up steam from those ignorant of the full context.
But for you the ignorant whipped up indignation may be just what you're looking for.
Boogeyman, BOO!
There are valid reasons for an entity with lots of experience working for the government to win contracts like this. "Bob's corner firewall shop, viruses killed ded" isn't going to win any 1B multi department government contracts & would fail miserably if they tried.
Anyone claiming that because Raytheon isn't a well known name in software, networking, cyber security that this contract was awarded for cronyism, lobbying etc, has clearly never managed a large governmental project like this one is and knows nothing of how these projects are awarded. These projects are not looking for the prime contractor to be technically proficient in any of these technical fields but to have the best project management skills & to farm the technical parts out to subcontractors/suppliers.
That /. admins have promoted such a basic misunderstanding of what the issues are speaks to how far /. has fallen.
If you think that Android isn't a major security train wreck currently and getting worse then I have a few bridges I could let you have -- cheap.
Mitigation has been completely bypasssed. That you think that infection ==> botnets or it doesn't exist and has no consequences merely shows how 1990s your thinking is. Corporate network penetration and stealthy data snooping attacks are already fairly widespread because that is where the money is but given how widespread the weaknesses in Android are known sooner or later a teenager is going to put together a DDOS tool.
That sufficient exploits exist in android for the great majority of devices to be victimized cannot be denied. That these exploits can be propagated from phone to phone is also public knowledge. And we all know that there is money to be made by people writing code to exploit thes vulerabilities.
But for you, it's media hype...
No. Xcode isn't included in OS X. The boobytrapped Xcode version was a separate download & now everyone knows that they need to download directly from Apple & not some dodgy site in China.
The usual method of getting developers to install a backdoored version of an IDE is to make them think they are downloading the legit one.
Certainly, as long as you are referring to the usual methods of installing backdoored versions of IDEs for Android. As has been repeatedly pointed out, this is NOT how XCode is normally distributed.
Your suppositions of automated and largely useless validation reeks of "this is how Android does it & though I'm ignorant of how Apple does it, I'll still offer baseless conjecture that they use the same methods as Google when authorizing apps". None but the true zealots can doubt that Apple's walled garden has made it much more difficult for malware to spread on iOS versus Android.
The idea that Android is somehow riddled with malware is nonsense. Where are the vast botnets that would exist if it were? The Play store seems to be just as safe as the Apple app store, from a user's perspective.
Android's inability to perform timely updates has prepped it's users for global exploitation. Sufficient weaknesses are well known and the platform has horrendous update propagation so they're not getting fixed. The only thing missing is mistake by a virus author and a worm/virus will propagate like wildfire When it happens it'll make the Morris worm that shut down the Internet look benign.
That's easy enough for everyone to figure out: It gives iOS users a more secure environment than the farce that is android today without imposing more than a tiny hardship on the vast majority of it's users.
I don't see this as being a major problem for iOS after this incident. Other than laziness there is no good reason for people to get their Xcode anywhere else than apple (as Xcode is a free download). AppDevs have now been warned that Xcode must be inviolate if they want to avoid their apps getting banned.
Now, what exactly was it that stopped you from making this simple deduction? Zealotry in favor of a rival platform perhaps?
I've driven by the Orly Concorde a few hundred times (It's on the way to a client's offices) but that's the only time I've ever seen it opened or even anyone waling around it. Most of the time it just looks abandoned. If you follow the map link I gave you can see a picture or two.
The interdiction is on flying supersonic is over inhabited areas so flying over most of Canada doesn't count...
There are three Concordes around Paris that I know of:
- The air & Space museum at Le Bourget has one in a hanger that you can walk through. It was of the first 2 built & was used to prove Concorde's air worthiness. It's in the state it was left in in the mid 70s -- no seats or cabin furnishings, just late 60s recorder instrumentation.
- They have one up on a canted stand to make it look like it's taking off and banking left as you leave Charles de Gaulle Airport towards Paris. I assume it was stripped and strengthened to make it secure on it's stand.
https://www.google.fr/maps/pla...
- There is one parked behind Orly Airport at the Musee Delta. This one looks fairly operational but abandoned.
https://www.google.fr/maps/pla...
About 2 months ago was driving by the one behind Orly and noticed that they had pulled access ramps up to it, opened the doors & people were walking in & out. It was back to it's abandoned state on the next day. I wonder if this project has anything to do with the people examining the Concorde?
Funny, we have boxes of broken Android phones at work and so few broken iPhones. Looks to me like it's all the Android phones that don't work.
Yeah, you would ignore that the insincere 1 star reviews are from people who transparently want to bash apple & not people who wanted to migrate their contacts, pictures etc off android & to an iPhone. Better off keeping to Android than being accused of apostasy eh?
and now that iOS9 makes it possible to ad ad blockers to safari, they are rising to the top of the app store sales in days.
Given the present state of the Calypso, you'd be better of using "was" instead of "is" when referring to it. After having sunk after a collision almost 20 years ago & then being abandoned for about 10 years, It was taken apart for a near total restoration over 5 years ago after. Should the funds ever be found to pay for the dismantlement and reconstruct it will have very little in common with the boat as Cousteau knew it.
My Home Win7 VM tells me that I CANNOT update to Win10 because the VMWare display adapter is incompatible with Win10 (until/unless I upgrade to the latest VMWare this is exactly what I want). Here's hoping that Win10 hasn't stealth downloaded anyway.
It's no worse that Windows+Dell/HP/Lenovo's inability to reliably resume correctly from suspend docked/undocked without regular blue screens.
I moved to OSX, the only OS that I've seen that correctly accounts for thunderbolt devices connecting/deconnecting without reboots.
Given how Philae was unable to harpoon itself onto the surface of Churyumov-Gerasimenko, I have extremely little confidence in JPL's plans to use a harpoon to perform massive deltaV changes sucessfully.
As I said elsewhere in this thread, I'm a Cisco partner & work regularly with their engineers & people sent from the US for workshops here in Paris. The users of non-Apple hardware are rare enough to be remarkable. As for your uniformed opinion that we don't have the tools on OS X to do our jobs, lets chalk that up to your ignorance of just what tools are available and an assumption on your part that if it isn't the same tool as under windows then it doesn't exist.
Everyone in my experience that uses Macs at Cisco also uses OSX as rMBPs are the most popular model used and only OSX has stable support for hot plugging thunderport devices. The people who prefer Linux/Windows use Dell/HPs. That said, everyone uses VMware so if they need Linux/windows its there too.
Cisco Engineers massively prefer Macs over PCs to the point that those that use anything other than Macs are rare. By improving their products on Macs, they are helping their employees even before any clients are considered.
Perfect application of laws isn't the subject. Wide-spread regime-condoned discrimination of minorities is. No other nation with anything approaching their level of economic development practices Apartheid in the 21st Century as Malaysia does.
Then you're a moral relativist intent on seeing the transgressions of one side while ignoring those of the other. In sum a hypocrite. Spare us your moral judgements, you have no basis for forming any.