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| Buriedcode:
--- Quote from: wraper on December 21, 2022, 10:35:59 am ---...secondly Spacex and Tesla make their own very complicated software. .. --- End quote --- Of which he had nothing to do with. CEO's do not make engineering decisions, if they do - they shouldn't be CEO. |
| MT:
--- Quote from: wraper on December 21, 2022, 03:52:24 pm ---Musk found out Twitter was scammed for $60 million per year. https://www.benzinga.com/amp/content/30156187 --- Quote ---Musk said that there are telecom operators who are not being "super honest" and are "gaming the system" to run two-factor authentication, or 2FA, SMS texts "over and over again." He added they created a zillion bot accounts to run up the tabs. Musk told the team to cut off telecom operators with fraud above 10%, which "turned out to be 390 telcos" outside North America. --- End quote --- --- Quote ---"We are going back to telcos," said Musk, adding that Twitter told operators, "if you stop scamming us, then we'll gladly pay you some amount of the money." He said, "We'll pay 10% of the fraud, it's fine, but we won't pay 90% fraud." --- End quote --- --- End quote --- Yet this fly to Mars brain chip'ed dude paid 44billion for a FBI/CIA/DNI entrenched company worth less then 44million! :-DD |
| tom66:
--- Quote from: tooki on December 21, 2022, 04:41:32 pm --- --- Quote from: tom66 on December 21, 2022, 04:01:50 pm ---Scammed for $60 million per year? Remarkable if true. We really do need to shake off SMS as a method of 2FA. It's horribly insecure. --- End quote --- How so? --- End quote --- It's reasonably trivial to intercept SMS messages over 2G, somewhat easy over 3G. Many phones use these (or fall back to them in case of weak signal). Attacks have been demonstrated over 4G too, but probably not as significant. Trusting random telcos to send SMSes out for 2FA also increases the attack vector. Say you are Eve wanting to get Bob's 2FA code to log in (you can do a refused-reply attack on Bob's bank account log in page), now you attack the 2FA SMS service that Bob's bank uses, and you can obtain that 2FA token... then log in using Bob's session. Hopefully that 2FA service uses an SSL API, but even if it does, you need to make sure that telco is secure. And now do this for the hundred or so telcos you might deal with. If the 2FA was done on the device, using an app, then it could be an SSL protected message sent the whole way, and you don't really care how secure the connection is because it is irrelevant if it is intercepted (more or less) Also, many people don't hide SMS message notifications on their phone, so 2FA codes appear if the device is locked. This is more of a user-security issue, but it would be avoidable if a push notification was used. Edit: It's also vulnerable to phone-number theft, and having transferred a phone number in the UK, it's remarkably easy to do so. You just need your name and date of birth; for a UK company director, this is actually mostly public information! (Or if you use Facebook etc...) https://securityboulevard.com/2021/12/why-using-sms-authentication-for-2fa-is-not-secure/ |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: tooki on December 21, 2022, 07:53:12 am ---Just to be clear, that’s not what the American left is interested in (nor are those descriptions even accurate definitions). What you’ve repeated here are the wildly dishonest claims the right makes about the left. If you actually look at what the left says and does, you find it’s quite different from what the right claims the left says and does. Do fringes exist who focus on identity politics and PC? Yes. But they’re not in any way representative of the left as a whole. --- End quote --- What I describe is the views quite a few people I personally know hold, and they call themselves part of the left. There are two distinct factions of the left though, there are the old democrats, and then there are the progressive lunatics, the people that have resulted in Seattle's police force reaching critical staff shortages as crime skyrockets. I live here so I have a front row view of it all. These far left nutjobs have become more and more dominant. They are a minority, but they are a very, very loud minority. Both sides have these loud fringes, and both fringes wield an outsized amount of power and influence. I don't like either one. I've had to sit through mandatory training at work with people telling me I'm inherently racist because I'm white and other such nonsense. There is an official company policy that for every position we have to give preference to a "diversity candidate" which is just code for not a white male. It's not some made up hypothetical situation, it has crept into nearly all facets of life. Is this "left"? I don't know, but it's not "right" and it doesn't seem very centrist either. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on December 21, 2022, 01:00:44 am --- --- Quote from: vk6zgo on December 20, 2022, 11:44:16 pm --- --- Quote from: james_s on December 20, 2022, 09:20:13 pm --- --- Quote from: tom66 on December 20, 2022, 07:42:26 pm ---Calling California, the richest state in the Union and one of immense private venture capital and the home of many billionaires, an "anti capitalist" state... If that's not delusional I don't know what is. :-DD --- End quote --- If you were more familiar with California politics you might not think so. It's a nutty place, full of paradoxes like that. California is easily the most far left state in the US, and yet at the same time there is that immense venture capital and the billionaires you mention. The thing is, there are multiple separate groups of people, not everyone in the state is on the same page. --- End quote --- "Far left" in the USA is "centrist" in everyone else's language. --- End quote --- Have you actually looked into some of the ideologies supported by the far left in the US, such as critical race theory? The idea of separating people into different classes, by race, is not a centrist position by any means. --- End quote --- Yeah. It's an extremely common misconception though for people living outside of the US to think that the "american left" in general is what others call centrist or even right elsewhere. Of course there isn't just one "left" in the US, but even so, this is absolutely not true. Maybe it somewhat was for the old democrats, but even democrats haven't been "centrists" for at least a decade or two as far as I can tell, they are clearly leaning towards the typical left ideologies. The race theory itself it not just a lunacy from the "far left" now, many democrats seem to embrace it one way or another. |
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