Let's not talk about attack vectors: AVs are known to introduce huge glaring vulnerabilities which allow kernel level access to the system.
For such military systems Internet access must be disabled completely; such PCs must be configured such a way, the user cannot run any applications other the preconfigured ones (via security policies). All the scripting features must be locked down completely, i.e. no Microsoft Office, no VBS, no PowerShell, etc. etc. etc. USB flash drives support must be disabled as well. No BIOS access as well. No access to the actual hardware (i.e. PCs must be enclosed and only a mouse/keyboard/monitor must be accessible). That's the least they could do.
No doubt that's commendable, however the current leader in the face recognition competition/arms race sells their product to pretty much anyone, including the government of Russia. I've seen how it works and it gives you the shivers.
You may find youtube videos about their tech quite fascinating and scary.
You only have six attempts to guess the right password: "If you enter the wrong passcode on an iOS device six times in a row, you'll be locked out and a message will say that your device is disabled."
Good luck with that. And then it will be locked to your iCloud account which is nigh impossible to remove by anyone other Apple service centers. iPhone protection against theft is probably the best in the industry.
IOW most if not all biometric authentication systems suck unless they are coupled with old boring passwords. You leave your fingerprints on everything you touch. Your face and retina can be remotely scanned, saved and duplicated. This leaves us with brainwaves but I'm not entirely sure they can't be copied as well. But you can be sure as hell brainwaves authentication will be incredibly difficult and expensive to implement for smartphone security.
Why weren't they able to crack Apple FaceID? Maybe because their 3D printer wasn't good enough as FaceID scans over 30 000 spatial dots in order to verify your identity but there were reports that it's already been cracked.
I also have to not that x32 was created as a sort of experiment. It has gained almost no traction anywhere and it's not really used by anyone aside from Gentoo/LFS lovers.
x32 has never been deployed by any known company in any measurable quantities. And yes, Linux kernel architecture do require maintenance. In short your entire comment is invalid. Perhaps, you've mistaken x32 for something else (most./ readers don't understand the difference between x86 and x32 - the latter is a completely different beast).
Also, no commercial/proprietary software exists for x32.
I'd like to draw everyone's attention to this tidbit from the Q&A session:
Q: A lot of the CPU microarchitecture at Intel has been hamstrung by delays on process node technology. What went wrong, and what steps have been made to make sure it doesn't happen again?
This is a function of how we as a company used to think about process node technologies. It was a frame tick (limiting factor) for how the company moved forward. We've learned a lot about how this worked with 14nm. We now have to make sure that our IP is not node-locked. The ability to have portability of IP across multiple nodes is great for contingency planning. We will continue to take aggressive risks in our designs, but we also will have contingency. We need to have as much of a seamless roadmap as possible in case those contingencies are needed, and need to make sure they are executed on ASAP if needed to keep the customer expectations in line. You will see future node technologies, such as 10/7, have much more overlap than before to keep the designs fluid. Our product portfolio on 14nm could have been much better if our product designs were not node-locked to 10nm.
It's really strange it has taken them so long to come to this conclusion. As a result of their 10nm fiasco (they still avoid talking about this node openly) we're stuck with the Skylake uArch which was released in 2015. Hopefully this blunder is a thing of the past.
How many people use it? 50? 500? I see no reason for it to exist. It's not like Open Source has too much manpower to afford supporting a queer architecture barely used by anyone.
Why do you need chips when you can hide anything in firmware? Show me a single motherboard OEM which releases source code. Also, not only motherboards contain firmware, NICs and storage devices have them too. There are just too many places where you can hide something which makes your hardware easily exploitable.
The notions of groups, societies and countries are all made up and in the end each person usually thinks only about him/herself and maybe his/her close relatives. People usually couldn't care less about the long term prospects of human kind survival on the planet and life in general and unless we enact the laws which have very direct impact on each soul, AGW will continue unabated. Most people are very primitive and we have to take that into account. Failure to do so could lead to the end of our civilization. Life on Earth will remain but whether it will ever evolve to become intelligent again is an open question.
Bitcoin has been pronounced dead over 3000 times already yet it costs staggering ~ $3300 at the moment.
Something that has no value whatsoever. Right.
Clearly there's a bias against Bitcoin here at/. but it doesn't invalidate Bitcoin in the slightest. Yes, a year ago it was hyped like crazy, rose like crazy and then subsided but it's still very much alive and kicking.
Shitcoins meanwhile have lost a lot more than Bitcoin because most of them are nothing but shit - "breakthroughs in using blockchain" which solve imaginary problems using imaginary tools. See how Ethereum has lost a lot more than Bitcoin because it's been used as a platform for hundreds of worthless ICOs.
Why wouldn't Microsoft just open source the Edge HTML engine and let the community participate in its development? We need more browser engines, not less.
From now on we'll basically have Chrome (>90% of the market) and Firefox. Palemoon and others are used by a handful of geeks...
When you're a few meters away from a 60" 4K screen you already cannot see individual pixels, so any sharpness increase beyond that doesn't really make a lot of sense unless you're looking at the screen with a spyglass.
So, what's the point of 8K resolution for the average consumer again? I can imagine it being useful for medical professionals but beyond that? No really sure.
The Linux kernel surely takes over the world however Linux is nowhere to be seen on the desktop where it matters most.
There's there's this still little known fact that Google wants to replace the Linux kernel with their own one. So, Android is not particularly bound to Linux since the kernel part of Android is anyone's to take.
What about supercomputers? They are great, right, except they are basically huge calculators, so it's not like a huge win in my book. Besides, *BSD could have been used there as well.
Then there's this fact that application/web servers only use Linux'es CPU/storage/networking capabilities and almost nothing else and then you'll get a pretty bleak picture of Linux dominance.
What are you talking about exactly? Because no one has seen a successful run of this process yet. The only Cannon Lake part is a partially failed product with a disabled GPU/bad thermals/and no advantages over a comparable mobile Kaby Lake CPU.
I've already had a couple of conversations with support agents when their replied to the messages I hadn't yet sent which made me feel extremely awkward but now I know that I should never ever paste anything in such chat windows without first verifying that my clipboard contents are the one I really intend to share.
The GNU Project, which Stallman founded, is working on an alternative digital payments system called Taler
So, Monero/Dash/ZCash/dozens others are not enough according to Stallman and thus he intends to create the 4000th cryptocurrency which will be the "best" among all of them instead of fixing the existing ones which have nodes/users/miners behind them.
I have a Share button on some of my webpages that is a simple link to the Facebook sharing service :
"https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://example.com/index.html"
but there are no scripts running (especially from Facebook!) on my website.
Am I wrong to think that this, by itself, is safe and provides no tracking information?
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Wow, I'm so concerned.
Let's not talk about attack vectors: AVs are known to introduce huge glaring vulnerabilities which allow kernel level access to the system.
For such military systems Internet access must be disabled completely; such PCs must be configured such a way, the user cannot run any applications other the preconfigured ones (via security policies). All the scripting features must be locked down completely, i.e. no Microsoft Office, no VBS, no PowerShell, etc. etc. etc. USB flash drives support must be disabled as well. No BIOS access as well. No access to the actual hardware (i.e. PCs must be enclosed and only a mouse/keyboard/monitor must be accessible). That's the least they could do.
FTFY.
Seriously, what is this shit doing on /.?
No doubt that's commendable, however the current leader in the face recognition competition/arms race sells their product to pretty much anyone, including the government of Russia. I've seen how it works and it gives you the shivers.
You may find youtube videos about their tech quite fascinating and scary.
That sounds plausible, so it's just a question of sufficient resources and time.
You only have six attempts to guess the right password: "If you enter the wrong passcode on an iOS device six times in a row, you'll be locked out and a message will say that your device is disabled."
Good luck with that. And then it will be locked to your iCloud account which is nigh impossible to remove by anyone other Apple service centers. iPhone protection against theft is probably the best in the industry.
IOW most if not all biometric authentication systems suck unless they are coupled with old boring passwords. You leave your fingerprints on everything you touch. Your face and retina can be remotely scanned, saved and duplicated. This leaves us with brainwaves but I'm not entirely sure they can't be copied as well. But you can be sure as hell brainwaves authentication will be incredibly difficult and expensive to implement for smartphone security.
Why weren't they able to crack Apple FaceID? Maybe because their 3D printer wasn't good enough as FaceID scans over 30 000 spatial dots in order to verify your identity but there were reports that it's already been cracked.
I also have to not that x32 was created as a sort of experiment. It has gained almost no traction anywhere and it's not really used by anyone aside from Gentoo/LFS lovers.
Now I see who's downvoting me.
x32 has never been deployed by any known company in any measurable quantities. And yes, Linux kernel architecture do require maintenance. In short your entire comment is invalid. Perhaps, you've mistaken x32 for something else (most ./ readers don't understand the difference between x86 and x32 - the latter is a completely different beast).
Also, no commercial/proprietary software exists for x32.
I'd like to draw everyone's attention to this tidbit from the Q&A session:
It's really strange it has taken them so long to come to this conclusion. As a result of their 10nm fiasco (they still avoid talking about this node openly) we're stuck with the Skylake uArch which was released in 2015. Hopefully this blunder is a thing of the past.
How many people use it? 50? 500? I see no reason for it to exist. It's not like Open Source has too much manpower to afford supporting a queer architecture barely used by anyone.
Why do you need chips when you can hide anything in firmware? Show me a single motherboard OEM which releases source code. Also, not only motherboards contain firmware, NICs and storage devices have them too. There are just too many places where you can hide something which makes your hardware easily exploitable.
The notions of groups, societies and countries are all made up and in the end each person usually thinks only about him/herself and maybe his/her close relatives. People usually couldn't care less about the long term prospects of human kind survival on the planet and life in general and unless we enact the laws which have very direct impact on each soul, AGW will continue unabated. Most people are very primitive and we have to take that into account. Failure to do so could lead to the end of our civilization. Life on Earth will remain but whether it will ever evolve to become intelligent again is an open question.
Bitcoin has been pronounced dead over 3000 times already yet it costs staggering ~ $3300 at the moment.
Something that has no value whatsoever. Right.
Clearly there's a bias against Bitcoin here at /. but it doesn't invalidate Bitcoin in the slightest. Yes, a year ago it was hyped like crazy, rose like crazy and then subsided but it's still very much alive and kicking.
Shitcoins meanwhile have lost a lot more than Bitcoin because most of them are nothing but shit - "breakthroughs in using blockchain" which solve imaginary problems using imaginary tools. See how Ethereum has lost a lot more than Bitcoin because it's been used as a platform for hundreds of worthless ICOs.
Why wouldn't Microsoft just open source the Edge HTML engine and let the community participate in its development? We need more browser engines, not less.
From now on we'll basically have Chrome (>90% of the market) and Firefox. Palemoon and others are used by a handful of geeks ...
What a lousy "interview" - I failed to see a single reply for the first six questions and stopped reading at that point.
When you're a few meters away from a 60" 4K screen you already cannot see individual pixels, so any sharpness increase beyond that doesn't really make a lot of sense unless you're looking at the screen with a spyglass.
So, what's the point of 8K resolution for the average consumer again? I can imagine it being useful for medical professionals but beyond that? No really sure.
The Linux kernel surely takes over the world however Linux is nowhere to be seen on the desktop where it matters most.
There's there's this still little known fact that Google wants to replace the Linux kernel with their own one. So, Android is not particularly bound to Linux since the kernel part of Android is anyone's to take.
What about supercomputers? They are great, right, except they are basically huge calculators, so it's not like a huge win in my book. Besides, *BSD could have been used there as well.
Then there's this fact that application/web servers only use Linux'es CPU/storage/networking capabilities and almost nothing else and then you'll get a pretty bleak picture of Linux dominance.
Many people currently associate "crypto" with crypto-currencies while this news piece talks about cryptographic algorithms.
If I were a /. editor, I'd use "encryption" instead to avoid ambiguity.
What are you talking about exactly? Because no one has seen a successful run of this process yet. The only Cannon Lake part is a partially failed product with a disabled GPU/bad thermals/and no advantages over a comparable mobile Kaby Lake CPU.
I've already had a couple of conversations with support agents when their replied to the messages I hadn't yet sent which made me feel extremely awkward but now I know that I should never ever paste anything in such chat windows without first verifying that my clipboard contents are the one I really intend to share.
So, Monero/Dash/ZCash/dozens others are not enough according to Stallman and thus he intends to create the 4000th cryptocurrency which will be the "best" among all of them instead of fixing the existing ones which have nodes/users/miners behind them.
That will certainly work out.
Here's a nice read about BitcoinSV and Mr. Craig Wright who desperately wants to be Satoshi Nakamoto but keeps blundering while doing so.
You are absolutely correct.
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