You cannot for 60 years insist upon blind consumerism and automation without question, upon walled gardens and closed source, and expect people to take an interest in programming in less than a generation.
you cannot hijack the word 'hacker' and expect to be taken seriously when you've spent 35 years incarcerating and denigrating the very people you'd hope to attract to the science of programming and computer systems.
albeit unrelated, this is Much the same with gender and STEM. you cannot usurp 150 years of wife-as-homemaker and husband-as-breadwinner in a week of code camps and diversity seminars. You created these problems, and you'll need to work as hard as you did when you created them in order to fix them.
White nationalists: we have a clear message of nationalism and family unity. Internet: nobody cared 70 years ago, and you're about to find out no one cares now.
When someone has proof theyve penetrated your network security and is holding your bread and butter hostage you have two choices: 1. pay the bounty and reassess the network. 2. dont pay, eat the loss, and still reassess the network.
There isnt a CISSP section on stalling for time by bullshitting people who are clearly far more intelligent than you. If anything, you've just hardened their resolve to leak more out of sheer animosity.
Back in my day we bought the most expensive phones we could! and they were damned slippery too! why, just one errant flick of the wrist you'd destroy an entire paycheck or more of the most advanced, encumbered, and contractually obligated silicon you'd ever set your eyes upon! And the government spied on us all the time and lied to us about it...and we liked it that way!!
now you damned millenials want to take the battery out? how will my phone swell menacingly over the years due to shoddy manufacturing processes? Back in my day we used to throw parties to celebrate whoevers phone blew up first. Dorris in accounting lost a damn leg from her Samsung but ill tell you one thing...nobody in the office would forget those fireworks! and think of THE CHILDREN! you know, the ones that make these phones and enjoy constant exposure to the byproducts of battery manufacturing. And what about charging?? Back in my day we used to charge all day every day until the battery went bad, then we'd buy more phones! its like you kids dont even understand how fun it is to buy a new phone every year or something.
Lennart: CLOSED. WONTFIX. Slashdot:..b-but its a bug!! Lennart: well yes I see how you could think that but once you use OpenRC it becomes very apparent that this bug disappears and is resolved, so of course, its not a bug.
UK wifi provider: LOL! jokes all around! we didnt really want you to paint snail shells!
US wifi provider: You will paint shells until your fucking hands drop off, and if so much as one of them chips, we will grind everyone you love into paint for the next batch.
Adjit Pai: sounds like fun! pick any of your favourite colours youre told to pick!
Symantecs original idea behind the certificate authority business itself, was to create an out of the box condition for its bluecoat product to work in any environment. bluecoat does TLS termination/snooping and as such requres extensive work in corporate PKI to inject trusted certs into the browser trust and cert trust for machines.
having a publically trusted CA that could -- out of the box -- be used to intercept traffic by a popular piece of hardware thats been sold to iran and syria is likely that made google furious. Its also worth considering that Symantec considered a PKI authority to be just another "business acquisition" that would fly under the radar, only to be confronted with a voraciously defensive internet that was working to ensure TLS could not be tampered with.
ultimately, google started fishing for legitimate RFC and industry based reasons to blackball their CA. Symantec is likely getting exhausted by all the auditing and security required to maintain what was, after all, originally just intended to help customers who want to snoop on their employees and citizens
disclosure: american here.
for those readers outside the states who wonder why we're engaged in perpetual war, its the impetus of an unstoppable machine. our Department of Defense is funded to the tune of more than 500 billion dollars. it employs close to three million people. This doesnt count the literal millions of people whom are employed as military contractors, providing everything from catering to private security and transportation (our troops fly commercial aircraft frequently.)
we helped ourselves to the war chest during WW2 to get out of a crippling depression fueled by unregulated credit markets. Then the paranoia of a generation led us to stumble into central america, the middle east, and southeast asia. Now, the US military is too big to do anything but sustain, or get bigger.
rolling back the defense budget is not an option in a nation that makes nothing anymore. So, we pick our battles and fight the wars we have an overwhelming supremacy in waging. we fight for profit and to a lesser extent ideology, not defense, so its rare to see us in a country that doesnt at least have an exploitable natural resource or strategic value internationally. we pick the countries we can win, the enemies we can paint as a binary good/evil on the nightly news, and we place an emphasis on maintaining the illusion that our conquests have something to do with our moral turpitude and just nature.
It doesnt matter if space is a pointless vacuum, it only matters that it represents an opportunity for profit and sustained funding. Senators voting for this nonsense are keenly aware it means jobs and income for people in their states even tangentially affiliated with the defense department. Not having a war/employed warforce means a more urgent requirement to address things like income inequality, unemployment, healthcare, drug abuse, homelessness, and things that do not make a profit.
Softlayer, IBM's public cloud offering was acquired in 2013. in the 4 years its been headed up by Big Blue the service has gone from decent hosting provider to dumpster fire of penny stock spam and DDoS botnet herders. https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/l... https://www.mailcleaner.net/bl...
Ceramics/composites engineer here for a large glass maker. This device doesnt repair your glass. For that you'd need an annealer, or a reflow bed. you'd also need to have moulds and castings and a polish/tempering system. thats not feasible in a machine the size of a microwave oven.
what this machine likely does is handle the delicate process of calibration, alignment, and most importantly replacement of the biometric sensor on the device. the access control and authentication from the reader to the rest of the phone is likely a highly guarded component as its used to access encryption keys for the device itself. these machines might contain a copy of sensitive intermediary or signing certificates used to rekey the phone. If Right To Repair passes, Apple could likely delegate the PKI straight to the user with an itunes API or something. replacing the button means you're in charge of generating the certificates.
"I spend 20 years running a multibillion dollar company into the ground, but now that ive spent three years owning the Los Angeles Clippers im somehow unaccountably entitled to wax propetic on the moral and ethical turpitude of the cloth from which I was cut"
she had "nothing" to work from once she rigged the nomination.
FTFY.
but in all seriousness, this is the kind of petulant bitching I abhor in a statesman. Its the kind of whining you expect to hear from a deep-seated, dynastic candidate with lots of connections and money but limited charisma, tact, and insight. Hillary lost the election because she was a turd of a candidate that avoided red states and rural populations where she refused to send any message. Instead she concentrated on playing the numbers and winning by electoral college votes in big blue cities. Rural and suburban voters outside of these areas saw her as disconnected and disinterested in things like systemic unemployment, drug crises, and healthcare. She was the woman who shamelessly arrived in a five-thousand dollar red designed gunny sack to lecture the masses on inequality.
fun fact: many of these antibiotics are developed through public private partnership with your local schools and universities under nondisclosure agreements which prevent any of the research from being made public. these NDAs often have expiration dates as far far as 80 years into the future.
the fact remains that if and when the cloistered elite need access to lifesaving medicine en-masse, these drugs will be quickly made available. If the cure for Hepatitis C was any indication, you'll certainly gain access to these advanced new antibiotics as well...at $30,000 a bottle.
Either North Korea is an impoverished dictatorship that could never, ever launch a successful ICBM and routinely runs out of energy and food, or its an underground powerhouse releasing some of the deadliest malware to date and rivals the US and Russia in technical prowess.
Theres also the unresolved dependency that this exploit came from the NSA. Nice try.
Better 5 months late and unannounced with no industry coordination or planning than never.
Either the clocks are slow at Redmond or they just can't be bothered to care
"intel has sufficiently beat the stuffing out of certain 3 letter competitors in the market, and no longer needs to shill its compiler. please return when our CEO returns to shore after having exhausted his supply of caviar. It is at this time we expect to begin IDF18, where we will scramble madly trying to renew competition against Ryzen."
As an american im always deeply concerned when our witch hunts proceed without so much as a ghoulish evil monster to subject to ye olde tribulations. After this, I suspect the good witch -- whos time it was to be elected to president because she did the mannequin challenge-- will prevail and righteousness will be restored to america.
I could argue this scientifically and rationally from behind a burned-out and slightly irradiated russian T90 battle tank with my parents, only to have them insist Sean Hannity was right and that my liberal agenda better not come up during the militias rationing of radiation blocking iodine tablets and canned beef.
flight attendants: "for those of you in economy class, please step forward and use the bone saw to remove your legs at the knee for storage in the overhead compartment. Pretzel dust and warm pepsi will be provided once in flight, along with the entertainment of a partially eaten magazine about our CEO's latest hunting trip in the alps. Those of you in our platinum, rhodium, saphire card club, or other rare and exotic metals often associated with conflict mining, please proceed to the front of the aircraft and take your seat stolen from the lobby of an upscale motel. You will be permitted to eat with a real fork, provided you've prostrated yourself accordingly to the TSA and said your daily supplication to the holy terror alert list. "
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You cannot for 60 years insist upon blind consumerism and automation without question, upon walled gardens and closed source, and expect people to take an interest in programming in less than a generation.
you cannot hijack the word 'hacker' and expect to be taken seriously when you've spent 35 years incarcerating and denigrating the very people you'd hope to attract to the science of programming and computer systems.
albeit unrelated, this is Much the same with gender and STEM. you cannot usurp 150 years of wife-as-homemaker and husband-as-breadwinner in a week of code camps and diversity seminars. You created these problems, and you'll need to work as hard as you did when you created them in order to fix them.
White nationalists: we have a clear message of nationalism and family unity.
Internet: nobody cared 70 years ago, and you're about to find out no one cares now.
When someone has proof theyve penetrated your network security and is holding your bread and butter hostage you have two choices: 1. pay the bounty and reassess the network. 2. dont pay, eat the loss, and still reassess the network.
There isnt a CISSP section on stalling for time by bullshitting people who are clearly far more intelligent than you. If anything, you've just hardened their resolve to leak more out of sheer animosity.
Back in my day we bought the most expensive phones we could! and they were damned slippery too! why, just one errant flick of the wrist you'd destroy an entire paycheck or more of the most advanced, encumbered, and contractually obligated silicon you'd ever set your eyes upon! And the government spied on us all the time and lied to us about it...and we liked it that way!!
now you damned millenials want to take the battery out? how will my phone swell menacingly over the years due to shoddy manufacturing processes? Back in my day we used to throw parties to celebrate whoevers phone blew up first. Dorris in accounting lost a damn leg from her Samsung but ill tell you one thing...nobody in the office would forget those fireworks! and think of THE CHILDREN! you know, the ones that make these phones and enjoy constant exposure to the byproducts of battery manufacturing. And what about charging?? Back in my day we used to charge all day every day until the battery went bad, then we'd buy more phones! its like you kids dont even understand how fun it is to buy a new phone every year or something.
When the spyware comes along...
You must root it!
plug a cable in the phone
you can root it!
https://theunlockr.com/2013/11...
Lennart: CLOSED. WONTFIX. ..b-but its a bug!!
Slashdot:
Lennart: well yes I see how you could think that but once you use OpenRC it becomes very apparent that this bug disappears and is resolved, so of course, its not a bug.
UK wifi provider: LOL! jokes all around! we didnt really want you to paint snail shells!
US wifi provider: You will paint shells until your fucking hands drop off, and if so much as one of them chips, we will grind everyone you love into paint for the next batch.
Adjit Pai: sounds like fun! pick any of your favourite colours youre told to pick!
Symantecs original idea behind the certificate authority business itself, was to create an out of the box condition for its bluecoat product to work in any environment. bluecoat does TLS termination/snooping and as such requres extensive work in corporate PKI to inject trusted certs into the browser trust and cert trust for machines.
having a publically trusted CA that could -- out of the box -- be used to intercept traffic by a popular piece of hardware thats been sold to iran and syria is likely that made google furious. Its also worth considering that Symantec considered a PKI authority to be just another "business acquisition" that would fly under the radar, only to be confronted with a voraciously defensive internet that was working to ensure TLS could not be tampered with.
ultimately, google started fishing for legitimate RFC and industry based reasons to blackball their CA. Symantec is likely getting exhausted by all the auditing and security required to maintain what was, after all, originally just intended to help customers who want to snoop on their employees and citizens
disclosure: american here.
for those readers outside the states who wonder why we're engaged in perpetual war, its the impetus of an unstoppable machine. our Department of Defense is funded to the tune of more than 500 billion dollars. it employs close to three million people. This doesnt count the literal millions of people whom are employed as military contractors, providing everything from catering to private security and transportation (our troops fly commercial aircraft frequently.)
we helped ourselves to the war chest during WW2 to get out of a crippling depression fueled by unregulated credit markets. Then the paranoia of a generation led us to stumble into central america, the middle east, and southeast asia. Now, the US military is too big to do anything but sustain, or get bigger.
rolling back the defense budget is not an option in a nation that makes nothing anymore. So, we pick our battles and fight the wars we have an overwhelming supremacy in waging. we fight for profit and to a lesser extent ideology, not defense, so its rare to see us in a country that doesnt at least have an exploitable natural resource or strategic value internationally. we pick the countries we can win, the enemies we can paint as a binary good/evil on the nightly news, and we place an emphasis on maintaining the illusion that our conquests have something to do with our moral turpitude and just nature.
It doesnt matter if space is a pointless vacuum, it only matters that it represents an opportunity for profit and sustained funding. Senators voting for this nonsense are keenly aware it means jobs and income for people in their states even tangentially affiliated with the defense department. Not having a war/employed warforce means a more urgent requirement to address things like income inequality, unemployment, healthcare, drug abuse, homelessness, and things that do not make a profit.
you brought them an overpriced thermostat they dont control.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
you brought them a piece of electronic garbage that leaves them without heat in the dead of fucking january
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
and finally...perhaps the most unforgivable sin, you brought them a gadget that sells their personal information to their own utility companies.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
Softlayer, IBM's public cloud offering was acquired in 2013. in the 4 years its been headed up by Big Blue the service has gone from decent hosting provider to dumpster fire of penny stock spam and DDoS botnet herders.
https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/l...
https://www.mailcleaner.net/bl...
Ceramics/composites engineer here for a large glass maker. This device doesnt repair your glass. For that you'd need an annealer, or a reflow bed. you'd also need to have moulds and castings and a polish/tempering system. thats not feasible in a machine the size of a microwave oven.
what this machine likely does is handle the delicate process of calibration, alignment, and most importantly replacement of the biometric sensor on the device. the access control and authentication from the reader to the rest of the phone is likely a highly guarded component as its used to access encryption keys for the device itself. these machines might contain a copy of sensitive intermediary or signing certificates used to rekey the phone. If Right To Repair passes, Apple could likely delegate the PKI straight to the user with an itunes API or something. replacing the button means you're in charge of generating the certificates.
"I spend 20 years running a multibillion dollar company into the ground, but now that ive spent three years owning the Los Angeles Clippers im somehow unaccountably entitled to wax propetic on the moral and ethical turpitude of the cloth from which I was cut"
she had "nothing" to work from once she rigged the nomination.
FTFY.
but in all seriousness, this is the kind of petulant bitching I abhor in a statesman. Its the kind of whining you expect to hear from a deep-seated, dynastic candidate with lots of connections and money but limited charisma, tact, and insight. Hillary lost the election because she was a turd of a candidate that avoided red states and rural populations where she refused to send any message. Instead she concentrated on playing the numbers and winning by electoral college votes in big blue cities. Rural and suburban voters outside of these areas saw her as disconnected and disinterested in things like systemic unemployment, drug crises, and healthcare. She was the woman who shamelessly arrived in a five-thousand dollar red designed gunny sack to lecture the masses on inequality.
Why the us government open sources less than a quarter of its code.
to this unfortunate problem...you can also just install linux. Believe it or not, you dont need Windows to run it.
fun fact: many of these antibiotics are developed through public private partnership with your local schools and universities under nondisclosure agreements which prevent any of the research from being made public. these NDAs often have expiration dates as far far as 80 years into the future.
the fact remains that if and when the cloistered elite need access to lifesaving medicine en-masse, these drugs will be quickly made available. If the cure for Hepatitis C was any indication, you'll certainly gain access to these advanced new antibiotics as well...at $30,000 a bottle.
Either North Korea is an impoverished dictatorship that could never, ever launch a successful ICBM and routinely runs out of energy and food, or its an underground powerhouse releasing some of the deadliest malware to date and rivals the US and Russia in technical prowess.
Theres also the unresolved dependency that this exploit came from the NSA. Nice try.
Better 5 months late and unannounced with no industry coordination or planning than never. Either the clocks are slow at Redmond or they just can't be bothered to care
I wanted the firefox that crashes bashes you insensitive clods!!
"intel has sufficiently beat the stuffing out of certain 3 letter competitors in the market, and no longer needs to shill its compiler. please return when our CEO returns to shore after having exhausted his supply of caviar. It is at this time we expect to begin IDF18, where we will scramble madly trying to renew competition against Ryzen."
the dark mode extension for firefox has taken care of this for me.
As an american im always deeply concerned when our witch hunts proceed without so much as a ghoulish evil monster to subject to ye olde tribulations. After this, I suspect the good witch -- whos time it was to be elected to president because she did the mannequin challenge-- will prevail and righteousness will be restored to america.
I could argue this scientifically and rationally from behind a burned-out and slightly irradiated russian T90 battle tank with my parents, only to have them insist Sean Hannity was right and that my liberal agenda better not come up during the militias rationing of radiation blocking iodine tablets and canned beef.
flight attendants: "for those of you in economy class, please step forward and use the bone saw to remove your legs at the knee for storage in the overhead compartment. Pretzel dust and warm pepsi will be provided once in flight, along with the entertainment of a partially eaten magazine about our CEO's latest hunting trip in the alps. Those of you in our platinum, rhodium, saphire card club, or other rare and exotic metals often associated with conflict mining, please proceed to the front of the aircraft and take your seat stolen from the lobby of an upscale motel. You will be permitted to eat with a real fork, provided you've prostrated yourself accordingly to the TSA and said your daily supplication to the holy terror alert list. "