90% of coverity's defect's tend to be really false positives that would be obvious to even the average code monkey
If the average code monkey was spotting the defects they shouldn't be in there at all for Coverity to find. Tools catch things that people overlook, including subtle things.
So, a private company has been helping 400 open source projects with code quality (usually considered important) for quite some time now using their tools which find many different code defects. It had been started with government money, but now they take it out of hide. And do you shed any light on it? Provide more information? No, you just make uninformed comments about things that have easy to find answers and whine. What a waste.
The US has been willing to protect the territorial integrity of Saudi Arabia. It doesn't really take sides between Sunni and Shia. You may note that Iraq is primarily Shia and the US worked to protect it. Iran is overwhelmingly Shia and the US was allied with it until the Islamic Revolution.
I doubt the House of Saud is strongly interested in reestablishing the Caliphate since they would have to pledge fealty to it. Al Qaida considers the House of Saud to be bad rulers, not Islamic enough in the right way for their tastes. As a result al Qaida has long been trying to overthrow the Kingdom.
Those who would quote Benjamin Franklin without understanding that he opened other American's mail for intelligence purposes, and that George Washington ran a spy ring that operated in the Colonies, aren't likely to get the question of Essential Liberty or Safety correct.
People in the US have lost no essential liberties.
The US spends large amounts on defense because it pays its soldiers a competitive wage in a volunteer army since the 1970s. Most other nations with large militaries use conscription, and are less equipped that the US, and don't have to move forces like the US.
Yes the label does make sense, especially in taking over a French colonial war in South East Asia.
I'm afraid you've got that wrong. The French lost that war and gave up their colony. The US wasn't trying to take over South Vietnam and make it a colony. The US was helping South Vietnam avoid being taken over by communist military forces loyal to North Vietnam. Australia participated in the military mission during the Vietnam War, as it had in the Korean War.
. As the war drew to a close in August of 1945, two U.S. army colonels (one of whom, Dean Rusk, would later become Secretary of State) proposed that the Soviet Union take responsibility for accepting the surrender of Japanese troops in the part of the Korean peninsula north of the 38th parallel, whereas U.S. troops would receive the surrender south of that line. This decision resulted in the division and separation of many villages along the 38th parallel and families with ties across that line. The postwar planners had intended that the division between North and South Korea would be a temporary administrative solution. After the war, the United Nations agreed to oversee elections in the North and South in 1947 in the hopes that it would lead to the reunification of Korea under a democratically elected government. However, the Soviet Union blocked the elections in its section and instead, supported Kim Il Sung as leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). In the South, the United States supported Syngman Rhee as the elected leader of the newly founded Republic of Korea (ROK). Both Kim and Rhee were nationalists dedicated to the idea of reunification, although each ruled with a different ideological vision. In 1949, under a UN agreement, both the Soviet Union and the United States withdrew their military forces from Korea, but both left large numbers of advisors on the peninsula. The two sides were to continue negotiations over elections to reunify the country, and although the United States preferred that the resulting government not be communist, in 1949 it was still not prepared to commit militarily to preventing that outcome. Both sides periodically instigated skirmishes across the 38th parallel, but the war formally began when the DPRK crossed the demarcation line and attacked the ROK on June 25, 1950. Both Korean governments had been adamant about reunifying the peninsula, and the Soviet-supported DPRK saw an opportunity to do so with a swift strike.
As to the line for the US Marine Corp hymn you quote, it notes places they fought, not territories added to the United States.
I doubt that you would get into much legal trouble directly - perhaps over some sort of nuisance law or complaint to the phone comany. You could draw the attention of the national security apparatus to yourself, however. Since this sort of prank most likely seems like a good idea when you are high, that is probably a bad idea since people that get high tend to do so more than once. Resupply efforts might be... regrettable... once that attention has been gained. You could try a similar experiment by calling (select as appropriate) 911 | 112 | 000 | 999 and telling them that the pharmacy has Prince Albert in a can and they won't punch holes for him to breath - he might be dying.
Lawyers are trying to do that for evidence in ordinary criminal court cases. Not likely to work.
Although if people are interested, I'm sure the government could start that service. Just like google they would probably reserve the right to scan your email. If you want it, write your legislators.
Since the 4,000 investigations are related to incidents I rather doubt that they are part of the usual cycle of reinvestigation. I doubt people are scheduling their breach of security protocols to coincide with their 5 year reinvestigation.
In 2009 the CIA reported received between 90,000 to 180,000 resumes. I think there might more than 0 people associated in some way with terrorist groups that applied, especially since there have been double agents identified in the past. Since there were multiple terrorist groups mentioned, as well as foreign intelligence agencies, I think it is a safe bet that at least one person from each applied. What do you think?
I'm going to go with the story and assess your analysis as flawed. (Or at the very least your numbers as tainted, given their provenance.)
The communist governments of the "Red/Commie Boogyman Bucket," as you refer to it, used to rule a major portion of earth, and managed to kill 100,000,000 people in the last century. Normally bogeymen are considered to be imaginary and don't manage to kill anyone. You may be confused.
I understand your viewpoint. If it makes you feel any better, the US has been accused of imperialism as well for a very long time regardless if it made sense or not. Vietnam was claimed to be imperialism, and probably Korea, as well as various actions in the Caribbean in the years before WW2.
Part of what has undermined the British military is the growing burden of social spending. The same is starting to happen in the US. Many people in the US and around the world will cheer now, but eventually I think it is likely they might start to understand the drawbacks when a crisis comes and the US is truly impotent. Then it is likely to be a lot less fun.
Like some intelligent people are prone to, you have taken an idea (security through obscurity doesn't work) perfectly valid in its own domain (encryption algorithms) and misapplied it to another. Many things in life are protected via security through obscurity - hiding the information from other people. You passwords and PINs are probably all protected that way. The encryption used to protect data you are sending had best not work that way. Snowden didn’t make a childish mistake as you did, he deliberately stole the data he took and gave it away to people that would be sure to make it available to everyone, including people that would misuse it. As a result there are terrorist groups that can no longer be tracked because they stopped using the communications means used to track them that Snowden helped inform them was vulnerable. To put this in perspective, if Snowden had been your dad, he wouldn’t have waited for you to find the pistol, he would have taken from its hiding place, handed it to you loaded, and said, “Go play!”
Flawed analogy. Burglars steal your property. Snowden "stole" things that belonged to the people of the United States, and then gave them the access that they'd been denied to their own property! Oh, that's right, it was being kept secret for "our protection" (and the bureaucracy protecting itself - the main reason for government secrets).
The problem is your flawed understanding, or just plan bad, mistaken ideas.
You don't personally "own" the launch codes for US nuclear missiles. You don't personally "own" the plans for the patrol routes of US nuclear submarines. You don't personally "own" the encryption keys used to send instructions to US embassies. You don't personally "own" the lists of FBI informants. You don't personally "own" the NSA's source code for encrypting Top Secret communications. You don't personally "own" the data entrusted by the British and Australian governments to the United States for the purposes of combating terrorism.
If you think the above aren't part of what protects you, you aren't thinking clearly, or are greatly mistaken. I don't know how you can think that giving away information like that doesn't harm the US and its allies. Government secrets are kept for a lot of reasons: personal privacy, national security, trade secrets, and many other reasons. I don't know how you don't understand that.
Snowden stole things (notice that unlike you I didn't use scare quotes around stole) that belong to the US government, not you, and in some cases to allied governments. He had no right to take either. Even if you want to either claim he is a "whistleblower" or play dumb on this, he had no right whatsoever to the data from US allies. But he took and released it all the same, after having ran off to communist china and staying at the Russian embassy (where he had his birthday party) before flying to Russia after which the Russians claimed they never knew he was coming. (I'm sure you see nothing odd about that.)
Another thing: the fact that you pay taxes doesn't make you the personal supervisor of every government employee and entitle you to order them around as if you were a master and they are a slave any more than you are entitled to secret information held by the US government.
If you want to see the secrets, run for office or get a government job, and please keep your mouth shut.
You really have a lot of bad ideas. Where do you get them from?
This is another reason the NSA et al are foolish to dismiss Snowden as a threat, another reason why he should be embraced as a hero for shining light on a serious problem!
So you are in favor of courtesy notes from burglars then?
Dear Homeowner,
I was able to defeat your expensive alarm system. You should get it checked. The magnetic window sensors don't seem to be working.
For insurance purposes I estimate you lost $20,000 in cash, jewelry, and electronics.
--- The Burglar
I thought the usual accepted protocol was to tell people about weakness instead of robbing them blind first? You know, sort of like the preferred method of addressing security concerns with software?
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Somebody on Team Larry isn't going to get a bonus this year.
If only there was a way to get more information, somehow.
Find and fix defects in your C/C++ or Java open source project for free.
A pity it's free. They must be implying that open source software isn't worth any money, right?
90% of coverity's defect's tend to be really false positives that would be obvious to even the average code monkey
If the average code monkey was spotting the defects they shouldn't be in there at all for Coverity to find. Tools catch things that people overlook, including subtle things.
So comparing two unknowns you decided one of them was arbitrarily better? Any chances that the tool might be checking for more things after 8 years?
Or are you carefully selecting data to get a nice report and link to PostgreSQL?
So, a private company has been helping 400 open source projects with code quality (usually considered important) for quite some time now using their tools which find many different code defects. It had been started with government money, but now they take it out of hide. And do you shed any light on it? Provide more information? No, you just make uninformed comments about things that have easy to find answers and whine. What a waste.
Some of the better-known projects scanned include Apache, Firefox, GIMP and a number of forms of Linux and BSD.
Open Source Is Better Than the Closed Stuff (Until You Hit 1 Million Lines)
A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World
The US has been willing to protect the territorial integrity of Saudi Arabia. It doesn't really take sides between Sunni and Shia. You may note that Iraq is primarily Shia and the US worked to protect it. Iran is overwhelmingly Shia and the US was allied with it until the Islamic Revolution.
I doubt the House of Saud is strongly interested in reestablishing the Caliphate since they would have to pledge fealty to it. Al Qaida considers the House of Saud to be bad rulers, not Islamic enough in the right way for their tastes. As a result al Qaida has long been trying to overthrow the Kingdom.
Those who would quote Benjamin Franklin without understanding that he opened other American's mail for intelligence purposes, and that George Washington ran a spy ring that operated in the Colonies, aren't likely to get the question of Essential Liberty or Safety correct.
People in the US have lost no essential liberties.
Virtually every terrorist group in the world shifting tactics in wake of NSA leaks: U.S. officials
Terrorists harder to track after Snowden's leaks, officials say
It's amazing to me that you would think terrorists changing tactics in light of Snowden's leaks would even be a question.
The US spends so little on social spending that it is embarrassing.
I'm sorry, but you are very uninformed about US social spending if you believe that to be true.
The US spends 2X on social spending at the federal level compared to the military. The states also have social spending, and little military spending.
Federal Spending by the Numbers, 2013
Actually no, people in the US don't like war.
The US spends large amounts on defense because it pays its soldiers a competitive wage in a volunteer army since the 1970s. Most other nations with large militaries use conscription, and are less equipped that the US, and don't have to move forces like the US.
Yes the label does make sense, especially in taking over a French colonial war in South East Asia.
I'm afraid you've got that wrong. The French lost that war and gave up their colony. The US wasn't trying to take over South Vietnam and make it a colony. The US was helping South Vietnam avoid being taken over by communist military forces loyal to North Vietnam. Australia participated in the military mission during the Vietnam War, as it had in the Korean War.
A few details about Korea you left out.
The Korean War, 1950-1953
. As the war drew to a close in August of 1945, two U.S. army colonels (one of whom, Dean Rusk, would later become Secretary of State) proposed that the Soviet Union take responsibility for accepting the surrender of Japanese troops in the part of the Korean peninsula north of the 38th parallel, whereas U.S. troops would receive the surrender south of that line. This decision resulted in the division and separation of many villages along the 38th parallel and families with ties across that line. The postwar planners had intended that the division between North and South Korea would be a temporary administrative solution. After the war, the United Nations agreed to oversee elections in the North and South in 1947 in the hopes that it would lead to the reunification of Korea under a democratically elected government. However, the Soviet Union blocked the elections in its section and instead, supported Kim Il Sung as leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). In the South, the United States supported Syngman Rhee as the elected leader of the newly founded Republic of Korea (ROK). Both Kim and Rhee were nationalists dedicated to the idea of reunification, although each ruled with a different ideological vision. In 1949, under a UN agreement, both the Soviet Union and the United States withdrew their military forces from Korea, but both left large numbers of advisors on the peninsula. The two sides were to continue negotiations over elections to reunify the country, and although the United States preferred that the resulting government not be communist, in 1949 it was still not prepared to commit militarily to preventing that outcome. Both sides periodically instigated skirmishes across the 38th parallel, but the war formally began when the DPRK crossed the demarcation line and attacked the ROK on June 25, 1950. Both Korean governments had been adamant about reunifying the peninsula, and the Soviet-supported DPRK saw an opportunity to do so with a swift strike.
As to the line for the US Marine Corp hymn you quote, it notes places they fought, not territories added to the United States.
Here is the data sheet (.pdf) that should help you understand.
Here is some addition detail on the common problems (.pdf) it looks for.
Here is a background article: A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World
You went past the point where you knew what you are talking about.
I doubt that you would get into much legal trouble directly - perhaps over some sort of nuisance law or complaint to the phone comany. You could draw the attention of the national security apparatus to yourself, however. Since this sort of prank most likely seems like a good idea when you are high, that is probably a bad idea since people that get high tend to do so more than once. Resupply efforts might be ... regrettable... once that attention has been gained. You could try a similar experiment by calling (select as appropriate) 911 | 112 | 000 | 999 and telling them that the pharmacy has Prince Albert in a can and they won't punch holes for him to breath - he might be dying.
Lawyers are trying to do that for evidence in ordinary criminal court cases. Not likely to work.
Although if people are interested, I'm sure the government could start that service. Just like google they would probably reserve the right to scan your email. If you want it, write your legislators.
The story is about default and hard coded passwords. A secret hard coded password is a backdoor. Are all the hard coded accounts / passwords known?
I seem to recall a story or two about concerns regarding vulnerable Chinese telecom devices before. Didn't many people think it was nonsense?
Since the 4,000 investigations are related to incidents I rather doubt that they are part of the usual cycle of reinvestigation. I doubt people are scheduling their breach of security protocols to coincide with their 5 year reinvestigation.
In 2009 the CIA reported received between 90,000 to 180,000 resumes. I think there might more than 0 people associated in some way with terrorist groups that applied, especially since there have been double agents identified in the past. Since there were multiple terrorist groups mentioned, as well as foreign intelligence agencies, I think it is a safe bet that at least one person from each applied. What do you think?
I'm going to go with the story and assess your analysis as flawed. (Or at the very least your numbers as tainted, given their provenance.)
I think the problem is EVERYTHING is labeled Top Secret and everything is a terrorist group.
Exaggerate much?
The communist governments of the "Red/Commie Boogyman Bucket," as you refer to it, used to rule a major portion of earth, and managed to kill 100,000,000 people in the last century. Normally bogeymen are considered to be imaginary and don't manage to kill anyone. You may be confused.
The trailer for The Soviet Story may help you understand, as will this book, The Black Book of Communism reviewed here .
I understand your viewpoint. If it makes you feel any better, the US has been accused of imperialism as well for a very long time regardless if it made sense or not. Vietnam was claimed to be imperialism, and probably Korea, as well as various actions in the Caribbean in the years before WW2.
Part of what has undermined the British military is the growing burden of social spending. The same is starting to happen in the US. Many people in the US and around the world will cheer now, but eventually I think it is likely they might start to understand the drawbacks when a crisis comes and the US is truly impotent. Then it is likely to be a lot less fun.
Cheers
Like some intelligent people are prone to, you have taken an idea (security through obscurity doesn't work) perfectly valid in its own domain (encryption algorithms) and misapplied it to another. Many things in life are protected via security through obscurity - hiding the information from other people. You passwords and PINs are probably all protected that way. The encryption used to protect data you are sending had best not work that way. Snowden didn’t make a childish mistake as you did, he deliberately stole the data he took and gave it away to people that would be sure to make it available to everyone, including people that would misuse it. As a result there are terrorist groups that can no longer be tracked because they stopped using the communications means used to track them that Snowden helped inform them was vulnerable. To put this in perspective, if Snowden had been your dad, he wouldn’t have waited for you to find the pistol, he would have taken from its hiding place, handed it to you loaded, and said, “Go play!”
Flawed analogy. Burglars steal your property. Snowden "stole" things that belonged to the people of the United States, and then gave them the access that they'd been denied to their own property! Oh, that's right, it was being kept secret for "our protection" (and the bureaucracy protecting itself - the main reason for government secrets).
The problem is your flawed understanding, or just plan bad, mistaken ideas.
You don't personally "own" the launch codes for US nuclear missiles.
You don't personally "own" the plans for the patrol routes of US nuclear submarines.
You don't personally "own" the encryption keys used to send instructions to US embassies.
You don't personally "own" the lists of FBI informants.
You don't personally "own" the NSA's source code for encrypting Top Secret communications.
You don't personally "own" the data entrusted by the British and Australian governments to the United States for the purposes of combating terrorism.
If you think the above aren't part of what protects you, you aren't thinking clearly, or are greatly mistaken. I don't know how you can think that giving away information like that doesn't harm the US and its allies. Government secrets are kept for a lot of reasons: personal privacy, national security, trade secrets, and many other reasons. I don't know how you don't understand that.
Snowden stole things (notice that unlike you I didn't use scare quotes around stole) that belong to the US government, not you, and in some cases to allied governments. He had no right to take either. Even if you want to either claim he is a "whistleblower" or play dumb on this, he had no right whatsoever to the data from US allies. But he took and released it all the same, after having ran off to communist china and staying at the Russian embassy (where he had his birthday party) before flying to Russia after which the Russians claimed they never knew he was coming. (I'm sure you see nothing odd about that.)
Another thing: the fact that you pay taxes doesn't make you the personal supervisor of every government employee and entitle you to order them around as if you were a master and they are a slave any more than you are entitled to secret information held by the US government.
If you want to see the secrets, run for office or get a government job, and please keep your mouth shut.
You really have a lot of bad ideas. Where do you get them from?
Uncertainty tends to disappear when they leave a suicide testimony video.
This is another reason the NSA et al are foolish to dismiss Snowden as a threat, another reason why he should be embraced as a hero for shining light on a serious problem!
So you are in favor of courtesy notes from burglars then?
Dear Homeowner,
I was able to defeat your expensive alarm system. You should get it checked. The magnetic window sensors don't seem to be working.
For insurance purposes I estimate you lost $20,000 in cash, jewelry, and electronics.
--- The Burglar
I thought the usual accepted protocol was to tell people about weakness instead of robbing them blind first? You know, sort of like the preferred method of addressing security concerns with software?
I doubt it for these reasons.
The Russian government continues to cover the back of the Syrian government as it has for decades.
Hama 1982 – The Syrian massacre you never heard about