Posts by Pascal Monett

"if you take it over by force, you can no longer make it operable"

Well, that should be quite reassuring, really.

I have just one question : would you say the same thing with a QSZ-92 to the head ?

Oracle is "trimming"

So, on the one hand, Oracle ups its licenses due to "economic concerns", and on the other it sheds $1 billion of empoyees.

Looks like management bonus is going to be insane this quarter.

Can we have a "big, fat dollar" icon ?

Interesting development

While the lion was hunting, the jackals kept their heads down. Now that the lion is gone, the jackals can feast.

So, if these new attempts (that seem interesting, viewed from my chair at least) succeed, does that mean that Intel will buy these companies out ?

Or will Intel just eat its humble pie in the corner and skulk ?

So, Xi Pooh is against corruption

Well that's nice to hear. When is that going to trickle down to creating a business ?

I've heard that, if you want to create a business and you don't want to waste two years for the paperwork, some "encouragement" is welcome.

Is that really true, and if so, when is that going to change ?

I have trouble believing this anti-corruption stance when China openly pirates Western software without even a thought.

Oh great

Another tool that Borkzilla will foul up to make admins' lives miserable.

Yippeee.

A report full of obvious points

Nonetheless, it is a good thing to point them out.

However, the clincher is in the last paragraph :

"organizations using security AI and automation technologies had average data breach costs that were $3.05 million less than those that weren't"

No points for guessing who sells "security AI".

This whole report is just a sales pitch for IBM who is trying to scare customers into signing up for its products.

Zero trust only saves you a million. We can save you 3 million.

Sign here.

"instead of making the hard changes needed to become truly private shutting down its advertising revenue entirely, [..]"

TFTFY

7,100 islands ?

Yup, connecting all that is going to cost an astronomical amount.

Go Starlink !

Kentucky, Tennessee

Well, at least it's not Texas again.

There's a bit of water in those states.

"Luca Stealer already has been updated three times"

So, GitHub has a login, doesn't it ?

Why isn't the police involved in this ?

Um, guys, get your story straight

"exposing secrets in seconds" ?

At the beginning of the month you published an article which stated that "it should be possible to factor a 2,048-bit integer in an RSA cryptosystem in about eight hours, given a 20 million-qubit quantum computer"

Ok, so it will expose secrets in seconds, I agree.

28 800 of them.

44 against 558

Wow.

That's one hell of a difference to overcome.

"Kraken has robust compliance measures in place"

Yeah, well we'll see just how robust those measures stand up against judicial enquiry.

Personally, you're a crypto scam. The only robust thing you have is your exit strategy.

$7.3 billion for a murder ?

Is this just opportunistic, or is the US judicial system finally losing its mind ?

If every murder is billed in the billions, who is going to pay ?

It seems clear to me that the only reason for this astronomical amount is because there is a big company to pin the blame on. Even if the company didn't do complete due diligence, a sentence in the billions seems a bit much to me.

And since when is an employee with an access card supposed to be deprived of access if they're not working ?

I'd like to see how much administrative hassle it would create if every single company had to suspend employee access for employees taking half a day off.

The HR department would certainly have to be doubled.

"It seems money markets are content"

Money markets are rarely unhappy with multinational behemoths that have billions at the bank.

So they lost less than a billion over $69.7 billion in revenue

Yeah, I don't think I'd fret much over that either.

Alphabet is a money-printing business. Unless your name is Ballmer, there's no way you can fail there.