Comments by "John Crawford" (@JohnCrawford1979) on "Rust Lang ENDORSED By The US Government!?!" video.

Sorry, but small businesses and individuals are minimal at best a problem. Most any major issue with cyber security happens among the corporations and governments. They tend to make the problem that they conveniently have a solution for, but at the cost to money and freedoms.
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@BrodieRobertson - yet open source is supposed to be the solution to corporate/commercial and their tendencies to monopolize and price out the rest of us. The question is how much of it is a real problem, and how much if it is manufactured to discredit the good that open source has done overall for whatever underlying agenda gov. and corporations may want to push out to limit and control open source for their gain?
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@mmstick - I have tried to answer this several times, but for some reason it gets deleted. So will try again. There is insurance for professionals and small businesses to protect against frivolous lawsuits. Besides that, small businesses don't collect any where near the personal data that the larger corporations do, and often have their payment processing go through another, larger company that specializes in payment processing, and it is they who have any data that can be leaked. The small business has minimal, if any personal data themselves. Same goes for gift and store cards, which, even the ones you get at, say, Kroger, or some other major grocery/retail store, all the gift cards, and their rewards and rewards + store cards are handled by some sort of bank, generally CitiBank, which is one of the major type of banks that handle credit cards and the like. That said, it would be laughable to go after the small business due to security breaches that happened to the 'too big to fail' corporate bank they trusted to handle such things. It simply is not the small business' fault, because they were not the ones that held the data, and thus could not have been breached for any data that they personally didn't have. If their business goes under, it would be for trusting the big corporations with handling what they are supposed to be top professionals at handling.
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@mmstick - Seriously, why are my replies being deleted? I am not saying anything controversial, nor even being insulting to anyone. Is it because I drop names of the big corporations that are the root of a lot of the privacy issues that plague businesses? It's not like it isn't anything new, since said corporations have been constantly held to the fire with class action lawsuit after class action lawsuit. All I'm saying is that the small businesses are not the problem, but the big corporations they are told to trust and rely on that are. Most any business knows that these certain corporations are not reliable, and yet they are still forced to use them.
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@mmstick - Small businesses just want their customers' payments to go through. They hardly think about software developers. What, with actually running a business, their time is mostly split between keeping customers and employees happy. They trust if they are doing their payment processing through such a company that they know what they are doing. Most businesses outsource technicians. It's rare for a small business to have an IT department. Small businesses generally have no clue what programming code they are working with. They might know if they're using Turbo Tax, and probably use it because it's what their tax guy is familiar with. You really need to get out the IT box a bit and touch grass. Because the majority of small businesses really have no clue what you're talking about, and don't care, as long as whatever software and tech they use does the job they need it to.
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@mmstick - You're the one who doesn't know what you're talking about. All you are doing is talking around the point that small businesses and individuals are minimal at best the problem. I'm not trying to defend 'memory unsafe', I am simply stating small businesses are not the problem. You are trying to push your BS agenda in here when the programming language has nothing to do with how businesses decide what software to use. They are told they need to work with this bank or financial entity to do their payment processing through, and use whatever software these companies tell them are the standards to use, and work with whatever carrier for internet/wireless that is deemed the best in the area to work with. Nobody talks to them about whether it's best to use rust or C for programming code, it's not even on their radar. Again, all that matters to them is that their payments are processed and they can pay the bills and they're workers their wages. You are making it more complex, when the point is that small businesses are not at fault when all they are doing is following the standards of business. The big corporations and banks that make the standards, and time and time again, are the ones that have these periodic data breaches, are the problem. The government doesn't do much to change it, and have little incentive to do so when the major corporations and banks line their pockets. Add to that, we had a case over the COVID years that our state government was so mismanaged that it was found out they got scammed thousands of taxpayer dollars because some bureaucratic idiot was giving money to one of those Ugandan prince email hoaxes. But sure, you can trust the almighty gov if you want. Don't blame me for warning how heavily mismanaged they are.
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@mmstick - I'm not defending the poor practice but pointing to the problem, which are the big corporations, major banks and financial institutions, and the governments, who are the ones that make the poor practices the rules to follow as their guides for what they deem are the 'best practices'. Some of them legally binding to have to follow.
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Yeah, and the gov blames it on small businesses and individuals that had nothing to do with gov and corpo f-ups. 🤦‍♂️
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That's because the US gov is an overly pork barrow lubed machine that has no distinction between its ass and its head. 🤡🤡🤡
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So you caught on to the scam of gov. safety programs. After all, it isn't really about our safety as much as finding more ways to squeeze more money out of us to waste.
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Most the US gov is run by deep state bots that want to plunder our resources and let all the rest of us perish from their plague
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I'm just imagining our multi billion dollar fighter jets today running on BASIC, like it's the 70's all over again! 😂🤣😂🤣
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@kensmith5694 - That is one thing I can give to the old timer tech. With all the advancements computers have made, we still haven't made another moon landing, and certainly are a very long way from traveling to Mars.
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@kensmith5694 - Initial fact is opinion. We don't know exactly what is on Mars, but it is a solid planet, likely having a variety of minerals that may be of interest, but we haven't the technology to travel there and find out what Mars may have to offer. But yes, there are a lot of features that are wrapped up into one program, that in earlier days of programming would have been separate programs. I look at Blender, and the audio equivalents, like Cakewalk, and they are basically their own sort of OS environment that is mostly considered an application because they run on an OS. Part of what drew me to Linux was more use of command line and terminal. Before Windows got divorced from MSDOS, there was more of a combination of the best of older forms of computing with the Windowing GUI on top. To come close to that today, would be to do Linux From Scratch, or compile your own Arch Linux installation. Tiling like Sway, Hyprland, and Openbox help change things, and greater use and understanding of terminal remains important in Linux to understand one's distro of choice. But, unfortunately, Linux keeps wanting to be "just like Windows!" So a lot of the creativity and ingenuity goes away from what makes better than Windows to how to pander to Window noobies, as if such patronizing makes such distros attractive to people leaving Windows for Linux. I was one of those Windows noobs, and yet I love Arch based distros, tile based desktop environments, and using the terminal.
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