Posts by fg_swe 1500 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Nov 2021
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
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.
+ 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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
-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.
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".
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.
In other jobs, I worked with Oracle and DB/2, and they would never lose records or not know the exact number of records. They have their share of quirks and problems, but you can manage to make them properly work. For example, NEVER expose an Oracle listener port to your intranet, always lock it behind a server process, which generates the SQL statements.
DB/2 needs an IBM engineer to get going, but that does not hurt too much on top of DB/2 license fees.
So, Oracle and DB/2 are expensive workhorses, while MySQL is something like venomenous spider you get for free.
MySQL can be used for Cat-picture Distribution Systems such as Facebook. Or for brochureware websites.
NEVER use it in case
1.) Records are valuable and should not be lost. Think of banking, accounting, critical records keeping, policing, personell records, source code management and the like.
2.) Join performance is critical
PostgreSQL is the obvious proper alternative. Oracle and DB/2 are also very serious candidates, if you have a fat budget.
I am speaking of experience with a database holding 3 million entities (a song metadata database). It would always lose records and never knew the exact number of songs. It was selected because my Manager was reading too much IT newspapers.
Please have a look of "gold in €" and you will see exponential inflation during the last 20 years. Same for $, ¥ and most other currencies.
https://www.gold.de/kurse/goldpreis/
So everybody creates new money out of nothing, as if it were Manna.
This is the easiest way to get out of difficult situations for incompetent politicians. Just start a new fire from freshly created money, even if it lasts only a few weeks.
As to the long-term effects, look at Japan, where young people can no longer afford to have a family. This type of monetary policy amounts to "managed suicide of a nation".
For some funny reason, EU law can be avoided by California-Washington Corporations. They simply create a huge document, where they "justify" what they do and that is it. Google, MSFT, Apple, Facebook - all of them do whatever they please. EU politicans always bend over to them, why ?
The simple explanation is that the EU is impotent in military and security matters. They need the NSA warnings(which come from mining the California Data Mountains) to control a certain group of dangerous foreigners(which the current elite is keen on letting in in unlimited numbers). So Google will tell them to either suck it up or be denied NSA warnings. Then EU bends over.
1.) Fujitsu computers such as the BS2000 mainframes out of Munich, ARM- and SPARC-based servers. At least partially European CPUs !
https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/servers/unix/sparc/
2.) Hetzner, OVH, T-Systems,... as truly European Cloud Providers
3.) Tuxedo client computers. Soon with ARM CPU ? https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/de/In-den-Medien-TUXEDO-Prototyp-mit-ARM-Chipsatz-von-Qualcomm.tuxedo
4.) Local Linux User Groups as Talent Pool for admins, developers and consultants
5.) CompCert proven correct Compiler
6.) SeL4 high security, proven correct OS
7.) MaxDB out of Germany
8.) OnlyOffice
9.)
Even though it is not perfect, what we can do today is:
1.) Tuxedo laptop for work. Ubuntu or SuSE OS. https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/
2.) Private Cloud storage next to DSL modem on an RPI4. File transfer using ssh/scp.
3.) Private homepage on the RPI4, using DynDNS adressing.
4.) DeltaChat messaging
5.) qwant search engine
6.) PeerTube Video sharing
7.) Hetzner, OVH servers, if needed for performance. Starts at 5€/month
8.) Local Unix User group as a place to learn and connect.
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