Posts by Doctor Syntax 42414 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
"TikTok is the real threat especially as a foreign owned app that is #1 in sharing data that young teens are using.'"
What's really appalling about this is the assumption that nobody has the wit to choose to or be able to work out who would be #1 in its place and that that assumption might be justified.
"Some are good, but others are dire. The fact that M$ Word format is the default standard for documents is dire."
That is not a standard, that is history (surely with politics involved) and uneducated consumers.
History states that Microsoft packed the relevant standards committee to get .docx etc declared standards. This might have had something to do with major procurement requirements mandating standard file formats. So it might be dire but it is, in fact, a de jure standard, not just a default and by much the same means as China now seems to be pushing according to the article.
Even Al Capone was finally got on tax evasion. Prosecutors will go for the easiest wins. In the US those seem to be tax evasion and wire fraud. Wire fraud seems to be a peculiarly US offence (presumably the easiest variety to prosecute) but even in the UK fraud would fit the circumstances better. Theft would be picking up an iPad that somebody else had bought. In this case the iPads etc were simply vehicles for fraudulently moving money from Yale's bank account to hers and her associates'.
I don't see why you think Yale wrote her a get out of jail free card. It must have been their actions that lead to the prosecution and provided the evidence. A get out of jail free card would be to have her sign an NDA and quit, not report her to the authorities.
Like you, I've always taken it for granted because it's always there, either installed or in the repository available to install. But it does lack one thing: the ability to treat logical volumes as devices. It will show the space(s) occupied by LVM2 as nothing more than partitions.
KDE Partition manager also shows the logical volumes and file systems and unallocated space within them as if they were additional physical volumes.
But then it's more than a graphical wrapper around parted.
"good at what they do" but expensive in a business environment that is "trying to reduce costs."
AFAICS the main business seems to be business continuity. That's always expensive until you need it. If you're going to save on that maybe you can save on backups. After all if you don't have anywhere to restore the backups why take them?
However WFH is going to reduce the need for the ready to go office space they illustrate but not necessarily data centres.
It ought to be clear that by outsourcing you're increasing your attack surface. What might not be quite as clear is that if the outsourcer also outsources some aspect of its operations it's increasing your attack surface still further. What's entirely unclear is why a corporation in the business of managing clients' security doesn't recognise the significance of a security issue when it's pushed under their nose.
Might this have involved some consultancy that decided it was a really good idea to create a lot of macros that expanded to provide ring menu text? And use them copiously? The macros that then clashed with built-ins in a later version of 4GL? I remember a long Sunday evening after an update with three of us going through a large suite to get it in working condition for the next day. Once we'd worked out what the mysterious problem was. At least there was no swearing in the non-existent comments.
I'm not sure about successful. From the point of view of someone with experience on the catching side I'd say a successful criminal is one who makes some money, however little, and doesn't get caught. Get caught and they're a failure.
This lot were advertising for people to supply them with inside information! That's practically ensuring they were going to get caught. This puts them on the same level as the toe-rag who ran away from the scene and lost his cap with his name written inside it or the one who through away his jacket with his library card in the pocket. Yes, they accumulated a lot of Bitcoin but invited capture.
Back in the Troubles one of the buildings burned down in Belfast had a safe drop from the fourth floor or thereabouts. After the fire was out it was discovered it was a little bent and the lock couldn't be opened. Although the maker's locksmith was sent for a PHB decided he couldn't wait & had someone cut it open. The contents were undamaged except for a few items affected by the cutting open. I believe it became a favourite story of the maker's sales staff.
We need a much simpler solution. Don't rely on the injured party to have to take it to court in whatever jurisdiction, i.e. the US, the breach occurred. Make the body that collected the data responsible to the IP in the IP's jurisdiction. It then becomes their call as to whether they accept the risk of transferring the data for processing where they can't have effective control. I won't call such a body the Data Controller because they're quite obviously not.
