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  1. Re:So how do I know... on IBM To Unveil Secure Open Wireless At Black Hat · · Score: 1

    probably because x.509 certs used to use MD5 for their signature hashes, however as they use SHA1 mostly now, and if they don't change your certificate/certificate authority.

  2. Re:I could be wrong but... on IBM To Unveil Secure Open Wireless At Black Hat · · Score: 2

    yes, but on the other side of the starbucks gateway you are trusting every network that packet gets routed through anyway, every router. Unless one uses HTTPS. This is true on your private network too.

  3. Re:I could be wrong but... on IBM To Unveil Secure Open Wireless At Black Hat · · Score: 2

    Urm, no, one only needs the MAC address and channel. And one tends to be able to pull out the SSID out of the air even if it's hidden anyway. And can definitely pull out the MAC addresses and know what channel it's on.

  4. Re:Seriously? on Ripping CDs Set To Be Legalized In UK · · Score: 2

    Close that one, and youtube, vimeo, dailymotion.... would also be illegal to watch without a TV licence. We have an issue that TV licence does not work, and is even more broken when applied to the internet.

  5. Re:Detox danger:Trendy colon cleansing a risky rit on NASA's Plan To Clean Up Space Program Launch Site Contamination · · Score: 1

    I thought that was basically every defense contractor the US military has that has an R&D budget?

  6. Re:Good plan... on Pakistan Tries To Ban Encryption · · Score: 2

    Hell, courtesans were popular in most European courts (including in Italy, right outside the Vatican) until about 150 years ago. It was the Victorian age that defined pornography and prostitution as bad.

  7. Re:Good plan... on Pakistan Tries To Ban Encryption · · Score: 2

    I would like to point out that it's international telecommunications union regulations that ban encryption on amateur wavelengths, and it is fine as amateur radio is for the purpose of research and learning about radio technology. Not research into encryption systems.

  8. Re:Yet Another Lack of Understanding on Could the KGB Infiltrate LulzSec? · · Score: 1

    Neither can the news media. It's like me just putting flyers up to join a protest rally. It's upto individuals to decide to go or not, and if not I could be the only one who turns up.

  9. No on Could the KGB Infiltrate LulzSec? · · Score: 4, Informative

    One, the KGB doesn't exist anymore, 2) neither does LulzSec (technically), but even if it doesn't work like that, every single member (I use this loosely as anonymous doesn't really have members) can decide whether to take part in a particular action or not.

  10. Re:The number itself is entertaining but ... on Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many of the patches were rejected. Most of them I would guess. And if that many, well, use git as it's supposed to be, with a single big diff...

  11. Re:Community Myth on Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code · · Score: 1

    That's when a fork usually comes about. Cause the original developer has gone incommunicado.

  12. Re:This... is stupid. on Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, I would call some of the corporations are Linux users, I mean, I think RedHat fits user as well as developer.

  13. Re:Community Myth on Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code · · Score: 1

    maybe you should learn to read, M$ == 361, RH=1000 while independent developers are on 1085 this year.

  14. Re:Obviously computationally trivial? on Visual Hash Turns Text Or Data Into Abstract Art · · Score: 1

    Adding to that, if this wasn't the case, one could easily start with any input and slowly alter it and hash until a collision is reached.

  15. Re:Obviously computationally trivial? on Visual Hash Turns Text Or Data Into Abstract Art · · Score: 1

    No cryptographic hashes, as opposed to any other type of hashing, of which there are many (error correction checksums, etc.), are specifically designed to make a predictable change in input string result in a very unpredictable change in hash output.

  16. Re:Lovely on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    Only by selling more of it away.

  17. Re:Arbitrary? on Green Card Lottery Judgment Favors Mathematical Randomness · · Score: 1

    As a crypto geek myself, randomness means an extremely specific mathematical definition with probabilities and distributions of data, which would be better described in a dictionary as totally impossible to predict.

  18. Really? on Adobe Released 64-bit Flash For Linux · · Score: 1

    So, during most of that discontinued time, square didn't exist? It was only for about a month where there was no support. When they moved from flash 10 based preview to flash 11 based preview and and added 64bit windows support to it too. Now mozilla can build us some nice 64bit firefox releases for windows and I'll be really happy.

  19. Re:Superiority of multi-platform on Adobe Released 64-bit Flash For Linux · · Score: 1

    The Linux kernel s used as the tech preview and dev platform by several CPU manufacturers, whether it be IBM and the CELL processor, AMD and its 64bit architecture, or Intel and their TPM previews.

  20. Re:Show in the right places on Open Source Software Hijacked To Push Malware · · Score: 1

    If the vendor can even afford a valid certificate from microsoft or whoever. Exactly why most windows applications aren't signed, especially opensource ones.

  21. Re:Maybe a million monkeys on Can a Monkey Get a Copyright & Issue a Takedown? · · Score: 1

    It's also one reason why most museums in Europe forbid camera's. That and the fact they want to sell their own pictures at the gift shop.

  22. Re:Maybe a million monkeys on Can a Monkey Get a Copyright & Issue a Takedown? · · Score: 1

    You still did some creativity in framing the shots, the fact that what was in the shots was unknown (although probably clouds most of the time) this causes let the lawyers decide ambiguity, I'd say in the friend option, you jointly own the copyright. You still framed them. In the case the article is about the monkeys framed the shots themselves as well as pulled the trigger.

  23. Re:Maybe a million monkeys on Can a Monkey Get a Copyright & Issue a Takedown? · · Score: 2

    Actually, that was the original intent of the Church lobbyists when they first asked for it to stop the bible being reproduced en masse with the new printing presses. Look at how well that worked out.

  24. Re:Maybe a million monkeys on Can a Monkey Get a Copyright & Issue a Takedown? · · Score: 2

    Technically the passer-by owns the copyright, however, one could argue there is a implicit contract to pass copyright to whoever owns the camera in such cases even though it's that explicitly stated and/or put in writing. In this case, the photographer didn't ask the monkeys to take the picture, the monkeys just picked up the camera and did.

    If I come along, see a nice picture a photographer missed and asked to borrow the camera for the shot (I accidentally left mine at home or something) presuming it is agreed and he/she lends me the camera, surely it was me that took the picture and so the copyright is technically mine.

  25. Re:Self-Destructing Key on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    yeah, the reed switch on the door would be enough to kill SWAT style attempts.