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Well, it certainly takes a lot of hutzpah to make such sweeping declarations about software engineering based on three months of bootcamp training and a short period of job experience. Programming != coding
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They think that if they learn a programming language (such as JavaScript, Python or Ruby)
I love how he picked those three. 
Programming is hard. It is an engineering discipline. Bootcamps cannot teach you this discipline in the short period of time they allot.
That should be the startup message on every Bootcamp coder's machine.
Marc
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A team of researchers claim they've developed malware that can extract data from an isolated computer with no internet connection, camera or audio hardware—all by using sounds generated by the machine's processor and cooling fans. "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: all by using sounds generated by the machine's processor and cooling fans.
No doubt at a bit rate measured in seconds per bit rather than bits per second!
Marc
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Indeed. The article itself claims a data-rate of some whopping 900 bits/hour
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Researchers keep coming up with these, but I don't think Real Life Hackers would use these methods as they are so obtuse and slow, although they may be useful for something, what that something is remains a riddle, wrapped in mystery, inside an enigma.
(Thanks to Winston Churchill for the riddle/mystery/enigma quote)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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If someone has to really collect data over the course of months or years that could be still useful.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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If all you want to do is copy the Administrator's password, then 900 bits/hour would be adequate for any password I've ever used (15 characters == 120 bits).
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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If they get that close to my computer, they might as well just pick it up and walk out the house with it.
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No mic or camera attached. No worries.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That is cool way for get data out of air-gapped PC, but what can be a target here? Their method requires so much access that the method itself is not necessary. So someone has to install the malware on that air-gapped PC (so direct access without audit) AND place listening device in the same room? That is pretty much compromised PC anyway.
Also good luck doing it on server rack with quite a few other cooling fans and blowing air conditioning
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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"no internet connection, camera or audio hardware"
Which means they have physical access and possibly administrative access, but then extract the data using a method which is extremely slow requires the receiver to be in close proximity.
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Early last month, Twitter user WalkingCat discovered that Microsoft had published listings for WordPad, XPS Viewer, Microsoft Character Map, and Windows Fax and Scan in the Windows Store. Great news for everyone waiting for the official Windows 10 version of WordPad
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Malware family packages a large number of exploits that give all-powerful root access. Android is the new Windows: argument #42
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Open source projects on GitHub come in all shapes and sizes, many are single-contributor 'solo' projects but others like Homebrew have upwards of 5000 contributors. What does open source look like at these different scales? Opening open source's source
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Evidence of health benefits from standing desks still slim, but walking is always good. How many calories do I burn hitting the snooze bar?
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Steve Jobs famously saw one and was inspired to create the Lisa, then the Mac. The mother of all GUIs
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Generating a sequence of random numbers may be more difficult than it sounds. Although the numbers may appear random, how do you know for sure that they don't actually follow some complex, underlying pattern? 1D20 ought to be enough for everyone
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Quote: 1D20 ought to be enough for everyone
Showing your AD&D roots there, Kent?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You betcha! 2nd Edition for the Win!
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 1D20
or ID10T
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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We crunched 351,799 job openings – Here are the languages you need to master to get them You never would have predicted the result from the website hosting the article
Yeah, sorry about that popup they inflict on you, just curse me and click "No Thanks"
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As you said a few posts earlier: "There are four kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, statistics, and product comparisons" 
Marc
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