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Comment Re:No real repercussions, no incentive. (Score 1) 101

In mainstream corporations none of this is going to happen until security issues impact the bottom line. And then it will be corps typical approach, of addressing specific instances. The military too, Adobe and Windows are used all over the place.

Mainstream corporations..What corporation does not use computer's , phones, or networks Candy Land?

Comment Re:is there anyone who takes the opposite position (Score 1) 101

I am a geek so, yesterday's revelations did not surprise me, because this kinda bullshit has gone for years now and I assumed all of the "hulla-balloo" that went viral were from people that have never gone on the internet or used a cell phone or have not taken a high school history course or have any knowledge of WW II. The buzz created yesterday was quite un-nerving to me because I never assumed that so many people were oblivious to this. I.T students run sortware, (I would imagine) like PRISM for learning networking purposes and I still use diagnostic tools that is open-source. I can see why people are so outraged beacause at the government does not help matter's given the verbage ie:(cyber-attacker/ national security) if I did not know binary..would comming off like and the So many I could not imagine life without the use of phones, computers and the internet and how my day which and how that how it relates same token I can how adversely see how So much of today's and how that can alter peoples .Cell Phoes l ivelyhood, freedom .. Anything engineered has potential by man can also be reverse-engineered by man I wished to God, people ...it is just the way it is If only people could understand It is so un-nerving to me as to how un-educated people are and how sc am so bothered that is quite bothersome to me as to the l am a little unnerved Without getting dramatic Artificial Intelligence goes both ways and can altel help people relieze understand how many levels the "big picture". ( as to what the security, privacy, economic landscape year 2013 and h

Comment Re:So start demanding changes. (Score 1) 101

First off, demand that every software vendor provide a list of files that their product installs, where those files are installed by default and different checksums/hashes/etc for them.

It should be possible to boot a machine with a live CD (or PXE) and inventory every single file on that machine and identify the origin of each of them.

At least you'd know whether a machine was cracked or not.

Right now, with existing anti-virus, all you can say is that a machine does not have anything that matches the signatures that you have right now.

My days would be much simpler if all dev's turned out software that is hospital grade. I am not real sure about the point Khasim is making, most software and driver's are digitally signed. True, zero-day attacks are more frequent these days however, I believe that is more related to streaming media that is harder for AV software to track because of torrents and proxies and embedded and gets de-ciferd "on the fly".

Comment Re:Because... (Score 1) 101

The internet is complete anarchy and given the fact that business is conducted globally, hardening the security landscape is daunting..pointing the finger at the government, being a capitalist society rather than businesses collectively working towards some set of standards and hold those accountable who bring harm to the info-structure.as weaken the economy. Lastly, the US has to protect it's interests...and if that means waging a cyber war against rogue nations, so be it. "All's fair in love and in war..bitches".

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