Yeah, that started to break down for a bunch of situations when psychologists decided 'people will treat you like crap' did NOT count as a negative impact of the condition.
If we are following the narrative of a well trained state sponsored group then there is a bit of a contradiction. While people can be sloppy, this type of mistake would be a bit out there in a single location group with oversight.
On the other hand, it is exactly what one would expect from a diverse group of individual amatures from a variety of countries like many hacking collectives are.
Given that they talked about how closely it matched one of their 'simulations', you might not be far off. Last time I chatted with someone who took part in a cyberwar game, it really did read like the plot of a B movie rather than something dull like an actual security expert would come up with.
That is why I included the last bit about 'down the road'. Scholarships come in pretty late in the process, but they can help prime the pump for a decade or two later when those people are now embedded in the industry and start interacting with the youth. I know a lot of women who went into STEM and then returned to work with young girls and showed them that yes, there really were women scientists and that they could too if they wanted.
While there might be a difference between the top 1% from MIT etc, after that handful of schools things become much more even. Keep in mind that for every superstar companies like this hire, they probably have 100 'lesser' engineers doing the actual work, esp once you get away from companies like Facebook that have fairly small staffs.
True, not all white males are rich, but all other things being equal, they still get preferential treatment when it comes to jobs, career advancement, internships, etc. That tends to be the problem with invisible privilege, it is not absolute so it can be hard for individuals (who will always have others better off than themselves) to see it even exists, and thus any help that does not include them feels like a loss. In fact it often gets wrapped up in entitlement, the feeling that whatever they do get they simply deserve thus it is not an advantage and giving other people a leg up is undeserved.
But yes, it will further exacerbate jealousy, there is not much you can do about that outside sliding back or going as far as returning to 'only white protestant land owning ethnically local males are legally people' system, which naturally then you had jealousy in other directions. But as long as a dominant group with a diverse membership sees others rising, there will be jealousy and they feeling that they should be better off than they are and if those uppity minorities were not in the way they would be wealthier within their own demographic. Even though they would not actually be. Ok, I tangented quite a bit ther ^_^
Part of the problem is that the software is getting clever enough to detect backups and goes after them too. Putting in a pull backup can help, but is more complex and costly, not to mention another vector that the writers could potentially take advantage of anyway.
It is a pity tape has become so expensive since that was a great way to handle offline backups in a very user friendly way.
Not sure why this got modded so badly, the AC makes a good point. though it is becoming less of one over the years.
CPU monoculures did make attacks easier, and it is a shame alternatives are getting further and further out of the reach of the average (in terms of pocketbook) users. On the other hand, increasingly attacks do not depend on the underlying hardware and instead the layers on top of it, which depends on having a whole different stack all the way up and down in order to stop them.
In the end though, 'sheep buffers' are not really a solution. They can help a small number of people, which in our cult of individual culture is appealing to many, but it does not really address the systemic issue.
Why can we not get proper white listing or sandboxing? Look what happens when companies try to move that direction. Both Microsoft and Apple got hell for it every time they tried and ended up backing off. Chome and Mozzila are encountering similar problems as attempts break plug ins or websites that people use.
Security issues are generally rare occurrences, while functionality one uses daily are immediately visible and annoying. Even within unix systems we see a constant push/pull between security and convenience. How many nerdy users are actually running SELinux and paying attention to the policies? A good chunk of the time, all but the most paranoid users will just allow anything that it takes to get their stuff running, all all that sudo abuse is not exactly helping.
For that matter, look at what has happened to sudo over the last few years. Long gone is the usage of giving specific accounts access to specific commands, it is just used as one giant whitelist where any user can play root.
I don't know, it is hard to go wrong with scholarships. It may not address underlying issues, but it will get more people into the pipeline that might not have been able to otherwise, which means more mentors and role models down the road. A crude solution, but still stands a chance to do some good.
Understanding and respecting the spit are two very different things. If you look at the various studios that are pushing hardline copyright enforcement, they generally have massive internal problems with copyright violations themselves. However they tend to have the legal staff to either buy off the offended party after the fact or run them into bankruptcy via the court system. They see copyright as THEIR tool to use against others, not something that has to be respected or followed when it come to peons. Very similiar to military power actually...
That was what leapt out at me about the list. At least when it comes things like matlab and mathmatica, it is not the language that gets you the job, it just happens to be the language used by the people who have the skills the job is looking for. Go into one of those interviews without the appropriate scientific background and 'do you know matlab' is not going to be their main question.
On the other hand, Adobe and Apple hate each other, so while Photoshop has marque value, problems are a sad byproduct of companies not really wanting the other to succeed. It is funny to watch their support people blame each other though, reading complaints about Adobe STILL not supporting OSX's case sensitive version are nice and dramatic. Apparently Adobe can not fix a few file names in their version control due to Apple's installer packaging. Old problem and they are more interested in blaming each other then taking the half day to fix it.
Sadly, we have only consumers to blame for this. Companies that invested lots of their resources in R&D tended to suffer in the market. Patents, which were designed to try to even things out, have become such a clusterexpletive that they are utterly failing at doing that.
The money tends to go to the companies that focus on streamlining their production systems and leave the "research" up to their competitors. This kinda worked when there was lots of government funded research (which any company could benefit from) but that has been scaled back, twisted, and privatized so that it is not really making up the differnce either.
Long term that is what they will have to determine. Reuse of rockets has been a thing for a long time, but in most cases it ends up not being economically viable. Right now SpaceX has some very optimistic estimates regarding reuse and its associated costs, but so did NASA. It generally ends up being worse than they hope, but sometimes it still works out well enough. Though if they continue to move towards human cargo that will change the equation significantly.
Ah, another piece written by a person unable to look past their own subculture. Devices and software are built and marketed around the priorities of the mass consumer, NOT the technical elite.
Yes and no. The East India Company was a very real thing of course, but it was run by people like them to the detriment of 'not people'. Remember that most of the 'founding fathers' came from the american ruling class and wished more power. While they knew 'oppression', they knew it in the same way middle management knows it, unhappy there are people above them but still comfortably in better shape than. So when they pictured things like the East India Corp, it was a model of what people like them could do with their freedom, not something they had to fear being used against them. At most it was competition, something on their level that they would need to counter.
Not only that, but they generally envisioned people being able to simply shoot other people if said people were exerting power against them. Then again, they also only envisioned a small percentage of the population as being 'people' which is important to keep in mind since the problems of a ruling class have generally never been the same as an underclass and thus the priorities and tools are crafted differntly.
Which brings up the question, was the lack of two factor authentication actually a factor in this particular breach, or is it something that is simply being tacked onto the story?
If two factor auth can be handled by an app, or even a dongle, how much additional protection can it really provide?
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Yeah, that started to break down for a bunch of situations when psychologists decided 'people will treat you like crap' did NOT count as a negative impact of the condition.
Nah, that is perfectly normal sexual desire, PIV. Plus they paid cash, and only poor people are immoral.
If we are following the narrative of a well trained state sponsored group then there is a bit of a contradiction. While people can be sloppy, this type of mistake would be a bit out there in a single location group with oversight.
On the other hand, it is exactly what one would expect from a diverse group of individual amatures from a variety of countries like many hacking collectives are.
Given that they talked about how closely it matched one of their 'simulations', you might not be far off. Last time I chatted with someone who took part in a cyberwar game, it really did read like the plot of a B movie rather than something dull like an actual security expert would come up with.
Everybody else? Hardly. Within the security community it is pretty hotly debated, and this latest revelation does not exactly help things.
Yeah, but the drives are really pricey, esp since most consumers tend to want things new rather than second hand.
Well, you do not HAVE to fly. One can always drive, take the train, or go by sea. For that matter you do not even have to travel.
These are heavily used services because of their utility, but one can build a life without them.
That is why I included the last bit about 'down the road'. Scholarships come in pretty late in the process, but they can help prime the pump for a decade or two later when those people are now embedded in the industry and start interacting with the youth. I know a lot of women who went into STEM and then returned to work with young girls and showed them that yes, there really were women scientists and that they could too if they wanted.
While there might be a difference between the top 1% from MIT etc, after that handful of schools things become much more even. Keep in mind that for every superstar companies like this hire, they probably have 100 'lesser' engineers doing the actual work, esp once you get away from companies like Facebook that have fairly small staffs.
True, not all white males are rich, but all other things being equal, they still get preferential treatment when it comes to jobs, career advancement, internships, etc. That tends to be the problem with invisible privilege, it is not absolute so it can be hard for individuals (who will always have others better off than themselves) to see it even exists, and thus any help that does not include them feels like a loss. In fact it often gets wrapped up in entitlement, the feeling that whatever they do get they simply deserve thus it is not an advantage and giving other people a leg up is undeserved.
But yes, it will further exacerbate jealousy, there is not much you can do about that outside sliding back or going as far as returning to 'only white protestant land owning ethnically local males are legally people' system, which naturally then you had jealousy in other directions. But as long as a dominant group with a diverse membership sees others rising, there will be jealousy and they feeling that they should be better off than they are and if those uppity minorities were not in the way they would be wealthier within their own demographic. Even though they would not actually be. Ok, I tangented quite a bit ther ^_^
Part of the problem is that the software is getting clever enough to detect backups and goes after them too. Putting in a pull backup can help, but is more complex and costly, not to mention another vector that the writers could potentially take advantage of anyway.
It is a pity tape has become so expensive since that was a great way to handle offline backups in a very user friendly way.
Not sure why this got modded so badly, the AC makes a good point. though it is becoming less of one over the years.
CPU monoculures did make attacks easier, and it is a shame alternatives are getting further and further out of the reach of the average (in terms of pocketbook) users. On the other hand, increasingly attacks do not depend on the underlying hardware and instead the layers on top of it, which depends on having a whole different stack all the way up and down in order to stop them.
In the end though, 'sheep buffers' are not really a solution. They can help a small number of people, which in our cult of individual culture is appealing to many, but it does not really address the systemic issue.
Why can we not get proper white listing or sandboxing? Look what happens when companies try to move that direction. Both Microsoft and Apple got hell for it every time they tried and ended up backing off. Chome and Mozzila are encountering similar problems as attempts break plug ins or websites that people use.
Security issues are generally rare occurrences, while functionality one uses daily are immediately visible and annoying. Even within unix systems we see a constant push/pull between security and convenience. How many nerdy users are actually running SELinux and paying attention to the policies? A good chunk of the time, all but the most paranoid users will just allow anything that it takes to get their stuff running, all all that sudo abuse is not exactly helping.
For that matter, look at what has happened to sudo over the last few years. Long gone is the usage of giving specific accounts access to specific commands, it is just used as one giant whitelist where any user can play root.
I don't know, it is hard to go wrong with scholarships. It may not address underlying issues, but it will get more people into the pipeline that might not have been able to otherwise, which means more mentors and role models down the road. A crude solution, but still stands a chance to do some good.
Understanding and respecting the spit are two very different things. If you look at the various studios that are pushing hardline copyright enforcement, they generally have massive internal problems with copyright violations themselves. However they tend to have the legal staff to either buy off the offended party after the fact or run them into bankruptcy via the court system. They see copyright as THEIR tool to use against others, not something that has to be respected or followed when it come to peons. Very similiar to military power actually...
Anything listed in a 'how to transition' document is probably a laundry list of things to avoid for at least another decade.
That was what leapt out at me about the list. At least when it comes things like matlab and mathmatica, it is not the language that gets you the job, it just happens to be the language used by the people who have the skills the job is looking for. Go into one of those interviews without the appropriate scientific background and 'do you know matlab' is not going to be their main question.
On the other hand, Adobe and Apple hate each other, so while Photoshop has marque value, problems are a sad byproduct of companies not really wanting the other to succeed. It is funny to watch their support people blame each other though, reading complaints about Adobe STILL not supporting OSX's case sensitive version are nice and dramatic. Apparently Adobe can not fix a few file names in their version control due to Apple's installer packaging. Old problem and they are more interested in blaming each other then taking the half day to fix it.
Sadly, we have only consumers to blame for this. Companies that invested lots of their resources in R&D tended to suffer in the market. Patents, which were designed to try to even things out, have become such a clusterexpletive that they are utterly failing at doing that.
The money tends to go to the companies that focus on streamlining their production systems and leave the "research" up to their competitors. This kinda worked when there was lots of government funded research (which any company could benefit from) but that has been scaled back, twisted, and privatized so that it is not really making up the differnce either.
Long term that is what they will have to determine. Reuse of rockets has been a thing for a long time, but in most cases it ends up not being economically viable. Right now SpaceX has some very optimistic estimates regarding reuse and its associated costs, but so did NASA. It generally ends up being worse than they hope, but sometimes it still works out well enough. Though if they continue to move towards human cargo that will change the equation significantly.
Ah, another piece written by a person unable to look past their own subculture. Devices and software are built and marketed around the priorities of the mass consumer, NOT the technical elite.
Yes and no. The East India Company was a very real thing of course, but it was run by people like them to the detriment of 'not people'. Remember that most of the 'founding fathers' came from the american ruling class and wished more power. While they knew 'oppression', they knew it in the same way middle management knows it, unhappy there are people above them but still comfortably in better shape than. So when they pictured things like the East India Corp, it was a model of what people like them could do with their freedom, not something they had to fear being used against them. At most it was competition, something on their level that they would need to counter.
Not only that, but they generally envisioned people being able to simply shoot other people if said people were exerting power against them. Then again, they also only envisioned a small percentage of the population as being 'people' which is important to keep in mind since the problems of a ruling class have generally never been the same as an underclass and thus the priorities and tools are crafted differntly.
Which brings up the question, was the lack of two factor authentication actually a factor in this particular breach, or is it something that is simply being tacked onto the story?
If two factor auth can be handled by an app, or even a dongle, how much additional protection can it really provide?
Voting 3rd party just makes the problem worse.