The notion that the problem is the existence of attackers and not the undersecured, high value commodity being stolen/compromised is a very fraught.
I am also shocked that somehow stereotyping all bad hackers as Russian is not flagged as being prejudicial.
Lastly, just how beneficial would it be to throw experienced Eastern European software developers out of work by categorically "going non-Russian"? Surely they would all just gravitate towards being baristas? After all - if the hacker is Romanian - they're Russian. If they're Ukrainian, they're Russian. If they're Polish, they're Russian. The list goes on and on.
I'm kind of disappointed by the gratuitous neocon innuendo about being 'intertwined with the Russian economy'. You should well know that is absolutely irrelevant. Like many Eastern European nations, Belarus has a large population of well-educated low-wage workers. This is why PE has them there.
This has always been a core concern - the lax security behind the User Interface dimension of the Internet. Although things have gotten gradually better, we are still a couple of years away from truly secure systems open to the internet.
I guess if there is an entry point they will find it. But as Matt points out, the effort for this is not being made in a concentrated way by interests aligned with the US.
The fact that Amazon had to develop its own web protocols to function efficiently, and now unfortunately the half the world is paying them for that exchange system, goes to show the nature of the beast. The other half is controlled by Microsoft and one other company.
The notion that the problem is the existence of attackers and not the undersecured, high value commodity being stolen/compromised is a very fraught.
I am also shocked that somehow stereotyping all bad hackers as Russian is not flagged as being prejudicial.
Lastly, just how beneficial would it be to throw experienced Eastern European software developers out of work by categorically "going non-Russian"? Surely they would all just gravitate towards being baristas? After all - if the hacker is Romanian - they're Russian. If they're Ukrainian, they're Russian. If they're Polish, they're Russian. The list goes on and on.
The right to profit no matter the societal cost. That’s how a shithole — a failed state — rolls.
I'm kind of disappointed by the gratuitous neocon innuendo about being 'intertwined with the Russian economy'. You should well know that is absolutely irrelevant. Like many Eastern European nations, Belarus has a large population of well-educated low-wage workers. This is why PE has them there.
Do you think this will give private equity a bad name?
This has always been a core concern - the lax security behind the User Interface dimension of the Internet. Although things have gotten gradually better, we are still a couple of years away from truly secure systems open to the internet.
I guess if there is an entry point they will find it. But as Matt points out, the effort for this is not being made in a concentrated way by interests aligned with the US.
The fact that Amazon had to develop its own web protocols to function efficiently, and now unfortunately the half the world is paying them for that exchange system, goes to show the nature of the beast. The other half is controlled by Microsoft and one other company.
I didn't get this initially. I only got it in the weekly Substack email. I suspect the same for others since only one like so far. FYI.