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It must be hard, as an employee, to be asked to consider these types of actions at your job.

"It's not opening the source that makes the software more secure. It's enough reviewers or white hats looking at the code. Security vulnerabilities in Linux (both kernel and user space) show that regularly."

Thank you for that additional point, it's worth being said and helps us model the closed source alternative.

>and every time they would call or send another letter I would tie up 1-2 hours of one or more phone reps time.

That's an extremely large personal investment, I'm sorry you ended up having to essentially value your own time like this.

Evaluate the areas of human interaction or places where some could be and try to make those better. Instead of just thinking that a technical challenge is there be all end all of recruiting.

“ I used to work in tech recruiting. I guarantee you 100%, no one cares.”

This does not reflect tech recruiting. People do care and while there are many hurdles to changing a process, we shouldn’t give up because its hard.

Direct loom to table.

You posed an interesting point which my mind immediately went to: How do you think 2008 apple would do against the sole of today given today’s technology?

I think that after you realize the limits of your (and our) technical ability to defend against attacks, you can then apply a threat model to see which attacks are not practical given your assets.

For example, I’m reasonably sure there are weaknesses in my gaming pc but I don’t do banking or other more secure things on it. There’s little motivation to target an attack or burn (use) an exploit to get access to this pc for an attacker and the defenses I have defend against most spray and pray attacks.

Didn’t look it up for source but I thought hacking was coined by model train enthusiasts, “hacking” together train sets.

That’s very complex compared to a model I was thinking about while reading this article.

Consider that many forms of sword fighting remove the complexity by creating zones. I’ve been told that a skilled swordsman can identify 16-32 zones considering where an attack can come from or where to strike.

Isn’t this a much easier model if you factor in the weight/mass/velocity of each particular character? This would be a little like auto-aim but you could still compute each path and create effects against one when they happen or not.

Interestingly I get the same in NYC. Asked a friend who gave me a detailed explanation which I have almost entirely forget right now... but something to do with car detection. If you happen to cross in the middle of the street you won’t notice the same drop effect.

Interesting approach. Makes me wonder if you authored a component and extended a license to say that “use of this code must abide by [inert relevant code of ethics]”, could you enforce that?