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>>14041137, >>14041216, >>14041229, >>14041532 Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier. Rep. Jackie Speier
Jonestown? Concrete Blonde sang about that decades ago. Neat how we get the hints from our songs and films.
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>>14041159, >>14041215, >>14041237, >>14041324 Ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies
Fun to see the humor in things.
<"Wizard Spider" is name of criminal group,Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate
World Health Organization involved likely as well, therefore:
The WHO, "Boris the Spider"
Love the twists! :)
Yeah and now the CPU is the target. "Management Engine" yeah, who's being managed?
>if you expect to start with what currently exists (operating systems, standards, etc.), then you're fucked.
>the whole fucking tech industry needs to be discarded and rebuilt from scratch.
While true, much of it can migrate to whatever's new.
I.e., C or Perl can run on the new CPU, with a little effort, and then libraries written in those languages (I know Perl isn't compiled) can be quickly ported over.
Of course C is a "bad" example due to the number of exploits. Linux kernel's moving to Rust, in the early stages now.
Anyway you're right, there's a lot to be rebuilt – but not everything.
>I disagree, but that's a conversation for somewhere in the future.
Well, yeah.
I guess my point is, we still communicate using language. We still will, after we've won.
Once we rebuild the CPUs, we'll still talk to each other using language; we'll still talk to the CPUs using other languages.
Yeah, C is easily compromised. When it wasn't sufficient, they put Intel Inside the CPU.
So we have a dual-pronged approach: take Intel out of the CPU; and, make the software less compromise-prone, as well.
I expect to participate in at least some of this.
God bless.