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Report: Snowden Trained as Hacker While With N.S.A., Résumé Says
(Related)
NY
Times Story on Snowden Way Off the Mark
The current NY Times story
on Snowden is such garbage. Snowden was a systems administrator with
the keys to the kingdom. He had root access to servers and other
devices whereby he could enable, disable, bypass and gain access to
most anything stored on those devices. He was no master hacker or
elite for anything.
… He just happened to
take classes in hacking and other IT topics.
… If Booz had enabled
proper change and release management procedures as well as separation
/ segregation of duties per standard, foundational IT activities,
this would never have happened.
For my CS students...
… what if I told you that right
now, by using VirtualBox, you can download a free Virtual
Machine featuring a full, free version of Windows XP? It’s
absolutely true – you can download Windows XP.
… You can use this system to not
only test out what your website looks for people running older
versions of Internet Explorer (IE) on an older operating system, but
you can also use it to test applications on XP if you’re an
application developer, or to run older programs that only run on
Windows XP. The version of XP gives you a temporary
use license, but if you need to use it longer, you could
always reinstall it or activate it with a valid XP license you may
have already purchased but aren’t using on any of your computers
anymore.
… At the Virtual
Machine download page, you’ll need to choose the options to
download a Windows OS Virtual Machine, and choose which version of IE
you want to test.
For all my students. Automating
citations so I don't use my automated flunking machine...
When the time comes to write
a paper, one of the biggest pains can be citing your sources.
… First, you need to make sure you
are backing up what you are stating with proper
facts. Second, your professors need to make sure you aren’t
plagiarizing,
and backing up your claims with sources can go a long way towards
making this happen.
Thankfully, the Internet makes this
arduous part of the paper writing process a little easier. The
following websites streamline it a great deal. Of course, you are
still going to have to do a little work, but these websites will help
you learn how to cite sources in the quickest way possible.
For my amusement...
… Google has
released the latest version of its MOOC software Course
Builder. New features include a WYSIWYG question editor (so you
don’t need to use Javascript to build a course).
… Textbook publisher Cengage
Learning has filed for bankruptcy. The New York Times has
the Chapter
11 filing for your perusal. [Even charging those
outragous textbook prices? Bob]
See what happens when you practice what
you love?
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