The people openly supporting this are the current Board of Directors. They are attempting to consolidate their power by implementing a system in which the outgoing Board picks the incoming Board. The Board does not post any of the minutes of their Board meetings. They do not post copies of any of the policies. When folks have asked for copies of the minutes, they were told it is the policy of the organization not to post those. When asked to see a copy of that policy, they have responded that it is policy of the organization not to share copies of the policies. In other words, "we the Board will do whatever the heck we feel like doing, and you petty members can go sit in a corner and color." (How's that for a polite phrasing of what I was really thinking?)

All ISC2 members need to vote against this proposal, and also sign the petition at https://jsweb.net/isc2

Well, in real games, a the person attacking will attempt to avoid creating a stalemate since that is just a draw, and they would rather win. With this change a rule giving the attacker a win for a stalemate, there is no longer a reason to avoid that situation.

I think it was pretty clear that the attacks was a change to the firmware of the charger. So, if the firmware of the charge cannot be changed, that would preclude the attack.

From the article - "The bad news is that the research team also analyzed 34 fast-charging chips, around which the fast charger models had been built. Researchers said that 18 chip vendors did not ship chips with a firmware update option, meaning there was no way to update the firmware on some fast charger chips." I'm confused. Why is this bad news? If you can't update the firmware, the attack doesn't work. To me, that is good news.

PayPal announced they are closing their Hunt Valley, MD office as well, laying off about 300 people.

I got out of implementation when OOP became the in thing. So much extra crap in the libraries that you don't even know is there. It's no wonder you need 16GB of RAM these days. I wonder how many of today's programmers could implement an interrupt handler if they had to? I wonder if they even know that's what their OnEvent calls use?

BASIC
FORTRAN IV - 77
C
PASCAL
PL/I
Assembler (68000 series, 6502/65816 series)
Perl

Or, since they would all look similar and not stand out from the norm, you'd probably not even notice.

The National Communications System, which was part of DISA in the late 1990's, along with the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), proposed this way back then. The NCS is now part of DHS. Whatever happened to that 20 year old proposal and similar ones since that this has still not been established?

Forty years ago IBM solved the problem of getting rid of people it didn't want anymore by moving them to another office, sometimes far from where they were currently located. Some people accepted this and ended up being moved to a new office every 2 or 3 years like a military brat. Many people refused and then were laid off for refusing the new assignment. In many circles working for IBM meant "I've Been Moved." I wonder why they forgot about that strategy?

Too bad Foster Brooks is no longer available to test this AI.

Brian Krebs reported on this a week ago, and then followed up with another story about how attempting to report more of them was rebuffed.