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TIME DotCom and Facebook Invest In Massive Undersea Internet Cable Project
MojoKid writes "This week, TIME dotCom (out of Malaysia) has entered into a construction and maintenance agreement of the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) submarine cable system connecting Malaysia to Korea and Japan. The APG is a 10,000 km international fibre optic cable system that will link Malaysia to Korea and Japan with seven branches to other Asian countries. The cable system is scheduled to be ready in quarter three of 2014. TIME is leading up the process, but Facebook as well as a few others are joining in by combining $450 million to the cause."
Ok, where is the Dentist?
The moral of the story is: "Always remember to mount a scratch monkey."
Frozen piss
More asians in the usa game servers.
I love giberish and cheaters.
I bet Facebook IPO investors didn't know they were investing in this.
Because fish need porn too.
zukerberg just finished reading cryptonomicon
Didn't I read a book about this?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Would be more useful in the long run.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I searched time.com for asia pacific gateway, and TIME Magazine has nothing to say about it. I wonder if there's a potential trademark case between TIME and TIME.
I love Mega Upload!
If they want to move all Facebook traffic off the regular Internet and build a separate infrastructure for it, maybe we can get all the Facebook users to migrate entirely over to Internet 3 and leave everyone else alone.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Well in all the discussions about net neutrality one of the ideas was having the content providers owning the infrastructure. When you own it, no one can block/throttle or otherwise tamper with it. Cheaper too.
Wasn't this DotCom guy captured in New Zealand or Austria or something?
Since the USA created the internet, shouldn't all these countries pay us for using?
John the Ripper now able to crack office files and use GPUs
4 July 2012, 12:38
http://h-online.com/-1631901
"Version 1.7.9-jumbo-6 of the John the Ripper password cracker sees significant format support enhancements. The open source tool is now able to crack password-protected office documents (Office 2007/2010 and OpenDocument) and Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey master passwords, as well as WPA-PSK keys and Mac OS X keychains. It can also request to use GPUs via CUDA and OpenCL. The suffix "jumbo" appears to be intended literally â" more than 40,000 lines of code have been added in the six months since the previous release.
Developer Solar Designer told The H's associates at heise Security that, in developing GPU support, the focus has been on modern functions which can be slow to calculate, such as WPA-PSK and Unix password hashes. For some functions, such as Ubuntu's standard hash function (sha512crypt) and the time-consuming bcrypt, there were, according to the developers, no crackers with GPU support until now, "because others were unhappy about releasing a tool with 'non-impressive' speed numbers, even if this is desirable in practice".
In the case of sha512crypt, this means that the GPU on a GeForce GTX 570 graphics card can generate around 11,000 hashes per second â" still more than five times faster than on a computer with eight CPU cores. By comparison, for SHA1 hashes, with GPU support this figure would normally be in the millions. For bcrypt, a graphics card just beats an eight-core system by a hair's breadth â" in both cases the maximum figure is around 5,000 hashes. The inability of GPUs to realise speed gains with bcrypt is due to the algorithm's design, which is very memory intensive. According to Solar Designer, the developers were primarily concerned with finding out just how slow the bcrypt implementation would be."
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2012/06/29/1
- http://www.openwall.com/john/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt
- http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/vsygc/john_the_ripper_179jumbo6_adds_gpu_support/
- http://www.h-online.com/news/item/Cracking-DES-faster-with-John-the-Ripper-1273585.html
* http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/John-the-Ripper-now-able-to-crack-office-files-and-use-GPUs-1631901.html
crve@h-online.com
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Feds Look to Fight Leaks With âFog of Disinformationâ(TM)
http://cryptogon.com/?p=30257
July 4th, 2012
Via: Danger Room:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/fog-computing/all
Why does Facebook even care about this? For a fraction of the cost of what they invested in this cable, they could open up a datacenter in Asia and replicate their content closer to their Asian customers.
I could see why someone like Google might want to boost capacity since they are a conduit to other sites, so making everyone faster helps them out, but I don't see what Facebook is gaining.
I'm just not comfortable with Facebook owning a trans-oceanic cable. There's just no good reason that they should own any infrastructure that crosses international borders and territorial waters.
I also don't want Google to own the Clouds and Apple to own the Moon.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The Europeans behind CERN and Tim Berners-Lee would like to have a word about their payment for using anything web related :)
This is all part of Facebook's new strategy.
Facebook will be building a huge new data center in northern Sweden to support the rapid global growth of its users. The new data center in Lulea, Sweden will be Facebook’s first facility outside the United States.
“It’s the next step in our ongoing strategy of building our own infrastructure and moving away from leased facilities,” said Facebook spokesman Michael Kirkland. “We are expecting this data center to continue to help us reduce latency for our users in Europe and beyond.”
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/10/27/facebook-goes-global-with-data-center-in-sweden/
TFA says "Facebook as well as a few others are joining in by combining $450 million to the cause". So unless you have another source, we really don't know how big a fraction of the cost was footed by Facebook. Facebook could, after all, be merely the pretty face, the celebrity endorser, among investors with a more significant stake in the project.
It's a sound strategic move for any large content and service provider including Google, Apple and especially Facebook.
They rely on the networks for their revenue, it makes sense to own parts of this infrastructure yourself if you can afford it. If only to use as leverage and/or offsetting future increases in transport costs. Owning huge datacenters is not enough, any longer, for the very large scale, global enterprises.
The [network] owners have already begun asking companies such as Facebook to pay for their users' data usage. The European ISPs and telecom corporations asked earlier this year for the right to offer "better" service levels to paying clients such as Facebook (i.e. Network Neutrality).
It's a way to turn the cash into something hard for the for the original shareholders that looks like it's related to their industry to stop the shares crashing and make the floatation look anything other than a float-and-run.
Yes, I see your point and it's well founded, however for the moment I see no reason to wish for interference.
The best way to resolve the issue is in the form of competition. The two sides, content providers and network owners, are struggling to finding a balance between who pays and owns what.
Regulators and consumers need only sit back and watch, if there is a need for regulation the watchdogs can step in and force their hand(s). This latest wave of changes has barely begun, who knows where and how the lines between the two sides will end?
As it stands the content providers interests happen to match that of the consumers, both want the lowest possible price for [their] users' free and unrestricted access.
Must be a real shock to find they've invested in something real!
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Malaysia? Korea? Japan!? Whew! Hopefully the #TPP Agreement will be in place by the time this MEGA Time Dotcom link comes on-line. Citizens might just think about downloading copyrighted material over this backbone! Well... if not, at least the Japanese will rot in jail for killing the Creative Industry!
Even if it wasn't for making money on the cable by providing access to others and charging for it, they'd have a large argument why others shouldn't be charging them for access to their consumers. It's the same as having a patent arsenal if you're into software. You won't enforce your patents, if others won't enforce theirs. By owning part of the global infrastructure, you have a successful weapon against (other) Tier-1 TelCos charging you an arm and a leg.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
Looking at the map in TFA, I can not help wondering why there is not a connection to the Philippines as well. The cable is going to be laid down relatively close to the Philippines, and having a link to a nation with 90+ million people could be... er... profitable?
From the map, it looks like they are skipping the Philippines. I wonder why. I thought the Philippine population was blowing up, and I think they are also heavy Facebook users.
Is "Time dot come" related to "Time Magazine" ?
Or are we looking at a copyright infringement ?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
That "Time dot com" is one of the many "semi governmental corporations" of Malaysia designed specifically for two purposes only -
1. To fleece as much $$$ from the taxpayers of Malaysia
2. To promote their "superiority racial identity" - namely, the Malays