Companies care far more about threats to their bottom line, and are going to respond far more quickly to things which threaten it.
Equifax says "Hi", and would like to remind you that they exist. Also, they made way more money by not paying for decent security than they lost in fines and lawsuits.
"purpletablepurpletablepurpletable" is 6 words; even using a 2,000 word dictionary that's equivalent to a 10 character password.
That would be my point. A 33 character password that's only as strong as a 10 character random password. And that's assuming they bother with a 2,000 character dictionary.
Since dictionaries are only practical in an offline attack, and they're presumably only needing to crack one to gain access, they don't need 2,000 words.
For DECADES I have been teaching/advising to just take the a line from a song you like or a quote or anything else and go with that
The problem with this advice is people cracking passwords don't just go through the alphabet, they use dictionaries. Since you're using words, you made their attack far more likely to succeed because the space of possible solutions is much, much smaller than "every character, number and symbol". Even requiring numbers and symbols doesn't help all that much, because most people use the same substitutions (@ for a's, 1's for L's, 0's for O's, etc), so those versions get added to the dictionary used in the attack.
"CorrectHorseBatteryStaple" isn't a good password, despite the XKCD comic.
Well then, perhaps you should answer your own question: How did smallpox get eradicated?
'Cause we know it did after a massive vaccination campaign, and people only stopped getting the vaccine after it was eradicated.....so the vaccine sure looks like it got the job done.
Actually, the vaccination rate of every Central and South American country is higher than the US. So no, they were vaccinated. Also, these outbreaks were caused by US people getting infected abroad and bringing the disease back.
Gets better. Once the US absorbs a good portion of South America
Pssst....the vaccination rate in every country in South America is higher than the US. "Absorbing" South America would actually reduce the rate of preventable deaths from diseases like measles.
Anti-vaxxers are lost. They will never accept that they were wrong from talking with an outsider.
Condemnation and mockery is intended to cause fewer people to become anti-vaxxers in the first place, because that is far more successful than attempting to change their minds after they only trust people selling them essential oils.
Yeah, never mind the actual risk of that happening.
It's 1 in 10,000.
The rate of an adverse reaction to the MMR vaccine is about 1 in 6,000,000. And most of those are allergic reactions that are very treatable and do not cause life-long harm.
There have been two deaths caused by the MMR vaccine. Ever. One was an advanced leukemia patient, who decided to risk the vaccine because of their risk of catching the disease due to morons like you. One was a baby, and the parents didn't authorize sharing their information.
If you are unable to understand the difference between 1 in 10,000, 1 in 6,000,000 and 2 in 2,500,000,000, you should not be making the medical decisions for anyone.
You do know that basically every person over the age of 60 has had the measles, right? Where exactly are their horror stories?
In the USA vaccine makers have blanket immunity from lawsuit.
You misunderstand the law. It's not that they are immune to lawsuits. The government has assumed the liability.
So you can indeed sue due to vaccine injury. You'll just be suing the government instead of a corporation.
And you don't actually have to sue. The government set up a vaccine injury program where you can file a claim and get paid without a lawsuit. You are still free to sue if you'd like.
Also, the FDA stops a whole lot more vaccines than lawsuits ever could. It's not like there's nothing between the corporation coming up with something and the free market, as you imply. And if you want to claim regulatory capture, you'd have to show some vaccines that would not pass trials yet got released.
use the old familiar trick of adding mercury to boost the vaccine production in some batches?
:faceplam:
Thiomersal is a preservative. It has nothing do do with boosting production rates. It was introduced into vaccines in order to let doctors use one vial to treat multiple patients. Pull out a new, empty syringe, fill it with a dose of vaccine from a vial, give the patient the shot, toss the syringe. The alternative is syringes pre-loaded with vaccine, which cost you a lot more money.
Thiomersal is also ethyl-mercury, which you pee out. Not methyl-mercury that stays in your system. If you want to say something stupid like "it's got mercury so it's all the same!!!" consider ethanol vs methanol. One will get you drunk. One will kill you very quickly. They're almost identical. Ethyl-mercury vs methyl-mercury is similar.
So, congrats on making vaccines cost more. Also at a higher profit to "big pharma". Also, Thiomersal was removed from childhood vaccines in 2000, with no reduction in autism rates, so you did all this for nothing.
Before you go off half cocked, don't forget, migrants carry disease
Only if the vaccination rate in their country is lower than the vaccination rate in the US.
And since you're making a very obvious dogwhistle, the vaccination rate in Central and South American countries is higher than the US.
migrants expose themselves and their new host community to new strains of pathogens
This doesn't matter for the MMR vaccine. The different strains on the planet are still covered by the vaccine. You need a high-mutation-rate disease like influenza for strains to be relevant.
That the rate of complications from a vaccine is one in 10 million-ish or higher. The rate of complications from the diseases they prevent is about 1 in 1000-ish (numbers obviously vary by vaccine and disease).
Also, those complications from vaccines are mostly allergic reactions. Which are 1) pretty easily treatable, and 2) usually detected fairly early in the patient's life, so that they can be avoided in the future.
Deaths "caused" by the MMR vaccine: 2. Total. One was an advanced leukemia patient who was given the shot because of risk of exposure due to people like you. The other was a baby, and privacy regulations are hiding most of the information.
Since measles deaths alone exceeded that total in the four months of 2019, you'd have to be an utter and complete moron to think vaccines are higher risk.
Speaking of a sense of proportion.... in the United States you're three times as likely to die from a shark attack (1 death per year on average) as you are from from the measles (1 death every 3 years on average from 387 reported measles cases per year).
That rate is because of vaccinations. Anti-vaxxers are working very, very hard to increase that rate. So saying it's currently low doesn't tell you shit about how dangerous anti-vaxxers are.
Also, death is not the only complication from measles.
Here's my guess. They've become so specialized in the areas that they teach, that they've become literal retards outside of it
This isn't unique to the highly educated. Your average plumber is not going to do all that well on an astrophysics test even though they are astonishingly good at plumbing.
The difference is these people believe that they are smart due to their greater educational attainment. So they assume they are smart in every subject, even when they're woefully uneducated in that subject since it was not part of their degree program.
If you'd like an example, take a gander at pretty much any Slashdot article regarding, say, Climate Change. There'll be a whole lot of IT folks who are absolutely sure they are smart in climatology, despite knowing very little about it. It's not like you need a doctorate to fall into this "I'm smart at everything" trap.
Did you advise the client that their password policy may be too onerous?
I've worked at places that required unique passwords for many different systems, all expiring on different schedules, no reuse, ever. Which means the passwords get written down because remembering all that is not all that feasible.
For those who would respond with "Just use a password manager!!!!" you've just violated the policy since all those systems now have one password. Also, little hard to use a password manager for initial login in areas that forbid any outside electronics.
checks that nothing bad has happened to your computer as well
I eagerly await your explanation of how you can actually check for this. Keep in mind you have to catch zero-days. And "bad things" that didn't happen to do anything at the time were testing them.
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Companies care far more about threats to their bottom line, and are going to respond far more quickly to things which threaten it.
Equifax says "Hi", and would like to remind you that they exist. Also, they made way more money by not paying for decent security than they lost in fines and lawsuits.
Poe's Law can be annoying sometimes.
"purpletablepurpletablepurpletable" is 6 words; even using a 2,000 word dictionary that's equivalent to a 10 character password.
That would be my point. A 33 character password that's only as strong as a 10 character random password. And that's assuming they bother with a 2,000 character dictionary.
Since dictionaries are only practical in an offline attack, and they're presumably only needing to crack one to gain access, they don't need 2,000 words.
You still failed to explain how smallpox was eradicated.
Also, no, the vaccine did not give people smallpox. But hey, when you're doing one massive lie, might as well do two.
For DECADES I have been teaching/advising to just take the a line from a song you like or a quote or anything else and go with that
The problem with this advice is people cracking passwords don't just go through the alphabet, they use dictionaries. Since you're using words, you made their attack far more likely to succeed because the space of possible solutions is much, much smaller than "every character, number and symbol". Even requiring numbers and symbols doesn't help all that much, because most people use the same substitutions (@ for a's, 1's for L's, 0's for O's, etc), so those versions get added to the dictionary used in the attack.
"CorrectHorseBatteryStaple" isn't a good password, despite the XKCD comic.
You're making the assumption that a person is smart based on their greater educational attainment
Nope. Try reading my post again. I make no claim about whether or not a person is actually smart.
Hmmm...so odd you didn't provide a cite for your bullshit, but require one from everyone else.
So, you know where to find Google, right? There's this entity called the "World Health Organization" that tracks vaccination rates.
Well then, perhaps you should answer your own question: How did smallpox get eradicated?
'Cause we know it did after a massive vaccination campaign, and people only stopped getting the vaccine after it was eradicated.....so the vaccine sure looks like it got the job done.
Almost none of them have ever been vaccinated
Actually, the vaccination rate of every Central and South American country is higher than the US. So no, they were vaccinated. Also, these outbreaks were caused by US people getting infected abroad and bringing the disease back.
Measles has an adverse reaction rate of 1 in 10,000. Yes, you survived. Hundreds of millions did not.
We'd like those hundreds of millions to not die. You don't give a shit, since it won't kill you personally.
Gets better. Once the US absorbs a good portion of South America
Pssst....the vaccination rate in every country in South America is higher than the US. "Absorbing" South America would actually reduce the rate of preventable deaths from diseases like measles.
at the reported rate of 387/year w/measles
The rate is that low because of vaccinations. It's almost like you don't actually understand the subject.
The problem is it's difficult to prove a particular infection came from one person unless the disease is very rare.
Anti-vaxxers are lost. They will never accept that they were wrong from talking with an outsider.
Condemnation and mockery is intended to cause fewer people to become anti-vaxxers in the first place, because that is far more successful than attempting to change their minds after they only trust people selling them essential oils.
More than that. Everyone over 40 has had the measles
Nope. I'm 45, never had measles. 'Cause I got vaccinated.
It's almost like you don't actually know the history of the thing you're talking about...
Yeah, never mind the actual risk of that happening.
It's 1 in 10,000.
The rate of an adverse reaction to the MMR vaccine is about 1 in 6,000,000. And most of those are allergic reactions that are very treatable and do not cause life-long harm.
There have been two deaths caused by the MMR vaccine. Ever. One was an advanced leukemia patient, who decided to risk the vaccine because of their risk of catching the disease due to morons like you. One was a baby, and the parents didn't authorize sharing their information.
If you are unable to understand the difference between 1 in 10,000, 1 in 6,000,000 and 2 in 2,500,000,000, you should not be making the medical decisions for anyone.
You do know that basically every person over the age of 60 has had the measles, right? Where exactly are their horror stories?
In your local graveyard.
In the USA vaccine makers have blanket immunity from lawsuit.
You misunderstand the law. It's not that they are immune to lawsuits. The government has assumed the liability.
So you can indeed sue due to vaccine injury. You'll just be suing the government instead of a corporation.
And you don't actually have to sue. The government set up a vaccine injury program where you can file a claim and get paid without a lawsuit. You are still free to sue if you'd like.
Also, the FDA stops a whole lot more vaccines than lawsuits ever could. It's not like there's nothing between the corporation coming up with something and the free market, as you imply. And if you want to claim regulatory capture, you'd have to show some vaccines that would not pass trials yet got released.
use the old familiar trick of adding mercury to boost the vaccine production in some batches?
:faceplam:
Thiomersal is a preservative. It has nothing do do with boosting production rates. It was introduced into vaccines in order to let doctors use one vial to treat multiple patients. Pull out a new, empty syringe, fill it with a dose of vaccine from a vial, give the patient the shot, toss the syringe. The alternative is syringes pre-loaded with vaccine, which cost you a lot more money.
Thiomersal is also ethyl-mercury, which you pee out. Not methyl-mercury that stays in your system. If you want to say something stupid like "it's got mercury so it's all the same!!!" consider ethanol vs methanol. One will get you drunk. One will kill you very quickly. They're almost identical. Ethyl-mercury vs methyl-mercury is similar.
So, congrats on making vaccines cost more. Also at a higher profit to "big pharma". Also, Thiomersal was removed from childhood vaccines in 2000, with no reduction in autism rates, so you did all this for nothing.
Before you go off half cocked, don't forget, migrants carry disease
Only if the vaccination rate in their country is lower than the vaccination rate in the US.
And since you're making a very obvious dogwhistle, the vaccination rate in Central and South American countries is higher than the US.
migrants expose themselves and their new host community to new strains of pathogens
This doesn't matter for the MMR vaccine. The different strains on the planet are still covered by the vaccine. You need a high-mutation-rate disease like influenza for strains to be relevant.
What did you discover?
That the rate of complications from a vaccine is one in 10 million-ish or higher. The rate of complications from the diseases they prevent is about 1 in 1000-ish (numbers obviously vary by vaccine and disease).
Also, those complications from vaccines are mostly allergic reactions. Which are 1) pretty easily treatable, and 2) usually detected fairly early in the patient's life, so that they can be avoided in the future.
Deaths "caused" by the MMR vaccine: 2. Total. One was an advanced leukemia patient who was given the shot because of risk of exposure due to people like you. The other was a baby, and privacy regulations are hiding most of the information.
Since measles deaths alone exceeded that total in the four months of 2019, you'd have to be an utter and complete moron to think vaccines are higher risk.
Speaking of a sense of proportion.... in the United States you're three times as likely to die from a shark attack (1 death per year on average) as you are from from the measles (1 death every 3 years on average from 387 reported measles cases per year).
That rate is because of vaccinations. Anti-vaxxers are working very, very hard to increase that rate. So saying it's currently low doesn't tell you shit about how dangerous anti-vaxxers are.
Also, death is not the only complication from measles.
Here's my guess. They've become so specialized in the areas that they teach, that they've become literal retards outside of it
This isn't unique to the highly educated. Your average plumber is not going to do all that well on an astrophysics test even though they are astonishingly good at plumbing.
The difference is these people believe that they are smart due to their greater educational attainment. So they assume they are smart in every subject, even when they're woefully uneducated in that subject since it was not part of their degree program.
If you'd like an example, take a gander at pretty much any Slashdot article regarding, say, Climate Change. There'll be a whole lot of IT folks who are absolutely sure they are smart in climatology, despite knowing very little about it. It's not like you need a doctorate to fall into this "I'm smart at everything" trap.
The vaccination rate in Central and South American countries exceed the vaccination rate of the US.
So no, it's not "illegal aliens". They get their shots. We don't.
And areas like those two very small, niche and outlier examples do not represent the larger US.
Have you noticed all the cities that end in -burg? There's a reason...and it's the residents were speaking German.
So, yeah, it did apply to a large area of the US.
Only a few places like NYC and SF have those types of those very specialized areas.
Now. But it turns out, time didn't start when you started paying attention.
Into the USB smartcard reader.
Did you advise the client that their password policy may be too onerous?
I've worked at places that required unique passwords for many different systems, all expiring on different schedules, no reuse, ever. Which means the passwords get written down because remembering all that is not all that feasible.
For those who would respond with "Just use a password manager!!!!" you've just violated the policy since all those systems now have one password. Also, little hard to use a password manager for initial login in areas that forbid any outside electronics.
checks that nothing bad has happened to your computer as well
I eagerly await your explanation of how you can actually check for this. Keep in mind you have to catch zero-days. And "bad things" that didn't happen to do anything at the time were testing them.