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…I’d assume that would be judged differently than an attempted murder and trashing a hotel room.
The question is what would be the judgement for all three?
You’re stating the problem with that whole sector.
I really wish product owners, researchers and tool creators had more actual real world experience on the remediation side. I think that’s the reason we have so many crappy tools.
- We need a better way of addressing business logic issues and sensitive data leakage which starts at the data model and flows from there.
- Within large organizations we need better risk data about vulns to aid with prioritization and remediation which is always the larger problem (sifting through noise)
- We need automated threat modeling tools that reduce a teams need to start from zero
Fundamentally a tool is a waste of time if it can’t tell you there’s “x% possibility of downtime or sensitive data leakage.”
Addressing the risk equation (r=il) where the impact and likelihood variables are baked into every tool and based in real world data is where we should be.
Until then, vulnerability scanning and management will continue to suck.
been the impact of OpenAI and meta glasses / headsets on the blind community at large?
Based on your statements it seems that the real value of AI is increasing the participation rate of visually impaired people in the global workforce.
If Elon or Sam can convince governments and insurance companies to pay for AI-powered glasses as a healthcare necessity maybe there’s a pathway forward for AI and VC class after all.
…maybe that’s the real game plan for Marc Andreesen, Kanye, Elon and the others.
They’re not really Nazi’s just early adopters choosing the “innovative freedom” promised by Emperor Palpatine and the Sith over the slow march of the Senators of the Republic.
Sorry, I’ve been watching too much Andor.
Many will say Bill is attempting to reshape his legacy and narrative post-Epstein.
The most important thing is that money is being returned to society on an accelerated timeline.
Without this redistribution of wealth from billionaires back to especially the middle and lower classes we are headed for violent revolution on a massive scale.
Hopefully other billionaires redistribute during their lifetimes to address housing, education and health issues as well.
The ignorance comes from lack of experience and it happens often on both sides.
Engineers think they deserve a big equity package for writing CRUD apps.
“Businesspeople” with no startup experience, never raised money and never worked in sales think they have value.
If both co-founders have no prior startup experience then they both need to put in the same amount of money and split equity 51/49 or 60/40 (while considering dilution).
No once can build a meaningful company alone so you need to have a team and that team must have a servant leader willing to break ties.
It’s only inexperienced people that don’t know / understand this.
The story of Anwar Al-Awlaki and his American US-born son who was killed in the attack authorized by the Obama administration must not be forgotten.
The issue of presidential powers and conduct must be a non-partisan issue. Trump merely walked through the cracks created under Obama.
Being well-intentioned (“protecting Americans against terrorism”) is not sufficient excuse for murdering an American minor due to the sins of his father no matter how much the Obama administration DOJ attempted to make it legally permissible to do so.
Now everyone is a “celebrity”and hubris is at an all time high.
I’ve been in tech for 25+ years and never heard of this person until now but it’s not the first time I’ve heard similar talk.
These maxims strike me more as bitter senior neck beard developer complains about the rest of his team in a passive aggressive way at the work lunch table before COVID.
If you’re a celebrity, we don’t need your snarky complaints. We need you using your “celebrity” to make things better.
Upper and middle class white women have benefitted richly from these policies for far too long.
There’s too many of them in college and corporate America.
Fairness is the goal but…
…there’s been no real uptick in positive outcomes for ethnic minorities or even impoverished white people.
It’s time to dismantle DEI and “diversity-based targets” because it’s a shield that protects disingenuous rich people from having to actually achieve equity and inclusion for the rest of society.
Source:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/06/29/affirmative-...
#satire
I get it that Oracle is in the wrong but I’m still not sure why get in this trademark fight anyhow.
I would personally leave it to someone with much larger pockets like Microsoft to deal with.
Unfortunately, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of destruction that Jeff and other billionaires have wreaked on US small businesses and the poor.
EXAMPLES:
Billionaires are driving up single family home prices across the US:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/wall-street-buying-houses
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/21/how-wall-street-bought-s...
Bezos and Musk fight unionization and workers rights?
https://www.jwj.org/emboldened-billionaires-take-aim-at-new-...
The prison phone market is owned by billionaires: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmate_telephone_system
Amazon now accepts SNAP/EBT payments after destroying small businesses:
https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/amazon-now-accepts-ebt-car...
Farmers are not allowed to reuse seeds from billionaire firms:
https://grain.org/en/article/5142-seed-laws-that-criminalise...
There’s a thing called facts. Billionaires exploit the poor.
Why do they fight unionization and workers rights?
https://www.jwj.org/emboldened-billionaires-take-aim-at-new-...
The prison phone market is owned by billionaires: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmate_telephone_system
Amazon now accepts SNAP/EBT payments after destroying small businesses:
https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/amazon-now-accepts-ebt-car...
Farmers are not allowed to reuse seeds from billionaire firms:
https://grain.org/en/article/5142-seed-laws-that-criminalise...
When we started on this tech journey, the hope was for a better more equal world,
Instead we have the worst inequality since the Great Depression, mass surveillance on a global scale and the destruction of the middle class.
Inequality is a part of our society. Some are born with better genetics and opportunities in a lucky part of the world.
If you are lucky to become a billionaire your purpose is to serve humanity and redistribute that wealth to your workers and to society at large.
If not, the only eventual outcome is repression by the billionaire class or forced redistribution through violent revolution.
These are the lessons that history has taught us.
Or more directly predict the win/loss probability of university admissions rates by ethnicity and class?
Example: US university admission competitions in which poor Americans are pitted against wealthy Americans and international students from Asia.
The real question is how do you protect people from themselves?
Advertising (4000 BCE)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_advertising
Fact-checking is literally just a Google search away. Irony intended.
Ecclesiastes (Qohelet)
As I became a teen my reading became varied thankfully and I came across this book at a time when nothing felt important.
When all feels lost and nothing matters, Ecclesiastes is great for giving a view into what’s it’s like to grapple with the questions of happiness, life and humanity in a way that doesn’t end in your own depression and suicide.
The author finds his reason and method for living. We all must do the same.
What do we do? Are we so apathetic that we don’t care?
I guess we all just feel that caring requires too much effort and lack of a personal return on investment.
My activism will start and end here with this comment.
Maybe things will be better in the future.
More than likely not.
A targeted strike against enemy combatants (with minimal civilian deaths) is LEGAL WAR.
Indiscriminate booby traps into a civilian population (regardless of the original buyer) is definitely TERRORISM.
At this point, Israel’s detractors will say morally it’s no different than Hamas.
The dropping of bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima was TERRORISM as well as well as the fire bombing of London and Dresden.
I’m in infosec as well.
Kids (12+) know how to use Tor because we’ve made the “dark web” a cool place at this point.
And the Rhysida ransomware onion can be found with a simple Google search. The knowledge that’s it was Rhysida is public information .
STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1. Download and install Tor
2. Search for Rhysida on Google
3. City of Columbus data is on the front page
The EdX brand was amazing. It’s sad what it’s become.
I don’t know too much about classcentral but I hope that the blog post was written in the interest of seeing MOOCs thrive.
We’ve learned both that if you …
1) provide free housing people will use it
2) fine/jail people for camping on the street and in parks it works as a deterrent
Why not both?
I feel lazy right now but feel free to find your own sources for the points above. The jailing one is from a study done in the Nordic states…last I remember.
In the case of password construction and complexity, we’ve learned that rotation and complexity leads to worse password practices.
https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
However many large companies do not adhere to the latest NIST guidance (which is many years old by now).
This is why password complexity and rotation is still so nuts.
If not, they are quick to bash you publicly.
There’s too much hubris in the “professional” web app bug hunter community.
Generally, their attitude is very “look at these stupid developers,” “developers suck at security,” or “a conspiracy is happening because company X didn’t take their app down within 10 minutes of getting my email.” It’s much more nuanced than that.
I’d like to see:
1) more bounties and better paid bounties
2) less ego and much more professionalism and patience from “researchers”
Both would be better for consumers.
Generally if a corporate board has a risk committee that meets regularly and obtains consistent “audits” that demonstrate a company follows its own policies and procedures then it skates by these shareholders lawsuits.
Crowdstrike may have litigation costs dealing from impacted customers but those as well may not lead to significant damages per contract terms.
The original studies on peanut allergy and bamba in Israel came out many years ago.
It’s taken people so long in the US to learn about the value of introducing small amount to babies at a young age to protect them.
I can only think of the many families and children who have been negatively impacted due to the lack of awareness and understanding in America.
All mass influxes of immigrant communities will have some crime element initially due to poverty and discrimination.
This is normal and should be expected.
It’s a part of the integration process over initial generations.
For the US, you can trace the phenomena to the influx of Irish Catholics in the early 1800s and from there to…
Eastern European Jews, Italians, Armenians, Russians, Cubans, Chinese, Indians, Puerto-Ricans, Dominicans, Central Americans, Nigerians, Somalians and other immigrant communities.
But what if the generative AI were used to create music instead of code would the court have ruled differently?
CONSIDER:
In 2015, a federal judge order Thicke & Pharrell to pay 50% of proceeds to the Marvin Gaye estate for being “too similar” to the song, “Gots to Give It Up”.
Comparison and commentary: https://youtu.be/7_UiQueteN4?si=SkClbyBMOcucigRm
Comparison of both songs: https://youtu.be/ziz9HW2ZmmY?si=3_VZzfoLT-NrozoK