Posts by BenWilson
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Emma Hart,
Different things.
Yup, I'm sure the ACT member really cares.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to nzlemming,
Which is why I call bullshit on your mate's story.
Well, there were quite a few people who saw the money, myself included. I also saw the deposits being made. I predicted that it would not work. But truth is stranger than fiction.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Steve Reeves,
Rhetorical and logical meanings might be different.
They might very well be different :-)
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to merc,
"Keith is a god, and he is mortal"
is logically the same as
"Keith is a god, but he is mortal".
The second just brings attention to the incongruity of the two parts. But it still asserts both of them are true.
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Yeah, nah. The story is well known (in banking circles anyway) which is why deposits don't clear the moment you put them into the machine.
Sure, and they didn't then either. The plot thickens, eh?
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Matthew Poole,
I don't need to be able to quantify "bad" to know that there is a completely foreseeable way in which it could be worse.
It could always be worse. I'm just not sure you can show that it would be likely to be worse. Currently, thousands of people could have compromised the system. If it had even weak security, that number would reduce by several orders of magnitude.
Which is not to say that we shouldn't be using strong security.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to merc,
remember "but" negates everything before it.
I'm pretty sure "but" is a conjunction, not a negation. It's logically equivalent to "and", just has a different tone.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Matthew Poole,
So, yes, I do think it could've been worse.
Whilst at the same time not knowing how bad it is.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Matthew Poole,
In many ways that would have been worse.
This thing has been hanging wide open to all comers for a couple of years. It doesn't really get much worse. You can't rule out that "ne'er do wells" could have done a whole lot already.
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Classic, a discussion about setting up the perfectly secure network in the context of the problem being no security at all. Even if there was just a weak password on the network access, that would have been a million times more secure, and most likely this news story would never have happened.
The easiest way was to put your software on a thumb-drive and drop it on the ground outside the front door. Wait and let human nature take it's course.
Pfft, that's way hi-tech. A friend of mine stole a million dollars from a bank just by lying on a deposit slip at an ATM and padding it with a Jaffa packet. I'd tell the whole story if I thought anyone would actually believe it. It's quite indicative about computer systems, security, and what hackers are actually like.
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