"In the wake of NSA leaks debacle, New Zealand's Inspector General of Security and Intelligence has developed a process to enable whistleblowers to act safely".
'New Zealand's Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Cheryl Gwyn, said a formal internal policy for handling protected disclosures, or "whistleblowing", has been developed by her office in liaison with security agencies.'
ROTFLMAO.. see an example of the 'formal internal policy' in action:
a. Inform senior management of acts of malfeasant in your department.
b. Senior management tells your department head.
c. Your department head accuses you of financial improprieties and leaking information to a foreign intelligence agency.
d. You get fired and prosecuted under the the Espionage Act.
e. You are totally unemployable for the rest of your life.
'All the same, let's be clear that all the "Microsoft Loves Linux" hype I saw at SUSECon yesterday and at other events earlier this year is just not true. Microsoft Azure loves Linux, there is no doubt; it is a basic requirement for them to become relevant on a cloud market dominated by AWS and Linux.' ref
July 1991: 'SteveB went on the road to see the top weeklies, industry analysts. The meetings included demos of Windows 3.1 (pen and multimedia included), Windows NT, OS/2 2.0 including a performance comparison to Windows and a "bad app" that corrupted other applications and crashed the system".'
'The demos of OS/2 were excellent, crashing the system had the intended effect -- to FUD OS/2 2.0. People paid attention to this demo and were often suprised to our favor. Steve positioned it as -- OS/2 is not "bad" but from a performance and "robustness" standpoint, it is NOT better than Windows.' ref
"GE recently wrote that they are moving the vast bulk of their 9,000 applications into the public cloud."
What would any company need with 9,000 applications. Would lead to much inefficiencies and insecurities as there's no was to predict how emergent bugs would lead to security violations.
"The remote district’s role has only increased since 2011 and the latest data reveals that the Eastern District of Texas is headed to a record year. An astonishing 1,387 patent cases were filed there in the first half of 2015. This was 44.4% of all patent cases nationwide. And almost all of this growth is fueled by patent trolls." ref
"Recent changes to patent law have made it easier to beat patent trolls, but it hasn't made the patent hotspot of East Texas any quieter. In fact, it's been in the news more. Massive numbers of patent troll suits continue to be filed there, and the judge who hears most of them has erected barriers to defendants seeking to have their cases disposed of early. ref
Would anyone here like to explain to me, in relation to security on the Internet, how issuing CAs work and how this could lead to a security violation. Please don't use numerical formulas..
"While the current fleet remains useful, the Air Force wants a bomber that can evade the advancing air defenses of Russia and China—if ever the need arises"
Since the end of the cold war, the US military industrial complex have been desperately in search of a new bogeyman to scare the American people and justify its huge budget.
Alacritech Inc. v. Microsoft, Amado v. Microsoft, American Video Graphics v. Microsoft, AOL Time-Warner v. Microsoft, Apple v. Microsoft, Arendi Holdings v. Microsoft, AT&T v. Microsoft, Avary v. Microsoft, Be, Inc. v. Microsoft, Blue Mountain Arts v. Microsoft, Borland sues Microsoft over brain drain, Bristol Technology v. Microsoft Corp., BTG International et al. [UK] v. Microsoft, Burst v. Microsoft, Caldera v. Microsoft, Eolas Technologies v. Microsoft, E-Pass v. Microsoft, Go Corporation v. Microsoft, Goldtouch v. Microsoft, Hyperphrase v. Microsoft, Inner Workings v. Microsoft, Intertrust Technologies v. Microsoft, Lindows v. Microsoft, Macia v. Microsoft, Netscape v. Microsoft, Priceline v. Microsoft, Sendo v. Microsoft, Stac Electronics v. Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. (1997), Ticketmaster v. Microsoft, US v. MS, No. 98-1232(CKK) Tunney Act, Visto v. Microsoft, Wang Labs v. Microsoft..
I have to admire your skill in how you managed to invert and distort Microsofts' strategy in relation to sabotaging both the Network computer and the OLPC - to mean the exact opposite:)
"Remember that a key part of our strategy is to create a situation where even if Nick rejects us for philosophical reasons there is a long as visible history of our attempts to work with them and then we have to ask to get a license for the "open source hardware" and we will make our own offering on the commercial side." ref
“Geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you’re not sitting there cranking the thing while you’re trying to type.” ref
'Halt the NC from making any noise in FY98.. We are executing on a PR plan to expose the NC as "dead"' ref
'They kept the NC specification around despite saying they would not.. There is some failure in communication.'
"The pattern of damage observed in the forward fuselage and cockpit section of the aircraft was consistent with the damage that would be expected from a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside." ref
Slashdot Mirror
Since when does the potentially guilty party get to investigate itself?
"In the wake of NSA leaks debacle, New Zealand's Inspector General of Security and Intelligence has developed a process to enable whistleblowers to act safely".
.. see an example of the 'formal internal policy' in action:
'New Zealand's Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Cheryl Gwyn, said a formal internal policy for handling protected disclosures, or "whistleblowing", has been developed by her office in liaison with security agencies.'
ROTFLMAO
a. Inform senior management of acts of malfeasant in your department.
b. Senior management tells your department head.
c. Your department head accuses you of financial improprieties and leaking information to a foreign intelligence agency.
d. You get fired and prosecuted under the the Espionage Act.
e. You are totally unemployable for the rest of your life.
'All the same, let's be clear that all the "Microsoft Loves Linux" hype I saw at SUSECon yesterday and at other events earlier this year is just not true. Microsoft Azure loves Linux, there is no doubt; it is a basic requirement for them to become relevant on a cloud market dominated by AWS and Linux.' ref
July 1991: 'SteveB went on the road to see the top weeklies, industry analysts. The meetings included demos of Windows 3.1 (pen and multimedia included), Windows NT, OS/2 2.0 including a performance comparison to Windows and a "bad app" that corrupted other applications and crashed the system".'
'The demos of OS/2 were excellent, crashing the system had the intended effect -- to FUD OS/2 2.0. People paid attention to this demo and were often suprised to our favor. Steve positioned it as -- OS/2 is not "bad" but from a performance and "robustness" standpoint, it is NOT better than Windows.' ref
"GE recently wrote that they are moving the vast bulk of their 9,000 applications into the public cloud."
What would any company need with 9,000 applications. Would lead to much inefficiencies and insecurities as there's no was to predict how emergent bugs would lead to security violations.
You're confusing all the Windows on here ..
These surface images do seem to show lots of " Dark Ice
"The remote district’s role has only increased since 2011 and the latest data reveals that the Eastern District of Texas is headed to a record year. An astonishing 1,387 patent cases were filed there in the first half of 2015. This was 44.4% of all patent cases nationwide. And almost all of this growth is fueled by patent trolls." ref
"Recent changes to patent law have made it easier to beat patent trolls, but it hasn't made the patent hotspot of East Texas any quieter. In fact, it's been in the news more. Massive numbers of patent troll suits continue to be filed there, and the judge who hears most of them has erected barriers to defendants seeking to have their cases disposed of early. ref
Chinese Hackers Targeted Insurer To Learn About US Healthcare
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Wouldn't it have been simpler to 'invest' in a US healthcare provider
According to data from Secunia, Apple's software for Windows is now the biggest threat to PC security
...
No, it's the underlying WinTEL platform that's the biggest threat to PC security, and has been since forever
Privilege escalation vulnerability caused by a buggy Memory Management Unit, instead of failing safely - it fails bad ...
Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure
I don't understand why you would need to work on a live rain. Seems to me like a very badly designed system ..
Would anyone here like to explain to me, in relation to security on the Internet, how issuing CAs work and how this could lead to a security violation. Please don't use numerical formulas ..
"The attackers initially injected a malicious user-defined function (Downloader.Chikdos) into servers" ref
How does this trijan get executed on the host system.
"While the current fleet remains useful, the Air Force wants a bomber that can evade the advancing air defenses of Russia and China—if ever the need arises"
Since the end of the cold war, the US military industrial complex have been desperately in search of a new bogeyman to scare the American people and justify its huge budget.
"The attack reportedly originated from China and infected the page with malware" but only if your running Microsoft Windows :)
Is it possible to design a Memory Management Unit that can prevent one process walking all over another processes memory?
What warranty do the Closed Source companies give to the users of the software?
'It's weird and a little introverted to be fixated on a little niche like software.'
..
Microsoft Litigation
Alacritech Inc. v. Microsoft, Amado v. Microsoft, American Video Graphics v. Microsoft, AOL Time-Warner v. Microsoft, Apple v. Microsoft, Arendi Holdings v. Microsoft, AT&T v. Microsoft, Avary v. Microsoft, Be, Inc. v. Microsoft, Blue Mountain Arts v. Microsoft, Borland sues Microsoft over brain drain, Bristol Technology v. Microsoft Corp., BTG International et al. [UK] v. Microsoft, Burst v. Microsoft, Caldera v. Microsoft, Eolas Technologies v. Microsoft, E-Pass v. Microsoft, Go Corporation v. Microsoft, Goldtouch v. Microsoft, Hyperphrase v. Microsoft, Inner Workings v. Microsoft, Intertrust Technologies v. Microsoft, Lindows v. Microsoft, Macia v. Microsoft, Netscape v. Microsoft, Priceline v. Microsoft, Sendo v. Microsoft, Stac Electronics v. Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. (1997), Ticketmaster v. Microsoft, US v. MS, No. 98-1232(CKK) Tunney Act, Visto v. Microsoft, Wang Labs v. Microsoft
So it wasn't sinister Chinese/Russian hackers after all ..
If you think it's irrelevant that an illegal and immoral act occurred then that tells us more about you than the subject under discussion.
I have to admire your skill in how you managed to invert and distort Microsofts' strategy in relation to sabotaging both the Network computer and the OLPC - to mean the exact opposite :)
An Inside Look at how Microsoft got XP on the XO
.. We are executing on a PR plan to expose the NC as "dead"' ref
.. There is some failure in communication.'
"Remember that a key part of our strategy is to create a situation where even if Nick rejects us for philosophical reasons there is a long as visible history of our attempts to work with them and then we have to ask to get a license for the "open source hardware" and we will make our own offering on the commercial side." ref
“Geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you’re not sitting there cranking the thing while you’re trying to type.” ref
'Halt the NC from making any noise in FY98
'They kept the NC specification around despite saying they would not
"The pattern of damage observed in the forward fuselage and cockpit section of the aircraft was consistent with the damage that would be expected from a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside." ref