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Well, the last part here sort of says it: "As Microsoft prepares its army of unpaid testers for another Bug Bash in January, a swathe of fixes is really what the company should be focusing on.".
MS is putting more effort into polishing the turd instead of fixing the problems.
and it doesn't surprise me one bit to learn that things have not improved at all since then. I doubt whether they ever will.
Things won't improve until IT managers have an IT background instead of a business background and then prioritize the IT issues over everything else. Most IT managers seem to only have a business background and no insight into IT. One can be driven by profit motivation or security motivation, but not both. Security costs money and profit trumps spending.
Not lawyers actually, they're just a tool by the investors. Once upon a time, the first rule of investing was: "If you can't afford to lose, don't play.". Seems the investors have changed the ground rules. On the other hand, if Symantec did something illegal here, they yes, they should be prosecuted by the SEC, etc.
Things just now clicked... Viasyn. I was in engineering at the time (not IT) and we used some of their products in our systems. I missed a road trip to them with our lead engineer due to schedule conflicts but I heard about every trip the lead made out west. So though I never met the gentleman, I'm saddened by this news. Sometimes we're touched by people we never meet.
Almost everyone seems to put kitchen knives into knife blocks resting on the blade. If you put them in the other way, the knife block isn't damaged and the blade stays sharper.
Won't work on all knife blocks. Many have a "sharper" inside that the act of inserting or removing the knife hones it a bit.
It's not used for identification.
You missed this then:
The key problem is that the app and the GPS watch do not encrypt their communications, and transmit virtually all data in plain text for anyone to snoop on or meddle with. This includes profile pictures, names, gender, dates of birth, height, weight, and so on, of the child.
Pretty much has everything on the server about junior. Most parents won't lie about this stuff. And there's probably a parent's name, addy, etc. taken for "identification purposes" or some such. Still gives a pile of info that can be monetized in the present and in the future.
If you released a de-compiled version of a corporations software, that let anyone look for bugs in it, would it be illegal. Not "Violating the EULA, " which I understand is basically BS, but actually illegal?
You could probably get away with it IF (big if) you moved to China.
I tend to agree but I wonder if this is more of a "targets of opportunity in a trade war"? It could be either one or both. The old "simplest answer is usually right" seems to apply here.
Yes, Super Micro can sue and Bloomberg will either have to put up or pay. Seems to be sloppy reporting if the only evidence was "photos" and they never actually had or have the evidence in question.
Given past history of government contracts, vender performance, and gold plating by those government managers involved, it most likely won't ever work even with massive cost overruns.
There's probably going to be massive off-shoring and sub-contracting to help the winners bottom line.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Act, passed earlier this year by the Senate, would overhaul the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s National Protection and Programs Directorate to create CISA as a new, stand-alone agency under the umbrella of the DHS.
Without a Sunset Rule to take away the authority of the DHS, all this will do is give us two agencies doing the same thing at twice the cost. Surely our Congress is smart enough to have put that into the bill, right?
Faceless and unseen, Douglas Rain doing HAL was about as perfect as they come. The only other voice in a Science Fiction movie that comes close to perfect was James Earl Jones as Darth Vador.
Thanks for the chilling voice of HAL, Douglas. More than a few of us were totally pulled into the movie because of your voice. Anyone else's and it probably wouldn't have worked.
It seems idiocy is contagious.
Not idiocy. It's more of "take the king's shilling, do the king's bidding." Or in this case, take the corporations' money/promises and do the corporations' bidding. The days of consumer watchdog agencies have long passed and we're now in corporate watchdog agency mode.
The only penalty that will change behavior is jail time, but without bribes (fines) how would they get rich?
"Why can't we have both, Coleman?" Ok.. seriously... why not both? Double deterrent as the company gets fined (hits the investors) and the board gets jail time. I'd prefer the board gets keelhauling but jail time would work.
Probably the clients are happy to go along with this since lawyers would do no-win no-fee for class action but would charge them a fee regardless for small claims
Usually, you don't need a lawyer for small claims court in most jurisdictions. And filing fees are most reasonable.
I don't see how. Can a third party prove that there's no backdoors in the executable even if the code they give is clean of backdoors? If drone info is stored on their servers, then the government can get all they want without any user knowing anyway. What guarantee can the company make that they aren't pulling the data anyway?
The results are only the result of testing. No smoking gun in the form of documents. So is it intentional or just the result of happenstance on time of day by the researchers or it could even be some towers and not all in a given region or owned by a given operator. Then as another commentard has pointed out, this was funded by Google so what restrictions, etc. were placed on the researchers? Too many unanswered questions here in this report.
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