Re:We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the ...
by kovac on Saturday October 21, 2023 @10:22AM
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Are we fine though? In the last 10 months, where I live people keep losing millions of dollars (number is not exaggerated, it really is in the millions) to ibanking exploits. The same mobile app, the same attack vector and it's still happening and attackers are emptying bank accounts wholesale. What's ridiculous is the response from the banks which implied that Android is inherently unsafe because its opensource and some restricted their apps to only those phones that have apps installed from Google play store. That was their security solution. Apparently, someone can take control of a mobile app that has Oauth2 and 2FA enabled, and empty an entire bank account by calling protected APIs without the owner knowing and they blame the user. That's security for you.
I had to urgently buy a laptop for a retired friend just last week who has a limited budget. I had a hard time finding a laptop for his budget because the retail shops don't sell low spec/basic machines, nothing below 8GB RAM for instance. When I asked for lower specs, the shops tell me that they can't run Windows 11, hence the need for these higher specs. I didn't buy one in a long time and mine runs Linux on a basic laptop. But they are ripping general consumer off in all directions.
Software today is unsafe, inefficient, wasteful. Most so called engineers have no idea what to do about them if they tried. And the average IT person identifying themselves as as expert is extremely hard to work with due to their negligence and a kind of arrogance veiled as humility because they feel that they learnt what others have learnt over a lifetime in a few minutes by watching a short video clip or asking a chatbot. A surprising number of them can't tell C from C++ or Java from JavaScript. At this point, we are just inventing problems and solving them to move money around like a shell game.
At this rate, when we've burnt through all the resources in the world, we will find that we are not fine. This reminds me of that saying, "when the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last
stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money"
I had to urgently buy a laptop for a retired friend just last week who has a limited budget. I had a hard time finding a laptop for his budget because the retail shops don't sell low spec/basic machines, nothing below 8GB RAM for instance. When I asked for lower specs, the shops tell me that they can't run Windows 11, hence the need for these higher specs. I didn't buy one in a long time and mine runs Linux on a basic laptop. But they are ripping general consumer off in all directions.
Software today is unsafe, inefficient, wasteful. Most so called engineers have no idea what to do about them if they tried. And the average IT person identifying themselves as as expert is extremely hard to work with due to their negligence and a kind of arrogance veiled as humility because they feel that they learnt what others have learnt over a lifetime in a few minutes by watching a short video clip or asking a chatbot. A surprising number of them can't tell C from C++ or Java from JavaScript. At this point, we are just inventing problems and solving them to move money around like a shell game.
At this rate, when we've burnt through all the resources in the world, we will find that we are not fine. This reminds me of that saying, "when the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money"