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Cracking the Smartcards
hanuman writes: "So you know you're a true hacker when: 'Breaking the encryption alone would cost up to $5m. The process demanded the use of ultra-expensive electron-scanning microscopes, with the team probing wafer-thin chips no bigger than a thumbnail. Each chip contained up to 50 layers, with each layer in turn carrying up to 1,000 transistors, every one of which had to be pulled apart and analysed.'." This is a follow-up to the Vivendi vs. News Corp. story with more details about what is alleged to have occurred. Update: 03/14 12:28 GMT by M : And yet another story, which alleges that the head of security at NDS funded the website that distributed the hack for their rival's smart cards.
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Netcraft has confirmed: *JUNIX is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *JUNIX community when recently IDC confirmed that *JUNIX accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *JUNIX has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *JUNIX is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *JUNIX's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *JUNIX faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *JUNIX because *JUNIX is dying. Things are looking very bad for *JUNIX. As many of us are already aware, *JUNIX continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeJUNIX is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenJUNIX leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenJUNIX. How many users of NetJUNIX are there? Let's see. The number of OpenJUNIX versus NetJUNIX posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetJUNIX users. JUNIX/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetJUNIX posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of JUNIX/OS. A recent article put FreeJUNIX at about 80 percent of the *JUNIX market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeJUNIX users. This is consistent with the number of FreeJUNIX Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeJUNIX went out of business and was taken over by JUNIXI who sell another troubled OS. Now JUNIXI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *JUNIX has steadily declined in market share. *JUNIX is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *JUNIX is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *JUNIX continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *JUNIX is dead.
Fact: *JUNIX is dead