A Computer Infection That Can Never Be Cured?
According to what I've read, it would be very difficult, if not
impossible, to detect a chip built your computer hardware in your
computer. Have you identified and tested all those resistor, diodes, and
capacitors? You see that long line running across your motherboard?
That's the system bus - to take your data to the other end of the mother
board - it could be the same bus that takes all your data to a backdoor
stealth chip and then on to the NSA database.
A presentation at recent Black Hat security conference in San Francisco
demonstrated a way to install a backdoor on a new PC so that even
switching the hard drive won't close the backdoor! Go figure.
"The possibility that computer hardware in use around the world might be
littered with NSA back doors raises the prospect that other nations'
agencies are doing the same thing, or that groups other than the NSA
might find and exploit the NSA's back doors."
MIT Technology Review:
http://www.technologyreview.com/a-problem-from-hell/
<http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519661/nsas-own-hardware-backdoors-may-still-be-a-problem-from-hell/>
On 10/11/2013 4:25 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
So, the Obamacare web site isn't working too well - what else is new?
Sometimes it's hell working in IT - for years I tried to get the
enrollment systems right at a major community college.
When I first got there, they were enrolling students using paper and
pen and long lines standing out in the sun. Teachers would be sitting
at long tables enrolling students one by one - it took all day just to
enroll in a few courses.
Enrollment was hell back then!
Then, we got our first PC - an IBM running on DOS. Instructors would
walk all the way across campus just to look at it, not use it, just
look at it. The college IT director couldn't understand what we were
going to do with all that hard drive space!
Today, there are over 5,000 PCs on the main campus and another 5,000
spread out over twenty computer labs on five campuses.
And, enrollment is still hell!
The school has at least three Oracle databases for student enrollment,
one for credit card payments, personal data like adds and drops,
grades, and the online library database, and then the course database.
Not to mention the 3,000 online courses using the Blackboard database!
Who do they think is going to run all this technology with me gone? Go
figure.
Somebody should write ONE simple program called 'schools'. Go figure.
'Some say health-care site's problems highlight flawed federal IT
policies'
Technology:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/some-say-health-care-sites-problems-highlight-flawed-federal-it-policies/2013/10/09/d558da42-30fe-11e3-8627-c5d7de0a046b_story.html>
