I don't think it was terrorists. No terrorism occurred.
Of course if I were looking to do something in the future, I'd probably want to see response times and methods before really sticking my neck out. That would be the case for an attack or just regular old theft. Most likely this is not the case but hopefully those in charge are keeping something like that in mind.
...In my youth without prompting I did well over 1k hours of community service...
So what did you actually do? That's the one part that isn't really clear from this whole thing. What is considered community service? Picking up garbage, cleaning up graffiti, or helping with the disabled would certainly be useful. Is that really what's going to happen though?
That's cool, but I think having the book on your desk can do more to get other people to read it than pointing them to a web site. Logical or not the people who should read his stuff will be more inclined to believe a book though from experience the people who should read the essays, won't.
Government, and indeed any business, IT people and developers should have processes in place to be checking for these types of issues anyway, regardless if the software is "open" or "closed". It just makes sense that if you are going to depend on it for your success/failure. This should also include watching for maintenance updates and bug fixes. Watching the Security Focus Linux and MS lists shows similar numbers of discovered exploits. In a lot of cases the same tool has the same exploit on any platform on which is installed. Bottom line, decisions should be made on what the software can do for you and how well it's built, not on whether it's open source or not.
Day of Defeat is a great WWII mod for half-life. It's easy enough grasp the game play and to pop on for a while and servers are starting use cheating death or other software to crack down on cheaters.
I also like Americas Army, but it requires you to pass some training and sign up before you can get online. However because of that and the experience point system it uses, there is a lot less morons team killing for the fun of it like you see in DOD or counter strike.
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I don't think it was terrorists. No terrorism occurred.
Of course if I were looking to do something in the future, I'd probably want to see response times and methods before really sticking my neck out. That would be the case for an attack or just regular old theft. Most likely this is not the case but hopefully those in charge are keeping something like that in mind.
...In my youth without prompting I did well over 1k hours of community service...
So what did you actually do? That's the one part that isn't really clear from this whole thing. What is considered community service? Picking up garbage, cleaning up graffiti, or helping with the disabled would certainly be useful. Is that really what's going to happen though?
That's cool, but I think having the book on your desk can do more to get other people to read it than pointing them to a web site. Logical or not the people who should read his stuff will be more inclined to believe a book though from experience the people who should read the essays, won't.
Government, and indeed any business, IT people and developers should have processes in place to be checking for these types of issues anyway, regardless if the software is "open" or "closed". It just makes sense that if you are going to depend on it for your success/failure. This should also include watching for maintenance updates and bug fixes. Watching the Security Focus Linux and MS lists shows similar numbers of discovered exploits. In a lot of cases the same tool has the same exploit on any platform on which is installed. Bottom line, decisions should be made on what the software can do for you and how well it's built, not on whether it's open source or not.
Day of Defeat is a great WWII mod for half-life. It's easy enough grasp the game play and to pop on for a while and servers are starting use cheating death or other software to crack down on cheaters. I also like Americas Army, but it requires you to pass some training and sign up before you can get online. However because of that and the experience point system it uses, there is a lot less morons team killing for the fun of it like you see in DOD or counter strike.