Posts by Potemkine! 3270 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jun 2017
The fascist mob has started to attack the US democracy, with the support of a President who betrayed his oath to protect it. It's a try to start a civil war.
It isn't a matter of Republicans or Democrats anymore, it's now democracy's defenders vs homegrown terrorists.
From the singer of that song:
"The idea that Independence will solve anything by itself would be quite ridiculously naive. Independence is not a solution to anything, it is merely a stage in a process and the removal of what is one of the primary obstacles to progress for the Scottish people. I really have no idea what shape a post-independence Scotland will take, and I don’t take seriously anyone who says they have."
From the link:
"Russia retook control of the Crimean Peninsula". That's a funny way to describe a military invasion of a foreign country.
Looking at the other articles of this website, it can be definitively classed in the 'conspirationist dumbass' category. You owe me 10 minutes of my life to have me read that huge pile of BS.
"Do I feel lucky"? Well, do you, punk?
Other fragments of wisdom:
- Never do something today that you can do tomorrow.
- Don't nap in the morning, you won't know what to do in the afternoon.
- Rephrase what people ask you to do with a slight variation making them understand you did not understand their request, and forcing them to repeat. If possible, do it the day after their request, to add a delay.
- Use extensively the BOFH excuse generator.
Another element often underrated: the Lufwaffe lost around 1,200 planes during the Battle of France.
For me the main turn of the Battle of Britain was when the Luftwaffe began to target cities instead of airfields and radar stations to retaliate against the bombing of Berlin. Without this strategic turn the RAF would have finally collapsed, despite the outstanding efforts of Sir Hugh Dowding, who was shamefully removed after that. That man should have a column dedicated to him at least the size of the one of Nelson in central London.
I got a very interesting letter from the DGSI (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure) warning about the risks of using clouds outside EU. Very enlightening.
Tell me how to protect an environment from a monitoring system that, by design and function, has access to every system in the network?
A monitoring system should only have "read" access, not write. But because it's such a hassle to get everything working with limited rights, it's often easier to give that system admin rights to get access to all the counters. And then the sh*t begins...
Trump can't take the piss from Russia. From Russian prostitutes, I heard rumours saying it could be less implausible...
What's delightful about China's space program is that its progress does not seem to be dependent on some adversary.
I doubt that. China's goal seems clearly to become the "first one" in the space race (too), that's why they choose the "do it alone" way rather than international cooperation. It's China vs anybody else.
You know who the bad guys is by not seeing them using tech.
Nah, you know who is the bad guy in US movies/series when he's French: a french girl is glamourous, a french guy must be a bad guy. An expression of the "english side" of the US culture I guess :-P
Assuming this was a state-sponsored attack, and almost everyone assumes it was given the sophistication and determination
That's something that is going to change in a near future. The resources used by these states may be well interested by a well paid job offered by Mafias, and sometimes they will even have the same boss in both jobs, seen the connection between security offices in Russia and mafias. So one can expect that these high-skilled resources will work for the private sector some day.
That must make a pretty number of hosts. You've got Orion? All of your network may be compromised: servers, switches, SAN, and maybe even firewalls,
I pity the sysadmins involved, they got a huge bag of shit to deal with.
Wow! So there was a time when people were able to manage memory by themselves, without having to rely on a garbage collector? That's amazing!
// Yes, I could use virtual destructors, but I could also poke
// myself in the eye with a sharp stick. Either way, you wouldn't
// be able to see what's going on
I totally agree with that.
Two comments:
- How did this update arrive on the targeted computers? Phishing? Corruption of SolarWinds servers?
- "Security analyst Jake [...]urges readers not to assume the attack automatically translates to an ability to control systems.". Perhaps, but "the .dll [...] retrieves and executes commands, called 'Jobs', that include the ability to transfer files, execute files, profile the system, reboot the machine, and disable system services." Sounds quite serious to me!
Maybe it would be bad for US companies, but not so sure for EU companies and EU citizens.
The first consequences would be the creation of many datacenters in the EU, so more investments and more jobs. Next, data in the EU would be safer (if possible) from US peeping toms.
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