Ads are not about informing you, they are about manipulating you. Otherwise, why would Coke keep advertising? Do you think there anyone left that is not aware it exists?
Exactly! Ads are mostly about manipulation, not providing you with information.
For example, you don't drink coke because you like sugary carbonated drinks, you drink it because you now unconsciously associate sugary carbonated drinks with Coke. This way when it is time to pick your beverage, instead of cognitively-intense process of evaluating available choices you default to "the usual". Every time you are blasted with Coke ad this connection gets reinforced... you do you think there anyone left on Earth that still has to be informed about existence of Coke?
I understand where you are coming from, but it doesn't scare me. We have non-trivial chance to extend our lifespans, perhaps sufficiently that we can remove all natural barrier to living forever. This would mean that if we are the first civilization, we as individuals within this first civilization will have galactic-sized impact on the future universe.
You might be proven right by the next Snowden report, but this still will not change the fact that to sell to the government you need to demonstrate your crypto is certified.
Another way of thinking about this - your liability is much higher when your badly broken crypto results in your customer database in the pastebin, than when your backdoored library results in your customer database somewhere in the NSA data vault.
I don't think you could compare Netflix to 'basic' cable. For me basic cable is unwatchable - you have excessive amount of commercials and no on demand service. Sure, you can get all of this out of cable, but at that point you are no longer on 'basic'.
The key reason OpenSSL is so popular in US is because the project is on top of FIPS certifications. LibreSSL might cure cancer, but very few system integrators will use it unless it has certified module.
Why OpenSSL is so popular? It has FIPS-certified module, and this becomes important for selling your product to the government.
So what could be done to prevent something like this from happening in the future? People will keep writing bad code, this is unavoidable, but what automated tests could be run to make sure to avoid the worst of it? Someone with direct development experience please educate the rest of us.
Of course there will be some way to defend against this. It might not exist today, but at some point in the future it will be standard-issue equipment.
To speculate, if you could use magnetic fields to accelerate, you can also use magnetic fields to decelerate or redirect. Or you could design ships where March7 projectiles could go through them without inflicting much damage, so it would take 100s of hits from this slow-firing weapon to destroy the target. Or you could use submersion, even couple meters of water will absorb substantial portion of projectile's kinetic energy. Or you could play billiard with another railgun.
This is alternative silicone we all were waiting for, so now we can have less reliable, a lot more expensive "eco" solution to all our computing needs.
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Sure, implement this and watch most of your userbase write passwords down and keep them on the side of the monitor or under the keyboard.
You forgot about "just because" fee, otherwise you have them covered.
Ads are not about informing you, they are about manipulating you. Otherwise, why would Coke keep advertising? Do you think there anyone left that is not aware it exists?
Ruining around the office in panic screaming that we are all going to die worked well for me so far.
Also, what kind of security events are we talking about here?
Exactly! Ads are mostly about manipulation, not providing you with information.
For example, you don't drink coke because you like sugary carbonated drinks, you drink it because you now unconsciously associate sugary carbonated drinks with Coke. This way when it is time to pick your beverage, instead of cognitively-intense process of evaluating available choices you default to "the usual". Every time you are blasted with Coke ad this connection gets reinforced... you do you think there anyone left on Earth that still has to be informed about existence of Coke?
Please, nobody want to see ads. There are people who blocking them, and there are people who don't know how.
This might be how advanced civilizations do space travel.
Oblig: I for one, welcome our new cluster-slinging galactic-traveling overlords!
If your project only needs SSH, having OpenSSL is an overkill.
Get this version of OpenSSH FIPS certified and it will be default industry standard for the next decade.
How about also charging more for loudness? This way a-holes next door will have to pay more for being obnoxious.
Also what about separate charges for Red, Blue and Green? This way colorblind people can benefit from low, low price of $19.99.
Last but not least, they should charge extra for Jar Jar Bink-less content. Insert him into all movies, then charge low low price of $1.99 to filter.
Good thing I kept my old CRT with 800x600 resolution. Well, at least that what my system will report and I am sticking with it!
I understand where you are coming from, but it doesn't scare me. We have non-trivial chance to extend our lifespans, perhaps sufficiently that we can remove all natural barrier to living forever. This would mean that if we are the first civilization, we as individuals within this first civilization will have galactic-sized impact on the future universe.
Just what we need - more glassholes
You might be proven right by the next Snowden report, but this still will not change the fact that to sell to the government you need to demonstrate your crypto is certified.
Another way of thinking about this - your liability is much higher when your badly broken crypto results in your customer database in the pastebin, than when your backdoored library results in your customer database somewhere in the NSA data vault.
I don't think you could compare Netflix to 'basic' cable. For me basic cable is unwatchable - you have excessive amount of commercials and no on demand service. Sure, you can get all of this out of cable, but at that point you are no longer on 'basic'.
The key reason OpenSSL is so popular in US is because the project is on top of FIPS certifications. LibreSSL might cure cancer, but very few system integrators will use it unless it has certified module.
Well, this clearly means that it is safe to drink and drive.
What, no? Well then put the f*&$ing cellphone down while you drive.
Tons, my favorite example is encrypting ransomware that messed up key length and as a result could be brutforced.
http://blog.cassidiancybersecu...
Google can afford to audit the code, and has reasonable expectation of meaningful results. The rest of us? Not so much.
Are there any decent automated code auditing tools that could be used by smaller shops?
OpenSSL is still better than the alternative - home-brewing your own crypto.
Why OpenSSL is so popular? It has FIPS-certified module, and this becomes important for selling your product to the government.
So what could be done to prevent something like this from happening in the future? People will keep writing bad code, this is unavoidable, but what automated tests could be run to make sure to avoid the worst of it? Someone with direct development experience please educate the rest of us.
Of course there will be some way to defend against this. It might not exist today, but at some point in the future it will be standard-issue equipment.
To speculate, if you could use magnetic fields to accelerate, you can also use magnetic fields to decelerate or redirect. Or you could design ships where March7 projectiles could go through them without inflicting much damage, so it would take 100s of hits from this slow-firing weapon to destroy the target. Or you could use submersion, even couple meters of water will absorb substantial portion of projectile's kinetic energy. Or you could play billiard with another railgun.
It did, I am on my way to your house to murder everyone in a cold blood.
You can pry Start Button from my cold blue-screen hands.
This is alternative silicone we all were waiting for, so now we can have less reliable, a lot more expensive "eco" solution to all our computing needs.