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Open Source Is Becoming a Military Necessity
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| 17 August 2012
| Dana Blankenhorn
Posted on 08/18/2012 11:59:23 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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08/18/2012 11:59:28 AM PDT
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ShadowAce
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Salo; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; stylin_geek; ...
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posted on
08/18/2012 12:00:12 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
Security = 1/convenience.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
The formula "security = 1 / convenience" is a formula I can understand. What I don't understand is what the advantages are to moving an organization's date "to the cloud" where hands unknown have access to it. I've heard people say "you don't have to invest in bandwidth or the knowledge base to maintain the systems". But that seems more like an excuse to be "dumb and lazy" as a company at the risk of leaking company information. Why the push to centralize to cloud locations rather than remaining distributed?
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08/18/2012 12:49:31 PM PDT
by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: so_real
Got me. I have no clue why handing over the crown jewels of any company to some 'cloud' seems to make sense to some management types.
I expect to see some pretty bloody reprisals after the first multi-million dollar loss of data in the 'cloud'.
/johnny
To: so_real
“Why the push to centralize to cloud locations rather than remaining distributed?”
I’ll claim ignorance here, but I thought “the cloud” was the definition of distributed computing and data management.
Various futurists have been arguing that the value of data is rapidly approaching zero during this age of accelerating change and ubiquitous information access. Put another way, the half life of a good idea is getting shorter and shorter. Business models based on husbanding data as if it has value (the crown jewels) are going to fade away and be replaced by business models built on the concept of exploiting new and publicly available data more rapidly than your peers.
I fear that if these predictions are true, the U.S. government and its love of classified data will fail to compete with faster governments not married to protecting mountains of information or data. Many of our larger businesses could follow suit.
We live in interesting times.
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posted on
08/18/2012 1:40:51 PM PDT
by
LaserJock
To: JRandomFreeper
Slight modification:
Security = (1/convenience)*(RND(10)-1) Where RND(10) is a function that generates a random # from 1 to 10. In other words. Increasing, inconvenience may or may not increase security. For example. Maxwell Smart has to go through 10 sets of automoatic doors, followed by dialing the correct number in a phone booth before he can enter CONTROL headquarters. But if he left a window open, the doors and phone booth provide zero protection against enemy infiltration. Password routines so complex that users resort to placing sticky notes on or under their keyboards show the "Laffer curve" of secure passwords. At some point you get worse results, not better.
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posted on
08/18/2012 1:50:46 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("I love to hear you talk talk talk, but I hate what I hear you say."-Del Shannon)
To: LaserJock
You are exactly correct...the value of data is plummeting. As we trend towards perfect information, it seems like markets will begin to correct instantly almost removing short term profit takers and liquidity from the markets.
As consumers increasingly use engines like amazon and google products, retailers will continue to die off and the profit model will continue to be destroyed.
I don’t know where it all ends. Combine this with the automation trend it seems we in a negative feedback loop that doesn’t have an obvious solution. I don’t know what happens when there are just no jobs and no ways for 80% of the population to make any money.
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posted on
08/18/2012 1:50:59 PM PDT
by
willyd
To: willyd
I see what you're saying, but I'm a bit more optimistic. I think profit making opportunities will proliferate in this new world. They'll just be brief. Agility will be the key to long term success. It may be that we're seeing the beginning of the end of the age of great empires - nations as well as businesses. The age of the empowered individual or small team is emerging. If this is true, then nations filled with industrious people who value personal responsibility will prosper. This could be very good for the U.S. - if we don't let government infantalize us first!
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posted on
08/18/2012 1:59:01 PM PDT
by
LaserJock
To: ShadowAce
So the Department of Homeland Security got together with major contractors and formed their own open source project DykeNet?
To: LaserJock
The way it was explained to me, is that the cloud is everywhere. You put your data in the cloud, and it is stored on any number of physical machines, in any number of countries, so you never have to worry about a disk failure losing it, or a segment of the network going down making it unavailable. That sounds great until you wonder who has access to it. Do you really want your competitors to know who your vendors are? the names of your most productive sales people? the target objectives for your next sales campaign or media blitz? etc, etc. I don't have a problem with library and audio visual material being ubiquitous. But there are just some things better kept under lock and key.
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posted on
08/18/2012 2:46:01 PM PDT
by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: so_real
“But there are just some things better kept under lock and key.”
I agree. Even in a full-on information age, there will be a need to protect some data. I'm thinking it's a tiny amount though.
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08/18/2012 3:13:00 PM PDT
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RedMDer
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To: JRandomFreeper
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08/18/2012 3:15:08 PM PDT
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wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: RedMDer
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08/18/2012 3:22:11 PM PDT
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don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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08/18/2012 3:37:05 PM PDT
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Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
08/18/2012 3:52:47 PM PDT
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don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
To: don-o; RedMDer
RedMDer’s posts are not spam. He’s helping tremendously with our FReepathon and I appreciate it very much.
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08/18/2012 3:55:34 PM PDT
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Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: don-o; RedMDer
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posted on
08/18/2012 3:57:57 PM PDT
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Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: Jim Robinson
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08/18/2012 4:00:06 PM PDT
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RedMDer
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