People are generally bad at assessing risks. Smart people can usually compensate by thinking about it, but most people are stupid. Hence most people are fearing entirely the wrong things. And politicians without a shred of personal integrity (the standard kind) are quick to take advantage of that.
That is why I do not think this actually is anything done officially or with official sanctioning. Putin (very much unlike Trump) is not stupid at all and does understand this game very well, because he is a long-time high-level player. His morals may be questionable, but not his smarts.
My take is that this is some Russian "patriots" and that the only thing they will get from Putin is that the Russian authorities will not try very hard to find these criminals. That is as long as they make very sure to not to much domestic damage. Hence I think these "patriots" are about one coding error away from a long-term vacation in a Siberian labor-camp.
Likely, but the question is _which_ Russians. Do not forget that this may well be counted as "terrorism" by some metrics and states are understandably reluctant to be labelled as supporting that. My guess would be some misguided Russian "patriots" did this and the only support from Putin they have is that the Russian government will not try very hard to find them.
It is the hallmark of an utter moron to be unable to distinguish between severity levels of errors, for example the extremely low severity of a typo and the extremely high severity of being a racist. Well done, you have shown your actual level of insight into reality.
The way I read German law, it does not. They may not _delete_ email without explicit consent (that is why German email providers legally are obliged to keep SPAM, usually putting SPAM in a separate folder), but they can always say that they will hand email over if the customer identifies itself. Also, in order to file a complaint, the customer would have to identify himself to the police.
So I think as long as they keep the email and just not deliver it anymore, they are perfectly in the clear.
I don't think so. Deleting email may be illegal, but if they keep all the mail and offer the account-owner a chance to get it by identifying himself, this is legally quite above board. It is also very likely that the account owner is violating the TOS of Posteo.
I agree on both counts. The problem is that if you let a criminal business model thrive, then things will get far worse. Hence what Posteo did is the only sane thing possible. It will also send a pretty clear message to those affected that a major part of the problem is with them and their bad security and non-existent backups.
It is. Problem is there is a hardcore faction that does it really well, but has almost no "flashy" results. And then there is a "soft science" faction that gets almost all press time. In addition, many people mistake fuzzyness for lack of scientific rigor. That is not true, it just becomes harder to understand the results.
Well, this is not really new. Back when I did my Calculus and Linear Algebra exam preparation, I basically borrowed my parent's basement so I did not have easy access to my computer (C64 at that time, gives you a hint how old I am). This allowed me to work long stretches on the proofs and exercises without distraction. Cot stuff that really needs your mind to be all present, you need to get away from your electronic gadgets. These days, I use a whiteboard when faced with such tasks, standing before it does provides enough distance and standing is good for thinking anyways.
Well, yes, to a degree. But that _is_ as expected. As CPUs are using every last trick to get faster, the whole design necessarily gets more fragile and needs longer to stabilize. This is no surprise at all. The good thing is that it looks like the current AMD design will be around for a long, long time because I think we have reached the end of large performance improvements and this was the last step. Intel may have one more fundamental re-design, but they may also not, in particular if they cannot really get ahead of AMD that way. And after that, both can do small careful improvements that do not change much and will overcome that fragility again.
There are a lot of artists and entertainers that survive on the goodwill of their audience. It happens to be the traditional model. Of course, that does not mesh well with the greed and fantasies of supremacy of the large content monopolies, because it is far cheaper to push a small number of artists as the hottest shit, while neglecting all others, in particular those with smaller audiences because their material is not mainstreamed. As such, the content monopolies actually are very bad for the arts, as they actively oppose diversity. One effect of that is that I never felt the need to pirate even a single bit of music, the stuff in the mainstream was just to universally bad that I lost all interest.
Hence this guy understand what each actual artist and entertainer does: You live by the good opinion of your audience, and all that want to pay you something will do so. Trying to force the others is not only futile, but long-term counterproductive.
You seem to never even have heard or processor errata sheets, let alone ever read one. And you seem to be completely unaware what hardware flaws have been historically found in CPUs. As I said to the other clueless response, go please go away and play with LEGO or something.
Well, if upper management had real risks of suffering for them not fixing things, maybe the competent ones would cut through the crap and the incompetent ones would get weeded out fast. That would be massively better than the dysfunctional system now in place.
I disagree. Top management should most definitely go to prison for gross incompetence or intent. And, quite frankly, it can only be one of the two if the screw-up is so extreme. If there are just fines, the C-level executives responsible will not even feel them. That is the reason why prison-time is required here. I do agree that the US is imprisoning far to many people, but these here cannot be impressed any other way, because they cannot simply buy their way out of that.
Well, a better approach would probably be to send all racists somewhere else, probably best to some dessert or some isolated island. That would have a real effect as racists are known to be reliably the most stupid people in existence.
The sheer stupidity of this politicretins is astonishing. But I guess until we find a way to deal with really stupid people (maybe do stop putting them in power?), this will have to be repeated over and over again.
Nobody does that. Because, you know, there is not a "mass" of terrorists on this planed. There is only a very small number and they do generally not announce themselves. Incidentally, your implied "solution" would be making things worse.
Have a look into any introductory text on crypto: The one-time-pad is impractical due to key-management except when very high effort is acceptable. That means terrorists that exchange short messages to coordinate can likely use it, but for most other cases it is too much effort.
I am just waiting for this to happen. In that case some politicretins will have "mathematically unbreakable" explained to them. Not that they will have the capacity to understand that.
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People are generally bad at assessing risks. Smart people can usually compensate by thinking about it, but most people are stupid. Hence most people are fearing entirely the wrong things. And politicians without a shred of personal integrity (the standard kind) are quick to take advantage of that.
If you count this one as "coordinated warfare", then you are out of your mind.
There are historically a lot of loud-mouths and incompetents in the IT security space. This has unfortunately not changed.
That is why I do not think this actually is anything done officially or with official sanctioning. Putin (very much unlike Trump) is not stupid at all and does understand this game very well, because he is a long-time high-level player. His morals may be questionable, but not his smarts.
My take is that this is some Russian "patriots" and that the only thing they will get from Putin is that the Russian authorities will not try very hard to find these criminals. That is as long as they make very sure to not to much domestic damage. Hence I think these "patriots" are about one coding error away from a long-term vacation in a Siberian labor-camp.
Likely, but the question is _which_ Russians. Do not forget that this may well be counted as "terrorism" by some metrics and states are understandably reluctant to be labelled as supporting that. My guess would be some misguided Russian "patriots" did this and the only support from Putin they have is that the Russian government will not try very hard to find them.
It is the hallmark of an utter moron to be unable to distinguish between severity levels of errors, for example the extremely low severity of a typo and the extremely high severity of being a racist. Well done, you have shown your actual level of insight into reality.
The way I read German law, it does not. They may not _delete_ email without explicit consent (that is why German email providers legally are obliged to keep SPAM, usually putting SPAM in a separate folder), but they can always say that they will hand email over if the customer identifies itself. Also, in order to file a complaint, the customer would have to identify himself to the police.
So I think as long as they keep the email and just not deliver it anymore, they are perfectly in the clear.
I don't think so. Deleting email may be illegal, but if they keep all the mail and offer the account-owner a chance to get it by identifying himself, this is legally quite above board. It is also very likely that the account owner is violating the TOS of Posteo.
I agree on both counts. The problem is that if you let a criminal business model thrive, then things will get far worse. Hence what Posteo did is the only sane thing possible. It will also send a pretty clear message to those affected that a major part of the problem is with them and their bad security and non-existent backups.
It is. Problem is there is a hardcore faction that does it really well, but has almost no "flashy" results. And then there is a "soft science" faction that gets almost all press time. In addition, many people mistake fuzzyness for lack of scientific rigor. That is not true, it just becomes harder to understand the results.
Well, this is not really new. Back when I did my Calculus and Linear Algebra exam preparation, I basically borrowed my parent's basement so I did not have easy access to my computer (C64 at that time, gives you a hint how old I am). This allowed me to work long stretches on the proofs and exercises without distraction. Cot stuff that really needs your mind to be all present, you need to get away from your electronic gadgets. These days, I use a whiteboard when faced with such tasks, standing before it does provides enough distance and standing is good for thinking anyways.
Entertainment software is not different from other art created to entertain. You seem to not have understood that.
Well, yes, to a degree. But that _is_ as expected. As CPUs are using every last trick to get faster, the whole design necessarily gets more fragile and needs longer to stabilize. This is no surprise at all. The good thing is that it looks like the current AMD design will be around for a long, long time because I think we have reached the end of large performance improvements and this was the last step. Intel may have one more fundamental re-design, but they may also not, in particular if they cannot really get ahead of AMD that way. And after that, both can do small careful improvements that do not change much and will overcome that fragility again.
There are a lot of artists and entertainers that survive on the goodwill of their audience. It happens to be the traditional model. Of course, that does not mesh well with the greed and fantasies of supremacy of the large content monopolies, because it is far cheaper to push a small number of artists as the hottest shit, while neglecting all others, in particular those with smaller audiences because their material is not mainstreamed. As such, the content monopolies actually are very bad for the arts, as they actively oppose diversity. One effect of that is that I never felt the need to pirate even a single bit of music, the stuff in the mainstream was just to universally bad that I lost all interest.
Hence this guy understand what each actual artist and entertainer does: You live by the good opinion of your audience, and all that want to pay you something will do so. Trying to force the others is not only futile, but long-term counterproductive.
Fulfills scientific standards IMO, as long as absolute accuracy is not a factor. For relative measurements, this is entirely fine.
What else is new. In particular, about everything MS praises in Windows is either bogus or actually a disadvantage.
You seem to never even have heard or processor errata sheets, let alone ever read one. And you seem to be completely unaware what hardware flaws have been historically found in CPUs. As I said to the other clueless response, go please go away and play with LEGO or something.
You seems to be utterly clueless about how these things work. Please go away and play with LEGO or something.
Well, if upper management had real risks of suffering for them not fixing things, maybe the competent ones would cut through the crap and the incompetent ones would get weeded out fast. That would be massively better than the dysfunctional system now in place.
And that is exactly the point.
I disagree. Top management should most definitely go to prison for gross incompetence or intent. And, quite frankly, it can only be one of the two if the screw-up is so extreme. If there are just fines, the C-level executives responsible will not even feel them. That is the reason why prison-time is required here. I do agree that the US is imprisoning far to many people, but these here cannot be impressed any other way, because they cannot simply buy their way out of that.
Well, a better approach would probably be to send all racists somewhere else, probably best to some dessert or some isolated island. That would have a real effect as racists are known to be reliably the most stupid people in existence.
The sheer stupidity of this politicretins is astonishing. But I guess until we find a way to deal with really stupid people (maybe do stop putting them in power?), this will have to be repeated over and over again.
Nobody does that. Because, you know, there is not a "mass" of terrorists on this planed. There is only a very small number and they do generally not announce themselves. Incidentally, your implied "solution" would be making things worse.
Have a look into any introductory text on crypto: The one-time-pad is impractical due to key-management except when very high effort is acceptable. That means terrorists that exchange short messages to coordinate can likely use it, but for most other cases it is too much effort.
I am just waiting for this to happen. In that case some politicretins will have "mathematically unbreakable" explained to them. Not that they will have the capacity to understand that.