As the whole drug-dealing business is just a result of artificial scarcity imposed by the religious fuckups that think they can dictate what others can and cannot enjoy, this will eventually happen.
The later this happens, the larger the catastrophe. Stupidity, nativity and greed will make sure it will happen. Technology these days is nowhere near as secure as it needs for this to be dependable enough to perform a critical function.
They will run into severe security issues sooner or later. Especially mobile phone security is so bad these days it is staggering. My guess would be that at the moment, these payments do not offer enough pay-off if hacked, but that can change at any time.
No, the solution is laws mandating access at wholesale prices for competing telecoms companies to the last mile connections..
Incidentally, that is how it works in Europe. Does work reasonably well and only very few people are stuck in the dark ages of Internet access speeds or prices as a result. But of course, the US has to make its own mistakes longer, and more intense than anybody else, because it is frankly impossible that other countries are doing things better....
This was not a targeted attack. In fact, the creators may even have assumed that hospitals would have better IT security (not worse) than anybody else and hence this was not a risk.
Same morons as almost everywhere else. We have just too many people even in the IT field that know Windows and nothing else. A great success for Microsoft and a huge fail for humanity.
Sounds like somebody got himself some steady business bu shady means. Decontaminating phones is not more difficult than doing it for beds, toilets, door-handles, etc. This procedure does not make any medical sense.
While I agree with you, the reality is that IT security in the medical area sucks even worse than in other fields. That is the only reason they were hit so badly. As law enforcement seems to be completely useless with regards to this threat, it becomes more and more urgent to remove IT security from the back-burner and recognize it as a mission-critical thing that in addition is difficult to get right.
Caveat: I do earn my living mostly with IT security these days.
In the age of "safe spaces" and students that think they do not have to change anything about their world-view, that is unfortunately wrong. Sure, education worth the name will not carter to this utterly demented trend, but if the customer wants a really bad education that makes them feel good, that product will be what the majority of suppliers will offer.
In an actual university course, if anybody is "triggered", the goal will be to make them able to handle that, not to avoid doing it as that only turns this condition into a permanent disability. Any place where real academic education is practiced will tell students that demand all this nonsense to leave. They do not have what it takes.
And such a system is bound to produce worthless degrees. You must ask a lot of your students and then fail all those that cannot even produce a reasonable approximation to the level of understanding and insight you require. That way you make sure only those that have it pass, and that the degree means something. Memorizing some facts is part of the deal, bit it should never be enough to pass on its own.
Students learn not a lot in lectures, that is not the intention of a lecture. Most learning is something the student has to do on his/her own time. Lectures serve to give a starting approach and, far more important, an appreciation what is more important and what is less so. They also serve as an opportunity to ask questions and to meet people studying the same subject. Sure, self-reliant learning weeds those out that cannot do it, but those people have no business getting an university degree anyways. We already have too many people getting worthless degrees because it was to easy to get them. The last thing we want is to make it even easier.
Not yet, but we will need this if software is ever to be secure. And in particular, we need somebody higher up to go to jail for this, because that is what "responsibility" means. The actual engineers likely saw their prototype declared "ready for production" (has happened to me, but I was forewarned, so it actually was production quality) and that was the end of what they could do.
Stupidity. It is far too obvious (if anybody bothers to look) for anything else. Basically, you type a random number in and then search for it on disk. The only protection against detection it has is that most people do not assume developers are quite this extremely stupid. After Intel last week, I think we can safely assume that even software from big names can contain utterly demented mistakes that are a catastrophe for security.
It is just a matter of time. Windows application servers are already becoming a constant problem in many application landscapes. They always need something special, when Linux, xBSD, Solaris, etc. basically use the same services and tools. And the are always helpless when you just explain the standard approach to them and they are expected to port that to the island of incompatibility that Windows still is. Sure, initially these solutions may sometimes be cheaper, but with a bit of a longer-term scope, Windows on the server is a huge and avoidable cost factor. Nobody that needs security, reliability and performance is moving to Windows servers, but some are moving away from them.
The client is a different matter, but I know of several large enterprises that will go to web-terminals running something from the UNIX-space when Windows7 becomes too expensive to keep secure and working. Except for MS Office and Outlook, they are 100% web-based anyways already.
The math is right, you fail. There is the little word "exactly" in "can solve exactly one problem" and with that it is just disjoint case-enumeration. I guess you do not make it into the 36%....
Indeed. However police is not held responsible for their mistakes more often than not, so "the computer decided it" is exactly what is going to happen.
And you probably have missed where your reasoning is assuming invalid ground-truth. Basically, you assume that because everything must be physical, so must be what thinks and is consciousness. And that is a scientific fail. Science makes no such claim. The only valid scientific claim is that there are interface observations of thinking and conscious entities in this universe, everything else is open.
BTW, you assumption is called "physicalism" and it is a variant of religion, mostly because it assumes some "truths" as "obvious" without any scientific basis, just as religion does. "Everything is physical" without proof is really not any better than "there is a god" without proof.
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For things like bank-transfers it is even lower. Many banks have stopped charging customers for bank-transfers in Europe.
As the whole drug-dealing business is just a result of artificial scarcity imposed by the religious fuckups that think they can dictate what others can and cannot enjoy, this will eventually happen.
The later this happens, the larger the catastrophe. Stupidity, nativity and greed will make sure it will happen. Technology these days is nowhere near as secure as it needs for this to be dependable enough to perform a critical function.
They will run into severe security issues sooner or later. Especially mobile phone security is so bad these days it is staggering. My guess would be that at the moment, these payments do not offer enough pay-off if hacked, but that can change at any time.
No, the solution is laws mandating access at wholesale prices for competing telecoms companies to the last mile connections. .
Incidentally, that is how it works in Europe. Does work reasonably well and only very few people are stuck in the dark ages of Internet access speeds or prices as a result. But of course, the US has to make its own mistakes longer, and more intense than anybody else, because it is frankly impossible that other countries are doing things better....
This was not a targeted attack. In fact, the creators may even have assumed that hospitals would have better IT security (not worse) than anybody else and hence this was not a risk.
Same morons as almost everywhere else. We have just too many people even in the IT field that know Windows and nothing else. A great success for Microsoft and a huge fail for humanity.
Ok, with $8 per set, throwing them away is a lot cheaper.
Sounds like somebody got himself some steady business bu shady means. Decontaminating phones is not more difficult than doing it for beds, toilets, door-handles, etc. This procedure does not make any medical sense.
While I agree with you, the reality is that IT security in the medical area sucks even worse than in other fields. That is the only reason they were hit so badly. As law enforcement seems to be completely useless with regards to this threat, it becomes more and more urgent to remove IT security from the back-burner and recognize it as a mission-critical thing that in addition is difficult to get right.
Caveat: I do earn my living mostly with IT security these days.
In the age of "safe spaces" and students that think they do not have to change anything about their world-view, that is unfortunately wrong. Sure, education worth the name will not carter to this utterly demented trend, but if the customer wants a really bad education that makes them feel good, that product will be what the majority of suppliers will offer.
In an actual university course, if anybody is "triggered", the goal will be to make them able to handle that, not to avoid doing it as that only turns this condition into a permanent disability. Any place where real academic education is practiced will tell students that demand all this nonsense to leave. They do not have what it takes.
And such a system is bound to produce worthless degrees. You must ask a lot of your students and then fail all those that cannot even produce a reasonable approximation to the level of understanding and insight you require. That way you make sure only those that have it pass, and that the degree means something. Memorizing some facts is part of the deal, bit it should never be enough to pass on its own.
Students learn not a lot in lectures, that is not the intention of a lecture. Most learning is something the student has to do on his/her own time. Lectures serve to give a starting approach and, far more important, an appreciation what is more important and what is less so. They also serve as an opportunity to ask questions and to meet people studying the same subject. Sure, self-reliant learning weeds those out that cannot do it, but those people have no business getting an university degree anyways. We already have too many people getting worthless degrees because it was to easy to get them. The last thing we want is to make it even easier.
Just my thought.
More likely some real creeps installed that and, oh, look, it is his parents! (Just remember the /. story from a few days back.)
Not yet, but we will need this if software is ever to be secure. And in particular, we need somebody higher up to go to jail for this, because that is what "responsibility" means. The actual engineers likely saw their prototype declared "ready for production" (has happened to me, but I was forewarned, so it actually was production quality) and that was the end of what they could do.
Stupidity. It is far too obvious (if anybody bothers to look) for anything else. Basically, you type a random number in and then search for it on disk. The only protection against detection it has is that most people do not assume developers are quite this extremely stupid. After Intel last week, I think we can safely assume that even software from big names can contain utterly demented mistakes that are a catastrophe for security.
It is just a matter of time. Windows application servers are already becoming a constant problem in many application landscapes. They always need something special, when Linux, xBSD, Solaris, etc. basically use the same services and tools. And the are always helpless when you just explain the standard approach to them and they are expected to port that to the island of incompatibility that Windows still is. Sure, initially these solutions may sometimes be cheaper, but with a bit of a longer-term scope, Windows on the server is a huge and avoidable cost factor. Nobody that needs security, reliability and performance is moving to Windows servers, but some are moving away from them.
The client is a different matter, but I know of several large enterprises that will go to web-terminals running something from the UNIX-space when Windows7 becomes too expensive to keep secure and working. Except for MS Office and Outlook, they are 100% web-based anyways already.
Well, maybe. Still would not make much difference, as the sources and parametrization is pretty useless without the training data-set.
The math is right, you fail. There is the little word "exactly" in "can solve exactly one problem" and with that it is just disjoint case-enumeration. I guess you do not make it into the 36%....
You know, following morons like you is making things worse. Your theory of how reality works is broken.
Still compiled. You may have heard of "bytecode"? Not compiled to machine-code, true, but for the purpose at hand it does not matter much.
Indeed. However police is not held responsible for their mistakes more often than not, so "the computer decided it" is exactly what is going to happen.
And you probably have missed where your reasoning is assuming invalid ground-truth. Basically, you assume that because everything must be physical, so must be what thinks and is consciousness. And that is a scientific fail. Science makes no such claim. The only valid scientific claim is that there are interface observations of thinking and conscious entities in this universe, everything else is open.
BTW, you assumption is called "physicalism" and it is a variant of religion, mostly because it assumes some "truths" as "obvious" without any scientific basis, just as religion does. "Everything is physical" without proof is really not any better than "there is a god" without proof.
And the earth is flat. Go look outside your window.