Got a source for that? Isn't that just a subscription that stays active until you cancel?

Oh, Plenty of real world applications. I just don't think I'll ever trust Elon with any tech decisions that affect chips in my head, seeing how he handled Twitter.

It's going to be a long, LONG time before I'd trust Elon with getting me a cup of coffee, nevermind having a chip implanted in my brain.

I think it has to do with the fact that mutable certificates are no longer considered secure. KB5025823 Change in how .NET applications import X.509 certificates - Microsoft Support[^]

Thanks. Much appreciated.

What probably doesn't help is that among developers, especially young developers, there is a certain mindset. Burning midnight oil, working stupid hours, often unpaid, is considered some sort of flex. I see this in corporate environments as well: the people most likely to burn out are those who do not set boundaries and want to solve everything / feel responsible for everything. The people most likely to last are the ones who like their job but at the end of their shift say: the rest can wait till tomorrow.

Thx!

I noticed that the December 2023 competition has not gone up yet. Is that related to the DDOS?

Agreed. If you ask smartarse questions, be prepared for a smartarse answer. It's obviously the candidate expected this -imo pointless and Dilbert-esque- question and prepared accordingly. I'd have taken that answer as a reason to put the candidate on my shortlist, providing the tech skills were up to snuff.

Bravo for that reference! :laugh:

I was. But I detoxed. I still love coding. But it no longer usurps my life.

I'd argue that this is not about 'crypto'. this is really no different from other fraudulent companies, hedge funds or startups. There is more fraudulent 'low hanging fruit' because there are more uneducated people putting their money in. But honestly the amount of money being scammed in crypto is dwarfed by the amount of fraud committed by legit companies. If you watch the big short, you get an explanation of how the 2008 banking crisis was caused by those respectable banks and investment companies. A couple of Billion in crypto scams doesn't even register on that radar.

Does it 'need' to be C#? Or can you use C++/CLI? Because the latter would be much simpler, in the sense that you can keep your algorithms and the back end stuff in C++, and do the user interface in C++/CLI. Is your user interface in MFC, or WTL or something else? The user interface would have to be re-built from scratch

Well yes. You can't have it both ways. You cannot ask for protection against people copying X without specifying exactly what X is. Because you'd make it impossible for people to comply.

That is a bit similar to powershell which looks just enough like a programming language to lull you into believing it is. In powershell, the return of a function is any value evaluation that is not assigned to something. And if your function uses function calls, that means it can be anything and everything.

I have apart time bladesmithing business. It is a hobby that got out of hand and now I make high end things for collectors. Aside from that I'm on and off writing a book about DCOM and Windows Security for developers.

Oh look. Another Bruno :) Kind regards, Bruno

No, they simply give you the odds. It's like how most men think the can fight, whereas most people are completely clueless.

I don't say this to be mean but when you say "I really don't know how to..." don't you think that you should learn how? Or if you can't, you pay a consultant to do that for you? You say you have clients. Those clients depend on you. Don't you think you owe it to the clients to make guarantees about disaster recovery? You say you keep USB disk offsite but you rotate them. Suppose something happens while you rotate them, (a fire breaks out of there is a big power surge) and everything is gone. Let me turn the question around: you say there are specific documents prohibiting you from using the cloud. Does that mean your customers have agreed with being only 1 disaster away from losing their data?

It should be easy enough to zip your backups into a file, encrypt the file with 256 bit AES encryption, and store the encrypted file in a dropbox account or onedrive or something else. Trusting your backup only to USB has a high risk of going wrong if a disaster should happen on the wrong moment.