"Zero Knowledge" has a definite and clear meaning in cryptography: It applies to protocols where Alice can prove to Bob that she has a certain secret, without Bob learning anything about the secret itself. This has nothing at all to do with message encryption.
These people presume to lecture us about encryption, and they do not even get the very basics right?
This is extremely easy to abuse, and makes defending oneself against such accusations even harder. After all, the reports were "independent" (no, there is no indication that they were, but the idiots advocating this are not capable of understanding that).
In short, this is a witch-hunt support tool and it will be sued as such.
I can really only advise all male students that can afford it to not do their education in the US as all sanity is gone from that system.
And that is the kicker. The 25% number has nothing to do with rape, but they make it appear so as if it has. That is dishonest to the extreme.
The problem here is that "touching" is one of the established ways of testing out whether somebody else is amenable. Of course, you go for non-critical areas, like hands or lower arms or shoulders, but unless these idiots intend to re-program basic human behavior, touching and then observing the reaction is an acceptable and very well established (probably a few 10'000 years old) ways of asking a specific question. (There is also a whole formalized instance of this: Dancing. That is no accident.) And the established way to deal with it is to not get offended, but signal interest by accepting the touch or non-interest by terminating it. Anybody that thinks this is unacceptable behavior or even a crime needs therapy because there is something seriously wrong with them.
What you completely misunderstand is that an archival medium must be _reliable_. Sure, some batches of CD-R live very long and some HDDs do too. But others do not and there is no way to tell beforehand.
That is complete BS. First, all reputable data recovery outfits will for the foreseeable future have the respective drives available and copy fees are not actually high. Second, the newer generations of these drives read the old tape generations. And third, if "archival" grade BlueRay turns out like all the other consumer crap "archival" media, even getting 10 years out of them reliably will be a stretch. And M-DISC? Comes from as single vendor and their claims are so obviously vastly over-blown that anybody with an ounce of sense is very vary of their tech.
Actually, they do. You do not qualify as "real programmer" though, big ego and small skills is not the qualification needed.
For example, Python is very nice as glue and configuration language for c-modules that do the heavy lifting. I have been using that successfully in some pretty advanced projects.
A HDD is good for maybe 5-10 years, but USB-sticks, unpowered SSDs and writable optical media may become unreadable after as little as a year. Unless you keep several redundant copies and verify and re-copy regularly, you are going to lose that data. The one readily-available exception is, surprisingly, archival-grade _tape_.
This basically shows that the story writers have really no clue what they are talking about.
I do not agree in general. Most people do not have what it takes and will never be good coders. For those, salaries may drop even more. But they are to a competent software engineer what a not very good janitor is to a highly qualified Master's level mechanical engineer.
This comes from people that do not understand the relation between cause and effect: They think by changing the numbers, they can change the conditions that lead to these numbers. Of course, that cannot work.
SJWs are not info pesky facts. They want to portray themselves as victims and then reap unearned benefits from that. Basically parasites without any useful skills.
I just hope the STEM field if more resilient to this kind of dishonorable and destructive attacks than other fields have been.
All scientifically done studies on the subject indicate a slight bias towards women being a little bit more for the same work. Of course, women far more often work part-time and often take significant time off for children. That results in lower pay, but it is not like this is hidden or unfair in any way.
While none of the female CS types I know have let themselves be pushed out by this, quite a few complain, and rightfully so. This is insulting to anybody that has worked hard to be good at things. In addition, the women that were hired because of gender often seem to be incompetent, disrupt the workplace, and generally make a lot of work for others, often the competent women.
Really, STEM is a "every competent sentient life-form welcome" club. There is NOTHING that should be done to push people in that field, because people that need to be pushed or manipulated into it will later very likely fail as they will lack the dedication and skill to make it.
The first UNIX sysadmin of the student pool I did run in at university was a bit like that. She was also competent and helpful, so nobody of the (almost completely male) students had a problem with that. And that is just the thing: I know quite a few female CS and EE types and none of them had any serious issues with gender discrimination. They universally had a dim view of most other female students though as them being "lazy" and unwilling to get their hands dirty and such. If you want some people with a really dim view of female students in STEM, just ask some of the female STEM graduates that do well in the field.
That may be a really, really bad idea. The absolutely last thing we need is even more incompetent InfoSec people. InfoSec people need to be competent to have any worth. From personal experience, that needs something like 5-10 years on top of a university master's with security focus and a lot of personal interest in the subject.
The thing is, this is just the same with all of CompSci, coding, etc. Women generally look more carefully at the types of careers and working environments they can have afterwards. Now, working conditions, career options and compensation for Coders, Software Engineers, etc. generally suck badly these days. It is no surprise that women with the talent and skills more often than not avoid going into this field. Incidentally, this is something a lot of men also do, but to a lesser degree.
The thing is, we have far to many IT people, coders, etc. We urgently need to get all the incompetents and semi-competents out of there, pay the rest a lot better and give them the power to decide things. An incompetent IT person (and they are far more than 50%) is worse than having nobody. But as long as you pay peanuts, you only get monkeys.
No, no, they have not spent that money on _code_. They have spent it on _executives_! You know, clueless people with big egos that earn a lot of money and prevent engineers from doing a good job.
So far it has worked splendidly. Juts look at all the stupid people still flocking to them and defending their decades out-of-date crap like it was the second coming.
Most of them will be incompetent (as most executives are) with regards to security anyways. What about hiring some actual experts (i.e. engineers) and giving them the power they need to change things?
Of course, that would result in these experts telling MS to scrap everything and start over (based on xBSD or Linux) because Security is not something you can successfully bolt-on after the fact. And that is the reason why this is pure show. MS has never cared about their customers or about having a good product. They have always ignored other things that work whenever they could and made their own thing instead, badly. As long as their bottom-line is unaffected, that will never change. Of course, with all the mobile devices these days, a "pure MS" ecosystem does not exist and the average person has found out that you can do cool things with non-MS systems too.
1. Bombings in other places 2. Less bombings overall for unrelated reasons
Seriously, you can shift where terrorists attack, but you cannot prevent the attacks by guarding a few possible targets better. Terrorists do not strike because they see an opportunity for fun, they strike because they are hardened fanatics.
As I said, you model is wrong. The "filtering effect" is a pure fantasy for this case. You cannot "deter" a "would-be" terrorist, as these do not exist. People that become terrorists are exceptionally strongly motivated to carry out their attacks. It is not some minor shift in attitude. There is a threshold-effect at work and everything beneath the very high threshold has no effect at all. Reaching this high threshold generally is not possible in a free society.
You model is that of a typical theorist that has no clue how actual reality works and is oversimplified to a degree as to be meaningless.
You seem to think that if you make it harder to place a bomb in airport luggage, then the terrorist will go home defeated and cry. That is complete nonsense. The bomb will just be placed somewhere else more vulnerable. And there will always be a lot of targets to chose from in a free society.
And then, what does recognizing people help, if you DO NOT KNOW who is preparing such an attack? Incidentally, "catching 10% of the Infiltrators" does not help one bit. Apparently you missed that their first weapon shipment was caught in Germany 10 days or so ago and the French police did not care? So another completely worthless "security measure". You also have no clue how bad facial recognition software is these days, but that is already a detail.
And what is "helping the police to track them down" going to accomplish? These people are willing to die. There is no after-the-fact threat that would matter to them. At all.
So, no, I am not being too categorical. Unlike you I do understand how things work and have open eyes.
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"Zero Knowledge" has a definite and clear meaning in cryptography: It applies to protocols where Alice can prove to Bob that she has a certain secret, without Bob learning anything about the secret itself. This has nothing at all to do with message encryption.
These people presume to lecture us about encryption, and they do not even get the very basics right?
Hehehehe, no, it is a typo. But it will be sued as well. Come to think of, has the victim of "Mattress-Girl" sued her successfully?
This is extremely easy to abuse, and makes defending oneself against such accusations even harder. After all, the reports were "independent" (no, there is no indication that they were, but the idiots advocating this are not capable of understanding that).
In short, this is a witch-hunt support tool and it will be sued as such.
I can really only advise all male students that can afford it to not do their education in the US as all sanity is gone from that system.
And that is the kicker. The 25% number has nothing to do with rape, but they make it appear so as if it has. That is dishonest to the extreme.
The problem here is that "touching" is one of the established ways of testing out whether somebody else is amenable. Of course, you go for non-critical areas, like hands or lower arms or shoulders, but unless these idiots intend to re-program basic human behavior, touching and then observing the reaction is an acceptable and very well established (probably a few 10'000 years old) ways of asking a specific question. (There is also a whole formalized instance of this: Dancing. That is no accident.) And the established way to deal with it is to not get offended, but signal interest by accepting the touch or non-interest by terminating it. Anybody that thinks this is unacceptable behavior or even a crime needs therapy because there is something seriously wrong with them.
What you completely misunderstand is that an archival medium must be _reliable_. Sure, some batches of CD-R live very long and some HDDs do too. But others do not and there is no way to tell beforehand.
That is complete BS. First, all reputable data recovery outfits will for the foreseeable future have the respective drives available and copy fees are not actually high. Second, the newer generations of these drives read the old tape generations. And third, if "archival" grade BlueRay turns out like all the other consumer crap "archival" media, even getting 10 years out of them reliably will be a stretch. And M-DISC? Comes from as single vendor and their claims are so obviously vastly over-blown that anybody with an ounce of sense is very vary of their tech.
Ah, yes. I remember those. They try this with smart male students too, but are probably easier of fend off. Parasites.
Actually, they do. You do not qualify as "real programmer" though, big ego and small skills is not the qualification needed.
For example, Python is very nice as glue and configuration language for c-modules that do the heavy lifting. I have been using that successfully in some pretty advanced projects.
A HDD is good for maybe 5-10 years, but USB-sticks, unpowered SSDs and writable optical media may become unreadable after as little as a year. Unless you keep several redundant copies and verify and re-copy regularly, you are going to lose that data. The one readily-available exception is, surprisingly, archival-grade _tape_.
This basically shows that the story writers have really no clue what they are talking about.
I do not agree in general. Most people do not have what it takes and will never be good coders. For those, salaries may drop even more. But they are to a competent software engineer what a not very good janitor is to a highly qualified Master's level mechanical engineer.
This comes from people that do not understand the relation between cause and effect: They think by changing the numbers, they can change the conditions that lead to these numbers. Of course, that cannot work.
Indeed. Apparently these people think it means "we can talk about it" and that being dishonest and manipulative is fine.
SJWs are not info pesky facts. They want to portray themselves as victims and then reap unearned benefits from that. Basically parasites without any useful skills.
I just hope the STEM field if more resilient to this kind of dishonorable and destructive attacks than other fields have been.
All scientifically done studies on the subject indicate a slight bias towards women being a little bit more for the same work. Of course, women far more often work part-time and often take significant time off for children. That results in lower pay, but it is not like this is hidden or unfair in any way.
While none of the female CS types I know have let themselves be pushed out by this, quite a few complain, and rightfully so. This is insulting to anybody that has worked hard to be good at things. In addition, the women that were hired because of gender often seem to be incompetent, disrupt the workplace, and generally make a lot of work for others, often the competent women.
Really, STEM is a "every competent sentient life-form welcome" club. There is NOTHING that should be done to push people in that field, because people that need to be pushed or manipulated into it will later very likely fail as they will lack the dedication and skill to make it.
The first UNIX sysadmin of the student pool I did run in at university was a bit like that. She was also competent and helpful, so nobody of the (almost completely male) students had a problem with that. And that is just the thing: I know quite a few female CS and EE types and none of them had any serious issues with gender discrimination. They universally had a dim view of most other female students though as them being "lazy" and unwilling to get their hands dirty and such. If you want some people with a really dim view of female students in STEM, just ask some of the female STEM graduates that do well in the field.
That may be a really, really bad idea. The absolutely last thing we need is even more incompetent InfoSec people. InfoSec people need to be competent to have any worth. From personal experience, that needs something like 5-10 years on top of a university master's with security focus and a lot of personal interest in the subject.
The thing is, this is just the same with all of CompSci, coding, etc. Women generally look more carefully at the types of careers and working environments they can have afterwards. Now, working conditions, career options and compensation for Coders, Software Engineers, etc. generally suck badly these days. It is no surprise that women with the talent and skills more often than not avoid going into this field. Incidentally, this is something a lot of men also do, but to a lesser degree.
The thing is, we have far to many IT people, coders, etc. We urgently need to get all the incompetents and semi-competents out of there, pay the rest a lot better and give them the power to decide things. An incompetent IT person (and they are far more than 50%) is worse than having nobody. But as long as you pay peanuts, you only get monkeys.
I got two of these this week. First I just hung up, second I cursed the person on the other side. Seems to have worked as security measure.
No, no, they have not spent that money on _code_. They have spent it on _executives_! You know, clueless people with big egos that earn a lot of money and prevent engineers from doing a good job.
So far it has worked splendidly. Juts look at all the stupid people still flocking to them and defending their decades out-of-date crap like it was the second coming.
Most of them will be incompetent (as most executives are) with regards to security anyways. What about hiring some actual experts (i.e. engineers) and giving them the power they need to change things?
Of course, that would result in these experts telling MS to scrap everything and start over (based on xBSD or Linux) because Security is not something you can successfully bolt-on after the fact. And that is the reason why this is pure show. MS has never cared about their customers or about having a good product. They have always ignored other things that work whenever they could and made their own thing instead, badly. As long as their bottom-line is unaffected, that will never change. Of course, with all the mobile devices these days, a "pure MS" ecosystem does not exist and the average person has found out that you can do cool things with non-MS systems too.
1. Bombings in other places
2. Less bombings overall for unrelated reasons
Seriously, you can shift where terrorists attack, but you cannot prevent the attacks by guarding a few possible targets better. Terrorists do not strike because they see an opportunity for fun, they strike because they are hardened fanatics.
As I said, you model is wrong. The "filtering effect" is a pure fantasy for this case. You cannot "deter" a "would-be" terrorist, as these do not exist. People that become terrorists are exceptionally strongly motivated to carry out their attacks. It is not some minor shift in attitude. There is a threshold-effect at work and everything beneath the very high threshold has no effect at all. Reaching this high threshold generally is not possible in a free society.
You model is that of a typical theorist that has no clue how actual reality works and is oversimplified to a degree as to be meaningless.
You logic is fundamentally flawed:
You seem to think that if you make it harder to place a bomb in airport luggage, then the terrorist will go home defeated and cry. That is complete nonsense. The bomb will just be placed somewhere else more vulnerable. And there will always be a lot of targets to chose from in a free society.
And then, what does recognizing people help, if you DO NOT KNOW who is preparing such an attack? Incidentally, "catching 10% of the Infiltrators" does not help one bit. Apparently you missed that their first weapon shipment was caught in Germany 10 days or so ago and the French police did not care? So another completely worthless "security measure". You also have no clue how bad facial recognition software is these days, but that is already a detail.
And what is "helping the police to track them down" going to accomplish? These people are willing to die. There is no after-the-fact threat that would matter to them. At all.
So, no, I am not being too categorical. Unlike you I do understand how things work and have open eyes.