A friend put me onto Runes of Magic (which uses Micro Transactions) as I was an ex-WoW player, vowing to never pay for MMO games again. So I played for free for a couple of months and enjoyed not having the "pressure" to get value for money that a monthly fee seems to induce. The decision to buy a mount using real $$'s came easily. A few more purchases later, I'd spend about $50 and felt I had got my moneys worth. I spend when *I* want, not when a certain date passes. I can take a break for a few weeks and nothing is lost (although a few purchases do have a time limit)
Say the passphrase was something like "I am going to kill the Queen", or maybe just something against a company policy eg if the passphrase was "my company's root admin password is JaBB3erw0cky". (I can't think of better examples right now, I'm sure something must be illegal to say in the UK? - other than "Lloyds is pants" of course)
By being forced to say the passphrase, in effect the government is forcing you to break the law, or reveal company secrets. I wonder what would happen....?
Someone should make a program that's easy to install and remove that makes Windows generate a BSOD (reliably) on startup. The BSOD might just be famous enough for the security guard to recognize it.
Inspector: Can you please start up the laptop sir? Owner: Sure thing, but it's been crashing on me lately. I've got to get my IT guy to look at... damn! It's done it again! Sh*t... I: Haha, my laptop was doin that when my kid messed wit it. O: That might explain it! As I recall, I let my son do his homework on it just last week and it's been acting weird since. Thanks for the tip! I: Hey, not a problem. Actually, I'm pertty good with the interweb too, cept once I went to one of them phishing site for some fishin tips, but even when I paid the stinkin $1 fee with my credit card, there weren't no tips or nothin! Just watch yourself sir, it's a crazy web out there. On your way!
The Sunday Herald reporter brought to our attention the possible compromise of a select portion of data at a single hotel; we investigated immediately and provided commentary.
It just could be a damage control response, but I'd say they have bigger problems on their hands if they denied it and it ended up that the original article was accurate.
Agreed, and heck, I'm a big Firefox advocate. But would you react the same way if the fault had been found in IE instead? A bug is a bug and needs to be fixed. Users will ALWAYS be users - that'll never change.
Something I've never understood about this problem: Why is the following not an easy "fix"?
1) Generate an MD5 hash for a file.
2) Generate an SHA-2 hash.
3).. more as needed...
4) Concatenate the results for a "super hash"
5) Profit?
Surely to manipulate 2 (or more) schemes to ensure the super hash is the same on a tampered file would be _many_ orders of magnitude harder?
Trying to make the SHA-2 match would destroy all the previous work done to make the MD5 match, then fixing the MD5 would change the SHA-2 again.
IANAC (cryptographer) so excuse my ignorance on this if I'm missing something.
how long before "they" start adding stuff like this malware at the microcode level? could this even be happening now? i mean how long were those little yellow dots being printed by thousands of printers before it was discovered?
So how long before someone writes an IF game that involves exploring the real caves and finding the source code about an IF game called Adventure thats about exploring the caves?
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A friend put me onto Runes of Magic (which uses Micro Transactions) as I was an ex-WoW player, vowing to never pay for MMO games again. So I played for free for a couple of months and enjoyed not having the "pressure" to get value for money that a monthly fee seems to induce. The decision to buy a mount using real $$'s came easily. A few more purchases later, I'd spend about $50 and felt I had got my moneys worth. I spend when *I* want, not when a certain date passes. I can take a break for a few weeks and nothing is lost (although a few purchases do have a time limit)
The model works very well!!
Why wouldn't you just attack the passphrase? Surely brute forcing even something like 733tPa55werd is easier than brute forcing the actual key?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN2XMyxAs5o
The insect world is FREAKY!
Say the passphrase was something like "I am going to kill the Queen", or maybe just something against a company policy eg if the passphrase was "my company's root admin password is JaBB3erw0cky". (I can't think of better examples right now, I'm sure something must be illegal to say in the UK? - other than "Lloyds is pants" of course)
By being forced to say the passphrase, in effect the government is forcing you to break the law, or reveal company secrets. I wonder what would happen....?
Maybe a bit of social engineering?
... damn! It's done it again! Sh*t...
Someone should make a program that's easy to install and remove that makes Windows generate a BSOD (reliably) on startup. The BSOD might just be famous enough for the security guard to recognize it.
Inspector: Can you please start up the laptop sir?
Owner: Sure thing, but it's been crashing on me lately. I've got to get my IT guy to look at
I: Haha, my laptop was doin that when my kid messed wit it.
O: That might explain it! As I recall, I let my son do his homework on it just last week and it's been acting weird since. Thanks for the tip!
I: Hey, not a problem. Actually, I'm pertty good with the interweb too, cept once I went to one of them phishing site for some fishin tips, but even when I paid the stinkin $1 fee with my credit card, there weren't no tips or nothin! Just watch yourself sir, it's a crazy web out there. On your way!
Hmmm, I haven't seen anyone else post this yet so here is a response from BW:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/best-western-responds-sunday-herald/story.aspx?guid=%7BA87F9682-AC67-4803-A135-B6ACF42C0956%7D&dist=hppr
The Sunday Herald reporter brought to our attention the possible compromise of a select portion of data at a single hotel; we investigated immediately and provided commentary.
It just could be a damage control response, but I'd say they have bigger problems on their hands if they denied it and it ended up that the original article was accurate.
Agreed, and heck, I'm a big Firefox advocate. But would you react the same way if the fault had been found in IE instead? A bug is a bug and needs to be fixed. Users will ALWAYS be users - that'll never change.
1) Generate an MD5 hash for a file.
2) Generate an SHA-2 hash.
3)
4) Concatenate the results for a "super hash"
5) Profit?
Surely to manipulate 2 (or more) schemes to ensure the super hash is the same on a tampered file would be _many_ orders of magnitude harder?
Trying to make the SHA-2 match would destroy all the previous work done to make the MD5 match, then fixing the MD5 would change the SHA-2 again.
IANAC (cryptographer) so excuse my ignorance on this if I'm missing something.
how long before "they" start adding stuff like this malware at the microcode level? could this even be happening now? i mean how long were those little yellow dots being printed by thousands of printers before it was discovered?
if people only read reputable news sources, revolt would be impossible.
the guy jumped the queue and was being aggressive and disorderly PRIOR to asking the question (no video apparently, but above is eyewitness account)
So how long before someone writes an IF game that involves exploring the real caves and finding the source code about an IF game called Adventure thats about exploring the caves?
...to get more pr0n??