Your analysis of SSL isnt wholly correct. You can perform casual MITMs when you control the CA chain, and when your end users know they are being spied on.
It is however fairly easy to see if someone has created a forged cert with an alternate CA, as the cert thumbprint and CA chain would be different.
Article 1, Section 9 of the US Constitution states, "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."
Seems to me that the civil war constituted a "Case(s) of Rebellion".
Social Conservatives specifically for hating the idea of helping anyone who's different from them.
I cant speak for everyone, so I will speak for myself. I have no problem with helping others. I have a lot of problem with the government taking that decision out of my hands.
For instance, as a kid, I did community service at a retirement community. It was a good experience, it helped me grow in a lot of ways, and I hope I was able to brighten the day of some of the residents there and make their time easier. I would NEVER have wanted a government mandate forcing me there; that seems like a pretty gross intrusion into personal lives.
With healthcare, the issue isnt "is it good to help others". Its "does a country founded on principles of personal liberty and thriving on principles of capitalism have any business demanding that I subsidize the healthcare of others". I would argue that it absolutely does not, and that the Supreme Court made a bad ruling (though I would agree that it should now be enforced until and if repealed).
There are a lot of problems in the world. Some of them are best solved by "government". A lot of them are not, and are best solved at a personal level.
And on a side note, I would be real careful how you swing those accusations. A lot of the "social conservatives" you seem so eager to castigate tend to donate more to charity than any other political group; among my friends I know a huge number who volunteer and donate big chunks of change to help others at a personal level.
Its not helped by the fact that the media-- and particularly slashdot-- have a nasty habit of feeding that confirmation bias with one-sided stories that leave out crucial facts; I would not be surprised if slashdot conveniently forgot to mention that the guy had a warrant out for him or something, Ive seen stuff that bad on slashdot before.
The real danger that I feel we have is that we KNOW the government is up to no good-- but we also know that the media generally has terrible credibility. CNN for example blew away whatever they had over the last year with their awful reporting on the Boston case, or NBC for its handling of the Treyvon Martin case where they attempted to portray Zimmerman as white, attempted to conceal his injuries in photos, and doctored the audio to fit their agenda. Im sure others have examples for other news organizations; Im right-leaning, but I recognize that Fox has been no saint in this department
So who do we believe when a story like this comes along? The spooks, or the liars?
IMHO anything more that absolutely minimal governance is evil.
While I tend to agree with the sentiment (though evil isnt really appropriate in such a context), I might remind you that theres a huge chunk of the populace who disagrees with your interpretation of the role of government. I think they might be called "democrats".
Skein is / was a NIST candidate for SHA3 and made it through a number of rounds. It isnt a replacement for AES tho, as it does hashing, not encryption.
10 years ago we had mapquest, and thats not because of what Apple did. Id argue that the "omnipresent information" youre talking about is far more due to what Google did than what Apple did.
What tech companies are using iPads for serious tech work?
Are you extrapolating from their presence in posh coffee shops, and assuming that that somehow means theyre suitable for serious development or data manipulation?
Noone uses iPads for any serious amount of data entry or manipulation.
Their role in business tends to be for shiny-factor, portability, or both. They are somewhat useful as POS units (as those have generally been touchscreen anyways). Thats basically it.
If you want to train your kids to be cashiers from an early age by getting them involved with iPads @ school, have at it-- just do it on your own dollar.
Bad teachers are no justification for iPads. Either way, dont expect me to pay for your child to get tools that are not proven to do anything but entertain and have been around for all of 5 years.
You cant even draw the parallel to the advent of computers: that was a whole new field. Noone in their right mind would claim that the future of technology looks like "iPads".
I do not know the OP's situation, but in the Afghanistan scenario... I understand that if you are a single parent, you are not allowed to enlist, and if you were already enlisted, you will absolutely NOT be required to deploy. Our military does not leave its servicemember's children with noone to care for them, nor I imagine would any first-world country.
And if the parent is NOT a single parent, I imagine their SO could set up a skype session and have the child say hi over skype-- like just about every other family with both children and remote family does. The child is NOT the person to initiate video calls to Afghanistan.
Sometimes in life someone will ask you a bad question whose only purpose is to make a terrible mistake. Like, "Im thinking of going for a joyride in a blizzard. Should I use 3rd gear, or second?"
When that happens, the best thing you can do is to tell the person that they are headed down a terrible path. Telling them "I dont want to pry into your life, so use second gear" shows that you dont give a hoot about them.
In this case, the question is sufficiently wrong that the only considerate and caring thing is to tell OP that phones are a terrible idea for 4 year olds, and hope that he reconsiders.
I would have loved to have had such a device and wish I did have one at that age.
The thing is, its the job of the parent to say no to things that the kid wants that wont be beneficial. Instant gratification taught to the child @ 4 is not a good start to life.
If your kid needs mobile LTE internet, better give him a phone. Otherwise, he's going to get an early start on subversive behavior, perhaps stealing other people's phones.
"If I dont spoil my child he will do bad things" is a terrible justification. If your child does "subversive behavior", you use discipline, and he becomes a better person.
Manning didnt show any actual crimes (regardless of the spin around that video), spilled a ton of stuff with absolutely no discretion, and broke his military oath. You dont have to like it, but thats why hes going to jail.
Then do something about it. The way to make a difference is in the one thing we, ("the people") can directly affect....Voting !!
I think thats what a lot of people are doing. We have a (generally) working democracy that has managed not to explode into chaos, so calling for violence now may be a bit premature.
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The CA cannot generate an identical cert to the end server-- they do NOT have the private key ever.
Please read up on how SSL certs / CSRs are created before commenting on the process.
Your analysis of SSL isnt wholly correct. You can perform casual MITMs when you control the CA chain, and when your end users know they are being spied on.
It is however fairly easy to see if someone has created a forged cert with an alternate CA, as the cert thumbprint and CA chain would be different.
Article 1, Section 9 of the US Constitution states, "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."
Seems to me that the civil war constituted a "Case(s) of Rebellion".
Social Conservatives specifically for hating the idea of helping anyone who's different from them.
I cant speak for everyone, so I will speak for myself. I have no problem with helping others. I have a lot of problem with the government taking that decision out of my hands.
For instance, as a kid, I did community service at a retirement community. It was a good experience, it helped me grow in a lot of ways, and I hope I was able to brighten the day of some of the residents there and make their time easier. I would NEVER have wanted a government mandate forcing me there; that seems like a pretty gross intrusion into personal lives.
With healthcare, the issue isnt "is it good to help others". Its "does a country founded on principles of personal liberty and thriving on principles of capitalism have any business demanding that I subsidize the healthcare of others". I would argue that it absolutely does not, and that the Supreme Court made a bad ruling (though I would agree that it should now be enforced until and if repealed).
There are a lot of problems in the world. Some of them are best solved by "government". A lot of them are not, and are best solved at a personal level.
And on a side note, I would be real careful how you swing those accusations. A lot of the "social conservatives" you seem so eager to castigate tend to donate more to charity than any other political group; among my friends I know a huge number who volunteer and donate big chunks of change to help others at a personal level.
Healthcare in the USA is something I hear everyone say "I hope our country is never that screwed"
Your country probably has some pretty fundamentally different ideas on what a government is for.
The government agency I work for still has webmail, website, etc all up and running-- and its a pure research agency.
Oh look, I was right:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4291271&cid=45013683
It IS a rubbish issue with no relation to the NSA.
I was not aware of a Constitutional provision for unilaterally succeeding from the Union; perhaps someone should have alerted Lincoln.
Its not helped by the fact that the media-- and particularly slashdot-- have a nasty habit of feeding that confirmation bias with one-sided stories that leave out crucial facts; I would not be surprised if slashdot conveniently forgot to mention that the guy had a warrant out for him or something, Ive seen stuff that bad on slashdot before.
The real danger that I feel we have is that we KNOW the government is up to no good-- but we also know that the media generally has terrible credibility. CNN for example blew away whatever they had over the last year with their awful reporting on the Boston case, or NBC for its handling of the Treyvon Martin case where they attempted to portray Zimmerman as white, attempted to conceal his injuries in photos, and doctored the audio to fit their agenda. Im sure others have examples for other news organizations; Im right-leaning, but I recognize that Fox has been no saint in this department
So who do we believe when a story like this comes along? The spooks, or the liars?
IMHO anything more that absolutely minimal governance is evil.
While I tend to agree with the sentiment (though evil isnt really appropriate in such a context), I might remind you that theres a huge chunk of the populace who disagrees with your interpretation of the role of government. I think they might be called "democrats".
they didnt fit satisfaction in there, not buying it.
Skein is / was a NIST candidate for SHA3 and made it through a number of rounds. It isnt a replacement for AES tho, as it does hashing, not encryption.
10 years ago we had mapquest, and thats not because of what Apple did. Id argue that the "omnipresent information" youre talking about is far more due to what Google did than what Apple did.
The airline companies are using them as glorified e-book readers, not for any data entry. Not sure about the medical facilities.
What tech companies are using iPads for serious tech work?
Are you extrapolating from their presence in posh coffee shops, and assuming that that somehow means theyre suitable for serious development or data manipulation?
But I guess they're not satisfied unless they have properly trained obedient creatures, not humans with the ability to think for themselves.
These are IPADS; what sort of independence are you expecting? They cant even run an IDE on these things or mess with the bootloader.
These devices are DESIGNED for a black-box experience, not independent thinking and learning.
Noone uses iPads for any serious amount of data entry or manipulation.
Their role in business tends to be for shiny-factor, portability, or both. They are somewhat useful as POS units (as those have generally been touchscreen anyways). Thats basically it.
If you want to train your kids to be cashiers from an early age by getting them involved with iPads @ school, have at it-- just do it on your own dollar.
Bad teachers are no justification for iPads. Either way, dont expect me to pay for your child to get tools that are not proven to do anything but entertain and have been around for all of 5 years.
You cant even draw the parallel to the advent of computers: that was a whole new field. Noone in their right mind would claim that the future of technology looks like "iPads".
I do not know the OP's situation, but in the Afghanistan scenario... I understand that if you are a single parent, you are not allowed to enlist, and if you were already enlisted, you will absolutely NOT be required to deploy. Our military does not leave its servicemember's children with noone to care for them, nor I imagine would any first-world country.
And if the parent is NOT a single parent, I imagine their SO could set up a skype session and have the child say hi over skype-- like just about every other family with both children and remote family does. The child is NOT the person to initiate video calls to Afghanistan.
Sometimes in life someone will ask you a bad question whose only purpose is to make a terrible mistake. Like, "Im thinking of going for a joyride in a blizzard. Should I use 3rd gear, or second?"
When that happens, the best thing you can do is to tell the person that they are headed down a terrible path. Telling them "I dont want to pry into your life, so use second gear" shows that you dont give a hoot about them.
In this case, the question is sufficiently wrong that the only considerate and caring thing is to tell OP that phones are a terrible idea for 4 year olds, and hope that he reconsiders.
I would have loved to have had such a device and wish I did have one at that age.
The thing is, its the job of the parent to say no to things that the kid wants that wont be beneficial. Instant gratification taught to the child @ 4 is not a good start to life.
If your kid needs mobile LTE internet, better give him a phone. Otherwise, he's going to get an early start on subversive behavior, perhaps stealing other people's phones.
"If I dont spoil my child he will do bad things" is a terrible justification. If your child does "subversive behavior", you use discipline, and he becomes a better person.
Im not normally a fan of your posts but thats probably one of the most insightful posts Ive ever seen.
Manning didnt show any actual crimes (regardless of the spin around that video), spilled a ton of stuff with absolutely no discretion, and broke his military oath. You dont have to like it, but thats why hes going to jail.
Then do something about it. The way to make a difference is in the one thing we, ("the people") can directly affect... .Voting !!
I think thats what a lot of people are doing. We have a (generally) working democracy that has managed not to explode into chaos, so calling for violence now may be a bit premature.
Martial law can do a lot of things that cannot be done through electronic means; the suspension of habeas corpus, for one.