Worse, try writing "[Candidate 2016]" with sidewalk chalk on a sidewalk in a public place (that normally encourages free expression) and the local authorities may check surveillance camera footage so they can harass you.
"User after free" is now a common vulnerability term that refers to vulnerabilities that referencing memory after it has been freed, which can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code. It's pretty common in C and C++ applications. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html
It might not be smart to quit if, while employed, they are under Apple's umbrella of legal protection. Alone in the wild, could employees with knowledge on how to crack the phone* be pressured to crack the phones?
* = "Hey, remember when Apple said phones couldn't be cracked? Ha, good times, good times. (cries in beer)"
$200? Why bother with the paperwork? Only, now there will be more paperwork, as the state spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement the program and add the little checkbox to a form somewhere.
My real take is even more cynical: this will be sold to the public as "$200 for independent open source software developers" but the final version will have a mysterious change in it that allows corporations with thousands of machines running some little piece of open source code to take a couple of million-dollar tax credits for "contributing to open source". In fact, the presser the politicians put out is little more than a sales brochure: "I'm offering up a tax credit for open source contributors (wink wink) - please contact my office (write a big check) if you want to know more (get in on the tax break for your company)."
>>>> Mars has like.6 the atmosphere of Earth >> you might want to check again
I believe the poster meant: "The highest atmospheric density on Mars is equal to that found 35 km (22 mi) above Earth's surface. The resulting mean surface pressure is only 0.6% of that of Earth (101.3 kPa)."
>> He will ask government to subsidy his food, so that he can distribute it to the unemployed people.
You might think you are joking, but this is already a thing. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/09/fast-food-chains-getting-into-the-food-stamp-act/
The Microsoft development community and open source are doing just fine these days. Nuget and git have changed the world - especially in corporate Microsoft shops.
>> signed into law a provision to forbid the cops from using these raids to attack politicians >> police state is coming and both the Republicans and the Democrats can't wait for it to get here
Well...which is it? In Wisconsin, you had a Democrat district attorney try to punish Republican political supporters for legally supporting Republicans in a political arena. (Fortunately courts at multiple levels essentially said the DA was on a rouge witchhunt but stopped short of tossing him in jail.) That's a chilling police state if there ever was one: support the wrong party and go to jail, lose your house, and pay tens of thousands of dollars of legal fees.
In response, the state passed a bunch of reforms, one of which is that if you're going to investigate a political crime (e.g., misuse of funds), you have to use a normal criminal process, not a secret (called "John Doe" in Wisconsin) multi-year process in which one prosecutor can (and without judicial supervision) seize the records and property of anyone he/she wants without ever specifying what crime he/she is trying to prove.
>> Republican Scott Walker and his Republican Cop Cronies in the WI Congress changing the laws for themselves only
The reforms don't just benefit Republicans operating in Democrat-controlled counties, they also return the rule of law to Republican-controlled counties. In other words, a right-wing DA in upstate county X can no longer start an open-ended "John Doe" investigation to hassle the peace protesters his buddies hate to see at the Memorial Day parade. (If you're for open government and an open court system, you should be FOR Walker's reforms.)
>> widespread awareness of mass surveillance could undermine democracy by making citizens fearful of voicing dissenting opinions in public
That's part of it, but the bigger part is that many people see how something stupid or controversial someone says now could bite them in the ass twenty years from now. That exact thing is playing out now with a state supreme court justice in Wisconsin (http://www.jsonline.com/news/rebecca-bradley-called-gays-queers-who-opted-to-kill-themselves-b99682686z1-371276861.html), but I think it will probably be 10x bigger in ten years when even more people's careers or positions in their communities get torpedoed by drunk/ignorant comments they put on Facebook before they grew up.
That plays out into political speech too - I'd say MOST people are afraid to sign their name to their beliefs today, not because they don't want to be challenged, but because someone could try to nuke them for speaking their mind down the road. (e.g., http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/04/mozilla-ceo-resignation-free-speech/7328759/ or http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417155/wisonsins-shame-i-thought-it-was-home-invasion-david-french)
FWIW, it's also part of the reason for Trump's popularity - I think a lot of his supporters remember a time when you could speak your mind without getting fired/sued/ruined because someone thought you were "microaggressing" or not supporting the right cause at the right time, and they identify with him as a politically incorrect old schooler.
1) Back 'em up. 2) Keep the backups safe and secure.
This is pretty much settled science for anyone who's worked in a real IT shop. The fact you're even asking it makes me wonder if you even know what things like safety deposit boxes and encrypted USB drives are.
And still my friends and relatives wonder why one of the first things I do when I "clean their computer" is delete crap like McAfee, Norton or whatever other third-party AV suckerware is living on their machines.
>> we're still relying on commercial parties to "verify identity"...it doesn't scale
Actually, it DOES scale, which is generally why HTTPS (used to provide "one-way" authentication of server identity) thrives on top of its CA-signed X.509 certificates.(As opposed to a point-to-point world in which each user would have to individually trust the credential of every site they visited, like most SSH or PGP implementations.)
Better link to "other sites" report: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/https/grid/?hl=en
Notice that Apple, Bing and Microsoft are all knocked for NOT running a "Modern TLS Config" and NOT using HTTPS by default. (I actually had to check that for myself - it was hard to believe that major companies are still NOT doing HTTPS by default - I enforce this even on my little podunk sites - but it was true!)
>> your link [dhs.gov] does not say what you think it does.
At that site I read that "You can continue to use your license to fly in the U.S." only applies to people whose licenses are from certain states once the years 2018 and 2020 hit. That's the focus of the graphic on the top of that page.
Even before that, people from "bad" states like IL and others are already using their passports to get onto federal installations (e.g., military bases), so I'd imagine that passports (which many travellers already own) will become the favored domestic ID, although other federal IDs will likely be acceptable. (See "Appendix B" of: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/isc-real-id-guide-august-2015-508_0.pdf for a list of "acceptable" IDs already being used.)
>> There are only a couple of States who have license that don't qualify.
The states affected in 2018 include 10.9% of the US population: Illinois (4.4%), Minnesota (1.8%), Missouri (2%), New Mexico (0.6%) and Washington (2.1%).
However, in 2020 that jumps to 67.7% of the US population (56.8% more) with these states: Alaska (0.2%), Arizona (1.9%), Arkansas (1%), California (12.1%), Idaho (0.5%), Kentucky (1.4%), Louisiana (1.6%), Massachusetts (2.2%), Maine (0.4%), Michigan (3.5%), Montana (0.3%), North Carolina (2.9%), North Dakota (0.2%), New Hampshire (0.4%), New Jersey (3%), New York (6.7%), Oklahoma (1.2%), Oregon (1.2%), Pennsylvania (4.3%), Rhode Island (0.4%), South Carolina (1.4%), Texas (7.5%) and Virginia (2.5%).
>> Apple: The court must consider the national debate surrounding the issue
I'm not sure Apple understands how courts work then, or they're grasping at straws. (Ideally, courts work off of law, legal precedent, etc. and they don't just listen to the "mob on the street"; that's a key differentiator between a "nation of laws" and dictatorships.)
>> I no longer have access to the advise of the human that I think is smarter than the rest of them
I don't think you realize that UBS is actually doing you a service. Every time I worked with human financial advisers in the past they found ways to shave off a little here and there for themselves or their banks with transaction fees, fund sales, etc. Now that I have enough money to qualify for financial advice (at UBS and elsewhere) I only invest in a self-directed manner via brokers with minimal fees and in funds with minimal loads (e.g., Vanguard). Like the guy in the car rental commercials, "You don't have to talk to a human, unless you want to, which I don't."
In related news, I-94 outside of Milwaukee will be shut down late Friday night to allow bridge construction to continue. Seriously though, infrastructure breaks down and needs major repairs from time to time, so why is this news to the point of causing the Washington Post to whine about some repairs as a "national embarrassment." (Believe me - no one outside of DC cares one bit about this story.)
How does this compare with the USA's "Real ID" project, which will essentially require a passport or federally-approved ID (no more drivers' licenses) to travel domestically by 2020.
To pile on, it's worth mentioning that Obama also started a war on whistleblowers.
"On his watch, there have been eight prosecutions under the 1917 Espionage Act – more than double those under all previous presidents combined." http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning
>> hacking groups working at the behest of China's government
But...it's for the communist Chinese government (the evil "ChiComs!!!"), because they what? Hate businesses? Need money? Isn't it more likely that ransom software that delivers money to specific criminals is being used by...mere criminals?
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Worse, try writing "[Candidate 2016]" with sidewalk chalk on a sidewalk in a public place (that normally encourages free expression) and the local authorities may check surveillance camera footage so they can harass you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/03/24/someone-wrote-trump-2016-on-emorys-campus-in-chalk-some-students-said-they-no-longer-feel-safe/
(Hint: it's nothing this technology can fix.)
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"User after free" is now a common vulnerability term that refers to vulnerabilities that referencing memory after it has been freed, which can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code. It's pretty common in C and C++ applications.
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html
It might not be smart to quit if, while employed, they are under Apple's umbrella of legal protection. Alone in the wild, could employees with knowledge on how to crack the phone* be pressured to crack the phones?
* = "Hey, remember when Apple said phones couldn't be cracked? Ha, good times, good times. (cries in beer)"
$200? Why bother with the paperwork? Only, now there will be more paperwork, as the state spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement the program and add the little checkbox to a form somewhere.
My real take is even more cynical: this will be sold to the public as "$200 for independent open source software developers" but the final version will have a mysterious change in it that allows corporations with thousands of machines running some little piece of open source code to take a couple of million-dollar tax credits for "contributing to open source". In fact, the presser the politicians put out is little more than a sales brochure: "I'm offering up a tax credit for open source contributors (wink wink) - please contact my office (write a big check) if you want to know more (get in on the tax break for your company)."
>>>> Mars has like .6 the atmosphere of Earth
>> you might want to check again
I believe the poster meant: "The highest atmospheric density on Mars is equal to that found 35 km (22 mi) above Earth's surface. The resulting mean surface pressure is only 0.6% of that of Earth (101.3 kPa)."
It's only part of the meatbag that counts in this game. The first penis on Mars must be a American penis, or the terrorists have won.
>> may take people to Mars quicker
Slowing down to catch the planet, getting back off the planet, and returning back to earth would all seem to be bigger problems.
>> He will ask government to subsidy his food, so that he can distribute it to the unemployed people.
You might think you are joking, but this is already a thing.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/09/fast-food-chains-getting-into-the-food-stamp-act/
The Microsoft development community and open source are doing just fine these days. Nuget and git have changed the world - especially in corporate Microsoft shops.
>> signed into law a provision to forbid the cops from using these raids to attack politicians
>> police state is coming and both the Republicans and the Democrats can't wait for it to get here
Well...which is it? In Wisconsin, you had a Democrat district attorney try to punish Republican political supporters for legally supporting Republicans in a political arena. (Fortunately courts at multiple levels essentially said the DA was on a rouge witchhunt but stopped short of tossing him in jail.) That's a chilling police state if there ever was one: support the wrong party and go to jail, lose your house, and pay tens of thousands of dollars of legal fees.
In response, the state passed a bunch of reforms, one of which is that if you're going to investigate a political crime (e.g., misuse of funds), you have to use a normal criminal process, not a secret (called "John Doe" in Wisconsin) multi-year process in which one prosecutor can (and without judicial supervision) seize the records and property of anyone he/she wants without ever specifying what crime he/she is trying to prove.
>> Republican Scott Walker and his Republican Cop Cronies in the WI Congress changing the laws for themselves only
The reforms don't just benefit Republicans operating in Democrat-controlled counties, they also return the rule of law to Republican-controlled counties. In other words, a right-wing DA in upstate county X can no longer start an open-ended "John Doe" investigation to hassle the peace protesters his buddies hate to see at the Memorial Day parade. (If you're for open government and an open court system, you should be FOR Walker's reforms.)
>> widespread awareness of mass surveillance could undermine democracy by making citizens fearful of voicing dissenting opinions in public
That's part of it, but the bigger part is that many people see how something stupid or controversial someone says now could bite them in the ass twenty years from now. That exact thing is playing out now with a state supreme court justice in Wisconsin (http://www.jsonline.com/news/rebecca-bradley-called-gays-queers-who-opted-to-kill-themselves-b99682686z1-371276861.html), but I think it will probably be 10x bigger in ten years when even more people's careers or positions in their communities get torpedoed by drunk/ignorant comments they put on Facebook before they grew up.
That plays out into political speech too - I'd say MOST people are afraid to sign their name to their beliefs today, not because they don't want to be challenged, but because someone could try to nuke them for speaking their mind down the road. (e.g., http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/04/mozilla-ceo-resignation-free-speech/7328759/ or http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417155/wisonsins-shame-i-thought-it-was-home-invasion-david-french)
FWIW, it's also part of the reason for Trump's popularity - I think a lot of his supporters remember a time when you could speak your mind without getting fired/sued/ruined because someone thought you were "microaggressing" or not supporting the right cause at the right time, and they identify with him as a politically incorrect old schooler.
1) Back 'em up.
2) Keep the backups safe and secure.
This is pretty much settled science for anyone who's worked in a real IT shop. The fact you're even asking it makes me wonder if you even know what things like safety deposit boxes and encrypted USB drives are.
And still my friends and relatives wonder why one of the first things I do when I "clean their computer" is delete crap like McAfee, Norton or whatever other third-party AV suckerware is living on their machines.
>> we're still relying on commercial parties to "verify identity"...it doesn't scale
Actually, it DOES scale, which is generally why HTTPS (used to provide "one-way" authentication of server identity) thrives on top of its CA-signed X.509 certificates.(As opposed to a point-to-point world in which each user would have to individually trust the credential of every site they visited, like most SSH or PGP implementations.)
Better link to "other sites" report: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/https/grid/?hl=en
Notice that Apple, Bing and Microsoft are all knocked for NOT running a "Modern TLS Config" and NOT using HTTPS by default. (I actually had to check that for myself - it was hard to believe that major companies are still NOT doing HTTPS by default - I enforce this even on my little podunk sites - but it was true!)
>> your link [dhs.gov] does not say what you think it does.
At that site I read that "You can continue to use your license to fly in the U.S." only applies to people whose licenses are from certain states once the years 2018 and 2020 hit. That's the focus of the graphic on the top of that page.
Even before that, people from "bad" states like IL and others are already using their passports to get onto federal installations (e.g., military bases), so I'd imagine that passports (which many travellers already own) will become the favored domestic ID, although other federal IDs will likely be acceptable. (See "Appendix B" of: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/isc-real-id-guide-august-2015-508_0.pdf for a list of "acceptable" IDs already being used.)
What do you think I misinterpreted?
>> There are only a couple of States who have license that don't qualify.
The states affected in 2018 include 10.9% of the US population: Illinois (4.4%), Minnesota (1.8%), Missouri (2%), New Mexico (0.6%) and Washington (2.1%).
However, in 2020 that jumps to 67.7% of the US population (56.8% more) with these states: Alaska (0.2%), Arizona (1.9%), Arkansas (1%), California (12.1%), Idaho (0.5%), Kentucky (1.4%), Louisiana (1.6%), Massachusetts (2.2%), Maine (0.4%), Michigan (3.5%), Montana (0.3%), North Carolina (2.9%), North Dakota (0.2%), New Hampshire (0.4%), New Jersey (3%), New York (6.7%), Oklahoma (1.2%), Oregon (1.2%), Pennsylvania (4.3%), Rhode Island (0.4%), South Carolina (1.4%), Texas (7.5%) and Virginia (2.5%).
That's bigger than "a couple" my friend!
>> Apple: The court must consider the national debate surrounding the issue
I'm not sure Apple understands how courts work then, or they're grasping at straws. (Ideally, courts work off of law, legal precedent, etc. and they don't just listen to the "mob on the street"; that's a key differentiator between a "nation of laws" and dictatorships.)
>> I no longer have access to the advise of the human that I think is smarter than the rest of them
I don't think you realize that UBS is actually doing you a service. Every time I worked with human financial advisers in the past they found ways to shave off a little here and there for themselves or their banks with transaction fees, fund sales, etc. Now that I have enough money to qualify for financial advice (at UBS and elsewhere) I only invest in a self-directed manner via brokers with minimal fees and in funds with minimal loads (e.g., Vanguard). Like the guy in the car rental commercials, "You don't have to talk to a human, unless you want to, which I don't."
>> LOL, ranchers?
Didn't you ever wonder what's in a bottle of "Ranch" dressing?
In related news, I-94 outside of Milwaukee will be shut down late Friday night to allow bridge construction to continue. Seriously though, infrastructure breaks down and needs major repairs from time to time, so why is this news to the point of causing the Washington Post to whine about some repairs as a "national embarrassment." (Believe me - no one outside of DC cares one bit about this story.)
How does this compare with the USA's "Real ID" project, which will essentially require a passport or federally-approved ID (no more drivers' licenses) to travel domestically by 2020.
https://www.dhs.gov/real-id-and-you-rumor-control
To pile on, it's worth mentioning that Obama also started a war on whistleblowers.
"On his watch, there have been eight prosecutions under the 1917 Espionage Act – more than double those under all previous presidents combined."
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning
>> ransomware attacks against U.S. companies
OK...so they get cash money for being a nuisance.
>> hacking groups working at the behest of China's government
But...it's for the communist Chinese government (the evil "ChiComs!!!"), because they what? Hate businesses? Need money? Isn't it more likely that ransom software that delivers money to specific criminals is being used by...mere criminals?