All that stands between an official statement from authorized government official and a possible malicious docxing is a weak, guessable twitter password. It might even be his zip code. And any Twitter employee or contractor can spoof any user account!
And these jokers enact laws for "ensuring" cyber security.
The performance sucks, and I don't mind, I got it knowingly. It is a rarely used machine for a specific purpose. I mentioned it to show how bad the performance is on low end machines.
They don't test user experience on low end machines. Things that improve response in a more powerful machine degrades in low end machines very very badly. They don't turn off these memory and disk hogs on low end machines. I can hunt them and kill them and make the machine usable. But most people cant.
It looks like a good plan on paper. Give away the tools dirt cheap to students, when they graduate and take up jobs they would demand professional versions of the tools at work place, market share, brand ambassadors, etc etc, yada yada yada. That is why Ansys would give away its flagship crown jewel product for dirt cheap prices to the universities, with some throttling no doubt. The idea is, these kids will some day be managers who were familiar with Ansys.
But in the case of Microsoft, in this particular project, it has great potential to backfire. Kids are used to powerful machines, gaming machines, either they own it or they have friends who do. Even the public library machines are usually more powerful. They might see the 189$ cheap machine to be too slow and blame Microsoft instead of the low horsepower hardware.
And Lenovo, HP etc load the PC with deadly levels of crap ware and nagware. And Microsoft adds its own bunch to the mix, and it does not test them at low end hardware. I know it personally. I bought a desktop as my "bill paying computer". Exclusively to log in to banks, brokerages and credit cards. Never use any other machine to log into sensitive account and never use that machine for anything else. So, naturally, I picked a low end AMD desktop. Oh. my. god. Is it slow! or what!! Something called superfetch would keep thrashing the disk. Or onedrive service. Or some disk indexer. Or some telemetry. Hunted and killed every one of these processes, and it is still slow. 12 GB, four processor machine takes forever to open Quicken.
One taste like this, and the kids will actively hate microsoft and will go out of their way to avoid microsoft products when they become managers.
Honda and Toyota are on firm legal ground here. The manual very clearly states that by getting into the car you agree to the EULA, which you can read as soon as you get into the car and get the user manual.
There is no warning "Beware of the Leopard" on the glove box, showing the good faith of Honda and Toyota.
The EULA very clearly states that, "... it is the responsibility of the user to prevent rodents from eating the wiring harness. Honda/Toyota recommend the use anti-rodent devices and the user must install and keep all such anti-malorganism devices up to date.
37% of white-hat hackers say they hack as a hobby in their spare time (not their primary job).
About 12% of hackers on HackerOne make $20,000 or more annually from bug bounties.
Over 3% o bug hunters are making more than $100,000 per year.
1.1% are making over $350,000 annually.
13.7% say bounties earned represent 90-100% of their annual income.
India (23%) and the United States (20%) are the top two countries represented on the HackerOne platform, followed by Russia (6%), Pakistan (4%), and the United Kingdom (4%).
Nearly 1 in 4 hackers have not reported a vulnerability that they found because the company didn’t have a channel to disclose it.
US companies have paid over $15 million to bug hunters via HackerOne in 2017.
US bug hunters racked over $4.1 million in bug rewards, while Indian white-hat hackers earned over $3 million.
"Websites" was the overwhelming winner to the question of "What is Your Favorite Kind of Platform or Product to Hack?" with a 70.8% score.
"Money" was not the primary motivation for getting into bug hunting. It ranked only fourth.
XSS was the favorite vulnerability white-hat hackers liked to search for.
(Clipped out some slashvertisement pitching something called burp suite. )
What if Snap.Inc has the ability to spoof the leakers' account send bomb threats or child pornography through the leaker's personal account and finger them to the Feds?
What if the messages are actually archived and snap can rummage through the leakers communications and rat on them to the feds? Or out embarrassing personal info?
How they will end up in jail will be communicated by word of mouth on unbuggable room?
For some reason not all the authentication SMS comes through in my T-Mobile phone. Some banks and brokerages send the authentication from a five digit cell phone number, and t-mobile filters them out based on some seemingly random algorithm.
So I switched them all to Google Phone number. In my google phone account I set up the SMS to echo to gmail. The gmail account also uses 2FA but these are my desktops at home and work, and one chromebook at home. So even if I lose my phone, I have my desktops to get the authentication codes.
The app is designed to test download speeds from seven apps: YouTube, Amazon, NBCSports, Netflix, Skype, Spotify, and Vimeo. According to the app, my Verizon LTE service streamed YouTube to my iPhone at 6 Mbps, Amazon Prime video at 8 Mbps, and Netflix at 4 Mbps. It downloaded other data at speeds of up to 25 Mbps
I would have expected the big players paying oodles of money to the carriers will get preferential treatment, and the random internet startup will struggle to get its bits to you.
Skygofree is a reminder that so-called implant software sold to governments and police forces, sometimes in countries with poor human rights records, remains a threat to people using a wide variety of devices and operating systems.
It looks like it is a product sold to security agencies and police forces around the world. They might force the installation of this software by the sellers in their countries, or install it once they arrest the dissident. It is a spyware alright, but it might not be a garden variety virus that infects you unbeknownst to you.
It is really ugly. Both 747 and A380 have the same length, but the A380 has extended the nose bulge all the way to the tail. It looks stubby and fat like a beached whale.
747, on the other hand slims down has a graceful line, an interesting and distinct profile. I am not fond of the lines of Lockheed Superconstellation, that is a little to fish-like. Business jets are beautiful and have very nice livery, then at the above 100 seat category, 747 is probably the best looking.
It will be money flushed down the toilet, not because electric cars are inferior, but because the sales infrastructure of the automakers is fundamentally flawed.
Ford has very strong binding contracts with dealers. The dealer franchise agreements were set in the era before the consolidation in the auto makers. It is very heavily in favor of the dealers. The traditional car makers have much lower bargaining power against the dealers.
The dealers who sell both IC engines and Electric motor cars, have vested interest in killing the electric cars. We know theoretically electric cars have lower maintenance. But they know actual data, brandwise and model wise, which cars and features produce repair shop revenue and which dont.
Unless Ford forms a distinct subsidiary, unencumbered by the dealership agreements, a separate division like Saturn or something and embrace the direct sales model like Tesla they are doomed.
It is high time all the car makers form distinct divisions without any agreements with NADA. As long as they sell cars through NADA members, the short term short sighted actions by the dealers will doom the car makers.
Where he was right he was way above the heads and shoulders of all his peer scientists, that is why he is respected so much today. But we do not venerate Darwin as the ulitmate word today. Science has progressed a lot, and a freshman biology student today would learn more today than Darwin every knew.
Darwin did not offer any theory for the eye or altruism, his ideas about ocean floor subsidence to explain cliffs encrusted with corals and shells was wrong. His ideas about the origins of lactation and mammalia was wrong.
Let me be clear, lest I am thought to be some creationist trolling about Darwin:
Creationists are still writing rebuttals to his 19th century book under the mistaken assumption that "if his first book is rebutted away, then all subsequent theory will fall apart and people will stop believing in him". That is not how science works. All the holes in his 19th century text have been found by people far more competent than you and I, and orders of magnitude more capable than these creationists and been strengthened.
The reason for Darwin's fame is, we know what is correct what explain biology, and trace back and find who said it first. It was Darwin, so we respect Darwin.
Snapchat is the vendor. The advertisers are the ones who pay it. They are the customers. The people who use snapchat to exchange photos and message are called the product. The company will fall at the feet of the customers, and do what they demand.
They will make it annoying and difficult to use. If you are not paying for it, you are NOT the customer.
They will improve the "product". When you pay nothing, you use a platform because most of your moronic friends are too stingy to pay for a real service, you don't get to complain.
They deserve all the indignities being heaped on them.
Environment is the same for tom dick or harry. If Tom can kill Dick or Harry and steal it is still an advantage. Why does he not?
It is difficult to understand even the question. Answering it and understanding the answer needs lots of thinking. I don't have the skill to articulate it. If you are inclined read the chapter titled, Nice men finish first in the book The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkings
Millions of devices ship with default passwords. It is an issue only if it is not possible to change it, and the need to change is not clearly explained when it was shipped. Ideally it should not be the same password for all devices but something unique to each chip, given to the manufacturer as part of shipped chips.
I haven't seen any self guiding car system that I would trust to act, with no ability to override. Build one that can handle New York or LA rush hour and I may change my mind.
You could be sanest guy on the planet. Your reasoning could be correct.
But, the market does not care whether you trust it or not. It does not care whether you change your mind or not.
If enough people trust it, and if enough people buy it the market will satisfy the need.
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Come on, these people are hooking up strangers, and they will be concerned about security?
And these jokers enact laws for "ensuring" cyber security.
You don't have to do this "it happened to my friend" spiel. You can say "it happened to me" and it would be ok.
They don't test user experience on low end machines. Things that improve response in a more powerful machine degrades in low end machines very very badly. They don't turn off these memory and disk hogs on low end machines. I can hunt them and kill them and make the machine usable. But most people cant.
Not 12 GB. I misedited it. 12GB is the other desktop. This one is 4 or 8 GB
But in the case of Microsoft, in this particular project, it has great potential to backfire. Kids are used to powerful machines, gaming machines, either they own it or they have friends who do. Even the public library machines are usually more powerful. They might see the 189$ cheap machine to be too slow and blame Microsoft instead of the low horsepower hardware.
And Lenovo, HP etc load the PC with deadly levels of crap ware and nagware. And Microsoft adds its own bunch to the mix, and it does not test them at low end hardware. I know it personally. I bought a desktop as my "bill paying computer". Exclusively to log in to banks, brokerages and credit cards. Never use any other machine to log into sensitive account and never use that machine for anything else. So, naturally, I picked a low end AMD desktop. Oh. my. god. Is it slow! or what!! Something called superfetch would keep thrashing the disk. Or onedrive service. Or some disk indexer. Or some telemetry. Hunted and killed every one of these processes, and it is still slow. 12 GB, four processor machine takes forever to open Quicken.
One taste like this, and the kids will actively hate microsoft and will go out of their way to avoid microsoft products when they become managers.
Every time you multiply two floats you lose a digit of precision. It's a little more complicated but that is the essence
Not a whole decimal digit. Just one bit. Right?
There is no warning "Beware of the Leopard" on the glove box, showing the good faith of Honda and Toyota.
The EULA very clearly states that, " ... it is the responsibility of the user to prevent rodents from eating the wiring harness. Honda/Toyota recommend the use anti-rodent devices and the user must install and keep all such anti-malorganism devices up to date.
Is it more or less than 350K? If you include stock options, healthcare, 401K match and other benefits too.
37% of white-hat hackers say they hack as a hobby in their spare time (not their primary job).
About 12% of hackers on HackerOne make $20,000 or more annually from bug bounties.
Over 3% o bug hunters are making more than $100,000 per year.
1.1% are making over $350,000 annually.
13.7% say bounties earned represent 90-100% of their annual income.
India (23%) and the United States (20%) are the top two countries represented on the HackerOne platform, followed by Russia (6%), Pakistan (4%), and the United Kingdom (4%).
Nearly 1 in 4 hackers have not reported a vulnerability that they found because the company didn’t have a channel to disclose it.
US companies have paid over $15 million to bug hunters via HackerOne in 2017.
US bug hunters racked over $4.1 million in bug rewards, while Indian white-hat hackers earned over $3 million.
"Websites" was the overwhelming winner to the question of "What is Your Favorite Kind of Platform or Product to Hack?" with a 70.8% score.
"Money" was not the primary motivation for getting into bug hunting. It ranked only fourth.
XSS was the favorite vulnerability white-hat hackers liked to search for.
(Clipped out some slashvertisement pitching something called burp suite. )
First class airline ticket costs 20 times the average bus fare
Let me wait for the comparison of the average pay of the top 1700 bounty hunters with the average pay of top 1700 software engineers.
What if the messages are actually archived and snap can rummage through the leakers communications and rat on them to the feds? Or out embarrassing personal info?
How they will end up in jail will be communicated by word of mouth on unbuggable room?
So I switched them all to Google Phone number. In my google phone account I set up the SMS to echo to gmail. The gmail account also uses 2FA but these are my desktops at home and work, and one chromebook at home. So even if I lose my phone, I have my desktops to get the authentication codes.
The app is designed to test download speeds from seven apps: YouTube, Amazon, NBCSports, Netflix, Skype, Spotify, and Vimeo. According to the app, my Verizon LTE service streamed YouTube to my iPhone at 6 Mbps, Amazon Prime video at 8 Mbps, and Netflix at 4 Mbps. It downloaded other data at speeds of up to 25 Mbps
I would have expected the big players paying oodles of money to the carriers will get preferential treatment, and the random internet startup will struggle to get its bits to you.
How else can you explain political parties training their flock to vote against their own self interest?
Skygofree is a reminder that so-called implant software sold to governments and police forces, sometimes in countries with poor human rights records, remains a threat to people using a wide variety of devices and operating systems.
It looks like it is a product sold to security agencies and police forces around the world. They might force the installation of this software by the sellers in their countries, or install it once they arrest the dissident. It is a spyware alright, but it might not be a garden variety virus that infects you unbeknownst to you.
747, on the other hand slims down has a graceful line, an interesting and distinct profile. I am not fond of the lines of Lockheed Superconstellation, that is a little to fish-like. Business jets are beautiful and have very nice livery, then at the above 100 seat category, 747 is probably the best looking.
great advantage to have, if the tax payer funded government as the ultimate back stop
Ford has very strong binding contracts with dealers. The dealer franchise agreements were set in the era before the consolidation in the auto makers. It is very heavily in favor of the dealers. The traditional car makers have much lower bargaining power against the dealers.
The dealers who sell both IC engines and Electric motor cars, have vested interest in killing the electric cars. We know theoretically electric cars have lower maintenance. But they know actual data, brandwise and model wise, which cars and features produce repair shop revenue and which dont.
Unless Ford forms a distinct subsidiary, unencumbered by the dealership agreements, a separate division like Saturn or something and embrace the direct sales model like Tesla they are doomed.
It is high time all the car makers form distinct divisions without any agreements with NADA. As long as they sell cars through NADA members, the short term short sighted actions by the dealers will doom the car makers.
Darwin did not offer any theory for the eye or altruism, his ideas about ocean floor subsidence to explain cliffs encrusted with corals and shells was wrong. His ideas about the origins of lactation and mammalia was wrong.
Let me be clear, lest I am thought to be some creationist trolling about Darwin:
Creationists are still writing rebuttals to his 19th century book under the mistaken assumption that "if his first book is rebutted away, then all subsequent theory will fall apart and people will stop believing in him". That is not how science works. All the holes in his 19th century text have been found by people far more competent than you and I, and orders of magnitude more capable than these creationists and been strengthened.
The reason for Darwin's fame is, we know what is correct what explain biology, and trace back and find who said it first. It was Darwin, so we respect Darwin.
Snapchat is the vendor. The advertisers are the ones who pay it. They are the customers. The people who use snapchat to exchange photos and message are called the product. The company will fall at the feet of the customers, and do what they demand.
They will make it annoying and difficult to use. If you are not paying for it, you are NOT the customer.
You are the product
They will improve the "product". When you pay nothing, you use a platform because most of your moronic friends are too stingy to pay for a real service, you don't get to complain.
They deserve all the indignities being heaped on them.
It is difficult to understand even the question. Answering it and understanding the answer needs lots of thinking. I don't have the skill to articulate it. If you are inclined read the chapter titled, Nice men finish first in the book The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkings
Millions of devices ship with default passwords. It is an issue only if it is not possible to change it, and the need to change is not clearly explained when it was shipped. Ideally it should not be the same password for all devices but something unique to each chip, given to the manufacturer as part of shipped chips.
I haven't seen any self guiding car system that I would trust to act, with no ability to override. Build one that can handle New York or LA rush hour and I may change my mind.
You could be sanest guy on the planet. Your reasoning could be correct. But, the market does not care whether you trust it or not. It does not care whether you change your mind or not.
If enough people trust it, and if enough people buy it the market will satisfy the need.