as someone who wrote their first program in fortran, in 1976, i have seen languages come and go, and the birth of C, Java and Python. I have seen/heard thousands of debates about which is the 'better' language, and the pros and cons. i also wrote a lot of assembly language programs in Z80, 6502 and x86. there are the 'real' programs. i am always bemused when high level language developers have no idea of a cpu instruction set, and argue among themselves about the best language. i tell them that they will be really disappointed to learn that cpu's don't care a toss about your code, compilers translate everything into machine code, and the same team who would be horrified to use a GOTO statement or equivalent, end up writing code with a lot of cpu JMP instructions. just saying.

Public confessions and show trials used to be something the west shunned. So it has come to this. It's a big mistake. The entire exercise was a small piece in a trade war: we can take your daughter if we want to. That was bad enough. But this?

the same reason that PKI hasnt taken off anywhere with the general public: they don't get it. when it's been tried, people lose their private certs when they swap devices, and get confusede. only IT people really use it. the best way forward i think is to have the private cert on a token or somethinbg like a yubikey: plug and play PKI.

"The hackers, most likely from a well-known group that's funded by the Chinese government". people are rightly skeptical of news sources these days, this isn't helping. would it have killed you to verify the information before posting? by all means report a hack,it's good information, but let's not go crazy and promote suspicions as fact. that's how these things start. how exactly are we identifying it was a chinese government source? as in, how?

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"No one is ever able to accurately describe what a piece of software should do before they see the piece of software"

where did you find the list of their customers?

Check the hardware specs on the TPC results page, the comparison is definitely not apples for apples. The oracle result is from a 2010 benchmark. Oracle: 1728 cores (SPARC T3 @ 1.65 GHz ) Cloudbase: 6720 cores (Intel Xeon Platinum 8163 @ 2.50GHz )

RSA is a cryptosystem based on an algorithm. As such, it is possible to criticize: (a) the algorithm itself (b) a particular implementation (c) examples of lazy attempts to use it. i assume the author is not claiming that finding the factors of the product of two large primes is easy, or that the algorithm is fundamentally flawed. so i think what he is really saying is...anyone?...bueller? ...actually i am not sure what his point is. but given that he has decided to write in a shock-jock advertising style, i am almost certain that he probably has one. it is true that like anything, you need to properly implement the system. but as the author points out...um...anyone?...bueller?... it's like saying that using random numbers in cryptography is "intrinsically fragile... containing countless foot-guns "; it's true that it's not trivial to generate random numbers. there are bad implementations and common faults. doesn't mean it's flawed. i will continue to use random numbers, and i will continue to mindfully use RSA.

agreed. journalism has great potential as a discipline. the weakness is that the media that journalists work for, can usually be bought by rich people who want to use the media for political purposes. we don't have a good answer to that yet.

journalism helped, but a newspaper could be bought at any time (murdoch, sky, fox anyone?) so trusting journalists was hit and miss for the novice. in practice we made our own judgements on which media we trusted and tended to bookmark that as our trusted source. even when reading our most trusted writer, we still need to read critically. that's my point: we should never look for the one true new source, or technical fixes; we need to have the skills to read and absorb all news critically.

Misinformation has been a problem since before humans could talk. The ancient Romans and Greeks were masters of oratory, persuasion and 'fake news'. Propaganda. Fascists, Trumps, Orwell. Technologies and Media channels will come and go. What to do? Stop complaining about the channel du jour, and learn to think clearly all by yourself. That way, if someone charming tells you to put your head in the oven, you will work out for yourself not to! It's liberating. If you don't know where to start, try reading Plato or Aristotle, or here's an excellent book: 'The Art of Thinking Clearly', by Rolf Dobelli. Or just read. Then ponder, analyze, think. But don't absorb information mindlessly and then say 'The author misled me'. You don't do it with ads, do you? Look at information as a an input, source, not as an automatic truth.

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agreed, it's also the muslim view, and that of many other long term civilizations.

an enterprise architect is violently different from a sysadmin. think skyscraper architect vs a particular carpenter on the building. an architect deals in patterns, modelling and a 5 year plan that is more aligned with business goals than with technology implementations. an EA has absolutely no need to login to production systems, and even if he were able to do, it would be evidence that no security architecture is in place. operations login to production systems, no one else. as you say, "I have been involved in a constant struggle with the core IT group over how to best run the operations.". you are seeking an operational management role, not an EA role.very different animals.