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Sorry I didn't have the patience to fully read this click bait. If you use 3rd party packages (aka FOSS, Open Source, whatever they call it) those vulnerabilities are a by product of using the 3rd party package, it is the cost of doing business. They make SCA tools, even free ones to identify these issues. IMO, importing, updating, and using 3rd party packages in your development process are a part of technical debt and cyber hygiene, nothing more nothing less.

TL;DR Don't be dumb, update your packages and don't use vulnerable ones.

If you know folks in your company are writing things you are interested in reach out. Most of those people are happy that someone is taking interest in what they are doing. The information that they will provide will be meaningful and valuable. Use what you learn from those conversations and leverage it in your daily job functions to better position yourself for future roles/jobs/projects.

Security.txt 5 years ago

I don't think this should be a standard pe say. Maybe more of what is a best fit for your risk appetite. Because I could easily see this as a flag to welcome people to attack your website looking for bounties. If that is the case how are your blue team people going to know the difference?

As far as the info contained within the txt file there should only be a email address or contact info if you found something serious absolutely nothing more. No reason to intentionally/unintentionally provide information used for recon.

About the automated scanners... adjust your scope to avoid the file.

The reason for these folks unionizing is not for the traditional reasons (higher wages, better benefits, work life balance, keeping the company from running you over, ect...) This is more along the lines of being able to protest work that is consider unethical (IE the AI noted in the article, working with other gov'ts ect...) and not be penalized or fired for it. Unfortunately, I don't believe that a union is the answer for their problem because so long as there is money to fund a project there will be people lined up to work.

Fork Bomb 6 years ago

You could really be a jerk and do this...

    while true

        try:
            os.fork()

        except Exception as e:
            continue

"The justices left in place a 2018 ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that fining or jailing homeless people for staying outside or in unauthorized places if a bed at an emergency shelter is not available is unconstitutional"

It is no secret that San Francisco has a homelessness crisis and if they can't prosecute how are they expected to clean up their city of homeless people?

Edit: This is a legit question why all the down votes?

Kent Walker voiced his opinion about not sharing all information because folks did not agree

"programmers created a tool that allowed employees to choose to alert Walker with an automated email every time they opened any document at all"

I can't help but feel maybe their culture is a little toxic?

No where on their website can I find what they are about, how their product adds business value, what makes them different from everyone else selling snake oil... basically nothing.. just some flashy graphics, 10$ words and a company name that makes me think of oxidation (literally rust).. this reeks of marketing.

Money is the fuel that feeds the evolution of your business it allows your to expand, grow, change, and hire different caliber of workers. As the business grows it allows you to have more capital to pay your employees and hire more people.

If you have costs that you can't offset...

Your workers are your responsibility, they feed their families with the pay check they are provided. (Speaking from a holistic view) If you can't offset costs, that means you possibly can't provide them the same pay check or bonus they've been getting. Essentially, this ends up being one of those good of the many outweighs the good of the few.