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Then they shelve the product one month after the beta tag is removed.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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IT pros believe the C-suite should be fired if the data breach is serious enough. All thumbs to the dike!
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Instead of registering the component during deployment which is the case in packaged apps, you can now declare information about your component’s assemblies and classes in the classic Win32-style application.manifest. I know, I know. You'll miss having to deal with the Registry
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According to Splunk’s State of Dark Data Report, a lot of organizations have “dark data” — data that the organization is unaware of or unable to find, prepare, analyze, or use. Do we need to spend some Dark Energy to find your Dark Data?
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Actually it's stored on all the dark matter in the universe.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Of course, the obvious solution, "Stop collecting data you obviously don't need, you idiots!", never occurs to anyone.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Of course, the obvious solution, "Stop collecting data you obviously don't need, you idiots!", never occurs to anyone.
But then you can't send spam and sell the data on the dark web!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Both high and low-risk bugs and licensing conflicts are rife in today’s business codebases. And 100% of closed-source vulnerabilities
*totals may not add up to 100%
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Those super-modern development technologies we should embrace (according to fashion designers) make it next to impossible to follow what code you actually use in your development...
(We have over 700 3rd party packages installed, of witch less then 50 requested directly, the others are dependencies and dependencies of dependencies)
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: of witch
I'm voting for that as the Unintentionally Appropriate Typo of the Month.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's almost Freudian in its slippage.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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And where is my prize?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Unfortunately, I was the only person who voted for you, so you can blame everyone in the world except me for your not winning.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yet Vodaphone continues to buy their equipment. Apparently security is a low priority for them. A lower priority than cost anyway.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: Apparently security is a low priority for them. A lower priority than cost anyway.
Are you surprised?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Not particularly, no. I just think it's amusing that they report their findings and continue buying Huawei stuff as if they found nothing at all.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I have a hidden bavck door in my house. It's where the dog goes in and out.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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But is your dog likely to send your personal details to criminals?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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No, she died last August of congestive heart failure while chasing squirrels.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Sorry to hear that 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Dr.Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: I have a hidden bavck door in my house. It's where the dog goes in and out.
Ours is for the cat.
He comes in, takes complete control, loads up with everything he wants, then leaves a pile of cr@p behind him when he goes.
I've had such backdoors since before computers became household things, which only goes to show that nothing's really changed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've put backdoors in many of my commercial software because I needed to find out the problem when my customers called for support. No personal information was ever exposed, just logs related to the software performance.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I don't question the need of logs in software, but IMO enabling anyone - including the provider of the software - to access them should be up to the user.
Again IMO, the correct way to do this would be to ask the user to either send you the logs or to explicitly grant you access so you can read them. Leaving a back door means that anyone can potentially access sensitive parts of the system.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I don't question the need of logs in software, but IMO enabling anyone - including the provider of the software - to access them should be up to the user.
I agree,
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Leaving a back door means that anyone can potentially access sensitive parts of the system
That depends, I left a backdoor to just my software, so I could access it running on their system to see personally the problems they reported and only when I was given remote access by the user. I never sawny sensitive parts of their system.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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