If you use a general purpose Linux distro which pulls from somewhere else (and they all pull from somewhere else) then you’ve experienced it when you tried to file a bug. Tickets file against Linux distros fall into two primary categories. Let it rot until it can be closed due to no longer supported version Flag it closed and tell the user to report it “upstream.” Today’s rant is about the second category because it … The GDPR and Linux DistrosRead more
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You Are the Security Breach
If you are using XML, JSON, or the other trendy free text data transmission formats loved by script kiddies, you are the security breach. It’s possible your company doesn’t know it yet, but they will. Seriously people, I’ve seen XML doing this: <ssn>123-45-6789</ssn> How about JSON doing this? { “firstName”: “John”, “lastName”: “Smith”, “ssn”: “123-45-6789”, Laugh all you want, script kiddies code systems up like this all the time. They never went to school for … You Are the Security BreachRead more
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This Labor Day We Can Thank United Steelworkers
Congress has been too busy taking bribes to do anything about the H-1B loop hole or the mass replacement of U.S. IT workers with much lower paid H-1B visa workers. Worse yet how this oppression helps turn otherwise good people into people with terrorist sympathies. They work each day making $60K or less right beside people who are making $160K or more doing the same job. The visa workers who are salaried also end up … This Labor Day We Can Thank United SteelworkersRead more
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Human Trafficking – Information Technology’s Dirty Little Secret
Rather than cutting and pasting an article I wrote on another site, I’m just going to include a link to the article of same name an ask you to sign the petition.
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The Fight for Net Neutrality
Rather than cut and paste to share I will share this via a link. We are looking at the Savings and Loan scandal all over again. Deregulation creates arch criminals like Jamie Dimon and Mr. Stumpf.