
Re: @cantankerous swineherd
I dunno... I bet a fair few are masons...
637 posts • joined 25 Feb 2016
When I was working on similar cards a decade ago it was a design requiment that it's not secure... most terminals/readers out in the countryside couldn't support the security, the costs were prohibitive.
The cards might have been a glimpse of a utopian future but in reality were just "papers". If a little more durable.
Maybe he should have thought about it before buying 9% on the quiet. Or making an offer to buy the company.
Though he must have had some idea, because getting rid of the bots was one of his "reasons" for taking Twitter private.
Or is it just a smokescreen because he's feeling a little over-exposed?
Takes me back 30 years...
"Welcome to your teambuilding course, for this is YOUR course..."
Hearts sank, morale instantly deflated.
After a morning of team games he corners me during lunch... "I couldn't help noticing how well you got on with your team mates."
"We've all met before", I reply.
"But the teams were made up from different departments."
"Yes, but we all go to the same pub at lunchtime", say I, with the clear subtext that the pub is where real teambuilding gets done.
And where I'd rather be.
I don't believe JPMorgan Chase are groundbreakers in PQC.
Certainly not to the extent that they deserved this article-long advert.
And any article on QKD is perverse not to mention Chinese efforts: 2000km fibre key distribution, satellites used to transfer keys (intercontinental).
NIST ran their usual crypto competition for PQC algorithms and are busily selecting their faves. There are already trials for so-called hybrid schemes for TLS.
Though it is still a moot point when a powerful enough quantum computer will be built That troubles current crypto, or even if one can ever be (the number of error correction qubits would appear to increase exponentially...).
Also, the first five paragraphs seemed to have very little to do with the subject. A niche example of my employer being careless with data being conflated to me exhibiting insecure behaviour...
Ok, I'm an employee, my employer knows things about me. How does that affect my right to privacy? How does any of that have any bearing on my personal life when I'm not at work? It's the employer's duty to safeguard the personal information they do have, so how is that relevant to me not getting the privacy I deserve?
In any case, instead of giving up on privacy because users might be a bit leaky (!), why not expect corporations to provide the basics of security? For instance the reluctance to use multi-factor authentication is not down to the users, it's the fault of the plethora of sites that don't even offer it!
I'd expect better aspirations from a graduate of cyber security and computer forensics.
The point is that Arm have been losing engineers and it is hard to replace them, so they need to pay (above) the going rate.
Security guards are fundamentally important but are easily replaced.
Likewise support staff.
I find it interesting that the research teams get less than the engineers, probably reflecting the notion that they have a really "cool" role and so are less inclined to jump ship.
First sentence of the report in the Guardian
"The world's largest and most powerful space telescope..."
With a note at the end acknowledging the correction.
It's possible that the error was the fault of the original source, it's an Associated Press report.
Users will inevitably be told of the "advantages" of making all that data available, just like they already are by bookface, Amazon, Google, .... People already believe tailored ads are a good thing!
Facebook will default to "share all pod data" with such a complex interface for selectively denying access that most people will take one look and think "fuck it" and click on OK.
Put all your eggs in one basket, sit back and let Facebook make omelettes for you.
No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die.
And this time I won't tell you my plan beforehand just in case you manage to escape.
But seeing as you asked, and I'm a megalomaniac who just can't resist spilling the beans... I'm going to crash the value of Bitcoin by threatening to bring the original Satoshi stash to the market. I'll buy up on the cheap and then announce that I've destroyed the key to the stash, driving the price up again! And there's nothing you can do to stop me!
Indeed, and I'd go further...
Someone might want to have a quick chat so I can solve their problem, I might not appreciate the interruption to my work.
We use an internal chat system. You can ask me your question, I can look at it and decide when I want to answer, without dropping what I'm doing for a less immediate issue. And we have found this essential to manage interactions between team members strung across multiple time zones and continents, where there is no possibility for a chance meeting in the coffee room.
This trial was about whether there were grounds to extradite him, not whether he's guilty.
Obviously it's in his favour to conflate the two, but he will get his day in court to answer the charges against him.
It's not a threat to democracy that a journalist can face charges - as long as he gets a fair trial.
Don't get drunk, don't go there, don't wear that, make sure your drink wasn't spiked, don't walk home alone... take self-defence lessons...
But never don't rape women, dont spike drinks, don't take advantage of drunk women. It should go without saying, but because these things happen maybe it does need to be said. It's a topsy turvy world where the cause is never addressed, only precautions that the victim should have taken.
Nobody is saying that women shouldn't use common sense, but if a colleague had too much to drink I'd like to think I'd help them get home and not see it as an opportunity for sex.
Not commenting on this particular case, I don't know what happened there, just in general.
It was about when we terraformed Mars. The nanobots are now hiding the existence of the Martian colony so only members of the illuminati can go there. That's why Elon's Mars trip will fail, they don't want riff raff space tourists spoiling the vistas.
I know this because I took the red pill.
And I know it was the red one because I've strapped strong magnets to my head under my lead lined tinfoil hat. And magnets discharge nanobot batteries, everybody knows that!
Framed as an admission of innocence: "It never occurred to me that it was wrong, I was only trying to be nice" said the attractive, young, blond lady who obviously would never defraud anyone...
Hopefully the jury won't see it quite like that.
Paris, obviously, because if cross questioning gets mean there will be tears... "nasty man made me do it".
So Theranos took Siemens kit and "modified" it to require a smaller sample... and then patented their mods!!! (I apologize for the excess of exclamation but serious, wtf?)
And kept it secret... because they were worried Siemens would reverse engineer the mods?!
And they thought this was ok?
Imagine the uproar if Huawei had been caught doing something similar (probably don't have to imagine it, remember Tappy...).
The only reason why Siemens' lawyers aren't straining at the leash is because there's no cash left.
I won't indulge in willy waving technical credentials, in any case you missed the point.
Apple Marketing: Our phones are secure, we put your privacy first, our walled garden secures your phone, you don't get malware on Apple products.
Apple Developers: That's the idea but we're not there, people keep finding vulnerabilities. We're playing catch-up.
Apple Legal: We'll sue anyone exploiting vulnerabilities (that they found in our code).
The legal team is highlighting the "over exuberant" nature of the marketing claims.
Also, for the non-technically minded, if I don't lock my door and you steal my stuff, while it's still a crime my insurance won't pay out.
China might be deplorable in any number of ways, but restricting movement of personal data isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Most nations try to control access to data. GDPR places restrictions on the movement of personal data, is the EU trying to "control the internet within its borders"?
China's attitude is arguably better than that of the US seeking to control the internet outside its borders... "All your data belongs to us!"
You only use your new Amazon card for Amazon purchases - they already know all about them - and use another card for other purchases!
I know! It's so simple it might just work!!!!
Even better: Amazon card for Amazon purchases; another card for all other online purchases; a third for in person purchases.
All credit cards, for consumer protection. All paid off each month making interest rates irrelevant.
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