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Internet connected devices now outnumber humans. I for one welcome our well networked machine overlords.
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@ceruleanspark I'm still waiting for the day I get a USB port direct to my brain. (Bluetooth still consumes too much battery life for my tastes)
Thursday, 23-Feb-12 11:30:17 UTC from web-
@primesonic Both protocols seem rather too bandwidth constrained for any sort of useful neural interface.
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@ceruleanspark Everything is online now. That's why the world is so insecure.
Thursday, 23-Feb-12 11:32:40 UTC from web-
@nerthos Except it isn't, really is it? Nobody is crashing planes, turning off the power, or launching other peoples nukes.
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@ceruleanspark Yeah, I know. Boring people.
Thursday, 23-Feb-12 11:35:07 UTC from web
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@nerthos Consumer stuff is mostly insecure because the average consumer is a complete moron. Corporate stuff becomes insecure when financial imperatives outweigh security concerns.
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@ceruleanspark Security is cheap. In a year without antivirus nothing happened to me.
Thursday, 23-Feb-12 11:35:57 UTC from web-
@nerthos Yeah, but you aren't a moron either. You only have to worry about what you're doing with your machine. From my network managers perspective, the people who're SUPPOSED to be accessing my network are just as good at wrecking it as the people who aren't. I can't be everywhere at once and I am, despite my best efforts, not quite network omnipotent, so I pay for equipment and software to manage the things I can't get to for me. That's where security costs come from.
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@ceruleanspark Oh, good, I'm not a moron! Heh, I would simply set up a proxy and block every URL but the ones they need for work.
Thursday, 23-Feb-12 11:41:17 UTC from web-
@nerthos And RDN, of course.
Thursday, 23-Feb-12 11:41:30 UTC from web -
@nerthos Nah. You just make getting a virus a sackable offense. Eventually people will be too scared to browse anything anyway.
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@ceruleanspark But they would rage more with the proxy! xD why not just freeze the C: partition?
Thursday, 23-Feb-12 11:44:40 UTC from web-
@nerthos Terrible legacy software that can't be installed anywhere else and uses the filesystem as a database.
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@ceruleanspark Oh, well I suppose you're screwed then xD
Thursday, 23-Feb-12 11:46:36 UTC from web-
@nerthos Yeah. If there were any easy paths to simplifying things here, I'd have taken them already.
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@ceruleanspark Get an inquisitor outfit. Take pictures while sitting as Gendo Ikari. Monochrome "The overlord is watching" posters in every wall.
Thursday, 23-Feb-12 11:49:14 UTC from web
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@ceruleanspark <- This man knows his stuff.
Thursday, 23-Feb-12 11:36:43 UTC from web-
@primesonic I'm a network admin with a security fetish.
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@ceruleanspark I'm just a humble developer. I only take on the security headaches I can take on myself from the source code.
Thursday, 23-Feb-12 11:42:44 UTC from web-
@primesonic Writing secure code for a web app feels so much easier than writing it for "true" software.
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@ceruleanspark Really? I feel it just the opposite. But then again, it's probably just cause I know more about (developing) desktop software than web apps.
Thursday, 23-Feb-12 11:51:42 UTC from web-
@primesonic Well, you can export the first few layers of security to the user. It's their responsibility to set up apache and htaccess in such a way that things like directory traversal can't happen.
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@ceruleanspark I LOVE when that happens. If it's a remote server, you can really grapes the server admin.
Thursday, 23-Feb-12 11:58:26 UTC from web
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