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The United Kingdom has introduced a new law that bans generic passwords on smart devices in order to protect consumers from cyber attacks. Let the users set the generic passwords instead
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How do you enforce that? And what constitutes a "generic" password? Is "generic" itself a "generic" password.
I guess they could require password checks like the DoD does. We had to compare passwords to a dictionary and then make sure they had the "Two Upper, two lower, two digits, two specials" stuff and then make sure there weren't certain pattern like more that 3 consecutive ascending or descending digits, no set of three or more single characters ("aaa" or "lll" or "777").
STiGs was the DoD name for those type rules. It was a pain.
Also reminded me of the Howie Mandel cartoon Bobby's World. Their last name was spelled Generic but pronounced Jen-ur-ick.
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A company I worked for had for a time similar restrictions with the passwords, additionally they would compare it to the last 10 passwords of you and check for "similarities" before accepting or rejecting the new password.
The policy got changed after a colleague got banned out of his own laptop in a project in the US where the company had to pay 10 or 15 very expensive days of delayment. My colleague got paid holidays until the new laptop arrived.
 
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That's what I forgot, you couldn't reuse any of the last 12 passwords.
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Artificial intelligence engineers at top tech companies told CNBC that the pressure to roll out AI tools at breakneck speed has come to define their jobs. Have they tried using an AI assistant?
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As my mother said: You don't want vegetables? Here, two portions.
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Google has indexed inaccurate infrastructure-as-code samples produced by Pulumi AI – a developer that uses an AI chatbot to generate infrastructure – and the rotten recipes are already appearing at the top of search results. Who could have foretold this happening? AI Dev Edition
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Good, more job security for the real programmers among us.
I wish. I am one of the 8000 "effected employees" of the SAP restructuring. They wiped out the entire office of developers where I am, because they didn't want micro-sites. That was the entire team that supported one of the products that was generating 9 figure revenue for the company.
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Time to ground a GmbH with your co-workers and sell your time twice the internal price to continue maintaining the product.
And yes, I know people that made the movement. Not as a GmbH but an external contractor / consulting service.
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That would be lovely, there's a note in the documentation though that says you have to wait 2 years for any of that. And I am in the USA.
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That sounds like a non-compete and they just got majorly axed?
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If they cut you out and nobody works on it anymore... is it competition at all?
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Using the generic architecture you saw at a conference for your company's unique business needs is a surefire way to waste money and time. But it worked in PowerPoint!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But it worked in PowerPoint!
Similar to "But it worked in my simulation"
That's what the senior CAD Constructor told me in an old project of mine... the main point is, he forgot to draw the 800mm long gripper of the robot unit.
3 full row of elements in those lines had to be moved back around 350mm so I could manage to get and drop the product inside them... costs over 100k€ and almost 2 weeks delay only due to his haughtiness.
Priceless to see when he had to explain the reasons to the end customer
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Microsoft’s security overhaul and goals are now linked to leadership compensation. Fool me once, etc.
“We will instill accountability by basing part of the compensation of the company’s Senior Leadership Team on our progress in meeting our security plans and milestones.” <-- the Windows VP may end up paying the company for their continuing employment
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The verge wrote: Microsoft’s security overhaul and goals are now linked to leadership compensation.
yeah, right.
I will believe it, when I see it. And even then... I will still doubt about it.
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CISA and the FBI urged software companies today to review their products and eliminate path traversal security vulnerabilities before shipping. Security is the path least travelled
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Andrej Karpathy muses about sending a LLM binary that could "wake up" and answer questions. Let the aliens get all the 'authoritative, but wrong' answers about us
It should keep them from coming to investigate
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It should keep them from coming to investigate
ISTR a short story about aliens who picked up one of the Voyager probes, discovered the naked sketches of humans on the data disk, and sent an armada to destroy those perverted creatures who dare expose their bodies to the Universe. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Bad enough they want Skynet here, now they're suggesting SkyNetToGo?
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Quote: Microsoft on Friday provided a peek at a comprehensive framework that aims to sort out the Domain Name System (DNS) mess so that it’s better locked down inside Windows networks.
Ars Technica [^]
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All your URL are belong to us!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A new report shows that CISOs find it difficult to communicate threats to the C-suite, which is leaving gaps in the organization’s understanding of cyberrisk. Suddenly, our current situation makes more sense
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where is that vocabulary "management <> nerd <> management" when you need it?
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