Humans transcribers "have the advantage to be able to listen to the recording several times"? What utterly demented nonsense is that? Of course, the software, having the recording, can "listen" to it as often as it wants. There is absolutely no "advantage" here for the human transcribers.
My take also. They will give the link to some people. Of course, they failed to hide it well, so that says something about the problems Apple has. The other thing is that while I may be qualified for this, I have zero interest to even apply. I have a comfortable position, with a lot of freedom where my talents are appreciated. Many, if not all, people that can do this will be in similar positions. Because this requires a lot of experience and an on-going deep interest in engineering and technology, it will only target very senior people. These do not trawl job-ads, as they have no need to.
The idea is to enforce tolerance by threat of violence. Of course, "tolerance" here does mean "strict and unquestioning adherence to the principles laid out by the authorities". In effect, they have redefined "tolerance" to mean extreme intolerance of anything not explicitly allowed. A tried and true technique, as, for example, nicely illustrated in 1984 by Orwell.
Ultimately, this fails, because a community that cannot handle criticism can never produce anything good. Obviously so, as no critical discussion can take place there. The other effect is that anybody really competent leaves sooner or later because no smart person can work in an anti-discourse, anti-meritocratic environment. At the end, these "communities" collapse because they cannot perform.
The utterly dysfunctional "Rust Community" is an excellent reason to not touch this language at all.
And exactly that is what makes governments the most immoral and evil constructs known to man. If not kept on a tight leash, they will go off the rails and ultimately establish fascism. Unfortunately, current generations in the west have no idea what that means and are cheering them on.
Defending freedom of speech and thought is so yesterday. Obviously, a police state and even more so, a totalitarian state is much preferable as there people will only behave well (as defined by the government) or else.
The stupidity and lack of understanding of history expressed in this is truly staggering. Apparently the fascists were not a historical accident, they are alive and well and can be found in the Government.
Oh, wait, they would need to round up most of the GCHQ and of the Government. So that is not going to happen as Justitia has long since stopped being blind in the UK.
Seriously when did we decide "coding" was the holy grail of skills and needed to be introduced as early as possible?
That is probably politicians being about 30 years late to it, when it is basically slowly on the way out as a mass-occupation. Sure, there will be jobs for engineers that can write good software for a long time to come (like basically all engineering subjects), but most people do not have what it takes for that.
Probably indicates that Kaspersky is not collaborating with the FBI, but doing their job. Of course, they may be collaborating with Russian intelligence instead. So to be sure to find government malware, run both Kaspersky and an FBI-approved scanner.
Indeed. And it is not only the insane risk he took, it is his complete lack of understanding how things work. And then blaming others for his screw-up.
We need to include every compiler maker, every coding teacher and, just to be safe, every make of OSes or computers here as well! They all contribute to making hacking possible, after all.
Publishing hooking code (which is in no way, for or shape illegal and has perfectly legal uses). This is just the US police state thinking is does not even need to bother understanding the facts before trying to destroy somebodies life.
And why do you assume that this is a shared repository and why do you assume continuous builds? Perhaps you think you way is the only right one to do it? If so, there is a rather serious problem on your side.
Seems so. Means he was clueless how his tool works and had no backups. He really has nobody to blame but himself. This kind of amateur-work seems to be becoming more common though, whith "developers" that are utterly clueless.
It is not victim-blaming when he did it to himself. Backups are an absolute minimal requirement for any type of professional computer work. So is version-control with an offsite repository and backup of its own for any kind of non-trivial software development.
These minimal standards are there for a reason. Those not following them have no business complaining when the expected catastrophe hits them.
If you do not use version-control on larger projects, then you are not a "developer", you are a hack. Sorry to be so blunt, but writing software professionally requires having some standards and version-control is non-optional.
The same thing this poor amateur suffered would also have happened on a disk-crash, a stolen laptop, etc.
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Humans transcribers "have the advantage to be able to listen to the recording several times"? What utterly demented nonsense is that? Of course, the software, having the recording, can "listen" to it as often as it wants. There is absolutely no "advantage" here for the human transcribers.
Pretty standard terminology, really.
Nobody qualified for something like this is interested in doing childish challenges.
My take also. They will give the link to some people. Of course, they failed to hide it well, so that says something about the problems Apple has. The other thing is that while I may be qualified for this, I have zero interest to even apply. I have a comfortable position, with a lot of freedom where my talents are appreciated. Many, if not all, people that can do this will be in similar positions. Because this requires a lot of experience and an on-going deep interest in engineering and technology, it will only target very senior people. These do not trawl job-ads, as they have no need to.
The idea is to enforce tolerance by threat of violence. Of course, "tolerance" here does mean "strict and unquestioning adherence to the principles laid out by the authorities". In effect, they have redefined "tolerance" to mean extreme intolerance of anything not explicitly allowed. A tried and true technique, as, for example, nicely illustrated in 1984 by Orwell.
Ultimately, this fails, because a community that cannot handle criticism can never produce anything good. Obviously so, as no critical discussion can take place there. The other effect is that anybody really competent leaves sooner or later because no smart person can work in an anti-discourse, anti-meritocratic environment. At the end, these "communities" collapse because they cannot perform.
The utterly dysfunctional "Rust Community" is an excellent reason to not touch this language at all.
And exactly that is what makes governments the most immoral and evil constructs known to man. If not kept on a tight leash, they will go off the rails and ultimately establish fascism. Unfortunately, current generations in the west have no idea what that means and are cheering them on.
Defending freedom of speech and thought is so yesterday. Obviously, a police state and even more so, a totalitarian state is much preferable as there people will only behave well (as defined by the government) or else.
The stupidity and lack of understanding of history expressed in this is truly staggering. Apparently the fascists were not a historical accident, they are alive and well and can be found in the Government.
... enemies of freedom, privacy, etc.!
Oh, wait, they would need to round up most of the GCHQ and of the Government. So that is not going to happen as Justitia has long since stopped being blind in the UK.
Seriously when did we decide "coding" was the holy grail of skills and needed to be introduced as early as possible?
That is probably politicians being about 30 years late to it, when it is basically slowly on the way out as a mass-occupation. Sure, there will be jobs for engineers that can write good software for a long time to come (like basically all engineering subjects), but most people do not have what it takes for that.
Indeed. We have far too many of those. What we need is good engineers (also in software), but most people cannot become that.
Pretty much my take also.
Probably indicates that Kaspersky is not collaborating with the FBI, but doing their job. Of course, they may be collaborating with Russian intelligence instead. So to be sure to find government malware, run both Kaspersky and an FBI-approved scanner.
Indeed. And it is not only the insane risk he took, it is his complete lack of understanding how things work. And then blaming others for his screw-up.
We need to include every compiler maker, every coding teacher and, just to be safe, every make of OSes or computers here as well! They all contribute to making hacking possible, after all.
Not in the least. This is hooking code, not attack code.
Publishing hooking code (which is in no way, for or shape illegal and has perfectly legal uses). This is just the US police state thinking is does not even need to bother understanding the facts before trying to destroy somebodies life.
Interestingly, their websites call it "Hardware Security Module", you know, like everybody else does:
- https://www.futurex.com/produc...
- https://www.thalesesecurity.co...
As to you second remark, do you actually think a HSM is unhackable? That would be pretty dumb.
And why do you assume that this is a shared repository and why do you assume continuous builds? Perhaps you think you way is the only right one to do it? If so, there is a rather serious problem on your side.
Linux is talking about collaborative development. That is a different situation. As usual, some understanding required.
Using revision-control as backup is absolutely no problem if
a) you mark backups as "backup"
and
b) your repository actually gets backed up
Please stop giving bad advice.
Seems so. Means he was clueless how his tool works and had no backups. He really has nobody to blame but himself. This kind of amateur-work seems to be becoming more common though, whith "developers" that are utterly clueless.
Amateurs will do amateur things that cause damage to them. So surprise at all. He has only himself to blame.
It is not victim-blaming when he did it to himself. Backups are an absolute minimal requirement for any type of professional computer work. So is version-control with an offsite repository and backup of its own for any kind of non-trivial software development.
These minimal standards are there for a reason. Those not following them have no business complaining when the expected catastrophe hits them.
If you do not push to remote with git then you have no clue what you are doing.
If you do not use version-control on larger projects, then you are not a "developer", you are a hack. Sorry to be so blunt, but writing software professionally requires having some standards and version-control is non-optional.
The same thing this poor amateur suffered would also have happened on a disk-crash, a stolen laptop, etc.