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Comment Re:Doesn't look like it was canceled or defunded. (Score 1) 40

>> "Funding agreements are still making their way through DHS processes and our work with CISA expired last Sunday,"

> So, it's tied up in red tape at the moment. Nothing in the article said the program was cancelled, just that there's bureaucratic BS to go through.

Never let the truth get in the way of pushing a biased agenda.

Comment You had me going there for a minute ;) (Score 1) 57

> China has mastered the ability to move undetected through networks of compromised U.S. devices, so that the final connection to a target appears to be an ordinary domestic connection.

> That makes it easy to get around technology that blocks overseas links and puts it outside the purview of the National Security Agency, which by law must avoid scrutinizing most domestic transmissions ..

Comment Bill Gates on StarOffice patent violations (Score 4, Informative) 83

From: Bill Gates
Sent: Monday, December 07 1998 8:28 PM
To: Jon DeVann; Steven Sinofsky; Bill Neukom (LCA)
Cc: John Mason (LCA)
Subject: FW: free desktop suite from star

Importance: Low

Attorney client privileged

An Interesting development...

At some point we will have to consider the patents they violate.

Comment Chinese hacking phones :o (Score 1) 40

Apple exploit .. uses hardware memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) registers to bypass the Page Protection Layer (PPL).

These undocumented MMIO registers .. allowed manipulation of the iPhone’s memory in ways that circumvented Apple’s security mechanisms, such as pointer authentication codes and kernel protections.

Comment Disaster futures are now a thing :o (Score 1) 19

> Polymarket, the decentralized, blockchain-powered prediction market

Sound a lot like the Policy Analysis Market (PAM), proposed by DARPA in 2003. This was subsequently withdrawn because of public and political backlash. There's also the danger of people manufacturing disasters after putting on a large bet.

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