... a person in the workforce asks me if an email is safe.
I grab their email.
The sender is apparently UPS, and the package ain't going nowhere until I click on the attached invoice and correct the ship-to address and stuff.
NOW PAY ATTENTION:
I look at the attachment and it's a.zip file. I double-click the.zip and, inside, there's a goddam.exe.
UPS isn't going to send an attachment in the first place, and it damn sure isn't going to be an.exe, right?
Why in Sam Hill can't a small, fast AI scrubber do this simple task?
Why can't AI follow a link, intercept a download (either with or without the operator's permission), let the code execute in a sandbox to see what it WOULD do and say, "I don't think so?"
For Democrats, the most important issue in this year’s midterm elections is what’s long been the central focus for the party’s top officials: jobs and the economy.
But Republicans have a different view of things, rating taking military action against Islamic State militants as their top issue, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
"No matter what we do with the technology... we'll always be vulnerable to the phishing attack and... human-factor attacks unless we educate the overall workforce," said Eric Rosenbach, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security.
Bold is mine.
So much for AI in doing anything useful in protecting systems, and it's not the overall workforce that needs educating... it's the fucking gate keepers -- IT and software/hardware manufacturers.
It's a bitch that we send people to schools to be experts in their craft and then we have to educate the consumers of our craft because we are so fucking incompetent.
... Republicans have been granted their request to be in charge of stuff.
The way this works is that, because they have no super majority, nothing will get done.
The voters have a watchful eye on the Republicans and the promise to move legislation out of Congress.
If the Republicans go for social issues like same-sex marriage, women's reproductive rights, gun control, Benghazi, ISIS, Russia, and other nonsense, the voters will be pissed.
The number one concern for the American voter is the economy.
For the Republicans, it's a black ISIS flag at the White House and Obamacare.
I have told management that it's not my job to casually suggest that they are taking risks; it's my job to jump up and down and rant and rave.
I have also informed them that, for any best practice recommendations they choose to ignore, I need a CYA email from them that I have made the risk assessment clear and that they are making the business decision to ignore me.
For those who will not do that, I send them an email referencing our "talk" about how they have declined to conform with best practice "as we discussed on this date."
In my shop, system does not drive business... business drives systems. My job is to inform, insist, and bitch and complain.
After I apply due diligence (to the max), business evaluates risk and tells me what to do.
... I used the Tor browser to get to one of my burner Facebook accounts and it locked me. Such joy. I was coming at the site from another country, so Facebook had a major cow.
I went mainstream and gave Facebook a tummy rub and all is well, but it was a fun ride.
I still wonder what the Sam Hill any Facebook member would be doing on Tor, but you can bet your sweet ass that Facebook wants you no matter what route you take.
This is why the Gentle User cannot have nice things.
Tor must be implemented with precision. The steps are involved because the theory is involved. Some of the better, well-informed and technically savvy users have been busted.
I am an IT professional and I am not at all comfortable that I could use Tor and guarantee my own anonymity.
I advise people against using Tor in hopes that they will be able to surf without discovery because it can give a false sense of freedom to do as one wishes.
There are several cases of quantum fluctuations. Two which come to mind are the fluctuations in the vacuum of space and the same at the event horizon of black holes.
The fluctuations include particle pair creation and annihilation.
The Heisenberg principle gives wiggle room for one of the pair to have a velocity such that it remains. In the case of the event horizon, a pair could appear with velocities where particle A is in the direction of the black hole and particle B is in the opposite direction.
Given enough energy assigned to both particles, particle B could remain.
There is a non-zero chance that the surviving particle could create a universe. We don't know yet, but it could be in response to what's happening to the abandoned particle and entanglement, where the two particles are still connected even at a distance.
If particle A goes nuts back inside the vacuum or inside the event horizon, particle B will do the same.
My boss asked me to Friend him on Facebook. I told him I don't have a Facebook account. He said, "But you mentioned something you saw on Facebook the other day."
I said, "I don't an account." He asked, "What, exactly does that mean?" I said, "Look... you have my name. Please use it to find my account. I don't have one."
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We have to get off this planet and, like every other early voyages to any place we've ever been, we have got to experience lots of failures.
If dude ranchers want to take the first lunge, it's their business.
Be nice if the people who participated in the poll weren't all liars and stuff.
... but so what?
My calc tools elevate me way beyond that inaccurate analog piece of crap.
... a person in the workforce asks me if an email is safe.
I grab their email.
The sender is apparently UPS, and the package ain't going nowhere until I click on the attached invoice and correct the ship-to address and stuff.
NOW PAY ATTENTION:
I look at the attachment and it's a .zip file. I double-click the .zip and, inside, there's a goddam .exe.
UPS isn't going to send an attachment in the first place, and it damn sure isn't going to be an .exe, right?
Why in Sam Hill can't a small, fast AI scrubber do this simple task?
Why can't AI follow a link, intercept a download (either with or without the operator's permission), let the code execute in a sandbox to see what it WOULD do and say, "I don't think so?"
We don't need to educate the workforce.
We just need to do our jobs.
From the elephant's mouth ...
For Democrats, the most important issue in this year’s midterm elections is what’s long been the central focus for the party’s top officials: jobs and the economy.
But Republicans have a different view of things, rating taking military action against Islamic State militants as their top issue, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
... instead of fixing the goddam problem.
FTFA:
"No matter what we do with the technology ... we'll always be vulnerable to the phishing attack and ... human-factor attacks unless we educate the overall workforce," said Eric Rosenbach, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security.
Bold is mine.
So much for AI in doing anything useful in protecting systems, and it's not the overall workforce that needs educating ... it's the fucking gate keepers -- IT and software/hardware manufacturers.
It's a bitch that we send people to schools to be experts in their craft and then we have to educate the consumers of our craft because we are so fucking incompetent.
... Republicans have been granted their request to be in charge of stuff.
The way this works is that, because they have no super majority, nothing will get done.
The voters have a watchful eye on the Republicans and the promise to move legislation out of Congress.
If the Republicans go for social issues like same-sex marriage, women's reproductive rights, gun control, Benghazi, ISIS, Russia, and other nonsense, the voters will be pissed.
The number one concern for the American voter is the economy.
For the Republicans, it's a black ISIS flag at the White House and Obamacare.
Come 2016, voters will be ready for a change.
This has been my experience, as well.
I have told management that it's not my job to casually suggest that they are taking risks; it's my job to jump up and down and rant and rave.
I have also informed them that, for any best practice recommendations they choose to ignore, I need a CYA email from them that I have made the risk assessment clear and that they are making the business decision to ignore me.
For those who will not do that, I send them an email referencing our "talk" about how they have declined to conform with best practice "as we discussed on this date."
In my shop, system does not drive business ... business drives systems. My job is to inform, insist, and bitch and complain.
After I apply due diligence (to the max), business evaluates risk and tells me what to do.
... common sense predicts that he won't like punishment. That's the whole idea behind incarceration.
If he's got the sense god gave a pissant, he'll adjust his behavior such that he is not voluntarily deprived of his rights again.
... it must be something in the water.
Bullshit.
You're saying that humans would be more of a threat in the water, one-on-one, scarfing up fish as opposed to using vessels, hooks, bait and nets.
Back of the class for you.
... to harbor microbes.
OK, thanks.
I guess they will all go to hell and stuff.
Actually, it does.
In the upper right corner of one of those posts, click the down indicator and select "Hide all from ..."
I've complained constantly but nobody cares.
We don't care.
... Obama needs to put boots on the ground.
I want names, addresses, birth dates and photos, please.
I will pray for them and stuff.
Old school.
Semiconductors are so pre-google.
The future is in quantum computing via entanglement with a combination of silo systems working in parallel with other silo systems.
Artificial intelligence will be when a computer weeps when its Facebook page is taken down.
"... our brave men and women ..." just fucked you over big time, Bubba.
Your message is, if I don't play, I'm a loser Commie anti-american terrorist.
Any valid points you may have (and you probably don't) got shit-canned when you trotted out that patriotic bullshit.
... I used the Tor browser to get to one of my burner Facebook accounts and it locked me. Such joy. I was coming at the site from another country, so Facebook had a major cow.
I went mainstream and gave Facebook a tummy rub and all is well, but it was a fun ride.
I still wonder what the Sam Hill any Facebook member would be doing on Tor, but you can bet your sweet ass that Facebook wants you no matter what route you take.
... Tor isn't a big help here.
... after an hour of poking around. Nothing to see.
This is why the Gentle User cannot have nice things.
Tor must be implemented with precision. The steps are involved because the theory is involved. Some of the better, well-informed and technically savvy users have been busted.
I am an IT professional and I am not at all comfortable that I could use Tor and guarantee my own anonymity.
I advise people against using Tor in hopes that they will be able to surf without discovery because it can give a false sense of freedom to do as one wishes.
There are several cases of quantum fluctuations. Two which come to mind are the fluctuations in the vacuum of space and the same at the event horizon of black holes.
The fluctuations include particle pair creation and annihilation.
The Heisenberg principle gives wiggle room for one of the pair to have a velocity such that it remains. In the case of the event horizon, a pair could appear with velocities where particle A is in the direction of the black hole and particle B is in the opposite direction.
Given enough energy assigned to both particles, particle B could remain.
There is a non-zero chance that the surviving particle could create a universe. We don't know yet, but it could be in response to what's happening to the abandoned particle and entanglement, where the two particles are still connected even at a distance.
If particle A goes nuts back inside the vacuum or inside the event horizon, particle B will do the same.
I agree in a disagreeing way, kinda.
My boss asked me to Friend him on Facebook. I told him I don't have a Facebook account. He said, "But you mentioned something you saw on Facebook the other day."
I said, "I don't an account." He asked, "What, exactly does that mean?" I said, "Look ... you have my name. Please use it to find my account. I don't have one."
So, I don't use my real name on Facebook.