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What percent of those 'legacy systems' could continue on long into the future if the software running them was updated? My guess is it would cost a LOT less to do that coding work and share it than it would to replace those systems. Obsolescence by design makes me angry, and is sickening knowing the state of the world right now.
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Maybe I incorrectly assumed that the software, more so than the hardware, was the problem. The budget for replacing hardware should be fairly predictable, but initiatives to rewrite legacy software are often debacles. You should see what happened when the Canadian federal government decided to overhaul its payroll system, and that's penny ante compared to some US Department of Offense fiascos.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but my guess is that it is mainly caused by older systems that can't run anything newer than Windows XP. If the underlying OS was updated without forcing obsolescence of the hardware, than a majority of the software systems you are talking about could continue running. (Unless the non-OS programs are inherently insecure themselves, which may be the case, and I would be wrong.)
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Most cases involved snooping on other people and handing over data to third parties. Just?
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mmmm.... I think I am lost.
Kent Sharkey wrote: Most cases involved snooping on other people and handing over data to third parties. Is that not Google's usual business?
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Oh, my. How did I not get that one? Thank you for your brilliance.
TTFN - Kent
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You are welcome.
And thank you
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While some organizations such as Google and Microsoft want to kill off passwords, it's not an easy task considering that it's a traditional form of authentication used heavily by almost all online services. Boris is {you pick the third one}
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passwordpasswordpassword it is then.
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The worst BJ.
(That was a placard someone was holding up in a demonstration against Boris Johnson. I saw a photo of that.)
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Battery Horse Incorrect.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Boris is {you pick the third one}
Good thing they didn't recommend 4 words. Half the country using "Bojo the _ clown" would be even worse.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Quote: While some organizations such as Google and Microsoft want to kill off passwords, On my work laptop I was recently invited to choose a pin instead of a password, because "it is more secure".
But there was a tick-box option to include letters and symbols in my "pin".
I'm pretty sure that makes it a "password", or am I missing something
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WebAssembly Support for SQLite and Erik Sink’s SQLitePCL.raw has been present in Uno Platform for quite some time now, when running under the mono runtime but .NET 5+ support was missing. The database that runs everywhere meets the platform that runs everywhere
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The web is a landfill of accumulated, unmaintained and often bafflingly bad code. And yet it works. Old enough to know better
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Kent Sharkey wrote: accumulated, unmaintained and often bafflingly bad code
Could have just used the work 'Legacy' or was that last week's buzzword.
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Of the vulnerabilities disclosed in 2021, 1,425 are remotely exploitable and have a public exploit as well as a mitigating solution while nearly 900 vulnerabilities that are remotely exploitable do not have a mitigating solution at all. "Gotta catch em all"
The top vendor by vulnerability disclosures may not surprise you.
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Computer scientists have detailed ways in which AI language systems – including some in production – can be hoodwinked into making bad decisions by text containing unseen Unicode characters If bad decissions came only due to Unicode...
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The bug has to do with how net treats IP addresses as decimal, even when they are provided in a mixed (octal-decimal) format.
Consequently, applications relying on net could be vulnerable to indeterminate Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and Remote File Inclusion (RFI) vulnerabilities.
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Rust language users should be using version 1.53.0 or above that contains the mitigations for this vulnerability. At least this time it was published after there was a solution for the problem.
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To quote Kurt Vonnegut:
Quote: Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust
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Historian Andy Saunders has sifted through 35,000 NASA images and spent the last few years remastering photos from the Apollo missions as a personal project, culminating in a book titled "Apollo Remastered" set to be released in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the lunar mission. Why does the metadata say, "Shot on iPhone"?
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I'd be more interested in the geolocation data - relative to the Earth, or to the Moon?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Online resources are increasingly becoming the way that new developers learn. Video killed the article writing star
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