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07-24-2019

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If Microsoft did not create such insecure software, anti-virus companies like MalwareBytes would not be in business.

It's an industry many of us in my circle of cybersecurity experts refer to as a "self-licking ice-cream cone" because all these companies just feed off the insecurity of the Window's (for the most part) operating system.

It's really a social and economic tragedy when you stop to think about it.

I just finished a GREAT book called "Lost in Math - How Beauty Leads Physics Astray" by Sabine Hossenfelder. In her transformational book, she describes the various biases, including cognitive bias" to which "following the herd" is a subset.

Computer security is so full of cognitive bias that if you really understood the industry, your stomach would turn, realizing how much corporate greed is the root cause of most of the IT insecurity we face in society.

There is yet no "antivirus software" for human greed and ignorance.

IMNSHO, everyone should read (or listen to), Sabine Hossenfelder's book, "Lost in Math".

Neo

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bbc_beep

bbc_beep(7D)							      Devices							      bbc_beep(7D)

NAME

       bbc_beep -  Platform-dependent Beep driver for BBC-based hardware.

SYNOPSIS

       beep@unit-address

DESCRIPTION

       The  bbc_beep driver generates beeps on platforms (including Sun Blade 1000) that use BBC-based registers and USB keyboards. When the KIOC-
       CMD ioctl is issued to the USB keyboard module (see usbkbm(7M)) with command KBD_CMD_BELL/KBD_CMD_NOBELL, usbkbm(7M) passes the request	to
       the bbc_beep driver to turn the beep on and off, respectively.

FILES

       /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/bbc_beep

	    64-bit ELF kernel driver

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |BBC-based SPARC		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcarx.u		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       kbd(1), attributes(5), grbeep(7d), kb(7M), usbkbm(7M)

       Writing Device Drivers

DIAGNOSTICS

       None

SunOS 5.11							    18 Dec 2001 						      bbc_beep(7D)