This was an absolutely fascinating read, the paper isn't too dense for a layman to read and understand. Finished reading the paper and it definitely makes space travel seem more within our grasp.
Forgive the naive question, but would 2FA completely mitigate this attack, assuming that the org trying to access a key vault did not have access to the 2FA device?
Funny you should say that. Here in the UK we're three episodes into a Handmaid's Tale TV adaptation. It's surprisingly good and you're right, it's excellent TV, even if I found the book itself quite a struggle back in college.
Capital and Heart are privately owned and operated stations. The BBC Charts usually air on Radio 1 I think on Friday, so we will have to see if they opt to play it then, though I strongly suspect they will not.
This happened in the past, a lot of people bought the track 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead' from the Wizard of Oz movie in the week Margaret Thatcher died, BBC refused to play it despite it hitting number one.
It does raise interesting discussion points about the role of places like the Beeb in censoring what is essentially a list of the 'most popular' tracks in a given week.
Luckily this specific case is a little more clear-cut, stations can just invoke impartiality rules due to the General Election being so close and get around having to play the track.
I worked somewhere where the behaviour described in OP's post happened. It was just lighthearted. We worked in desk 'bays', so someone sat next to the unlocked PC would have visuals on what the prankster was doing on the machine. Harmless emails like 'I'm buying the whole office donuts at lunch' were sent. It was very rare for any employee to leave their machines unlocked twice with this unofficial procedure in place.
Yes - the first year of University was designed as a catch-up to those who hadn't previously had exposure to this sort of thing and weed out the coasters.
I must stress this was a single question on a single first-year exam. Not representative of the whole course in the slightest.
Yes, to those who had studied it was fairly obvious what the solution was, but the phrasing was such that to those who were just trying to wing it failed miserably.
At University we had a question around this type of 'transfer'. I can't remember how it went exactly but we were to calculate the bandwidth of a jumbo plane carrying x amount of hard drives with y capacity to z destination. Given that the flight takes so many hours, what is the total transfer speed of data in seconds?
I saw a few students nearly have a breakdown over that one.
