"Dwolla's current data security practices meet industry standards."
Such as SONY? Target? Home Depot? Even the US Government? They're in deep crap then.
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They don't have "blind spots", they don't have tempers, they don't start sneezing.
Good points. However, fresh from the factory, I think you're right on the above for the most part. But there are some vehicles that have issues even fresh from the factory. And as the car ages, sensors fail, hardware gets iffy.
OTOH, there might be some AI to monitor all this at some point and reliably predict failures on a given vehicle.
Won't happen. There's too many politicos and their constituents who won't compromise or negotiate much less see any rational points from the other side. Both parties are to blame for the current messes, but everyone points fingers and no one says "let's sit down and sort this out". We've gone all shouty closed our minds.
This country needs it's elected officials AND the constituents (voters) to actually be rational on everything and not just blindly follow the party line.
There's also the bit about "long-term employees" getting the axe. A lot of companies dump employees beyond a certain number of years because the pay and benefits cost the company profit. In the very short term it works. The loss of experienced people who know the systems, etc. will always come back to bite the company later.
And yeah.. the H1B is just a means of boosting short term profits. No loyalty, no reason to go the extra mile for the company. A pox on this.
IE11 may be part of the reason. There's an awful lot of forums that IE11 won't work with. Copy/paste, image uploading, even some forums function such as "quote" don't work. The people with these issues have moved over to Chrome/Firefox and many think Edge won't be any better than IE11. MS refuses to even acknowledge there's a problem with IE11 and suggests you "upgrade" to Win10 and Edge.
I'm seriously wondering if IE11 was broken intentionally.
It is NOT a forced upgrade
Not forced... hmmm.... They pushed it out to everyone without asking and popped up a nagware button. I believe the button now says something like "upgrade now or tonight?". Right, so it's more like walking down the street and suddenly someone runs out of a building yelling "I can punch you now or punch you later but you will get punched.
I do believe "forced" is maybe too harsh a word... maybe "blindsiding"? Unethical? Sleazy? in the "we'll just slide this in here under the door and see if they catch us and toss it to the curb". Many didn't catch it. Many don't care. There's too many who have caught it and keep tossing it to the curb.
While in high school, a group in the neighborhood decided to have fun with one grumpy old guy who loved his beer a bit too much. He bought a new VW Beetle and then the fun...
1) They picked up the car late one night and placed on his front porch.
2) They tested it's alleged watertight capabilities by putting it in his swimming pool.
3) The last one before they wandered off to greener pastures or maybe got bored was stand it up and lean against the tree in his front yard.
I was hoping to find out who did it just to congratulate them.. never did find out though.
From all that has been said about advance threats over recent years, I've formed the impression that the security companies need insecure OS's with infections to continue once detected, in order to monitor how they behave. PROFIT.
FTFY
If the OS was totally secure, there would be no need for security companies. MS has been very bad about this and apparently are now trying to close the barn door at least for their enterprise customers.
Exactly.. even the manglement is misinformed per: " our employees are required to act in accordance with international security regulations which are designed to protect ports and the public.”
Someone's full of BS unless there's a secret "regulation" about taking photos in an unmarked restricted area that only the security guards and manglement know about.
I think the FBI is pushing the issue. They have 2 cases now, with opposing viewpoints and orders. This is going to get escalated via appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. And it should be, there's some serious Constitutional questions that the FBI are messing with.
The FBI still requires a law degree as far as I know for agents so there's probably more than few internally questioning things. Or at least I'd hope they are.
Considering that the total is just for last year and doesn't look at totals earlier, at what point will everyone's info be out there in the wild?
I'm sure some suit in a boardroom is asking the same thing and coming to the conclusion: "Why bother with security? They breach us and take our data anyway. Let's just save some money for our bonuses."
So what if it's obviously true? The point was that Trump, if elected, wants to single-handedly change the laws. That seems to be the issue.
Maybe he will ask Congress to change the law on this and other things he's been shoutie about lately, but there's a couple of bigger questions: a) would Congress go along with this? and b) would it pass muster with the Supremes?
Obama and other past Presidents have tried this. Sometimes it works, other times, not so much.
I think he's serious about all this. He knows he can't do it including the changing the libel laws. But his supporters are sure eating it up. He's telling the dis-affected middle class just what they want to hear. If loses the nomination or election, he'll still come out as the "good guy" in a lot of people's eyes.
It would be interesting if he were elected, how much of his posturing would be followed up by Congress.
I won't go into the "other side" of the election but I see much playing to the crowd there also.
Disclaimer: I still consider my self pretty much middle-of-the-road.
The TLA's feel it is their "right" and "duty" to force this type of thing. It possibly also goes back to the cop jumping on the running board and telling the driver to "follow that car"... whether the driver is late for work or whatever. Ok.. that's a stretch.
I'm looking at this as good thing. We have a judge saying "no" and another judge saying "yes". Once the appeals start, they willl probably end up in the Supreme Court. The questions then are: "which case will be first to set the precedent?" and "what's the makeup of the Court -- hard-core-Constitutionalists or the-Constitution-is-a-living-document-believers".
This is bound to get murkier and more divisive as more of these cases go to trial.
The more we get into "communications", the scarier it gets. I do understand the vehicles need GPS and probably some means of communication with a home base as such for re-routing if there's accidents, etc. Possibly a "back door" or some control if law enforcement needs to pull the car over... I hope it's not a back door but.....
However, that term in this day and age is probably not just stopping there. It will include such goodies as "entertainment" since if you don't have actually do anything except get in and tell the car where to go, there needs to be something for the meatbags to do. And this opens up the big things like advertisers and malware and bits of nastiness. I would hope that "security" isn't just footnote such as "Yes, this. We'll get around to it at some point.
I think most people weigh the chances of being caught against the benefit and make value judgements.
I tend to agree with this otherwise there would be piles of carpet rolls from manglement offices deep in the woods. It also applies even to the minor infraction laws like speeding.
Will this detect if any of the 5-Eyes are running entry or exit nodes? This is more of a "I'm curious" question as I've heard rumors about this for quite a long time. The rumors suggest this as TOR was originally funded by the US Government, amongst others.
The nature of this article and other others lately suggests that TOR is less anonymous than anyone really thinks it is.
as just one example, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) wants access to metadata in order to identify and discipline doctors who are having affairs with their patients.
Now what would give them the authority to have any data, meta or otherwise? Come to think of it, at the rate things are going, I will soon be expecting employers demanding this kind of access as well as SJW's, media, any organization that takes an interest in you. What actually entitles anyone other than an LEA (who better be following legal means and not illegally getting the data) to acquire this data????
As the article points out, take the IoST (Internet of Stupid Things) as a whole and you have a good idea what goes on behind closed doors. Are we then headed backwards in time... a good example is look at the various rules for schoolteachers back in the late 1800's in the States. Sneeze the wrong way and you're fired for moral turpitude.
Quite frankly, even without the IoST, this data grab is bordering on insanity. The IoST makes it just serious insanity. So maybe a tinfoil hat is required.