Microsoft has NO way of knowing when I'll be going offline or what files I will be needing when I do. This is just one more shitty idea piled on top of an already enormous mountain of shitty ideas wrapped with shit. How about instead Microsoft stops filling up my disk with useless untouchable and opaque shit and let me decide when the system is working fine or when to restore from an actual backup? No matter what kind of idiocy they implement into their operating systems or cloud services it can never replace the need for a proper complete backup. Added complexity only serves to make the problems even more complex.
Obviously, this researchers knows nothing about how coding works. More complexity means more bugs and even intentional "harmless" bugs (if such a thing even exists) can have unintentional side-effects that could be leveraged by an attacker. And now the team of coders working on a project should all agree that "oh these bugs are there on purpose so don't fix them, just test them properly to make sure they can't be exploited"....
All because of the idea that we want to waste the time of attackers who, by definition, have unlimited time. Unlike devs.
Car manufacturers aren't doing enough to prevent terrorists from driving cars.
Oil companies aren't doing enough to prevent terrorists from using diesel and petrol.
Food companies aren't doing enough to prevent terrorists from eating food.
Pencil manufacturers aren't doing enough to prevent terrorists from writing.
Shoe manufacturers aren't doing enough to prevent terrorists from walking.
I could go on but I won't.
He probably will.
Snowden has made a few more people aware of the fact that many people who work in law enforcement agencies and intelligence services think they have a right to ignore the law. Particularly the law in other countries.
When will oppressive authorities understand that as long as it's mathematically possible to hide information from them, people will do whatever it takes to do so? There are no technical limitations to how well a piece of information can be hidden away and piggy-backed onto seemingly uninteresting or useless data; the only way to shut down unwanted communication is to prevent ANY AND ALL communication.
When I was a kid we all walked to and from school every single day. On the very first day, my parents walked with me. From 4th grade we were allowed to use bicycles. Those who lived more than 30 kilometers away from the nearest school were entitled to use public transport for free.
I would go even further and say that the government is the last instance you should trust if you have any interest in privacy because then have a clearly expressed interest in denying you any.
Here's a thought. What if you accidently keep one bit of information that could be turned against you when out of context, and you diligently deleted the very documents that would have shown the redeeming context?
If one of your employees step out of line and produces something that could be turned against you, then act on it. If the paper trail shows you did, then you have nothing to fear from sensible people. Never trust a company which goes to great length to cover up their past.
Lawyers and media? Those will attack you anyway, with or without evidence. Stop feeding them.
If huge corporations started following some basic legal and ethical guidelines, they wouldn't have to worry so much about old documents getting leaked. If your business strategy is to f##k your customers and/or your partners, sooner or later you will pay for it, documents or no documents.
Is this what they taught you in school or did you figure it out yourself? Either way, you may want to update yourself on the constitutions of the ~50 countries you're talking about. For starters, there is no "the Governent of Europe". Each country in Europe, even those within the European Union, have their own elected government. By the way, over here the governments are elected by actual majority and not by proxies.
Further, if you do some research on the US constitution, you may even find that most of it can be traced back to France. Sorry.
Working for the local government means we can't rely on internet services or utility power to stay operational. Even if a major disaster hits, we need to be able to keep services running. That's why we have fault tolerant systems set up in multiple server rooms that we control. Our servers, our storage, our backup.
I call BS. For most non-enterprise purposes, MySQL is more than good enough as long as you make regular backups and use any modern operating system with a journaling file system.
IMHO MS Access is a poor alternative to a database. Poor jokes aside, MySQL or PG are obvious candidates for the backend but the real problem here is agreeing on a front end that lets the user accomplish more than he/she can already do in MS Access. The obvious question that needs to be answered is therefore "what are you trying to accomplish from switching to a different tool?"
First decide what to build, THEN look in the toolbox.
There's probably an app for this anyway, the badge is unnecessary. Chances are, you're already carrying a computer with an accelerometer, GPS and microphone in your pocket. And you probably even paid for it yourself. You just have to trust whoever built the damned thing that it's not recording everything you say and do.
Go ahead, tell me it can't be done.
The worst is that damned communicator that just won't ever stop beeping whenever some idiot wants to ask a stupid question or tell you some irrelevant story about a sign he saw or a funny cat video. Wait, we actually have those now. Nevermind.
1. Find a way to crash Kinect, a Microsoft product.
2. Invade North Korea undetected....This is obviously an attempt to have the south koreans and americans laugh themselves to death.
If you want to paint a barn, you hire a painter.
If you want to decorate the ceiling of a cathedral, you hire an artist who is passionate about her work.
The painter will usually have more predictable working hours and make enough to support a family.
The artist is the one who will be remembered:-)
RH used to give away their Linux for free before RHEL so this isn't a dramatic change. Also, they can't legally stop CentOS so it makes sense to keep them close.
Those of us who already use CentOS may consider it a free RHEL without benefits, but to marketing and executive droids every CentOS installation just means one more server that isn't running RHEL. This may simply be a move by RH to make CentOS "officially count" as RHEL market share so RH looks better on those pie charts.
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Microsoft has NO way of knowing when I'll be going offline or what files I will be needing when I do. This is just one more shitty idea piled on top of an already enormous mountain of shitty ideas wrapped with shit. How about instead Microsoft stops filling up my disk with useless untouchable and opaque shit and let me decide when the system is working fine or when to restore from an actual backup? No matter what kind of idiocy they implement into their operating systems or cloud services it can never replace the need for a proper complete backup. Added complexity only serves to make the problems even more complex.
Obviously, this researchers knows nothing about how coding works. More complexity means more bugs and even intentional "harmless" bugs (if such a thing even exists) can have unintentional side-effects that could be leveraged by an attacker. And now the team of coders working on a project should all agree that "oh these bugs are there on purpose so don't fix them, just test them properly to make sure they can't be exploited".... All because of the idea that we want to waste the time of attackers who, by definition, have unlimited time. Unlike devs.
Car manufacturers aren't doing enough to prevent terrorists from driving cars. Oil companies aren't doing enough to prevent terrorists from using diesel and petrol. Food companies aren't doing enough to prevent terrorists from eating food. Pencil manufacturers aren't doing enough to prevent terrorists from writing. Shoe manufacturers aren't doing enough to prevent terrorists from walking. I could go on but I won't. He probably will. Snowden has made a few more people aware of the fact that many people who work in law enforcement agencies and intelligence services think they have a right to ignore the law. Particularly the law in other countries.
When will oppressive authorities understand that as long as it's mathematically possible to hide information from them, people will do whatever it takes to do so? There are no technical limitations to how well a piece of information can be hidden away and piggy-backed onto seemingly uninteresting or useless data; the only way to shut down unwanted communication is to prevent ANY AND ALL communication.
When I was a kid we all walked to and from school every single day. On the very first day, my parents walked with me. From 4th grade we were allowed to use bicycles. Those who lived more than 30 kilometers away from the nearest school were entitled to use public transport for free.
s/then/they;
I would go even further and say that the government is the last instance you should trust if you have any interest in privacy because then have a clearly expressed interest in denying you any.
Here's a thought. What if you accidently keep one bit of information that could be turned against you when out of context, and you diligently deleted the very documents that would have shown the redeeming context? If one of your employees step out of line and produces something that could be turned against you, then act on it. If the paper trail shows you did, then you have nothing to fear from sensible people. Never trust a company which goes to great length to cover up their past. Lawyers and media? Those will attack you anyway, with or without evidence. Stop feeding them.
If huge corporations started following some basic legal and ethical guidelines, they wouldn't have to worry so much about old documents getting leaked. If your business strategy is to f##k your customers and/or your partners, sooner or later you will pay for it, documents or no documents.
Is this another case of "misguided politician hears about Watch Dogs"?
Is this what they taught you in school or did you figure it out yourself? Either way, you may want to update yourself on the constitutions of the ~50 countries you're talking about. For starters, there is no "the Governent of Europe". Each country in Europe, even those within the European Union, have their own elected government. By the way, over here the governments are elected by actual majority and not by proxies. Further, if you do some research on the US constitution, you may even find that most of it can be traced back to France. Sorry.
Working for the local government means we can't rely on internet services or utility power to stay operational. Even if a major disaster hits, we need to be able to keep services running. That's why we have fault tolerant systems set up in multiple server rooms that we control. Our servers, our storage, our backup.
I call BS. For most non-enterprise purposes, MySQL is more than good enough as long as you make regular backups and use any modern operating system with a journaling file system.
IMHO MS Access is a poor alternative to a database. Poor jokes aside, MySQL or PG are obvious candidates for the backend but the real problem here is agreeing on a front end that lets the user accomplish more than he/she can already do in MS Access. The obvious question that needs to be answered is therefore "what are you trying to accomplish from switching to a different tool?" First decide what to build, THEN look in the toolbox.
There's probably an app for this anyway, the badge is unnecessary. Chances are, you're already carrying a computer with an accelerometer, GPS and microphone in your pocket. And you probably even paid for it yourself. You just have to trust whoever built the damned thing that it's not recording everything you say and do. Go ahead, tell me it can't be done.
The worst is that damned communicator that just won't ever stop beeping whenever some idiot wants to ask a stupid question or tell you some irrelevant story about a sign he saw or a funny cat video. Wait, we actually have those now. Nevermind.
Get Watson over here will you?
1. Find a way to crash Kinect, a Microsoft product. 2. Invade North Korea undetected. ...This is obviously an attempt to have the south koreans and americans laugh themselves to death.
If you want to paint a barn, you hire a painter. If you want to decorate the ceiling of a cathedral, you hire an artist who is passionate about her work. The painter will usually have more predictable working hours and make enough to support a family. The artist is the one who will be remembered :-)
This must be some kind of record :-)
+1 Indeed, all helmets are meant to be discarded after an accident, including $2000 MC helmets. Even if they do not visibly crack.
Don't hold your breath, Microsoft is busy optimizing all their software for handheld devices.
RH used to give away their Linux for free before RHEL so this isn't a dramatic change. Also, they can't legally stop CentOS so it makes sense to keep them close. Those of us who already use CentOS may consider it a free RHEL without benefits, but to marketing and executive droids every CentOS installation just means one more server that isn't running RHEL. This may simply be a move by RH to make CentOS "officially count" as RHEL market share so RH looks better on those pie charts.
Same here but they chose to ignore us because of "practical verifiability concerns". And they call themselves researchers...
Ofcourse they won't find anything with arbitrary limitations like that.