Posts by claude191

AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire

Re: This is just one example

Here is an argument for somewhat the reverse; small=cloud, big=DIY

https://a16z.com/the-cost-of-cloud-a-trillion-dollar-paradox/

My personal view is that (either way) it matters far less than ensuring there is a plan/strategy, and the right ppl and processes to execute & manage. You can make a mess either way.

IT analyst: Oz census data processed as plain text

Re: Not conclusive

If the data arrives in plain-text at the browser-end of a TLS tunnel, it must therefore have entered the tunnel at the server-end as plain-text. Since the TLS tunnel terminates at IBM, ergo, IBM must have access to the plain-text.

As far as I can see, you are correct that this is NOT evidence of it being "at rest" in plain-text. But it is evidence that someone other than the ABS has access to this data.

Collective SSL FAIL a symptom of software's cultural malaise

Re: Cultural malaise?

I think it is deeper than "bastards in suits". Whilst not disagreeing that this could be part of the problem, the "macho coding" ethic I see all the time doesn't help either.

The two unfortunately reinforce each other in a toxic embrace :(

I've also ignored the conspiracy theories, as the "programmer mistake" sounds about right. But I wonder if there is an outside chance that this duplicated line was a result of a broken merge?

Either way, the issue is with the testing, and so comes back to the "do it cheap" culture that the article is complaining about.

Google offers Adwords deals - but you can't trust their numbers

Google's mistake was transcription, not maths

It looks like this problem was copied from here:

http://www.mathplayground.com/MTV/mathtv11.html

In this example the question is identical EXCEPT at the very end its uses a red marble instead of a green one. The result is the 9/70 as per Google's answer page.

So they didn't plagiarise the question properly....