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Submission + - Why is Flash returning from the dead? (securityweek.com)

Sla$hPot writes: Recently for no apparent reason, Google forced Adobe Flash on all its Chrome users.
Disabling the Flash plug-in in Chrome is no longer possible.
Flash also looks as if it is winning the web streaming contest over HTML5.
It sure doesn't seem logical, since Flash is probably still the most exploited target.
https://www.recordedfuture.com...

Who want's to resurrect Flash?
What is going on?

Comment But why don't they eat their own ...food (Score 0) 89

The web page is based on old school HTML Java Script + some JQuery.
Judging by the video, it looks like they have created a machine learning tool that can recognize text and buttons.
And from that recreate the exact same, in this case bootstrap UI.
So you can create a mockup in lets say Axure or Indigo, then save it as a PNG file in order to interpret and recreate it.
Doesn't seem any special by todays technologies.
This is a UI generator that might get handy when it understands photos taken from a white board full of crazy doodles
But to create a program you also need to care about the business logic.
Try to dig out all kinds of domain specific junk from someones passive aggressive head just by looking at a picture.
That can be difficult.
Such details will be out of reach from most AI in the near future (+10 to 20 years).

The devil is in the details as they say.
So are we all going to end up as small back end devils then? when the all mighty AI have taken over the UI

Submission + - If current AI is equivalent to a 16 year old kid

Sla$hPot writes: How many years older will AI get each year?
How many years will it take before it's IQ has stagnated?
Which year will that be?
And how smart will it be by then?

Submission + - The "anti-patterns" that turned the IoT into the Internet of Shit (boingboing.net)

An anonymous reader writes: Junade Ali at Cloudflare presents a primer on "anti-patterns" that have transformed IoT devices into ghastly security nightmares.

This JSON request instructs the alarm clock on every “alarmSound” event to send a HTTP request to the coffee machine. Whilst this may seem a simple and effective way of implementing the Pub/Sub pattern in HTTP, this poses a significant security risk. By not being able to validate if the receiver of the subscribed message wants the message or not, there is effectively a DDOS vulnerability. An attacker with the ability to set subscriptions on the alarm clock can effectively send HTTP messages to any device or internet property they want. If this is done across enough devices, a DDOS vulnerability is created. Toast popping out of a toaster or a car driving across a road traffic sensor could be the trigger of a future large scale DDOS against a web property.

IoT Security Anti-Patterns [Junade Ali/Cloudflare] https://blog.cloudflare.com/io...

Comment Cut the SLS (Score 0) 115

Hand over the money to Musk.
He has already proved that he is able to deliver complex solutions ahead of everyone else.
And in no time.

"Congress took money from the commercial private space effort, delaying its progress, in order to throw more money at SLS/Orion."

What a bad judgement call.

Comment Now, who wouldn't see this happening? (Score 0) 251

A project like this could seriously make government spending more focused and more effective.
Where is the control with government spending today anyways?
Why does so many government projects fail?
Where does the money end up?

Well MS does get it's share no matter what.
But perhaps too much goes to wast in non-MS tech?

If MS can improve the overall spending I'm in.
I would love to see accountants, economists and other geeks tap into a public available datasources using Power BI and similar tools,
to create all kinds of reports and comparisons.
We also need to see who is conected to who, to get a picture of all the elegal bonds between the public and the private sector,
And also how family dominance, control this mashup of corrupt entaglements.

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