If Myspace decides to give people jailtime for using fake accounts. Stop using Myspace and consider Myspace to be a site for stupid people.
Myspace figures that people should be stupid enough to let complete strangers stalk them over the internet, by giving out their real name, their picture, their political views, all to boost their datamining operation, while offering nothing to the user except of course a lawsuit if the user lies to them?
The solution is to simply stop using Myspace, and tell all your friends to stop using Myspace, unless they drop the charges. It's simple really.
Any any other company that tries something like this should be boycotted as well. This way onlyidiots will use their service and they can exploit privacy all they want.
It's simple, terrorists and patriots don't rely on computers.
Why? because anyone with more knowledge can hack your computer and steal the password to your encryption, but if you don't rely on the computer theres no way to easily break your code.
Computers in themselves are not secure once you connect them to each other.
It's simple, anyone who wants to know all your secrets probably isn't looking out for your best interest. They want a competitive advantage.
When you write your business plan or are doing research, the last thing you want is for your competitor to steal all your ideas and work and take the credit. There is great financial incentive to keep secrets, because being able to keep a secret is the key to success in the business world as well as in war.
I don't think anyones going to crack AES. I don't think anyones going to true, government or criminal.
It's a lot easier to simply sniff your password as you type it in than to crack AES. That's the problem with passwords, they leave you open to side channel attacks, and if you use a password and an internet connection it leaves you open to rootkits.
Truecrypt should be used on offline machines only.
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As a security measure, use truecrypt on a machine which NEVER accesses the internet. You can call it a data server or you can call it a computer not connected to the outside world.
You probably don't want to store your sensitive information on a laptop which connects to the internet. It wont take long for some hackers to download the information off your truecrypt encrypted laptop using the rootkit they installed or even the rootkit built into Windows, or that last CD you bought from Sony.
Suppose you use Windows, or just an unsecure Linux? How does Truecrypt protect your laptop if you go online?
Truecrypt is awesome if you install it on a computer which never goes online and therefore stays immune to remote attacks. I suggest that you keep all your financial information and critical data on a computer which never goes online, and if you must, transfer it to a computer which goes online in the most secure way possible, such as through https or ssh.
One thing I notice about truecrypt is, it seems that the code is hard to find yet it claims to be open source. It's not GNU. And there seems to be no public list of the developers.
It's good software though. In my opinion it's the sorta software which should be built the linux kernel so that it plugs into the filesystem by default.
MS isn't the ticket to punch, MBA is and I found my MBA from a top20 school to be very easy. Easier by far than my undergrad CS degree!!
The BS they have to take is from the CEO who wants them to increase profits and stock price via technology and the CFO who wants them to do it for nothing, the IT Manager who can't run a effective operation because he has either no real skills or no vision or if he has those he has no budget. Dealing with Vendors is also a big PITA, as buying equipment or signing a services contract means you have to deal with the company legal team (lawyers). And dealing with HR to write job descriptions and find good people. Some of this you can delegate but not always.
When you can't get the results the CEO wants with the budget the CFO gave you in the time they unrealitically expect you get fired. If you were smart you have a nice severance written into your contract, if not you went from 200K to Zero overnight.
MS isn't the ticket to punch, MBA is and I found my MBA from a top20 school to be very easy. Easier by far than my undergrad CS degree!!
The BS they have to take is from the CEO who wants them to increase profits and stock price via technology and the CFO who wants them to do it for nothing, the IT Manager who can't run a effective operation because he has either no real skills or no vision or if he has those he has no budget. Dealing with Vendors is also a big PITA, as buying equipment or signing a services contract means you have to deal with the company legal team (lawyers). And dealing with HR to write job descriptions and find good people. Some of this you can delegate but not always.
When you can't get the results the CEO wants with the budget the CFO gave you in the time they unrealitically expect you get fired. If you were smart you have a nice severance written into your contract, if not you went from 200K to Zero overnight.
And what if you don't get fired?
This assumes both the CEO and CFO suck and are making you do all the hard work.
Lets try this again. Nobody is going to let you be a CIO or a CXO fresh out of college/university. You will not start at $90K even out of school. You WILL work for it. Anybody who hires a fresh graduate to be a CIO deserves the fallout they get.
A startup will. Startups don't have the money to pay for an experienced CIO and probably wouldn't want to do that anyway since they'd not be able to trust the experienced CIO.
An inexperienced CEO is better off with an inexperienced CIO.
First, $90k-$150k is what a CIO might make at some 10 person company. The money you're talking about is something that a talented senior developer can easily be making. Additionally, an MIS degree may or may not help you become a CIO. I only know one CIO personally. He works for a private company worth ~$1B and his degree is in music.
Just because some lucky people like Bill Gates can be CEO's without any experience or degrees, it does not mean the average person can become a CIO without an MIS degree.
I don't expect to be a CIO without an MIS degree.
Even if I have to get a degree from Phoenix University I'd expect it to count for more than no degree at all.
Heh. I don't want to be that far away from the technology, where all the fun is had, even for a significant pay jump. As an NE2-NE3, I'm in the pay range that was mentioned in the post I was replying to, and my manager makes more than me, and thats all I was trying to point out. 150k for an Architect sounds like a reasonable amount. But for a C?O -- it is probably a little low.
OTOH, I probably wouldn't be a very good consultant either, I hate living out of a suitcase at the clients whim. I travel enough as it is.
See I am planning on being a CIO or a consultant. The pay is great for either of those jobs.
But you make a good point, unless you have a wife and kids to take care of, why sacrifice for higher pay?
I've got 25 yrs experience, and I've been everything from a develop to manager, project manager of 50 ppl and I've gone BACK to tech as an IT Architect/Consultant for one of the three letter Big IT firms. I make close to 150K and I'm in the Southwest. I wouldn't take the crap a CIO has to take for the money they get paid if your data is accurate. I DO have an MBA but I'm pretty sure I didn't take the BS101 class.
What exactly is the BS a CIO has to take? I am planning on being a CIO. What exactly pays as well as the CIO but with less BS? I plan on getting an MIS masters degree. I lack experience, thats my weakness.
I did not say a CIO with 5-10 years experience will be making $90k. I'm saying the CIO at the startup will be making $90k.
You have to start somewhere, and nobody is going to just let you be a CIO and pay you $150k fresh out of university. You have to spend start at 90k and work your way up to 150k.
The good news is, if you get your MIS masters, then you'll have a shot at becoming a CIO, and depending on where you work will decide how much you make.
You probably wont be working for a profitable corporation if you just are starting out, and in fact you probably wont be the CIO at all, you'll be an officer of some sort. In 5 years then you can be the CIO, and 5 years after that you can expect to be making over 150k.
The payscale site says the average CIO makes $150k.
$90k sounds good to you, as a CIO?!? Come to Western Australia (Australian Dollar btw is basically 1:1 with USD) - broom pushers on mine sites get paid more than that here.
And I literally mean people who push brooms.
For goodness sakes, I have a friend who's job it is to mark a dot on the ground every few metres (where to put the explosives) and he gets $120,000 a year.
Go to uni and get a degree, they said....
$90,000 is what CIO's make just starting out. After you have 10 years of experience you could be making $150-200k.
But in general my goal is to surpass the 100k barrier, I'm not expecting $120k a year anytime soon, maybe in a decade or so.
Being a CIO is just as good as being a CEO, the pay rate is in the same league. I'm trying to go to grad school so I can get an MIS degree and become a CIO myself. $90-150k a year sounds VERY good to me.
A CIO can make enough money at one or two firms that they'd never have a reason to leave. But assuming you do have a reason to leave, there will always be startups.
The only reason they have money guns and power is because they have privacy. If the US gives up privacy, the US will lose the war on terror, why?
Because you cannot win a war without security and you cannot have privacy without security. In an environment where nobody can communicate, not even the governments, what do you expect to happen?
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If Myspace decides to give people jailtime for using fake accounts. Stop using Myspace and consider Myspace to be a site for stupid people.
Myspace figures that people should be stupid enough to let complete strangers stalk them over the internet, by giving out their real name, their picture, their political views, all to boost their datamining operation, while offering nothing to the user except of course a lawsuit if the user lies to them?
The solution is to simply stop using Myspace, and tell all your friends to stop using Myspace, unless they drop the charges. It's simple really.
Any any other company that tries something like this should be boycotted as well. This way onlyidiots will use their service and they can exploit privacy all they want.
It's simple, terrorists and patriots don't rely on computers.
Why? because anyone with more knowledge can hack your computer and steal the password to your encryption, but if you don't rely on the computer theres no way to easily break your code.
Computers in themselves are not secure once you connect them to each other.
It's simple, anyone who wants to know all your secrets probably isn't looking out for your best interest. They want a competitive advantage.
When you write your business plan or are doing research, the last thing you want is for your competitor to steal all your ideas and work and take the credit. There is great financial incentive to keep secrets, because being able to keep a secret is the key to success in the business world as well as in war.
Shouldn't you be worried more about the foreign intelligence agencies rather than your own?
If you access the net, truecrypt wont do you any good.
Don't use Truecrypt in Windows.
I don't think anyones going to crack AES. I don't think anyones going to true, government or criminal.
It's a lot easier to simply sniff your password as you type it in than to crack AES. That's the problem with passwords, they leave you open to side channel attacks, and if you use a password and an internet connection it leaves you open to rootkits.
As a security measure, use truecrypt on a machine which NEVER accesses the internet. You can call it a data server or you can call it a computer not connected to the outside world.
You probably don't want to store your sensitive information on a laptop which connects to the internet. It wont take long for some hackers to download the information off your truecrypt encrypted laptop using the rootkit they installed or even the rootkit built into Windows, or that last CD you bought from Sony.
Suppose you use Windows, or just an unsecure Linux? How does Truecrypt protect your laptop if you go online?
Truecrypt is awesome if you install it on a computer which never goes online and therefore stays immune to remote attacks. I suggest that you keep all your financial information and critical data on a computer which never goes online, and if you must, transfer it to a computer which goes online in the most secure way possible, such as through https or ssh.
One thing I notice about truecrypt is, it seems that the code is hard to find yet it claims to be open source. It's not GNU. And there seems to be no public list of the developers.
It's good software though. In my opinion it's the sorta software which should be built the linux kernel so that it plugs into the filesystem by default.
MS isn't the ticket to punch, MBA is and I found my MBA from a top20 school to be very easy. Easier by far than my undergrad CS degree!!
The BS they have to take is from the CEO who wants them to increase profits and stock price via technology and the CFO who wants them to do it for nothing, the IT Manager who can't run a effective operation because he has either no real skills or no vision or if he has those he has no budget. Dealing with Vendors is also a big PITA, as buying equipment or signing a services contract means you have to deal with the company legal team (lawyers). And dealing with HR to write job descriptions and find good people. Some of this you can delegate but not always.
When you can't get the results the CEO wants with the budget the CFO gave you in the time they unrealitically expect you get fired. If you were smart you have a nice severance written into your contract, if not you went from 200K to Zero overnight.
MS isn't the ticket to punch, MBA is and I found my MBA from a top20 school to be very easy. Easier by far than my undergrad CS degree!!
The BS they have to take is from the CEO who wants them to increase profits and stock price via technology and the CFO who wants them to do it for nothing, the IT Manager who can't run a effective operation because he has either no real skills or no vision or if he has those he has no budget. Dealing with Vendors is also a big PITA, as buying equipment or signing a services contract means you have to deal with the company legal team (lawyers). And dealing with HR to write job descriptions and find good people. Some of this you can delegate but not always.
When you can't get the results the CEO wants with the budget the CFO gave you in the time they unrealitically expect you get fired. If you were smart you have a nice severance written into your contract, if not you went from 200K to Zero overnight.
And what if you don't get fired?
This assumes both the CEO and CFO suck and are making you do all the hard work.
Where are startups, fresh out of college, going to find an experienced CIO they can trust?
If the CEO's are fresh out of college why would you expect them to have an experienced CIO?
Lets try this again. Nobody is going to let you be a CIO or a CXO fresh out of college/university. You will not start at $90K even out of school. You WILL work for it. Anybody who hires a fresh graduate to be a CIO deserves the fallout they get.
A startup will. Startups don't have the money to pay for an experienced CIO and probably wouldn't want to do that anyway since they'd not be able to trust the experienced CIO.
An inexperienced CEO is better off with an inexperienced CIO.
First, $90k-$150k is what a CIO might make at some 10 person company. The money you're talking about is something that a talented senior developer can easily be making. Additionally, an MIS degree may or may not help you become a CIO. I only know one CIO personally. He works for a private company worth ~$1B and his degree is in music.
Just because some lucky people like Bill Gates can be CEO's without any experience or degrees, it does not mean the average person can become a CIO without an MIS degree.
I don't expect to be a CIO without an MIS degree.
Even if I have to get a degree from Phoenix University I'd expect it to count for more than no degree at all.
Heh. I don't want to be that far away from the technology, where all the fun is had, even for a significant pay jump. As an NE2-NE3, I'm in the pay range that was mentioned in the post I was replying to, and my manager makes more than me, and thats all I was trying to point out. 150k for an Architect sounds like a reasonable amount. But for a C?O -- it is probably a little low.
OTOH, I probably wouldn't be a very good consultant either, I hate living out of a suitcase at the clients whim. I travel enough as it is.
See I am planning on being a CIO or a consultant.
The pay is great for either of those jobs.
But you make a good point, unless you have a wife and kids to take care of, why sacrifice for higher pay?
I've got 25 yrs experience, and I've been everything from a develop to manager, project manager of 50 ppl and I've gone BACK to tech as an IT Architect/Consultant for one of the three letter Big IT firms. I make close to 150K and I'm in the Southwest. I wouldn't take the crap a CIO has to take for the money they get paid if your data is accurate. I DO have an MBA but I'm pretty sure I didn't take the BS101 class.
What exactly is the BS a CIO has to take? I am planning on being a CIO. What exactly pays as well as the CIO but with less BS? I plan on getting an MIS masters degree. I lack experience, thats my weakness.
I did not say a CIO with 5-10 years experience will be making $90k. I'm saying the CIO at the startup will be making $90k.
You have to start somewhere, and nobody is going to just let you be a CIO and pay you $150k fresh out of university. You have to spend start at 90k and work your way up to 150k.
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Chief_Information_Officer_(CIO)/Salary/by_City
The good news is, if you get your MIS masters, then you'll have a shot at becoming a CIO, and depending on where you work will decide how much you make.
You probably wont be working for a profitable corporation if you just are starting out, and in fact you probably wont be the CIO at all, you'll be an officer of some sort. In 5 years then you can be the CIO, and 5 years after that you can expect to be making over 150k.
The payscale site says the average CIO makes $150k.
I don't want to work in a mine anymore than I want to work in a nuclear power facility or a top secret biological weapons lab.
$90k sounds good to you, as a CIO?!? Come to Western Australia (Australian Dollar btw is basically 1:1 with USD) - broom pushers on mine sites get paid more than that here.
And I literally mean people who push brooms.
For goodness sakes, I have a friend who's job it is to mark a dot on the ground every few metres (where to put the explosives) and he gets $120,000 a year.
Go to uni and get a degree, they said....
$90,000 is what CIO's make just starting out. After you have 10 years of experience you could be making $150-200k.
But in general my goal is to surpass the 100k barrier, I'm not expecting $120k a year anytime soon, maybe in a decade or so.
Being a CIO is just as good as being a CEO, the pay rate is in the same league. I'm trying to go to grad school so I can get an MIS degree and become a CIO myself. $90-150k a year sounds VERY good to me.
A CIO can make enough money at one or two firms that they'd never have a reason to leave. But assuming you do have a reason to leave, there will always be startups.
If you don't have a Chief information officer who is going to handle the information security of the organization?
Better yet, who is going to handle all the business intelligence?
The only reason they have money guns and power is because they have privacy. If the US gives up privacy, the US will lose the war on terror, why?
Because you cannot win a war without security and you cannot have privacy without security. In an environment where nobody can communicate, not even the governments, what do you expect to happen?
And he finds what you say, think and do very interesting.
Seriously, you think the United States does not have any enemies? This naive thinking is why the USA has been losing the #1 spot.
And then you wonder why your job is being shipped overseas.
We know these are thought crimes, thats the reason why you have to encrypt your thoughts.
thats very interesting. why dont you write a plugin?