In many cases encryption is simply necessary to protect your customers' data in case of computer theft, just to comply with the regulations on the processing of data.
They are necessary to increase market liquidity and if they really manipulate prices, in the end, they are only creating interesting divergences for long-term value investors.
There is a word in my comment that got me thinking for a while. How can you express the condition of being clearly the best in a single word? I can think of three words: supremacy, domination and hegemony. They all sound rather unpleasant, after all who would dare achieve such a condition?!
For a European, the US military institutions are surprinsingly sincere about their intentions. The NSA clearly says in their vision statement that they seek "global cryptologic domination". (Conversely, most european military institutions only say that they want to pacify the world).
So after some thinking, i chose supremacy as the most neutral term. Just think of two examples:
* Most countries use "supreme" to refer to their highest court. It would really be suspicious for a country to have an "hegemonic" court or even worse a "dominating" court.
* There is a singing group called "The Supremes". However, I could hardly think of a group called "The Dominators" (unless it were an underground rock band) and I prefer to not even use the third word in respect to those great singers.
There's also a film called "The Bourne Supremacy", in which they try to convey the same idea of being clearly the best. Interestingly, in most european countries they used a diferent word in the translation: in Spain, "El mito Bourne".
After writing the comment, i checked that the NSA uses the word "domination" in their website. They also refer to "cryptology" instead of the more common word "cryptography", maybe to emphasise on the idea of crypto being a science rather that a way of representation.
Cryptography is still the same science as it was some years ago, when nobody doubted about NSA's supremacy. Surely there's been a huge breakthrough in telephone networks and mobile technologies, but not in cryptographic techniques that protect them. So, do we have to believe that they couldn't keep up with "commercial innovation"?
I prefer an independent Sun Microsystems, they have an excellent track record as innovators. But if it can't succeed on its own, my suggestion is that SAP AG should buy Sun.
Toshiba PX1252S-1DAC is so far the best membrane keyboard that i've ever owned, better than Logitech and Microsoft. I've tried Model M but i think it's overkill for me.
Please DARPA contact me. I have a BS in telecommunication engineering and i am a natural born self-learner.
In all the jobs that i've had until now, my bosses always grow tired of my curiosity and when i have tried to create my own company (twice), the people around me say that i can't (I must be missing some misterious prerequisite). I have even tried to become a daytrader in the stock market, but it seems that i'm not predestined either.
Taking into account that most of my life i have been under constant scrutiny, i don't really care giving up some civilian rights in favour of my intellectual freedom.
I'm not sure if your offer is available to Spanish citizens. My only condition is to live on the coast or near a lake in a windy sailable place.
I don't leave any contact information, because i know that if you are interested, you will know how to contact me.
Now it's time for Yahoo to articulate a clear and ambitious Internet strategy. In my opinion they are aiming too many targets: they still look like an old fashioned content aggregator portal, they are trying to catch the so called web 2.0 user generated content wave and at the same time trying to monetize a search engine based ad insertion engine. They will obviously fail if they don't steer their ship to well defined objective.
Darwin is supposed to have suffered from a type of autism known as Asperger's Syndrome. Taking into account that most people with this condition tend to struggle with social life and therefore devote most of their lifetime to intense intellectual interests (as a redemption), this is the best possible tribute to a genius.
I guess that the main reason for the problem is the frantic addition of new features to every release while trying not to break backwards compatibility. Every new release offers a "better" way to accomplish the same task, which is presumably faster and more efficient. To avoid interfering with past functionality the easiest solution is to encapsulate new functionality into a new class. This all results in an increasing fragmentation and redundancy of the framework.
Will we revisit the days of non-preemptive multitasking in the iphone. The finder asking for my attention so that apps in the background can have their turn of execution. Ufff, i'm already sweating!
The question is: why are they bringing up this news again? Moreover, why has there been so little talk about SHA-1 vulnerability during these 2 years? Most linux distro's still use SHA-1 based MD5 for/etc/passwd by default, why didn't they switch to other algorithm in 2 years?
My bet is that the NSA knew this vulnerabity and has been actively exploiting it. 2 years ago this news was not good for them because people might switch to other algorithms they cannot break (so easily). That would be a reason to let the vulnerability go ignored by the software industry, as long as only the NSA could break it.
2 years has been enough time for the NSA to discover vulnerabilities and to build computers capable of breaking more advanced algorithms (SHA-2?). So it makes sense to push now for an upgrade SHA-1 to SHA-2, which the Chinese probably still don't know how to break. Thus the NSA would be regaining it's strategic advantage in cryto over the Chinese.
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In many cases encryption is simply necessary to protect your customers' data in case of computer theft, just to comply with the regulations on the processing of data.
Clippy strikes back. And he's disgruntled for all the uncorresponded love!
damn, i already had a nightmare with HAL 9000 in my siesta
They are necessary to increase market liquidity and if they really manipulate prices, in the end, they are only creating interesting divergences for long-term value investors.
Just a correction: it should say "dominance" instead of "domination".
There is a word in my comment that got me thinking for a while. How can you express the condition of being clearly the best in a single word? I can think of three words: supremacy, domination and hegemony. They all sound rather unpleasant, after all who would dare achieve such a condition?!
For a European, the US military institutions are surprinsingly sincere about their intentions. The NSA clearly says in their vision statement that they seek "global cryptologic domination". (Conversely, most european military institutions only say that they want to pacify the world).
So after some thinking, i chose supremacy as the most neutral term. Just think of two examples:
* Most countries use "supreme" to refer to their highest court. It would really be suspicious for a country to have an "hegemonic" court or even worse a "dominating" court.
* There is a singing group called "The Supremes". However, I could hardly think of a group called "The Dominators" (unless it were an underground rock band) and I prefer to not even use the third word in respect to those great singers.
There's also a film called "The Bourne Supremacy", in which they try to convey the same idea of being clearly the best. Interestingly, in most european countries they used a diferent word in the translation: in Spain, "El mito Bourne".
After writing the comment, i checked that the NSA uses the word "domination" in their website. They also refer to "cryptology" instead of the more common word "cryptography", maybe to emphasise on the idea of crypto being a science rather that a way of representation.
If I were American, I think I would be a Democrat.
Cryptography is still the same science as it was some years ago, when nobody doubted about NSA's supremacy. Surely there's been a huge breakthrough in telephone networks and mobile technologies, but not in cryptographic techniques that protect them. So, do we have to believe that they couldn't keep up with "commercial innovation"?
I prefer an independent Sun Microsystems, they have an excellent track record as innovators. But if it can't succeed on its own, my suggestion is that SAP AG should buy Sun.
Good article, I'm fond of naval battles and sailing warships. No doubt superguns helped Britons, but severe storms disrupted the Armada.
And which is the rastafarian computer language? The true one that will save us from Babylon and lead us to Zion.
Toshiba PX1252S-1DAC is so far the best membrane keyboard that i've ever owned, better than Logitech and Microsoft. I've tried Model M but i think it's overkill for me.
Please DARPA contact me. I have a BS in telecommunication engineering and i am a natural born self-learner. In all the jobs that i've had until now, my bosses always grow tired of my curiosity and when i have tried to create my own company (twice), the people around me say that i can't (I must be missing some misterious prerequisite). I have even tried to become a daytrader in the stock market, but it seems that i'm not predestined either. Taking into account that most of my life i have been under constant scrutiny, i don't really care giving up some civilian rights in favour of my intellectual freedom. I'm not sure if your offer is available to Spanish citizens. My only condition is to live on the coast or near a lake in a windy sailable place. I don't leave any contact information, because i know that if you are interested, you will know how to contact me.
Now it's time for Yahoo to articulate a clear and ambitious Internet strategy. In my opinion they are aiming too many targets: they still look like an old fashioned content aggregator portal, they are trying to catch the so called web 2.0 user generated content wave and at the same time trying to monetize a search engine based ad insertion engine. They will obviously fail if they don't steer their ship to well defined objective.
Darwin is supposed to have suffered from a type of autism known as Asperger's Syndrome. Taking into account that most people with this condition tend to struggle with social life and therefore devote most of their lifetime to intense intellectual interests (as a redemption), this is the best possible tribute to a genius.
I guess that the main reason for the problem is the frantic addition of new features to every release while trying not to break backwards compatibility. Every new release offers a "better" way to accomplish the same task, which is presumably faster and more efficient. To avoid interfering with past functionality the easiest solution is to encapsulate new functionality into a new class. This all results in an increasing fragmentation and redundancy of the framework.
Will we revisit the days of non-preemptive multitasking in the iphone.
The finder asking for my attention so that apps in the background can have their turn of execution.
Ufff, i'm already sweating!
This news is almost 2 years old:5 24883.300-goldstandard-online-security-code-cracke d-.html
/etc/passwd by default, why didn't they switch to other algorithm in 2 years?
http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg18
The question is: why are they bringing up this news again? Moreover, why has there been so little talk about SHA-1 vulnerability during these 2 years? Most linux distro's still use SHA-1 based MD5 for
My bet is that the NSA knew this vulnerabity and has been actively exploiting it. 2 years ago this news was not good for them because people might switch to other algorithms they cannot break (so easily). That would be a reason to let the vulnerability go ignored by the software industry, as long as only the NSA could break it.
2 years has been enough time for the NSA to discover vulnerabilities and to build computers capable of breaking more advanced algorithms (SHA-2?). So it makes sense to push now for an upgrade SHA-1 to SHA-2, which the Chinese probably still don't know how to break. Thus the NSA would be regaining it's strategic advantage in cryto over the Chinese.