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Wow the recorded sessions feature is really cool. Props to you guys, I hope you do well.

Thanks for the links and info. Great stuff.

So basically, the heavy lifting palantir does is in the presentation and data abstraction. With a person still needed to define mappings across data sources. Is this a correct statement?

With (seemingly) limited off the shelf mapping abilities I'm surprised that they are looking to sell more as an appliance, and less as a turn key service with consulting engagements etc... Neat product.

Are relationships discovered automatically across DBs?

Does anyone have any insight as to how this might work technically?

Allowing only trusted search results would greatly reduce the number of links returned. For most searches no results at all would be returned.

Furthermore, with fake accounts, it becomes even easier to game facebook pagerank.

I was responding directly to your attempts to diffuse big brother concerns by implying judicial review would occur.

The requirement of judicial oversight does not preclude big brother attempts at censorship. Particularly when the courts feel they are deciding issues of national security. Your citation of the Bush administration does nothing but affirm this point.

Taking your argument about critical infrastructure at face value (which is still a big leap, as you've yet to define any concrete scenarios other than a power outage), there are better ways of achieving the same end goal without denying american citizens their natural and constitutionally affirmed rights.

I see, so the argument is then utility operators can't install ACLs so we need to have the government do it for them?

For patients requiring treaments to stay alive, there are generators at every hospital and ambulances to pick up patients in dire need. Even taking your ludicrous scenario of total US power outage attack at face value...oil will still continue to burn without the internet. :D

It does not matter where the decision to shut off traffic is made.

Be it court order to load an ACL or a central routing point, the outcome is the same. Take a look at FISA warrant approval rates if you think judicial oversight means anything in the face of national security.

To follow up on this point, a portion of revenue of most ISPs and telcos comes from contracts with the federal government.

In a time of emergency and war, a large multinational is not going to bite the (large and powerful) hand that feeds them.

A related current example is BP with the oil spill. BP could very well have said fuck you to the Obama administration and not set aside a compensation fund. However, this would have been done at the cost of current and future federal government contracts.

I'm kind of dumb....What type of calamity could possibly occur that would justify such an action?

Also, its frightening to see that people welcome the great firewall of america.

Another round of navel gazing and arguing over the best way to self-promote from the security industry talking heads? Color me shocked.

More seriously, some people disclose privately, some people disclose publicly, others don't disclose. What value does a standardized take on disclosure add to the security industry?

Open war, covert actions, or economic sanctions would work fine on a state v state level.

In the case of non state actors, current policing methods should be sufficient. In the cases where its not (and there is sufficient cause) covert policing actions should not be ruled out.

I tried to make this same argument in another thread and was down voted for it, so here goes...

Any act of electronic warfare has an equivalent physical response. Regulation such as this is nothing more than power grabs by government and the defense industry.

To be fair, I think lrm was responding more to the random walk, TA is bullshit mindset than to what was actually posted by mechanical_fish.

Not sure what's with all the downvotes. I'm honestly not trolling. If there is a large problem with the argument I presented please respond so I can form better opinions.

You touch on it with the carrier point; so let me get to the real core of my argument.

Electronic or financial damage is nothing compared to the ability to level entire nations physically. Any financial/electronic threat has a suitable recourse physically.

From what I remember, during 9/11 the cell networks in NY were unusable due to capacity, should the DoD be implementing capacity guidlines as well, should we budget trillions so the DoD can buy more spectrum for cell carriers? Do CB radios suddenly stop working?

As for the power companies, I'm sure thats why they hire security professionals like yourself :).

The SEC provides regulations.

Billions don't need to be sunk by defense agencies on what is essentially a regulation issue.

A lot of these doomsday scenarios are bullshit. The world ran fine without cell phones and the internet, it'll run just as fine without it for a little while. Aside from a medical case here and there, noone is going to die and no country will dissolve as a result of being hacked on the internet or even being without power for a little while.

What is the real life risk to lack of GSM coverage? Is it really just millions of nerds without iphone (cell) access?

Is any of the electric grid even publicly accessible over the internet? Surely there isn't a big "off" button for the power grid, as its quite a distrubted system... Furthermore I really doubt the infrastructure for these is publicly accessible over the internet. Even so, it seems like physical security would go a much longer way than network in the case of utilities.

As for markets, well there is a tiny agency called the SEC.

Either way this security is a cost to be borne by industry...Not ran by state military agencies.

Let's just call this for what it is, a power grab for defense/infosec contractors, and career officers. :)

To that end I'm not surprised to see it so vehemently defended by infosec professionals.

After reading this I felt a deep sense of pity for RMS.

Even if he was only referring to his perceived lack of belonging, openly fantasizing about suicide is not the sign of someone in a healthy emotional state.

I hope very much that he has grown past this point his life.

For those like me who came away from this wondering what windows tweaks were available, I found a good thread here: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?47212...

It is a lot of the same types (ramdrives, no hibernation) of changes but for windows users.

No we really don't :(. 5 guys' home, northern VA, is a chain food mecca. Anything that is able to escape the chain food feel becomes wildly popular.

A key reason for their success is this ability to retain the local burger feeling, while still being able to franchise quickly.

Dude, you're an out of touch yuppy.

They're popular because compared to similiarly priced fare (McDonalds/Wendy's) 5 Guys might as well be michelin rated.

While not as useful as this trick, I've setup analytics on my external facing resume site, and it's been interesting to see the results.

It's been great for finding out how recruiters use google to search for resumes, and to find out where open positions are in my area of expertise.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Oh please. The guy built a billion dollar business good for him. However, that's not a reason to deify the guy. He is just a man with failings and idiosyncrasies like you or I. He should not be treated like a a deity who came down from on high to hand us social networking.

Ugh...The smug arrogance of the professional "security" community is sickening. This is a great article showcasing it.

PC game hacks are not going anywhere. It's simply too much of an open system.

Currently, Valve's VAC and Blizzard's Warden suffer from the problem of fingerprinting. If you're competent enough with C/C++ and assembly, and are careful with your hooking, you can easily create working hacks with little fear of being caught.

As gaming moves more towards consoles, you'll see less and less cheating, as the barrier to entry is quite a bit higher.

I like this app. I was recently looking for a place to host a resume, and wish I had come across your site sooner.

As everyone else has already said, your messaging and initial pitch need to be cleaned up. Personally, I would stress the sub-resume's idea as that seems to be your best feature.

I'd also add an option to incorporate facebook/linkedin/twitter profiles to a resume. I did see the share buttons, but having a direct link to the persons profile would be a good feature as well.

Best of luck.

Seconding this.

Just doing a few reversing projects really helped fill gaps in my knowledge of fundamental computing. Debugging, assembly, and low level memory usage are core skills needed for reversing, that for me were not easy to practice doing other types of programming.

Maybe it's an opnion thing than.

I've done both and am currently working on my own startup while keeping a 9 to 5. While the startup work moves along at a slower pace than I'd like, I wouldn't change it for anything.