Russia unexpectedly poor at cyberwar, say European military heads

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Because you don't know German hackers and German engineering. You couldn't even find Germany on a globe, i suppose. And many of us got Russian friends.

Keep on flipping burgers at your McJob instead of boasting about skills you can't judge.

Or file for bankruptcy for a broken bone instead.

Or how about you get shot in your back when running away from the grunts you call police ?

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

WTF, man. I've worked with German developers, Norwegian developers, British developers, developers from countless countries, really. I'm giving you my honest assessment based on decades of working with and managing these guys.

There's no shame in it. The platforms people are coding for come largely from Seattle, California, New Jersey, etc. Americans ought to be best at these things.

As for the rest of it, the USA isn't perfect but the amount of time and energy I spend on cops and doctors is vanishingly small. I did break a bone once and I have no idea who paid for it, but if it came out of my pocket it apparently didn't cost me much.

There's nothing wrong with just, you know... paying for the things you need without a bunch of social engineering legerdemain.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

So why e.g. Cisco then is so fucked up in so many aspects while on the contrary Avaya is considerably fine for telephone-systems ?

Cisco is like a fucking anthill honestly judged. Every square milimeter you look at there is a fucking bug like every square milimeter of an anthill contains a hole or an ant.

And don't get me started on microshit's dll-files...

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think Cisco, Avaya and Microsoft are all American companies that employ engineers from all over the place, right? Some companies within a country are just better than others.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I can accept to agree on this.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, looking back at what I posted originally, "way behind" was probably an exaggeration. Better to just say "behind" or "slightly behind" or something like that.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Oh yeah, those scary German hackers who work 9 to 5 every day with an hour for lunch they never miss.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

American developers are definitely trending in that direction lately, too. My gripe with German developers is more like, you ask them for a virtual Toyota and then, when you check on them a couple weeks later, they are 20% done building a virtual "Grosser" Mercedes.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Not the ones learning from me, i assure you. My employer keeps me for my classical "jack-out-of-the-box"-thinking style, i like to rub into students heads. Softly but thoroughly.

That is why i could keep my main job even though i went through a lot of personal construction sites, so to say.

And btw: The "old" Mercedes style was really aesthetic in my eyes. Understatement i really like as a value.

Nowadays all cars look the same, no matter which company "manu"factured it. Like nicely round-sucked candy because of C_w aerodynamics they "optimize" the hell out of.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Curious... what kind of development do you do?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I do teach. I do abstruse stuff in my "free-time" i get payed for anyways: Stelzer engine, control units, software interfaces, encryption, CAN-bus, e.g. . I'm a tinkerer. I doesn't have to make sense. I use a lot of input from students and mainly support their projects with tiny little pieces they are possibly missing when developing projects. But mostly do only, what i actually can like.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's interesting. Why devote hours and hours to something if you don't love it?

When I was starting out as a professional, the ticket to fame and wealth was the web application. I mean this in the original, 1998 sense, with lots of postbacks used to crudely simulate a desktop computer program.

I thought that was flimsy bullshit, so I didn't really learn web development until 2012 or so. In the interim I spent more hours than I care to count on shit like TRS-80 retroputing and writing my own compiler and OS.

It was pointless, but I loved every minute of it.

You have a better excuse than that- maybe someone will learn something.

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It isn't an excuse. Actually it took me a long time... at least a decade to actually find the position i fit well enough into, to not bore out or just hate it because i can . :)

It's fate, i like to tell myself.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I "mostly" work as an educator. But i agree on the fact that most "German" hackers have become bobbleheads. They mostly try to define the ethics of hacking in a way that somehow should make a sense they can grasp.

The tinkerer-type, like i am, has gotten considerably seldom, sadly.

I'm no fat-ass, i assure you. I got a BMI of 23. ;-)