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Ceffer
2023 Jul 13, 2:09pm
Ceffer
2023 Jul 13, 2:09pm
If you don't have the retirement dough to masturbate and eat Fritos all day to the exclusion of all other activities, it is all for nought.
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richwicks
2023 Jul 14, 1:17pm
richwicks
2023 Jul 14, 1:17pm
Ohomen, this is just another government bootlicker asshat not some amazing man. It's a fraud. It's actually easy to secure a machine or network, it's not done because the government doesn't want it done.
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fdhfoiehfeoi
2023 Jul 14, 3:16pm
fdhfoiehfeoi
2023 Jul 14, 3:16pm
Let's look a little deeper. Fick first worked for CNAS, a government think tank that appears heavily supported by the military industrial complex:
https://www.cnas.org/support-cnas/cnas-supporters
Let's take a look at his next company Endgame, founded by members of the CIA...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame,_Inc.
Outside of his military service, seems this guy never held a real job. Born in Baltimore, sounds like a career politician, not a cyber security expert. I'm sure Fick is paid quite well.
I really don't get how you could promote someone you've obviously done so little research about. Deep state and MIC ties, guy is NOT part of the solution...
https://www.cnas.org/support-cnas/cnas-supporters
Let's take a look at his next company Endgame, founded by members of the CIA...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame,_Inc.
Outside of his military service, seems this guy never held a real job. Born in Baltimore, sounds like a career politician, not a cyber security expert. I'm sure Fick is paid quite well.
I really don't get how you could promote someone you've obviously done so little research about. Deep state and MIC ties, guy is NOT part of the solution...
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richwicks
2023 Jul 14, 3:40pm
richwicks
2023 Jul 14, 3:40pm
You want to secure a computer, I'll tell you how to do it.
First, all code run on it has to be signed. When it's loaded into memory to run, it has a security certificate, that ALLOWS it to be decrypted AS it's loaded. There, no more viruses, and you can identify who created the program.
Second all network communication on it is encrypted. The IP packets are encrypted by hardware, it would be easy to communicate with other machines of the same type, but to communicate with a "standard machine" would require a server that does nothing but translation.
3rd all programs are sandboxed, entirely, at the hardware level. Sharing of data between programs has to be done by a tool, so data can't be mixed and matched under the hood without you knowing it. It would require direct intervention of the user to move a file they downloaded, say, through a web browser, and move it over to say, a video player.
Security is HARD, not because "security is hard", it's because so many holes have been left purposely open on hardware.
First, all code run on it has to be signed. When it's loaded into memory to run, it has a security certificate, that ALLOWS it to be decrypted AS it's loaded. There, no more viruses, and you can identify who created the program.
Second all network communication on it is encrypted. The IP packets are encrypted by hardware, it would be easy to communicate with other machines of the same type, but to communicate with a "standard machine" would require a server that does nothing but translation.
3rd all programs are sandboxed, entirely, at the hardware level. Sharing of data between programs has to be done by a tool, so data can't be mixed and matched under the hood without you knowing it. It would require direct intervention of the user to move a file they downloaded, say, through a web browser, and move it over to say, a video player.
Security is HARD, not because "security is hard", it's because so many holes have been left purposely open on hardware.
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fdhfoiehfeoi
2023 Aug 1, 8:52am
fdhfoiehfeoi
2023 Aug 1, 8:52am
Parrot OS offers sandboxing for all their apps. And the other stuff I believe is already done if you use Tails.
I am going to introduce you to a man who you have not heard of before, Nathaniel Fick. For those of you curious, here is a good link describing his amazing life:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Fick
When you sell 1,000,000 books you can "rake in" $6,000,000 US. While serving as a U.S. Marine officer in Iraq, he wrote a book "One Bullet Away, The Making Of A Marine Officer." Very few of us are fortunate enough to become wealthy while in our 20s. He could have continued as an author and gone on to greater heights. He could have relaxed and enjoyed life. He could have become CEO of a giant corporation.
He reinvented himself several times. He is now the U.S. State Department's worldwide ambassador in cyber security. He is in this position to show the US commitment to cyber security and to give China some serious competition all over the world. He is making a difference and someone to continue to watch.