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This kind of thing really upsets me, because no matter how much you try to educate people, someone is going to click it and then bang, another exploit is launched. It shouldn't have been so easy for a system to be compromised, but it is. Maybe Vista will solve this, but wasn't the same said of XP?
Where I studied, we had three semesters of industrial experience in addition to the CS. It lengthened the course considerably, but it gave everyone a thorough reality check as to how theory is applied. As a student, you were always at the bottom of the pecking order but it was still a useful place to learn.
I hated differential equations and calculus. Unfortunately, some of the sharp end of financial engineering (quants) needs this. Sure the banks may have some mathematicians, but generally what they write is a long way from production code and you need someone who knows the maths and can convert it to good code.
You are very lucky that you weren't RICOed. For some types of crimes (drugs and money laundering) the police can seize assets without even securing a directly related conviction. Yes, you may be able to get it back when you prove your innocence.
My car is dead without its ECU as are most modern vehicles. The ECU ensures that I get the best compromise between performance and fuel consumption.
The gas turbines in a modern ship are much more complicated. Some automation is needed to get the best out of them and to reduce the headcount of those needed to run the things. The analog computers used before for running things just aren't good enough any more.
At he same time, I should point out that the ECU in my car does not have a general purpose operating system on it and they tend to be remarkably reliable.
I started off as a nice clean IT person but I've spent far too long on regulatory issues. The "duty of care" may be challengeable in a US bank but the parent is EU based. In any case, there is always reputational risk should there be a compromise.
Its ok, I saw a whole load of fun data (like copies of client passports, proofs of Name and address) being sent from the US to the UK for processing using that well known data protection technique of a FedEx envelope for a the CDRs. The Information Security people hit the roof when they heard and insisted on proper encryption. The point is that neither the business nor the IT people concerned had the foggiest idea that there was a duty of care involved.
I have a Logitech MX5000 keyboard for my laptop when I'm at the desk. I discovered that page zoom was working extremely well by accident after accidentally hitting the control pad rather than the volume next to it. FireFox 1.5 rescaled very nicely, even smoothly,
I can't imagine that Logitech wrote a bit bit of code for FF support so I would guess that the support is in there. It just needs a key binding to activate.
We were using SafeBoot. Not a wonderful system but we desperately needed HD encryption. My own laptop was full of interesting data about clients that was being picked up as part of an anti-money laundering project. Safeboot wasn't the worst option, but the implementation was very poor and I was shocked by how easy it was to get the support desk to override it.
Effectively, in Germany, there are a couple of country-wide TV channels and then a channel per state. Unlike the UK where the regional specific production, in most cases is limited to a news show or two sharing a slot in a common national channel, the German system has almost completely different programming, sharing only the national news. That costs. The thing is that on my cable, I get most regional TV (WDR,SW3, etc)as well as my own (HR3) so I do get more choice.
My last client turned on boot encryption on the laptops. As luck would have it, I was using mine remotely, in Chennai. I was locked out and it was about 3 in the morning for support. No worries, I gave my user id (very public) and the asset number (on the laptop) when I called support. They gave me the override password without problems. The point is that I believe that the override password was handed over without sufficiently verifying who I was. Not an issue for a dumb thief but a major one for someone involved in corporate espionage.
Not according to someone that I know there who hunts. Weapons may be available (and exportable) but the license isn't. The biggest exception is if you are linked to the military/security forces where you can obtain your own weapons (for example, as happens with the contract soldiers in Chechnya, who are well paid and use some of that on better equipment).
OTOH, you may be able to bribe your way into getting a license.
Actually proper firearms are very much restricted in Russia. Often, guards are reduced to using gas-guns to get over the issues with getting a hand-gun permit. The guards you see with hand-guns are usually moonlighting security-forces/military. Unfortunately, there is a very active black market in weapons so theoretically banned weapons such as automatics are easy to obtain there. I can't see a black market weapon's dealer taking anything other than dollars, cash.
I have a six-digit PIN on my ATM card but I live in Europe. When I come to the US I have no problems using the card to get money out. When presented with a foreign card, the PIN field length goes 'undefined' so instead of having a fixed 4-digit field, it is longer and requires an OK or something to terminate it.
Homosexuality in the UK wasn't really an issue in the forties. It seemed to become one in the fifties connected with communism and largely through pressure from the US. The justification given was that a homosexual could be blackmailed and in any case was considered morally disreputable.
McCarthy had his big thing against communists in the fifties and hhhe also seemed to bring homosexuality into the deal. The reality was in Britain, Guy Burgess was definitely gay and a traitor ausing a lot of damage but there is no evidence at all that Turing ever was anything other than the hard-working patriot.
I had the pleasure of seeing the replica Collossus running with an explanation by Tony Sale, the project leader for the recreation. I heard it running too (there were some relays but it was mostly the tape loop that created the noise).
The recerated design came from engineers notes (illegally retained) and a few photographs.
Please remember that the Soviets had little knowledge of the allied success with Enigma and the Lorenz/Siemens telex ciphers. The product (Magic/Ultra) was quite successfully written off to humint and even most customers seemed to believe there was a high ranking source leaking keys/plaintexts.
The DDR definitely continued to use both for some period after the war. The Soviets continued to use methods used in the telex stream ciphers that could be attacked by Collossus. I'm sure that Collossus didn't survicve beyond the fifties but I'm also certain that other specialised equipment was built on the same principles must have survived until the end of the eighties. Whilst this isn't explicitly explained at BP, it seems apparent from the museum.
The Poles were important. They obtained a lot of the initial information about the Enigma machine and its weaknesses. Turing turned the breaking of Enigma into something that could be run on an assembly line.
If you go to Bletchley Park, you will see that all the early work was acknowledged. However, with all so much German high command communications going via Enigma, there was no possibility of securing the plaintexts without the system at BP. Forget the mechanisation, there was also a vast human organisation around it which facilitated the decrypts.
The same methods o 'mass-production' were turned to othersystems such as fish and tunny.
Ask them what NDAs they ask from, say, McKinsey people.
Do they ever have to sign anything beyond a standard confidentiality clause? They are business process strategy consultants *not* technical (or arguably, even useful other than a security blanket for the board at the shareholder meetings).
I work as an external at a bank. A big one. I may even have your company's details available to me and yes I have access to most of the web including gmail, yahoo or whatever. I'm not allowed to plugin my own laptop but I do hp. Could I steal data, well yes. Would I, well absolutely not. The access is there for a reason so I can do my job. My client has one of the world's worst enterprise email implementations so sometimes I have to rely on my webmail to keep in contact with other staff.
One of LTCMs problems was 'slippage'. You might want to buy or sell a product but it may not be liquid enough so the price may move significantly before you can trade.
I started using satellite based networks in the early eighties so am well used to laggy and unreliable comms.
However when I was using the link, it was usually on good old Gmail which worked quite happily as well as other web sites (even posted on/. from there). I had to use the auto-saved draft once or twice but otherwise it worked fine. Rumour has it that some people have managed to get Skype working, but I didn't have enough time to play. I guess it depends on how many other people are using the system.
The leg I'm usually flying when I use this is between Frankfurt and Chennai/Bangalore on Lufthansa and up front in business class. What amazes me is that there is apparently good coverage for the system throughout the plane, even back in economy when opening a laptop fully may be difficult.
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This kind of thing really upsets me, because no matter how much you try to educate people, someone is going to click it and then bang, another exploit is launched. It shouldn't have been so easy for a system to be compromised, but it is. Maybe Vista will solve this, but wasn't the same said of XP?
Where I studied, we had three semesters of industrial experience in addition to the CS. It lengthened the course considerably, but it gave everyone a thorough reality check as to how theory is applied. As a student, you were always at the bottom of the pecking order but it was still a useful place to learn.
I hated differential equations and calculus. Unfortunately, some of the sharp end of financial engineering (quants) needs this. Sure the banks may have some mathematicians, but generally what they write is a long way from production code and you need someone who knows the maths and can convert it to good code.
You are very lucky that you weren't RICOed. For some types of crimes (drugs and money laundering) the police can seize assets without even securing a directly related conviction. Yes, you may be able to get it back when you prove your innocence.
The gas turbines in a modern ship are much more complicated. Some automation is needed to get the best out of them and to reduce the headcount of those needed to run the things. The analog computers used before for running things just aren't good enough any more.
At he same time, I should point out that the ECU in my car does not have a general purpose operating system on it and they tend to be remarkably reliable.
I started off as a nice clean IT person but I've spent far too long on regulatory issues. The "duty of care" may be challengeable in a US bank but the parent is EU based. In any case, there is always reputational risk should there be a compromise.
Its ok, I saw a whole load of fun data (like copies of client passports, proofs of Name and address) being sent from the US to the UK for processing using that well known data protection technique of a FedEx envelope for a the CDRs. The Information Security people hit the roof when they heard and insisted on proper encryption. The point is that neither the business nor the IT people concerned had the foggiest idea that there was a duty of care involved.
I can't imagine that Logitech wrote a bit bit of code for FF support so I would guess that the support is in there. It just needs a key binding to activate.
We were using SafeBoot. Not a wonderful system but we desperately needed HD encryption. My own laptop was full of interesting data about clients that was being picked up as part of an anti-money laundering project. Safeboot wasn't the worst option, but the implementation was very poor and I was shocked by how easy it was to get the support desk to override it.
I assume that as a Freiberufler (self-employed), the tax is not applicable (you are not considered a corporate entity).
Effectively, in Germany, there are a couple of country-wide TV channels and then a channel per state. Unlike the UK where the regional specific production, in most cases is limited to a news show or two sharing a slot in a common national channel, the German system has almost completely different programming, sharing only the national news. That costs. The thing is that on my cable, I get most regional TV (WDR,SW3, etc)as well as my own (HR3) so I do get more choice.
My last client turned on boot encryption on the laptops. As luck would have it, I was using mine remotely, in Chennai. I was locked out and it was about 3 in the morning for support. No worries, I gave my user id (very public) and the asset number (on the laptop) when I called support. They gave me the override password without problems. The point is that I believe that the override password was handed over without sufficiently verifying who I was. Not an issue for a dumb thief but a major one for someone involved in corporate espionage.
OTOH, you may be able to bribe your way into getting a license.
I understand that Visa may be listing soon which would end its non-profit status. MC is already a listed company.
Actually proper firearms are very much restricted in Russia. Often, guards are reduced to using gas-guns to get over the issues with getting a hand-gun permit. The guards you see with hand-guns are usually moonlighting security-forces/military. Unfortunately, there is a very active black market in weapons so theoretically banned weapons such as automatics are easy to obtain there. I can't see a black market weapon's dealer taking anything other than dollars, cash.
I have a six-digit PIN on my ATM card but I live in Europe. When I come to the US I have no problems using the card to get money out. When presented with a foreign card, the PIN field length goes 'undefined' so instead of having a fixed 4-digit field, it is longer and requires an OK or something to terminate it.
McCarthy had his big thing against communists in the fifties and hhhe also seemed to bring homosexuality into the deal. The reality was in Britain, Guy Burgess was definitely gay and a traitor ausing a lot of damage but there is no evidence at all that Turing ever was anything other than the hard-working patriot.
The recerated design came from engineers notes (illegally retained) and a few photographs.
The phrase 'I am not worthy' comes to mind...
The DDR definitely continued to use both for some period after the war. The Soviets continued to use methods used in the telex stream ciphers that could be attacked by Collossus. I'm sure that Collossus didn't survicve beyond the fifties but I'm also certain that other specialised equipment was built on the same principles must have survived until the end of the eighties. Whilst this isn't explicitly explained at BP, it seems apparent from the museum.
If you go to Bletchley Park, you will see that all the early work was acknowledged. However, with all so much German high command communications going via Enigma, there was no possibility of securing the plaintexts without the system at BP. Forget the mechanisation, there was also a vast human organisation around it which facilitated the decrypts.
The same methods o 'mass-production' were turned to othersystems such as fish and tunny.
Do they ever have to sign anything beyond a standard confidentiality clause? They are business process strategy consultants *not* technical (or arguably, even useful other than a security blanket for the board at the shareholder meetings).
I work as an external at a bank. A big one. I may even have your company's details available to me and yes I have access to most of the web including gmail, yahoo or whatever. I'm not allowed to plugin my own laptop but I do hp. Could I steal data, well yes. Would I, well absolutely not. The access is there for a reason so I can do my job. My client has one of the world's worst enterprise email implementations so sometimes I have to rely on my webmail to keep in contact with other staff.
One of LTCMs problems was 'slippage'. You might want to buy or sell a product but it may not be liquid enough so the price may move significantly before you can trade.
I know a few minimum-wage traders. We won't say what kind of bonus they get though. That definitely isn't minimum wage.
However when I was using the link, it was usually on good old Gmail which worked quite happily as well as other web sites (even posted on /. from there). I had to use the auto-saved draft once or twice but otherwise it worked fine. Rumour has it that some people have managed to get Skype working, but I didn't have enough time to play. I guess it depends on how many other people are using the system.
The leg I'm usually flying when I use this is between Frankfurt and Chennai/Bangalore on Lufthansa and up front in business class. What amazes me is that there is apparently good coverage for the system throughout the plane, even back in economy when opening a laptop fully may be difficult.