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WinAero, today, reports: "a sensational report is doing the rounds of the internet." : [^]Quote: Microsoft stuck a deal with FireEye Inc. that will allow them to share the telemetry data from Windows 10 with this third-party cybersecurity company.
As part of the deal, FireEye's software "iSIGHT Intelligence tools" will be integrated into Windows Defender. This will open the doors for FireEye to see telemetry from every device running Windows 10.
This is the first time when telemetry information is being shared with a third party. Earlier, there were no statements about such deals between Microsoft and other companies.
However, the situation has changed. Now the vast amount of telemetry data that Microsoft has can be accessed via a subscription billing model. This option will be available for security teams like anti-virus software developers. It sounds like if you pay enough, then you can get in.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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You may have been told definitively that space is silent, maybe by your teacher or through the marketing of the movie Alien – "In space no one can hear you scream". The common explanation for this is that space is a vacuum and so there's no medium for sound to travel through. "Vibrations reach on up to become light, and then through gamma, out of sight"
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Plans to keep a record of UK citizens' online activities face a challenge from tech firms seeking to offer ways to hide people's browser histories. My browser history would bore politicians
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Until you are a whistle blower that they need to discredit. Then it will interest them very much. Doesn't pass the "Richard Nixon" test of legislation.
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Keep a track of their log! Mutual assured embarrassment/boredom.
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It can be a software application, a podcast, a blog—anything that is not a part of your day job and is out there for the world to see and use. Since you will be spending your evenings and weekends working on this, it helps if it’s related to a topic that you are passionate about. Where else are you going to get ideas for CP articles?
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Telemetry data recorded by Windows 10 is, in a nutshell, just technical information about the device the OS is on, and how Windows and any installed software is performing, but it can occasionally include personal information. In related news: I am so surprised.
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In this article, Daniel Westheide explains why some people share code via libraries, why it can be problematic, and how you can mitigate those problems. "What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine too."
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Kent wrote what's yours is mine
Are you sure you want my buggy code ?
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While he makes some interesting points, they are a bit too abstract for me. I think, in summary, one could simply say "libraries should be created by people who know what they are doing."
I was surprised he didn't mention the whole NPM (et al) dependency nightmare.
Personally, I think he fumbled big right at the kickoff:
There are two main goals I have seen for sharing code via libraries: sharing domain logic and sharing abstractions in the infrastructure layer
- Libraries should never be created for domain logic -- by definition, the domain logic is for solving the problem of a particular domain.
- Sharing abstractions in the infrastructure layer sounds like its sharing the domain scaffolding. Again, a bad idea for reason #1.
Marc
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I think (for infrastructure) he means tools rather than libraries - but even at that there is an argument for separating the [business] domains form the [technology] implementation such that libraries/tools are interchangeable.
It is certainly what I have been aiming for, but it is very hard to do...
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They think it's time to close security loopholes in connected home devices. Does it include, "Stop trying to shove every appliance directly onto the internet"?
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Researchers claim your phone really does say a lot about who you are as person, and if you're an iPhone owner what it says is not flattering. Everyone knows that people that use {insert your product here} are completely trustworthy, and good looking
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The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a tool that helps prevent vulnerabilities in software from being successfully exploited. Not at all connected to them trying to cancel EMET
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Darwin is essentially a collection of core components which, combined, make up part of Apple’s operating systems both on the desktop and in mobile devices. Now you can code your own Mac
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Researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have discovered what could one day be a new type of display technology: bubbles of graphene that change color as they expand and contract. "They give us those nice bright colors. They give us the greens of summers."
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Since it's a slow news day...
Schiaparelli landing investigation makes progress / ExoMars / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA[^]
When merged into the navigation system, the erroneous information generated an estimated altitude that was negative – that is, below ground level.
Maybe they should have had TopTal consultants write the software (for those that know why I'm referencing TopTal!)
Still, I wonder what the code actually looks like, and how if/how it handled obviously wrong data.
Marc
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Maybe there was a hardware failure somewhere that generated a wrong value just inside over/under flow boundaries ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Since it's a slow news day...
It definitely will be.  , and Monday will be even worse. Why can't companies and developers in Europe, Asia, and Africa pick up the slack?
TTFN - Kent
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We all have only so many days on this green earth, and Microsoft is suggesting you do not waste them waiting on your PC to boot each day. Then you can wait for Windows Update to finish applying patches to your new machine instead
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I'm going to build a new PC when Kaby Lake Core i7 7700K becomes fully available. That said, my Core i7 2600 based system boots in about 15 seconds.
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Wait for Reboot? Never heard of hibernate?
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They plan that you have two machine: one installing updates and patches and the other you can work.
Maybe the second should be a Mac 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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KarstenK wrote: Maybe the second should be a Mac
or not connected to the internet at all 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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