He wants to backup and encrypt not only his files but also his OS installation and all the programs he has installed on it, which makes sense as installing all that crap manually can be a pain. That is not even considering serials and stupid x-strikes DRM schemes.
So he should also record the MAC on each network adapter, and the serial number of each drive (or at least on his Windows partition). There are many licensing schemes which still rely on one or other of these being invariant. The replacement system would have to fake them convincingly enough.
If you're not logged in as root (and many linuxes strongly discourage it), you'd need a sudo in front of that. Anyway,
sudo srm -rz/*
would work better, as it will wipe many jounaled file systems. Both would leave fragments around on NFS volumes, however.
While you're at it, don't forget to leave the shred or srm command until last, after you've cleaned "empty" space and the swap file. To clean empty space, first fill it with:
sudo scrub -X -s 1G /
Some versions of scrub will also remove the files securely after making them, but others don't. So it's best to securely delete them in a separate step. The swap partition should be wiped with:
sudo swapoff -a
sudo umount -f/dev/swap_partition
sudo sswap -z/dev/swap_partition
Then you can issue the shred or srm command, leaving you a nice clean unbootable system.
The China allegations were first shared with United States officials last year by an unnamed whistle-blower who had worked with Microsoft in the country
I don't know who this "whistle blower" was...
Someone whose whistle was not blown well enough, it seems.
Don't spread the MAFIAA's FUD for them. File sharing is already legal. "File sharing" and "copyright infringement" are not the same thing.
Indeed. And there is a lot of music available which is either in the Public Domain, or under one of the Creative Commons licenses. For instance, excellent recent recordings of classical music were released as 320kbps MP3 and as lossless tracks, and these are explicitly in the Public Domain. Lots more (typically electronic & rock & metal & house, etc.) can be found at the Netlabels collections. MusOpen typically has classical music, and also has some PD or CC sheet music.
Share away, with these files. Upload, download, give away, stream, sell, whatever. And quite legally. Just about the only thing you can't do with Public Domain stuff is claim that you own the copyright, or that you act on behalf of the copyright owner. Either copyright has expired, or it was never copyrighted to begin with.
arrogantly expecting that some of your descendants might actually take an interest in your life...
At best, they're likely to have it synopsized by some AI which is tasked with going through it, and through the better records left by intermediate descendants. The synopsis is likely to be short: "dude lived, had kids, then died". Another likelihood is that most of them won't care at all.
That would be "troll porn", probably a relatively obscure fetish.
This story is tending towards "porn troll porn", which might even become widely known.
XP is your issue, not flash. Upgrade to a linux distro.
Indeed. This post is written on a 2004 laptop with a 1.7GHz Celeron processor. It has a Mobility Radeon 9600 with WUXGA display and 1GB of RAM (does not support more), but the HD was upgraded a few years ago. It's almost 9 years old, but runs fine with Xubuntu 12.04, and has had different flavors of Ubuntu/Xubuntu since the beta of Breezy. Oh, and flash works fine here. So does Libre Office, and Gimp, and Geeqie, and Inkscape, and Thunderbird, and Handbrake, and Xcas, and various browsers and so on.
Only as long as it takes to convince China that they need our purchasing power more than they need to protect the twerps in Pyongyang.
In which meaning do you use the word "need" here?
There are several possibilities, and you apparently have not considered all of them. First, an economic need in the supplier-customer relationship, in both short-term and long-term variants. The purchasing power of a customer speaks only to this one. Second, the political needs of China, also in short-term and long-term variants. It may be more attractive to China to encourage Pyongyang's lunacy as a recurring barb against the USA, with all of the geopolitical benefits accruing therefrom. Third, the need of a customer (USA) to bludgeon an old friend (North Korea). For this, neither economic nor political issues may determine the outcome; the old friend is supported through thick and thin.
If I wanted an artists conception of something I could visit the Louvre.
Luckily, the actual paper can be found though a link in TFA. The images in question are at the top of pages 3 and 4. An artist's impression was probably thought necessary for the less erudite (i.e. the ignorant masses, including most graduates in business and liberal arts).
First, running an SSD on an "industrial device"
Second, using FAT
Third, "commercial journaling FS". What does that even mean?
If you are industrial, where is your UPS?
First, there was no choice, and there will be none even in future versions of that vendor's device as a component of the one we make. A spinning disk solution would be far too power intensive, and much too bulky as well.
Second, only FAT was supported by the vendor's firmware at that time (they made improvements later).
Third, here's one. And it's not ext3 and has nothing to do with NTFS.
Fourth, you're joking (for one thing, a 30-minute UPS would not fit in the space available, even if the rest of the device were omitted). Or you're just another stupid troll. Or you utterly fail to understand that industrial devices must survive unexpected power-outages intact, even if they have a UPS with huge batteries or an always-on MG-set. Remember, even a power cable can fail suddenly, or the MG-set can get an abrupt fuel line blockage, and so forth.
We encountered extensive and progresssive file corruption on SSDs in an industrial device. It used the FAT file system, and after every loss of power, it ran its equivalent of chkdsk/f at the next boot. If power was lost again while this command was running, then it was guaranteed that the file system would become corrupt (despite the fact that we were writing nothing to the SSD; it held only files which were opened for reading). The window of opportunity was described as "very short", and the possibility of corruption was "very small" according to the vendor. In our experience in the field, and in our internal testing, the window of opportunity exceeded 20 seconds, and the possibility of corruption was "utter certainty".
The vendor fixed the problem in a very easy way. They changed the file system from FAT to a commercial journaling FS. In our subsequent tests, we never found any file corruption, even on iterated power loss at random intervals after power on.
Yep. I'll also give a nod to the Apricorn devices, which we use quite a bit. They are OS-independent (we're Linux-only at home) and require no drivers beyond basic USB, with all of the AES encryption and authorization being internal to the device[*]. They have SSD and spinning disk and USB stick devices, with fingerprint or passcode authorization.
[*] Unlike the crappy Buffalo "encrypted" drives which need OSX or Windows drivers to decrypt. Hence they might be vulnerable to simpler attacks than the Apricorn devices (e.g. getting passwords via IEEE1394). And their encryption won't work on Linux or BSD.
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He wants to backup and encrypt not only his files but also his OS installation and all the programs he has installed on it, which makes sense as installing all that crap manually can be a pain. That is not even considering serials and stupid x-strikes DRM schemes.
So he should also record the MAC on each network adapter, and the serial number of each drive (or at least on his Windows partition). There are many licensing schemes which still rely on one or other of these being invariant. The replacement system would have to fake them convincingly enough.
However, if you listen to things like Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture", you will notice just how crappy lossy codecs really are.
Exactly. Wagner's "Kill the Wabbit" was ruined in precisely this way...
shred -fuz /*
If you're not logged in as root (and many linuxes strongly discourage it), you'd need a sudo in front of that. Anyway, /*
sudo srm -rz
would work better, as it will wipe many jounaled file systems. Both would leave fragments around on NFS volumes, however.
While you're at it, don't forget to leave the shred or srm command until last, after you've cleaned "empty" space and the swap file. To clean empty space, first fill it with: /dev/swap_partition /dev/swap_partition
sudo scrub -X -s 1G /
Some versions of scrub will also remove the files securely after making them, but others don't. So it's best to securely delete them in a separate step. The swap partition should be wiped with:
sudo swapoff -a
sudo umount -f
sudo sswap -z
Then you can issue the shred or srm command, leaving you a nice clean unbootable system.
NO, NO, NO.
The China allegations were first shared with United States officials last year by an unnamed whistle-blower who had worked with Microsoft in the country
I don't know who this "whistle blower" was ...
Someone whose whistle was not blown well enough, it seems.
Don't spread the MAFIAA's FUD for them. File sharing is already legal. "File sharing" and "copyright infringement" are not the same thing.
Indeed. And there is a lot of music available which is either in the Public Domain, or under one of the Creative Commons licenses. For instance, excellent recent recordings of classical music were released as 320kbps MP3 and as lossless tracks, and these are explicitly in the Public Domain. Lots more (typically electronic & rock & metal & house, etc.) can be found at the Netlabels collections. MusOpen typically has classical music, and also has some PD or CC sheet music.
Share away, with these files. Upload, download, give away, stream, sell, whatever. And quite legally. Just about the only thing you can't do with Public Domain stuff is claim that you own the copyright, or that you act on behalf of the copyright owner. Either copyright has expired, or it was never copyrighted to begin with.
First Amendment? It's continuously being whittled away.
I'll just leave this example here.
arrogantly expecting that some of your descendants might actually take an interest in your life...
At best, they're likely to have it synopsized by some AI which is tasked with going through it, and through the better records left by intermediate descendants. The synopsis is likely to be short: "dude lived, had kids, then died". Another likelihood is that most of them won't care at all.
Is porn troll a new fetish?
That would be "troll porn", probably a relatively obscure fetish.
This story is tending towards "porn troll porn", which might even become widely known.
XP is your issue, not flash. Upgrade to a linux distro.
Indeed. This post is written on a 2004 laptop with a 1.7GHz Celeron processor. It has a Mobility Radeon 9600 with WUXGA display and 1GB of RAM (does not support more), but the HD was upgraded a few years ago. It's almost 9 years old, but runs fine with Xubuntu 12.04, and has had different flavors of Ubuntu/Xubuntu since the beta of Breezy. Oh, and flash works fine here. So does Libre Office, and Gimp, and Geeqie, and Inkscape, and Thunderbird, and Handbrake, and Xcas, and various browsers and so on.
OS2 Warp and ... ... ...
was anything ever written to run on OS2 Warp?
Well, there was the AC/2 application. But it failed because it was smarter than 99.999% of actual ACs.
I think he reached 11. So it can be done!
Only as long as it takes to convince China that they need our purchasing power more than they need to protect the twerps in Pyongyang.
In which meaning do you use the word "need" here?
There are several possibilities, and you apparently have not considered all of them. First, an economic need in the supplier-customer relationship, in both short-term and long-term variants. The purchasing power of a customer speaks only to this one. Second, the political needs of China, also in short-term and long-term variants. It may be more attractive to China to encourage Pyongyang's lunacy as a recurring barb against the USA, with all of the geopolitical benefits accruing therefrom. Third, the need of a customer (USA) to bludgeon an old friend (North Korea). For this, neither economic nor political issues may determine the outcome; the old friend is supported through thick and thin.
E-monocle
For even more pretension, and less function, try an e-lorgnette.
So, is the damned cat dead or alive?
Yes. But there are two cats, and we're not sure which is alive and which is dead.
I think you mis-spelled ruin.
If I wanted an artists conception of something I could visit the Louvre.
Luckily, the actual paper can be found though a link in TFA. The images in question are at the top of pages 3 and 4. An artist's impression was probably thought necessary for the less erudite (i.e. the ignorant masses, including most graduates in business and liberal arts).
My first response is "Must check out those sites".
If you're in the UK, you may wish to use a VPN or suchlike. Until they're made illegal outside "reputable corporations".
First, running an SSD on an "industrial device"
Second, using FAT
Third, "commercial journaling FS". What does that even mean?
If you are industrial, where is your UPS?
First, there was no choice, and there will be none even in future versions of that vendor's device as a component of the one we make. A spinning disk solution would be far too power intensive, and much too bulky as well.
Second, only FAT was supported by the vendor's firmware at that time (they made improvements later).
Third, here's one. And it's not ext3 and has nothing to do with NTFS.
Fourth, you're joking (for one thing, a 30-minute UPS would not fit in the space available, even if the rest of the device were omitted). Or you're just another stupid troll. Or you utterly fail to understand that industrial devices must survive unexpected power-outages intact, even if they have a UPS with huge batteries or an always-on MG-set. Remember, even a power cable can fail suddenly, or the MG-set can get an abrupt fuel line blockage, and so forth.
We encountered extensive and progresssive file corruption on SSDs in an industrial device. It used the FAT file system, and after every loss of power, it ran its equivalent of chkdsk/f at the next boot. If power was lost again while this command was running, then it was guaranteed that the file system would become corrupt (despite the fact that we were writing nothing to the SSD; it held only files which were opened for reading). The window of opportunity was described as "very short", and the possibility of corruption was "very small" according to the vendor. In our experience in the field, and in our internal testing, the window of opportunity exceeded 20 seconds, and the possibility of corruption was "utter certainty".
The vendor fixed the problem in a very easy way. They changed the file system from FAT to a commercial journaling FS. In our subsequent tests, we never found any file corruption, even on iterated power loss at random intervals after power on.
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The hosts troll is a robot? Somehow, I'm not surprised.
The Harper Government has a hard-on for the F35 and the Canadian public really has no idea WHY.
It's obvious, really. The F35 is much cheaper reputation-wise. What politician would like it to be known that they needed Viagra to get it up?
Yep. I'll also give a nod to the Apricorn devices, which we use quite a bit. They are OS-independent (we're Linux-only at home) and require no drivers beyond basic USB, with all of the AES encryption and authorization being internal to the device[*]. They have SSD and spinning disk and USB stick devices, with fingerprint or passcode authorization.
[*] Unlike the crappy Buffalo "encrypted" drives which need OSX or Windows drivers to decrypt. Hence they might be vulnerable to simpler attacks than the Apricorn devices (e.g. getting passwords via IEEE1394). And their encryption won't work on Linux or BSD.
Or perhaps some persons were enjoying giving the "enhanced pat-downs" even more than watching the nudie videos.
Hollande!
And they're only planning to make a plan, according to the story title.
Editors, indeed!