I'm going to be pedantic and just point out that I doubt non programmers or non technical people will know about Stack Overflow even if they know google. Last time I checked Stack Overflow didn't have any chicken recipes. Goes and looks just to be sure
Damn, scratch that, it does!
I'll be damned!
Yes but when something is "bricked" it's fucked - you throw it away or take it apart for shits and giggles. It's not "bricked" if it can be brought back to working order by someone - regardless of the level of skill of the person repairing it or the level of skill of the owner.
BRICKED == fucked
can be fixed != BRICKED
Talking about shooting yourself in the foot. I don't know what utter moron makes these sorts of decisions at M$, but they are really fucking retarded. If M$ keeps annoying users they will switch away from Windows.
My wife has gone old school and keeps a physical notebook with her sites/passwords in it, which she locks in her top drawer.
Can't exactly hack that, and it would require physical access to our study which is generally off limits to everyone (because it's a mess).
Contemplating doing the same actually.
Big fucking yawn, they trot this shit out every other year or so. These programs are severely limited in their functionality. Also I am not exactly worried about this impacting my job much, since I am in the space where I would be the one writing the fucking things. Anyone who believes you can hand over coding to someone who does not know how to code with a magical piece of software is an idiot. Someone mentioned further up that they can now do their own analysis using a spreadsheet program instead of asking IT. Well welcome to 2016, you are only a decade or so late to the spreadsheet party. Wait until your data exceeds the limits of your spreadsheet program and your PC craps bricks trying to process it, you'll be trotting off to IT. More than likely IT is who set up your worksheet in the first place, so that you can stop bugging them with inane requests for data for you to "analyze".
Heh, I agree, my first thought was "Hey, I want to get a look at that!"
Not that it matters, I stopped buying consoles ages ago, they keep getting stolen, except the Wii, they never steal that.
Thank you, although arguably there is nothing wrong with the computers either.
"Microsoft Has stopped Millions of Webcams from working With Windows 10 Anniversary Update"...
But perhaps that is being too pedantic.
"widely used by Islamist extremists to plan attacks" where exactly have they proven (and not just stated) that they use encryption. The Paris attackers used burner phones and plain old text messages. No encryption there. There WAS hype shortly afterwards that they had, but in the end they didn't even bother.
"Party starts at 18:30, meet you at Mickeys"
Would slip past all surveillance and monitoring especially if they had no reason to be monitoring that particular phone (which is why they used burner phones).
Stopping encryption on messages is more about them monitoring ALL of us, and not really about stopping attacks.
This is one of the main reasons I think self driving cars can only lead to the fall of humanity. I mean, he didn't call an ambulance because he knew damn well that when they found out he was a lawyer they would have taken the long way to the hospital and possibly stopped for a long lunch as well. Self driving cars have to be programmed to do this as well, otherwise before we know it we will be neck deep in lawyers and phone sanitizers.
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There is a big difference between IT consulting work and being a security guard, so yeah, the multiplier would be higher for skilled work. No offense (to security guards) but a LOT more people can be a security guard than can do IT consulting, I have often wished for a nice quiet security job where you sit around all day basically doing nothing (I could get SO much reading done) but then I think about the salary I would get, and go back to my keyboard.
Or stop being fvcking stupid and build better security in, we ALREADY know it's a problem, the slow ass law machine should catch up and start penalizing companies who have crappy security NOW, before there are another million unprotected devices. I will wager that it's going to take a couple of high profile deaths before they do anything.
Hmm, well there was "Lebola" which must be paid to the family of the bride, but they have that in a lot of other cultures as well (dowry etc).
So I actually can't say if it existed before the white plague, I just know how it's done NOW.
The Paris attackers did NOT use encryption!
They used burner phones.
The TLA's just tried to use encryption as the reason why their spy machines didn't detect squat, and to try force new encryption laws down peoples throats.
Clearly you know fvckall about the real Africa.
Bribes are the only way to get things done, it's part of their culture(s) and they see nothing wrong with it.
Which is why they look so surprised when they get caught out, because as far as they are concerned it's business as usual, which it usually is.
So a very select few get super filthy rich, while the rest continue living in abject poverty. Welcome to Africa!
Although to be fair, it happens elsewhere as well, it's not just in Africa, Russia is apparently just as bad (but I wouldn't know personally).
General Electrics: "Oh, we didn't tell you but we'll need a 24/7 IPSec VPN to this 500,000€ piece of equipment (and all its consoles) you just bought from us."
Me: "What."
General Electrics: "I know your medical imagery dept. is currently airgapped but hey, easy enough to correct, right?"
Me: "Yeah, no, it's not that easy."
General Electrics: "Then I'm afraid you've got a 500,000€ paperweight until you comply with our demands."
That was last year.
They should just replace all passwords with biometric sensors. I'm in a third world country and a company I worked at before put biometric sensors EVERYWHERE, log into your PC, go through a door they want to restrict access to, unlock a till at one of their branches etc. etc.
They are cheap enough nowadays to make them a viable alternative.
It didn't and wouldn't stop the next one either. Who's to say the guy wasn't "radicalized" by under cover TLA's so that they could shove shit like this down your throats? I have long suspected the TLA's sit back and do nothing when they know someone is going to pop a lid so they can force through laws which otherwise no one would even think of allowing.
Occasionally (maybe once per quarter) have an all-hands meeting and have each team give a 3 minute presentation on what it's doing so people have an idea what else is going on, same as any other large development organization.
I could not agree more!!!
Lots of companies I have worked in seem to treat everything as a secret, or just have really bad communication at any rate. You find out about things happening through the grapevine, and all the broken telephone crap that comes with that.
I worked with a young guy who was proud that he had never ever read a book from cover to cover.
Not one.
I asked him how the hell he got through english in school then, and he said "Study guides".
I suppose technically he finished study guides, but actually reading the book...
I wish they would bring back the wadsworth constant.
Then I wouldn't really give a shit if everything ended up as a video, I don't want to have to sit through some ass hat telling me to go check out his other videos, what his cat ate for breakfast, or how wonderful he thinks he is.
Well maybe that's the point, you've been pwned and the results look hideous.
I mean if they hacked a website and made it look better people probably wouldn't realize it was a hack.
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I'm going to be pedantic and just point out that I doubt non programmers or non technical people will know about Stack Overflow even if they know google. Last time I checked Stack Overflow didn't have any chicken recipes.
Goes and looks just to be sure
Damn, scratch that, it does!
I'll be damned!
Yes but when something is "bricked" it's fucked - you throw it away or take it apart for shits and giggles. It's not "bricked" if it can be brought back to working order by someone - regardless of the level of skill of the person repairing it or the level of skill of the owner.
BRICKED == fucked
can be fixed != BRICKED
Harrison Bergeron
Talking about shooting yourself in the foot. I don't know what utter moron makes these sorts of decisions at M$, but they are really fucking retarded. If M$ keeps annoying users they will switch away from Windows.
Exactly
OneLogin hacked
My wife has gone old school and keeps a physical notebook with her sites/passwords in it, which she locks in her top drawer.
Can't exactly hack that, and it would require physical access to our study which is generally off limits to everyone (because it's a mess).
Contemplating doing the same actually.
Big fucking yawn, they trot this shit out every other year or so. These programs are severely limited in their functionality. Also I am not exactly worried about this impacting my job much, since I am in the space where I would be the one writing the fucking things. Anyone who believes you can hand over coding to someone who does not know how to code with a magical piece of software is an idiot. Someone mentioned further up that they can now do their own analysis using a spreadsheet program instead of asking IT. Well welcome to 2016, you are only a decade or so late to the spreadsheet party. Wait until your data exceeds the limits of your spreadsheet program and your PC craps bricks trying to process it, you'll be trotting off to IT. More than likely IT is who set up your worksheet in the first place, so that you can stop bugging them with inane requests for data for you to "analyze".
Next they will be experimenting with and maybe !!!
The future is here and it looks a LOT like 1990.
Another reason to avoid Facebook like the plague, as if I needed another.
Heh, I agree, my first thought was "Hey, I want to get a look at that!"
Not that it matters, I stopped buying consoles ages ago, they keep getting stolen, except the Wii, they never steal that.
Thank you, although arguably there is nothing wrong with the computers either.
"Microsoft Has stopped Millions of Webcams from working With Windows 10 Anniversary Update"...
But perhaps that is being too pedantic.
"widely used by Islamist extremists to plan attacks" where exactly have they proven (and not just stated) that they use encryption. The Paris attackers used burner phones and plain old text messages. No encryption there. There WAS hype shortly afterwards that they had, but in the end they didn't even bother.
"Party starts at 18:30, meet you at Mickeys"
Would slip past all surveillance and monitoring especially if they had no reason to be monitoring that particular phone (which is why they used burner phones).
Stopping encryption on messages is more about them monitoring ALL of us, and not really about stopping attacks.
"you'll get a rise out of a lot more of them" - yeah, some people are just born exhibitionists.
This is one of the main reasons I think self driving cars can only lead to the fall of humanity. I mean, he didn't call an ambulance because he knew damn well that when they found out he was a lawyer they would have taken the long way to the hospital and possibly stopped for a long lunch as well. Self driving cars have to be programmed to do this as well, otherwise before we know it we will be neck deep in lawyers and phone sanitizers.
There is a big difference between IT consulting work and being a security guard, so yeah, the multiplier would be higher for skilled work. No offense (to security guards) but a LOT more people can be a security guard than can do IT consulting, I have often wished for a nice quiet security job where you sit around all day basically doing nothing (I could get SO much reading done) but then I think about the salary I would get, and go back to my keyboard.
Well let's hope it requires ANY acting ability as well.
Or stop being fvcking stupid and build better security in, we ALREADY know it's a problem, the slow ass law machine should catch up and start penalizing companies who have crappy security NOW, before there are another million unprotected devices. I will wager that it's going to take a couple of high profile deaths before they do anything.
Hmm, well there was "Lebola" which must be paid to the family of the bride, but they have that in a lot of other cultures as well (dowry etc).
So I actually can't say if it existed before the white plague, I just know how it's done NOW.
The Paris attackers did NOT use encryption!
They used burner phones.
The TLA's just tried to use encryption as the reason why their spy machines didn't detect squat, and to try force new encryption laws down peoples throats.
Clearly you know fvckall about the real Africa.
Bribes are the only way to get things done, it's part of their culture(s) and they see nothing wrong with it.
Which is why they look so surprised when they get caught out, because as far as they are concerned it's business as usual, which it usually is.
So a very select few get super filthy rich, while the rest continue living in abject poverty.
Welcome to Africa!
Although to be fair, it happens elsewhere as well, it's not just in Africa, Russia is apparently just as bad (but I wouldn't know personally).
They should just replace all passwords with biometric sensors. I'm in a third world country and a company I worked at before put biometric sensors EVERYWHERE, log into your PC, go through a door they want to restrict access to, unlock a till at one of their branches etc. etc.
They are cheap enough nowadays to make them a viable alternative.
It didn't and wouldn't stop the next one either. Who's to say the guy wasn't "radicalized" by under cover TLA's so that they could shove shit like this down your throats? I have long suspected the TLA's sit back and do nothing when they know someone is going to pop a lid so they can force through laws which otherwise no one would even think of allowing.
I could not agree more!!!
Lots of companies I have worked in seem to treat everything as a secret, or just have really bad communication at any rate. You find out about things happening through the grapevine, and all the broken telephone crap that comes with that.
I worked with a young guy who was proud that he had never ever read a book from cover to cover.
Not one.
I asked him how the hell he got through english in school then, and he said "Study guides".
I suppose technically he finished study guides, but actually reading the book...
I wish they would bring back the wadsworth constant.
Then I wouldn't really give a shit if everything ended up as a video, I don't want to have to sit through some ass hat telling me to go check out his other videos, what his cat ate for breakfast, or how wonderful he thinks he is.
Well maybe that's the point, you've been pwned and the results look hideous. I mean if they hacked a website and made it look better people probably wouldn't realize it was a hack.
Yeah, you could have invaded a country that wasn't even involved, I mean, THAT would have been an overreaction.