With the Patriot Act, SOPA, domestic UAVs for surveillance, TSA monitoring web activity for dissent, etc. what do you really have to lose?
It's not like you need to give them a full address or social. A name, zip code, and working email address. All of which could be faked and entered via proxy.
Don't let a little proxy work stop you from signing some of these petitions, of which, one of them is also to stop ACTA.
Ohhh, and the White House already has access to the IRS. The IRS has access to my bank, VISA, MC, etc. So whatever they want to find out about me, they certainly have the ability to do so already.
Let me put it another way. Let's say we had no technology for contraception, and that men and women were so fertile that the act of fucking resulted in pregnancy 100% of the time.
At what point will the word fucking not become synonymous with the word impregnation?
While I understand your point, I would say right now that lobbying *is* inherently bribery in practice. In fact calling it lobbying is just disingenuous. It is in fact bribery.
Apple is a US company. You put your family first, your community first, your country first. It's not about disregarding the rest of the world, or discriminating against them.
Saying you have no obligation to your community or your country, when it is the people in that country that are making you successful is abhorrent behavior.
I am not saying that I am more valuable than any other person in the world. Just that I have an obligation to be part of the solution to my own country's problems. So does Apple.
What I find even more disgusting is the following:
We don't have an obligation to solve America's problems. Our only obligation is making the best product possible.
Well apparently corporations are people too. Since when do we, as American people, not have an obligation to solve our problems?
That's the most stupid fucking simplistic sociopathic statement I have ever heard come from a company. It is absolutely obligated to participate with the rest of us in creating a better America and solving our problems.
There you go. The biggest problem with business today. Not just shortsighted and focused on short term profits, but the "Fuck America" attitude as long as it makes them X amount of more profit.
Profit at all costs.
It's possible to run a business where your primary goal is to make a good product, serve the community, and you know, basically not be such sociopathic bastards.
As a general rule, the Windows page file and the Hibernation data file are nothing but huge files full of completely random data.
I don't think we have the same definition for random. There is random data, pattern-less data, and structured data. All of them are different.
Hibernation data files are far from random. They contain headers, processor states, and memory dumps. It is, by its very nature, a file that has strict construction parameters, and even the memory dump portions are going to contain structured data as well.
Page files are pretty much the same, except they don't store processor states IIRC. They will also contain large portions representing memory that is ordered and far from random data.
A TrueCrypt file attempts to look completely random, and is in fact filled from the start with random data from the initial pool. That alone raises flags since nearly every single other file on a system is going to contain data with headers and some sort of structured data. Not a TrueCrypt file.
Seriously. Other than a TrueCrypt file give me an example of a file on disk or in memory that is truly random without headers and contains no subsets of data that are random?
I have a hard time thinking of any example.
If TrueCrypt really wanted to be slick they could take a hibernation file and only mount the memory dump portions of the file. That way it would still look like a fully functional hibernation file, in use, and just have large memory portions that are filled with random data. Upon close inspection it might look strange and suspicious, but to any automated tool it just might get unnoticed in a search for TrueCrypt files.
There exists both tools to locate TrueCrypt files, and analyze and modify hibernation files. Therefore, the next evolution of TrueCrypt should focus on how to camouflage TrueCrypt files, because right now they stick out like a sore thumb on a system.
To give you an example, there was a secure data center I used to work at. It had a fairly nondescript door with heavily tinted windows in between a barber shop and a deli in a large strip mall. Just an intercom on the door, and if you looked real hard you could see the security cameras covering the door. You pressed a button, announced yourself, and security at the remote end compared your face to your identity on file before letting you into the mantrap. Once passing the inspection, biometrics, and passwords you accessed a fair sized data center with armed security walking around.
You would have never thought in a million years driving by that strip mall that it even existed. Customers and kids walking around had no idea either and it looked like a maintenance door.
*That* is what TrueCrypt should try to emulate. Right now it might as well have neon signs around it.
I allow for the possibility that terms can be spelled and used differently in different cultures which is why I thought the snobbish and condescending post needed to be responded to. I did not find the spelling of a word to be indicative of an uneducated mind, when that spelling is thought to be a variant by most people.
All of that being said, I simply must start talking about the pants. You put it in bold. Enquiring minds need to know. What is it about the pants?
If the fusion reactor floats... you are already flying. Just attach some small propellers, add a few seats and a dining car... and you have a luxury blimp.
Giving a link to an article that uses the word with an "i" is not supporting evidence for you being correct. An article is a generous term considering it is really just a news blurb by an anonymous author. You just searched for the first article using the spelling of the word you find correct.
So we are to believe this anonymous author used the word with an "i" and that all of the sudden means this is not about the spelling of a word, but that each word means something different?
Both terms essentially mean the same thing, with most dictionaries claiming they are equivalent and noting the US or UK usage.
Now if you want to claim education here, please provide a more comprehensive etymology of both words for us. In other words, please provide a stronger case why there is a difference and you are oh-so-so smart and lament about times past in which people were somehow more intelligent and educated.
It's rare that I see one go bad. In fact, my CRT's lasted quite a long time. I ended up donating them for a tax deduction. Every LCD monitor I have ever owned is still in use today. That's going on 7 years for some of them.
In business I can tell you that for various clients that about half of all LCD monitors in use are 5-7 years old.
So to answer your question, quite a few.
This is why that most of the PC purchases I have made have been without bundled monitors because the old one gets reused. PCs die and get swapped out a heck of a lot faster than monitors.
The whole idea of DoS is to flood the server with so many packets it cannot handle them all. TOR is so fucking slow you might as well be shunting the output of Hoover Damn through a silly straw.
Not to mention the exit node for the connection is what is going to get picked up, and that is unlikely since TOR won't use 100% of the upstream.
You just turned the beam from the Death Star down from "destroy" to "light tan".
I've seen Gingrich on the news before. I think the threat of a nuclear weapon is the only thing that increases his chances of getting some strange to "possible".
I have been labeled a bit radical for my proposed changes to curb our effect on the environment, but suggesting men cut off their penises is going too far.
Never in my life I have been a supporter of Manifest Destiny, especially in our contemporary usage of the word... but when it comes to my own penis.... Manifest Destiny absolutely.
Now they just claim it isn't caused by humans. Global warming deniers are the new creationists - moving goalposts every time they are proven wrong because they can't stand what science is telling them. They have zero credibility.
But there are lots of them
Of course there are. God told them to go forth and multiply, birth control is bad, and if Little Johnny rubs one out it will make him cry.
Now they just claim it isn't caused by humans. Global warming deniers are the new creationists - moving goalposts every time they are proven wrong because they can't stand what science is telling them. They have zero credibility.
But there are lots of them
Of course. God tells them to go forth and multiply, don't use birth control, and if little Johnny rubs one out it will make God cry.
I found your post funny, just wanted to point out the technical feasibility.
It will be rather clear its not a.zip file, instead it will look like a bunch of random data and the most they can guess is its a encrypted container,
Not entirely true. Tools and methods have been created, available on market, to detect TrueCrypt containers. I have seen papers on detecting hidden volumes as well, although it does involve significant analysis of the outer container and assumptions about behavior in the outer container that might not be true in all situations.
Don't rely on TrueCrypt containers being seen as only random data. Additionally, just how often is there a file of completely random data on a storage volume in the first place? That kind of sticks out like a sore thumb by itself.
Remembering 50 character password would be the challenge in that instance................ to verify it, they would need to open it.
My TrueCrypt passwords, I never use keyfiles, are 50+ easy. I remember them with some memory tricks I picked up and concatenating/delimiting random phrases and number strings. I think my longest one might actually be 90+.
TrueCrypt, even at its most complex, is still essentially 3 algorithms stringed together with a key. It's all about the permutations and strength of the algorithm.
It's true they will need a reason to justify the resources, but I strongly suspect that government does have systems that can bruteforce heavily encrypted data within viable time frames for intelligence. There is always the idiot savant factor. It is nearly impossible to claim that any encryption algorithm has no weaknesses that can be exploited.
It's all academic anyways. If the government can do it, that is a top secret super weapon in cyberspace. Do you use a nuke to clear out a crack house? No:)
They won't use whatever resources that they do have to crack your file unless they think you are an intelligence target and I highly doubt a bunch of porn, music, and movies is worth their time:)
That's true, I have just had bad experiences with HDMI. It Does Not Just Work.
You would think they would be they same, but in practice they are not. I think that is mainly because the vast majority of HDMI displays out there are not monitors by design, but meant for sources other than a computer.
Why is it that three different computers/laptops with HDMI connectors all operate slightly differently on a couple of different HDMI display devices?
DVI does not do that.
While Display Port is probably a lot more reliable than HDMI in that regard, it is not $2 for an adapter. Try 10x more expensive at a minimum at 50-60x more expensive at the high end.
I don't think you read his post. He said "single point of failure".
If people made copies of their "eggs" then why are they complaining about losing a single "egg"?
He has a point too about using cloud based services for collaboration. When it goes down, your communication tools go with it. That's not just cloud either, but Skype as well for example.
Some operations are just too sensitive to put into the cloud. I would never want any of my medical records or personal data hosted anywhere in the cloud, and I would expressly disallow it. From that perspective, as a company, it can be unacceptable to have your data, in the clear, outside of direct company control at any time. I might make an exception if a 3rd party security company was to audit the security, random audits were permissible, and there were very strong non-disclosure agreements, SLA's in place to protect company data. For most sensitive SaaS services those kind of agreements do exist.
I think the entire context of his post was cloud only set ups. Not backup.
At least that is how I read his post, and I agree with some of his points from a business consideration.
It's worse. Even if you don't use the cloud as a small company, where are you going to locate your servers?
The fucking garage with a battery backup from Fry's and a home connection?
A file hosting service is one thing. Making Amazon responsible for all content on all virtual servers makes it impossible to offer virtual hosting as a product in the first place. That is assuming of course they have access, which in most cases for virtual is true since you would have console access at a minimum.
What about data centers that allow to purchase a cage or a full cabinet? Are they going to be liable for all the 1's and 0's in your cabinet? Congratulations, you just pushed every data center out of business.
Now *every* business needs to purchase their own temperature controlled space, UPS'd power grid, diesel fuel backup generators, dual Internet connections, and expensive routers just to put a freakin server up on the Internet.
Fuck. Even the Matrix had Agents running around and *they* could not control the whole thing. How are we supposed to put in content management at every level of the architecture everywhere to comply with a proposed law written by sociopathic greedy fucktards for other sociopathic greedy fucktards to say "yes" to in unison to make it law?
It's exactly like making Mrs. Field's or Duncan Hines, etc., legally responsible for making sure all children everywhere eat their peas and carrots before dessert .
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Why not?
With the Patriot Act, SOPA, domestic UAVs for surveillance, TSA monitoring web activity for dissent, etc. what do you really have to lose?
It's not like you need to give them a full address or social. A name, zip code, and working email address. All of which could be faked and entered via proxy.
Don't let a little proxy work stop you from signing some of these petitions, of which, one of them is also to stop ACTA.
Ohhh, and the White House already has access to the IRS. The IRS has access to my bank, VISA, MC, etc. So whatever they want to find out about me, they certainly have the ability to do so already.
Posting here because this at the top so far.
http://wh.gov/KiE
That is the direct link to sign the petition at the White House website. Still needs 14,000 signatures to go.
Slashdot that petition please :)
But lobbying by itself is not inherently bribery.
When does it become inherently bribery?
Let me put it another way. Let's say we had no technology for contraception, and that men and women were so fertile that the act of fucking resulted in pregnancy 100% of the time.
At what point will the word fucking not become synonymous with the word impregnation?
While I understand your point, I would say right now that lobbying *is* inherently bribery in practice. In fact calling it lobbying is just disingenuous. It is in fact bribery.
Just one to blow me out of the water and I'll kiss goatse on the ass.
Dude. Never make a bet with something you are not prepared to lose. Especially *that*.
I just got back from brunch, so thanks for that mental image.
It's not entitlement.
Apple is a US company. You put your family first, your community first, your country first. It's not about disregarding the rest of the world, or discriminating against them.
Saying you have no obligation to your community or your country, when it is the people in that country that are making you successful is abhorrent behavior.
I am not saying that I am more valuable than any other person in the world. Just that I have an obligation to be part of the solution to my own country's problems. So does Apple.
What I find even more disgusting is the following:
We don't have an obligation to solve America's problems. Our only obligation is making the best product possible.
Well apparently corporations are people too. Since when do we, as American people, not have an obligation to solve our problems?
That's the most stupid fucking simplistic sociopathic statement I have ever heard come from a company. It is absolutely obligated to participate with the rest of us in creating a better America and solving our problems.
There you go. The biggest problem with business today. Not just shortsighted and focused on short term profits, but the "Fuck America" attitude as long as it makes them X amount of more profit.
Profit at all costs.
It's possible to run a business where your primary goal is to make a good product, serve the community, and you know, basically not be such sociopathic bastards.
As a general rule, the Windows page file and the Hibernation data file are nothing but huge files full of completely random data.
I don't think we have the same definition for random. There is random data, pattern-less data, and structured data. All of them are different.
Hibernation data files are far from random. They contain headers, processor states, and memory dumps. It is, by its very nature, a file that has strict construction parameters, and even the memory dump portions are going to contain structured data as well.
Page files are pretty much the same, except they don't store processor states IIRC. They will also contain large portions representing memory that is ordered and far from random data.
A TrueCrypt file attempts to look completely random, and is in fact filled from the start with random data from the initial pool. That alone raises flags since nearly every single other file on a system is going to contain data with headers and some sort of structured data. Not a TrueCrypt file.
Seriously. Other than a TrueCrypt file give me an example of a file on disk or in memory that is truly random without headers and contains no subsets of data that are random?
I have a hard time thinking of any example.
If TrueCrypt really wanted to be slick they could take a hibernation file and only mount the memory dump portions of the file. That way it would still look like a fully functional hibernation file, in use, and just have large memory portions that are filled with random data. Upon close inspection it might look strange and suspicious, but to any automated tool it just might get unnoticed in a search for TrueCrypt files.
There exists both tools to locate TrueCrypt files, and analyze and modify hibernation files. Therefore, the next evolution of TrueCrypt should focus on how to camouflage TrueCrypt files, because right now they stick out like a sore thumb on a system.
To give you an example, there was a secure data center I used to work at. It had a fairly nondescript door with heavily tinted windows in between a barber shop and a deli in a large strip mall. Just an intercom on the door, and if you looked real hard you could see the security cameras covering the door. You pressed a button, announced yourself, and security at the remote end compared your face to your identity on file before letting you into the mantrap. Once passing the inspection, biometrics, and passwords you accessed a fair sized data center with armed security walking around.
You would have never thought in a million years driving by that strip mall that it even existed. Customers and kids walking around had no idea either and it looked like a maintenance door.
*That* is what TrueCrypt should try to emulate. Right now it might as well have neon signs around it.
I allow for the possibility that terms can be spelled and used differently in different cultures which is why I thought the snobbish and condescending post needed to be responded to. I did not find the spelling of a word to be indicative of an uneducated mind, when that spelling is thought to be a variant by most people.
All of that being said, I simply must start talking about the pants. You put it in bold. Enquiring minds need to know. What is it about the pants?
I switched off when I saw the Lovecraft quote.
Of course it did. That is a defense mechanism because your mind is to puny to comprehend and/or confront the madness of the abyss......
If the fusion reactor floats... you are already flying. Just attach some small propellers, add a few seats and a dining car... and you have a luxury blimp.
Giving a link to an article that uses the word with an "i" is not supporting evidence for you being correct. An article is a generous term considering it is really just a news blurb by an anonymous author. You just searched for the first article using the spelling of the word you find correct.
So we are to believe this anonymous author used the word with an "i" and that all of the sudden means this is not about the spelling of a word, but that each word means something different?
Both terms essentially mean the same thing, with most dictionaries claiming they are equivalent and noting the US or UK usage.
Now if you want to claim education here, please provide a more comprehensive etymology of both words for us. In other words, please provide a stronger case why there is a difference and you are oh-so-so smart and lament about times past in which people were somehow more intelligent and educated.
It's rare that I see one go bad. In fact, my CRT's lasted quite a long time. I ended up donating them for a tax deduction. Every LCD monitor I have ever owned is still in use today. That's going on 7 years for some of them.
In business I can tell you that for various clients that about half of all LCD monitors in use are 5-7 years old.
So to answer your question, quite a few.
This is why that most of the PC purchases I have made have been without bundled monitors because the old one gets reused. PCs die and get swapped out a heck of a lot faster than monitors.
That's absolutely hilarious.
The whole idea of DoS is to flood the server with so many packets it cannot handle them all. TOR is so fucking slow you might as well be shunting the output of Hoover Damn through a silly straw.
Not to mention the exit node for the connection is what is going to get picked up, and that is unlikely since TOR won't use 100% of the upstream.
You just turned the beam from the Death Star down from "destroy" to "light tan".
No, they might just watch your search logs for a few weeks and then sort you into a weapons, drugs, crime or porn raid.
Gee.. I wonder what the average choice will be?
I've seen Gingrich on the news before. I think the threat of a nuclear weapon is the only thing that increases his chances of getting some strange to "possible".
I have been labeled a bit radical for my proposed changes to curb our effect on the environment, but suggesting men cut off their penises is going too far.
Never in my life I have been a supporter of Manifest Destiny, especially in our contemporary usage of the word... but when it comes to my own penis.... Manifest Destiny absolutely.
My penis stays. Fuck the Earth.
Now they just claim it isn't caused by humans. Global warming deniers are the new creationists - moving goalposts every time they are proven wrong because they can't stand what science is telling them. They have zero credibility.
But there are lots of them
Of course there are. God told them to go forth and multiply, birth control is bad, and if Little Johnny rubs one out it will make him cry.
Now they just claim it isn't caused by humans. Global warming deniers are the new creationists - moving goalposts every time they are proven wrong because they can't stand what science is telling them. They have zero credibility.
But there are lots of them
Of course. God tells them to go forth and multiply, don't use birth control, and if little Johnny rubs one out it will make God cry.
It's funny you bring that up.
The first Rambo kicked ass. The last Rambo was fucking hard core. The stuff in the middle you don't even have to keep.
I found your post funny, just wanted to point out the technical feasibility.
It will be rather clear its not a .zip file, instead it will look like a bunch of random data and the most they can guess is its a encrypted container,
Not entirely true. Tools and methods have been created, available on market, to detect TrueCrypt containers. I have seen papers on detecting hidden volumes as well, although it does involve significant analysis of the outer container and assumptions about behavior in the outer container that might not be true in all situations.
Don't rely on TrueCrypt containers being seen as only random data. Additionally, just how often is there a file of completely random data on a storage volume in the first place? That kind of sticks out like a sore thumb by itself.
Remembering 50 character password would be the challenge in that instance................ to verify it, they would need to open it.
My TrueCrypt passwords, I never use keyfiles, are 50+ easy. I remember them with some memory tricks I picked up and concatenating/delimiting random phrases and number strings. I think my longest one might actually be 90+.
TrueCrypt, even at its most complex, is still essentially 3 algorithms stringed together with a key. It's all about the permutations and strength of the algorithm.
It's true they will need a reason to justify the resources, but I strongly suspect that government does have systems that can bruteforce heavily encrypted data within viable time frames for intelligence. There is always the idiot savant factor. It is nearly impossible to claim that any encryption algorithm has no weaknesses that can be exploited.
It's all academic anyways. If the government can do it, that is a top secret super weapon in cyberspace. Do you use a nuke to clear out a crack house? No :)
They won't use whatever resources that they do have to crack your file unless they think you are an intelligence target and I highly doubt a bunch of porn, music, and movies is worth their time :)
That's true, I have just had bad experiences with HDMI. It Does Not Just Work.
You would think they would be they same, but in practice they are not. I think that is mainly because the vast majority of HDMI displays out there are not monitors by design, but meant for sources other than a computer.
Why is it that three different computers/laptops with HDMI connectors all operate slightly differently on a couple of different HDMI display devices?
DVI does not do that.
While Display Port is probably a lot more reliable than HDMI in that regard, it is not $2 for an adapter. Try 10x more expensive at a minimum at 50-60x more expensive at the high end.
That logic does not explain Police Academy Six: We Can't Stop Making These Fucking Movies.
Your model does not fit the data. Try again.
Well I think that is because in some cultures it is an accepted test for virginity.
I don't think you read his post. He said "single point of failure".
If people made copies of their "eggs" then why are they complaining about losing a single "egg"?
He has a point too about using cloud based services for collaboration. When it goes down, your communication tools go with it. That's not just cloud either, but Skype as well for example.
Some operations are just too sensitive to put into the cloud. I would never want any of my medical records or personal data hosted anywhere in the cloud, and I would expressly disallow it. From that perspective, as a company, it can be unacceptable to have your data, in the clear, outside of direct company control at any time. I might make an exception if a 3rd party security company was to audit the security, random audits were permissible, and there were very strong non-disclosure agreements, SLA's in place to protect company data. For most sensitive SaaS services those kind of agreements do exist.
I think the entire context of his post was cloud only set ups. Not backup.
At least that is how I read his post, and I agree with some of his points from a business consideration.
It's worse. Even if you don't use the cloud as a small company, where are you going to locate your servers?
The fucking garage with a battery backup from Fry's and a home connection?
A file hosting service is one thing. Making Amazon responsible for all content on all virtual servers makes it impossible to offer virtual hosting as a product in the first place. That is assuming of course they have access, which in most cases for virtual is true since you would have console access at a minimum.
What about data centers that allow to purchase a cage or a full cabinet? Are they going to be liable for all the 1's and 0's in your cabinet? Congratulations, you just pushed every data center out of business.
Now *every* business needs to purchase their own temperature controlled space, UPS'd power grid, diesel fuel backup generators, dual Internet connections, and expensive routers just to put a freakin server up on the Internet.
Fuck. Even the Matrix had Agents running around and *they* could not control the whole thing. How are we supposed to put in content management at every level of the architecture everywhere to comply with a proposed law written by sociopathic greedy fucktards for other sociopathic greedy fucktards to say "yes" to in unison to make it law?
It's exactly like making Mrs. Field's or Duncan Hines, etc., legally responsible for making sure all children everywhere eat their peas and carrots before dessert .