No matter how good the auditors are a security audit doesn't guarantee no vulnerabilities or back doors. If it did software security would be a lot easier.
Exactly, I don't like Sony but the article is just so bad it is laughable. playstation itself is a tiny portion of Sony and not even are particularly profitable part. We see the same problems when consumer types write articles on Microsoft as well. They simply have no understanding of the depth or breadth of the company or where there income flows come from.
It is far easily to hide a well engineered backdoor than it is to find it. No matter how good the auditors are and even if you 100% trust them there is no way they can be certain to uncover a backdoor if one exists. At this point with the exiting statement of the developers only a fool would trust Truecrypt with anything important.
No the reddit comment doesn't explain it at all. It is bullshit. Any audio equipment of such low quality as to allow such interference from the SD Card would have so many other problems as to make the SD part insignificant. Any quality equipment where sound matters isn't going to be suffering from such a fatal design flaw.
Ok fair enough, But If you have a need for such clarity from audio input and outputs where other sources of noise aren't more significant then you would not be using a crappy device that suffers from such interference in the first place. It is like designing a set of racing tires for use on a 1960's junker.
It is a digital storage device. you are reading Zero's and One's, there is no electrical "noise", either it is successfully reading the contents or it is erroring, if you have a memory card producing errors when reading or writing then you should be replacing it. this is not some analog signal where noise is affecting what is written or read.
You may as well ask why do we have soldiers today when we have snipers that can shoot people from a mile or more away, not all encounters can be at range, arrows raining down from above can be countered with shields or cover. In addition compound bows didn't exist, archery required a great deal of physical strength and training and ammunition. Any sucker can pick up a Javelin and poke the pointy end into someone, they also worked well in formations and shield walls and could be used as thrown weapons and could be used over and over again.
Relativistic kinetic weapons aside, it's highly unlikely that space travel can be accomplished without huge amounts of EM radiation.
so let me get this straight. You think you have enough knowledge of technology we can't even fathom how it could operate to know how we would be able to detect it and yet you call me the idiot?
Any race advanced enough to travel here to invade will have capabilities way beyond anything we could hope to combat or detect. I would imagine the first sign you would have would be if you were one of the lucky ones to see half the world wiped out a few seconds before you yourself were removed from this mortal realm.
That is indicative of your system not being able to push the data rate, not the spec. many chipsets and even supposedly USB 3.0 drives are shit and don't come close to being able to pump out anything close to what USB 3.0 is capable of, but then 99% of people have no need to even come close to maxing out USB 3.0.
because there aren't enough people in the consumer market willing to pay the many thousands of dollars price tag on such devices. until cost comes down the market is simply too small to target that audience.
you must be reading some other article, it specifically states there were arrested and extradited from Netherlands. They were arrested when travelling there.
No I don't think he really believes what he is saying himself. I am almost certain he will bitch and whine about how Nvidia are now taking something away that he paid good money for. He is a nice enough person about most things but some areas he is just a selfish prick and doesn't believe screwing large companies out of money is hurting anyone so he always finds a reason to justify it.
I have a friend who has basically killed two laptops overclocking them, he then takes them back and demands they are faulty
Your friend is kind of a selfish dick.
yes he is. But that is hardly a rare condition. He justifies it by saying they wouldn't put the feature in their if it wasn't meant to be used, therefore it is their fault.
I can kinda understand where they are coming from here even though I hate features getting removed. It would not surprise me if they had some pressure put on them from manufacturers. I have a friend who has basically killed two laptops overclocking them, he then takes them back and demands they are faulty, I am sure he isn't the only one doing that. Most stores don't have the technical people to be able to identify the cause on the spot so they accept the swap, especially if it is in the first few weeks of purchase.
sure they can bake it into the price, however it isn't a "free" replacement battery then is it. EV cars would have to increase in cost between 10-20k each as well.
A federal judge will have a list of enemies a mile long, many violent offenders like to blame anyone but themselves for the mess they are in and police, judges, prosecutors etc are all high on their target list.
this sounds more like a poor quality interviewer. incidentally the one asking the question about the file type was at least intelligent, if it was a pdf or excel file you just use the builtin encryption options as anyone that thinks they can create a better one themselves is either in the top fraction of a percentage of security developers or they are simply too dumb to know they don't know enough. If the developer was applying as a security dev then these questions might have been more relevant, I expect an architect/senior dev to take advise from experts in their field and be able to integrate that advise to create a solution, I don't expect them to know everything.
Maybe I’m old school, but this sort of bothers me. One of the nice things about rebooting is that it clears out old crud and gives you a reassurance that the system can bring itself up by its bootstraps. I can imagine live patching giving rise to a scenario where you have a machine that hasn’t been rebooted for years and when a power glitch finally brings it down, you find that what is on disk is different than what was in RAM and your kernel is corrupt or not bootable.
I think live patching would make sense if we had non-volatile system RAM (i.e. universal memory), but until then, it seems like rebooting is a pretty good sanity check that things are alright.
I agree, especially in this day and age where it is so easy to build scale out solutions that make restarting a server a non issue. I think worst of all I can imagine the nightmare of finding that one of the 30 or 40 patches you applied since last reboot caused a critical issue or incompatibility that is only discovered through a reload of drivers and now you have to try and track down which bitch did the damage.
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No matter how good the auditors are a security audit doesn't guarantee no vulnerabilities or back doors. If it did software security would be a lot easier.
Exactly, I don't like Sony but the article is just so bad it is laughable. playstation itself is a tiny portion of Sony and not even are particularly profitable part. We see the same problems when consumer types write articles on Microsoft as well. They simply have no understanding of the depth or breadth of the company or where there income flows come from.
It is far easily to hide a well engineered backdoor than it is to find it. No matter how good the auditors are and even if you 100% trust them there is no way they can be certain to uncover a backdoor if one exists. At this point with the exiting statement of the developers only a fool would trust Truecrypt with anything important.
No the reddit comment doesn't explain it at all. It is bullshit. Any audio equipment of such low quality as to allow such interference from the SD Card would have so many other problems as to make the SD part insignificant. Any quality equipment where sound matters isn't going to be suffering from such a fatal design flaw.
Ok fair enough, But If you have a need for such clarity from audio input and outputs where other sources of noise aren't more significant then you would not be using a crappy device that suffers from such interference in the first place. It is like designing a set of racing tires for use on a 1960's junker.
It is a digital storage device. you are reading Zero's and One's, there is no electrical "noise", either it is successfully reading the contents or it is erroring, if you have a memory card producing errors when reading or writing then you should be replacing it. this is not some analog signal where noise is affecting what is written or read.
You may as well ask why do we have soldiers today when we have snipers that can shoot people from a mile or more away, not all encounters can be at range, arrows raining down from above can be countered with shields or cover. In addition compound bows didn't exist, archery required a great deal of physical strength and training and ammunition. Any sucker can pick up a Javelin and poke the pointy end into someone, they also worked well in formations and shield walls and could be used as thrown weapons and could be used over and over again.
The only areas we have detailed direct observation say that life is abundant.
For me, it is very, very sad, but Google seems to be becoming a very abusive company. The days of "Do no evil" seem to be ended.
Those days never really existed except in the minds of those that believed the marketing dribble.
Relativistic kinetic weapons aside, it's highly unlikely that space travel can be accomplished without huge amounts of EM radiation.
so let me get this straight. You think you have enough knowledge of technology we can't even fathom how it could operate to know how we would be able to detect it and yet you call me the idiot?
Any race advanced enough to travel here to invade will have capabilities way beyond anything we could hope to combat or detect. I would imagine the first sign you would have would be if you were one of the lucky ones to see half the world wiped out a few seconds before you yourself were removed from this mortal realm.
That is indicative of your system not being able to push the data rate, not the spec. many chipsets and even supposedly USB 3.0 drives are shit and don't come close to being able to pump out anything close to what USB 3.0 is capable of, but then 99% of people have no need to even come close to maxing out USB 3.0.
because there aren't enough people in the consumer market willing to pay the many thousands of dollars price tag on such devices. until cost comes down the market is simply too small to target that audience.
you must be reading some other article, it specifically states there were arrested and extradited from Netherlands. They were arrested when travelling there.
No I don't think he really believes what he is saying himself. I am almost certain he will bitch and whine about how Nvidia are now taking something away that he paid good money for. He is a nice enough person about most things but some areas he is just a selfish prick and doesn't believe screwing large companies out of money is hurting anyone so he always finds a reason to justify it.
I have a friend who has basically killed two laptops overclocking them, he then takes them back and demands they are faulty
Your friend is kind of a selfish dick.
yes he is. But that is hardly a rare condition. He justifies it by saying they wouldn't put the feature in their if it wasn't meant to be used, therefore it is their fault.
I can kinda understand where they are coming from here even though I hate features getting removed. It would not surprise me if they had some pressure put on them from manufacturers. I have a friend who has basically killed two laptops overclocking them, he then takes them back and demands they are faulty, I am sure he isn't the only one doing that. Most stores don't have the technical people to be able to identify the cause on the spot so they accept the swap, especially if it is in the first few weeks of purchase.
sure they can bake it into the price, however it isn't a "free" replacement battery then is it. EV cars would have to increase in cost between 10-20k each as well.
Nissan Leaf = $5,500 for new battery Tesla's over 10k. others are in a similar price range. no auto maker is going to do that free of charge.
A federal judge will have a list of enemies a mile long, many violent offenders like to blame anyone but themselves for the mess they are in and police, judges, prosecutors etc are all high on their target list.
this sounds more like a poor quality interviewer. incidentally the one asking the question about the file type was at least intelligent, if it was a pdf or excel file you just use the builtin encryption options as anyone that thinks they can create a better one themselves is either in the top fraction of a percentage of security developers or they are simply too dumb to know they don't know enough. If the developer was applying as a security dev then these questions might have been more relevant, I expect an architect/senior dev to take advise from experts in their field and be able to integrate that advise to create a solution, I don't expect them to know everything.
perhaps people would believe you if you weren't the same AC just responding to himself over and over, very sad and very transparent trolling.
you have never heard of failover load balancers? every vendor supports various failover options.
Maybe I’m old school, but this sort of bothers me. One of the nice things about rebooting is that it clears out old crud and gives you a reassurance that the system can bring itself up by its bootstraps. I can imagine live patching giving rise to a scenario where you have a machine that hasn’t been rebooted for years and when a power glitch finally brings it down, you find that what is on disk is different than what was in RAM and your kernel is corrupt or not bootable.
I think live patching would make sense if we had non-volatile system RAM (i.e. universal memory), but until then, it seems like rebooting is a pretty good sanity check that things are alright.
I agree, especially in this day and age where it is so easy to build scale out solutions that make restarting a server a non issue. I think worst of all I can imagine the nightmare of finding that one of the 30 or 40 patches you applied since last reboot caused a critical issue or incompatibility that is only discovered through a reload of drivers and now you have to try and track down which bitch did the damage.
that's a damn impressive effort for an intelligence officer stationed in Dresden. Would love to know how he managed that one.