Posts by netminder 81 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Aug 2011
Bullshit
This is exactly the type of post a Russian troll would provide. Pretend they are innocent but the EEEEEEEEEvile big brother is hurting us all by shutting down alllllllll dissent. There is no evidence that dissent is being suppressed or that reddit is acting in any way to defend the actions of the US at home or abroad. But you did your job today, you tried to sew discord and undermine best efforts
One problem with the sour grapes theory is that the US also outlawed military craft from generating booms over the US. I heard them as a kid and they would shake houses, you would not want 50 of those a day going overhead.
What killed Concord was that it ate fuel it was oxygen so tickets had to be pretty expensive. Very few people were willing to pay the premium just to get there a couple hours earlier. If half this thing is going to be nose economic viability is in doubt.
A large part of what is stopping unions is the glibitarian techbro attitude that I am a special little snowflake and can do better on my own that we can all do together. They have been feed this lie for years & internalized it to a point that they can't see anything different.
Not making the situation worse is OK in my book. There is no reason to give specific information when doing so increases the likelihood of further harm. The people who are at risk for having their PII exposed deserve better than their company gave them & there is no need for Reg to make things worse.
Name and shame the company after the data has been secured.
I know that FedEx has penalty clauses built into contracts where they provide services. I have no way of knowing if they ever paid a 'fine' but I did hear that they had every available employee had sorting. With a revenue of $50B a cost of 0.6% would not be surprising.
Maybe if all these companies would listen to their security people and patch they could have saved most of that money.
It is an interesting world inside your head. A world where pointing out the public behavior of a public official is "two minutes of hate". Is anything in the article untrue? Nope. Given the obvious behavior is anything unkind? Perhaps, but not mindlessly so.
Just because the chickens are coming home to roost and you don't happen to like it does not make it hate. You voted for this, you defend this clod & his boss as best you can (which, admittedly is not well) and then when you get what you have coming to you you whine that the truth it hate.
Unmentioned is that buy-backs increase share value and greatly enrich the executives who hold major amounts of options. The new tax law will make this stunt even more popular.
Buy-backs are not betting on the company, they are theft of worker and shareholder value for the immediate enrichment of the BoD
Social Security and Medicare are paid for by wage earners. Every paycheck up to $108k a year has deductions for them. This is cutting taxes on the top 5% while stealing what is in truth an insurance payment (for retirement care) from workers. It has been proven over and over these last 40 years, tax cuts do not pay for themselves, they do not create jobs and they do cause worsening income inequity.
You don't get averages? If Bill Gates and I were in a room the average net worth of everyone in that room would be 10s of billions of dollars. The average savings of 2.2% for you will be substantially less when Mr. Gates gets his 12% reduction.
Add that this is going to blow a USD1.5 trillion hole in the budget that they intend to use as an excuse to steal Social Security and Medicare money (money that working people are paying in every paycheck for) to try and fill and that pittance that is your end is not going to pay the rent. Or anything really.
I was extremely proud of my organization after a well publicized incident there was a major review and audit using multiple internal and external sources. Causes were identified and plans were put in place to not make the same mistakes again. The problem is exactly as you describe, security is expensive. We are many times better secured and better prepared because of the work already done but still too far from perfect because of the big 3 - politics, religion and money.
I find pretty much the opposite. Headhunters are sending me marginally qualified (if that even) candidates because they want the bonus money. Because I started in security long before it was common I have always dealt with lack of qualifications (hell, I was not qualified on paper for a couple jobs I was successful at).
What I have done is look for 'markers of success'. On resumes & during interviews I look for explicit examples of them doing more or learning more than what was required along with the realization that they don't know nearly enough. I am about 80% successful in getting people who can handle the work. Average around here with managers who care about GPA and buzzword bingo card CVs is closer to 50%
Given that Wiki edited the emails before release you may want to recalibrate your concern. Then there is the whole issue of Wiki getting all its leaks and directions from Russian sources, if you are more concerned about the workings of the DNC than the machinations of Putin and his oligarchs you are part of the problem. Re4member, it could just as easily be your boy Trump they decide to torpedo next time comrade
There is a third failure. They failed to have prevention systems in place. WAFs, properly configured would have stopped the attack since it used known strings.
But lets all ruin Gerry from securities life and career because we dropped a billion and still couldn't stop the simple stuff.
Being in charge of risk for a huge, quasi-govermental organization I can tell you that very often the alarm sounded for specific risks (such as running XP) is ignored. Naturally, once the barn is on fire (thanks WannaCry) the IT side of the house desperately wants to lock the door.
The solution is to put the risk squarely on the group demanding the risk be taken. If I go to the "x-ray' department & say "XP is putting the entire place at risk here are options for things to do to reduce that risk" and their response is "It is cheaper to keep our old X-ray machines" Then THEY have to sign off that THEY accept the risk, not us. If we did not warn them or gave them poor information that would be our fault.
My guess is the risk folks at NHS arm's are tired from waving like mad men trying to call attention to the situation & the same old 'legacy apps' shit was all they were given.
I have been in IT consulting for 25+ years. I have worked at Fortune 50 companies, mom-n-pop companies, several different State's agencies and the Federal government. Other than the scale they operate at I have seen no difference between government and private IT. They are all generally poorly managed by people who do not understand security at all & many with only rudimentary understandings of IT. Once the organization is sufficiently large enough shit happens a lot more often and is dealt with a lot less efficiently.
The whine is always that the US has one of the highest corp tax rates in the world. Ireland is often used as a comparison because their rate is so low. The deal is though that because of all the tax breaks companies pay LESS in taxes in the US than they do in Ireland. The repatriation dodge is just that, a dodge. They will not bring that money into the US until they can do it for free, or nearly free. There will be no great windfall for the government.
My Grandfathers brother and his wife lived in East Germany. Before he retired he or his wife could visit the West but not both at the same time. After he retired they were free to visit his son in the West whenever they wanted to go. Had they not returned West Germany would have paid his retirement & the East would have been very happy about that. He always chose to return though because it was the only home he had ever known.
Well, thats the thing, isn't it? Trump supporters don't think. Trump supporters believe their 'gut' is smarter than their brain, that if they want to believe it badly enough it will be true, that truthieness beats reality every time and anything they don't understand is witchcraft & must be destroyed. The fucked up electoral system, designed to protect the slave holders from reality has put these people in charge despite them being the minority of the nation. We are screwed.
My agency has undergone years of budget cuts (real ones kids) and mandates to not hire so replacements are often high-priced contract help which just exacerbates the cash shortage. Add the sort of reluctance all senior management appears to have about giving money & power to the security shop (I saw this in private industry just as strongly) and the inertia we need to overcome is pretty large. We are making progress just not fast enough.
15 of the 21 9/11 hijackers came from the same country. A country that is not on the list. A country known to have financed the 9/11 attack, if not officially certainly tacitly. The EO not only does not make the nation more safe it demonstrates to Muslims that the US really is at war with them which suits the propaganda efforts of ISIS and similar.
No, there were not "many", there were 3 & at least 2 of those were not classified until AFTER they had been sent.
Please try to follow the information provided & not the BS of one party
Remember the Republicans investigated this issue NINE TIMES and could find no evidence of wrong doing or the mishandling of classified information,
All you tech fanbois in the US who were so happy to stump for this tangerine tantrum because you were not smart enough to recognize a fascist when he speaks are in for a jolly good rogering. You richly deserve what is about to happen to you. The rest of us, intelligent Americans and the whole world, do not. So congratulations assholes.
Chairman/CEO "You realise that if there is a business affecting failure it will be your successors' first task to end these contracts and bring the functions back in-house. The Business financial loss will be placed on your bonuses and pension funds on employee wages and benefits"
IT/CFO "<I think we need to check it again. We'll get back to youSure, NO PROBLEM!"
It is interesting that Trump, a man who has been caught employing illegal immigrants on his build projects and also found to have not paid them for their work. Even not paying ones that he was not caught using but using their status against them, should be considered a friend to American workers getting screwed by their employer.
If he actually ends up making things better for the Disney workers (or any of us under threat of this sort of thing) it will not just be a miracle it will be a total 180 from his life-long history of labor relations. My guess is the leopard is not changing spot & workers are going to ge screwed.
you need someone to explain what the word 'racism' means to you.
In this case someone with power (Disney) laid off employees and then replaced them with people based on their nation of origin (India).
While recently courts have muddied the waters a bit Disney chose to hire only people from one country and that used to be enough to find for the plaintiff.
A couple of months ago Mr. Snowden said "America's election is a choice between Goldman Sachs and Donald Trump"
Savor that for a moment while contemplating the 6 current of former GS wanks the mango Mussolini has already appointed and then ask yourself why, when Putin and DJT's was well known before the election why it just occurred to Ed that this could be a problem for him.
Since Snowden is not a total idiot occums razor would suggest his current statement is simply a disinformation campaign to a) preserve his alleged independence from his current owner and b) somehow indicate that DJT was not really Putin's candidate.
Disagree on 1 because the article might save someone $200. Don't care about 2, one person is ok as long as it is understood it is an opinion. agree with 3&4 which are pretty much the one point anyway. 5, Seriously? thats your take? I couldn't disagree more with you than on 6. 20 years of consulting at companies large and small has shown me that executive management has no clue what the numbers really mean, what their actual risk really is or what is actually being done with the money to reduce risk.
Given Trump's close economic ties to Russian banks & work Putin & company did to groom him not sharing intel with the US will at least reduce the chances the Russians will get it. Nice work USA! Elect a total incompetent moron as your leader because you don't like his opponent. Please don't pretend to be surprised he is exactly who he told you he was
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