...then Alexa will make your vacuum cleaner trip you on the stairs

Maybe don't point it at the sticky notes on your screen or the bottom of your keyboard

To be honest, listening to Bank of America when they tell you to install their phone app and connect it to your accounts is really not the smartest thing to do either. A phone app should only see credit cards where you will not be held liable for false charges you report. Never an ATM card attacked to check or savings, or checking and savings themselves. And when only doing such credit cards you should really be using something like Apple or Google Wallet where there is some additional protection and an indirect connection to your bank, making the bank's own app unnecessary, and one less point of attack.

So change the coding interview to match what they will do on the job. If they aren't going to turn a requirement described in natural language into code that implements and tests that requirement, the test them on their ability to review a code implementation and the set of corresponding tests. The latter can provide some of the struggle they need to learn. And how well their code review goes can help distinguish between those that know more from those that know less. Those that actually debigged agentic code and those that just trust agentic code.

Or they just test the candidates using something other than a coding challenge.

The only sane way to do it is with a service like Plaid that tightly (and deterministically) controls what all any automated systems can do. Plaid is also jointly owned by many of the banks raising a red flag here.

Finally, good advice from too-big-to-fail banks. ;-)

You always have been.

I'll quote your domestic partner:

What would you even do with money? I've already stumbled across you before -- you're that guy who lives behind the carl's jr dumpster. I almost peed on you last weekend when the diner was closed and there weren't any other bathrooms around. The only place to go was your domicile and I didn't notice you were even there until you rolled over in your sleep. If you did that only a second later, you'd have woken up wondering why you're all wet when it hasn't been raining.

Our system of checks and balances has so far proven to be pretty resilient. You guys come and go, but after 250 years you've never succeeded at killing millions through either direct executions or starvation, or both, and not for a lack of trying. In fact, you never even make it anywhere close. Which one were you part of, by the way? Were you a weatherman? The family? Or perhaps ALF? Either way, you guys were the most active when the soviets were at their peak.

Nope. Business school is a graduate school. These people have both a Bachelors degree, 60% is a STEM field, plus some real world job experience.

Degree plus work experience is what is meant by "a background".

Nope. Not at the bachelor's level. The deep dive is for graduate school, MBA programs excluded (they are surveys of all the major fields of large organizations).

Nope. In business school getting separated into groups is for the permanent team assignments. With 5-6 person teams there is usually barely enough accounting background folks for one on each team. You see business school is very team oriented. Besides team projects a person with expertise in a given area is supposed to tutor teammates that are having problems with the material. So this distribution of backgrounds across the teams, at least one each of accounting, management, and STEM creates are broad enough set of capabilities for tutoring within the team.

Nope. The word "allegedly" means there is no evidence. Thank you for proving my point.

Most of them are divers.

ICMP exists for a reason: It's useful. All of the header flags are. They have a purpose. They're not just there because somebody just felt like putting them there. They're not inherently insecure. There is no reason why "more people" should do that, unless, like you, they're all just fucking retarded. In fact, it's exceedingly rare there's *any* good reason to. This is me wearing both my cybersecurity engineer hat and my network engineer hat. The primary "good" reason to is counter-surveillance, which you don't even need most of the time, especially if you're already listening on very common service ports, which are far more useful for surveillance than sending an echo request, fiddling with TTL, etc. Especially on public networks, where the better tool is often just a looking glass.

If I'm red-teaming, I can do all of the probing I need without even using ICMP at all. More than likely I won't even reach for ICMP, because not only is it better to just look like normal traffic, ICMP generally tells me nothing about the software stack or the attack surface.

As I've already told you, repeatedly: Stay in poo lane. I'll let you know when there's a clogged toilet that you can drink clear.

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Anthropic is simply really, really good at producing these little gems. They've learned the art of getting free advertising. Google hasn't done quite so well with Google Meet. Maybe they should take a cue from Anthropic, and release a statement to the press talking about how dangerous Google Meet is.

Not at all. I know I'm better than you because instead of dedicating my life to what history shows is an ideology with a 100% failure rate and, based on that ideology, spending my days stewing on about people I don't even know simply because of arbitrary numbers I pulled out of my ass, I picked up hobbies. Two of these hobbies, namely computer security and software development, turned into a job. I didn't intend for that to happen, but it did anyway. People like you complain about how jobs like mine require an expensive degree, business/social connections, and belong to a certain age group, characteristics of which I have exactly none. No luck or anything like that required, just application. This job has lead to a few other hobbies, like scuba and building stuff in CAD before 3d printing it and adding circuitry.

Either way, you've chosen to define your life around what other people have, and you do not. So, you comfort yourself by calling yourself a rebel as if it makes your more outspoken insecurities not matter, even though you feel them all the same. All I'm doing is jamming my thumb into that sore spot every time you spout self-comforting nonsense, for the edutainmentz. You know what's more hilarious? The things your ideology tells you is virtuous, things like having a low carbon footprint, I'm also better than you at.