"Succeed"? Why would future generations revive people that were so full of themselves or so afraid of death that they had themselves frozen? If anything, having yourself frozen in this way is a good indicator that reviving you is a bad idea.
Actually, their main accomplishment is to have generated a long-running legal scam that seems to be generating them quite a bit of money. They are doing better than some religions and other legal scams.
Indeed. Whenever they need a little bit more revenue, they increase the margin at which the printer will lie to its owner and claim the cartridge is empty.
Right on the mark. If there is a need for a certain type of skill, capitalism says that these people need to be offered significantly more money and better working conditions. After that, one needs to wait for a bit and the problem solves itself.
So if this really were capitalism, then coders, software engineers, etc. would be treated and paid really well. That is not the case. Instead, it is a system where everybody with power tries to shovel as much money as possible into their own pockets, and screw any type of strategic acting or planning. That is not capitalism. That is a sacking&looting system, and it leaves scorched earth and nothing else.
Looking at employees as a critically valuable resource that needs to be maintained is entirely enough. Incidentally, any good capitalist does that. The problem is that the economy is by now dominated by really bad capitalists that have never understood what makes capitalism work.
You mistake this program for something that is intended to train and create competence in the participants. For these, companies used to pay back in the day when the quarterly results were not the only metric involved. Quite clearly, the tuition is the only reason why this program is implemented, namely as a way to scam those participating out of their money.
All these people paying 5'000-10'000 USD for 3 months only to be told afterwards that they do not have what it takes? Excellent. And in addition, the few ones that are really good can be exploited at low "apprentice" wages for years afterwards. A big win, except for all those participating in this.
This is an excellent scam! Impressive. Of course, any halfway ethical person would not participate in the establishment of something like this, ever.
Remember the TSA keys, they so stupidly leaked? Have any confidence, crypto-keys for passwords will be any better?
A backdoor is a hole drilled deliberately into a protection mechanism. It always weakens the whole. It always can be exploited automatically and mass-scale by its very design, and if there is even the tiniest oversight or leak on the side of those holding the keys, it will be. Look at the abysmal state of software quality and security. Do you really think they will be able to secure backdoors adequately?
They make this fundamental mistake that they (a small minority) are the ones that need to protect their own tribe against everybody else (that vast majority). They have completely lost context and forgotten on whose sufferance they exist and have some power. It is time to remind them, and that is what is happening at the moment. They seem to think of themselves as benevolent kindergarten teachers and the population as utterly dumb little kids that need to be told what to think. Not so. Countless millions of people have died to end hereditary authoritarianism and fascism in many forms in the west, and now these cretins want to bring it back. It seems at least some people remember or have learned from history how utterly evil that is and that it needs to be stopped at all cost, because not stopping it will lead to insanely higher cost to society.
Freedom is non-optional end essential. Surveillance kills freedom, first by chilling effects and then by "them" being able to get rid of anybody and everybody that threatens their perverted vision of how society should be.
Indeed. This can already be seen by the little fact that "the terrorists" do not have the capability to hurt the people to any significant degree. I mean, even killing a few thousands does not matter very much to 250 millions. The terrorists may be able to attack some of those in power though.
Sounds very much like it indeed. The authoritarian scum being scared that somebody more sane takes power away from them and that people may actually want that. You know, like in that little thing where the government serves the people and is elected by them.
And by the strategies you people are using, you will destroy everything the US used to stand for a lot sooner. How that is an improvement is beyond me. Of course, you said "scared shitless". That may be the core problem: Scared people are not rational and very often act in ways that accelerate their own destruction and amplify collateral damage. I mean, you very rhetoric is utterly irrational: You cannot "lose the country". People will still live there. The country will still be there. And there is absolutely nobody on this planet that could take over the US from the outside.
Use a low-power microcontroller like an MPS430, power from lithium-battery, keep keys in RAM and invert them every minute or so. You can wipe that MPS430 in a few microseconds on command and without using much energy.
Seriously, this is a stunt, not anything new or special.
Was possibly outsourced somewhere where they have even less skill (because the skilled ones all left...) and then not really tested or looked at because that costs money. This is a sign of clear and present danger from all Fire-Eye products though, as they apparently do not even understand the basics.
Well, the take-away is clearly to never ever buy Fire-Eye, as they will shamelessly lie about their incompetence. Of course, the same applies to most other vendors. Capitalism screws most people up that way.
Mad password protection is one of the absolute standard things to check in any security review that deserves the name. Apparently, these people were arrogant in addition to incompetent and though they could do without external review. Save a penny, lose a million (scaled up 10'000 times or so).
No, they did not do password protection right. Around 15 million only had MD5 as protection, and that is just utterly incompetent. And yes, it is quite possible to secure passwords you have as MD5 better retroactively, just do bcrypt(md5(password)). Apparently nobody cared or understood this.
The bcrypt-ed passwords are unbroken. Apparently around 15 Million were stored using a single, non-salted, non-iterated MD5 hash. That many of these are easy to break is no surprise. Still, any user that used a good, high-entropy password is secure with MD5 as well.
Well, yes. In some cases. If the user did not prevent it. And then these users could pretty easily de-install that crapware again. And while systemd is an abomination, it is still FOSS and can be analyzed for what it does, quite unlike the MS-supplied malware.
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"Succeed"? Why would future generations revive people that were so full of themselves or so afraid of death that they had themselves frozen? If anything, having yourself frozen in this way is a good indicator that reviving you is a bad idea.
Actually, their main accomplishment is to have generated a long-running legal scam that seems to be generating them quite a bit of money. They are doing better than some religions and other legal scams.
It is a real shame. They used to make really good printers. I guess the demons of greed got to them also, just as with so many others these days.
Indeed. Whenever they need a little bit more revenue, they increase the margin at which the printer will lie to its owner and claim the cartridge is empty.
Right on the mark. If there is a need for a certain type of skill, capitalism says that these people need to be offered significantly more money and better working conditions. After that, one needs to wait for a bit and the problem solves itself.
So if this really were capitalism, then coders, software engineers, etc. would be treated and paid really well. That is not the case. Instead, it is a system where everybody with power tries to shovel as much money as possible into their own pockets, and screw any type of strategic acting or planning. That is not capitalism. That is a sacking&looting system, and it leaves scorched earth and nothing else.
Looking at employees as a critically valuable resource that needs to be maintained is entirely enough. Incidentally, any good capitalist does that. The problem is that the economy is by now dominated by really bad capitalists that have never understood what makes capitalism work.
You mistake this program for something that is intended to train and create competence in the participants. For these, companies used to pay back in the day when the quarterly results were not the only metric involved. Quite clearly, the tuition is the only reason why this program is implemented, namely as a way to scam those participating out of their money.
All these people paying 5'000-10'000 USD for 3 months only to be told afterwards that they do not have what it takes? Excellent. And in addition, the few ones that are really good can be exploited at low "apprentice" wages for years afterwards. A big win, except for all those participating in this.
This is an excellent scam! Impressive. Of course, any halfway ethical person would not participate in the establishment of something like this, ever.
Do you even have to ask?
Remember the TSA keys, they so stupidly leaked? Have any confidence, crypto-keys for passwords will be any better?
A backdoor is a hole drilled deliberately into a protection mechanism. It always weakens the whole. It always can be exploited automatically and mass-scale by its very design, and if there is even the tiniest oversight or leak on the side of those holding the keys, it will be. Look at the abysmal state of software quality and security. Do you really think they will be able to secure backdoors adequately?
They make this fundamental mistake that they (a small minority) are the ones that need to protect their own tribe against everybody else (that vast majority). They have completely lost context and forgotten on whose sufferance they exist and have some power. It is time to remind them, and that is what is happening at the moment. They seem to think of themselves as benevolent kindergarten teachers and the population as utterly dumb little kids that need to be told what to think. Not so. Countless millions of people have died to end hereditary authoritarianism and fascism in many forms in the west, and now these cretins want to bring it back. It seems at least some people remember or have learned from history how utterly evil that is and that it needs to be stopped at all cost, because not stopping it will lead to insanely higher cost to society.
Freedom is non-optional end essential. Surveillance kills freedom, first by chilling effects and then by "them" being able to get rid of anybody and everybody that threatens their perverted vision of how society should be.
Indeed. This can already be seen by the little fact that "the terrorists" do not have the capability to hurt the people to any significant degree. I mean, even killing a few thousands does not matter very much to 250 millions. The terrorists may be able to attack some of those in power though.
Sounds very much like it indeed. The authoritarian scum being scared that somebody more sane takes power away from them and that people may actually want that. You know, like in that little thing where the government serves the people and is elected by them.
And by the strategies you people are using, you will destroy everything the US used to stand for a lot sooner. How that is an improvement is beyond me. Of course, you said "scared shitless". That may be the core problem: Scared people are not rational and very often act in ways that accelerate their own destruction and amplify collateral damage. I mean, you very rhetoric is utterly irrational: You cannot "lose the country". People will still live there. The country will still be there. And there is absolutely nobody on this planet that could take over the US from the outside.
Use a low-power microcontroller like an MPS430, power from lithium-battery, keep keys in RAM and invert them every minute or so. You can wipe that MPS430 in a few microseconds on command and without using much energy.
Seriously, this is a stunt, not anything new or special.
Was possibly outsourced somewhere where they have even less skill (because the skilled ones all left...) and then not really tested or looked at because that costs money. This is a sign of clear and present danger from all Fire-Eye products though, as they apparently do not even understand the basics.
Well, the take-away is clearly to never ever buy Fire-Eye, as they will shamelessly lie about their incompetence. Of course, the same applies to most other vendors. Capitalism screws most people up that way.
Mad password protection is one of the absolute standard things to check in any security review that deserves the name. Apparently, these people were arrogant in addition to incompetent and though they could do without external review. Save a penny, lose a million (scaled up 10'000 times or so).
No, they did not do password protection right. Around 15 million only had MD5 as protection, and that is just utterly incompetent. And yes, it is quite possible to secure passwords you have as MD5 better retroactively, just do bcrypt(md5(password)). Apparently nobody cared or understood this.
The bcrypt-ed passwords are unbroken. Apparently around 15 Million were stored using a single, non-salted, non-iterated MD5 hash. That many of these are easy to break is no surprise. Still, any user that used a good, high-entropy password is secure with MD5 as well.
My observation is that people do not change that much in the course of one lifetime. My guess is that he already was an idiot back then.
Well said.
Well, yes. In some cases. If the user did not prevent it. And then these users could pretty easily de-install that crapware again. And while systemd is an abomination, it is still FOSS and can be analyzed for what it does, quite unlike the MS-supplied malware.
Who ever uses suspend in the age of SSDs?
Microsoft has bought Intel? News to me....