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Comment Re:Working with "DEF CON" (Score 3, Interesting) 9

Hello,

They likely already have them.

My local DEF CON group is composed mostly of active-duty military and defense contractors, many of whom have jobs that require TS/SCI and polygraph. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the discussions in the group revolve around getting CPEs and maintaining certifications.

This was a surprise to me when I started going to monthly meetings a couple of years ago, but in retrospect is probably more of the norm than an outlier: Hacking has gone from a niche subculture into a multi-billion dollar computer security industry, not just having to deal with 1980's cyberpunk threats like corporate espionage but a part of military doctrine for nation-states. It makes sense that the jobs, and the people who do them, followed those paths as well.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Comment Re:I'd be surprised if its only 2 (Score 1) 84

Oh my yes. This quote proudly displayed on Watts' own webpage is spot on:

Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts. —James Nicoll

By the way, you can legally get free copies of the Rifters trilogy (as well as Blindsight and a host of short stories and essays) directly from his website on the Backlist page here. Creative Commons licensed.

Just went there - Thank you sir!

Comment Re:Bugs (Score 1) 75

It *is* understandable. It's also a bar to understanding. (IIUC, the original computer bug was a moth.) But viruses are VERY different from bacteria. They're called bugs because they're all small and at a quick glance you don't even see them. (And entomologists don't even call beetles bugs. Bugs are hemiptera.)

Oh, that seems like thinking people believe that computer virus' are the same as biological virus'.

Kinda like people calling an attractive female a "hottie", but knowing she is the same actual temperature as all other women, unless she has a fever from some illness. From a bug maybe? 8^). This is really not that complicated, and other than people who feel that everything needs heavy categorization, it really is.

Comment Re:Who's providing the "incentive" to do this. (Score 1) 165

If you are treating Windows devices as much like chromebooks as possible (autopilot deploy into S-mode; fairly draconian setup) you can get away with not too much IT; but at that point you really have to ask yourself why you are using Windows devices. Most of the things you actually need windows for don't play all that well with that level of lockdown; and between chromebooks being cheap and defaulting to that level of lockdown without additional effort and the low end Apple stuff being nicer than wintel hardware that costs the same it's a bit tricky to make a strong case for running Windows systems as 'edgebooks'. You can; but it's not a super compelling option.

Definitely not compelling! I can't imagine the level of lockdown to get a W11 system to behave itself.

Yeah, Im still dealing with the Windows 11 apocalypse, messing with update breakdowns, and a worrying new trend - the damn computer is working then failing with no update taking place. One of the "fixes" involved setting up a non-internet connected network to run beside my normal network. But most people expect internet access these days.

Comment Re:Suggests abiogenesis is easy (Score 2) 84

At this rate we will end ourselves with AGW before we achieve AGI.

But if not that, it'll be nukes or biotech.

It's looking increasingly like the great filter is that ambition exceeds ability while ability also exceeds restraint, and at the same time, a species gains the ability to destroy itself. TBF our sample size is small, but it remains compelling...

Comment Re:Ivermectin is better (Score 1) 198

Hell, your parents were busing gene editing when you were conceived

Really? They were deliberately choosing genes? They selected them from a list? We usually only see that in science fiction, please provide more information on this amazing technological development!

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