Posts by Allan George Dyer

Re: Thank you President Trump.

How our language changes:

'well-loved' is now a synonym for 'earth-shatteringly controversial'

Re: Do project managers live in the world?

Hmm... the pink tool set is just a pink tool set, the closest they get to saying they intend it for a woman is the rather neutral, "Parents find it an empowering gift to give children as they leave the nest. " At least the tools appear to have normal functionality for a tool set. Happy Stan destroys the function of the tool by making it a joke. Then, on page 5 of the "also bought" is:

https://www.amazon.com/TANKING-Shaped-Folding-Defense-Keychain/dp/B01NBICV9C/

is a 2-inch pocket knife in a fake key a concealed weapon? Would anyone be stupid enough to use it in self-defence? Hopefully, the only damage will be to whatever the owner uses to carry it.

Re: The root of all evil ...

"or greatest human survival instinct?"

No, altruism is the greatest human survival instinct... when you have eaten enough, eating more is greed, but if you give it away to those that are hungry, then they do the same when you're hungry and your tribe grows.

Re: Inevitable Consequence

@Barry Rueger - "the questions could be answered by anyone with access to my Facebook account (assuming I actually gave FB the info)"

It's worse than that, you don't even need a FB account if your maternal grandparents post that you visited them on their FB account. These questions are inherently leaky.

Re: Haha!

Surely RFC 1149 comes under the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs?

Re: Confirmation checkbox needed

@Schultz - another victim of Poe's law

Re: I propose Dragorborn from the Skyrim game

That reminds me of this march https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtie6r27JeU

I get that too, there's a really good quality impact from a double-decker on a Volvo chassis.

Re: I've, umm... done most of that stuff

@kain preacher - "Are you trying trash the sever ?" As in decommission and throw in the trash? Yep, done that.

Re: You're only as good as 'your weakest links'...

Yes, I did read what you wrote, and I found your reasoning unpersuasive.

I do apologise for my sloppy use of exploits instead of bugs (maybe vulnerabilities would be even better).

I also think I expressed this wrongly: "Operationally, you can't assume your 0day is really a 0day for your enemy - maybe they found it last week, so your deployment strategy should assume that many, or even most, of the exploits new vulnerabilities that you discover are already known." Sorry for my sloppy writing.

"Finding and exploiting bugs is significantly more work than developing patches." I suppose that depends on the bug. There are cases where malware exploiting a bug has appeared very soon after the patch was released. Which means that either it was quite simple to exploit, so the malware developer(s) thought it worthwhile to try to catch the slow patchers by reverse-engineering the patch to understand the bug and then develop the malware using it, or they'd already discovered it and were quietly using it on high-value targets, so it was no trouble to do a mass release when it was going to loose value anyway.

"It's pretty rare that the same bug is discovered and successfully exploited independently by multiple actors." Got any statistics for that? That seems like an overly-optimistic assumption. Be a pessimist: if you've found a bug, it's low-hanging fruit that almost anyone could find and someone probably already has.

At least we agree that we have to assume there are exploitable bugs we have no idea about, and we need proper layered security.

Re: Why cats?

@Spanners, @Peter2 - So, use the Sea Hornet design, and subcontract to Ikea?

The major advantage is that you store far more below decks as flat-packs, and assemble them on the flight deck...

Streets? No, not merely streets, entire towns, cities, and even states (I'm looking at you, Australia!) were named after Victoria, along with rivers, lakes and even Hong Kong's famous fragrant harbour. Though HK did quietly drop using the name Victoria for it's capital, even before the handover. It's now fairly indistinguishably divided into Western, Central and Wan Chai Districts.

Neither Liz nor Charlie have any hope of catching up, without an Empire.

Re: China did it! Not us!

As AC said, with more detail, "Possible. But not plausible."

But I'd add, you said:

"> Malware developer

You don't know that."

and later:

"NSA penetration tools"

So what is a penetration tool created with the intent of unauthorised access, if not malicious?