Comment Re:ICREACH? (Score 1, Insightful) 207
ICyREACH. I predict it will have a chilling effect on free speech, etc
Then girls think, "maybe I don't belong because I don't love them like the boys do."
And they'd be right. Why do they belong at a company passionate about technology if they aren't passionate about technology?
If people only did what they were passionate about, civilization would collapse. If these girls would be good at CS, they shouldn't give up just because of some lack of self-confidence ("I'm not passionate, so I'll fail").
FTFA (w/emphasis mine): When a South Carolina student was given an assignment by his teacher to create a Facebook-type status report telling something interesting about himself
Huh. Then he was following the rules of the assignment. Facebook statuses are mostly fiction, and some are fantasy.
We should ban pens and paper so it doesn't happen again.
"Oh no! He typed 'pens and paper!' When will they stop?!?"
I hate to be an advocate for security through obscurity, but I figured these things would be ultra super restricted, and "laboratory tests" would be irrelevant because they had access to a device that attackers do not have access to.
"The system's designers seem to have assumed that attackers would not have access to a Secure 1000 to test and refine their attacks'"said Hovav Shacham, a professor of computer science at UC San Diego.
And yet these machines are in public places. If the attacks involve wifi, they're available for pen testing by bad guys. For the low tech smuggling techniques, they're not just available for testing; they're foisted upon anyone with a ticket. If you have more manpower and money than scruples, you can send tester after tester through with items and figure out the ways to get through.
Gee, I don't like Micro$oft as much as the next Linux Zealot, but let's be fair here... M$ is darned if they do and darned if they don't.
Unless you said the bolded portion gleefully while grinning and rubbing your hands together, you don't really hate Microsoft as much as the next Linux Zealot.
Why do it to a file and not to the block device itself?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
(I can never remember the argument for setting the block size.)
the block size setting is a lot of bs. (bs=)
You can't be guaranteed to escape a kernel panic or general screwiness when the system tries to use swap space or access a file. That's why I suggested a "run from RAM" distro.
Also dd dead stops if it hits a bad block. You're better off using shred or ddrescue to overwrite stuff when going directly to device.
You can target other partitions like say,
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
