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Lutha Mahtin posted:today is the first 0day of the rest of your life
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There have been like five or six separate incidents where financial firms were serving other people's data to them via some broken cache.
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May 25, 2019 10:58
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i accidentally did that at an old job (tho it was the "list previous purchases" page on an online music store, not anything actually important)
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May 25, 2019 12:32
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So NYT wrote this https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/us/nsa-hacking-tool-baltimore.html Nothing really new in here, except the surprisingly angry tone about how the NSA is completely unaccountable to anyone and out of control.
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May 25, 2019 22:57
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it's been 2 years. microsoft released patches for everything, even operating systems that had been EOL for years. how the gently caress are people still vulnerable to those nsa exploits.
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May 26, 2019 08:28
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Soricidus posted:it's been 2 years. microsoft released patches for everything, even operating systems that had been EOL for years. how the gently caress are people still vulnerable to those nsa exploits. 
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May 26, 2019 09:04
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Soricidus posted:it's been 2 years. microsoft released patches for everything, even operating systems that had been EOL for years. how the gently caress are people still vulnerable to those nsa exploits. would it surprise you to find out government it is not very good?
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May 26, 2019 14:10
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apparently I’m a hopeless optimist like I get that these organisations have poorly trained cjs trying to support terrible systems that are actively hostile to any kind of maintenance, but this set of exploits was literally front page headline news for months, surely this is the one instance where they might actually be expected to download the goddamn patch file and double click on the .exe to apply it
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May 26, 2019 15:00
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government IT system management begins and ends at the kickbacks the purchasers get
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May 26, 2019 15:15
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government it is at the whims of a budgetary process that literally cannot comprehend the idea of technical debt and compounding interest
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May 26, 2019 16:36
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Soricidus posted:it's been 2 years. microsoft released patches for everything, even operating systems that had been EOL for years. how the gently caress are people still vulnerable to those nsa exploits. the only person who installs the post-eol updates for windows xp pos ready is fishmech
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May 26, 2019 18:39
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Blinkz0rz posted:government it is at the whims of a budgetary process that literally cannot comprehend the idea of technical debt and compounding interest is this better or worse than most companies where it is just a cost center?
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May 26, 2019 19:31
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Boiled Water posted:is this better or worse than most companies where it is just a cost center? worse, because when it starts loving up a company will eventually do something. government will run it until it’s literally impossible to fix and then be offline for months while the elephantine procurement process begins.
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May 26, 2019 19:37
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Pryor on Fire posted:So NYT wrote this Lol don't blame the city gov for not properly segmenting admin roles and having lovely security and patching practices, blame the ~NSA~
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May 26, 2019 20:06
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a lot of politicians also use agency/department failures as a petty justification to shift budget toward their pet projects, or to gin up "government bad" sentiment, and so on
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May 26, 2019 20:06
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ewiley posted:Lol don't blame the city gov for not properly segmenting admin roles and having lovely security and patching practices, blame the ~NSA~ I'm not even sure if I'm being sarcastic here, either, TBQH
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May 26, 2019 20:06
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Lutha Mahtin posted:a lot of politicians also use agency/department failures as a petty justification to shift budget toward their pet projects, or to gin up "government bad" sentiment, and so on Isn’t that standard practice? run on a government bad platform, defund various departments until they start to mess up. Then reinforce re-election pointing out just how bad the government is based on those failings. Keep repeating and bringing in those sweet sweet campaign contributions.
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May 26, 2019 22:10
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obviously we need to replace everything with public/private partnerships
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May 26, 2019 22:13
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my state legislature & governor just finished hammering out the state budget for the next two years. i noticed this choice quote from an extremely smart boy who serves in the minnesota house: https://blogs.mprnews.org/capitol-view/2019/05/legislature-passes-48-billion-budget-ends-special-session/ quote:During the House debate of the agriculture bill, Republican Rep. Jeremy Munson, R-Lake Crystal, objected to its $40 million allocation for rural broadband expansion.
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May 26, 2019 22:22
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Varkk posted:Isn’t that standard practice? run on a government bad platform, defund various departments until they start to mess up. Then reinforce re-election pointing out just how bad the government is based on those failings. Keep repeating and bringing in those sweet sweet campaign contributions. that is how neoliberalism destroys democracies, yes
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May 27, 2019 06:16
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ewiley posted:Lol don't blame the city gov for not properly segmenting admin roles and having lovely security and patching practices, blame the ~NSA~ yep you can blame the nsa for like the first 6 months, but after 2 years it's just another windows patch and the origin doesn't matter
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May 27, 2019 17:09
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Cocoa Crispies posted:the only person who installs the post-eol updates for windows xp pos ready is fishmech loved his screenshot LP of this!
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May 27, 2019 17:12
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Subjunctive posted:loved his screenshot LP of this! “their” iirc
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May 27, 2019 18:21
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Lutha Mahtin posted:my state legislature & governor just finished hammering out the state budget for the next two years. i noticed this choice quote from an extremely smart boy who serves in the minnesota house: quote:Republican House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt complained about the closed-door negotiations that led to the special session. He said the process was severely flawed and called the entire 2019 session a failure. gently caress you kurt daudt
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May 27, 2019 20:37
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Meanwhile in Colorado we just made it illegal to preempt local municipal broadband and capped the price of insulin per month and legalized mushrooms so enjoy your slow death conservative midwest states 
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May 27, 2019 22:16
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looks like email scammers are trying a new tactic: a scam within a warning about a scam. i think that's what he's getting at anyway.quote:
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May 27, 2019 22:55
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firefox-as-news-aggregator is annoying but occasionally it pulls out a plum https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-23/expats-millions-in-life-savings-disappear-from-mexican-accounts quote:In late December, Kathy Machir called Marcela Zavala Taylor, her banker of nine years at Mexico’s Monex Casa de Bolsa, to get cash for contractors building her retirement home in San Miguel de Allende. Typically, Zavala would wire money or dispatch her assistant, Juan, on his motorcycle with an envelope full of pesos. Monex, with $5.2 billion in assets and operations in the U.S., was woven into the lives of Machir and the 10,000 other Americans who’ve moved to San Miguel de Allende. el banco de llomarf
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May 28, 2019 13:52
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the only reason to have a Mexican bank account as a primary account with that much money in it as an American is if you’re dodging taxes or are laundering money
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May 28, 2019 14:11
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BIGFOOT EROTICA posted:the only reason to have a Mexican bank account as a primary account with that much money in it as an American is if you’re dodging taxes or are laundering money it sounds like they're dodging taxes and building a retirement house in mexico so they can live cheaper and also dodge taxes
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May 28, 2019 14:46
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funnily enough, some of those taxes probably help organize and operate the fdic shame about that, really
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May 28, 2019 14:49
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Beamed posted:gently caress you kurt daudt the process was pretty bad and may be the reason insulin prices weren't capped I've been wondering for a while now if selling a dumbed down git clone to legislatures to handle what are effectively giant merge conflicts would be a good business or if they'd just stubbornly refuse to do it electronically
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May 28, 2019 14:51
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the fdic is funded not by taxes but by charging premiums to participating banks so unfortunately there is less irony than there could have been
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May 28, 2019 14:53
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Munkeymon posted:the process was pretty bad and may be the reason insulin prices weren't capped it's called blockchain
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May 28, 2019 14:58
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haveblue posted:the fdic is funded not by taxes but by charging premiums to participating banks so unfortunately there is less irony than there could have been ah, my mistake
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May 28, 2019 15:01
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Munkeymon posted:the process was pretty bad and may be the reason insulin prices weren't capped is it stubbornness if they're all 80 and don't know how to use a computer
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May 28, 2019 15:09
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Munkeymon posted:the process was pretty bad and may be the reason insulin prices weren't capped there's been a few places that have tried that and it seems to have worked out well, it just requires people younger than dirt to be in power
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May 28, 2019 15:15
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:looks like email scammers are trying a new tactic: a scam within a warning about a scam. i think that's what he's getting at anyway. Nigerian bank scammers using segmented marketing aimed at their core demographic of people who are currently entangled in a Nigerian bank scam
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May 28, 2019 16:38
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Munkeymon posted:the process was pretty bad and may be the reason insulin prices weren't capped yeah it's nice that they got the budget done but it was more than just noted dingus kurt daudt and master grifter tom bakk who were complaining about it. a lot of budget items were scrapped or changed with basically no explanation. one item that i heard about was a mental health diversion program for returning soldiers that was projected to SAVE money and it was taken out of the budget for  reasonsin relevant news it looks like they finally got that money approved to beef up state election security. the secretary of state said he has a bunch of stuff ready to go so hopefully all of that can get done before primary season next year Lutha Mahtin fucked around with this message at 18:31 on May 28, 2019 |
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May 28, 2019 18:29
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-military-to-replace-windows-os-amid-fears-of-us-hacking/quote:The decision, while not made official through the government's normal press channels, was reported earlier this month by Canada-based military magazine Kanwa Asian Defence. yaaaass yaaaasss
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but red star is right there...
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