Good article, good comments, (buy a normal stick & use Truecrypt etc.)
The question that the article raises is interesting - don't vendors and/or agencies check these things out? Apparantly not.
"Secustick importer Walter Preij has responded with surprise to our findings. 'The manufacturer assured me that the system is completely secure', he said." Ahem. Against who?
Have they never heard of CCT (CSIA Claims Tested) "A Government quality mark initiative for information security products and services. The CCT Mark Scheme offers accredited independent testing of commercial off-the-shelf products and services to help public sector organisations achieve a basic level of assurance for the products and services they use" and NIST?
They don't deserve to die just because they are big.
There's lots of business models in the movie industry. Can you compare Hollywood to Bollywood to 'Blair Witch'?
There are several steps to making a movie:
1. Creating / buying the 'original' story.
2. Organising / getting finance, (producing).
Here, options range of 'Get Shorty' (GREAT film) to the latest Wall St. financing packages. Whatever, it would appear that people will always manage to get cash to make films.
3. Making a movie - which has not really changed for decades, apart from CGI. Big budget, small budget,/= success either way.
4. Distribution = ROI.
With the rise of 'vertically integrated' companies - Sony springs to mind - attempts were made to leverage supposed synergies between content and distribution. These remain elusive - and yeah, I did not forget iTunes & iPod.
So, I guess my point is that the dinosaurs have a place, and could easily continue to thrive if they focus on what they are supposed to be doing - making great movies. The biggest hits easily repay their costs at the cinemas...
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From the article: '...ATI's new GPU... will ship with software that plays movies on Blu-ray discs. The AMD rep... said that the new chips will "block unauthorized access to the frame buffer." In short, that means an unauthorized party can't save the contents of the display to a file on disk unless the content owner approves it.'
Looks like things are going the same (unhappy) way that the HD-TV did. The web's full of dire stories about people suffering from IBM (Incompatible Bits of Machinery) - most of it shiny new and very expensive.
Imagine Vista on this... *shudders*
How long after release before DVD-Jon or someone else breaks this? Not long. It's just piss of the legit, non-expert user, like most DRM.
Yeah, and by Firefox 4.0 we'll have a fully-fledged open-source Office suite that can run offline. They could call it 'open office' or something like that...
Keep the faith - it's a new discussion & the post is on the way back up. Sure, there's some asshats out there who mod everything that does not praise Linux as 'troll', but they are in the minority. Fuck the karma whores - sign up Mr AC and post away!
"If/. were even more serious about keeping the crap out, they could disable the anonymous coward.."
There's a fine line between an effective system & censorship. Some posts by ACs are interesting, informative, funny... I'm happy reading the good stuff, and if that means I have to burn some time & points modding idiots or sickies down, well, that's a price worth paying.
All societies cost - I live in France, and hate paying the high taxes. On the other hand, when I travel to some other places, I miss the ameneties that those taxes bring me and my family.
How much code is out there that could be re-used, saving time & money, but we can't legally get to? It's a fork off the 'should software be protected by copyright or patent' debate. Sensibly, both patents and copyrights are limited in time, for just this reason. Holders of such rights are continually lobbying to extend them for unreasonable (to me) periods. Whilst I understand that an aging rock star would want to extend protection to - say - the end of his/her life, should this apply to s/w? How about a 'use it ir lose it' clause. Any s/w not actively marketed, supported and developed for 5 years, (which in an eternity in the tech world), should automatically become open source. Of course, anyone benefiting financially from this could/should contribute something to the owner of the rights...
Don't speak, or quote, too soon. Coupla points. 1. Increasingly, people are using these devices to store more than just mp3s. Pictures & video may not be just stuff ripped off the net - wanna see your family pics, or intimate videos, get posted or otherwise abused? More sensitive still, many people store files, (including dictation) on these devices. My brother in law is a lawyer; I spent a *long* time explaining to him what was so potentially dangerous in what he did with new technology. 2. Remember the infamous Sony rootkit? How long before we have a virus designed to collect DRM info on stuff on our iPods? *Puts tinfoil hat on*
Yes...and no. Saying that people should *never* get access to your hardware is not an excuse for not making it as secure as possible. Why design a secure keyboard interface? No point, right? Until you find a hardware keylogger plugged into your keyboard port - probably placed by a 'trusted' co-worker or boss.
It's not tools that make mobile telephone-based internet apps. succeed, it's the cost of your plan, and the quality / utility of the app. Here in Europe, we've have 2.5G, 3G and EDGE for a while - the biggest usage of mobiles, aprt from calling, is still SMS messages. WAP was a massive failure here - too slow, expensive and no perceived value. I-mode was a huge success in Japan - cheap, fast and loads of content.
I finally got a decent data plan here in France with my new Blackberry Pearl. So, I can download and use Google maps on the Pearl. It works really well and...I've only used it twice. The e-mail, on the other hand... But that's not a 'web' app.
Very true. Of course M$ learned from the (old) IBM that one of the best ways to protect your market was to ignore standards, or undermine them, whilst publicly supporting them. Not too sure about the 'extend and publish' part - that's one way that M$ undermines existing standards - by 'extending' them, (making everything else incompatible).
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/
has lots of info on this
And so, apart from the amazing advances in medical treatment, jet engines, the internet and the first electronic computers, WHAT has military-requested government funding ever done for us!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes
It would seem that the real problem is the lack of a labour-market test. The lottery system is simple, and gives a chance to people with no money, but clearly sub-optimal. If a US-company wants to recruit overseas, hell, why not? Paying for visa would perhaps address the concerns voiced above.
If the employer had to shell out - say - 100kUS per visa, well then perhaps they'd really consider local options, and not be so tempted to 'abuse' people they recruited.
What to do with the money? Easy, finance eductaion for people in the US who curently cannot afford it. Write your representative now!
In France, (I live there...uh, here), they got round this problem by building dedicated tracks. For most TGV trips, the train is running on a purpose-built, very straight line, not shared with any other traffic.
That's why the train is fast - no complex technology, just a powerful engine and a long, straight track. Note that the record was set on the latest section of track to be completed - not yet open to the public.
In the UK, they did not have this option, (no space), so wasted huge sums - more than the TGV cost - trying to develop a 'tilting' train to go fast round corners. Never worked. As a Brit, I'm so ashamed of my home country's infrastructure every time I go back...
Someone has said here, that the TGV was only possible because of strong French central government overruling local objections. That's true. Having said that, getting planning and property issues dealt with are still the major cause of delay in extending the TGV network. People also have to put up with the new TGV stations often being sited far away from traditional stations, i.e. not in town centres but in the middle of nowhere. Kinda destroys the 'ecology' argument when you must have a car in order to be able to get the train.
Another point is that the cost of building the lines is huge - if it was factored in to the price of the tickets, nobody would use the TGV.
If the Chinese Gov. stopped investing their massive trade surplus in US Gov. bonds, the Yun would come under even stronger pressure (to rise against the $)and the US economy would implode. Nobody wants this, especially the Chinese, since their major export market would promptly evaporate. The US wants cheap imports, (a major factor in recent inflation-free improvements in standards of living) and China wants the increase in wealth that the conversion from an agricultural to industrial economy brings. Everybody knows the whole thing is going to end in tears, but in the meantime... On another note, the largest 'virtual' curency in circulation is not this stuff, it's airmiles. The Economist reported (in 2005 - later figures anyone?) unredeemed airmiles amounting to over $ 700'000'000'000...
probably along the right lines - commercial jets have 'weather' radar. does not have the same resolution as military stuff, but could perhaps spot the turbulence created by the debris, (high speed, high temp, massive ionisation = big radar return)
Half right. Email is very useful for what most use it for - communicating information and data that does need to be secure, or presents a low security risk. It should not be used for sensitive information - that is the problem. To summarise other posts here, trying to secure email seems to be too hard to do - log into secure site instead...
Unless I missed it. Tried these two links..
http://www.kglug.org/index.php/Softwarehttp://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
Neither really gave the simple 'windows-user friendly' correspondance table one could wish for. How about it, guys?
And I don't mean 'word' = OO either. For example, I use 'Minitab' stats software a lot...anything out there?
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Richard, I know it's you, there's no point trying to redeem yourself, Steve still wants to see you in his office NOW!
And for the readers to do the same (firehose)...
Good article, good comments, (buy a normal stick & use Truecrypt etc.) The question that the article raises is interesting - don't vendors and/or agencies check these things out? Apparantly not. "Secustick importer Walter Preij has responded with surprise to our findings. 'The manufacturer assured me that the system is completely secure', he said." Ahem. Against who? Have they never heard of CCT (CSIA Claims Tested) "A Government quality mark initiative for information security products and services. The CCT Mark Scheme offers accredited independent testing of commercial off-the-shelf products and services to help public sector organisations achieve a basic level of assurance for the products and services they use" and NIST?
You were able to support your comments by looking at someone's profile. Then gotted modded to +4. Great - so why post as AC?
They don't deserve to die just because they are big. There's lots of business models in the movie industry. Can you compare Hollywood to Bollywood to 'Blair Witch'? There are several steps to making a movie: 1. Creating / buying the 'original' story. 2. Organising / getting finance, (producing). Here, options range of 'Get Shorty' (GREAT film) to the latest Wall St. financing packages. Whatever, it would appear that people will always manage to get cash to make films. 3. Making a movie - which has not really changed for decades, apart from CGI. Big budget, small budget, /= success either way.
4. Distribution = ROI.
With the rise of 'vertically integrated' companies - Sony springs to mind - attempts were made to leverage supposed synergies between content and distribution. These remain elusive - and yeah, I did not forget iTunes & iPod.
So, I guess my point is that the dinosaurs have a place, and could easily continue to thrive if they focus on what they are supposed to be doing - making great movies. The biggest hits easily repay their costs at the cinemas...
From the article: '...ATI's new GPU ... will ship with software that plays movies on Blu-ray discs. The AMD rep ... said that the new chips will "block unauthorized access to the frame buffer." In short, that means an unauthorized party can't save the contents of the display to a file on disk unless the content owner approves it.'
Looks like things are going the same (unhappy) way that the HD-TV did. The web's full of dire stories about people suffering from IBM (Incompatible Bits of Machinery) - most of it shiny new and very expensive.
Imagine Vista on this... *shudders*
How long after release before DVD-Jon or someone else breaks this? Not long. It's just piss of the legit, non-expert user, like most DRM.
Image the damage a 64-bit one could do!
Yeah, and by Firefox 4.0 we'll have a fully-fledged open-source Office suite that can run offline. They could call it 'open office' or something like that...
Good point. Was using the word more in terms of wartime censoring of mail rather in the global sense.
Keep the faith - it's a new discussion & the post is on the way back up. Sure, there's some asshats out there who mod everything that does not praise Linux as 'troll', but they are in the minority. Fuck the karma whores - sign up Mr AC and post away!
"If /. were even more serious about keeping the crap out, they could disable the anonymous coward.."
There's a fine line between an effective system & censorship. Some posts by ACs are interesting, informative, funny... I'm happy reading the good stuff, and if that means I have to burn some time & points modding idiots or sickies down, well, that's a price worth paying.
All societies cost - I live in France, and hate paying the high taxes. On the other hand, when I travel to some other places, I miss the ameneties that those taxes bring me and my family.
How much code is out there that could be re-used, saving time & money, but we can't legally get to? It's a fork off the 'should software be protected by copyright or patent' debate. Sensibly, both patents and copyrights are limited in time, for just this reason. Holders of such rights are continually lobbying to extend them for unreasonable (to me) periods. Whilst I understand that an aging rock star would want to extend protection to - say - the end of his/her life, should this apply to s/w? How about a 'use it ir lose it' clause. Any s/w not actively marketed, supported and developed for 5 years, (which in an eternity in the tech world), should automatically become open source. Of course, anyone benefiting financially from this could/should contribute something to the owner of the rights...
Don't speak, or quote, too soon. Coupla points. 1. Increasingly, people are using these devices to store more than just mp3s. Pictures & video may not be just stuff ripped off the net - wanna see your family pics, or intimate videos, get posted or otherwise abused? More sensitive still, many people store files, (including dictation) on these devices. My brother in law is a lawyer; I spent a *long* time explaining to him what was so potentially dangerous in what he did with new technology. 2. Remember the infamous Sony rootkit? How long before we have a virus designed to collect DRM info on stuff on our iPods? *Puts tinfoil hat on*
Yes...and no. Saying that people should *never* get access to your hardware is not an excuse for not making it as secure as possible. Why design a secure keyboard interface? No point, right? Until you find a hardware keylogger plugged into your keyboard port - probably placed by a 'trusted' co-worker or boss.
It's not tools that make mobile telephone-based internet apps. succeed, it's the cost of your plan, and the quality / utility of the app. Here in Europe, we've have 2.5G, 3G and EDGE for a while - the biggest usage of mobiles, aprt from calling, is still SMS messages. WAP was a massive failure here - too slow, expensive and no perceived value. I-mode was a huge success in Japan - cheap, fast and loads of content. I finally got a decent data plan here in France with my new Blackberry Pearl. So, I can download and use Google maps on the Pearl. It works really well and...I've only used it twice. The e-mail, on the other hand... But that's not a 'web' app.
Very true. Of course M$ learned from the (old) IBM that one of the best ways to protect your market was to ignore standards, or undermine them, whilst publicly supporting them. Not too sure about the 'extend and publish' part - that's one way that M$ undermines existing standards - by 'extending' them, (making everything else incompatible). http://www.consortiuminfo.org/ has lots of info on this
And so, apart from the amazing advances in medical treatment, jet engines, the internet and the first electronic computers, WHAT has military-requested government funding ever done for us! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes
Hmmm...bit unfair there mod. Neither interesting nor insightful, but flamebait?
It would seem that the real problem is the lack of a labour-market test. The lottery system is simple, and gives a chance to people with no money, but clearly sub-optimal. If a US-company wants to recruit overseas, hell, why not? Paying for visa would perhaps address the concerns voiced above. If the employer had to shell out - say - 100kUS per visa, well then perhaps they'd really consider local options, and not be so tempted to 'abuse' people they recruited. What to do with the money? Easy, finance eductaion for people in the US who curently cannot afford it. Write your representative now!
In France, (I live there...uh, here), they got round this problem by building dedicated tracks. For most TGV trips, the train is running on a purpose-built, very straight line, not shared with any other traffic. That's why the train is fast - no complex technology, just a powerful engine and a long, straight track. Note that the record was set on the latest section of track to be completed - not yet open to the public. In the UK, they did not have this option, (no space), so wasted huge sums - more than the TGV cost - trying to develop a 'tilting' train to go fast round corners. Never worked. As a Brit, I'm so ashamed of my home country's infrastructure every time I go back... Someone has said here, that the TGV was only possible because of strong French central government overruling local objections. That's true. Having said that, getting planning and property issues dealt with are still the major cause of delay in extending the TGV network. People also have to put up with the new TGV stations often being sited far away from traditional stations, i.e. not in town centres but in the middle of nowhere. Kinda destroys the 'ecology' argument when you must have a car in order to be able to get the train. Another point is that the cost of building the lines is huge - if it was factored in to the price of the tickets, nobody would use the TGV.
If the Chinese Gov. stopped investing their massive trade surplus in US Gov. bonds, the Yun would come under even stronger pressure (to rise against the $)and the US economy would implode. Nobody wants this, especially the Chinese, since their major export market would promptly evaporate. The US wants cheap imports, (a major factor in recent inflation-free improvements in standards of living) and China wants the increase in wealth that the conversion from an agricultural to industrial economy brings. Everybody knows the whole thing is going to end in tears, but in the meantime... On another note, the largest 'virtual' curency in circulation is not this stuff, it's airmiles. The Economist reported (in 2005 - later figures anyone?) unredeemed airmiles amounting to over $ 700'000'000'000...
probably along the right lines - commercial jets have 'weather' radar. does not have the same resolution as military stuff, but could perhaps spot the turbulence created by the debris, (high speed, high temp, massive ionisation = big radar return)
Thanks, I'll take a look
Half right. Email is very useful for what most use it for - communicating information and data that does need to be secure, or presents a low security risk. It should not be used for sensitive information - that is the problem. To summarise other posts here, trying to secure email seems to be too hard to do - log into secure site instead...
Unless I missed it. Tried these two links.. http://www.kglug.org/index.php/Software http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
Neither really gave the simple 'windows-user friendly' correspondance table one could wish for. How about it, guys?
And I don't mean 'word' = OO either. For example, I use 'Minitab' stats software a lot...anything out there?