The GSA should be held accountable for the solarwinds123 fiasco. They have sat on their hands for years spending billions (trillions?) and not really taking their supply chain seriously. Also worthy of mention is the NTIA's Software Transparency initiative:
https://www.ntia.doc.gov/Softw...
You can get a pdf of the south expo floor plan here:
https://www.rsaconference.com/...
Exabeam booth was #555
So the adjacent booths may be part of the RSA coronavirus cluster:
Unisys, Thycotic, KnowBe4, Signal Sciences, Siemplify, were all within about 15 to 25 feet of the Exabeam booth.
Knowing whether the infection spread from that both is now just a waiting game.
The iota enumerator in Golang is elegant and unique. Writing idiomatic Golang code is so implicit in the language itself that I've been able to easily read almost any Go code I find.
If you're building services that still require "regular maintenance windows" in 2014, you're doing it wrong.
This is a really nice sentiment but is in fact somewhat disconnected from reality.
In the web world, building zero downtime services that don't require maintenance is doable. In many enterprise IT environments with legacy or bloated software (hospitals, education, government) it's a non-starter. The staff do not have the skill, the applications don't have the support, and the political will within the organization is not there. Database migrations alone can be a major source of downtime, and that's largely true even for web services.
Puppet is a great tool for automation but does not solve problems like patching and rebooting systems without downtime.
Yup. Very dependent on the business, the application, the usage patterns, etc.
The right answer to this is to have redundant systems so you can do the work during the day without impacting business operations.
Yep, pretty much this. For me it was a bit later - 1980 - but we had a C64 in the house and my Dad was in a club that talked about them. He showed me some simple BASIC and set me on the track at an early age.
....find another client.
The real value here is it enables much more granular logging.
I object to this article, however, on grounds that this is not news. It's a press release, and crap like this is why I only visit slashdot every few months any more.
Come up with a few simple programming projects that students can run through. There's something magical about writing code and seeing the computer execute exactly what you told it to do. Write a Ruby Sinatra or Python Flask app and show how to access it from the command line. This will teach them what a web server is and how to write simple code at the same time.
Wish this had made the real news. We know this sort of thing happens, but airline industries are highly effective at having this never reach public discussion.
So... "fun gimmick, or a serious commentary on an increasingly surveillance based society?"
Really?
How about both. Are having a sense of humor and making a serious comment mutually opposed? Slashdot deserves better.
This android app (currently under development for iOS) is open source (github.com/surespot) and gaining momentum. "Exceptional encryption for everyone."
Disclaimer: I know the developer.
Not 100% sure this is WebKit-free. On MacOSX there's still a reference to webkit in the UserAgent string as: "AppleWebKit" anyway.
Thus spake the master programmer: "When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
