Posts by dirigible

Swiss government says give M365, and all SaaS, a miss as it lacks end-to-end encryption

Re: End to end encryption is not enough

As usual, it depends on your exact definition, that of „end-to-end“ in this case.

This definition has been muddled in the past, mostly by marketing concerns pushing a specific solution. That is even more the case for „zero trust“ which I posit to have lost any meaning whatsoever.

I guess privatim’s idea is that the citizen is one end of the transaction, the other being the public office. Mind that privatim’s members are all lawyers, their technical lingo may not be fully up to snuff.

(Actually paragraph 2 of the resolution („too little transparency“) would be a strike against any closed-source software, regardless of where it runs.)

Finally, if Switzerland works somewhat like my country, the data protection offices are political leightweights. They may offer advice, words of warning, wagging of fingers … but if a few thousand Francs could perhaps, maybe be saved by moving to the cloud, this would trump any concern, every time.

FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio takeover

Fines?

So, will the responsible (in the sense that it’s their transmitter) radio stations be fined for sending the emergency tones and dirty words to the Æther?

After all, it’s not just the loss of a gazillion customer records, youngins will hear shit on the radiowaves! (The three amish children that still listen to radio.)

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Ex-CISA officials, CISOs dispel 'hacklore,' spread cybersecurity truths

Re: Is this really the priority?

> Only one of their examples, that of password rotation, is incorrect […]

I can’t parse whether you’re positioning for or against password rotation here.

You are likely to be eaten by the MIT license: Microsoft frees Zork source

Sierra was multi-platform for a few years

AGI games were ported to a lot of non-IBM platforms, King’s Quest had Apple ][ and PC releases in the same year: https://www.mobygames.com/game/122/kings-quest/releases/

Apple, Atari and Amiga releases were pretty normal 1985-1990:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/379/leisure-suit-larry-in-the-land-of-the-lounge-lizards/releases/

https://www.mobygames.com/game/114/space-quest-chapter-i-the-sarien-encounter/releases/

https://www.mobygames.com/game/146/police-quest-in-pursuit-of-the-death-angel/releases/

Even some SCI games had releases on Amiga and Atari, but the PC was definitely winning by this time.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/168/heros-quest-so-you-want-to-be-a-hero/releases/

https://www.mobygames.com/game/461/the-colonels-bequest/releases/

The Virtual Machine (not to be confused with today’s VMs) idea was very popluar at that time. Java VM is a later implementation of the concept. Game engines are kind of like that as well: assets and scripts are portable to whatever toaster the engine’s latest port runs on.