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'Well intentioned lawmakers could stifle IoT innovation', warns bug bounty pioneer

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Re: Stop regulating cars too

Wait. Doesn't the 2nd Amendment apply to AI-equipped IoT too?

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VMs: Imperfect answers to imperfect problems, but they're all we have

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Re: Multitasking

UNIX die-hards in 1972? Short life span then.

And yes, you did have some OS/360-PCP die-hards. Or 7090 objecting TSS - or even pitchforks against CP/67 and minidisks. But, TTBOMK, no such silly battle on the MCP-AS front,.

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Developers, developers, developers: How 'serverless' crowd dropped ops like it's hot

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Re: Mainframe & SmallTalk

Cloud == Mainframe (with its SNA/BNA/... colleagues)

Lambda == Software Service bureau minus the big glass windows and rotating tapes on drives.

Nothing to see. Just new pricing scheme. Otherwise, the "revolutions" of the Internet and of Personal Computing have run their course.

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NSA bloke used backdoored MS Office key-gen, exposed secret exploits – Kaspersky

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Re: Wait a minute

That corrupted home machine full of pretend NSA malware looks like a honeypot to me. Tempt Kaspersky, have them upload, use as infection vector.

Hence the deletion (from normal analysis environment). After the above was confirmed.

Spy vs. Spy.

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Unisys releases its ClearPath MCP OS for VMs or x86

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Intriguing, as this is a complete environment that does not use "C", undisciplined pointers and the like. Given the flurry of "buffer overflow" based exploits, I wonder if MCP should not carve a niche in security.

I have no idea of how MCS talks to the outside world, though. I'll have to download and brush up my WFL.

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