Re: A Bit of a Stealthy* Quantum Communications Operation
Francis E. Dec! We thought you were dead.
242 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jul 2007
You know, like ads in our default screen saver? I came back from the update's reboot to discover LinkedIn ads covering my screen. Thanks for that boot to the groin, MS...
It's like MS is daring you to stay with them...
I was attending a security conference hosted by Vanguard Integrity Professionals back in the late 90's - early 2000's in Orlando, FL, and one of the vendors on the floor were offering... riding crops. They were black, plastic/rubber with a bit of leather on them and about 2ft long, but they were riding crops nonetheless. I can't recall the vendor who was offering them, but my naive, horse-less elder female co-worker couldn't understand why I was so humored by her insistence on getting one and carrying it around with her.
I was tempted to pick up a Pixel 2 to replace the wife's Samsung GS5 that has gone on the fritz. Luckily I started looking at reviews and noticed the litany of complaints: blue hue screens, burn-in of icons, poor sound quality. Google should right the wrongs fast - at least Samsung owns up to their mistakes. How is a patch going to fix burn-in and other physical display issues?
Listening to the folks who should have tightened up the company's defenses, but didn't, so instead of copping to their failures decided to frame it as impossible to defend against.
Time to pony up for an independent vulnerability assessment and get the real story, Maersk.
Google should make it easier to report these discoveries of false/incorrect entities, too. I once drove to a hotel on their map in western NY that was in actuality nothing more than a hay field - the hotel was literally 3 miles away. Trying to contact Google was a bit of an uphill struggle to report that issue.
They still are snake oil to me. We had a 2 month demo with them and experienced significant false-positives involving well-known commercial software components. At that point, it seemed like an exercise of manually identifying each file on your network, which defeats the purpose. Others swear by them, and yet I've never heard an explanation to reveal the reasons why some love it and others have our experience.