The entire State Dept is just as sloppy as Hilary. The US government has shown **repeatedly** they do not do technology well, correctly, consistently or insert any positive phrase here. Incompetence is the essence of US Government politicians and worker drones in any technology field.
Sadly the only time they actually appear to do some technical mission correctly is when it is used to violate the Constitution. Hoorah to the NSA.
Because IT is holy and always right. Right? No, not right. If you were talking a corporate IT staff, then maybe.
But you aren't, this is IT for the loony bin of liars and thieves aka Our Congress. So trust them explicitly, ah no. The FBI and the CIA and NSA all have their hooks into the system anyway. Tell them to clean all the W* systems.
Also, I didn't almost forget, this is the year of the Linux desktop. /snark
And at that time you were required to receive the paper version as well. Okay, that lasted a year then I stopped it. Easily half the magazines were never read. Why waste the paper?
Recently I added AdBlocker Plus for the express purpose of stopping the always security suspected Flash. I still have no idea why advertisers think it is acceptable to suck my bandwidth for and with crappy ads.
Then Wired gave me the "Here's the Thing" pitch. What irritated me was they stole the page, whited out the entire article with their push. I closed the tab. I thought about it and the next day (or so) white listed them. The very next time I visited what did they do? They whited out the article to thank me for white listing them. I closed the tab and have not returned. Except a few minutes later to black list them again.
Ham fisted champion of the web, Wired.com by a nose.
Really Marsha, where is the documentation that says anything at all like your statements? We know about Texas taxing internet sales, she must be assuming everyone else is as well.
Oh well, Texan lawyers, judges and politicians tend towards hyperbole and outright lies.
Then those businesses that get their funds stolen by the grabby IRS can, you know, run their business and pay their employees. Which would mean everyone would also pay taxes.
What is this fascination with Going Dark? That term has been around for longer than iPhones. It means dropping off the grid in some fashion. I have a friend that has used the phrase for years when he and his buddies go hunting. For elk.
Why he decided to puke this out onto the web is a mystery. Much like not knowing that Going Dark is an old, old solution. No phone, no mail, no email and now no brains required at the MIT Technology Review!
My S.O. won't let me stay in the room when 'That TV Show' is on. The few times she failed I only lasted minutes before the farcical nature of their claims forced my exit.
Yes he does! I have read some actual transcripts of Bush speeches and they were horrible. Horrible is too light a description. But those were massaged to the point of perfect before Dubya ever got to read them. He just mangled them to the point of incomprehension. Here it's just Trump's mouth directly connected to the random noise from space, the area between his ears, not the higher altitude version.
So, apparently Mr. Trump, self proclaimed smart guy, doesn't appear to know that US spy agencies, possibly with the aid of Israel, attacked the infrastructure of Iran's nuclear weapon facility with state of the art spyware/malware. State of the art. The reviews of the work were universal in their praise of the quality of the work. Unfortunately the smart guy(tm) doesn't know anything about Stuxnet so the US is behind on cyber.
Security is not a CS101 class. It takes a lot of work by a lot of people to get right. Now add to that there is an OS, applications, remote ownership (the county) and an unknown host of possible bugs where all these interconnect. Note that the twits at the FBI have yet to reveal how it was done, if it was the suggested NAND copy that is a hardware attack. So even if the software was perfect, taking the hardware partially apart while not ruining it provides yet another attack vector. So, yes their security is such the FBI went to court to try to get a free get out of doing their job card.
What I would wonder is whether that source code was given by the company or merely taken by the government agencies. The average tech related manufacturing firm is ill placed to hold off a government sponsored breach. Also, it is rather easy to blame the Chinese because they are constantly pissing in everyone's soup as it is.
Just because they have someone's source code doesn't mean the company [b]handed[/b] it to them.
Seriously folks, Laurie Self as a lawyer. Regardless of working for Qualcomm but just her name is worthy of some really awful puns.
The business standard 'Note to Self' leads to many complications. I had to read one sentence twice "were completely dismissed by Self". Of course I immediately went down the rabbit hole.
I cannot recall having any need to access either site in years. GQ, probably not ever. Forbes has a definite slant to their articles. I disagree with their twist so my normal process is to either ignore Forbes articles entirely or search for the information without their slant applied.
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What a shock!
Sadly the only time they actually appear to do some technical mission correctly is when it is used to violate the Constitution. Hoorah to the NSA.
On the post: House Of Representatives Tech Team Blocks All Google Appspot Apps Because Of A Single Trojan
Re: Rant
But you aren't, this is IT for the loony bin of liars and thieves aka Our Congress. So trust them explicitly, ah no. The FBI and the CIA and NSA all have their hooks into the system anyway. Tell them to clean all the W* systems.
Also, I didn't almost forget, this is the year of the Linux desktop. /snark
On the post: Mozilla Asks Court To Force FBI To Turn Over Information On Hacking Tool It Used In Child Porn Case
Again, the FBI talks with lips that lie.
To any other legal team trying this method it is merely lies and more lies. With the FBI it's ... well it's the same.
On the post: Reddit's Technology Subreddit Ponders Banning Wired & Forbes For Blocking Adblock Users
I had a wired subscription
Recently I added AdBlocker Plus for the express purpose of stopping the always security suspected Flash. I still have no idea why advertisers think it is acceptable to suck my bandwidth for and with crappy ads.
Then Wired gave me the "Here's the Thing" pitch. What irritated me was they stole the page, whited out the entire article with their push. I closed the tab. I thought about it and the next day (or so) white listed them. The very next time I visited what did they do? They whited out the article to thank me for white listing them. I closed the tab and have not returned. Except a few minutes later to black list them again.
Ham fisted champion of the web, Wired.com by a nose.
On the post: Law Enforcement Forced To Hand Over $41K It Seized From Businessman At Airport, Plus Another $10K In Legal Fees
Sorry about the last title.
Many apologies.
On the post: Law Enforcement Forced To Hand Over $41K It Seized From Businessman At Airport, Plus Another $10K In Legal Fees
I read about a Russian years ago.
This is America at its worst.
On the post: Why Did Congress Let Law Enforcement Officials Lie About Encryption?
Congress, et al love them some stupids.
On the post: House Passes Bill Attempting To Gut Net Neutrality, Supporters Declare The Internet Saved
What planet is Texas on?
Oh well, Texan lawyers, judges and politicians tend towards hyperbole and outright lies.
On the post: Elizabeth Warren Introduces Bill To Make Tax Season Return-Free
Let's this rule, the IRS shall not steal.
Just a thought.
On the post: MIT Tech Review Tries To Blame Apple Encryption For Wrongful Arrest
Going Dark, more like going dumb.
Why he decided to puke this out onto the web is a mystery. Much like not knowing that Going Dark is an old, old solution. No phone, no mail, no email and now no brains required at the MIT Technology Review!
On the post: 71% Want The Dark Net Shut Down, Showing Most Have No Idea What The Dark Net Is
Re: That TV show
On the post: 71% Want The Dark Net Shut Down, Showing Most Have No Idea What The Dark Net Is
Re: the dark net and tor are different
On the post: Trump's Incomprehensible 'Cyber' Policy: 'Make Cyber Great Again'
Re: GW as a Rhodes scholar
Here it's just Trump's mouth directly connected to the random noise from space, the area between his ears, not the higher altitude version.
On the post: Trump's Incomprehensible 'Cyber' Policy: 'Make Cyber Great Again'
What about Stuxnet?
Unfortunately the smart guy(tm) doesn't know anything about Stuxnet so the US is behind on cyber.
On the post: DOJ To Court: We Got Into The iPhone, So Please Drop Our Demand To Force Apple To Help Us... This Time
Re: Nice security
Note that the twits at the FBI have yet to reveal how it was done, if it was the suggested NAND copy that is a hardware attack. So even if the software was perfect, taking the hardware partially apart while not ruining it provides yet another attack vector.
So, yes their security is such the FBI went to court to try to get a free get out of doing their job card.
On the post: US Government Has Apparently Demanded, And Obtained, Tech Companies' Source Code In The Past
source code given - or taken?
Just because they have someone's source code doesn't mean the company [b]handed[/b] it to them.
On the post: New Mexico Attorney General Would Rather See Sexting Teens Treated As Sex Offenders Than See His Funding 'Jeopardized'
Screwing kids to save the cash flow.
On the post: Surprise: Pro-Surveillance WSJ Editorial Board Sides With Apple Over FBI
Re: Considering that this pits ...
Or, maybe, more likely and even possibly most likely you are a troll.
On the post: Qualcomm Says It's Fighting For The Little Guy, While Really Blocking Patent Reform That Would Help The Little Guy
Why have you all missed the most important part?
The business standard 'Note to Self' leads to many complications. I had to read one sentence twice "were completely dismissed by Self". Of course I immediately went down the rabbit hole.
But nobody else was there.
On the post: GQ And Forbes Go After Ad Blocker Users Rather Than Their Own Shitty Advertising Inventory
Somebody reads Forbes and GQ?
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