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Probably it's because the platforms don't want to make services to root out fraud because then they become more responsible for owning it. Outside services can't break in because the platforms aren't going to put trust in them. Those services would have to own the cost of fraud.
Are you secure if your admin's child is kidnapped and the ransom demand is for network access? Are you secure from the Secret Police wanting to hijack your service for their purposes?
Once you accept you CAN'T stop truly all attacks you can be comfortable with acceptable risk and work to mitigate realistic risks.
Libertarians want to cancel social programs and replace with UBI so individuals determine how to spend their benefits. Socialists want to guarantee everyone a living wage but also want the safety nets.
Policy needs to be in middle. You need to enable people to self-manage. Must be ready to help them when there is a bad turn events. But you also need to have a humane way to deal with people that are incapable of taking care of themselves, for example mental illness. The way to handle that is guardianship, not other government programs that can also be individually mismanaged. Guardianship will surely be more expensive then UBI but it is the humane thing to do.
With guardianship that UBI could be directed to an organization to provide that budget management. They can issue a food stamp card, housing assistance, etc. That management could be a government agency or privatized. If privatized it would have to be regulated as a fidicuary.
Fashionably late only makes sense if the others can continue without you.
* 2 hours late to happy hour? glad you can make it, get a drink. (But don't expect me to stay another 2 hours)
* An hour late for D&D game? I guess we can start now. grumble-grumble wasted an hour of everyone elses time.
* 15 minutes late to carpool? You better have a good reason.
Delivery has turned into minimizing every excess second. I wager within a few months most of these amazon keys will be ignored as they leave packages on the driveway. I wouldn't buy this unless it comes with a guarantee it will be used.
It could also do vanity articles. Go back to your college days and write about your games, making you the highlight.
Worse it could be influenced to do personalized advertisements in the middle of the article.
Timestamps are a mess on unix. POSIX doesn't support creation time but instead has ctime (change time). Newer filesystems add crtime but common utilities don't ever display crtime. Also partitions sometimes are mounted to not update atime for performance reasons.
crtime (and ctime) can be modified with root privileges without kernel access with debugfs.
Or you can go the ugly hackish way: date -s $forgedate && touch tmp && date -s $realdate && cat original >> tmp && mv tmp original
Neither are elegant, but certainly not hard.
What's really hard to forensically cover up is the order of inodes on a filesystem. That file with forged timestamps to 2012 will still have an inode that looks much more recent.
I understand filtering the source address as internal IP because that could be malicious spoofing of internal host (and destination can't legitimately reply.)
The command "rm -rf ~/blue/" is just a single space key from being equivalent to "rm -rf /" with "rm -rf ~/blue /"
If you're just doing batch jobs, then you could have the script remove keys from ssh-agent when it's done. At a certain point you have to presume the integrity of your machine. Otherwise your password can just be keylogged as you're unlocking key.
But I wonder how it balances individual impacts versus business impacts. Is a thousand people complaining "This ruins my ability to watch netflix" as significant as netflix same comments in terms of its business losses.
First off, the news isn't tactile. The paper itself is tactile but so is a tablet. Paper tactility is not more appealing except to people that are uncomfortable with tech. Short blurbs followed by flipping through 16 pages of mostly ads to find rest of article is a level of unfriendliness that is hard to match in online news, though some sites try their best.
On archival and permanence, you're confusing the content with the medium. Try to find a permanent article from the NY times. While you may be able to find the print form, more likely you will find it in a digital medium. It has been decades since print form was the system of permanent record. Articles were being digitized in the 70s.
Online content isn't the same as online journalism. Even so there is an attempt to archive even the most obscure of online content (archive.org and waybackmachine). I doubt you can find an archive of a small town print newsletter. But you can on web publications unless they make efforts to block it.
Plenty of non-software companies can live or die on the quality of their algorithms. It could be a small development team but it can be challenging and rewarding. Plus it will give you a bigger perspective.
The key is to work somewhere that you are valued.
But a quality reference book doesn't really have an analogue in music. That book can be a key tool to someone performing their profession. This applies even in a digital medium.