In culinary terms a back end is usually a pasta bake that’s undercooked in the middle but burnt on the edges. Front end is usually a pasta bake smoothie in a nice looking cup with an umbrella.
My dad does this, and I made a few bucks thanks to WordPress. Really, more thanks to Elementor because you can make a pretty snazzy website for cheap and the layman has no it took 2 hours to put together with templates. Lol
There’s a spiritual successor to Hackers that I’d like to see, and here’s the way you generate the script for it:
It’s a parody of a heist film. It has to be built like a comedy because the protagonists are going to be employees of a penetration testing company who are hired to do a physical security exercise on a big bank or a tech firm or something. There’s no stakes because if they get caught they’re just going to say “Yeah you caught me, here’s my letter, call this manager and we’ll go from there” so it’s got to be kind of farcical. To fill out the details of the script, get Deviant Ollam and Jayson Street together over whiskey and hire a stenographer to take notes.
It can start out a little like Office Space, doing all the standard tricks like walking in the front door with your arms full and in a hurry. And it always works. Until they hit the final boss: an IT security worker who has built an impenetrable fortress inside the company. Then it turns into Mission Impossible.
I’m thinking of a story Deviant Ollam told where he was outside in the parking lot doing tricks distracting security while his team wrecked ass inside.
Well, it is hindsight 20/20… But also, it’s a lesson many people have already learned. There’s a reason people use canary deployments lol. Learning from other people’s failures is important. So I agree, they should’ve seen the possibility.
I saw one rumor where they uploaded a gibberish file for some reason. In another, there was a Windows update that shipped just before they uploaded their well-tested update. The first is easy to avoid with a checksum. The second…I’m not sure…maybe only allow the installation if the windows update versions match (checksum again) :D
The kernel driver should have parsed the update, or at a minimum it should have validated a signature, before trying to load it.
There should not have been a mechanism to bypass Microsoft’s certification.
Microsoft should never have certified and signed a kernel driver that loads code without any kind signature verification, probably not at all.
Many people say Microsoft are not at fault here, but I believe they share the blame, they are responsible when they actually certify the kernel drivers that get shipped to customers.
This might be more of a norm that I realized. It seems like Mac does this too with iCloud but hides it better. cd ~/Desktop on Mac doesn’t give a big error despite it actually being stored somewhere else. (Also it seems to have more sensible “on demand” settings, or at least explains them better.) I was expecting something more like right click some folders or add them in a menu and they begin getting synced (similar to DropBox).
I give instructions to AI like I would to a brand new junior programmer, and it gives me back code that’s usually better than a brand new junior programmer. It still needs tweaking, but it saves me a lot of time. The drawback is that coding knowledge atrophy occurs pretty rapidly, and I’m worried that I’m going to forget how to write code without the AI. I guess that I don’t really need to worry about that, since I doubt AI is going anywhere anytime soon.
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