Posts by fg_swe

Sitecore CMS flaw let attackers brute-force 'b' for backdoor

Open System

Now we know what they mean.

Northern Ireland government confirms it did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for project

Re: Get REAL

If you believe 90% of posters here, Fujitsu should stop doing business altogether. Thats Marxist Madness, which takes out an important competitor to Intel, IBM, Amazon and the other U.S. monopolists.

But maybe that is the whole point and we should not take the Karens seriously.

Re: Get REAL

Fujitsu SPARC is critical alternative to Intel.

Get REAL

Fujitsu-ICL-Siemens needs new business, like any other IT company - just to survive. Old contracts run out, losing revenue. Thousands of employees and their health, pension insurances must be paid. A hungry, fat state wants the taxes on wages. Credits must be served or bankruptcy looms.

They should compensate the victims of the Post Office Scandal without much fuss. Then continue their work.

Fujitsu is an important alternative to the monopoly players we all know. The monopolies would be much stronger without Fujitsu.

Naive Marxist Karen talk will only help said monopolists.

The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests

Simple Fix

1.) Only use curated content from known authors. Encyclopedia Britannica, Brockhaus and the like. Great respected authors.

2.) Wikipedia has been a very dark site well before AI. Who exactly is behind it ? Who finances the authors ? Who are the authors ?

Its an ideal playground for covert oligarchs and NGOs. Or state controlled, foreign covert actors.

3.) Authors should cryptographically sign their work.

4.) AIs should always list their sources, many already do. Just ask them to do that.

5.) Even in hard science fields such as medicine, strong opposing views exist. For example, some medicuses think natural substances from plants are often superior to artificial substances. I think they have a point.

It Already IS

If reports are to be believed, AI was already used thousands of times against HAMAS targets.

The IDF used their mountains of intel data to train an AI to produce targeting data. First they hand checked for correctness, then dropped that because the AI was correct 99% of time.

So we already have the TERMINATOR.

Danish department determined to dump Microsoft

SSH/SCP

Works like a breeze and needs little maintenance. Any Linux Admin cam set it up.

It is also super secure and reliable, as compared to the Big Cloud Nonsense. Its KISS.

IT AIRBUS

https://di-fg.de/IT_Airbus.html

Go for it. Ignore the M$ Siren Songs !

FALSE

The German THTR-300 was the first large scale Thorium reactor. 300MWe.

Got scrapped because our intelligence service was kept too weak to defend the German people from hostile COMINTERN disinformation.

Google Cloud caused outage by ignoring its usual code quality protections

Fail Early, Stop Process

A null pointer which immediately stops a process is much better than the tristates of C and ++ such as "use after free" and "contains random number, because it resides on stack".

https://di-fg.de/discussion.html section D11

UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions

Konvoi Reactors, European Uranium

I am just an engineer, not a physicist.

The Bleeding Obvious solution is to copy proven fission reactor designs such as the Siemens Konvoi. They ran for decades without problems and very high availability.

We also have Uranium in Saxonia, in Czechia and in Bulgaria. The commies built their nukes from Saxonian Uranium; GDR was 4th on the list of biggest uranium producers.

So, to conclude: Euro sheeple need some more suffering until the political will to do the right thing materializes.

UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy

AI Will Replace

-Steel mills

-Nuclear Power Plants

-Natural Gas

-Coal

-Chemical Plants

-Plumbers

-Skilled Workshop men at their CNC machine

-blacksmiths

That is, if you believe WEF Muppets like Starmer.

In fact these imbeciles moved industry to China and made all of Europe much poorer. And colder in the winter.

Unemployment is spiking for US IT pros - unless you want to babysit bots

Software Engineering VS. Worm Intelligence

A human brain has about 80 000 000 000 neurons, and each of them has about 10 000 connections to other neurons. It takes easily 25 years to nurture, train,educate such a brain from baby to junior software engineer. It takes at least 10 more years to senior engineer. The human brain can do fantastic things, if/when it is nicely treated. When there is true love for the brain and its body.

Compare that to the AI GPU brains with something like 100 000 to 1 000 000 neurons. They are worm-level intelligences. They can do funny stuff that impresses MBA idiots, salesguys and other non-engineers. They fail in spectacular fashion as soon as a hard problem is presented.

So - this is a Money Market Insanity, just like Tulips, square bullets for barbarians, Internet businesses and mRNA vaccines. It will soon be replaced by Covid 2.0 or similar. The money for that has already been created out of nothing, called "BBB".

Great

So some idiots use AI to generate faulty code. Real software engineers then proceed to fix the cr4p for a nice hourly rate.

You can fix it by deleting all the AI cr4pcode and rebuild it on your own. Use the AI as a search engine. Just dont tell the business muppets what you did. Claim that you "polished the AI code".

Be a smooth operator and never believe the lies pumped through the media.

Never take the MSM and WallStr lies at face value.

So ?

Quit that shop and look for a sane employer.

Make clear what you can provide, what he expects you to do. Choose wisely.

Smart companies will drop the AI fad rather quickly.

Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO

Yeah Sure

The old communist claptrap meme of "evil capitalists starting all wars". It can never be an unchecked idiot who has assumed total control of a state, can it ?

Business vs Government/Academia

The business world has radically different needs and practices than government agencies. There must be a COMPANY doing what you describe. It can and IS done very successfully with public money. Airbus, Volkswagen, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle - they were all started with government financing. But they were allowed to operate as commercial companies instead of bureaucracies.

IT Airbus

Ideally there would be a government-funded "IT Airbus" corporation similar to he highly succesful Airbus airplane company.

But even if that does not immediately materialize, there are plenty of starting points to wean yourself off the monopoly behemoths.

In almost all sectors there exist little-heard-of alternatives such as Fujitsu SPARC, MaxDB, CompCert, SoftMaker or BS2000.

Here is a list:

https://di-fg.de/IT_Airbus.html

As Europe eyes move from US hyperscalers, IONOS dismisses scaleability worries

"airgapped"

It is a clumsy way of saying the Bundeswehr will operate the Google cloud software stack on Bundeswehr hardware inside some BW bunker in Germany. All locked behind BW controlled+monitored firewalls.

Updates will come on mass storage media, not online connections.

Bundeswehr Cloud

According to

https://www.bundeswehr.de/de/meldungen/partnerschaft-bwi-google-bundeswehr-eigene-cloud-5952950

It actually is a fully German controlled system, except for the updates, which come on mass storage. All operators are BWI(=Bundeswehr) employees.

It is like IBM S/390 zOS operated in a German data center by German operators.

And surely BW/CIR will monitor all data flows in and out of this system using their own special tools, which may or may not be German designed.

Finally, it is only VS NFD cleared, which means it is good for the lowest secrecy level. It can be used to collect newspaper articles, Sauerkraut dish recipes, repair manuals for cars and the like.

Anything of SECRET or higher must NOT be processed on the Google Contraption.

StackIT / Lidl

They surely have the financial power to compete with Amazon, Google, MSFT.

The Schwarz empire behind it is the #1 food retailer here.

https://www.stackit.de/en/

https://gruppe.schwarz/wer-wir-sind

500 000 men an women

175 000 000 000€ revenue

Ariane V

It was the best and most economic space launcher before Musk entered the business.

Also, the German Army invented both digital computers and space capable rockets. America and Russia stole both in 1945.

Fellgiebel

Zuse

Von Braun

Look them up.

Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds

Just DO IT

+ Fujitsu SPARC+ARM servers

+ SuSe OS

+ Ubuntu OS

+ MaxDB

+ SAP

+ Hetzner Cloud

+ Ionos Cloud

+ OVH Cloud

+ CompCert Compiler

+ Qt GUI

+ NextCloud

+ LibreOffice

+ RPI

Start small, grow incrementally larger. Stock market will provide the financing.

Have some Cojones and ignore the Hamburger Siren Songs.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results

Junior Generals

...are very often badly read, too.

The world is full of folks with big balls and little reading.

Neural Network Intelligence

If you think a worm or an ant has minimal intelligence, then an ANN has it, too.

Absolutist talk might be helpful for a drill seargeant or a salesman, but surely not for a man who seeks the truth.

AI indeed have a tiny amount of intelligence somewhere between a worm and a mouse.

Cybercrime is 'orders of magnitude' larger than state-backed ops, says ex-White House advisor

Censorship Ageny CISA

CISA is a threat to the U.S. Constitution and to all NATO nations. They censored on behalf of Pharma oligarchy.

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-report-reveals-cisa-tried-cover-censorship-practices

Facebook, Google and the like aided them in this unconstitutional effort.

Cancel them right now. Never hire the censors to government service again.

The others can join the FBI and NSA and continue genuine cyber security work, as opposed to soviet union style activities.

'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers

Re: Bingo

Yeah, never talk about Ursula, she is a redtop asset, eh ?

List of Alternatives

https://european-alternatives.eu/product/open-telekom-cloud

Financing Cloud Computing

Hetzner, OVH, Claranet and similar are mature companies with a proven business model.

Nothing stops them from turning into a public stock company and collecting capital from shareholders.

There is always capital in search of good investment.

Immediate Measures

+ Fujitsu SPARC, ARM as alternative hardware

+ Hetzner

+ OVH

+ SuSE, Ubuntu

+ SAPDB

Really ?

USG retains the authority to coerce ANY US company to do whatever USG pleases.

A MSFT data center in Europe must comply, or US based management can and will be thrown in jail. See the former CEO of Qwest, he thought complying was optional - jailed 6 years.

So, sovereignty cannot happen with US controlled corporations and technologies.

Bingo

Feminist Corruption and Incompetence. Thats the EU.

IT Airbus Financing

Indeed financing is a key element of any IT startup. The American system of government and California venture capital did this brilliantly.

Airbus similarly came only about due to dozens of billions of government financing.

Logically, the IT Airbus would provide this finance, management, production, support, legal etc capability. Microsoft would deploy their full bullsh1t force against it, naturally.

To make this happen, the leftist idiots must be first flushed out of major European governments. All they know is dimwitted inflation and consumer spending.

Indeed

Silly Euro internationalists will get very little done.

We need patriots like Strauß to get something done. IT Airbus instead of silly feminist subsidies+corruption for Intel.

Well

...blasted. Lots if Eurocrats are deeply corrupt. Also see the recent innoculation scam.

If only we could have DeGaulle and Strauß back, it would be solved in no time.

CISA says SaaS providers in firing line after Commvault zero-day Azure attack

Lock All Of It

...behind a firewall, that only enables your users to access the cloudy stuff.

Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt

Cold Hard Calculation

To run a human brain, you need about 20Watt from good quality food.

To simulate a human brain with GPUs, you need in the order to 1 000 000 000 Watt. A large nuke or coal power station.

AI can't replace freelance coders yet, but that day is coming

Male Cow Output

I get it, lots of folks are invested in AI. There is too much money in search of an investment, the effect of insane inflationary policy. Tulips and square bullets all over again. Oh, and supadeadly viruses and their vaccines.

Nevertheless, the AIs are somewhere between worm and mouse brains in complexity.

They struggle to properly parrot stuff that is openly available on the interwebs. They hallucinate like the proverbial drunken sailor.

'Ongoing' Ivanti hijack bug exploitation reaches clouds

FALSE

Properly designed I/O facilities of a memory-safe language can indeed by very secure and impossible to abuse.

E.g.https://github.com/DiplIngFrankGerlach/Taschenrechner/blob/main/System.ad (the PrintfClass). Strongly typed languages offer the facilities to make printing and logging bulletproof. Just because American and Israeli software engineers fail at this effort, means little.

printf/sprintf, PHP and the Java contraption in question are badly designed.

Ex-CISA chief decries cuts as Trump demands loyalty above all else

Well Said

CISA should be disolved. They are in fact UNCONSTITUTIONAL !

Britain's cyber agents and industry clash over how to tackle shoddy software

MBAs+Security

What can they contribute ? Very little : nice talk and little substance.

Security must come from engineers with years and years of experience as developers. From engineers who have analyzed exploits. From computer scientists, who can provide solid theories such as scanner and parser design, proper grammars (as opposed to hairballs such as serialization or ad hoc parsers).

Bingo

There must be serious financial incentives to publicize exploits for the common good. Then software engineers have an incentive to be white hats.

Make the reward pool a percentage of revenue.

BS

1.) the OTA update is done at 3AM in the night, when the car has been at rest for hours. All critical software is digitally signed and verified, in case the funny telecom networks are hacked.

2.) There exist reliable processes for creation of safety-critical automotive software, such as ASPICE+ASIL.

3.) Even more demanding software applications exist in aerospace and train signalling. They can work nicely (Airbus) if done correctly. They can fail, if/when beancounters run the show (Boeing).

3.2) Modern fighter jets such as Jäger 90 cannot fly without realtime control software, as they are designed to be aerodynammically unstable. This enables them to turn as tightly as possible in a dogfight or other combat situations. Airbus knows how to do this safely, with extreme quality assurance measures in place. No loss of airframe with Jäger 90 due to software up to now. Hundreds of airframes in daily service.

Re: As Opposed To Socialist Car Making

Airbags came about when capitalist DAIMLER worked with military(read: semi-state) missile motor producers out of Aschau to design+build the "rocket motor" to blow up the air bag in a matter of milliseconds.

https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/verkehr/70-jahre-patentanmeldung-airbag-passive-sicherheit/

https://www.innsalzach24.de/service/azubi-offensive/zf-lifetec-in-aschau-am-inn-die-zukunft-der-fahrzeugsicherheit-kann-in-deinen-haenden-liegen-6083613.html

As Opposed To Socialist Car Making

-No ABS

-No Airbags

-No seat belts

In general, the most powerful socialist country(the USSR) was an economic basket case and struggled to feed their peoples. It was a deeply rotten system that valued loyalty over everything else. They never had the resources to design+produce ABS brakes for citizen's cars. They might be able to do ABS brakes for jet aircraft, but only barely.

Marxist rhetoric does very little to improve things.

BINGO

Despite a never-ending series of security failures, the business world keeps buying MSFT products. Clearly useful measures such as VBA sandboxing are not introduced.

So these NCSC apparatchiks seem to know nothing about the real world. Their "code of conduct" thing is also close to useless. Hot air without any computer science substance such as "proper scanners, proper parsers as first line of defence" or "fuzz testing".

"Keyless Go" Stupor

There exist perfectly safe wireless car lock systems.

Keyless go can be made secure by means of very high speed challenge-response protocol. A seasoned security/cryptographic engineer would have told the Auto Muppets about this, before Sergey from Tshelyabinsk figured it out.

Brain-inspired neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker overheated when coolers lost their chill

Re: EE Department + 100 Pound of Material

He understands he is too lazy to build a simple overheating shutdown system ?

30 years of MySQL, the database that changed the world

No

It clearly was the MySQL server itself, which lost records. I heard the same story from more than one group of developers.