And thereby you kill fundamental research, which is the basis of all other research, completely. Stupid. And incidentally at the very root of the current problems as you currently have to promise research results for funding. If you already know the results, it is not research. It is development, and it has no long-term value, unlike actual research.
Actually, I grew up in Germany, and the people alive back then would have known about this (especially those raped), would they not? I never heard about more than isolated incidents. Sure, like in basically every war, there were rapes, but there were also punishments, including executions for at least some of the perpetrators. You should not believe everything Wikipedia tells you, especially when there is good indication the article is more propaganda than fact.
Incidentally, from your language and lack of control, I would say that you are the one here in urgent need of professional help.
You are talking about the same ISPs that are unable to implement egress filtering (a basic requirement for any halfway secure network installation), thereby allowing source-spoofing, right?
And yet, if you had read up on Mirai, you would know that after a reboot these devices are open again, because it is memory-only. Talk about posting an irrelevant generic statement because of cluelessness.
And I think we should make that something globally legal. Put in some safeguards, like a 48h observation period and a requirement to record logs and upload them with your identity to some legal entity that a device owner can then find out from what happened (but not who did it).
But if that is all fulfilled, make it legal for anyone to secure the hazard presented by these devices. After all, you are allowed, say, to put out a fire by yourself too.
Indeed. The main characteristic of script-kiddies is that they have very big egos and very small understanding of how things actually work. No halfway rational group of attackers would ever do such a pointless attack that only draws attention to them. I hope they find the morons responsible and charge them the full amount of damage done. No reason to add any punishment after that.
There is also the other thing that script kiddies are incompetent. How long since one such moron starts an attack and then loses control of the bot-net (thereby being unable to _stop_ the attack)? Small-time criminals and vandals with nukes...
Incidentally, civilized folk know that the death "penalty" has no deterrence value for murder. Cave-men, on the other hand still think you can sole problems by just applying violence, and if that fails, more violence.
Same here, with the one exception of the occasional Word document I need to work on (no, sadly LibreOffice will not cut it), but for that I would have no problem having a Win7 VM around.
Crime prevention by repression (i.e. law enforcement) must never go beyond what is needed to keep society functioning. Otherwise you end up with a non-free society in the form of a police-state. Sure, crime is a nuisance, but absence of freedoms is an extreme problem. Even if the police were able to catch all criminals, it must never be allowed to do so. Note that I explicitly exclude preventing and reducing crime by improving living conditions, sense of community, education, etc. These activities are hugely desirable and moral, yet sadly lacking these days.
On the same note, all laws forbidding things are evil by their very nature. Only the ones where it can be demonstrated that they actually prevent significantly greater evil are morally acceptable. All others (and there are a lot) retain their property of being evil and the people making and enforcing them share that property.
This amuses me no end. Actually, I have a PhD in the IT security field and about a decade of relevant experience after that.
Then you should have no problem succinctly explaining the flaws in my proof of concept, back of napkin scheme, something that you hitherto have failed to even attempt.
Oh, I could. I just do not care enough about yet another flawed crypto idea by an amateur. Amateur crypto universally sucks, no exceptions. After you have explained to the n-th person what they did wrong and why it cannot be fixed (and have dealt with all their denials and claims that only show even more how clueless they are), you realize at that there is absolutely no point. The Dunning-Kruger Effect seems to have a strongly amplified variant for amateurs doing crypto.
Incidentally, this is a universal experience among crypto experts. I am just one of the few that still occasionally answers to amateurs, because I believe crypto is important enough that the public should have some understanding of it.
History would indicate that it will require a full cycle up to fascism and eventual complete economic collapse, before freedom is restored. Of course, most fascisms in history were established relatively fast and hence fell fast, so we cannot be entirely sure the eventual collapse will happen in what the US is currently establishing.
The most extreme problems with government power always happen in secret (as long as a society is still somewhat free), because "law" enforcement universally runs amok when nobody watches them. By its very nature, the field primarily attracts people that value control and surveillance a lot more than freedom. The progression this causes is first to a police-state (the US is already there, still on the milder end though) and then eventually full-blown fascism. Of course, fascism is about the worst thing you can do to an economy, so collapse follows a few decades later.
It is like the US, the Brits, and some others that never had Fascism now want to try it out as well. And the Germans apparently want it back.
I suspected my browser of being broken, but apparently these "designers" are broken instead. Next step is that we need a "font-conditioner" in addition to an ad-blocker to keep the web readable. And to think that font-design and appropriate usage has been a solved problem for quite a few decades... The world is dumbing down even more.
I am all for equal opportunity, and that means those women that _want_ to go into computing should not face greater hurdles than the men that want the same. But why aim for 50%? That strikes me as a "cargo cult" approach where not any potential issues are targeted, but merely statistical numbers. This will, rather obviously, not solve any issues and it will push women into a field where rather obviously most do not want to go. How that could be perceived as a good thing is beyond me.
Path recovery/tracing has been a dead topic for > 20 years now, with the occasional irrelevant paper still getting published. The fact of the matter is that all proposals require far too many expensive changes and hence are never going to make in in practice. Sad but true.
Personally, I think we should start to drop ISPs that do not do egress-filtering and maybe make that a legal requirement for backbone operators. I do not see this changing unless we force ISPs to finally start following sound practices. With that we could at least identify where the worst of it is coming from.
And next, we should require ISPs to warn and then disconnect users that operate bot-net members. If they fail, drop their global connectivity.
I do not really see any other options. Laws (except allowing backbone operators to force ISPs to finally start using good networking practices) will not help.
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And thereby you kill fundamental research, which is the basis of all other research, completely. Stupid. And incidentally at the very root of the current problems as you currently have to promise research results for funding. If you already know the results, it is not research. It is development, and it has no long-term value, unlike actual research.
That is the single, most stupid take on research I have ever heard. If people like you were running the show, we would still be living in caves.
Same here. I think this is a very bad trend, but unfortunately one where it will take some time to become obvious how bad.
Stupid, more stupid, what you just said. Impressive.
Actually, I grew up in Germany, and the people alive back then would have known about this (especially those raped), would they not? I never heard about more than isolated incidents. Sure, like in basically every war, there were rapes, but there were also punishments, including executions for at least some of the perpetrators. You should not believe everything Wikipedia tells you, especially when there is good indication the article is more propaganda than fact.
Incidentally, from your language and lack of control, I would say that you are the one here in urgent need of professional help.
You are talking about the same ISPs that are unable to implement egress filtering (a basic requirement for any halfway secure network installation), thereby allowing source-spoofing, right?
And yet, if you had read up on Mirai, you would know that after a reboot these devices are open again, because it is memory-only. Talk about posting an irrelevant generic statement because of cluelessness.
And I think we should make that something globally legal. Put in some safeguards, like a 48h observation period and a requirement to record logs and upload them with your identity to some legal entity that a device owner can then find out from what happened (but not who did it).
But if that is all fulfilled, make it legal for anyone to secure the hazard presented by these devices. After all, you are allowed, say, to put out a fire by yourself too.
Indeed. The main characteristic of script-kiddies is that they have very big egos and very small understanding of how things actually work. No halfway rational group of attackers would ever do such a pointless attack that only draws attention to them. I hope they find the morons responsible and charge them the full amount of damage done. No reason to add any punishment after that.
There is also the other thing that script kiddies are incompetent. How long since one such moron starts an attack and then loses control of the bot-net (thereby being unable to _stop_ the attack)? Small-time criminals and vandals with nukes...
There were no "mass sanctioned rapes of German women". Stop revising history.
Incidentally, civilized folk know that the death "penalty" has no deterrence value for murder. Cave-men, on the other hand still think you can sole problems by just applying violence, and if that fails, more violence.
Indeed. Win10 must be regarded as Malware that aims to sabotage the user.
Same here, with the one exception of the occasional Word document I need to work on (no, sadly LibreOffice will not cut it), but for that I would have no problem having a Win7 VM around.
Bad and worse engineering. I guess things need to come crashing down before people learn to respect KISS again.
This is Windows. What _you_ want is irrelevant. Please align your personal desires to Microsoft's wishes.
Yep. Except for the Oil-Execs, that benefited hugely from all this (and the destruction of the planet they are driving forward).
Giants die slowly. But I see their Win10 "strategy" as a good accelerator of that end.
Crime prevention by repression (i.e. law enforcement) must never go beyond what is needed to keep society functioning. Otherwise you end up with a non-free society in the form of a police-state. Sure, crime is a nuisance, but absence of freedoms is an extreme problem. Even if the police were able to catch all criminals, it must never be allowed to do so. Note that I explicitly exclude preventing and reducing crime by improving living conditions, sense of community, education, etc. These activities are hugely desirable and moral, yet sadly lacking these days.
On the same note, all laws forbidding things are evil by their very nature. Only the ones where it can be demonstrated that they actually prevent significantly greater evil are morally acceptable. All others (and there are a lot) retain their property of being evil and the people making and enforcing them share that property.
This amuses me no end. Actually, I have a PhD in the IT security field and about a decade of relevant experience after that.
Then you should have no problem succinctly explaining the flaws in my proof of concept, back of napkin scheme, something that you hitherto have failed to even attempt.
Oh, I could. I just do not care enough about yet another flawed crypto idea by an amateur. Amateur crypto universally sucks, no exceptions. After you have explained to the n-th person what they did wrong and why it cannot be fixed (and have dealt with all their denials and claims that only show even more how clueless they are), you realize at that there is absolutely no point. The Dunning-Kruger Effect seems to have a strongly amplified variant for amateurs doing crypto.
Incidentally, this is a universal experience among crypto experts. I am just one of the few that still occasionally answers to amateurs, because I believe crypto is important enough that the public should have some understanding of it.
History would indicate that it will require a full cycle up to fascism and eventual complete economic collapse, before freedom is restored. Of course, most fascisms in history were established relatively fast and hence fell fast, so we cannot be entirely sure the eventual collapse will happen in what the US is currently establishing.
The most extreme problems with government power always happen in secret (as long as a society is still somewhat free), because "law" enforcement universally runs amok when nobody watches them. By its very nature, the field primarily attracts people that value control and surveillance a lot more than freedom. The progression this causes is first to a police-state (the US is already there, still on the milder end though) and then eventually full-blown fascism. Of course, fascism is about the worst thing you can do to an economy, so collapse follows a few decades later.
It is like the US, the Brits, and some others that never had Fascism now want to try it out as well. And the Germans apparently want it back.
I suspected my browser of being broken, but apparently these "designers" are broken instead. Next step is that we need a "font-conditioner" in addition to an ad-blocker to keep the web readable. And to think that font-design and appropriate usage has been a solved problem for quite a few decades... The world is dumbing down even more.
I am all for equal opportunity, and that means those women that _want_ to go into computing should not face greater hurdles than the men that want the same. But why aim for 50%? That strikes me as a "cargo cult" approach where not any potential issues are targeted, but merely statistical numbers. This will, rather obviously, not solve any issues and it will push women into a field where rather obviously most do not want to go. How that could be perceived as a good thing is beyond me.
Path recovery/tracing has been a dead topic for > 20 years now, with the occasional irrelevant paper still getting published. The fact of the matter is that all proposals require far too many expensive changes and hence are never going to make in in practice. Sad but true.
Personally, I think we should start to drop ISPs that do not do egress-filtering and maybe make that a legal requirement for backbone operators. I do not see this changing unless we force ISPs to finally start following sound practices. With that we could at least identify where the worst of it is coming from.
And next, we should require ISPs to warn and then disconnect users that operate bot-net members. If they fail, drop their global connectivity.
I do not really see any other options. Laws (except allowing backbone operators to force ISPs to finally start using good networking practices) will not help.