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Russian hacking gangs are putting silicon valley entrepeneurs to shame. They've made every element of ransomware something that can be specialized in and outsourced. Initial access? Ransomware? C2 infrastructure? Negotiation? Customer service? It can all be outsourced to a Russian company that specializes in their niche.

Everyone is scrambling to build a cyber army. Looks like Putin is letting the invisible hand build it for him.

Malware developers with those skills are probably working with APTs and hunting bigger fish.

It's really too bad you can't win wars with printed money.

Probably no effective ones, but you can packet sniff and look for traffic to known C2 servers.

Because if Israel loses a war they will use nukes. When they ask "please help us" we support them... because of the implication.

>fighting for "American ideals" or because "they hate our freedoms" is just propaganda

Close... It's a narrative. And without a compelling narrative, no one is going to sweat and toil to make your spreadsheet tracker of assets look pretty.

Is it federated or P2P? I don't think I can message someone on Matrix without an account on someone's federated server.

>The free world's enormous advantage in military competition with China is that they have each other, they have allies.

More precisely, their advantage is that they have America, whose political polarization is being hastened by internal and external actors every day.

Do we want to have the same population forever? We're running out of drinking water.

"Computer science degree" is not an ambiguous term, in fact (in the US) the goals and curriculum of the degree are explicitly defined by accrediting institutions. At the very least, it's not intended just to teach web development, and that's not up for debate.

Do you think the only purpose of a CS degree is to teach software development? Many people with the degree don't end up writing software. The point of a CS degree isn't to teach you the tools and languages being used at companies in 2021; go to a coding bootcamp if you want that. It's to teach computer science. After you learn that, picking up languages and tools is easy.

The point with learning with simple tools is that you learn from first principles with as much as possible stripped down. Most of the time C has a straightforward correlation with the instructions emitted by the compiler, and the language rarely does something behind your back. Try explaining memory management (in detail) to a first year student using JavaScript or Python.

>why do entry-level students have to understand the internals behind compiling their code

It's a good primer before they write compilers in their latter years in a CS degree.

Controversial opinion ahead. Take a deep breath.

If a student can't handle C/C++ in nano/vim/emacs and debugging with gdb, maybe a computer science degree just isn't right for them.

>Never intended to be the sort of job to support a family.

I don't intend any disrespect, but you're repeating revisionist history.

Please tell us what the "correct" birthrate is.

Did your university have MAC based network access control? That's probably why.

University security teams (if they exist at all) have enough trouble enforcing security policies with university employees without having students setting up unauthorized devices. They don't want students running crappy vulnerable servers out of their dorm room, or pirating movies (the university gets a legal letter for that), or port scanning the network, or a whole host of other at best annoying things that aren't necessary to get an education. If you want to do that, rent your own infrastructure, or better yet practice that in a lab.

>Have you even seen how large the properties are in Woodside, Atherton, Portola Valley, Palo Alto, and Cupertino?

This sounds like a problem for the rich that (just as you described) they can pay to make go away.

>while [local districts/offices] are often ridiculed for being slow and stuffy, they are a very real check and balance against the prefectural and national governments

What's the mechanism for local districts checking the power of prefectural and national governments? If the prefecture passes a regulation can a local district just say "no" or bury it in paperwork?

This seems normal for employees with privileged access. Give them a two week vacation on their way out.

I've heard the opposite. You lay off on a Monday so you have 5 business days to call recruiters. You give a promotion or bonus on a Friday so the employee can celebrate on the weekend and won't slack off the rest of the week.

> Auto-updates are an attacker's dream too.

Why?

This is the genetic fallacy, no? Americans are bad, so they must be hacking hospitals even though we can't see it.

You can't make someone understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding.

Are new players welcome?

That's encouraging. I guess I'm wondering if suspension of domains is up to corporate discretion or if the government of Portugal precludes that and requires a court order for suspensions.

>The only country which actively spies on pretty much everyone in the world is the US

Why are you sure about that? I think Sunburst burned everyone.

There might be a subtle difference here not captured by just labelling all this under the umbrella term "hacking". The American government typically exploits devices for gathering information for authorized espionage, which is something that every country on earth conducts. Russian gangs infect hospitals and water treatment facilities with ransomware. The latter has something we might call "kinetic effects" and is closer to all out cyber war.

Really? What other countries offer such guarantee?

The ccTLD of Iceland ".is" only suspends domain names after a valid court order in Icelandic jurisdiction.

Would these leaks be solved by implementing a VPN at the router instead of the host?