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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2323351 | Jan 30 01:32 |
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| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Microsoft -- like Novell in 2008 -- is a sinking ship. It's time to concentrate on #apple #swpats #fogcomputing #dmca and other threats. | Jan 30 01:32 |
| schestowitz | "Restricted boot is still doing a great deal of damage to the traditional personal computer. I documented a trip to Best Buy here, https://plus.google.com/u/0/113579520393333767984/posts/EzPJoPRrQwh " | Jan 30 01:32 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Will Hill - Google+ - A Very Disappointing Vsit to +Best Buy Don't let anyone… .::. Size~: 245.2 KB | Jan 30 01:32 |
| schestowitz | It's not over till the fat lady sings | Jan 30 01:34 |
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| schestowitz | > On one of the EU message boards there is this line: | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > "The big message was that cybersecurity is a matter | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > that cannot be left to the technical people. It is a | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > matter for board levels." | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > http://www.commentneelie.eu/speech.php?sp=SPEECH/13/51 | Jan 30 18:30 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Comment Neelie on SPEECH/13/51 - EU Cybersecurity Strategy .::. Size~: 11.39 KB | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > I am thinking of making the comment below. Do you have any suggestions | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > on what to change or mention in my comment? | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > With one caveat this line is spot on. As Albert Einstein once said, "we | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > created them." The caveat is this, while some technical people should | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > be excluded from future deliberations, some non-technical people should | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > also be excluded. These are anyone that has played a role in | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > supporting, deploying, promoting, or developing Microsoft products has | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > been an ongoing part of the problem and is thereby incapable of positive | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > contributions in the area of digital security. Getting rid of Microsoft | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > products alone won't make secure systems but it is an essential first | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > step which cannot be skipped. This is as much a staffing problem as a | Jan 30 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > technical problem and means that some people and groups need be removed | Jan 30 18:31 |
| schestowitz | > or circumvented for progress to be made. It will take strong nerve and | Jan 30 18:31 |
| schestowitz | > deliberation to stand up to them as they have been used to having power | Jan 30 18:31 |
| schestowitz | > for so long. | Jan 30 18:31 |
| schestowitz | That sounds good to me :-) | Jan 30 18:31 |
| schestowitz | > Here's what I finally wrote, I had to make a throw-away twitter | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > account to even log in. The reason that there are so few comments is | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > that the login process also delivers your followings and followers. | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > With one caveat, this line is spot on. As Albert Einstein once said, | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > "we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > we created them." The caveat is this, while some technical people | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > should be excluded from future deliberations, some non-technical people | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > should also be excluded. These are anyone that has played a role in | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > supporting, deploying, promoting, or developing Microsoft products has | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > been an ongoing part of the problem and is thereby incapable of positive | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > contributions in the area of digital security. Getting rid of Microsoft | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > products alone won't make secure systems but it is an essential first | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > step which cannot be skipped. Ken Thompson in his 1984 paper | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > "Reflections on Trusting Trust" showed conclusively and with finality | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > that open systems are an essential pre-requisite for computer security. | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > This is also as much a staffing problem as a technical problem and means | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > that some people and groups need be removed or circumvented for progress | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > to be made. It will take strong nerve and deliberation, more than was | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > shown a few years ago, to stand up to them as they have been used to | Jan 30 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > having power for so long. | Jan 30 19:02 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2327854 | Jan 31 01:44 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Mozilla Redically Changes Approach to Handling #Firefox Extensions http://ostatic.com/blog/mozilla-redically-changes-approach-to-handling-firefox-extensions#buzz | Jan 31 01:44 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: Mozilla Redically Changes Approach to Handling Firefox Extensions | OStatic .::. Size~: 11.89 KB | Jan 31 01:44 |
| schestowitz | "I always use to click-to-play. When restoring a session, stops all the youtube pages starting to play at the same time:)" | Jan 31 01:44 |
| schestowitz | "Better, much better." | Jan 31 01:44 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2328609 | Jan 31 22:02 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: #Penguin #tux #linux | Jan 31 22:02 |
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| schestowitz | "Yeah check out the chics coz the chicas without us got no Boom" | Jan 31 22:02 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2329181 | Jan 31 22:02 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Defence bets big on Linux http://www.itnews.com.au/News/330612,defence-bets-big-on-linux.aspx "Pulls over 1000 systems onto #Linux servers." | Jan 31 22:02 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: Defence bets big on Linux - Hardware - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au .::. Size~: 125.19 KB | Jan 31 22:02 |
| schestowitz | "Honestly the worst news for peace ever heard. The military moving to a reliable system." | Jan 31 22:02 |
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