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tanithryudo) wrote2004-12-18 01:21 am
tanithryudo) wrote2004-12-18 01:21 am
It's late/early and I'm highly amused
More anecdotes from my lecture notes...
/* Professor: We are gonna finish early if there aren't
* any questions, so you better ask questions. Back when I was an
* undergrad at MIT, if there was a snowday, people would say they
* were being cheated out of their money because they had
* paid tuition.
* Student: Well, if we got refunds we might say that.
* Professor: We are in the state of CA, that's not gonna happen.
* All: laughter
* Okay...
*/
* Western Electric was broken into, but they denied being broken into. (Even though
the person who broke in openly confessed.)
* Explanation of Western Electric: Western Electric made equipment for AT&T.
When AT&T was broken up, Western Electric became Lucent.
Smith's Advice:
If you are going to work for a software company, ask yourself first if they
are likely to make money doing what it is they tell you they do. If not,
you may want to reconsider working for them.
* Combating viruses
* Search for their object code
* This is not without its problems. First off, you need to know the
template of the virus to even search for it. Also, many viruses encrypt
themselves. At this point, the solution is to search for the decryption
code. Again, this is not without its problems, because some viruses change
their decryption codes. The solution then is to interpretively execute the
suspected virus code for some amount of time, so we can see if the code
decrypts itself into something that is recognized as a virus. Again, this
does not always work.
* Old form of encryption: Get a messenger. Shave his head. Write the message on his head. Let
the hair grow back. He goes to where the message is meant to go. They shave his head and read
it. Obviously, the problem is latency.
* Note, US Gov’t doesn’t want cheap and effective encryption – would no longer be able to read third world traffic.
+ Statistical Methods
+ Seldom used - little intersection between class of com-
petant experimental performance analysts and competent
statisticians.
I'm being amused by the oddest things...
/* Professor: We are gonna finish early if there aren't
* any questions, so you better ask questions. Back when I was an
* undergrad at MIT, if there was a snowday, people would say they
* were being cheated out of their money because they had
* paid tuition.
* Student: Well, if we got refunds we might say that.
* Professor: We are in the state of CA, that's not gonna happen.
* All: laughter
* Okay...
*/
* Western Electric was broken into, but they denied being broken into. (Even though
the person who broke in openly confessed.)
* Explanation of Western Electric: Western Electric made equipment for AT&T.
When AT&T was broken up, Western Electric became Lucent.
Smith's Advice:
If you are going to work for a software company, ask yourself first if they
are likely to make money doing what it is they tell you they do. If not,
you may want to reconsider working for them.
* Combating viruses
* Search for their object code
* This is not without its problems. First off, you need to know the
template of the virus to even search for it. Also, many viruses encrypt
themselves. At this point, the solution is to search for the decryption
code. Again, this is not without its problems, because some viruses change
their decryption codes. The solution then is to interpretively execute the
suspected virus code for some amount of time, so we can see if the code
decrypts itself into something that is recognized as a virus. Again, this
does not always work.
* Old form of encryption: Get a messenger. Shave his head. Write the message on his head. Let
the hair grow back. He goes to where the message is meant to go. They shave his head and read
it. Obviously, the problem is latency.
* Note, US Gov’t doesn’t want cheap and effective encryption – would no longer be able to read third world traffic.
+ Statistical Methods
+ Seldom used - little intersection between class of com-
petant experimental performance analysts and competent
statisticians.
I'm being amused by the oddest things...