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The Cylons sent a humanoid sleeper agent to seduce the designer of their new intelligent battle software for their spaceships , he gave her root access since sh
by tibbydudeza 5y ago
The Cylons sent a humanoid sleeper agent to seduce the designer of their new intelligent battle software for their spaceships , he gave her root access since she demonstrated remarkable coding skills (she was a Cylon) and she inserted the necessary backdoors.
- deeblering4 5y agoIndeed, I think the BSG analogy is a good sci-fi warning about the outcomes of moving away from heterogenous systems. Environments engineered with multiple failsafes, defense in depth, avoidance of SPOFs (including hardware models, manufacturers, chipsets, OSes, web servers, etc.) will be very difficult to fully penetrate and should be able to survive attacks. Of course none of the above is cheap or fast to do, so it usually doesn't get done.
- swiley 5y agoAlso on trusting binaries from external organizations.
- deeblering4 5y agoAgree although these days even curl|sh isn't far fetched
- dkdbejwi383 5y agoBSG is just a very long argument in favour of PR reviews.
- gaius_baltar 5y agoI'm very afraid of talking about this :)
- sys_64738 5y agoAutomated AI programming is the future. Eventually in Soviet Russia ransomware will encrypt you.