Require it, for example, to be installable with Linux with the "current version of the stable Debian installer" at the time of purchase. For an individual contract, that version needs to be specified, of course. This way you have at least somebody to blame if it later turns out this does not work.
Not necessarily. A vendor can place a backdoor that is very hard to abuse by anybody else. As soon as you have several parties in there, things get murky. For example, the government is known to be incapable of reliably keeping secrets, as Snowden so impressively demonstrated. Then there is the problem that placing backdoors securely is very expensive to get right (hence the ones placing them must have maximum access and a strong motivation to make them secure, something a vendor will never have as it decreases their product quality) and you basically have to publish the nature of the backdoor, negating its effect in many cases. There are other problems.
My guess is that the NSA brass got seduced by the idea because they only saw that in principle it could be done (see Dual_EC_DRBG, where we only strongly suspect it has been compromised by the NSA, and nobody else can use that compromise if it is there except if the secrets used by the NSA get stolen), and very much underestimated the practical problems and vastly overestimated their skills. I do agree that in practice, secure backdoors are not really possible. The only things that work in practice is to give the NSA/KGB/Stasi/GeStaPo a set of credentials which they can use to openly access everything. That is not compatible with elementary freedoms though, so they try the dishonorable, cowardly and dangerous backdoor-approach instead, in the hopes that the citizenry does not understand what they are doing. So far, they are right.
By definition, if the government does it, it is not hacking, abuse or a compromise. It is not torture, murder or criminal in any form either. And if they leave backdoors wide open for others to exploit, this is, of course, entirely the fault of said others and the government cannot be held responsible.
Well, I recently had the displeasure to meet with an IBM technical team. I did suggest regular meetings to my contact at the customer, since we were working on similar things for the customer. I have now learned better: The IBM team was exceptionally arrogant, completely incompetent, socially inept and generally unhelpful. My contact and I agreed to not continue these meetings.
The IBM people are now 3 years over schedule and have not even gotten basic things right. This must really be a culture of "nobody was ever fired for buying IBM", or whoever keeps insisting they get yet another chance would have been fired a long time ago.
This is not capitalism. Capitalists would realize that experienced people are very valuable and worth a high price. What IBM does is short-term greed, which long-term kills the company. These people are just bandits. Actual capitalists take a long-term view.
IBM, like Oracle, has its loyal followers. They have been both abusing their customers, charging outrageous fees for bad quality, etc. But I guess there are just enough masochists out there in positions to make the decisions which hardware to buy and which consultants to hire.
Indeed. And they come with native USB and network, instead of the half-assed unreliable trash the RPi is using. But I guess when you have to use Broadcom chips, then you cannot really produce anything good.
That actually makes its shortcomings _worse_. Hackers can get around them somehow (the USB and Network is a real pain though), but how are ordinary people expected to do so? Or are you saying ordinary people do not deserve good hardware? If so, I strongly disagree!
In mathematics, "almost all" means "all, except for a finite number". As the number of pictures in this universe is finite, this could even mean this "magic" machine cannot do it at all. I guess the headline was written in this spirit.
And likely just as real. It is high time that any and all patent applications require delivery of a working prototype and for extraordinary claims such as these, independent creation of the device by a 3rd party based on the patent application only to verify the patent application is complete and truthful. It should not be possible to patent non-extraordinary things in the first place.
Indeed. Hardware designed by semi-competents. It is really pathetic that this abomination with its missing documentation, no real sound, unreliable networking, no SATA, etc. is such a success, when far better designs are available at comparable prices.
You do not. You secure your systems. Do not forget that this is only the attempts you know about, i.e. amateur-level. If they represent a threat, then you are screwed anyways.
In order to prove that color exists, one of the most simple approaches is to use color-filters. Incidentally, using them, even a fully color-blind person can deduce the color of things.
Just another pseudo-mystic BS story that religious people use to try to confuse others in order to soften them up.
Actually, it is impossible to explain God to an atheist. The atheist will correctly conclude that you have a mental deficiency leading to you believing an elaborate fantasy and that is it. The atheist will have experience with that delusion and may even have suffered from it in the past and will have built-up an immunity.
Today, we can even be more specific: Infection with a malicious meme of the religious type. Kills rationality whenever the subject is trying to think about it and makes mystical nonsense seem perfectly logical in relation to it and can lead to elaborate hallucinations. Also causes the desire to spread the infection. Like any physical pathogen, really.
Well, the only things BG had to contribute was a lot of luck and some sales talent. He never had any real engineering skills or any real understanding of what was going on. (No idea why people think different. You can be a primitive cave-man and get rich in the US. Just look at Trump.) No wonder BG is no longer relevant.
Incidentally, his retraction (done since then) reads like somebody with a clue explained to him what is actually going on.
No real problem. Most women are actually fine with how things are set up gender-wise. A minority of loud female fascists does not a real problem make. May just take a while for the rest to wise up about them.
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Require it, for example, to be installable with Linux with the "current version of the stable Debian installer" at the time of purchase. For an individual contract, that version needs to be specified, of course. This way you have at least somebody to blame if it later turns out this does not work.
Not necessarily. A vendor can place a backdoor that is very hard to abuse by anybody else. As soon as you have several parties in there, things get murky. For example, the government is known to be incapable of reliably keeping secrets, as Snowden so impressively demonstrated. Then there is the problem that placing backdoors securely is very expensive to get right (hence the ones placing them must have maximum access and a strong motivation to make them secure, something a vendor will never have as it decreases their product quality) and you basically have to publish the nature of the backdoor, negating its effect in many cases. There are other problems.
My guess is that the NSA brass got seduced by the idea because they only saw that in principle it could be done (see Dual_EC_DRBG, where we only strongly suspect it has been compromised by the NSA, and nobody else can use that compromise if it is there except if the secrets used by the NSA get stolen), and very much underestimated the practical problems and vastly overestimated their skills. I do agree that in practice, secure backdoors are not really possible. The only things that work in practice is to give the NSA/KGB/Stasi/GeStaPo a set of credentials which they can use to openly access everything. That is not compatible with elementary freedoms though, so they try the dishonorable, cowardly and dangerous backdoor-approach instead, in the hopes that the citizenry does not understand what they are doing. So far, they are right.
I disagree. Name one area where the US is not behind. "Arrogance", "barbarism", and "general stupidity" do not count.
By definition, if the government does it, it is not hacking, abuse or a compromise. It is not torture, murder or criminal in any form either. And if they leave backdoors wide open for others to exploit, this is, of course, entirely the fault of said others and the government cannot be held responsible.
Apple makes quite a bit of its profits not in the US...
Ah, yes. You are entirely correct.
Well, I recently had the displeasure to meet with an IBM technical team. I did suggest regular meetings to my contact at the customer, since we were working on similar things for the customer. I have now learned better: The IBM team was exceptionally arrogant, completely incompetent, socially inept and generally unhelpful. My contact and I agreed to not continue these meetings.
The IBM people are now 3 years over schedule and have not even gotten basic things right. This must really be a culture of "nobody was ever fired for buying IBM", or whoever keeps insisting they get yet another chance would have been fired a long time ago.
This is not capitalism. Capitalists would realize that experienced people are very valuable and worth a high price. What IBM does is short-term greed, which long-term kills the company. These people are just bandits. Actual capitalists take a long-term view.
IBM, like Oracle, has its loyal followers. They have been both abusing their customers, charging outrageous fees for bad quality, etc. But I guess there are just enough masochists out there in positions to make the decisions which hardware to buy and which consultants to hire.
Indeed. And they come with native USB and network, instead of the half-assed unreliable trash the RPi is using. But I guess when you have to use Broadcom chips, then you cannot really produce anything good.
That actually makes its shortcomings _worse_. Hackers can get around them somehow (the USB and Network is a real pain though), but how are ordinary people expected to do so? Or are you saying ordinary people do not deserve good hardware? If so, I strongly disagree!
I am very sure he was not. I was though.
In mathematics, "almost all" means "all, except for a finite number". As the number of pictures in this universe is finite, this could even mean this "magic" machine cannot do it at all. I guess the headline was written in this spirit.
And likely just as real. It is high time that any and all patent applications require delivery of a working prototype and for extraordinary claims such as these, independent creation of the device by a 3rd party based on the patent application only to verify the patent application is complete and truthful. It should not be possible to patent non-extraordinary things in the first place.
Indeed. Hardware designed by semi-competents. It is really pathetic that this abomination with its missing documentation, no real sound, unreliable networking, no SATA, etc. is such a success, when far better designs are available at comparable prices.
Stop spreading FUD.
You do not. You secure your systems. Do not forget that this is only the attempts you know about, i.e. amateur-level. If they represent a threat, then you are screwed anyways.
This memetic infection also turns quite a few of the infected into infantile word-twisters...
Yes. Bad translation on my side.
The sentiment is appreciated...
In order to prove that color exists, one of the most simple approaches is to use color-filters. Incidentally, using them, even a fully color-blind person can deduce the color of things.
Just another pseudo-mystic BS story that religious people use to try to confuse others in order to soften them up.
Actually, it is impossible to explain God to an atheist. The atheist will correctly conclude that you have a mental deficiency leading to you believing an elaborate fantasy and that is it. The atheist will have experience with that delusion and may even have suffered from it in the past and will have built-up an immunity.
Today, we can even be more specific: Infection with a malicious meme of the religious type. Kills rationality whenever the subject is trying to think about it and makes mystical nonsense seem perfectly logical in relation to it and can lead to elaborate hallucinations. Also causes the desire to spread the infection. Like any physical pathogen, really.
Well, the only things BG had to contribute was a lot of luck and some sales talent. He never had any real engineering skills or any real understanding of what was going on. (No idea why people think different. You can be a primitive cave-man and get rich in the US. Just look at Trump.) No wonder BG is no longer relevant.
Incidentally, his retraction (done since then) reads like somebody with a clue explained to him what is actually going on.
Thanks for proving my point: You are utterly blind to the reality of what happened to you. And you are doing this to yourself.
No real problem. Most women are actually fine with how things are set up gender-wise. A minority of loud female fascists does not a real problem make. May just take a while for the rest to wise up about them.