Re: The owner has two Ferraris. They have that kind of money
Most people who buy a Ferrari don't to it to be faster. They buy it because they want to be seen as a Ferrari owner.
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In the good old days, when phones were rather heavy desktop devices, didn't need nor have a display beyond a couple of LEDs, and before e-mail was a thing... With two phones next to each other, you phoned two different people and then put the two handsets opposite each other to enjoy the development of a random discussion ("...you phoned me." - "No, you phoned me!" etc.)
I agree with you and am fully aware of Switzerland's privileged situation embedded within friendly neighbours.
With freeloading I was rather referring to its refusal to supply "spiritual allies" (being neutral, it cannot enter into military alliances), which indirectly also defend Switzerland's security in Russia's war(s), with munitions and even mine clearing equipment.
Switzerland's laws forbid exporting munitions to conflicting parties. On the other hand, they happily exported munitions to countries that have been involved in armed conflicts, e.g. USA, Saudi Arabia, UK, France. Mind you, in total it's not that big of a business, amounting to less than GBP1 bn per year.
I'm not sure whether encryption of storage or transport would have worked in this case. But I certainly agree that dealing with such sensitive data they should have had better preventive and detective measures in place (which is kind of self-explanatory ex post). I find a rather unsatisfying explanation what Xplain writes in the link you've provided («Hackers like "Play" group usually leave no traces»).
Surely, that must have been a mistake. I mean, why would someone attack Switzerland?! It is, after all, a neutral country and should therefore be exempt from any hostile activity. I do expect and hope that the Federal Council will, with utmost urgency, initiate an information campaign about the country's neutrality to prevent future attacks. Or isn't that what they do in other threat scenarios?
On a more serious note, it's not the only country with its national security freeloading on others. At least, with cyber security that doesn't work so well.
Not only during an interview process but more generally in conducting business...
Mine was Sleaze, not Growler - a boss I had the misfortune to encounter. He'd got incredibly excited when learning that someone had more than two pairs of dress shoes, showed an unhealthy interest in explaining the dangling of his testicles, demonstrated a mind-boggling amount of incompetence, and called me (not directly but I had a well-established network) an arsehole - I might have mentioned him here before. Anyhow, one day I received a request for tender from Sleaze's business unit. And happily had it answered along the lines of «we cannot possibly offer our services on this matter.»
The No Arsehole Rule -thank you, Robert Sutton- applies not only to staff but also to (potential) clients and business partners.
Jebus Freakin Crist Spartacus! What is this sandwich that you proclaim? Anyhow, not much into bacon sandwich to begin with...
Quality bread IS essential and sliced white is - does this even qualify as bread?! And then it simply has to be "prosciutto crudo", preferably from Parma. I agree on the other non-ingredients though.
...which involves a two-hour drive trapped in a vehicle with a work colleague...
...who believes that Bill Gates is buying all the land world-wide (and the Moon and Mars), who heard the Head of WHO proclaiming the decimation of world population to 10 per cent, and who knows that Covid doesn't exist and in fact was invented to reach the mentioned population target. Before you ask, yes, this colleague did happen and yes, I wish it didn't.
Did hesitate a bit, but this is actually true as those Italian cars didn't show a sign of rust after a couple of days in the rain.
Mind you, what you see on the Tesla is merely cosmetical and the structural integrity of it might (!) be more resistant than a 70s Alfa Rusteo. While I can't recall the model (maybe Alfasud Sprint) but do remember that the car jack would go higher and higher through the cassis without lifting the car a bit - it was held together by paint and faith.
It's been a while since, and it took me a while to retrieve, but I believe this is the one I was referring to:
Years ago in a TED(x?) talk, a guy presented augmented reality without silly goggles but a projector which augmented surfaces with information. While this certainly wasn't ready for market it did seem, at least to me, as a much more useful and natural way than a bulky, self-important, don't-you-fucking-talk-to-me facial tool.
they just wanted to be fed and regurgitate standard template policies...
There's a whole industry (sub-)segment out there catering for exactly that market. And, occasionally, I'm called in after some "consultant" left a template mess behind to bring in some workable structure (which is another market). And, probably, after me some true infosec professional is hired to get things actually done.
Sent somewhere for a futile job? Well, I'm an auditor... Anyhow, speaking of cold mountain top: unfortunately, it wasn't me but former acquaintances who had to tend to microwave transmission equipment. The (cable-bound) aerial lift to the mountain top was not running at that time and the only (feasible) option left was a helicopter flight. Just to find that something had been "misdiagnosed" and the issue was on the other side of the link.
«He knows it was a mistake to let the minion do the job unattended.»
Whether it was a mistake depends entirely on how much he disliked the minion. For minions high on the spectrum of personal dislike, giving them an improbably difficult task ("job empowerment!") and watch them fail from afar (pure, evil joy aka schadenfreude) is the way to go.
And before you jump to conclusions or worse, action, this post may contain irony.