The kinds of vulnerabilities that PowerShell suffers would be suffered by any operating system that has a fairly comprehensive scripting language. The issue simply is if you can automate OS functions like creating, altering or deleting files and other system resources, someone can write a malicious script that, if run even in an non-super user context, can wreak havoc, but if run in a super user or similar higher access context can lead to enormous damage or to compromised systems. There are ways to mitigate this for both Windows and *nix, but more often than not you have to be proactive about it.
Ah well, you have this one second hand anecdotal story, so clearly you must be right! Why not say he molested kittens in a pizzeria, just to make your journey to the fake news complete.
They're not, and suffer the same inherent vulnerability that Powershell or any other executable scripting language does; that even if you have core network and system resources ringfenced, malicious scripts can still play havoc with anything even regular users have access to (like shared file resources and the like).
The reality is, and this has been known for a couple of decades now, email and web clients simply should not be able to execute code. But since executable code, whether macros or scripts, show up in so many file formats it's all but impossible to fully enforce such a regime.
Some of the nastier scripts out there nowadays aren't really about gaining elevated privileges. Some of them, like the encrypting ransomware requires no special privileges at all, but simply access to user files, and to network files that the user has read/write access to. So while the critical aspects of a computer or a network are protected by execution and system resource access limitations, you need to prevent execution of unauthorized scripts completely.
I have to admit I've found signing Powershell scripts to be a mighty pain in the arse, but it does provide some protection against external scripts running when you maintain the blocking of execution of unsigned scripts. It isn't a complete protection, unfortunately, and Powershell is only one route by which this kind of ransomware could end up on a system. Vulnerabilities in Java, MS-Office files, and even the execution of Windows Scripting Host files (vbscript and jscript) seem more common from my experience.
The one bit of ransomware I saw got loose through a vbscript file attached to an email. For whatever reason, Outlook allowed it to be executed, and the user clicked the dialog that might have prevented it, and then the script went to town encrypting files on the user's own folders and the share. Fortunately there's a good backup regime in place, so there was very little actual loss, but it demonstrated that along with some vulnerabilities in Windows' execution protection schemes, the real weak link as always is users themselves.
As would I. I actually prefer the theater experience, providing you don't have a theater full of assholes. When I went to The Force Awakens last year on its opening day, that old communal experience I remember from theaters when I was a kid came back. There was cheering and clapping when the Star Wars theme played and in general it really was a wonderful experience. My experience with Deadpool was even better, as people laughed at the jokes through the whole thing. And there's the big screen, which I really do love. Can't reproduce that at home.
I've done it with a tablet and it works, but I own a notebook and have a desktop PC at work so I see little enough reason to do it. In theory I suppose the idea of using a mobile device as your primary computing device has its attractions, but this would also mean for me having a Windows device or a device capable of running the Windows software I do use, and the cost of Windows smart devices is fairly hefty.
I feel the same way. I can't imagine a reason I would want multiple wireless devices. Tethering serves the purpose well enough, and really, where I am, wireless data limits are low enough that I would never want my notebook just being able to connect to the wireless network willy nilly.
If there were lots of ARM desktop systems out there I could understand it, but as it is, ARM is almost solely still an embedded, tablet and smartphone ecosystem. Having used classic Windows apps on an 8" tablet, I can't imagine any sane person wanting to run them on a phone, or even an 8" tablet.
I can't imagine China representing much of a threat to talent fleeing the US. There are other English-speaking countries, one that isn't that far away, that is ramping up its demand for skilled immigrants.
I think a real pro doesn't build time bombs in his code. Not only is this idiot going to jail, but good luck finding employment in that field again. He should spend the rest of his sentence practicing "And do you want fries with that?"
Which is absurd as Shackleton and the like could only observe sea ice. You may note that they didn't have satellites or permanent monitoring stations a century ago.
In reality, physicists studying CO2 at the end of 19th century understood its solar absorption properties and hypothesized that if CO2 levels increased in the atmosphere, that it could lead to greater heating.
There is absolutely nothing controversial from a scientific perspective about even fractional increases in CO2 in the atmosphere causing increased trapping of energy in the lower atmosphere.
China is incredibly vulnerable to overall sea level rises, considering that large portions of its population live in low-lying areas. I know China is the anti-emission control crowd's favorite bogeyman, but countries like China and India are at great risk in multiple ways if even the more moderate models for the latter half of this century come to fruition.
The problem with "visionless leaders" is mainly they are in the pockets of large moneyed interests like corporations, who want to make sure that they receive the vast benefits of automation, but do not see their overall tax liability increased. That's why they love politicians who talk endlessly about corporate tax cuts (heck, I've seen some people argue corporations shouldn't pay tax at all, and now you know why), but at some point, automation is going to mean corporate tax bills are going to go up. At the moment, sending jobs to cheaper jurisdictions has been the solution, but automation is going to put all the Asians and Mexicans out of work too, and probably in the next few decades.
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The kinds of vulnerabilities that PowerShell suffers would be suffered by any operating system that has a fairly comprehensive scripting language. The issue simply is if you can automate OS functions like creating, altering or deleting files and other system resources, someone can write a malicious script that, if run even in an non-super user context, can wreak havoc, but if run in a super user or similar higher access context can lead to enormous damage or to compromised systems. There are ways to mitigate this for both Windows and *nix, but more often than not you have to be proactive about it.
Ah well, you have this one second hand anecdotal story, so clearly you must be right! Why not say he molested kittens in a pizzeria, just to make your journey to the fake news complete.
They're not, and suffer the same inherent vulnerability that Powershell or any other executable scripting language does; that even if you have core network and system resources ringfenced, malicious scripts can still play havoc with anything even regular users have access to (like shared file resources and the like).
The reality is, and this has been known for a couple of decades now, email and web clients simply should not be able to execute code. But since executable code, whether macros or scripts, show up in so many file formats it's all but impossible to fully enforce such a regime.
Some of the nastier scripts out there nowadays aren't really about gaining elevated privileges. Some of them, like the encrypting ransomware requires no special privileges at all, but simply access to user files, and to network files that the user has read/write access to. So while the critical aspects of a computer or a network are protected by execution and system resource access limitations, you need to prevent execution of unauthorized scripts completely.
I have to admit I've found signing Powershell scripts to be a mighty pain in the arse, but it does provide some protection against external scripts running when you maintain the blocking of execution of unsigned scripts. It isn't a complete protection, unfortunately, and Powershell is only one route by which this kind of ransomware could end up on a system. Vulnerabilities in Java, MS-Office files, and even the execution of Windows Scripting Host files (vbscript and jscript) seem more common from my experience.
The one bit of ransomware I saw got loose through a vbscript file attached to an email. For whatever reason, Outlook allowed it to be executed, and the user clicked the dialog that might have prevented it, and then the script went to town encrypting files on the user's own folders and the share. Fortunately there's a good backup regime in place, so there was very little actual loss, but it demonstrated that along with some vulnerabilities in Windows' execution protection schemes, the real weak link as always is users themselves.
As would I. I actually prefer the theater experience, providing you don't have a theater full of assholes. When I went to The Force Awakens last year on its opening day, that old communal experience I remember from theaters when I was a kid came back. There was cheering and clapping when the Star Wars theme played and in general it really was a wonderful experience. My experience with Deadpool was even better, as people laughed at the jokes through the whole thing. And there's the big screen, which I really do love. Can't reproduce that at home.
I've done it with a tablet and it works, but I own a notebook and have a desktop PC at work so I see little enough reason to do it. In theory I suppose the idea of using a mobile device as your primary computing device has its attractions, but this would also mean for me having a Windows device or a device capable of running the Windows software I do use, and the cost of Windows smart devices is fairly hefty.
I feel the same way. I can't imagine a reason I would want multiple wireless devices. Tethering serves the purpose well enough, and really, where I am, wireless data limits are low enough that I would never want my notebook just being able to connect to the wireless network willy nilly.
If there were lots of ARM desktop systems out there I could understand it, but as it is, ARM is almost solely still an embedded, tablet and smartphone ecosystem. Having used classic Windows apps on an 8" tablet, I can't imagine any sane person wanting to run them on a phone, or even an 8" tablet.
I can't imagine China representing much of a threat to talent fleeing the US. There are other English-speaking countries, one that isn't that far away, that is ramping up its demand for skilled immigrants.
Yes, a tiny underdog... one of the most cash-rich private entities in the history of the planet... Poor whittle Apple
In other words, you cannot verify any of these tweets claiming the accused did not fire.
You really are a simpering moron.
Alternatively he's just a nut, like you.
And you know these people on twitter were there how exactly?
Maybe possibly some people know what satire is...
This is like defending some armed fucking nutjob because of Onion articles.
No one on Slashdot would ever promote right wing conspiracy theories! How absurd...
I think a real pro doesn't build time bombs in his code. Not only is this idiot going to jail, but good luck finding employment in that field again. He should spend the rest of his sentence practicing "And do you want fries with that?"
I think his intent was to gain ownership of his scripts in the hops he could hide is tracks or at least obscure his sabotage.
Burn hydrocarbons, produce CO2.
The real solution is to price fossil fuels to account for climate effects.
Which is absurd as Shackleton and the like could only observe sea ice. You may note that they didn't have satellites or permanent monitoring stations a century ago.
You didn't provide to refute. Just a series of non sequiturs.
That's what she said!
In reality, physicists studying CO2 at the end of 19th century understood its solar absorption properties and hypothesized that if CO2 levels increased in the atmosphere, that it could lead to greater heating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There is absolutely nothing controversial from a scientific perspective about even fractional increases in CO2 in the atmosphere causing increased trapping of energy in the lower atmosphere.
China is incredibly vulnerable to overall sea level rises, considering that large portions of its population live in low-lying areas. I know China is the anti-emission control crowd's favorite bogeyman, but countries like China and India are at great risk in multiple ways if even the more moderate models for the latter half of this century come to fruition.
The problem with "visionless leaders" is mainly they are in the pockets of large moneyed interests like corporations, who want to make sure that they receive the vast benefits of automation, but do not see their overall tax liability increased. That's why they love politicians who talk endlessly about corporate tax cuts (heck, I've seen some people argue corporations shouldn't pay tax at all, and now you know why), but at some point, automation is going to mean corporate tax bills are going to go up. At the moment, sending jobs to cheaper jurisdictions has been the solution, but automation is going to put all the Asians and Mexicans out of work too, and probably in the next few decades.