I think at this point we can claim criminal negligence.
The University of California Health System mandated that all physicians use a computer-interface to record everything about the provider-patient interaction. This turns MD's into data-entry monkeys. I've talked to many MD's in the system, and they all agree that it detracts from the time that they can spend actually interacting with the patient. They all hate it.
Oh, and get this, this system originally ran on Win XP (2-3 years ago). When was that EOL'ed? Of course, it was breached within a year. I moved to a GP who keeps everything on paper. Yes, huge manila folders full of prior notes, results, and diagnoses. No computer files, aside from the bare minimum mandated by state law (for Rx, etc.).
I know that my own medical records are my own property, and periodically demand photocopies of every intervening period be made, and physically mailed to me. That is my right, YOUR RIGHT, and everyone else's (in the US).
Try to hack that! Unless you break into my home (I'm not that important), then such files remain private.
Relational databases are wonderful things. Just don't connect them to the internet!!!
The FIVE biggest breaches — Anthem Health care, U-CA Health System, US-OPM (security clearance applications), the IRS, and again the US-OPM (fingerprints this time), have ALL affected me. There is nothing else to be breached.
Oh, wait, aren't the Credit-score Reporting Agencies well-known for happily reporting false data in peoples' Credit Reports? (HINT: Yes.)
The game is already over.
The proposed solution, as suggested by the study, is for us to release even more personal information, relying on the one thing that we can never-ever change – our DNA. Are you gonna prick my finger and run a PCR on my identity every time I withdraw cash from an ATM? Oh, oops, my DNA will be left in finger-oil residues on those anonymous cash bills when I spend them.
So when they fought child pornography, animal abuse, religious harassment, exposed war crimes and private espionage against people (global intelligence files), they were not doing anything useful?
Impressive.
For those that cannot tell, #zedaroca was using sarcasm in his/her post.
I totally agree with the point. The bastards who are PAID BY OUR OWN TAX DOLLARS to uphold the law are routinely breaking it with impunity. These small-scale doxxes should be a daily occurrence, in addition to the periodic large-scale releases that fight greater evils.
Wrong and wrong. There is no evidence that Apple would not be compensated. And the FBI cannot do this themselves without Apples signing key. Of course, you are an armchair nerd on/. so we are supposed to pretend that you are not tech illiterate and lack basic reading comprehension
See all subsequent articles, including today's statement from the head Attorney at Apple.
A Court Order means you have to do something. There is no negotiation, or thought of, compensation.
It would set a dangerous precedent, as we've already seen with the 12 (and more) demands from FBI to decrypt iPhones. DEMANDS, not requests with negotiations for compensation.
Last, you used double-reverse logic. "There is no evidence that Apple would not be compensated." Well, there is also NO EVIDENCE that the universe was not created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's impossible to prove a negative assertion.
Oh, my armchair is quite comfortable. So is having a PhD, tons of publications, tons of Patents, two businesses, and a position at a top-10 University. Where is your mother's basement located?
All well said, except for one thing: Trump has ZERO public-service record. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT HE WOULD ACTUALLY DO IF ELECTED PRESIDENT.
Bernie walks the walk, and has for 45+ years. He does not wear it on his sleeve, but has simply fought for what he thinks is right, and for a VERY LONG period of public service.
This is the critical difference. Trump's actual decisions are utterly unpredictable. Well, aside from starting WW-III within a month...
If they expect CIO-level work, but don't compensate you adequately, you should return the favor.
Plant plenty of 'Easter Eggs' or 'forget various passwords'. Then leave without any notice. Not a 2-week notice, but a 4:59 pm immediate resignation. Leave at 5:00 pm. They have one minute to respond. Fair is fair.
OK, so planting back-doors or bombs is illegal, but 'forgetting' important Sysadmin-level passwords can be chalked-up to the fallibility of human memory. How many passwords are you expected to have memorized? Maybe you fell down in your living room, and have lost some memory. And, as a responsible SysAdmin, you NEVER write passwords down... Right?
They will not sue you. Oh no. That does not jog anyone's memory. They will suffer great losses due to lack of access to their own systems and data. They will then hire you on as a 'Consultant' at triple or more your previous rate.
This is not new. For example, plumbers who do the pipe-work of new factories have often scrambled pipes as they transit walls. It's called job security. Such individuals are the only ones who can 'figure out' how the heck all of the pipes connect. It takes significant incentives to convince someone (the ONLY one who can help) out of retirement. "Hey, I'm enjoying my grand-kids. I'm retired. Lump-sum up-front before I do anything."
It is a very old trick, done by electricians, plumbers, gas-handling-system installers, and so on...
Yeah, OK. $20 each for Raspberry Pi's that can run Ubuntu Linux. No need for full laptops & the "Microsoft Tax."
And really, to actually teach computer fundamentals, the kids should start with a blank screen with only a green blinking cursor. Not because WE all did it that way, but because that is how one learns the basic principles.
Similarly, Calculus. It is best taught with pencils and paper. Lots of both. No computers allowed. The point is to understand the underlying concepts, so that when you plug in something from StackExchange (or any code-sharing repository), you actually have a clue as to how it should be operating.
Competition is so fierce for developers "that my developers' starting salaries have risen by 50% in the last eight years," said O'Neill [CTO of Jackthreads, an online retailer], and "senior positions command compensation that meets or exceeds even that of United States Senators." (That compensation is now at $174,000/year.)
So what is your salary, including bonuses and deferred compensation, Mr. O'Neill? WTF do you do that is so valuable?
*crickets*
H-1Bs were not created to serve this "but smart people are expensive!" purpose. He said it out loud that his company is abusing the H-1B Visa process. He also invited criticism of his own compensation, as well as every other C-level's compensation.
Private company loses your data, you stop doing business with them. IRS loses your data, fuck you.
Private company negligent with your data, private company gets sued and maybe criminally charged. IRS negligent with your data, fuck you. IRS workers keep their jobs, no one faces any consequences. Except you. Because fuck you.
It's called "Sovereign Immunity."
You can't sue the IRS, or any part of your US Government, except under way-out-there circumstances (which this dumb breach is unlikely to meet – IANAL).
If we give them a back door to all iPhones that won't get stolen from government servers, you have their word on it.
If you have been arrested, and are temporarily in the local City jail – rightly or wrongly – you have no way to trigger the "nuke my iPhone's memory" via "Find My iPhone" on the iCloud website (.Mac website).
You get a phone call, but only after cops have held you for as long as legally possible. They will then ask if you would like to make a phone call.
"Yes, I want to call my attorney/partner/anyone", you say. Cop response: "OK, so what's the phone number?" You respond, "It's on my cell phone—no one memorizes phone numbers these days." Cop response: "Your cell phone is secured as evidence, and is unavailable to you. If you cannot recall the phone number that you wish to call, then you are SOL." Then under their breath, the cops add, "Hahaha, I have an IQ of less than 110 – more like 95 – but I have power over you, you collared-shirt-wearing educated (and therefore snobby) perp."
This is how it works. The law lags very far behind reality. And enforcement of The Law... oh boy! DO NOT mention a recent US Supreme Court decision on a demand that a cop is illegally trying to make. They do not not like that. They do not like having to follow any laws.
DON'T ever touch your car—they will steal it. DON'T say "No" directly, but say so in effect. If you are not 'in control of a car' (touching it counts), you have no obligation to show any identification papers.
Cops have one goal only—get arrests to close cases and get their raises. They do not care that the Court Process in the US is the only way any person, even innocents, can extricate themselves from the system. It's usually with an attorney, and a plead of No Contest, or argued down to Guilty of a lesser offense. The truth does not matter. Cops will perjure themselves left and right in an arrest report, knowing that they have immunity.
This is why I videotape them whenever I see them doing anything. Hence, they hate me for asserting my rights.
Yes, I actually do travel through space, AND through time. My choice in travel along x, y, & z, axes is on the whole, pretty much up to me.
But I am also a time traveler!! But, alas, I have a constant velocity along the axis (or arrow) of time. I can change that only slightly, by dilation during near-space orbiting, or even barely detectable through extensive long-haul airline travel. For all my efforts, I can, from my frame of reference, only dilate time – never shorten it.
The annoying part isn't that Microsoft would try to advertise on your own lock screen. No, the moment we heard that Windows 10 was announced as a free upgrade, we all knew they'd eventually stoop to this level. The annoying part is how they refer to it in their settings.
I had figured it was a way for MS to avoid losing faulty-product lawsuits when poeple would use Win 10 to run something expensive or large.
No Consideration means no Contract. Hey, wait a minute! Does that mean also that there can be no enforceable EULA, either?
The limiter in space communications, and in the space-sail-propulsion application, is diffraction. Don't think additive diffraction, as in crystallography, but the basic mechanism.
Waves diffract (change path) when they pass near the edge of an aperture. This is how nature works.
You might tightly collimate your beam, but the more you do so, the greater the 'spread' of the beam over long distances. For reference, see The Opticks, by I. Newton. (I hope you can read Latin!)
... Games had to reduce the amount of volatile data they stored to fit into that, often using a single seed number to procedurally generate levels, for example....
Did the 2600 have a clock, as in 'clock time from boot-up'?
Even with millisecond precision, no one could beat it. I used it all the time to seed procedurally generated game maps and other graphics or sound when programming games in BASIC back in 1985-8.
In other words, flatten out a box. Euclidian. Topologically, each face just warps to another.
Recall, for example, that this is similar to the case in Asteroids. Topologically, the playing field was just a flattened-out toroid. That is, mapped to a Euclidian (Cartesian) visual representation.
... People don't give inexperienced 24 year-olds 30 million dollars to spend because you don't expect someone like that to have the maturity to say "no"....
So, $35M for rights, and $20-30M for Marketing.
I wonder how much money above his salary (overtime, bonus) that he was paid to attempt the impossible. HE did not have control of the ~$50M. Oh no. He was just tasked with creating the product. He slaved on it for every conscious moment during those few weeks.
8 kB of code people. That's like a 6-page essay (compiled).
What Genius MBA thought that it was wise to spend less than 0.1% of budget on creating the actual product, and >99.9% of budget on rights and marketing?
Why can't the FBI reverse engineer the OS binary, disable the 10 strikes, and install the new OS image on the phone? If the image needs a digital signature, they could brute-force that, install the OS, then brute force the passcode. As long as the FBI is willing to brute-force the one, they ought to be able to brute-force the other, right?
The PRIMARY CORE issue is that the FBI wants Apple to do their work for them, by court order, and without compensation.
The SECONDARY CORE issue is that an acquiescence by Apple to this illegal order would set a precedent. That is, individual privacy would die. In other words, it would gut the 4th Amendment Right of US Citizens (because a known backdoor could potentially be used extra-judicially).
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It has already happened.
I think at this point we can claim criminal negligence.
The University of California Health System mandated that all physicians use a computer-interface to record everything about the provider-patient interaction. This turns MD's into data-entry monkeys. I've talked to many MD's in the system, and they all agree that it detracts from the time that they can spend actually interacting with the patient. They all hate it.
Oh, and get this, this system originally ran on Win XP (2-3 years ago). When was that EOL'ed? Of course, it was breached within a year. I moved to a GP who keeps everything on paper. Yes, huge manila folders full of prior notes, results, and diagnoses. No computer files, aside from the bare minimum mandated by state law (for Rx, etc.).
I know that my own medical records are my own property, and periodically demand photocopies of every intervening period be made, and physically mailed to me. That is my right, YOUR RIGHT, and everyone else's (in the US).
Try to hack that! Unless you break into my home (I'm not that important), then such files remain private.
Relational databases are wonderful things. Just don't connect them to the internet!!!
Digital Trust already does not exist.
The FIVE biggest breaches — Anthem Health care, U-CA Health System, US-OPM (security clearance applications), the IRS, and again the US-OPM (fingerprints this time), have ALL affected me. There is nothing else to be breached.
Oh, wait, aren't the Credit-score Reporting Agencies well-known for happily reporting false data in peoples' Credit Reports? (HINT: Yes.)
The game is already over.
The proposed solution, as suggested by the study, is for us to release even more personal information, relying on the one thing that we can never-ever change – our DNA. Are you gonna prick my finger and run a PCR on my identity every time I withdraw cash from an ATM? Oh, oops, my DNA will be left in finger-oil residues on those anonymous cash bills when I spend them.
Uhm, GATTACA – no thank you.
For once, these hacktivists did something useful
So when they fought child pornography, animal abuse, religious harassment, exposed war crimes and private espionage against people (global intelligence files), they were not doing anything useful?
Impressive.
For those that cannot tell, #zedaroca was using sarcasm in his/her post.
I totally agree with the point. The bastards who are PAID BY OUR OWN TAX DOLLARS to uphold the law are routinely breaking it with impunity. These small-scale doxxes should be a daily occurrence, in addition to the periodic large-scale releases that fight greater evils.
Wrong and wrong. There is no evidence that Apple would not be compensated. And the FBI cannot do this themselves without Apples signing key. Of course, you are an armchair nerd on /. so we are supposed to pretend that you are not tech illiterate and lack basic reading comprehension
See all subsequent articles, including today's statement from the head Attorney at Apple.
A Court Order means you have to do something. There is no negotiation, or thought of, compensation.
It would set a dangerous precedent, as we've already seen with the 12 (and more) demands from FBI to decrypt iPhones. DEMANDS, not requests with negotiations for compensation.
Last, you used double-reverse logic. "There is no evidence that Apple would not be compensated." Well, there is also NO EVIDENCE that the universe was not created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's impossible to prove a negative assertion.
Oh, my armchair is quite comfortable. So is having a PhD, tons of publications, tons of Patents, two businesses, and a position at a top-10 University. Where is your mother's basement located?
"The Tree of Liberty must occasionally be watered with the blood of Patriots." --- T. Jefferson
In Switzerland, males are required to own guns. It is ammunition that is highly regulated.
If a Swiss opens that tuna-can containing ammunition, he will be in very serious trouble if it was not at the order of his government.
* Info from several Swiss friends. Also, I am Swiss.
Do not respond to this post.
DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS.
All well said, except for one thing: Trump has ZERO public-service record. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT HE WOULD ACTUALLY DO IF ELECTED PRESIDENT.
Bernie walks the walk, and has for 45+ years. He does not wear it on his sleeve, but has simply fought for what he thinks is right, and for a VERY LONG period of public service.
This is the critical difference. Trump's actual decisions are utterly unpredictable. Well, aside from starting WW-III within a month...
If they expect CIO-level work, but don't compensate you adequately, you should return the favor.
Plant plenty of 'Easter Eggs' or 'forget various passwords'. Then leave without any notice. Not a 2-week notice, but a 4:59 pm immediate resignation. Leave at 5:00 pm. They have one minute to respond. Fair is fair.
OK, so planting back-doors or bombs is illegal, but 'forgetting' important Sysadmin-level passwords can be chalked-up to the fallibility of human memory. How many passwords are you expected to have memorized? Maybe you fell down in your living room, and have lost some memory. And, as a responsible SysAdmin, you NEVER write passwords down... Right?
They will not sue you. Oh no. That does not jog anyone's memory. They will suffer great losses due to lack of access to their own systems and data. They will then hire you on as a 'Consultant' at triple or more your previous rate.
This is not new. For example, plumbers who do the pipe-work of new factories have often scrambled pipes as they transit walls. It's called job security. Such individuals are the only ones who can 'figure out' how the heck all of the pipes connect. It takes significant incentives to convince someone (the ONLY one who can help) out of retirement. "Hey, I'm enjoying my grand-kids. I'm retired. Lump-sum up-front before I do anything."
It is a very old trick, done by electricians, plumbers, gas-handling-system installers, and so on...
Computers in every classroom!
Yeah, OK. $20 each for Raspberry Pi's that can run Ubuntu Linux. No need for full laptops & the "Microsoft Tax."
And really, to actually teach computer fundamentals, the kids should start with a blank screen with only a green blinking cursor. Not because WE all did it that way, but because that is how one learns the basic principles.
Similarly, Calculus. It is best taught with pencils and paper. Lots of both. No computers allowed. The point is to understand the underlying concepts, so that when you plug in something from StackExchange (or any code-sharing repository), you actually have a clue as to how it should be operating.
FTA:
So what is your salary, including bonuses and deferred compensation, Mr. O'Neill? WTF do you do that is so valuable?
*crickets*
H-1Bs were not created to serve this "but smart people are expensive!" purpose. He said it out loud that his company is abusing the H-1B Visa process. He also invited criticism of his own compensation, as well as every other C-level's compensation.
Someone needs to do some digging.
Private company loses your data, you stop doing business with them. IRS loses your data, fuck you.
Private company negligent with your data, private company gets sued and maybe criminally charged. IRS negligent with your data, fuck you. IRS workers keep their jobs, no one faces any consequences. Except you. Because fuck you.
It's called "Sovereign Immunity."
You can't sue the IRS, or any part of your US Government, except under way-out-there circumstances (which this dumb breach is unlikely to meet – IANAL).
If we give them a back door to all iPhones that won't get stolen from government servers, you have their word on it.
If you have been arrested, and are temporarily in the local City jail – rightly or wrongly – you have no way to trigger the "nuke my iPhone's memory" via "Find My iPhone" on the iCloud website (.Mac website).
You get a phone call, but only after cops have held you for as long as legally possible. They will then ask if you would like to make a phone call.
"Yes, I want to call my attorney/partner/anyone", you say.
Cop response: "OK, so what's the phone number?"
You respond, "It's on my cell phone—no one memorizes phone numbers these days."
Cop response: "Your cell phone is secured as evidence, and is unavailable to you. If you cannot recall the phone number that you wish to call, then you are SOL."
Then under their breath, the cops add, "Hahaha, I have an IQ of less than 110 – more like 95 – but I have power over you, you collared-shirt-wearing educated (and therefore snobby) perp."
This is how it works. The law lags very far behind reality. And enforcement of The Law... oh boy! DO NOT mention a recent US Supreme Court decision on a demand that a cop is illegally trying to make. They do not not like that. They do not like having to follow any laws.
DON'T ever touch your car—they will steal it.
DON'T say "No" directly, but say so in effect. If you are not 'in control of a car' (touching it counts), you have no obligation to show any identification papers.
Cops have one goal only—get arrests to close cases and get their raises. They do not care that the Court Process in the US is the only way any person, even innocents, can extricate themselves from the system. It's usually with an attorney, and a plead of No Contest, or argued down to Guilty of a lesser offense. The truth does not matter. Cops will perjure themselves left and right in an arrest report, knowing that they have immunity.
This is why I videotape them whenever I see them doing anything. Hence, they hate me for asserting my rights.
You mean you travel trough space and time?
Yes, I actually do travel through space, AND through time. My choice in travel along x, y, & z, axes is on the whole, pretty much up to me.
But I am also a time traveler!! But, alas, I have a constant velocity along the axis (or arrow) of time. I can change that only slightly, by dilation during near-space orbiting, or even barely detectable through extensive long-haul airline travel. For all my efforts, I can, from my frame of reference, only dilate time – never shorten it.
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Alas, no one here seems to know their Arthur C. Clarke.
Pity.
The annoying part isn't that Microsoft would try to advertise on your own lock screen. No, the moment we heard that Windows 10 was announced as a free upgrade, we all knew they'd eventually stoop to this level. The annoying part is how they refer to it in their settings.
I had figured it was a way for MS to avoid losing faulty-product lawsuits when poeple would use Win 10 to run something expensive or large.
No Consideration means no Contract. Hey, wait a minute! Does that mean also that there can be no enforceable EULA, either?
So, this is neat and all... but where does it go next?
They build Comarre.
The limiter in space communications, and in the space-sail-propulsion application, is diffraction. Don't think additive diffraction, as in crystallography, but the basic mechanism.
Waves diffract (change path) when they pass near the edge of an aperture. This is how nature works.
You might tightly collimate your beam, but the more you do so, the greater the 'spread' of the beam over long distances. For reference, see The Opticks, by I. Newton. (I hope you can read Latin!)
... Games had to reduce the amount of volatile data they stored to fit into that, often using a single seed number to procedurally generate levels, for example. ...
Did the 2600 have a clock, as in 'clock time from boot-up'?
Even with millisecond precision, no one could beat it. I used it all the time to seed procedurally generated game maps and other graphics or sound when programming games in BASIC back in 1985-8.
In other words, flatten out a box. Euclidian. Topologically, each face just warps to another.
Recall, for example, that this is similar to the case in Asteroids. Topologically, the playing field was just a flattened-out toroid. That is, mapped to a Euclidian (Cartesian) visual representation.
OK, math nerds, destroy me now, too.
I think you mean Tank Wars, not Battlezone.
Breakout was a nice interweaving of the two capabilities of the hardware. (Moving paddle and collision-detection).
... People don't give inexperienced 24 year-olds 30 million dollars to spend because you don't expect someone like that to have the maturity to say "no". ...
So, $35M for rights, and $20-30M for Marketing.
I wonder how much money above his salary (overtime, bonus) that he was paid to attempt the impossible. HE did not have control of the ~$50M. Oh no. He was just tasked with creating the product. He slaved on it for every conscious moment during those few weeks.
8 kB of code people. That's like a 6-page essay (compiled).
What Genius MBA thought that it was wise to spend less than 0.1% of budget on creating the actual product, and >99.9% of budget on rights and marketing?
Why can't the FBI reverse engineer the OS binary, disable the 10 strikes, and install the new OS image on the phone? If the image needs a digital signature, they could brute-force that, install the OS, then brute force the passcode. As long as the FBI is willing to brute-force the one, they ought to be able to brute-force the other, right?
The PRIMARY CORE issue is that the FBI wants Apple to do their work for them, by court order, and without compensation.
The SECONDARY CORE issue is that an acquiescence by Apple to this illegal order would set a precedent. That is, individual privacy would die. In other words, it would gut the 4th Amendment Right of US Citizens (because a known backdoor could potentially be used extra-judicially).
" In a survey that reached 1,000 respondents by phone over the weekend"
That pretty much ended it for me too.
Ended earlier than that for me. I'll emphasize the important double-speak below:
"In a survey that reached 1,000 respondents by phone..."
900 of those people just hung up the phone. Or, perhaps they responded with, "Put me on your do not call list!", and then hung up.
Either way, all of them 'responded' when they answered the phone...