I'm not sure how your app's actualy store the data, but if you seperated out the highly sensitive data into seperate tables, based what is highly sensitive by confering real experts in the field, using a process that demonstrated due deligence through a documented and as transperent as possible process. I'm sure you would be in a better position to defend a FOIA style suit.
Terrorists put considerable effort in selecting physical targets that are highly symbolic and recognisable to obtain the maximum emotional response from the real target, the people who live. Their goal is to terrorise not kill, killing is just a means to the end.
But the system does have an informal form of checks and balances; the legislature doesn't trust the millitary, the courts doesn't trust the FBI, the NSA doesn't trust the CIA, the executive branch doesn't trust the legislature, the Secret Service doesn't trust BATF, the IRS don't trust anybody and nobody trusts "the government" so in the end it all balances out. the Patriot act gives a lot of people in government a lot of power and usefull tools for dire emergencies and to prevent a lot of dire emergencies and most people in government (and they are just people like us) realy don't want to squander those tools in trivial excesses and not have them when lives are on the line. The few who try will be censured one way or another.
There's a fine line between being insightful and being a flamebaiter or troll. I like the stupid questions, you know the ones that challenges basic assumptions at first glance, but after a moments consideration shows that the basic assumptions weren't that well considered after all; frequantly these people post AC and I usualy try to find them and have found I generaly get mod points about once a week. Sure sometimes I go on a mod-rampage, usualy involve a variation of xenophobic nationalism, tribalism, classism or racism to get me there.
The problem is they used a freakin WIKI, how do you moderate a WIKI? should have used slashcode; set up their own karma system, establish a group of super-mods, beta by invitation until they get to critical-mass and don't let it go super-critical.
it's basically a weakened form of copyright. I consider it a strengthened form of copyright, you know what your buying before you buy, and you know what it costs, it costs not money but obligations to conduct business according to the GPL, which basicly says "If you want to play on our field, you play by our rules like we do, don't want to play by our rules take your ball and go home; play on our field and change your mind about playing by the rules, then leave your ball and go home".
I think you need a couple whackes with the good'ol Clue-Stick; 1. Copyrights do NOT apply to programs, Copyrights apply to the source code that a compiler uses to generate the program, 2. Patents apply to the implimentation of an idea, but not the idea. The present system where vague descriptions are used to sneak an idea into a overly broad patent is a corruption of the original system. Personally I'm not totally opposed to software patents, my problem is the patent period is way to long for our rapidly progressing world, and the standard for uniqueness is way to low; I'm not opposed to the Idea but I'm opposed to the implimentation.
how does a small company become a large one Too frequently by the vampyric leeching the life-blood and creativity of of it's rivals until it becomes a big company. At least the F/OSS antisocial geeky nerds know how to share, and every flamefest doesn't result in a gutted company and shattered dreams.
What if it had picked up the wrong drugs for the wrong patient on this excursion? Actualy what normaly happens is the pharmacy prepares a "pack" for let say pediatric oncology, the 'bot is loaded with the pack's for various nurse's stations and begins it's rounds to each station. At the station the 'bot stops and the nursing staff retrieves it's pack, and inserts it's returns. The pack is opened and inventoried and stocked in the meds room or chart and the licensed and trained nurses deliver the med's to the patients as per state laws.This is similar to mail-bots that some large companies use to deliver mail to their departments.
The thing that really caught my attention isn't so much that the bot got lost, but that it was lost and didn't know it was lost. I'd have built in quite a bit more redundancy, internal maps cross-referenced to barcodes on the floor or walls; fallow the yellow line, proceed 5 meters from location A turn 1/2 pi radians ect, throw big-ass exception if method 1 != method 2 +- 10% kind of thing.
I took a marketing class in the '80s and it had 3 P's, product, price and placement. Marketing was about finding out what the consumer wanted, what the consumer would pay, and where the consumer would buy it. Everything was consumer orrientated, and marketing was more like a cross between R&D and sociology; things were good. Sometime in the late 80's or early 90's another P sneaked in promotion, which was advertising, that's how everything went to hell in a hand basket. Advertising is producer orrientated how to convince the consumer what they want, what they should pay and where they should go to buy; all of the bad Madison Avenue kind of things.
My son was working at the local Denny's, and the manager started to rag him about putting too, many french fries on a plate! The only thing cheaper than french fries in a resturant is the soda pop.
perhaps specific targets are targeted initialy, then a carpet-bombing to cover their tracks? or even more likely since everybody is being carpet-bombed, a specialized attack might just fly under the radar.
I didn't find in the actual report PDF where they used the word secret or confidential as in government classified SECRET or CONFIDENTIAL, so the implication is the government data was as the report said sensitive or as it implied a business secret. Also it may be that somebody wants to turn an employee so putting him in financial difficulty or learning an embarassing personal secret can have great rewards.
1. antivirus software works by looking for signatures, modify the virus and you can change the signature. if the virus writer has up-to-date sigs, they can test the modifications to see if they have made the virus undetectable. 2. by targeting the virus to a limited range of targets, it's more difficult for the antivirus to find the new signatures for the virus 3. users in a protected enrivonment have a false sense of security making successful attacks more likely. 4. if the website is dead either law-enforcement shut it down or the operator shut it down having enough data to make the risk of capture higher than the value of continued operation. 5. how many businesses have actual training programs to instruct employees about fraud, espionage and subvertion anyways.
From what I've seen very few windosers are astute enough to even know how to look at the file's extentions, to them anything that's compressed is a zip especialy if the spy-ware.evil-hacker.com web site says it's a zip
how an executable could be run if you downloaded a nonexecutable (e.g., a.mov or.avi file) It can't but that's not what's happening, people are used to downloading ZIP files, which are often self-extracting; so double click the file, which is executable i.e. self-extracting, the custom extractor, throw up a alert-box says extracting "suzie does donkies" checkbox "I agree to terms" and ok. users never actually reads the terms which says something like I agree to install software, give my first born son ect. then the extractor installs the spyware, and then extract the.mov or.avi file for the user to watch. I'm not sure if windows even looks at the file extention anymore
Sounds like the best idea so far, when sales crash and burn he can always say "we gave $2M worth of software to production that we use everyday, and sale dept. can't even generate 1/10th it value in sales!"
doesn't seem any more unreasonable to me than sell pet-rocks, chia pets, 7X pot distilled vodka, if you think of it as an agumentation rather than a replacement for more enduring and less faddish skill sets.
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I'm not sure how your app's actualy store the data, but if you seperated out the highly sensitive data into seperate tables, based what is highly sensitive by confering real experts in the field, using a process that demonstrated due deligence through a documented and as transperent as possible process. I'm sure you would be in a better position to defend a FOIA style suit.
Terrorists put considerable effort in selecting physical targets that are highly symbolic and recognisable to obtain the maximum emotional response from the real target, the people who live. Their goal is to terrorise not kill, killing is just a means to the end.
4 ounces of botulism toxin, properly dispensed would kill every animal on the earth. Think about that when you go for your botox treatment
But the system does have an informal form of checks and balances;
the legislature doesn't trust the millitary,
the courts doesn't trust the FBI,
the NSA doesn't trust the CIA,
the executive branch doesn't trust the legislature,
the Secret Service doesn't trust BATF,
the IRS don't trust anybody and nobody trusts "the government" so in the end it all balances out. the Patriot act gives a lot of people in government a lot of power and usefull tools for dire emergencies and to prevent a lot of dire emergencies and most people in government (and they are just people like us) realy don't want to squander those tools in trivial excesses and not have them when lives are on the line. The few who try will be censured one way or another.
There's a fine line between being insightful and being a flamebaiter or troll. I like the stupid questions, you know the ones that challenges basic assumptions at first glance, but after a moments consideration shows that the basic assumptions weren't that well considered after all; frequantly these people post AC and I usualy try to find them and have found I generaly get mod points about once a week. Sure sometimes I go on a mod-rampage, usualy involve a variation of xenophobic nationalism, tribalism, classism or racism to get me there.
The problem is they used a freakin WIKI, how do you moderate a WIKI? should have used slashcode; set up their own karma system, establish a group of super-mods, beta by invitation until they get to critical-mass and don't let it go super-critical.
it's basically a weakened form of copyright.
I consider it a strengthened form of copyright, you know what your buying before you buy, and you know what it costs, it costs not money but obligations to conduct business according to the GPL, which basicly says "If you want to play on our field, you play by our rules like we do, don't want to play by our rules take your ball and go home; play on our field and change your mind about playing by the rules, then leave your ball and go home".
I think you need a couple whackes with the good'ol Clue-Stick;
1. Copyrights do NOT apply to programs, Copyrights apply to the source code that a compiler uses to generate the program,
2. Patents apply to the implimentation of an idea, but not the idea.
The present system where vague descriptions are used to sneak an idea into a overly broad patent is a corruption of the original system. Personally I'm not totally opposed to software patents, my problem is the patent period is way to long for our rapidly progressing world, and the standard for uniqueness is way to low; I'm not opposed to the Idea but I'm opposed to the implimentation.
how does a small company become a large one
Too frequently by the vampyric leeching the life-blood and creativity of of it's rivals until it becomes a big company. At least the F/OSS antisocial geeky nerds know how to share, and every flamefest doesn't result in a gutted company and shattered dreams.
What if it had picked up the wrong drugs for the wrong patient on this excursion?
Actualy what normaly happens is the pharmacy prepares a "pack" for let say pediatric oncology, the 'bot is loaded with the pack's for various nurse's stations and begins it's rounds to each station. At the station the 'bot stops and the nursing staff retrieves it's pack, and inserts it's returns. The pack is opened and inventoried and stocked in the meds room or chart and the licensed and trained nurses deliver the med's to the patients as per state laws.This is similar to mail-bots that some large companies use to deliver mail to their departments.
The thing that really caught my attention isn't so much that the bot got lost, but that it was lost and didn't know it was lost. I'd have built in quite a bit more redundancy, internal maps cross-referenced to barcodes on the floor or walls; fallow the yellow line, proceed 5 meters from location A turn 1/2 pi radians ect, throw big-ass exception if method 1 != method 2 +- 10% kind of thing.
I took a marketing class in the '80s and it had 3 P's, product, price and placement. Marketing was about finding out what the consumer wanted, what the consumer would pay, and where the consumer would buy it. Everything was consumer orrientated, and marketing was more like a cross between R&D and sociology; things were good. Sometime in the late 80's or early 90's another P sneaked in promotion, which was advertising, that's how everything went to hell in a hand basket. Advertising is producer orrientated how to convince the consumer what they want, what they should pay and where they should go to buy; all of the bad Madison Avenue kind of things.
My son was working at the local Denny's, and the manager started to rag him about putting too, many french fries on a plate! The only thing cheaper than french fries in a resturant is the soda pop.
Do you guys get free refill on the pop and 25 cent refills on popcorn over on your side of the pond?
perhaps specific targets are targeted initialy, then a carpet-bombing to cover their tracks? or even more likely since everybody is being carpet-bombed, a specialized attack might just fly under the radar.
I didn't find in the actual report PDF where they used the word secret or confidential as in government classified SECRET or CONFIDENTIAL, so the implication is the government data was as the report said sensitive or as it implied a business secret.
Also it may be that somebody wants to turn an employee so putting him in financial difficulty or learning an embarassing personal secret can have great rewards.
1. antivirus software works by looking for signatures, modify the virus and you can change the signature. if the virus writer has up-to-date sigs, they can test the modifications to see if they have made the virus undetectable.
2. by targeting the virus to a limited range of targets, it's more difficult for the antivirus to find the new signatures for the virus
3. users in a protected enrivonment have a false sense of security making successful attacks more likely.
4. if the website is dead either law-enforcement shut it down or the operator shut it down having enough data to make the risk of capture higher than the value of continued operation.
5. how many businesses have actual training programs to instruct employees about fraud, espionage and subvertion anyways.
From what I've seen very few windosers are astute enough to even know how to look at the file's extentions, to them anything that's compressed is a zip especialy if the spy-ware.evil-hacker.com web site says it's a zip
The scumbags have figured out how get the victoms to pay for the bandwidth, that's all
How many even see the XYZ.mov or even the xyz.mov.exe; most windoser just see the XYZ part.
I'm more suprised it took this long for people to notice; I guessed that's why half my pron doesn't work in Linux a long time ago.
how an executable could be run if you downloaded a nonexecutable (e.g., a .mov or .avi file) .mov or .avi file for the user to watch. I'm not sure if windows even looks at the file extention anymore
It can't but that's not what's happening, people are used to downloading ZIP files, which are often self-extracting; so double click the file, which is executable i.e. self-extracting, the custom extractor, throw up a alert-box says extracting "suzie does donkies" checkbox "I agree to terms" and ok. users never actually reads the terms which says something like I agree to install software, give my first born son ect. then the extractor installs the spyware, and then extract the
Sounds like the best idea so far, when sales crash and burn he can always say "we gave $2M worth of software to production that we use everyday, and sale dept. can't even generate 1/10th it value in sales!"
Could have been a dictionary attack, or the previous user of that name got on a spam-list, I'm sure qwerty@poiuyt.com still gets tons of spam
doesn't seem any more unreasonable to me than sell pet-rocks, chia pets, 7X pot distilled vodka, if you think of it as an agumentation rather than a replacement for more enduring and less faddish skill sets.
Server Crash Augh, I knew I should have signed that futures contract for my annual production!