Whether a governmental backdoor is good idea or not should not be determined on the "good" uses the government would use it for. It should be determined on the "bad" uses (abuses) the government *could* use it for, along with the risk of it being cracked and abused by third parties.
Malware is any software that functions to benefit a third party rather than the user.
If your installer/updater is installing some app/toolbar/etc in addition to the application I want it to install -- that's malware.
If your installer/app/updater is changing settings in my browser or any other application on my system -- that's malware.
I want to write a letter, if your "letter writing app" is sending a copy of the letter or meta-data about the letter or my writing of the later to a third party -- that's malware.
If I'm playing your off-line single-player game and you're collecting data on how I play it -- that's malware.
If I'm playing your on-line multi-player game and you're doing anything with the data I'm sending you other than sending it to the other players -- that's malware.
If your search engine is doing anything with the search request I'm sending you other than fulfilling my search request -- that's malware.
If your app is displaying ads -- that's malware (unless it's an ad locator application).
You know, cell phones are commonly used to make remote bomb triggers (for some of the bombs that don't have clock timers). Is every kid in that school carrying a cell phone intending to blow people up? Maybe we should put them all in cuffs until we can sort this mess out.
There were too many Mac choices so you switched to PCs where there are a couple of thousand times more choices? When you say something insane like that it makes it hard to take the rest of your post seriously, even if you're making some valid observations.
I wonder how long it will be until someone explains to Chris Christie that there is a fundamental difference between a inanimate package an an animate person. Secondly I wonder how long it will take the Governor to understand them...
When the car approaches an emergency situation where a cop is directing traffic (e.g an accident scene) and detects the emergency vehicle lights it pulls over and stops. The driver can then take manual control and drive until they are past the situation then re-enable the automated system.
If the vehicle is driving down the road and detects emergency lights behind it, the vehicle pulls over to allow the emergency vehicle to pass -- just like people are supposed to do -- and continues after the emergency vehicle has passed. If it's a cop pulling over a specific vehicle the cop will stay behind the automated vehicle and it will pull over and stop. If the person driving the automated vehicle questions the authenticity of the cop they can take manual control and drive away.
I'm a fool if I leave my house or car unlocked at night; nevertheless, if someone breaks in and steals stuff, they have committed a crime, not me; I was naive, negligent, careless, but I didn't steal anything. If you are holding property for someone else, then yes your negligence is (may be) criminal, particularly if you are being paid to store their stuff and advertised your services as secure.
It depends on what key I'm hitting just before it and with which hand. Perhaps the split-keyboard designers could solve the issue by putting a 6 key on both halves.
3.2 million Google OnHub routers have ceased to function due to a buggy firmware update that was automatically installed. The 116.7 million OnHub routers that are part of the BlastField Botnet were not affected.
Physically disconnect the uConnect/OnStar antenna, turn off BlueTooth or any other remote connection system if you can't disconnect their antenni. Pull the fuse for the powered lock system that allows your keyfob to unlock your door/start your engine.
Remember. If you can connect to your car remotely, so can the bad-guys.
First off. F-You, John Cridland, for the 'spotty nerd' insult. And F-You for insinuating that coders aren't artistic and that coding isn't an art form.
The whole point of promoting STEM is because Art degrees are waste of time and resources. You may be personally fulfilled getting your Masters Degree in 18th Century French Poetry but it's not going to help make you a productive member of society.
As to game design, you have the game designer who designs the gameplay, then you have the coder who writes the code to implement the gameplay and then you have artist who creates the graphics (and sounds/music) for the game (among numerous other people). Game design is a team effort and everyone needs their own specific skills.
That you think coders need to be able to draw really shows that you have no idea of how the video-game industry works.
The root problem is the people who design a feature to allow code to persist through a wipe and don't see that as a huge security hole!
Security is simple is you care about it, things like a BIOS update shouldn't be possible without a physical action by the user. For example a jumper on the motherboard has to be installed during the boot (which can easily be extended to a button on the case) which would look for a specific file in a specific location and update the bios after confirming on screen with the user. The jumper would then have to be removed prior to the system booting normally.
Any feature that a good application can use to update your system, a bad application can use as well. To use a car analogy, a security "feature" that lets you unlock your car if you've lost your keys (which sounds useful on its face) - also allows a bad guy to unlock your car.
Let's hope the people designing self-driving cars think about this situation when they start to implement base-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communications and isolate the exterior communications from the vehicle control system.
You can't have a failure mode where it says "OK, meat sock, I have no idea what to do, it's your turn and you have 0.7 seconds to react". That will simply not work.
What in the world makes you think they would have such a failure mode?
Why would they do that when they can have it start alerting the driver when it "sees" something ahead that it doesn't grok allowing the meat sock to take control at it's discretion and if it doesn't, bring the vehicle to a safe and orderly stop until the source of the confusion can be sorted out.
This idea that the system would just stop functioning, without warning, anytime it gets confused is the fevered wet-dream of luddites.
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What a lot of words to say "we're going to continue harassing the poor and minorities".
Whether a governmental backdoor is good idea or not should not be determined on the "good" uses the government would use it for. It should be determined on the "bad" uses (abuses) the government *could* use it for, along with the risk of it being cracked and abused by third parties.
Concorde failed because the number of airports it could fly into was extremely limited and the ground it could overfly was even more limited.
But in reality it failed because it was expensive, cramped and didn't reduce total trip time by all that much.
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Malware is any software that functions to benefit a third party rather than the user.
If your installer/updater is installing some app/toolbar/etc in addition to the application I want it to install -- that's malware.
If your installer/app/updater is changing settings in my browser or any other application on my system -- that's malware.
I want to write a letter, if your "letter writing app" is sending a copy of the letter or meta-data about the letter or my writing of the later to a third party -- that's malware.
If I'm playing your off-line single-player game and you're collecting data on how I play it -- that's malware.
If I'm playing your on-line multi-player game and you're doing anything with the data I'm sending you other than sending it to the other players -- that's malware.
If your search engine is doing anything with the search request I'm sending you other than fulfilling my search request -- that's malware.
If your app is displaying ads -- that's malware (unless it's an ad locator application).
You know, cell phones are commonly used to make remote bomb triggers (for some of the bombs that don't have clock timers). Is every kid in that school carrying a cell phone intending to blow people up? Maybe we should put them all in cuffs until we can sort this mess out.
Stop Giving them ideas...
Step one: No connection between the EMU (Engine Management Unit) and the entertainment system or the outside world.
Step two: There is no step two.
I wish I knew about this when I was in school, I wasted so much time learning the subject matter...
There were too many Mac choices so you switched to PCs where there are a couple of thousand times more choices? When you say something insane like that it makes it hard to take the rest of your post seriously, even if you're making some valid observations.
Anyone who uses the phrase "too protective of the end-user" should be smacked upside the head.
Ask them how reliable their cell phone connections are and if they would be happy having that level of reliability with their internet connection.
"Can you ping me now?"
Carly Fiorina has actually been given $13,000,000, she's just turned it into $13,000.
I wonder how long it will be until someone explains to Chris Christie that there is a fundamental difference between a inanimate package an an animate person. Secondly I wonder how long it will take the Governor to understand them...
Simple solution:
When the car approaches an emergency situation where a cop is directing traffic (e.g an accident scene) and detects the emergency vehicle lights it pulls over and stops. The driver can then take manual control and drive until they are past the situation then re-enable the automated system.
If the vehicle is driving down the road and detects emergency lights behind it, the vehicle pulls over to allow the emergency vehicle to pass -- just like people are supposed to do -- and continues after the emergency vehicle has passed. If it's a cop pulling over a specific vehicle the cop will stay behind the automated vehicle and it will pull over and stop. If the person driving the automated vehicle questions the authenticity of the cop they can take manual control and drive away.
This stuff isn't hard.
I'm a fool if I leave my house or car unlocked at night; nevertheless, if someone breaks in and steals stuff, they have committed a crime, not me; I was naive, negligent, careless, but I didn't steal anything.
If you are holding property for someone else, then yes your negligence is (may be) criminal, particularly if you are being paid to store their stuff and advertised your services as secure.
It depends on what key I'm hitting just before it and with which hand.
Perhaps the split-keyboard designers could solve the issue by putting a 6 key on both halves.
Which other candidates share this view?
All of them. That's the problem. Jeb was just stupid enough to say it out loud.
They meant to say it's 'to Service, Customers Better'
Service, as in: 'what the bull does to the cow to make calves'.
3.2 million Google OnHub routers have ceased to function due to a buggy firmware update that was automatically installed. The 116.7 million OnHub routers that are part of the BlastField Botnet were not affected.
Physically disconnect the uConnect/OnStar antenna, turn off BlueTooth or any other remote connection system if you can't disconnect their antenni. Pull the fuse for the powered lock system that allows your keyfob to unlock your door/start your engine.
Remember. If you can connect to your car remotely, so can the bad-guys.
First off. F-You, John Cridland, for the 'spotty nerd' insult. And F-You for insinuating that coders aren't artistic and that coding isn't an art form.
The whole point of promoting STEM is because Art degrees are waste of time and resources. You may be personally fulfilled getting your Masters Degree in 18th Century French Poetry but it's not going to help make you a productive member of society.
As to game design, you have the game designer who designs the gameplay, then you have the coder who writes the code to implement the gameplay and then you have artist who creates the graphics (and sounds/music) for the game (among numerous other people). Game design is a team effort and everyone needs their own specific skills.
That you think coders need to be able to draw really shows that you have no idea of how the video-game industry works.
The root problem is the people who design a feature to allow code to persist through a wipe and don't see that as a huge security hole!
Security is simple is you care about it, things like a BIOS update shouldn't be possible without a physical action by the user. For example a jumper on the motherboard has to be installed during the boot (which can easily be extended to a button on the case) which would look for a specific file in a specific location and update the bios after confirming on screen with the user. The jumper would then have to be removed prior to the system booting normally.
Any feature that a good application can use to update your system, a bad application can use as well. To use a car analogy, a security "feature" that lets you unlock your car if you've lost your keys (which sounds useful on its face) - also allows a bad guy to unlock your car.
Cue the CNN 24 Hour Over-Coverage Machine in 3... 2... 1...
Let's hope the people designing self-driving cars think about this situation when they start to implement base-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communications and isolate the exterior communications from the vehicle control system.
You can't have a failure mode where it says "OK, meat sock, I have no idea what to do, it's your turn and you have 0.7 seconds to react". That will simply not work.
What in the world makes you think they would have such a failure mode?
Why would they do that when they can have it start alerting the driver when it "sees" something ahead that it doesn't grok allowing the meat sock to take control at it's discretion and if it doesn't, bring the vehicle to a safe and orderly stop until the source of the confusion can be sorted out.
This idea that the system would just stop functioning, without warning, anytime it gets confused is the fevered wet-dream of luddites.