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by mandevil 7y ago
The P0 guys have a whole article about that: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/jsc-exploits....
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Grace Hopper Conference Drops Palantir as a Sponsor(vox.com)
2 points by mandevil 7y ago|0 comments
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by mandevil 7y ago
Right, but no matter what your past is, you are still at $currentCompany, not $prevCompany, so in that most important of ways you are exactly the same as all these other people you are trying to flex on. Why would I care that you used to g
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by mandevil 7y ago
Maybe I'm the weird one, but who would wear a t-shirt from your previous company to work at your current company? That just seems to send all the wrong signals.
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by mandevil 7y ago
It isn't as simple as point laser at moon, see light shining back with your own eyes, it requires a big telescope and computers and delicate sensors to detect because the moon and earth are so far apart. I mean, if actual pictures of t
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by mandevil 7y ago
Like you, I suspect, I am not in a position to do this sort of analysis. But I would note that Qualys didn't release a PoC with their announcement of the Exim bug, the RCE takes 7 days to trigger (you need to send a keep-alive packet e
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by mandevil 7y ago
Most users aren't updating at all. My highly educated STEM employed wife just hits the "not yet" button on all updates. But when disclosures get enough attention that it leaks into the broader (not-security focused) informati
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by mandevil 7y ago
As soon as a patch is released, it should be presumed that bad guys know all the fixes in it. Once a patch is released, people with bad intentions study all the changes (source code for open source, and decompiling for closed-source) and fi
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by mandevil 7y ago
Well, by the standard that economists used to use, yes, U3 being 3.6% should be associated with high inflation because it should be much better than full employment. Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez asked Fed Chair Powell about this at a recent
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by mandevil 7y ago
Legally, the settlement administrator must be totally independent from Equifax, so comparing their hosting providers, cert providers, etc. you'd only expect them to match by random chance.
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by mandevil 7y ago
Being physical objects, gun distribution is much much more difficult than encryption distribution.
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by mandevil 7y ago
Smedley Butler was a two star Major General, not a four star General.
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by mandevil 7y ago
Look at the Bevin Boys: from 1943-1947 once a week the minister would pull out a digit from 0-9, and all men liable to report that week whose registration numbers last digit matched the minister's pull were sent off to be coal miners.
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by mandevil 7y ago
I mean the people who would have to pay the taxes to subsidize Amazon, so the city and state at large, yes.
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by mandevil 7y ago
Virginia tried very hard to make sure that HQ2 is not just more government contracting jobs- the region is already very exposed to government work as it is[1]. The limited tax breaks Amazon gets are directly linked to the new jobs NOT being
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by mandevil 7y ago
Not really mentioned in the article. As someone who moved from NoVA to New York during the HQ2 search, these are my thoughts: New York's plan was more direct subsidies and tax breaks, less infrastructure and schools. Much more unpopula
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by mandevil 7y ago
Also, unless you can prove that your software is EXACTLY the same after the ground-up rewrite, it will require changes to the voluminous and very detailed training materials, necessary to turn a 19 year old with slightly above average AFOQT
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by mandevil 7y ago
You can look at the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care and see the costs of medical care, and medical malpractice reform just doesn't seem to have any effect on medical care costs. https://www.dartmouthatlas.org/interactive
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by mandevil 7y ago
The Soviet Union always put more attention on Venus, and the US more on Mars. From what I can tell this dates back to before there were actual space programs, so I strongly suspect this has to do with the science fiction in the respective l
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by mandevil 7y ago
I agree that a 9/11 style attack will never work again: it didn't even work for the fourth plane on the day of, leave alone in the future. But I am explaining the business case for the TSA, why it exists and is the way it is.
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by mandevil 7y ago
Blame the terrorists. The TSA exists for one reason: to take the insurance risk of another September 11th sized attack without grinding the air travel industry to a halt. No private company could possibly afford the liability insurance for
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by mandevil 7y ago
Back when prices spiked in 2008, I asked a gas station owner about that, he said that the contract he signed with the oil company provider essentially gave them the right to set his prices- and they processed his credit card transactions so
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Google's Chrome becomes web gatekeeper and rivals complain(bloomberg.com)
2 points by mandevil 7y ago|0 comments
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by mandevil 7y ago
One major advantage SO has stems from its userbase: we are much less likely to panic than the typical user of a system not focused on software development.
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by mandevil 7y ago
I am 100% sure that somewhere in the US government, a bunch of contractors are working on data collection tools. The Shadowbrokers and Snowden make that clear. I doubt that Palantir is doing it- there has never been any allegations of that,
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by mandevil 7y ago
New York City agrees with you.
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by mandevil 7y ago
Unless they have a separate program that no one has ever reported on, Palantir is a data analysis platform, not a data collection one like NSO Group is alleged to do. See, e.g. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-pa
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by mandevil 7y ago
I think you have your timelines wrong. Remington was already owned by Cerberus when they purchased Marlin (they were one of the "18 businesses rolled up"). It was the same people, running the same playbook, just Remington, being b
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Palantir Played Key Role in Arresting Families for Deportation, Document Shows(mijente.net)
4 points by mandevil 7y ago|0 comments
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by mandevil 7y ago
Your threat exposure is not just your network. It's all of your customers and all of your vendors as well. Recall that the Target POS hack back in 2014 happened because someone hacked the largest refrigeration contractor in western Pen

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