I read what you suggested. This caught my attention:
-Run your iPhone app in the simulator on your Mac, works great side-by-side with Xcode
-Introducing brand new iPhone dev tool: iPhone Simulator
-See peaks and valleys, realtime data, timeline view, multiple data tracks -Can connect to iPhone like the remote debugger and see live performance of your app on your Mac from the iPhone> So I would use the iPhone only as backend for an app running on the MAC? It's still a bit confusing, but I guess I got the general idea. I wonder if that's gonna work. Anyway, thanks for the clarification.
Just because there is a simulator, does not mean you cannot also load the app onto the phone directly - they showed a demo of an app being pushed to the phone and then also being debugged (from the Mac side) while it ran, including gathering profiling data.
It's basically the best scenario you could have hoped for as a developer. If that's true, I stand corrected, but that raises a different issue. Since that's the case, it will be a matter of (little) time before the iPhone hacking community is able to use that same deature to upload apps to iPhone, thus bypassing iTunes Store. It would be an alternate way to crack the phone open (that would necessarily have to survive updates).
I might have missed something, but it was sort of unclear to me whether developers are required to submit the source code or not. I wonder how are they going to enforce some of the restrictions imposed on the programs (no porn, no voip over edge, no malicious apps) if they don't have access to the source code (maybe keeping a team of reversers on the clock?).
It seems testing is gonna be restricted to the iPhone simulator, since the only way to get the app into the phone is through the store. That's a really bad thing. There are lots of things that cannot be tested in the simulated, especially those related to the iPhone's innovative accessibility features (multitouch, accelerometer). How are we supposed to use a simulator to test applications that make use of that, like some games, for instance?
Let get it straight. The person is declared dead by SSA, right? That means that everything else is ok, right? So, if someone with a really bad credit history, or that has filed for bankruptcy can take advantage of that and simply file for a new SSN. Plain and simple, brand new credit history (yet to be built, but new anyway). Lucky bastard!
I had some pages back in 97 where many objects (mostly images) were loaded from geographically different servers. Do I get a piece of this? How should I proceed to get my money?
Usually government branches that deal with intelligence matters require US citizenship for recruitment. In realizing that the intellect power regarding information security/hacking throughout the USA is not exclusive to US citizens, but in fact it is spread out through a group of people that includes many international students and/or workers, how do you plan to structure this task force towards recruiting foreign nationals?
If some people had the time to RTFA, it would be more than clear that the technique being used in this attack is applicable to ANY CAPTCHA SYSTEM, and nto only GMAIL's. This is a variation of the widely publicized Chinese CAPTCHA Attack (or Porn Site Attack), where you get cheap labor (chinese version) or horny fellows (porn site) to answer CAPTCHAs for a prize (money or satisfaction). What happens is that the CAPTCHA Breaking Server offers money to people (redeemable 3 dollars minimun a day) for answering CAPTCHAs. When Von Ahn formalized the ideas behind the CAPTCHA paradigm de did so to exemplify a concept he calls "Human Computation", using human brain brain cycles to do jobs that computers are inefficient at (check: www.recaptcha.com ). This is the whole point behind CAPTHCAs, and behind this particular CAPTCHA breaking system. This idea of having a buch of people answering CAPTCHAs has been discussed since the very begining of the paradigm. I guess theory becomes practice after all.
Titanium dioxide is a strong photocatalyst and in the presence of ultraviolet light and water vapor, it forms hydroxyl radicals, which oxidize, or decompose, organic matter. "These nanocrystals cannot decompose wool and are harmless to skin," Translation:
Titanium dioxide destroys organic matter, like your skin, which is btw immune to this destruction. They sure have to come up with a better advertisement text, because this one sounds just a bit scary.
just develop a system that takes advantage of this you mean like a distributed peer to peer network of users that would serve tiny parts of a larger file to each other, thus making the download session for each of this part fit the speed bust grace period and as a consequence would make the entire large file be downloaded with the increased bust speed? That's just Genius!
Usually, good conferences and journals have an anonymous peer review process. I find if very odd that google researchers chose to publicize their paper before the peer review process is done. That is at least lack of decorum, IMO.
The key published in tuaw's erica sadun's blog post is NOT the iphone's application signing key (as wrongly infered by Scheneier).
The key is actually an AES key for the DMG ram disk image file that is part of the iphone firmware update process. Nothing to do with application signing. The key doesn't even have enough size to be mistaken for an usable RSA key (I wonder if Scheier has noticed that).
Anyone can check that out on the various iPhone hacking blogs (and also on the very same one that posted this key in the first place).
People should get their facts straight before spreading misinformation.
Let me make my point more clear. Imagine a building on fire. Among the people trapped inside it, Scheneier is the guy who keeps running around screaming: "Wee all gonna burn to death!"
Bruce Scheneier specializes himself on saying the obvious about the chaos. In other words, he is an expert on publicizing what most serious researches already know about general security flaws and problems. I dare anyone to find any real, down to earth, proposal from this man that would mitigate any of the problems he so easily evidentiates.
Either the guy has regretted lying so bluntly or this is just another example of the media overreacting (and in this case media means Erica Sadun, PhD in GATECH, for christ sake!!!).
Wanna bet this is just the MD5 hash of the PUBLIC KEY??? Mark my words: PUBLIC KEY
My guess is they were able to retrieve this key though some reversing and then jumped the gun into concluding this was the actual private key (when in fact it's the public one). Since they were so very excited about the discovery they publish the hash. I hope I'm wrong and there's some Apple insider that is helping these folks out.
If someone is asked to give her passphrase, and she is not under oath (i.e. in a police investigation), it is possible to just lie, right? In the other hand, if the person is under oath (i.e. in court), she cannot lie, but providing such information would constitute self-incriminating testimony, and that would infringe the 5th amendment. Does that make any sense?
What are you talking about? You say it like every single cause that is against the status quo (and politically inclined) is in same way wrong! You're equaling paradigm change to belief change, and they are totally different (though sometimes they overlap).
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-Run your iPhone app in the simulator on your Mac, works great side-by-side with Xcode
-Introducing brand new iPhone dev tool: iPhone Simulator
-See peaks and valleys, realtime data, timeline view, multiple data tracks
-Can connect to iPhone like the remote debugger and see live performance of your app on your Mac from the iPhone>
So I would use the iPhone only as backend for an app running on the MAC? It's still a bit confusing, but I guess I got the general idea. I wonder if that's gonna work. Anyway, thanks for the clarification.
I might have missed something, but it was sort of unclear to me whether developers are required to submit the source code or not. I wonder how are they going to enforce some of the restrictions imposed on the programs (no porn, no voip over edge, no malicious apps) if they don't have access to the source code (maybe keeping a team of reversers on the clock?).
It seems testing is gonna be restricted to the iPhone simulator, since the only way to get the app into the phone is through the store. That's a really bad thing. There are lots of things that cannot be tested in the simulated, especially those related to the iPhone's innovative accessibility features (multitouch, accelerometer). How are we supposed to use a simulator to test applications that make use of that, like some games, for instance?
Let get it straight. The person is declared dead by SSA, right? That means that everything else is ok, right? So, if someone with a really bad credit history, or that has filed for bankruptcy can take advantage of that and simply file for a new SSN. Plain and simple, brand new credit history (yet to be built, but new anyway). Lucky bastard!
I had some pages back in 97 where many objects (mostly images) were loaded from geographically different servers. Do I get a piece of this? How should I proceed to get my money?
Usually government branches that deal with intelligence matters require US citizenship for recruitment. In realizing that the intellect power regarding information security/hacking throughout the USA is not exclusive to US citizens, but in fact it is spread out through a group of people that includes many international students and/or workers, how do you plan to structure this task force towards recruiting foreign nationals?
Has Slashdot got slashdotted?
If some people had the time to RTFA, it would be more than clear that the technique being used in this attack is applicable to ANY CAPTCHA SYSTEM, and nto only GMAIL's. This is a variation of the widely publicized Chinese CAPTCHA Attack (or Porn Site Attack), where you get cheap labor (chinese version) or horny fellows (porn site) to answer CAPTCHAs for a prize (money or satisfaction). What happens is that the CAPTCHA Breaking Server offers money to people (redeemable 3 dollars minimun a day) for answering CAPTCHAs. When Von Ahn formalized the ideas behind the CAPTCHA paradigm de did so to exemplify a concept he calls "Human Computation", using human brain brain cycles to do jobs that computers are inefficient at (check: www.recaptcha.com ). This is the whole point behind CAPTHCAs, and behind this particular CAPTCHA breaking system. This idea of having a buch of people answering CAPTCHAs has been discussed since the very begining of the paradigm. I guess theory becomes practice after all.
The video is more enlightening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs
Titanium dioxide destroys organic matter, like your skin, which is btw immune to this destruction. They sure have to come up with a better advertisement text, because this one sounds just a bit scary.
Great! A keyboard that is no good for typing! How much more can they innovate?
Usually, good conferences and journals have an anonymous peer review process. I find if very odd that google researchers chose to publicize their paper before the peer review process is done. That is at least lack of decorum, IMO.
The key published in tuaw's erica sadun's blog post is NOT the iphone's application signing key (as wrongly infered by Scheneier).
The key is actually an AES key for the DMG ram disk image file that is part of the iphone firmware update process. Nothing to do with application signing. The key doesn't even have enough size to be mistaken for an usable RSA key (I wonder if Scheier has noticed that).
Anyone can check that out on the various iPhone hacking blogs (and also on the very same one that posted this key in the first place).
People should get their facts straight before spreading misinformation.
we asked you for tech-oriented questions we could
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I'm a college graduate with a decent job, (...) I smoke pot (...) etc, etc, etc
And that's a tech-oriented question because...?
Let me make my point more clear. Imagine a building on fire. Among the people trapped inside it, Scheneier is the guy who keeps running around screaming: "Wee all gonna burn to death!"
And you think that's the reason Scheneier does what he does, right?
Bruce Scheneier specializes himself on saying the obvious about the chaos. In other words, he is an expert on publicizing what most serious researches already know about general security flaws and problems. I dare anyone to find any real, down to earth, proposal from this man that would mitigate any of the problems he so easily evidentiates.
Just check: http://zibree.blogspot.com/2008/01/seda-give.html
Either the guy has regretted lying so bluntly or this is just another example of the media overreacting (and in this case media means Erica Sadun, PhD in GATECH, for christ sake!!!).
Wanna bet this is just the MD5 hash of the PUBLIC KEY??? Mark my words: PUBLIC KEY
My guess is they were able to retrieve this key though some reversing and then jumped the gun into concluding this was the actual private key (when in fact it's the public one). Since they were so very excited about the discovery they publish the hash. I hope I'm wrong and there's some Apple insider that is helping these folks out.
Finally! Someone that understands my value!!!
If someone is asked to give her passphrase, and she is not under oath (i.e. in a police investigation), it is possible to just lie, right? In the other hand, if the person is under oath (i.e. in court), she cannot lie, but providing such information would constitute self-incriminating testimony, and that would infringe the 5th amendment. Does that make any sense?
What are you talking about? You say it like every single cause that is against the status quo (and politically inclined) is in same way wrong! You're equaling paradigm change to belief change, and they are totally different (though sometimes they overlap).