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Anonymous Coward writes "Here is a look at 10 current IT and network research projects, from active cookies to faster wireless LANs to the latest anti-phishing schemes, that could be making their way out of labs and into companies and homes soon." Still no virtual sandwich I see.
Those are the ones that weren't censored out, I assume. The real list goes something like this: 1- Virtual pr0n 2- More of the above 3- See one and two 4- Identity-theft wizard 5- 1,2,3.
Tell me something...it's still "We, the people"... right?
"Steal", "Share"? It's all just a matter of semantics these days.
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
"Sharing Wi-Fi with your neighbors" - Sign me up for my Doctorate. I've been doing research into this for years. So far I have determined that it works fairly well.
I RTFA and I don't believe this is anything new; it is essentially a software based SLA with your neighbors. Frankly, I have been doing this with neighbors for a while now, albeit I do know them well.
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
One of the ten research projects is "Human beings that live in computers."
/. started this in 1997.
Interesting idea, but not original:
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That one sounds like it's straight out of 1999. Quick, someone register a .com and call the VC firms!
There is somthing kinda funny about that.
Quite a few business people pay top dollar to resorts that pay that much attention to datails about them.
Maybe the spammers could quit looking for pennies & devolop software that uses their skills for people who actually want it.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
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...not really bandwidth, but storage.
I've been lucky to head to a couple of optics conferences, and with the keynote presentations that has been the one surprising thing (to me as a layman) that comes up time after time.
10Gbps throughput via optics is great; in fact, with the use of optics, the amount of data that can be collected for, say, scanning living tissue, is enormous. Finding a storage mechanism large enough and fast enough to store seemingly infinite amount of information, though, have been the researchers' concern.
What did they think was a solution for this? You guessed it, optical storage.
Is to explore the content that Google ignores. The next 'breakthrough' in search engines will advance on Google Images and Google Video by being able to discover objects in images and understand text in video.
Being able to search video hosting sites for a phrase without requiring manual entry of the script (if one even exists) would be incredibly useful.
Mooniacs for iOS and Android
"Sir, we have a warrent to get any encryption keys you have on your computer. You cleared your cookies in IE? Well that's too bad." -handcuff-
It gets easier and easier to get arrested.
title says it all. yet another web presentation optimized for ad presentation.
yuk.
Wow, what a TERRIBLE article.
First, it is piles of advertising and links you have to click through to get to even the very first page.
Second, the articles are written by marketing droids, it appears. "Human beings that live in computers" is a stupid marketer code for sim city.
How pathetic a slashdot article -- slashdot for sub-intelligent children...
You can download the Active Cookies whitepaper from the front page of http://www.ravenwhite.com./
It appears that Raven White, in association with RSA Laboratories, are proposing an extension to the HTTP cookie scheme whereby a cookie could be associated with an IP address rather than a domain. This would, according to them, allow a site to store a shared secret on the client which could not be obtained by third parties via a "pharming" (DNS/browser location spoofing) attack.
I'm not going to argue about the merits of the scheme they are proposing - it appears to be relatively functional.
What I don't understand is why, if what they're proposing requires extensions to the existing behavioural specification, they don't look at a challenge-response style method of cookie acquisition. This would remove the tying of cookie "ownership" to the DNS hierarchy and permit a more robust scheme of sharing information between the client and server.
A valid anology to the current system might be:
Me: Hi, my name's Malcolm, can I have the secret documents?
You: You walked in when I asked for Malcolm - here they are.
White Raven's scheme:
Me: Hi, can I have the secret documents?
You: I recognise you from the last time I spoke to Malcolm - here they are.
Cookie auth scheme:
Me: Hi, can I have the secret documents? Here's the password we agreed on earlier.
You: I recognise that password, you must be the entity I spoke to earlier or an agent thereof. Here's the documents!
I concede that the IP based cookie distribution system is simpler - but it's not much simpler, it is still open to attacks and it is less flexible. Is there something I'm missing?
Malcolm