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Researchers have found a way to run malicious code on systems with Intel processors in such a way that the malware can't be analyzed or identified by antivirus software, using the processor's own features to protect the bad code. And we're all ever so grateful
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Quote: In other words, as far as Intel is concerned, SGX is working as it should, protecting the enclave's contents from the rest of the system. If you run something nasty within the enclave, then the company makes no promises that bad things won't happen to your computer; SGX simply isn't designed to protect against that. BIG FACEPALM
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And we're all ever so grateful
It's beginning to look like we don't need hackers with tech skills, any more; "researchers" are doing all the R&D and development for them.
Who has oversight on these activities? It seems completely ungoverned, with guys just "researching" ways to allow hackers into other people's computers.
They need to be strongly reminded that facilitation of a crime makes you party to the crime.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: They need to be strongly reminded that facilitation of a crime makes you party to the crime.
That would depend on whether their invention has any purpose other than criminal activities. Would the inventor of a new type of steak knife (e.g. one that cuts steak better than existing knives) be held responsible for the murders committed with the knives?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A steak knife is designed to cut steak.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: A steak knife is designed to cut steak.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
So eunuchs are made of bread?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Well, David Gates did sing in a falsetto...
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So it won't cut a carrot?
A tool is a tool. It is up to the wielder how it is used.
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A steak knife is not designed to kill people.
These guys are, without any oversight whatsoever, creating tools to do harm.
I do not believe that you can't see the difference.
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Which guys? The researchers or Intel?
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Step 1: Get a commercial agreement with Intel to develop an enclave
All the malware writers are lining up at Intel's door right now.
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Smartphones also are a viable solution for health care in the developing world because they allow untrained users to collect and transmit data to medical professionals. I'm not vain, I'm just feeling a little under the weather
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But can it diagnose the 'Disease of Conceit'?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: But can it diagnose the 'Disease of Conceit'? Maybe.
One of the primary symptoms is ownership of a selfie stick.
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Lemme guess, it's sponsored by a start-up called "Picanos", which is run by a Dr. E. Watson.
What could possibly go wrong?
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https://www.kare11.com/article/money/consumer/the-target-app-price-switch-what-you-need-to-know/89-9ef4106a-895d-4522-8a00-c15cff0a0514
Pity the developer who programmed the requirements....you want what?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: Pity the developer who programmed the requirements....you want what?
I imagine that's only the tip of the iceberg with how your GPS data is being tracked. I can just imagine the cocktail party conversation: "I write software that tracks your location and displays sale prices when you're at least 50 feet away from the store, but when you're in the store, it jacks up the price. I mean, you're in the store at this point, sucker, so you'll just dish out the extra cash, right???"
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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The link is still borked for me but I found the same story elsewhere. And if you are bothered by such things you may want to block positioning data access from apps. Personally I have it blocked for ALL apps, even the maps.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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What did it say? I get:
Quote: Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.kare11.com/article/money/consumer/the-target-app-price-switch-what-you-need-to-know/89-9ef4106a-895d-4522-8a00-c15cff0a0514" on this server.
Reference #18.5e85655f.1550063240.3b7b9bc1
(Same fore the clickable bleow)
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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It loaded for me a minute ago.
If it's still blocked for you, I suspect a particularly hamfisted GDPR block.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Clever-Commit is designed to help programmers evaluate if a code change will introduce a new bug, based on learnings from past bugs and fixes. Developers who make these bugs also make these others
That blurb looks a lot more awkward than the idea seemed in my head.
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Might I just remind everyone that AIs that do predictions do not "work out" a damned thing?
They just perform statistical analyses that they have cobbled together black-box style, based on statistical data that they've been fed.
So you don't know why an AI might pop up with "Hey, your commit is likely to cause a bug!" -- it could be because every previous commit on a Thursday at 11:27:29.003 has resulted in bugs.
Formal Statement:
I do not believe it is possible for there to be enough existing data to successfully train an AI to do what is being claimed, here.
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Third of companies say they are overwhelmed by too many innovation projects, many of which never make it to market. Well, that's new
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Define innovation. Without using the words "useless", "hairbrained", "some monkey manager's third cousin's idea", "IoT", "mobile", or "cloud". I bet you can't.
Notice the Oxford Dictionary definition (my bold) of "innovate":
"Make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products."
Nowadays, "innovate" means that some monkey manager's third cousin came up with a useless and hairbrained idea to create IoT underwear that tells your mobile device when it's time to go commando and to post your commando history to the cloud, and you're tasked to implement it!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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