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Comment Re:There is shortage of pay (Score 1) 137

by bjoast (#63943263) Attached to: What's Behind the Cybersecurity Jobs Shortage?
It's because low level SOC analysts are easy to find. They don't have to have a computer science background or even know that much about how a computer really works in order to do their job. They need only very basic understanding, and because there are a large number of people who want to get into computer security, because it's the hot thing right now, security companies will have an unending stream of future SOC analysts to pick from.
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Qualcomm Announces First-ever Mass-market RISC-V Android SoC (arstechnica.com) 17

Posted by msmash from the open-source-movement dept.
The Android ecosystem is hurtling toward a RISC-V future. From a report: The puzzle pieces for the up-and-coming CPU architecture started falling into place this past year when Google announced official RISC-V support in Android and plans to make it a "tier 1 platform" on equal footing with Arm. With the OS support underway, what we need now is hardware, and Qualcomm is stepping up to announce the first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC. It doesn't have a name yet, but Qualcomm says it's developing a "RISC-V Snapdragon Wear" chip in collaboration with Google. The company says it plans to "commercialize the RISC-V based wearables solution globally including the US." For Google and Qualcomm, this chip represents everyone's first swing at a commercial RISC-V Android project, and as far as we can tell, it's the first announced mass-market RISC-V Android chip ever. Qualcomm says the groundwork it and Google lay out "will help pave the way for more products within the Android ecosystem to take advantage of custom CPUs that are low power and high performance."

RISC-V represents a big threat to the Arm CPU architecture that currently dominates all mobile devices. RISC-V architecture is open source, which can make it cheaper and more flexible than Arm. If companies want to design their own chips, they can do that without paying a licensing fee to Arm. Since the architecture is open source, it's possible to create a fully open source chip. If you're a chip-design firm, you can make your own proprietary chip designs and license them, making you a competitor to Arm's chip-design business. RISC-V is also a way to sidestep all of the various problems with Arm.

Comment Bullshit (Score 5, Insightful) 114

[...] the government was not against encryption, and the access would only be requested as a last resort [...]

What is this bullshit they try to feed to the general public? Yes, the government is very much for encryption, as long as they can arbitrarily decrypt anything. If they can ask a messaging service for the plaintext contents of an encrypted message, the message is not really encrypted is it?

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