They are supposed to defend unsupported proprietary software. The right name is not cyber specialist, but rather priest.
I'm not sure if it applies to the filthy Brits or not, but the DoD versions of Windows are significantly more secure than the civilian versions - in fact the DoD Win2K is likely still secure. MS creates separate defense versions with people in the DoD overseeing a good chunk of the security audits, so chances are anything they have access to for backdoors is already patched in their systems and MS's rolling vulnerabilities (the reason each new security patch "seems to" open a new backdoor when it fixes something) don't apply like they do with civilian copies of Windows.
A lot of IT stuff requires boots on the ground. Programming doesn't, which makes it much easier to replace with H1B, outsourcing, etc.
Perhaps if there were any competent people in large enough numbers to do the work, but there aren't. Centuries of a caste system have left Indians with a lower caste which may or may not know their stuff, but still have to be directed action-by-action to do a task, possibly out of spite, and an upper caste which are too full of themselves to get any work done. No other nation has the surplus of labor to even attempt to fill the H1b pool en mass. The closest to functional outsourcing programming positions get is remotely hiring people from other states.
IT is unique in that its workers think they are worth being paid higher than average in an industry that was once in boom and is now shrinking. It generates a lot of vocal whining and crying but with private shame as low offers are accepted.
Not really, all industries are shrinking. IT still has a huge barrier to entry: whenever there are enough IT people the ones on top intellectually will automate the positions of those on the bottom intellectually, this raises the bar to enter the sector and drives down wages for low-level IT people who need to compete with software. The IT industry still pays well, it's just that a bunch of commoners decided to get a CS degree thinking it would teach them enough to work in IT when it didn't.
MS can't possibly know all the ransomware out there, however, I think MS does a terrible job at fixing anything.
Are you suggesting MS doesn't actively develop malware for their older systems to encourage people to upgrade? Because that would be a stupid suggestion.
Will be interested to see if the Brits are involved or if they're still too busy disappearing up their own arses. Time will tell.
It's the ESA, we can pretty much count them adding lassos (the harpoon's more flexible cousin,) loosing the craft, then trying to post-mortem for several years to determine why lassos don't work in space.
The freezing/boiling point of water is 100% arbitrary, as is the definition of the meter, which is arbitrary in both defining the meter to the distance traveled by light in a vacuum (which is also defined arbitrarily, given what we know about relativity and space/time distortions and the fact we don't even know if light can travel in a perfect vacuum, which is further arbitrarily accounted for AND tautological by stating it only counts for lengths of a meter where we don't currently have the equipment to measure relativistic effects over said distance.) The size of a degree (F, C, K) is also arbitrary, as is the kg (1L of water, again with the water, at the point it has the greatest density,) the second ("The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom." - which is made even worse than being purely tautological by measuring it within a system itself influenced by relativistic effects by declaring it to be at 0K, a temperature which as far as science currently tells us, is unreachable and thereby pure inference,) the ampre (another such arbitrary quantity and an inference,) kelvin (defined by arbitrary quantities of water having specific isotopes of constituent elements,) mole (so clearly arbitrary it hurts to have to say it's arbitrary,) and candela (arbitrary frequency, spatial distribution, polarization and intensity.)
To suggest any measurement system isn't arbitrary is absolutely absurd because we only measure things relative to other things, meaning we have to pick some thing from which to measure. The self-referencing definitions specific to base units just complicates the issue even further (to say nothing of the fact we didn't pick the same arbitrary multi-isotope compound of specific percentages to base the whole group on.)
Base 10 is, once again, arbitrary. Base 12, 32, 60, 360, etc are just as good depending on what base units you're accustomed to. I assure you, even though I prefer the metric system, imperial is just as simple to convert things in when you grow up with it. One other note: it's multiplication you should be using to compare socket sizes, since you logically cannot reduce some fractions down for comparison. If that multiplication isn't as quick to perform in your head as comparing metric sizes with a straight less than or equal to mental assessment then you're probably missing some registers in your brain, that's not a failing of the imperial system.
All this said, I prefer metric, but we're on the American internet, not the filthy British (or insert other second-class country) internet, so learn the language or piss off.
There a plenty of security people working outside of security professions, the issue is in recruiting and retainment as the summary suggests, but primary in the realms of "don't be afraid to hire people that don't have work under huge corporations or governments under their belt, and actively avoid most who do, because they're largely shit" and "listen to their advice while paying better." The number of times I've seen companies go for the cheapest "solution" pitched by a hack because they're willing to lie through their teeth and claim an insecure system is secure allowing someone in management to pass the liability off for the lowest price vs the number of times people say a company needs to spend a double digit percentage of their annual budget to fix their broken shit and gets canned is about 1:1, and the two account for nearly all security failings.
Managers and business people in general want to consider the whole of the IT industry (be they in small companies or enterprise-scale organizations) as a non-contributing or "overhead" aspect of a business, when that simply isn't the case. IT is a force multiplier, it allows you to take whatever you're making and multiply the output generating it by some number. IT isn't "overhead," you can't simply remove it from your budget or attempt to minimize IT expenses to gain money, you get more the more you invest in IT and less the less you invest in IT.
This is the biggest divide in all of IT: managers who see IT as overhead and IT people who can't properly convey what it is they do in terms simple enough for the business people to understand how it is impacting their bottom line - when the whole thing runs smoothly nobody notices, that doesn't mean it's time to downsize the IT department or cut their budget, it means it is time to check into wider adoption of business intelligence and hire more analysts to multiply it by more while you have the opportunity to do so.
Slashdot's editors would do well to stop reading the big-eyed, gawping articles in glossy magazines like futurism.com, and instead reading the slightly more sober stuff in news closer to the source. You guys should stop perpetuating the ideaa that science is some sort of cool entertainment and scientists are some sort of attention seeking rock-stars.
That's what "science" is these days in pop culture, it makes it into a tool by which to control people (e.g. climate change) and it also makes it easy to market junk to the peasants who adhere to the pop-sci belief system. Slashdot especially has been bought out and rebranded several times, the stories are publicly selected via the firehose feature, but sadly there are more commoners here than there are nerds, so we get junk like this sensational piece and climate fear mongering in the "science" section.
Humanity is defined by it's intellectual elite and always has been. Trying to apply the standards of the common people to gauge the stability of the most Human among us is absurd.
First we're have the space race/cold war, then we'd have climate change scare tactics, then we'd have constant terrorist threats, then we'd have threat of asteroid, then we'd have a fake alien invasion, then we'd have everyone united enough for a 1-world government, then we'd have a planet of slaves. Hopefully the chemtrails NASA was testing the other week mean they're skipping the lame asteroid segment and going straight to the alien invasion, no way they pull that off in a remotely believable way without civilians getting ahold of some sweet black project technology to reverse engineer.
Ditch your insecure shit or face HIPPA fines and fees.
HIPPA is joke-level "security." It's a standard for securing data that would have been sound with the tech standards about 2 decades ago, but is actually horribly insecure by modern standards. It also doesn't cover anything in practice (i.e. you can implement a broken cryptosystem on top of a database layer and not be held liable if there's a flaw in your protocol, the database layer, the OS layer, the network layer, etc.) It's such a joke as to be laughable, and 9 times out of 10 the people implementing HIPPA compliant software don't actually know anything about cryptography beyond the basics to meet the standard, which are usually contracted out to a third party for liability reasons anyway (who again, meet the minimum standard or just slightly above it, with all the holes that implies.)
Nope, they would need to make a "failed" casino. Trump's entire thing hinges on having ingrained the idea that the "Trump card" beats anything in the heads of people. He ran a casino at a financial loss for years to create that meme, but it seems to have paid off quite well.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
--Jefferson
"Freedom" doesn't mean "easy," it never has. If someone does something evil it takes sacrifice to correct it, without that you just idiots like Manning throwing shit into the wind and seeing if anything sticks, detracting from all else. All leakers deserve death, that doesn't mean some don't also deserve medals.
They make TV like they make everything else they do? Why is this news and why would Apple, of all personality-cult idiot-tier things, be on a site containing the subheader "News for Nerds?"
Snowden's view here is absolutely and catagorically correct, and for the right reasons.
No, it's not. People who leak are traitors, period. Should they be heard? Absolutely. Should they do anything other than hang? No. Allowing their rationale to be heard in front of a Jury capable of deciding anything other than guilt is wrong. Let them give their reasons publicly with their last words if they don't do so before then, but their individual sob story shouldn't be able to sway a jury in any way because ultimately leaking secrets you are entrusted with should always come down to a simple question for the potential leaker: is this information so utterly wrong as to trade my life for it? If that answer is yes and they leak they deserve to hang, and the leaks need to be addressed separately. If that answer is no they deserve to hang, and maybe get a parade for "Darwin award of the year."
The dirt leaked should be worth their life, or they shouldn't leak it. A mandatory death penalty is a useful tool in that regard, it will also possibly cut down on the idiots like Manning who just throw whatever they find out without vetting it.
No shit? It's called "politics," with all the connotations that implies, for a reason. Voicing support for someone in politics doesn't necessarily mean you support them, it can also mean you cut a deal wherein you give someone some political clout in exchange for something (in Flynn's case, the end of the "#nevertrump" meme's support from globalist republicans in washington.)
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They are supposed to defend unsupported proprietary software. The right name is not cyber specialist, but rather priest.
I'm not sure if it applies to the filthy Brits or not, but the DoD versions of Windows are significantly more secure than the civilian versions - in fact the DoD Win2K is likely still secure. MS creates separate defense versions with people in the DoD overseeing a good chunk of the security audits, so chances are anything they have access to for backdoors is already patched in their systems and MS's rolling vulnerabilities (the reason each new security patch "seems to" open a new backdoor when it fixes something) don't apply like they do with civilian copies of Windows.
Kerbal tested, sadist approved.
A lot of IT stuff requires boots on the ground. Programming doesn't, which makes it much easier to replace with H1B, outsourcing, etc.
Perhaps if there were any competent people in large enough numbers to do the work, but there aren't. Centuries of a caste system have left Indians with a lower caste which may or may not know their stuff, but still have to be directed action-by-action to do a task, possibly out of spite, and an upper caste which are too full of themselves to get any work done. No other nation has the surplus of labor to even attempt to fill the H1b pool en mass. The closest to functional outsourcing programming positions get is remotely hiring people from other states.
Can't target you if you don't carry the tracking device.
IT is unique in that its workers think they are worth being paid higher than average in an industry that was once in boom and is now shrinking. It generates a lot of vocal whining and crying but with private shame as low offers are accepted.
Not really, all industries are shrinking. IT still has a huge barrier to entry: whenever there are enough IT people the ones on top intellectually will automate the positions of those on the bottom intellectually, this raises the bar to enter the sector and drives down wages for low-level IT people who need to compete with software. The IT industry still pays well, it's just that a bunch of commoners decided to get a CS degree thinking it would teach them enough to work in IT when it didn't.
MS can't possibly know all the ransomware out there, however, I think MS does a terrible job at fixing anything.
Are you suggesting MS doesn't actively develop malware for their older systems to encourage people to upgrade? Because that would be a stupid suggestion.
Will be interested to see if the Brits are involved or if they're still too busy disappearing up their own arses. Time will tell.
It's the ESA, we can pretty much count them adding lassos (the harpoon's more flexible cousin,) loosing the craft, then trying to post-mortem for several years to determine why lassos don't work in space.
The freezing/boiling point of water is 100% arbitrary, as is the definition of the meter, which is arbitrary in both defining the meter to the distance traveled by light in a vacuum (which is also defined arbitrarily, given what we know about relativity and space/time distortions and the fact we don't even know if light can travel in a perfect vacuum, which is further arbitrarily accounted for AND tautological by stating it only counts for lengths of a meter where we don't currently have the equipment to measure relativistic effects over said distance.) The size of a degree (F, C, K) is also arbitrary, as is the kg (1L of water, again with the water, at the point it has the greatest density,) the second ("The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom." - which is made even worse than being purely tautological by measuring it within a system itself influenced by relativistic effects by declaring it to be at 0K, a temperature which as far as science currently tells us, is unreachable and thereby pure inference,) the ampre (another such arbitrary quantity and an inference,) kelvin (defined by arbitrary quantities of water having specific isotopes of constituent elements,) mole (so clearly arbitrary it hurts to have to say it's arbitrary,) and candela (arbitrary frequency, spatial distribution, polarization and intensity.)
To suggest any measurement system isn't arbitrary is absolutely absurd because we only measure things relative to other things, meaning we have to pick some thing from which to measure. The self-referencing definitions specific to base units just complicates the issue even further (to say nothing of the fact we didn't pick the same arbitrary multi-isotope compound of specific percentages to base the whole group on.)
Base 10 is, once again, arbitrary. Base 12, 32, 60, 360, etc are just as good depending on what base units you're accustomed to. I assure you, even though I prefer the metric system, imperial is just as simple to convert things in when you grow up with it. One other note: it's multiplication you should be using to compare socket sizes, since you logically cannot reduce some fractions down for comparison. If that multiplication isn't as quick to perform in your head as comparing metric sizes with a straight less than or equal to mental assessment then you're probably missing some registers in your brain, that's not a failing of the imperial system.
All this said, I prefer metric, but we're on the American internet, not the filthy British (or insert other second-class country) internet, so learn the language or piss off.
And that's about 49c for the rest of the world.
You're on the American internet, barbarian.
There a plenty of security people working outside of security professions, the issue is in recruiting and retainment as the summary suggests, but primary in the realms of "don't be afraid to hire people that don't have work under huge corporations or governments under their belt, and actively avoid most who do, because they're largely shit" and "listen to their advice while paying better." The number of times I've seen companies go for the cheapest "solution" pitched by a hack because they're willing to lie through their teeth and claim an insecure system is secure allowing someone in management to pass the liability off for the lowest price vs the number of times people say a company needs to spend a double digit percentage of their annual budget to fix their broken shit and gets canned is about 1:1, and the two account for nearly all security failings.
Managers and business people in general want to consider the whole of the IT industry (be they in small companies or enterprise-scale organizations) as a non-contributing or "overhead" aspect of a business, when that simply isn't the case. IT is a force multiplier, it allows you to take whatever you're making and multiply the output generating it by some number. IT isn't "overhead," you can't simply remove it from your budget or attempt to minimize IT expenses to gain money, you get more the more you invest in IT and less the less you invest in IT.
This is the biggest divide in all of IT: managers who see IT as overhead and IT people who can't properly convey what it is they do in terms simple enough for the business people to understand how it is impacting their bottom line - when the whole thing runs smoothly nobody notices, that doesn't mean it's time to downsize the IT department or cut their budget, it means it is time to check into wider adoption of business intelligence and hire more analysts to multiply it by more while you have the opportunity to do so.
Slashdot's editors would do well to stop reading the big-eyed, gawping articles in glossy magazines like futurism.com, and instead reading the slightly more sober stuff in news closer to the source. You guys should stop perpetuating the ideaa that science is some sort of cool entertainment and scientists are some sort of attention seeking rock-stars.
That's what "science" is these days in pop culture, it makes it into a tool by which to control people (e.g. climate change) and it also makes it easy to market junk to the peasants who adhere to the pop-sci belief system. Slashdot especially has been bought out and rebranded several times, the stories are publicly selected via the firehose feature, but sadly there are more commoners here than there are nerds, so we get junk like this sensational piece and climate fear mongering in the "science" section.
I said Congress & Trump. I don't care who's in charge.
Ah, the cry of the passive-aggressive liberal who has been found out but who holds too much cognitive dissonance to admit it, even to themselves.
Humanity is defined by it's intellectual elite and always has been. Trying to apply the standards of the common people to gauge the stability of the most Human among us is absurd.
First we're have the space race/cold war, then we'd have climate change scare tactics, then we'd have constant terrorist threats, then we'd have threat of asteroid, then we'd have a fake alien invasion, then we'd have everyone united enough for a 1-world government, then we'd have a planet of slaves. Hopefully the chemtrails NASA was testing the other week mean they're skipping the lame asteroid segment and going straight to the alien invasion, no way they pull that off in a remotely believable way without civilians getting ahold of some sweet black project technology to reverse engineer.
Then throw them in federal prisons, it's the adult version of timeout.
Ditch your insecure shit or face HIPPA fines and fees.
HIPPA is joke-level "security." It's a standard for securing data that would have been sound with the tech standards about 2 decades ago, but is actually horribly insecure by modern standards. It also doesn't cover anything in practice (i.e. you can implement a broken cryptosystem on top of a database layer and not be held liable if there's a flaw in your protocol, the database layer, the OS layer, the network layer, etc.) It's such a joke as to be laughable, and 9 times out of 10 the people implementing HIPPA compliant software don't actually know anything about cryptography beyond the basics to meet the standard, which are usually contracted out to a third party for liability reasons anyway (who again, meet the minimum standard or just slightly above it, with all the holes that implies.)
Nope, they would need to make a "failed" casino. Trump's entire thing hinges on having ingrained the idea that the "Trump card" beats anything in the heads of people. He ran a casino at a financial loss for years to create that meme, but it seems to have paid off quite well.
She took hundreds of millions of dollars for selling Uranium to Russia, so there's one.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
--Jefferson
"Freedom" doesn't mean "easy," it never has. If someone does something evil it takes sacrifice to correct it, without that you just idiots like Manning throwing shit into the wind and seeing if anything sticks, detracting from all else. All leakers deserve death, that doesn't mean some don't also deserve medals.
They make TV like they make everything else they do? Why is this news and why would Apple, of all personality-cult idiot-tier things, be on a site containing the subheader "News for Nerds?"
Snowden's view here is absolutely and catagorically correct, and for the right reasons.
No, it's not. People who leak are traitors, period. Should they be heard? Absolutely. Should they do anything other than hang? No. Allowing their rationale to be heard in front of a Jury capable of deciding anything other than guilt is wrong. Let them give their reasons publicly with their last words if they don't do so before then, but their individual sob story shouldn't be able to sway a jury in any way because ultimately leaking secrets you are entrusted with should always come down to a simple question for the potential leaker: is this information so utterly wrong as to trade my life for it? If that answer is yes and they leak they deserve to hang, and the leaks need to be addressed separately. If that answer is no they deserve to hang, and maybe get a parade for "Darwin award of the year."
The dirt leaked should be worth their life, or they shouldn't leak it. A mandatory death penalty is a useful tool in that regard, it will also possibly cut down on the idiots like Manning who just throw whatever they find out without vetting it.
If you're dumb enough to donate to Wikipedia, well, I've got another couple of "charities" you might be also interested in.
They're the only company in Silicon Valley I'd consider a net win for Humanity by their existence. They deserve more to be honest.
Again, how is that relevant? Politics are politics.
No shit? It's called "politics," with all the connotations that implies, for a reason. Voicing support for someone in politics doesn't necessarily mean you support them, it can also mean you cut a deal wherein you give someone some political clout in exchange for something (in Flynn's case, the end of the "#nevertrump" meme's support from globalist republicans in washington.)