If you are talking about using TLS to ensure authenticity of a source, then SPF does that (somewhat). If a message claims to be from domain X, and domain X uses SPF and already only allows messages from their servers, then that message is from domain X. TLS, as far as authenticity goes would add nothing. The only difference is that spammers would now also have to buy a TLS cert.
About the only attacks that TLS would pervent would be IP spoofing. These days, that is very, very hard.
Stronghold began as a commerial SSL-enabled version of Apache, when zero-cost SSL modules were non-existant and/or crappy. At some point RH bought out Stronghold-Inc. Im supprised that RedHat still supports Stronghold at all, frankly. It is unclear if the latest version is still a sepearate product, or comes with RHEL 3 only. Beh.
The spammers may not have won if they havent gotten their mail to eyeballs. But sysadmins, people who pay for hardware, bandwidth, have lost as soon as it hits the server.
At the last marketing-day I was at (IBM/Linux), IBM talked about how it uses Linux on their new fab plant. The largest ever IBM investement. The largest ever investement in New York state. $5,000,000,000. Construction costs. Expected life span: 5 years. I find it unlikely that IBM looses money at that level.
First rule of international travelling: keep your personal papers (sory if that is a loaded word, esp in this story: some ID, passport, cash, travelers cheques) on your person at ALL TIME. Ideally, have a travel companion hold some additional ID, but if you have no friends at the very least distribute your ID around. Inside pockets, money belt, whatever. Especially keep your passport in a sepearate spot from everything else. Your breifcase does not count as on your person.
Back (way back), perhaps pre-"computer", IBM considered not charging for hardware. They would make all there money via the sale of punchcards. I shit you not.
IBM wrote the book on questionable legal tatics. They once faced DOJ monopoly litigation just as MS has. They have shelved the book, right beside the IBM Songbook, but it is within easy reach.
Going with an insanly complex and redundent SAN can cost up to $0.30/mb, as opposed to $0.0013/mb consumer grade stuff costs. But yes, that is a rather insanely small quota for a work account.
Well, some businesses see customer service and quality products - short term cost centers that are short term bad for business - good in the long run. Microsoft, OTOH, in the long run has its monopoly to fall back on.
I think the worst that could happen is that you get screwed out of a days work - work that you intended to be GPLd. Let me explain:
Evolution is in a public CVS repository. I dont know if they have ever given non-staffers +w permissions, but lets say for the sake of argument, that even if they do, you are not one of them. Thus your code has to be review by a staffer. Lets say that that takes 24 hours.
As soon as your code is accepted and put into CVS, you can check it back out, under the GPL. The GPL is non-revokeable. Now having GPL rights to the code is not exactly the same as having ownership of it. Legally it is very different. Pragmaticly, as soon as it is in the public CVS your goal of submitting code the public good has happened. If you are very paranoid, only give them small chunks at a time, making sure that you can checkout your work before you give them more.
What you have lost is the right to take that part of Evolution and close it, sell it as closed code. Now, since you dont own the rights to the other 99% of Evolution, not much lost. Furthermore, Evolution is a fairly large and complex beast so unless you are working on it full time, I think it is unlikely that you could possibly contribute anything that would be usefull outside of Evolution. That is, your doing bugfixes, implementing minor features.
But what if your work is generic stuff that could be used outside Evolution? Do this: write it up as a library. Release the library under whatever license you want - retaining the ownership, and the right to sell it as closed code - and then only give Novell patches to Evolution such that it takes advantage of your library.
Not that I dont agree with the general statement, but the Nazis were using computer punch cards in the 1930s to keep track of Jews. And, I suppose, you could say that the US Government was doing so as far back as 1890; that Czarist Russia was doing so in 1896, insofar as they were using punch cards in Censuses.
Well, that kind of code could very well be a one time pad. So unless the spooks get a hold of one of your code books, you're golden. And if a spook has gotten a hold of one of your code books, that also means they have gotten a hold of one of your buddies. And chances are that your buddies are hepped up on LSD in Gt'mo by the time you figgure it out.
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About the only attacks that TLS would pervent would be IP spoofing. These days, that is very, very hard.
What would TLS add?
Short answer, likely not.
Id guess extreemly bright flash. Loosleaf is somewhat transparent, the parts written on less so.
Someone actually want to link to a reference where this statement was made?
The spammers may not have won if they havent gotten their mail to eyeballs. But sysadmins, people who pay for hardware, bandwidth, have lost as soon as it hits the server.
Is never, under any circumstances, lick your fingers.
At the last marketing-day I was at (IBM/Linux), IBM talked about how it uses Linux on their new fab plant. The largest ever IBM investement. The largest ever investement in New York state. $5,000,000,000. Construction costs. Expected life span: 5 years. I find it unlikely that IBM looses money at that level.
First rule of international travelling: keep your personal papers (sory if that is a loaded word, esp in this story: some ID, passport, cash, travelers cheques) on your person at ALL TIME. Ideally, have a travel companion hold some additional ID, but if you have no friends at the very least distribute your ID around. Inside pockets, money belt, whatever. Especially keep your passport in a sepearate spot from everything else. Your breifcase does not count as on your person.
Back (way back), perhaps pre-"computer", IBM considered not charging for hardware. They would make all there money via the sale of punchcards. I shit you not.
OMFG. I cant beleive that someone brought up NIS/YP. You are doing new installs of NIS/YP beyond 1990? Wow. That is insane.
IBM wrote the book on questionable legal tatics. They once faced DOJ monopoly litigation just as MS has. They have shelved the book, right beside the IBM Songbook, but it is within easy reach.
As for passwords, what would be _realy_ cool is if they stored them in plantext, and allowed chalange/response authentication, or better yet, SASL.
Going with an insanly complex and redundent SAN can cost up to $0.30/mb, as opposed to $0.0013/mb consumer grade stuff costs. But yes, that is a rather insanely small quota for a work account.
Well, some businesses see customer service and quality products - short term cost centers that are short term bad for business - good in the long run. Microsoft, OTOH, in the long run has its monopoly to fall back on.
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As soon as your code is accepted and put into CVS, you can check it back out, under the GPL. The GPL is non-revokeable. Now having GPL rights to the code is not exactly the same as having ownership of it. Legally it is very different. Pragmaticly, as soon as it is in the public CVS your goal of submitting code the public good has happened. If you are very paranoid, only give them small chunks at a time, making sure that you can checkout your work before you give them more.
What you have lost is the right to take that part of Evolution and close it, sell it as closed code. Now, since you dont own the rights to the other 99% of Evolution, not much lost. Furthermore, Evolution is a fairly large and complex beast so unless you are working on it full time, I think it is unlikely that you could possibly contribute anything that would be usefull outside of Evolution. That is, your doing bugfixes, implementing minor features.
But what if your work is generic stuff that could be used outside Evolution? Do this: write it up as a library. Release the library under whatever license you want - retaining the ownership, and the right to sell it as closed code - and then only give Novell patches to Evolution such that it takes advantage of your library.
But how is that at all like the parent post?
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Not that I dont agree with the general statement, but the Nazis were using computer punch cards in the 1930s to keep track of Jews. And, I suppose, you could say that the US Government was doing so as far back as 1890; that Czarist Russia was doing so in 1896, insofar as they were using punch cards in Censuses.
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