You should have given her the number for the Rejection Hotline or the RickRollCall. Not only would you have made her happy (until she figured out what it was), you would have epic lulz to talk about on Slashdot!
however the fact you have 10G of random data and an encryption program on your computer suggests there you have an encrypted partition
Not necessarily, it could be you are saving the rest of the space on your hard drive for future expansion (in fact, LVM recommends that you leave space at the end of the drive for future volumes) or that you installed Linux, but didn't like it and securely erased it, but didn't want to chance expanding the Windows partition (this argument would only work if you had a huge drive, and you weren't needing the space anyways).
If you create a hidden partition, the fact you have 9.9G of free space in you hidden partition and a stenographic encryption program, suggests you have a hidden partition
I'm guessing you meant "normal encrypted" partition in the first instance. Do me a favor and go look at the amount of free space on your current hard drive. Why do you need that much free space? Why couldn't you just have gotten a smaller drive? Because you might very well need the free space later! Resizing a Truecrypt volume is like resizing a hard drive partition, it shouldn't be done if you don't have to. Simply having free space doesn't imply that you have a hidden partition, it just means that you have space for future expansion. For small dummy files though, having it as a drive volume would be more plausible than having 1MB of financial info in a 10GB file volume.
Why go to all that trouble? Don't have any headers, or fake data at all. Have just the data and decrypt it whether it's the right key or not. You'd have to specify the encryption algorithm, hash, etc when mounting it, but it would also have the effect of returning garbage if the key or algorithms were wrong. Right now, Truecrypt has an encrypted header that decrypts to "TRUE" when using the right key and algorithm and pops up an error if it doesn't. But under this system, the data is decrypted successfully regardless of whether the key is right or not. If the key is correct, it returns the encrypted data, if it isn't then it returns garbage. The only major downside is that you would have to decrypt and reencrypt the entire container just to change the key or algorithm.
That is why Schneier is suggesting a self-enforcing protocol for counting votes. The secret ballot protects against coercion of the voters, but we currently have to rely on a trusted third party (the election officials) to count the votes, and they sometimes are not trustworthy. Self-enforcing protocols would eliminate the need for a trusted third party by making it self-defeating to cheat. I'd like to see some concrete implementations of how this would work, but I like the general idea.
Corporate bodies do whatever they can get away with to make money, they're not bound by some kind of moral calling.
It's hardly their fault that there are fairly few efforts being made to regulate them.
The regulators aren't bound by a moral calling either. With a company, you at least have the option of not giving them your money. With the government, they take it whether you want them to or not.
It's getting to the point where I can't even tell the difference.
Despite what the fanboys say, there really isn't that much of a difference. Both are giant companies more interested in making money than taking care of their customers.
Both Microsoft and Apple want you to use their products only in the way they intend, bricking or locking the product for people who try to get around it, using legal threats to stifle dissent, using software patents to punish competitors, charging high prices for mediocre software, and locking people into their proprietary standards. Microsoft has traditionally been bad about these, but it seems to be getting better while Apple seems to be getting worse.
About the only major difference between the two is that one is in Redmond and the other is in Cupertino.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." - 14th Amendment.
This is the only thing the constitution says about "black people". In the constitution itself, slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person for purposes of determining congressional districts. It never stated that "black people" were somehow less than human or even that slaves "where 3/5 of a person", just that slaves were counted that way to determine congressional districts, which was the result of a compromise. There were many African Americans in the U.S. who were not slaves, had full rights of citizens, and were counted as a whole person in congressional districts. As of the 14th amendment, former slaves also have the full rights of citizens.
Please stop the racist thinking and start treating everyone as decent human beings until they prove themselves otherwise.
Maybe Serpent would be a good candidate because it was discussed that it had a larger margin of safety than Rijndael/AES.
With all the talk of 28-round AES, Serpent is definitely worth another look. The authors purposefully made it 32 rounds even though they thought that 16 rounds would be very secure. It was rejected in the AES competition because 10-14 round Rijndael was faster than 32-round Serpent, but if it moved to 28-rounds, I doubt Rijndael would still be faster than Serpent.
I use AT&T, and they seem to block port 53 except for their own DNS servers.
Thankfully, they don't have some crappy Yahoo (seriously, why Yahoo?) search page like Comcast is doing.
So 1 cent/mile would save me a decent amount of money, while 2 cents would raise my current cost. Of course who knows what the value of a penny will be and the current gas tax in 2020.
My guess is that it'll be more than 1 or 2 cents per mile after it is fully implemented. Taxes have an uncanny way of always going up, never down. After another state almost goes bankrupt or Al Gore starts whining about global warming again, it'll be raised.
NVIDIA tries to jinx AMD, but ends up jinxing themselves. This has been tried throughout the ages and often ends up at the same result. /> Move on, nothing to see here.
Yeah, it seem a part of the internet subculture feels it their constitutional right to be a total asshole on the internet, and god forbid if someone complains about it.
No, you can complain about it all you want right now. God forbid if you try and force someone else to not say something they want to say, even if they are being a troll. The first amendment is there for a reason.
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I use M-x browser, you insensitive clod!
You should have given her the number for the Rejection Hotline or the RickRollCall. Not only would you have made her happy (until she figured out what it was), you would have epic lulz to talk about on Slashdot!
however the fact you have 10G of random data and an encryption program on your computer suggests there you have an encrypted partition
Not necessarily, it could be you are saving the rest of the space on your hard drive for future expansion (in fact, LVM recommends that you leave space at the end of the drive for future volumes) or that you installed Linux, but didn't like it and securely erased it, but didn't want to chance expanding the Windows partition (this argument would only work if you had a huge drive, and you weren't needing the space anyways).
If you create a hidden partition, the fact you have 9.9G of free space in you hidden partition and a stenographic encryption program, suggests you have a hidden partition
I'm guessing you meant "normal encrypted" partition in the first instance. Do me a favor and go look at the amount of free space on your current hard drive. Why do you need that much free space? Why couldn't you just have gotten a smaller drive? Because you might very well need the free space later! Resizing a Truecrypt volume is like resizing a hard drive partition, it shouldn't be done if you don't have to. Simply having free space doesn't imply that you have a hidden partition, it just means that you have space for future expansion. For small dummy files though, having it as a drive volume would be more plausible than having 1MB of financial info in a 10GB file volume.
Sorry bud, it only works once per story.
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy". - H. L. Mencken
I read that as "Putinism" at first...
Beware citizens of the UK, no organization that can inflict a custardy death should be truffled with.
There, fixed that for you.
Why go to all that trouble? Don't have any headers, or fake data at all. Have just the data and decrypt it whether it's the right key or not. You'd have to specify the encryption algorithm, hash, etc when mounting it, but it would also have the effect of returning garbage if the key or algorithms were wrong. Right now, Truecrypt has an encrypted header that decrypts to "TRUE" when using the right key and algorithm and pops up an error if it doesn't. But under this system, the data is decrypted successfully regardless of whether the key is right or not. If the key is correct, it returns the encrypted data, if it isn't then it returns garbage. The only major downside is that you would have to decrypt and reencrypt the entire container just to change the key or algorithm.
That is why Schneier is suggesting a self-enforcing protocol for counting votes. The secret ballot protects against coercion of the voters, but we currently have to rely on a trusted third party (the election officials) to count the votes, and they sometimes are not trustworthy. Self-enforcing protocols would eliminate the need for a trusted third party by making it self-defeating to cheat. I'd like to see some concrete implementations of how this would work, but I like the general idea.
Even Superman won't be able to save us.
But Chuck Norris can!
Corporate bodies do whatever they can get away with to make money, they're not bound by some kind of moral calling. It's hardly their fault that there are fairly few efforts being made to regulate them.
The regulators aren't bound by a moral calling either. With a company, you at least have the option of not giving them your money. With the government, they take it whether you want them to or not.
It's getting to the point where I can't even tell the difference.
Despite what the fanboys say, there really isn't that much of a difference. Both are giant companies more interested in making money than taking care of their customers.
Both Microsoft and Apple want you to use their products only in the way they intend, bricking or locking the product for people who try to get around it, using legal threats to stifle dissent, using software patents to punish competitors, charging high prices for mediocre software, and locking people into their proprietary standards. Microsoft has traditionally been bad about these, but it seems to be getting better while Apple seems to be getting worse.
About the only major difference between the two is that one is in Redmond and the other is in Cupertino.
This is the only thing the constitution says about "black people". In the constitution itself, slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person for purposes of determining congressional districts. It never stated that "black people" were somehow less than human or even that slaves "where 3/5 of a person", just that slaves were counted that way to determine congressional districts, which was the result of a compromise. There were many African Americans in the U.S. who were not slaves, had full rights of citizens, and were counted as a whole person in congressional districts. As of the 14th amendment, former slaves also have the full rights of citizens.
Please stop the racist thinking and start treating everyone as decent human beings until they prove themselves otherwise.
Maybe Serpent would be a good candidate because it was discussed that it had a larger margin of safety than Rijndael/AES.
With all the talk of 28-round AES, Serpent is definitely worth another look. The authors purposefully made it 32 rounds even though they thought that 16 rounds would be very secure. It was rejected in the AES competition because 10-14 round Rijndael was faster than 32-round Serpent, but if it moved to 28-rounds, I doubt Rijndael would still be faster than Serpent.
A video with more information about this can be found here
Anonymous Coward Transfer Protocol - let's just say it involves anonymous cowards, Slashdot posts, and /dev/null.
There, fixed that for ya!
Mod parent: +1 Sane
I use AT&T, and they seem to block port 53 except for their own DNS servers.
Thankfully, they don't have some crappy Yahoo (seriously, why Yahoo?) search page like Comcast is doing.
Some of these potholes are big enough the only way we get them filled is to hold a funeral in one.
Shhh! Don't give them any ideas!
So 1 cent/mile would save me a decent amount of money, while 2 cents would raise my current cost. Of course who knows what the value of a penny will be and the current gas tax in 2020.
My guess is that it'll be more than 1 or 2 cents per mile after it is fully implemented. Taxes have an uncanny way of always going up, never down. After another state almost goes bankrupt or Al Gore starts whining about global warming again, it'll be raised.
So I guess they will have exemptions for older cars, cars that have value in original condition and adding/changing something will reduce value, etc.
They're politicians, they don't care a whit about you or your car. They care about getting reelected and getting more of your money to spend.
Someone needs to make a source mod where the objective is to go around violently killing politicians that censor the internet.
There, fixed that for ya.
look at how Acrobat reader
Well, there's your first problem.
Couple that with a local traffic management department that appears to be staffed by either chimpanzees or very small children
It's staffed by small children. The chimpanzees are running the DMV.
NVIDIA tries to jinx AMD, but ends up jinxing themselves. This has been tried throughout the ages and often ends up at the same result./>
Move on, nothing to see here.
Yeah, it seem a part of the internet subculture feels it their constitutional right to be a total asshole on the internet, and god forbid if someone complains about it.
No, you can complain about it all you want right now. God forbid if you try and force someone else to not say something they want to say, even if they are being a troll. The first amendment is there for a reason.