Posts by amusedscientist

Ever wonder how a pentest turns into felony charges? Coalfire duo explain Iowa courthouse arrest debacle

Re: Authority to hire services

You might want to study up on the powers of a County Sheriff. The rules go back to before Magna Carta. The office of sheriff is unique in that he is directly responsible to the people of his county, not the government or the courts. Sheriffs are elected, not appointed, and they have complete authority to reject the acts of any agency of the government if those acts violate the rights of the people.

From pen-test to penitentiary: Infosec duo cuffed after physically breaking into courthouse during IT security assessment

Re: Where do you draw the line?

Clearly, this is all about the company lawyers covering their asses for not doing their job properly, while hanging out to dry the technical folks, who did their job to the best of their ability. Keeping in mind always that the legal beagles no doubt get paid no matter how it turns out for the company, or for the employees.

Be still, our drinking hearts: Help Reg name whisky beast conjured by Swedish distillers and AI blendbot

Debugged

... damp mosquitos/midges/ants removed by distillation.

It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare

Re: Never trust software of which you cannot see the source

Never trust software of which you can see the source.

https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf

What do WLinux and Benedict Cumberbatch have in common? They're both fond of Pengwin

Re: I've asked this before, and I'll ask it again ...

Who's Shirley, and how does she run my distro?

You got a smart speaker but you're worried about privacy. First off, why'd you buy one? Secondly, check out Project Alias

Re: you could simply not put the creepy things in your home

Yeah, and Volkswagen had perfectly functional smog controls - oh, right, they were only on when the device was being tested .....

En garde! 'Cyber-war has begun' – and France will hack first, its defence sec declares

plus ca change ....

Espionage? Moi?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/02/espionage-moi/

Three more data-leaking security holes found in Intel chips as designers swap security for speed

Re: Looking at the wrong holes

After reading Turning's paper, look up Ken Thompson's 1984 Turing Award Lecture, "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Then meditate for a few moments on hardware that is designed and built using software that runs on hardware ...

Re: Looking at the wrong holes

Has no one here read Ken Thompson's paper from 1984? Extend the thinking to include the chip design software, the operating system it runs on, the hardware that runs on, and ...

https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf

MAID to order: Inside Facebook's cold-storage data ziggurats

Schrodingers Pictures

may, or may not, show a live cat, depending on when a cosmic ray hits the ziggurat, and/or when someone looks at them....