If they get them, does anybody seriously believe the keys to those backdoors will not be in the hands of state-sponsored and other hackers very soon after?
First, "Rm -rf gets you an error because the comman "Rm" is unknown. And second, Unix-filesystems are not moron compatible (different from Windows) and recovering files is generally very hard or infeasible.
Fascinating, how utter uncaring evil scum some people are. I can hope though that you will get reincarnated into an area that gets hit hardest and then spend a lifetime of cursing the likes of yourself.
Do not mistake this for a finished product. The main concern is that the implanted electrodes have a limited lifetime. It has gotten better, but it is still nowhere near "permanent". One of the motivation for such experiments is to find the minimal intrusiveness for the implanted electrodes that still allows them to record the signals with the required accuracy. Expect at least 10 more years and possibly much longer before the electrodes become long-term usable.
I know that. The average user does not. People with a clue will rarely get caught by this. Most lack that clue and that is what the design of a "average user" OS like Windows must expect.
Not everybody want to do business according to the traditional US "screw the customer as best as possible" "capitalist" model. Some may want the dual satisfaction of delivering a good product and still making quite a bit of money off it. And no, that is not socialism, not screwing over your customer is a very, very capitalist thing to do, it just requires the ability to think strategically.
Tesla is threatening a lot of conservative, inflexible and greedy companies, that are used to be able to screw over their customers with nothing much happening to them as a result. These are obviously investing a lot of money into "reporting" that bad-mouths Tesla.
And that may just be one of the reasons behind the large number of pre-orders for the Model 3. Customers are generally not very bright, but if screwed over repeatedly, they begin to notice and start to look for alternatives.
"Reasonable" quality is entirely fine and you can always get that with solid engineering. This also means that Tesla is _not_ going to push these out as fast as possible, they are going to make sure best practices are followed and a certain amount of over-engineering and over-testing is happening. There is no sane reason for this alarmist nonsense.
I do have to say that the non-understanding of sound engineering practices in/. stories is on the raise and in the process of reaching astonishing heights.
Law enforcement in this area has zero excuses these days to not know what a TOR exit node is. Seriously. Intent to ignore facts is required on their side and then lying by omission to a judge, because the judge may know...
While true, more and more often the sysadmin and networking teams can do very little and sometimes nothing at all, because it is a problem typically located in the application-side of things. And there, the complete lack of security-knowledge in those designing and writing the applications is the core problem.
That is precisely the point: Engineers and developers with no understanding of IT security always think it is easy and then mess it up badly. Teaching them something about it will make at least the bright ones realize that it is not easy and that they should get expert help when building something that requires security.
I strongly disagree. Security is never a "detail". Security must have strong influence on architecture and design, it must take into account and influence algorithms, interfaces, technologies, etc. used, as otherwise it will never work well. Your mind-set is precisely the reason why we have today's mess.
As many of these people will do system architectures and design and some of them will do implementation, I must strongly disagree. Trying to retrofit security somehow to things that were designed without is the core reason for today's mess.
Thanks. I saw that but discounted it as an attack-vector, because it is not really one (well, not a technological one). But if that is the only thing they mention, then we may just have 4000 terminally stupid system administrators as the root-cause.
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If they get them, does anybody seriously believe the keys to those backdoors will not be in the hands of state-sponsored and other hackers very soon after?
First, "Rm -rf gets you an error because the comman "Rm" is unknown. And second, Unix-filesystems are not moron compatible (different from Windows) and recovering files is generally very hard or infeasible.
You are of course welcome to do so ;-)
Fascinating, how utter uncaring evil scum some people are. I can hope though that you will get reincarnated into an area that gets hit hardest and then spend a lifetime of cursing the likes of yourself.
Do not mistake this for a finished product. The main concern is that the implanted electrodes have a limited lifetime. It has gotten better, but it is still nowhere near "permanent". One of the motivation for such experiments is to find the minimal intrusiveness for the implanted electrodes that still allows them to record the signals with the required accuracy. Expect at least 10 more years and possibly much longer before the electrodes become long-term usable.
I think you misunderstand what I am saying. I am saying the Tesla is the alternative and hence the large number of pre-orders for the Model 3.
I know that. The average user does not. People with a clue will rarely get caught by this. Most lack that clue and that is what the design of a "average user" OS like Windows must expect.
I foresee malware that fakes a BSOD in order to send your phone via QR-code to a website that then hacks the phone. Genius!
It seems MS is losing what little expertise it had in the security-space fast. This demented idea is a good example.
You forget that Tesla is not carried by most/all existing dealerships. And suddenly your argument vanishes into nothing.
Not everybody want to do business according to the traditional US "screw the customer as best as possible" "capitalist" model. Some may want the dual satisfaction of delivering a good product and still making quite a bit of money off it. And no, that is not socialism, not screwing over your customer is a very, very capitalist thing to do, it just requires the ability to think strategically.
Tesla is threatening a lot of conservative, inflexible and greedy companies, that are used to be able to screw over their customers with nothing much happening to them as a result. These are obviously investing a lot of money into "reporting" that bad-mouths Tesla.
And that may just be one of the reasons behind the large number of pre-orders for the Model 3. Customers are generally not very bright, but if screwed over repeatedly, they begin to notice and start to look for alternatives.
"Reasonable" quality is entirely fine and you can always get that with solid engineering. This also means that Tesla is _not_ going to push these out as fast as possible, they are going to make sure best practices are followed and a certain amount of over-engineering and over-testing is happening. There is no sane reason for this alarmist nonsense.
I do have to say that the non-understanding of sound engineering practices in /. stories is on the raise and in the process of reaching astonishing heights.
Law enforcement in this area has zero excuses these days to not know what a TOR exit node is. Seriously. Intent to ignore facts is required on their side and then lying by omission to a judge, because the judge may know...
You must be a hacker as well, because you seem to be humor-impaired.
Indeed. You cannot use a wrong to make things right. This just makes the problem worse.
Completely wrong. IT Security even has questions that fall under "theoretical CS".
CS done wrong is mostly math. Done right, nothing but "Theoretical CS" has any business being mostly math.
While true, more and more often the sysadmin and networking teams can do very little and sometimes nothing at all, because it is a problem typically located in the application-side of things. And there, the complete lack of security-knowledge in those designing and writing the applications is the core problem.
That is precisely the point: Engineers and developers with no understanding of IT security always think it is easy and then mess it up badly. Teaching them something about it will make at least the bright ones realize that it is not easy and that they should get expert help when building something that requires security.
That would likely improve things significantly.
I strongly disagree. Security is never a "detail". Security must have strong influence on architecture and design, it must take into account and influence algorithms, interfaces, technologies, etc. used, as otherwise it will never work well. Your mind-set is precisely the reason why we have today's mess.
As many of these people will do system architectures and design and some of them will do implementation, I must strongly disagree. Trying to retrofit security somehow to things that were designed without is the core reason for today's mess.
Thanks. I saw that but discounted it as an attack-vector, because it is not really one (well, not a technological one). But if that is the only thing they mention, then we may just have 4000 terminally stupid system administrators as the root-cause.
Sorry, I am not into techno-fantasy pretending to be SF.