Posts by Mark 85 12884 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
Even with concrete evidence, I suspect the payments would be made. There's the good ol' boys mentality in board rooms otherwise they wouldn't be sitting on a new board in a few weeks. And it's not just sexual harassment either. Bad decisions and companies failing are no barrier to getting a new board seat.
The ICO was also last year granted the power to levy personal fines of up to £500,000 on the directors of dodgy-dialling companies in a bid to prevent execs from simply liquidating their companies to dodge penalties handed to them under PECR
Well.. they have some deterent, maybe 2 or 3 million might be better but if actually start enforcing and if some jail time could be added, then maybe these calls and companies will go away. Maybe.
I think they dropped the "don't do evil" a long time ago. Pity that they never do this stuff near the boards homes isn't it? It would also seem that there are some folks in the neighborhood who want the service inspite of the problems which somehow seems rather selfish on their part.
But, profit is everything and if it's not Google trying stuff like this, then it will be Amazon.
I suspect there's a possibility of coincidence more than anything else. There may be maintenance issues with the aircraft and corners cut on training of ground crews due to costs, etc.
On the other hand, there may very well be an issue with flight control systems or sensors. It could be bad parts, bad design of the sensors or even ground maintenance. Years ago, they found certain wasps and other bugs liked to build nests or just hide out in pitot tubes. Covering is the answer when the aircraft is on the ground but these sensors maybe flush with the skin so no external tube to cover.
The problem (one of them) is that there's not a lot of them out there and the fleet (and Boeing) are working through the teething problems. I'd say that grounding those aircraft is probably a good idea but politics and pressure from corporate sales types provide a lot of resistance to that.
Well, it's a start, maybe not the right or best ideas but a start. The catch will be finding the right solution and then implementing it. The implementation will be everything and given politics, it'll probably be just another waste of the paper it's printed on. The big corporates aren't about to give up power and profit and their stockholders, etc. won't let them do it even if the boards decided it's a good thing.
Short of nuking everything and letting $<deity> sort them out or bulldozing everything and starting over, I don't see an easy solution to this. The big companies just make it easy for the users/consumers to join up and use them so I don't see a consumer based groundswell rising up and demanding change.
Boils down this.. if the American people of today lived back in the late 1700's, we'd still be British subjects.
That fits in perfectly with my experience "back in the day" including the proximity to SAC bases. My response "you gotta' be shitting me" got me in trouble but my dad had a good laugh over it. One of my mates said "you guys go bury heads, I'm headed outside to watch the fireworks" during the drill. We both ended up sitting outside the principle's office for due punishment. Funny, we had sit there until the drill was over then not a word said except "go back to your classroom".
The more functionality in them, the more they are vulnerable. Is there really a need for any comms between the fob/car and the Internet as this seems to be a disaster waiting to happen for the lock/car owner? I guess being connected and hip overrides common sense and security every single time.
So Congress will fix it by passing a law that won't be specific or enforceable.... But dammit...Congresscritter will shout that "WE DID SOMETHING!!!!!" Er.. maybe. Depends if the two parties can agree on how to write it, shape of the table, the color of the room where they will meet and what snack items will be available.
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It also seems it's not embezzlement proof.
Is anything embezzlement proof? Using the "word" proof like "bomb proof" "break proof", etc. doesn't mean it can't be broken into. Still this has the feel that it was an inside job now the date of the last transaction was just a few days before the guy allegedly died. I use the term allegedly as no one mentioned in any article ever saw his body.
So somewhere over in India or some other place is a guy named Jim Bob who looks like Gerald Cotton and who now is sitting back and enjoying his riches. As long as he stays out of the public eye, away from anyone who knew him, and has ensured that a certain coroner keeps his mouth shut, all will be well.
Then again, that could just be fiction and the guy really died but the money was taken by someone else on the inside of the operation.
My question is if the wallets were securely encrypted, how do the auditors know what is in them?
Wouldn't make a difference if there were more parties it would still be politics as usual and everything being divided by party lines. There would just be more lines. I wish the CongressCritters could all look at what's good for the country and not necessarily good for corporate profits. But we know what they say: "Wish in one hand, do something disgusting in the other and see which fills up faster". If anything, political divisiveness will get worse instead of better. The last election (Presidential) didn't really have good candidates, IMO, but just shouty ones. No matter who won it, we'd still have the same political messes we have now.
Bring on the downvotes from the partisan commendards.
Schneier said Silicon Valley hasn't done enough to educate our political classes about the latest platforms and ways of doing things online –
Why should the industry educate the politicians? It's not in their best interest as when the political types get some knowledge, they will legislate the industry and the industry doesn't want to be regulated.
The Constitution only applies to American citizens and by that default to American companies. I give it a snowball's chance in hell but then again, lately we've been having some weird stuff going on here in the States such as companies being allowed rights as "people".
Why did they delete the "old" data? What good it is depends on the age of the data and the content. The flip answer is they needed the disk space but the real one is that it's probably that the old data is meaningless what with the profusion of burner phones.
Russian hacking caught the attention of the new media so they're still the very bad lads who possibly impacted an election. China hasn't really been brought up yet in the mainstream by comparison. Election interference is an issue in the US and a currently a big one do to.... politics. China's hacking won't get any serous news unless they somehow get the attention of the Congress which is more self focused on politics than anything else it would seem. Takeaway: China's spying won't sell newspapers but Russian hacking will for the foreseeable future even though it's a bigger operation and potentially more damaging than tampering with an election.
Indeed... but then our Congress has few tech types who know the difference.
If, big if, contributions to political candidates/parties weren't from the internet provides like Comcast, et al, and if they weren't buying content companies and becoming content companies, the issue might be clearer to the CongressCritters who really haven't a clue about the difference.
Right now, Congress is so divided that on a clear day, they would both argue about the shade of blue. Sadly, compromise and statesmanship for the good of the country seems to have gone away and replaced with this new version of "my way or the highway". <sigh>
I won't get into where this attitude came from as too many factors, too much politics but corporate "donations" do play a part as do the elected officials themselves.
Trying to break military equipment isn't all that uncommon (maybe it now though) but back in the day, the Army would send the dumbest, clumsiest, and often careless lads to be "testers". If the equipment survived a week or two of their testing, a box was ticked and equipment declared "ruggedized for combat".
I should point out that "testing" didn't involve sledgehammers and the like but "usage". Tossing the equipment into the corner at the end of the day, sitting on it, dropping it, etc. In the case of vehicles, maybe knocking down some trees for kicks and grins. You get the idea...
I do tend to agree with you..
Based on this statement "After 18 months in legal limbo in America, Brit malware reverse-engineer Marcus Hutchins, who halted the 2017 Wannacry ransomware outbreak, this week learned he will go before a jury in July." I guess the prosecutors didn't really have a case that had solid evidence. Seems there's something in the Constitution (the 6th Amendment) about the right to a speedy trial.
No houses but cars here. I built some drag race cars for a few folks and word got around. When told "I just want to go a bit faster" my typical response was: "Speed cost money, how fast can you afford to go?". They usually had to rethink their request. It was a hobby but if I had gone along with what they wanted, it would have been a full time job that would have lost money.
With relatives and many "friends" (the real friends I'll attempt to help out usually with them sitting there along with keeping refreshments flowing) I just tell the Win10 ones, "I don't know that one as I've not installed it". For the Win7-8 users it's "I've not kept up with that version.". $<deity> help me if they ever compare notes/excuses with each other.
At most they would have spent a little to get the connectors mounted but would probably only come with a normal refit and would not cost much anyway.
Anything aircraft related does "not cost much anyway". Just opposite as everything has to be "certified". Plus installation isn't done by Gus the electrician but a very well paid installer and then inspected by at least two inspectors.
Actually two messages... if you're a "hacker"* you get off light. If you're a company, someone else will pay for patching. In reality, the company should be fined for failing to do due diligence. As an example, I doubt a jewelry store could get compensation from the theft of jewelry because the lock on the door was broken.
*I use the term "hacker" here very loosely as the term implies certain skill sets beyond a scrip kiddie.
I do have to wonder in light of things political lately, if this is more politics than an actual crime? I would expect that other Chinese companies would tagged with piracy charges also but it just seems odd that it's this one that's getting the brunt of things.
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