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<laughs> In this case, it's that small business unit that is still International Business Machines. It's hard to find these days, but there is still a bit of it lingering around. :-)
Seriously, there's very little left of IBM anymore. It's now just an accounting firm that dabbles in technology. 30 years ago I wouldn't have dreamed of ever saying this, but I miss the Incongruous Blue Monoliths.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/doomsday-docker-security-hole-uncovered/
"Doomsday" is absurd. First an attacker has to break into the container from the app before they can break out of the container.
Most people running containers are hosting all the same organization's assets on that shared kernel, and we're using containers as much for management and fault tolerance as for security.
There's always another privilege escalation bug.
But considering the tight kernel integration, it seems that there will be a lot of privilege escalation bugs on the way.
I want to understand more about containers in a service provider environment, because I work for a service provider and we don't currently have a container strategy.
Maybe it actually was doomsday in a sense - this issue impacted Fargate, meaning it could have allowed one AWS customer to compromise another AWS customer: https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2019-002/
Nice article from Bruce Schneier on the intersection of pandemics, medical tinfoil-hatters, and other disinformation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/opinion/pandemic-fake-news.html
* Panic spreads fast. Panic spreads even faster on social media. In the event of a highly contagious, potentially lethal, and difficult to treat outbreak ... would it make sense to shut down Twitter? Is such a suppression of information even possible? And if it is, can that technique be abused by bad actors for non-lethal reasons?
* For a subject like this, who *IS* a credible source? No one trusts anyone anymore.
* No one wants to see their own family and friends die, and most people aren't ready to die early (except for me, I want to die on 2023-mar-10) ... BUT ... it could be argued that we're overdue for a mass die-off. Losing a few hundred million people, particularly from the more populous societies, would ease the strain humanity places on the global environment.
I concur with your assessment regarding diversity and racism.
You know, somebody in th I2P official irc network brought the subject up. It turns out the Chinese already knew that language deformation (for example, inclusive language) serves the purpose of identifying your enemies and allies. It works like follows.
You and your lobby create a stupid languageism. For example, you decide to stop calling encryption tools encryption tools, and call them "tools for obfuscating terrorist activity". After a while, you check who has adopted the term. Anybody who still uses "encryption tool" is not one of yours. Anybody who says that openssl is a terrorism activity obfuscation tool is one of yours. Notice that you don't have to openly ask people which side of the fence they are standing at... you only have to listen to their regular talk in order to know who to befriend and how to mark for annihilation.
Things like modern codes of conduct and inclusive language are just this. A means to mark developer teams as friends o foes. If you don't have a code of conduct you are a fascist bastard and must be destroyed. When a development team adopts one of these, they are not just adopting. They are publicly declaring who they are siding with.