Comment: Ignoring present trends....... (Score 1) 352
Didn't he recently say the US won't have an African American president any time soon?
Didn't he recently say the US won't have an African American president any time soon?
Anyone can write code, but not everyone has the ability to think outside of the box. Brain teasers are probably a great way to weed out those that aren't creative, provided you follow them up with questions showing they know how to do the job.
I serriously doubt Google doesn't follow up with relevant skill questions. Fail the brain teaser first; you save interviewers time, and leave no question to why you didn't get the job.
Recent versions allow quarenting on behaviors, like flashxxx.ocx tries to write to c:\windows\.... Figure out the function hook, and you can bypass these actions before they occur.
In addition, any encryption keys embedded would be fair game. possibly allowing to impersonate a live update server.
Reasons it's not relevant:
Any decent virus writer has disassembled it more than a Jetta in your average chop shop.
Corporate IT departments rarely read Vendor best practices and miss the boat on writing to system directories, registries, and other common ways to infect a machine.
Impersonating/Man in the middle attempts with encryption keys are a PITA to employe, more effort than anyone skimming account numbers would care to carry out. Now targeted attacks are another story.
# This part slows down the computer if the license is not renewed
Nah. That would indicate they wrote it in Perl, and perl is fast at finding things. Oh wait, it could also mean TCL.....
Amen, but if you are developing the application, encrypting the data stored in the DB is a must and in some cases a requirement for PII.
It's probably just as if not more important as sanitizing input and keeping an OS up to date because you don't know who in tech support will have access, and where they store the backups.
Ask and it shall be given, for an extra 10 mil.
And to think I thought virtualization was going to take off.
You will be run over by a bus.