I'll also add that when my startup got acquired into a very large, well-known valley giant with a sterling rep for integrity and I ended up as a senior executive - over time I got a first-hand education on the myriad ways genuinely well-intentioned people can still end up being the responsible party(s) presiding over a system doing net-wrong things. All with no individual ever meaning to or even consciously knowing.
It's hard to explain and I probably wouldn't have believed myself before I saw and experienced it. Standing against an overwhelming organizational tide is stressful and never leads to popularity or promotion. I think I probably managed to move on before directly compromising myself but preventing that required constant vigilance and led to some inter-personal and 'official' friction. And, frankly, I'm not really sure. It's entirely possible I bear direct moral responsibility for a few things I believe no good person would do as an exec in a good company.
That's the key take-away which took me a while to process and internalize. In a genuinely good organization with genuinely good people, it's not "good people get pressured by constraints and tempted by extreme incentives, then eventually slip". I still talk with friends who are senior execs there and sometimes they want to talk about whether something is net good or bad. I kind of dread the conversation going there because it's inevitably incredibly complex and confusing. Philosopher's trolley car ethics puzzles pale next to these multi-layered, messy conundrums. But who else are they going to vent to who might understand? To be clear, I still believe that company and its leadership to be one of the most moral, ethical and well-intentioned in the valley. I was fortunate to experience the best case scenario.
Bottom line: if you believe earnest, good people being in charge is a reliable defense against the organization doing systemically net-wrong things - you don't comprehend the totality of the threat environment. And that's okay. Honestly, you're lucky. Because the reality is infinitely more ambiguously amoral than white hats vs black hats - at the end of the day the best the 'very good people' can manage is some shade of middle gray. The saddest part is that good people still care, so they want to check the shade of their hat but no one can see if it's light enough to at least tell yourself "I did good today."
With every fruit you get healthy dose of fiber that helps digestive system to push residuals out. 3 bananas that will make you full equals 2 cans of 330ml cola and i bet you still will want to eat after that.
After not eating sweet food for some time, i noticed usual food like milk becomes sweet. And mango is just not palatable. Too much sugar, for no benefit.
The difference is that - Stuxnet aside - Western nations (including Israel) do not run cyber extortion schemes against random individuals and companies.
They do run intel campaigns against targets or sell the tools to run such campaigns, but so does every somewhat developed nation in this world. Intelligence operations are older than the Bible, they have been a part of civilizations ever since civilizations existed as a concept.
I'd link to Bypass Paywall Clean extension, but it seems that's been taken down by GitLab[0] in the past few days. Anyway, you can use archive.is to bypass such paywalls[1].
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Quality and advanced content. Not sure why it was flagged, tools and methods used to reverse-engineer obfuscated javascript help fight fingerprinting/malware. Keep going, looking forward for other parts of the series.
Bloody hell I know the alternative was a near brain-dead wannabe neo fascist, but how did anyone vote for this guy? He can barely string a sentence together (not that Trump could, wow, the bar is extremely low in US politics), let him retire and live peacefully as an old man.
And that proves absolutely nothing. Promises and threats are cheap.
Given the choice between a fascist and a moldy piece of bread, I'm pulling the lever for the moldy bread. It's a bad choice to have to make but the choice itself is quite easy.
As an increasingly old white man, I am ready for old white men to get the hell out of the way.
No you see that's not proof. Video footage of US operators clearly wearing American flags while conducting the strike would be the bare minimum to prove American involvement. In the meanwhile we should just assume that Russia blew up its own pipeline until the US publicly admits to doing it (Biden doesn't count, either). They wouldn't lie about foreign covert operations after all!
