It is, but it isn’t because of free market economy.
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Still that makes very clear why Venezuela had to happen before Iran.
Dwarf fortress or rim world solves that by generating personalities.
What prevents that we, just move the goal post? Moving the bug from code to spec? The spec must always be simpler and more easily to understand and debug than the code. But in praxis that means it can’t be fully specific in most of the use cases?
It seems to favor the compact and efficient kind of code that is brittle in the hand of a mildly competent junior dev, or a heavy multitasking senior.
I like smart code, in fun projects, but on the job I prefer fast to read and to reason code. Don’t try to be fancy.
So I guess that’s a book to challenge my assumptions. I like that. Thx.
I still would prefer a true Icon.
But it is down right evil to impose extraterritorial sanctions against a company and preventing other to do business with them.
Then i realized that i was offtopic in a kinda funny way
mysqldump got a CLI argument to provide the password! As far as I know - visible to anyone with some access on the system. the documentation warns about that and suggest to create a config file to store the password.
security is a spectrum - but if it's about password storage in modern web applications live on the lower end.
I am increasingly frustrated by that - and if I raise concerns many admins stick to binary security "storing stuff unencrypted on disk is okay, cause the attacker is inside already" followed by "you must store the key somewhere" it's wrong and it's true at the same time. it's also sad - because not only the users, but also the ppl paying us trust us to keep them save. and we don't. :( we can say "it's a spectrum" and we are truthful - but we just can't keep em safe. I think it's important to recognize that simple fact.
...or is it me who is just meticulous?
but still..some rhetorical questions: Is KMS based on this concept? Is it's implementation open sourced? Is it verified to run unchanged in the instance I pay? Who is verifying it? Who is paying the one verifying it? Can I meet him / her to drink a coffee and build trust between us?
pls, do not misunderstand me. I got more trust in the amazon techs than in my own ability to admin a complex linux system on bare metal. But while all that is great progress toward security we still need to make a leap to find a solution. don't we?
I wish I am wrong - cause my heart always bleeds if I see db passwords in configuration files! But As long as there is a hypervisor you do not control access to - you must trust the owner of the bare metal to (1) honor your privacy (2) be competent to secure his system. Trust is nice, but it is not security.
granted - Confidant and KMS seem better solution than most. Will look into it at more detail. thx for open sourcing it and moving the solution forward.