The captain of one of our Confederate submarines once sighted Chuck Norris's yacht through his periscope. He immediately surfaced and joined the Union, presenting his sword and sidearm as a gift.
You do know that Texas was a part of the Confederacy? Right?
I am lucky to have worked for some darn good companies when it comes to security.
Ditto. I give thanks regularly that the business principals who run the company I work for get it, generally.
Combine that with the fact that a single cloud provider has yet to have been breached, usually makes the CEO/CTO push for a cloud solution, stat.
[1]: When I ask about the intrusion scenario, the business I was interviewing at said, "we just call Tata or Infosys, and they will fix it."
There may not have been any breaches of a "cloud provider", yet, but that's not really surprising. Honestly, the security posture of most cloud operations I've considered is superior to that of a damn lot of businesses who run their own stuff. So, in a cloud scenario, a breach from the host side of things is far less likely than from something on the guest/client side. There's a reason that AWS makes it extremely hard to get them to sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement, for example. They'll do it, because they know that their stack is solid, but not before you've satisfied them that what you plan on deploying on their stack is just as solid. Most things thrown up to the cloud don't get that kind of vetting, and not at all surprisingly, those same things get pwned with pretty much the same regularity as their non-cloud counterparts.
I swear if I ever meet the guy who decided that "the cloud" was something magical instead just another term for "someone else's servers", I'm going to... to... uh... pain! Lots of pain.
You are absolutely right. The already extant laws that make the Ashley Madison hack a crime clearly did not stop perpetrators. Unfortunately, for you, GP was talking about laws that would punish those responsible for the security of sensitive personal information when they clearly do not take adequate precautions to protect that data from the lawless hackers. Get it now?
FWIW, negligence is tough to prove. Criminal negligence, even more so, but I'll wager that what those responsible for security at Ashley Madison failed to do, or more likely, what they were prevented from doing by their superiors, is as clear a case as there has ever been. We all know the story. The security team warned the developers, then the operations guys, who warned the CISO (if they had one) who damn-well better have warned the Board. Somewhere along the way, operations/profit won out over security. It's probably going to ruin Ashley Madison. It is clearly going to ruin thousands of lives of people who had a reasonable expectation of privacy. That is nothing, if not a crime. Why is it not being treated as such? Why is it not treated as such every time it happens?
Where was Captain Obvious ten years ago? Why is there no outrage over "trivial to hack" and "we can never know"? Little else is as sacrosanct to our system of law and government as the integrity of the electoral process. That those who knew better were unable to get attention focused on this problem until now is deeply troubling.
Oh, she gets a lot of things right. She brings with her a lot of valid observations from her time in a totalitarian state, and she sees how many of them are applied in her new home country. There is a lot of commentary she gets right.
Where she goes wrong is in assuming this means that only selfish people should lead the world and then everything will be all right. In fact, it is amazing that she misses that observation from the totalitarian state. Her perception was selective indeed.
As was her writing on that point; it's hard to find more selfish people than the ones she so strongly despise in her stories. They just happen to not be written as heroes, and therefore their selfishness is bad, while that of the heroes is good. Simply because her stories make it so.
Ow! Man that whooshing sound (as your observation passed over the heads of the Rand fanboys here) was so loud it hurt my ears. Well said, sir.
Man's 3% of emissions seems to matter more than nature's 97%.
Anyone who believes the climate change crap is not using their brain.
Anyone who believes that that ratio is all there is to it is, well, plain fucking stupid. Climate science (like most science) can not be reduced to sound bites like that.
Yeah, and what good is your phone? The only thing you can do on it well is talk. That's one of the rarest things I do on my phone, and I avoid it whenever possible. For texting, navigation, web browsing, dating apps, voice mail, etc., your phone is useless. You need all those sensors and a big touchscreen to do those things (yes, including texting; texting on a 0-9 keypad is idiotic and unusable) (and yes, including voice mail too; listening to voice mail is so 1990s, these days I read my voice mail with Google Voice).
Texting on a touch screen keypad is idiotic. Yes, it's an improvement over a 10-key, but just barely, i.e. it still sucks compared to more useful input devices. Useful? I can convey far more information with my smartphone's antiquated talky thing than I can with that shitty keyboard, meaning that "app" is still the most useful thing on my smart phone. Don't get my wrong. Having a browser and a GPS in my pocket is useful, from time to time, but when it comes to actual effective communication, the platform has a long way to go before it can supplant telephony.
The airlines want to charge by weight, not by seat. I say fine. If I have to pay 50% more because I way 50% more than your "average", I want 50-fucking-% more room for my knees and elbows.
I've been saying for years software companies should be taking the lead of the UIs we see in the movies.
They often look better designed and convey more information than some of real GUIs I see.
That's a really clean looking dashboard in my opinion.
Yeah, because shiny beats the hell out of "works", right? Look, I'm a big fan of good UI design, and most products leave a lot to be desired, but please do not make the mistake of thinking that looks makes up for function or performance.
Summary sucks, so I went to the article to see what it was about... Basically it is a prebuilt penetration testing system. Now they're using the latest packages instead of older stale packages often associated with Debian, I guess?
Well, yes. If you don't know what Kali Linux is all about, the summary will certainly leave you wanting. Assuming that everyone here on/. is already familiar with this or that piece of tech, no matter how obscure or specialized, is something of a pattern with the editors here.
Agree. Storing national secrets alongside Bubba's sexy late night e-mails on a private server should be punishable by life in prison.
Well, yes, but why is Hillary the only one who's being taken to task for this? If want to stand on the policy high-ground, fine, but you don't get to play politics with what you see from there. You either hand out sanctions and punishment with an even hand or you STFU.
I don't argue the point that Uber drivers and/or Uber itself is breaking laws in many jurisdictions.
The point is that while some of those laws seem to serve a legitimate purpose (providing insurance protection for passengers, etc.) others are intended to protect the profits and often poor service of the taxi monopoly.
Perhaps, but before the taxi industry was regulated it was a fucking nightmare. Trust me, you don't want that. No. Really. All the coolness of Uber is going to look like so much dumb-ass naivete if they succeed in making their unregulated service "legal". History... doomed to repeat it, and all that.
That's my kind of idea. WTF do we, as a nation, put up with this kind of asinine shit?
We put up with it because we have no choice. We have long since given up our power as citizens in a democratic republic to control the actions of our system of law and government. Corporate money is in power now, and it is unlikely to be unseated until things get much, much worse.
It is not that we are going to sit on our laurels and do nothing, but the said truth is, WTF can we do?
It's the *ELITES* that are controlling every f*ing thing - so much that now they want to criminalize the non-elites for dipping out hands on their exclusive domain
Wait... What? Which elites are we talking about now? Them college-boy intellectual elites who want strip away our gawd-givun rights to own guns, subjugate our inferiors, and such? Or is it the 1%, who now seem to control most of the government. The "sad fact" is that Joe the Plumber has been buying the right wing bullshit about what's good for him for too long, and now that he's starting to wake up, it's too late.
So, you're saying that exposing kids to the works of Shakespeare makes them better able to understand it? And that more and more interactive exposure yields corresponding increases in that understanding? Wow. Who knew? So where's your proof that it's computer programming that was the key factor here. Hmm?
We elect people that should have our fiduciary interests at heart, and dome of our Congressmen do still care (the "boy scouts"). I know my rep personally and have spoken with him at length about various issues, and he does his best. Most of them, however, are powerless at the feet of their own political parties and the money that elected them.
TFTFY. A U.S. Senator must now spend most of his time (by far) raising funds for is next campaign. The problem is less intense, but by no means insignificant for members of the House. Current law has seen to it that money can buy just about anything in our government. The odds of that changing any time soon are, alas, extremely long.
I fail to see why you feel like mentioning murder. Murder is the killing of human beings. What's that got to do with it?
That whooshing sound is the metaphor that whizzed right past your comprehension. Questionable in taste it may have been, but literal it clearly was not.
The DMCA was a badly flawed law, passed for some pretty good reasons by technologically challenged legislators. Since it was passed, it has been abused almost incessantly, virtually always with the aid of technologically challenged courts. "The Democrats" have very little to do with this state of affairs. Nice try, though.
One can never expect any praise for such steps here on Slashdot. But allow me to put my cents in favor of this ban.
First, you could look at Ted Bundy's last interview where he confesses that his career as the America's most dreaded serial killer kicked off due to pornography.
So, I'm to take the learned opinion of a bat-shit crazy serial killer as to what "kicked off" his spree. Yeah, right.
The local TV stations have taken to broadcasting a selection of Tweets about the events they cover, as if what Joe Sixpack has to say is somehow "news".
Derakhshan is right, of course, but I don't see the Joe Sixpack's of the world giving a rat's ass about something takes more than five seconds to consume.
I've been out of the field for 10 years, but what I've learned since then is that "experts" don't care if the clients can actually use the system. AV? Take it or leave it, but for software updates, well, the cost of breaking corporate software with an update (they just took out our scheduling program for 4 days) is very measurable and affects everyone in the company,
If routine operations (and updates should absolutely be part of a routine) break production you're doing it wrong. The answer is to test changes before committing them to production. The answer is not to forgo needed security updates.
Jesus Christ. What it is it? The news or a fucking film? How am I to plan my life with this kind of vacillation going on? Huh?
Film. The phrase came about in the days before mobile trucks with microwave links or even video tape. "On-scene" news was shot on film, which had to processed and edited (yes, manually, as in cut-and-splice), and then readied for broadcast later in the evening.
So, yeah. You busted us. No Xtian has ever accused a witch of making a pact with the devil (or a demon) because it's not in your version of the bible. Just like no Xtian has ever cherry picked scripture to support their own fears and prejudices while blithely ignoring others.
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They just found a new way to offend those around them.
The captain of one of our Confederate submarines once sighted Chuck Norris's yacht through his periscope. He immediately surfaced and joined the Union, presenting his sword and sidearm as a gift.
You do know that Texas was a part of the Confederacy? Right?
I am lucky to have worked for some darn good companies when it comes to security.
Ditto. I give thanks regularly that the business principals who run the company I work for get it, generally.
Combine that with the fact that a single cloud provider has yet to have been breached, usually makes the CEO/CTO push for a cloud solution, stat.
[1]: When I ask about the intrusion scenario, the business I was interviewing at said, "we just call Tata or Infosys, and they will fix it."
There may not have been any breaches of a "cloud provider", yet, but that's not really surprising. Honestly, the security posture of most cloud operations I've considered is superior to that of a damn lot of businesses who run their own stuff. So, in a cloud scenario, a breach from the host side of things is far less likely than from something on the guest/client side. There's a reason that AWS makes it extremely hard to get them to sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement, for example. They'll do it, because they know that their stack is solid, but not before you've satisfied them that what you plan on deploying on their stack is just as solid. Most things thrown up to the cloud don't get that kind of vetting, and not at all surprisingly, those same things get pwned with pretty much the same regularity as their non-cloud counterparts.
I swear if I ever meet the guy who decided that "the cloud" was something magical instead just another term for "someone else's servers", I'm going to... to... uh... pain! Lots of pain.
You are absolutely right. The already extant laws that make the Ashley Madison hack a crime clearly did not stop perpetrators. Unfortunately, for you, GP was talking about laws that would punish those responsible for the security of sensitive personal information when they clearly do not take adequate precautions to protect that data from the lawless hackers. Get it now?
FWIW, negligence is tough to prove. Criminal negligence, even more so, but I'll wager that what those responsible for security at Ashley Madison failed to do, or more likely, what they were prevented from doing by their superiors, is as clear a case as there has ever been. We all know the story. The security team warned the developers, then the operations guys, who warned the CISO (if they had one) who damn-well better have warned the Board. Somewhere along the way, operations/profit won out over security. It's probably going to ruin Ashley Madison. It is clearly going to ruin thousands of lives of people who had a reasonable expectation of privacy. That is nothing, if not a crime. Why is it not being treated as such? Why is it not treated as such every time it happens?
Where was Captain Obvious ten years ago? Why is there no outrage over "trivial to hack" and "we can never know"? Little else is as sacrosanct to our system of law and government as the integrity of the electoral process. That those who knew better were unable to get attention focused on this problem until now is deeply troubling.
Oh, she gets a lot of things right. She brings with her a lot of valid observations from her time in a totalitarian state, and she sees how many of them are applied in her new home country. There is a lot of commentary she gets right.
Where she goes wrong is in assuming this means that only selfish people should lead the world and then everything will be all right. In fact, it is amazing that she misses that observation from the totalitarian state. Her perception was selective indeed.
As was her writing on that point; it's hard to find more selfish people than the ones she so strongly despise in her stories. They just happen to not be written as heroes, and therefore their selfishness is bad, while that of the heroes is good. Simply because her stories make it so.
Ow! Man that whooshing sound (as your observation passed over the heads of the Rand fanboys here) was so loud it hurt my ears. Well said, sir.
Man's 3% of emissions seems to matter more than nature's 97%.
Anyone who believes the climate change crap is not using their brain.
Anyone who believes that that ratio is all there is to it is, well, plain fucking stupid. Climate science (like most science) can not be reduced to sound bites like that.
Yeah, and what good is your phone? The only thing you can do on it well is talk. That's one of the rarest things I do on my phone, and I avoid it whenever possible. For texting, navigation, web browsing, dating apps, voice mail, etc., your phone is useless. You need all those sensors and a big touchscreen to do those things (yes, including texting; texting on a 0-9 keypad is idiotic and unusable) (and yes, including voice mail too; listening to voice mail is so 1990s, these days I read my voice mail with Google Voice).
Texting on a touch screen keypad is idiotic. Yes, it's an improvement over a 10-key, but just barely, i.e. it still sucks compared to more useful input devices. Useful? I can convey far more information with my smartphone's antiquated talky thing than I can with that shitty keyboard, meaning that "app" is still the most useful thing on my smart phone. Don't get my wrong. Having a browser and a GPS in my pocket is useful, from time to time, but when it comes to actual effective communication, the platform has a long way to go before it can supplant telephony.
The airlines want to charge by weight, not by seat. I say fine. If I have to pay 50% more because I way 50% more than your "average", I want 50-fucking-% more room for my knees and elbows.
I've been saying for years software companies should be taking the lead of the UIs we see in the movies.
They often look better designed and convey more information than some of real GUIs I see.
That's a really clean looking dashboard in my opinion.
Yeah, because shiny beats the hell out of "works", right? Look, I'm a big fan of good UI design, and most products leave a lot to be desired, but please do not make the mistake of thinking that looks makes up for function or performance.
Summary sucks, so I went to the article to see what it was about... Basically it is a prebuilt penetration testing system. Now they're using the latest packages instead of older stale packages often associated with Debian, I guess?
Well, yes. If you don't know what Kali Linux is all about, the summary will certainly leave you wanting. Assuming that everyone here on /. is already familiar with this or that piece of tech, no matter how obscure or specialized, is something of a pattern with the editors here.
Agree. Storing national secrets alongside Bubba's sexy late night e-mails on a private server should be punishable by life in prison.
Well, yes, but why is Hillary the only one who's being taken to task for this? If want to stand on the policy high-ground, fine, but you don't get to play politics with what you see from there. You either hand out sanctions and punishment with an even hand or you STFU.
I don't argue the point that Uber drivers and/or Uber itself is breaking laws in many jurisdictions.
The point is that while some of those laws seem to serve a legitimate purpose (providing insurance protection for passengers, etc.) others are intended to protect the profits and often poor service of the taxi monopoly.
Perhaps, but before the taxi industry was regulated it was a fucking nightmare. Trust me, you don't want that. No. Really. All the coolness of Uber is going to look like so much dumb-ass naivete if they succeed in making their unregulated service "legal". History... doomed to repeat it, and all that.
That's my kind of idea. WTF do we, as a nation, put up with this kind of asinine shit?
We put up with it because we have no choice. We have long since given up our power as citizens in a democratic republic to control the actions of our system of law and government. Corporate money is in power now, and it is unlikely to be unseated until things get much, much worse.
It is not that we are going to sit on our laurels and do nothing, but the said truth is, WTF can we do?
It's the *ELITES* that are controlling every f*ing thing - so much that now they want to criminalize the non-elites for dipping out hands on their exclusive domain
Wait... What? Which elites are we talking about now? Them college-boy intellectual elites who want strip away our gawd-givun rights to own guns, subjugate our inferiors, and such? Or is it the 1%, who now seem to control most of the government. The "sad fact" is that Joe the Plumber has been buying the right wing bullshit about what's good for him for too long, and now that he's starting to wake up, it's too late.
So, you're saying that exposing kids to the works of Shakespeare makes them better able to understand it? And that more and more interactive exposure yields corresponding increases in that understanding? Wow. Who knew? So where's your proof that it's computer programming that was the key factor here. Hmm?
We elect people that should have our fiduciary interests at heart, and dome of our Congressmen do still care (the "boy scouts"). I know my rep personally and have spoken with him at length about various issues, and he does his best. Most of them, however, are powerless at the feet of their own political parties and the money that elected them.
TFTFY.
A U.S. Senator must now spend most of his time (by far) raising funds for is next campaign. The problem is less intense, but by no means insignificant for members of the House. Current law has seen to it that money can buy just about anything in our government. The odds of that changing any time soon are, alas, extremely long.
I fail to see why you feel like mentioning murder. Murder is the killing of human beings. What's that got to do with it?
That whooshing sound is the metaphor that whizzed right past your comprehension. Questionable in taste it may have been, but literal it clearly was not.
The DMCA was a badly flawed law, passed for some pretty good reasons by technologically challenged legislators. Since it was passed, it has been abused almost incessantly, virtually always with the aid of technologically challenged courts. "The Democrats" have very little to do with this state of affairs. Nice try, though.
One can never expect any praise for such steps here on Slashdot. But allow me to put my cents in favor of this ban. First, you could look at Ted Bundy's last interview where he confesses that his career as the America's most dreaded serial killer kicked off due to pornography.
So, I'm to take the learned opinion of a bat-shit crazy serial killer as to what "kicked off" his spree. Yeah, right.
The local TV stations have taken to broadcasting a selection of Tweets about the events they cover, as if what Joe Sixpack has to say is somehow "news". Derakhshan is right, of course, but I don't see the Joe Sixpack's of the world giving a rat's ass about something takes more than five seconds to consume.
There is no such thing as "renewable" energy. It's only a goddamn law of thermodynamics.
Wow. Second post in the thread and it's already the hands-down winner of the "Pendantic Dipshit" award.
I've been out of the field for 10 years, but what I've learned since then is that "experts" don't care if the clients can actually use the system. AV? Take it or leave it, but for software updates, well, the cost of breaking corporate software with an update (they just took out our scheduling program for 4 days) is very measurable and affects everyone in the company,
If routine operations (and updates should absolutely be part of a routine) break production you're doing it wrong. The answer is to test changes before committing them to production. The answer is not to forgo needed security updates.
Jesus Christ. What it is it? The news or a fucking film? How am I to plan my life with this kind of vacillation going on? Huh?
Film. The phrase came about in the days before mobile trucks with microwave links or even video tape. "On-scene" news was shot on film, which had to processed and edited (yes, manually, as in cut-and-splice), and then readied for broadcast later in the evening.
So, yeah. You busted us. No Xtian has ever accused a witch of making a pact with the devil (or a demon) because it's not in your version of the bible. Just like no Xtian has ever cherry picked scripture to support their own fears and prejudices while blithely ignoring others.
Right....