Well, I'm going to be benefit since it will help me get the CEO to take internet security a bit more seriously and move it up the priority list before rolling out new Web-based features that interface with internal systems. I suspect I'm not the only one.
The ultimate in relativism. "We can't be bothered to think about the nuances of good and bad, everyone is flawed, we'll tear everything down nah-nah-nah-I-can't-hear-you".
A pathetic justification for intellectual laziness.
The point is clearly that no system connected to the internet is secure, and that it can be cracked given enough skills.
That would have been the point if there was any evidence that they had used particularly sophisticated attacks. The actual point seems to be that quite a few systems are secured in a fairly amateurish way and still subject to SQL injection, for example.
The assumption in this piece is that Apple will be collecting very granular information about the exact audio file - such as the MD5 hashes of the files. As the author points out, these types of hashes are no good for identifying the music, since they are unique to each rip. So unless Apple is collecting that information deliberately to help the RIAA, I can't see why they would collect it. In fact, if I were them, I would make sure that I didn't.
The 'point' of Apple's cloud implementation is to allow inter client syncing and messaging. The syncing is tightly intergrated into various apps and OS services. I'm not surprised XP is excluded. is Apple even supporting OS X 10.5
Let me see. Flash support or free seamless contact, calendar, document, photo sharing and backup across all my devices? Yes you're right. It changes nothing.
It will be blocked tomorrow when the tool checks for new definitions.
That's the interesting question, isn't it - the extent to which Apple has committed the resources to block malware effectively on a daily basis. It'll be interesting to see whether they can nip things in the bud sufficiently to dissuade the bad guys.
Indeed, I waded though The Emperors New Mind when it was first published and was very disappointed. As far as I could tell, the argument was something along the lines of "consciousness is mysterious and complex and hopefully non-deterministic. Quantum effects are mysterious and complex and non deterministic. Consciousness is probably a quantum-based phenomenon then".
So I went back to reading Dennett and Hoftstadter.
You know what, the hard disk in this PC I'm using records *every piece* of personal data that I produce on it, documents, spreadsheets - the lot. It even records some passwords. That's bad right? As far as I know, the data isn't being sent to HP, but do you think I should format the drive every day?
I'm all ears, in what way is the fact that Apple locally caches cellphone tower and WiFi location data on a device in anyway connected to its policy of operating a tightly curated app-store and locking down the device?
The Mac group weren't incompetent either. They were linux fanatics and they actually use Linux as their work machines.
And I suspect this was precisely the issue. In my experience Linux experts who try to admin Macs quite often break things in ingenious ways. It's not their fault; the underpinnings of OS X look misleadingly similar to Linux when viewed from a terminal - 'look all the familiar directories are there' and many of the familiar tools. But these are traps for the unwary. OS X does things its own way and trying to admin via the CLI using a system that looks superficially similar, rather than going the 'Mac way' tends to end up with the system horribly borken.
FWIW, I run the free Sophos product on my Mac, partly because I have rather high regard for Sophos, partly because it adhere's to the hypocratic oath and 'does no harm' in that it appears to soak up very few system resources.
And you never know - one day it may find something.
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Well, I'm going to be benefit since it will help me get the CEO to take internet security a bit more seriously and move it up the priority list before rolling out new Web-based features that interface with internal systems. I suspect I'm not the only one.
The ultimate in relativism. "We can't be bothered to think about the nuances of good and bad, everyone is flawed, we'll tear everything down nah-nah-nah-I-can't-hear-you".
A pathetic justification for intellectual laziness.
That would have been the point if there was any evidence that they had used particularly sophisticated attacks. The actual point seems to be that quite a few systems are secured in a fairly amateurish way and still subject to SQL injection, for example.
And is the response to the threat of a 9/11-style attack to be terrified, or concerned?
The assumption in this piece is that Apple will be collecting very granular information about the exact audio file - such as the MD5 hashes of the files. As the author points out, these types of hashes are no good for identifying the music, since they are unique to each rip. So unless Apple is collecting that information deliberately to help the RIAA, I can't see why they would collect it. In fact, if I were them, I would make sure that I didn't.
Seems to me as if Bill Moyers was "borrowing" rather heavily from Lord Northcliffe's quote of around 100 years ago:
“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.”
Next week: Why depositing all the salt in the oceans on land will have no discernible effect on ecosystems.
The 'point' of Apple's cloud implementation is to allow inter client syncing and messaging. The syncing is tightly intergrated into various apps and OS services. I'm not surprised XP is excluded. is Apple even supporting OS X 10.5
Let me see. Flash support or free seamless contact, calendar, document, photo sharing and backup across all my devices? Yes you're right. It changes nothing.
I get bloody sick of BBC Radio programmes continually plugging Twitter and Facebook as the primary means to contact them.
That's the interesting question, isn't it - the extent to which Apple has committed the resources to block malware effectively on a daily basis. It'll be interesting to see whether they can nip things in the bud sufficiently to dissuade the bad guys.
A dalek in a bow-tie.
Now that would be classy.
So you're excluding Boeing?
Here, let me fix the OP's post for you to make it more accurate:
Better?
And you are recompensed in the form of free access to a rather nifty search engine.
Indeed, I waded though The Emperors New Mind when it was first published and was very disappointed. As far as I could tell, the argument was something along the lines of "consciousness is mysterious and complex and hopefully non-deterministic. Quantum effects are mysterious and complex and non deterministic. Consciousness is probably a quantum-based phenomenon then".
So I went back to reading Dennett and Hoftstadter.
I love it when Linux officianados un-self consciously praise the benefits of the walled garden approach.
Actually - what you have there is an assertion, not a fact.
You know what, the hard disk in this PC I'm using records *every piece* of personal data that I produce on it, documents, spreadsheets - the lot. It even records some passwords. That's bad right? As far as I know, the data isn't being sent to HP, but do you think I should format the drive every day?
I'm all ears, in what way is the fact that Apple locally caches cellphone tower and WiFi location data on a device in anyway connected to its policy of operating a tightly curated app-store and locking down the device?
Oh, I wish I had mod points.
And you're the kind of person who defines everything in the universe as 'black' or 'white'
And I suspect this was precisely the issue. In my experience Linux experts who try to admin Macs quite often break things in ingenious ways. It's not their fault; the underpinnings of OS X look misleadingly similar to Linux when viewed from a terminal - 'look all the familiar directories are there' and many of the familiar tools. But these are traps for the unwary. OS X does things its own way and trying to admin via the CLI using a system that looks superficially similar, rather than going the 'Mac way' tends to end up with the system horribly borken.
FWIW, I run the free Sophos product on my Mac, partly because I have rather high regard for Sophos, partly because it adhere's to the hypocratic oath and 'does no harm' in that it appears to soak up very few system resources.
And you never know - one day it may find something.
Exactly the kind of machine I'd want a bot running on.