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To make things worse, the dev lead's boss always defers to his team's knowledge about the issues, so getting certain security issues fixed can require getting upper management involved.
[08:00] Wake up
[09:05] Arrive at work a little after 9 to fight the power
[09:15] Coffee. The daily pilgrimage to the Mr. Coffee is the highlight of my day.
[09:25] Go to meeting scheduled by demon. I don't need to be in the meeting and nod my head whenever they look at me.
[10:05] Check email to find a customer figured out my email and started emailing me on how to figure out their wifi password. This is their 5th time emailing me despite having forwarded them to customer support.
[10:45] Ask head of developer team if security issue XYZ is fixed yet. Dev team head says he doesn't think it's a real security issue and won't be dedicating resources to fixing it. Tells me to reopen the ticket as a "feature". Researcher plans on disclosing the security issue within the week.
[11:10] Check ticketing system to find 5 new emails from security researchers from India demanding bug bounty for a reflected XSS issue they found on one of our static promotional websites.
[11:15] Briefly consider a career change
[11:16] Remember how big dat paycheck is
[12:00] Lunch
[13:00] Meeting about long-standing architectural security issue that I want fixed. None of the PMs want to dedicate resources to fix it.
[14:00] CEO sends company wide email about how good our security is compared to our competition.
[15:00] By now I've read every reddit post on the first 20 pages.
[17:00] Go home while being too mentally exhausted to go out after work and make friends
Loving the wage slave life
the school doesn't take cheating very seriously - one time a guy was on his phone looking up answers in the middle of a test. the professor told him to put it away, and he did. a few minutes later he takes his phone back out and is looking up answers again.
it really is despicable how light universities are on cheating
Or if you're a VC, it's "tech company whose current valuation is based on future value"
There's a lot of docs that are useful for laypeople to improve their privacy, and then there's the ones that are going to do nothing but damage the spying capability of US intelligence agencies against nation-state adversaries.
If his sole goal was to damage the spying capability of US intelligence agencies, then he was a mole, not a whistle blower.
Don't rush a fraternity or sorority for the connections - you'll be sorely disappointed when you find out 95% of the other members are just normal people from a normal background. The few connections that may be valuable business-wise probably won't even be in your field.
Do rush a fraternity/sorority if you're looking to make friends and get the social college experience. If you have a history of having a hard time making friends, there are few options that are better than joining greek org.
Don't rush a fraternity/sorority if you have a tight schedule. Parent comment is serious, they're a huge time sink - especially during your pledging semester.
Do rush a fraternity/sorority if you want a head start in social/management experience. I can't tell you how hard it is to promote engineers into management positions because the vast majority don't have the social skills required to reward, pressure, or inspire their underlings. Getting involved in a fraternal organization will get you extremely valuable leadership experience, experience in how to organize people, and most importantly, experience in how to inspire people to do the things you need to get done.
I honestly can admit that I wouldn't be where I am today without the social skills I learned during my tenure in a fraternity. While the vast majority of bad press about the greek system are puff pieces meant to enrage people, do know that the greek system is not for everyone.
i know lots of people personally and professionally who will go their entire lives believing with absolute fervor that they're almost always right and that they're smart.
as a result, these people stagnate like nothing you've ever seen. their world views, technical aptitude, attitude, and intelligence end up frozen in time, unbending and ungrowing. i've noticed that literally the most dangerous thing someone can admit to themselves is that they're smart or a worldly person.
by actively recognizing and admitting your imperfections, you give yourself the room needed to grow.
there's probably a Marcus Aurelius/Socrates quote hidden in this comment somewhere but i cant find it for the life of me
i wouldn't put it past someone somewhere out there in the politically correct machine to fire/not hire someone because they admit that they watch porn
When I was in college, I was a part of my fraternity's "risk management" team, a group of brothers whose only job is to stay sober during parties, find people who had drunk too much or more commonly people who had completely blacked out and hush them off away from the alcohol or to a safe part of the house where they could be watched for signs of alcohol poisoning and kept safe from being taken advantage of.
If there's any one trend I've noticed while I worked risk management at those parties, it was that the more taboo it is to drink alcohol, the more that people binge drink it. It's always the students whose parents were the most uptight about drinking or those who couldn't purchase alcohol yet who were the biggest binge drinkers and most common to pass out. There was one period during which there was a university crackdown on drinking at fraternity parties, and the most noticeable thing during the crackdown was that people would drink a -lot- more.
The amazing part about it was when people turned 21, it was like they became seasoned drinkers over night. People who had problems pacing themselves during every party would instantly turn into a moderate drinker once their 21st had passed.
I think it would be very interesting to see some studies done on the taboo of drinking and whether it changes people's likelihood to overdrink, because it seemed with every crackdown measure the local police force took against drinking at parties, the problem only got worse.
personal examples are worthless because of the ridic small sample size
However there are some subfields of electronics where it is helpful, but it is a niche thing.
Not only do you dismiss the article in its entirety, you get to let us know how much you dislike microsoft too! Bravo!
How about instead of posting dismissive trashy 1 liners like this, you force yourself to write at least 3 or 4 sentences about why it's microsoft syndrome or what the hell you're even implying by calling that.
having my sleeping records and a table of what times during the day that I shit is a lot more sensitive information than the trash I post on hacker news
I cant help but wonder how much it would cost to get the sleep records of a competitor of mine - or if it's not for sale, how much the data would be worth on the black market if their servers got hacked.
I have doubts this information is being kept as securely as it should be, that's where my concern lies.
face it, that's the only way you're gonna get your Silicon Valley state, Draper!
oh wait
I can see it now - each lock would be connected to the hotel's wpa-wps network (shared with the guests of course) and use a dhcp server without static routes to assign IP addresses. Maybe if we're really lucky they'll be using some consumer-grade cisco switch with last year's firmware update.
Snark aside, they have to be _really_ careful not to fuck this up. There's so many potential attack vectors in this kind of system it's nuts.
just because he isnt treating his comment like a hugbox invitation doesnt mean it isnt constructive
what the fuck do you think gives you the right to claim someone is evil? I literally cannot imagine how much of a goddamn bubble you must live in to think you have any right to call someone evil because their political opinions differ from yours.
This concept is actually called "bread and circus", and was originally applied by mid-roman emperors to better control the populace and keep political satisfaction up. I'm kinda disappointed that the wikipedia article doesn't go into detail about this because it played a huge part in maintaining control of the empire.