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Kaspersky says Uncle Sam snubbed its verification proposalwww.theregister.comThose national security threat claims? 'No evidence,' VP tells The Reg

The Moscow-based biz has now exclusively provided additional details to The Register about the verification system it presented to the US Department of Commerce, a system it hoped would demonstrate that its code is not under Putin's control.

Uncle Sam has, Kaspersky says, so far snubbed the proposals from the antivirus provider. The Department of Commerce declined to answer The Register's questions on the matter. Kaspersky is not giving up, and still hopes to make its case.

NASA’s Starliner decision was the right one, but it’s a crushing blow for BoeingArs TechnicaIt's unlikely Boeing can fly all six of its Starliner missions before retirement of the ISS in 2030.

A decade later the Starliner program finds itself at a crossroads after Boeing learned it will not complete the spacecraft's first Crew Flight Test with astronauts onboard. NASA formally decided Saturday that Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched on the Starliner capsule June 5, will instead return to Earth inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. Put simply, NASA isn't confident enough in Boeing's spacecraft after it suffered multiple thrusters failures and helium leaks on the way to the ISS.

Having worked for or with these companies as an engineer, the most concise explanation I have is culture.

Boeings culture is not technically focused, nor mission focused. Boeings culture is Boeing focused with a particular emphasis on shareholders. The overwhelming majority of managers I’ve worked with at Boeing view engineers as a plug and play commodity and are woefully ignorant of the general subject matter they manage. Many I know at Boeing have an exceptionally difficult time taking responsibility for mistakes that Boeing makes. Whether it’s commercial planes or crew capsules, it’s somebody else’s fault and Boeing knew best. Hubris is rampant across Boeing. What’s fascinating there is that there isn’t a damn thing worth being proud of in recent years, but the cognitive dissonance remains strong.

SpaceX culture is mission focused. Their managers tend to understand what it is they are managing. Their workforce is rather young, however, they test things and are willing to publicly fail in a way that Boeing and others will not stomach. When SpaceX does fail, they tend to take full responsibility, learn from the issue and solve the problem.

SpaceX is more or less doing what NACA and subsequently NASA did in their infancy. It’s nothing new, but it’s a major difference as compared to what NASA and its ecosystem have evolved to since those early years.

flanker (./12533) :
quelle déchéance pour Boeing, quand même

Watchdog warns FBI is very sloppy on safe data storagewww.theregister.comNational security data up for grabs, Office of the Inspector General finds

The OIG report notes that it found boxes of hard drives and removable storage sitting open and unattended for "days or even weeks" because they were only sealed once the boxes were full. This potentially allows any of the 395 staff and contractors with access to the facility to have a rummage around.

To deal with this, the FBI is installing wire cages to lock away storage media. In December, the bureau said it would install a video surveillance system at the evidence destruction storage facility to tighten security. As of June this year, it was still processing the paperwork to do so.

The OIG also found that FBI agents aren't tracking hard drives and removable storage sent into the central office and the destruction facility. Typically, seized computers are tagged for tracking, but as a cost-saving measure, agents are advised to send in media storage devices containing national security information without the chassis. While there is a requirement to tag removable storage, there isn't the same requirement for internal hard drives.

"The lack of inventory controls over the FBI’s electronic storage media increases the FBI’s risks of having thumb drives, disk drives, and hard drives or solid-state drives lost or stolen after they have been extracted from the larger electronic component, such as a laptop or a server," the report states.

"Also, the FBI does not mark these electronic media to identify the level of classification of the information contained in the storage device. The lack of accountability over these media, as well as the lack of internal physical access control and adequate camera coverage at relevant areas at the Facility, unnecessarily places electronic storage media at risk of loss or theft without the possibility of detection."

flanker (./12537) :
Il semblerait en effet que le F-16 ait été abattu par les Ukrainiens.
Pour autant, je ne sais pas si c’est la raison qui a amené à ce limogeage, ou s’il y a une accumulation d’autres raisons.