I haven't read it anywhere in the articleit is talking about running servers. Note, I don't condone deceptive marketing about it being "unlimited". Here the cartel of mobile operators redefined unlimited in 4G as 15GB DOWNLOAD. I even filed a complaint in tmn.pt only to be given a stupid boilerplate answer message. Anyway, unlimited and running servers *is* not the same thing. I fully maintain what I said, I don't want to foot the bill for the hoarders/freeloaders 5%-10% of users who misuse the resources. The price is made with certain operational assumptions, and you get what you pay. Want more, pay more. Want the government to blackmail them to misuse the resources, then also ask the government to charge a flat fee on motorways to charge the same to motorbikes and trailers, or the mail/UPS to charge the same to a letter or sending all your belongings to another city, or force MacDonalds to charge the price of a meal when your extend family of 15 is going there for lunch. Oh, my god, they are profiteering. Business is business, don't like it, don't use it.
There are a reason there are domestic packages and professional packages: uptime, help desk assistance, troubleshooting and cost. I for one, don't wait to pay extra in my home communication package because the government is messing with and dictating rules to private business. At the end of the day, is a matter of cost, and distributing it - residential have it cheaper, businesses foot a bigger bill. The security nightmare and also extra administration for this to happen in the ISP side has to be paid. There are no magic rules. Unless the EFF wants to foot the bill, it is not the EFF job to dictate who does what. Also most of the residential contracts throughout the world have ridiculous upstream speeds compared to residential contracts who are designed to favour download speeds. Anyway, nowadays who is running services server side must do something wrongunless you are an organisation with considerable resources it is so much cost wise to run it on the cloud.
I am not talking about ignoring black actors, I am talking of not having a single american show in tv where a minority has to have always someone as a lead character. gosh, they even wanted to have a black actor for Thor, before being a scandal because it didn't make sense.
Good thing is a bad plot and it is british and not american, otherwise the good Doctor would have turned black some years ago. Is everyone mad with this terrible political correctness and "reverse" racism?
Customisation out of the box, I guess. As much as I love Debian and use in my servers, it sucks to use flash or customise it by hand to support fully Skype or I guess some more esoteric languages. And then the chinese gov can also add their spyware/control software as a bonus too.
brilliant sirI wish I had mod points. This political correctness only makes me wishing I could vomit. How about Super Woman as a gay man, could it be too?
I didn't suggest they made it from scratch. A few years ago headlines went around about then thinking to mandate reflag linux for all state operations.
and specially in a very dumb interview, with a stupid IT manager that had to have also a rookie indian guy assisting asking very basic IT questions the very stupid question "where do you want to be in 5 years time" hey, if they had the trouble to read my CV, they would understand, I already was at the top of the career, I am 40+, don't have nothing to prove to anybody anymore. They didnt pass the interview. It was good they didn't call me back anyway.
Microsoft pays to all this "anti-virus" labs to instead of writing mild viruses to sell their products, write one that wipes out all of the XPs after a couple of months of being installed.
You are missing the point. First, most of them use pirate versions. Then, they have a mentality, if aint broke, don't fix it. On top of that, the old machines won't run windows 8 anyway. And why get away from something familiar and that you know how it works?
Virus&Trojan developers dont target much OSX, because it is a modern unix with proper separations privileges. and they were wise enough to break with the past and use emulator technologies for people to make the bridge. however the myth of not targeting apple because market share is not there is bollocks. OS9 was very defective by design, and had thousand of virus like your average windows, despite having a small market share.
There is no joke. Different mentalities and priorities, and not only exclusive to china. If it aint broke, don't fix it. Heck, when I went to do my final project in the uk, there were still people using 8-bit machines. As long as it works and does what they want, they use it.
It is very myopic to be using a product from a competing and hostile nation. Industrial and state secrets espionage for dummies. And unlike most nations, they have already their own operating system, their own processors, their own chips, their own boards and capacity to manufacture in large scale. Plus, enough people to create a market to be viable on its own.
I already took over systems in both scenarios, friendly and very unfriendly. I agree with another poster the ultimate goal is to reimplement most of the systems yourself.
My last takeover was downright hostile. I had to do an audit of the systems, and for instance albeit I had a list of passwords, many were swapped or I had to find passwords for MySQL servers in logs or in scripts.
I also found a couple of *very obvious* backdoors. First thing I did when taking over after documenting all systems passwords, and services running was to create a control server, will SSH keys, and a central syslog server. The 2nd one was disabling all root passwords, and allowing access only by sudo to document all accesses to the team. The 3rd was to create SSH RSA logins. The following step was to deactivate all the unnecessary services, like X or file sharing daemons in machines not sharing drives.
After a year, I already reengineered like 80%-90% of the services, as they were rather old and unsupported implementations. The documentation/automation phase proved to be invaluable to be capable of answering to ongoing requests. It is not in the middle of a crisis that you want to find out you don't have a password to a system, or to find out how it works.
Nowadays, we already monitor most of the services in NAGIOS, with extensive scripting to adapt to our environment, have service recovery in most of our servers, and also have a page that does automatic audits much more complete than the original audit, minus the passwords (for obvious reasons).
We also implement more defined responsibilities in the (new) team - linux admin - windows admin/etc and also starting to invest in internal training. For starters, we ask for volunteers to talk about a technology they are most comfortable with to the others members of the team in an hour-format.
You are not dealing with MacDonalds employees or exactly cash strapped people to be so naive as to threaten a upper-level employee to withdraw their last check. They will probably send you to hell. Heck, I have refused gigs rather than dealing with crazy people. Plus, if you are asking this kind of information in the last week, you are doing something wrong.
I see the plane incident more of an overt display of tour of force/bullying than for "searching the plane". And it is rather interesting Spain and Portugal were also "enlisted", as they have rather good relationships with the south american community, and it was not in their best interest to "collaborate".
Why foreign organisations are using:
1) a closed-source OS developed by a foreign power
2) software with all these security flaws
3) a software defective by design
Right. Because trespassing fences and backyards of people, with heavy rain is "walking home" in a fenced community with a history of robberies and trespassing in the last months by black teenagers, including a single mother alone at home. Keep it real, Martin was most likely doing a prospection for future "jobs", or was searching for a vacant home. And then the defence tries at all costs to erase from the trial evidence on his mobile Martin is a hardened criminal. The only problem in our society his we don't have more zimmermans who stand up to thugs.
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I haven't read it anywhere in the articleit is talking about running servers. Note, I don't condone deceptive marketing about it being "unlimited". Here the cartel of mobile operators redefined unlimited in 4G as 15GB DOWNLOAD. I even filed a complaint in tmn.pt only to be given a stupid boilerplate answer message. Anyway, unlimited and running servers *is* not the same thing. I fully maintain what I said, I don't want to foot the bill for the hoarders/freeloaders 5%-10% of users who misuse the resources. The price is made with certain operational assumptions, and you get what you pay. Want more, pay more. Want the government to blackmail them to misuse the resources, then also ask the government to charge a flat fee on motorways to charge the same to motorbikes and trailers, or the mail/UPS to charge the same to a letter or sending all your belongings to another city, or force MacDonalds to charge the price of a meal when your extend family of 15 is going there for lunch. Oh, my god, they are profiteering. Business is business, don't like it, don't use it.
There are a reason there are domestic packages and professional packages: uptime, help desk assistance, troubleshooting and cost. I for one, don't wait to pay extra in my home communication package because the government is messing with and dictating rules to private business. At the end of the day, is a matter of cost, and distributing it - residential have it cheaper, businesses foot a bigger bill. The security nightmare and also extra administration for this to happen in the ISP side has to be paid. There are no magic rules. Unless the EFF wants to foot the bill, it is not the EFF job to dictate who does what. Also most of the residential contracts throughout the world have ridiculous upstream speeds compared to residential contracts who are designed to favour download speeds. Anyway, nowadays who is running services server side must do something wrongunless you are an organisation with considerable resources it is so much cost wise to run it on the cloud.
I said Super Woman/Wonder woman ; not Super man.
They could very well send their industrial secrets by mail to Microsoft and NSA instead of using Windowsit wouldnt make much difference. :)
I am not talking about ignoring black actors, I am talking of not having a single american show in tv where a minority has to have always someone as a lead character. gosh, they even wanted to have a black actor for Thor, before being a scandal because it didn't make sense.
Good thing is a bad plot and it is british and not american, otherwise the good Doctor would have turned black some years ago. Is everyone mad with this terrible political correctness and "reverse" racism?
Customisation out of the box, I guess. As much as I love Debian and use in my servers, it sucks to use flash or customise it by hand to support fully Skype or I guess some more esoteric languages. And then the chinese gov can also add their spyware/control software as a bonus too.
You are talking about technically inclined people. Most of the people I guess they don't even care if is updated or not.
brilliant sirI wish I had mod points. This political correctness only makes me wishing I could vomit. How about Super Woman as a gay man, could it be too?
redflag ; dictionaries at work here.
I didn't suggest they made it from scratch. A few years ago headlines went around about then thinking to mandate reflag linux for all state operations.
and specially in a very dumb interview, with a stupid IT manager that had to have also a rookie indian guy assisting asking very basic IT questions the very stupid question "where do you want to be in 5 years time" hey, if they had the trouble to read my CV, they would understand, I already was at the top of the career, I am 40+, don't have nothing to prove to anybody anymore. They didnt pass the interview. It was good they didn't call me back anyway.
Microsoft pays to all this "anti-virus" labs to instead of writing mild viruses to sell their products, write one that wipes out all of the XPs after a couple of months of being installed.
You are missing the point. First, most of them use pirate versions. Then, they have a mentality, if aint broke, don't fix it. On top of that, the old machines won't run windows 8 anyway. And why get away from something familiar and that you know how it works?
It is not they will notice the difference, most of them are pirated and don't do regular upgrades anyway.
Virus&Trojan developers dont target much OSX, because it is a modern unix with proper separations privileges. and they were wise enough to break with the past and use emulator technologies for people to make the bridge. however the myth of not targeting apple because market share is not there is bollocks. OS9 was very defective by design, and had thousand of virus like your average windows, despite having a small market share.
For as much as I hate Microsoft, lets be realistic. XP is a product with a 12-year old life; already in time to be retired.
There is no joke. Different mentalities and priorities, and not only exclusive to china. If it aint broke, don't fix it. Heck, when I went to do my final project in the uk, there were still people using 8-bit machines. As long as it works and does what they want, they use it.
It is very myopic to be using a product from a competing and hostile nation. Industrial and state secrets espionage for dummies. And unlike most nations, they have already their own operating system, their own processors, their own chips, their own boards and capacity to manufacture in large scale. Plus, enough people to create a market to be viable on its own.
I already took over systems in both scenarios, friendly and very unfriendly. I agree with another poster the ultimate goal is to reimplement most of the systems yourself. My last takeover was downright hostile. I had to do an audit of the systems, and for instance albeit I had a list of passwords, many were swapped or I had to find passwords for MySQL servers in logs or in scripts. I also found a couple of *very obvious* backdoors. First thing I did when taking over after documenting all systems passwords, and services running was to create a control server, will SSH keys, and a central syslog server. The 2nd one was disabling all root passwords, and allowing access only by sudo to document all accesses to the team. The 3rd was to create SSH RSA logins. The following step was to deactivate all the unnecessary services, like X or file sharing daemons in machines not sharing drives. After a year, I already reengineered like 80%-90% of the services, as they were rather old and unsupported implementations. The documentation/automation phase proved to be invaluable to be capable of answering to ongoing requests. It is not in the middle of a crisis that you want to find out you don't have a password to a system, or to find out how it works. Nowadays, we already monitor most of the services in NAGIOS, with extensive scripting to adapt to our environment, have service recovery in most of our servers, and also have a page that does automatic audits much more complete than the original audit, minus the passwords (for obvious reasons). We also implement more defined responsibilities in the (new) team - linux admin - windows admin/etc and also starting to invest in internal training. For starters, we ask for volunteers to talk about a technology they are most comfortable with to the others members of the team in an hour-format.
You are not dealing with MacDonalds employees or exactly cash strapped people to be so naive as to threaten a upper-level employee to withdraw their last check. They will probably send you to hell. Heck, I have refused gigs rather than dealing with crazy people. Plus, if you are asking this kind of information in the last week, you are doing something wrong.
I see the plane incident more of an overt display of tour of force/bullying than for "searching the plane". And it is rather interesting Spain and Portugal were also "enlisted", as they have rather good relationships with the south american community, and it was not in their best interest to "collaborate".
Exactly what i was thinking. However, the major browsers have probably remote holes too.
Why foreign organisations are using: 1) a closed-source OS developed by a foreign power 2) software with all these security flaws 3) a software defective by design
Right. Because trespassing fences and backyards of people, with heavy rain is "walking home" in a fenced community with a history of robberies and trespassing in the last months by black teenagers, including a single mother alone at home. Keep it real, Martin was most likely doing a prospection for future "jobs", or was searching for a vacant home. And then the defence tries at all costs to erase from the trial evidence on his mobile Martin is a hardened criminal. The only problem in our society his we don't have more zimmermans who stand up to thugs.