Phil Zimmerman left NAI early this year..so while he says he would not support any backdoors...it's not really his call to make on this product anymore...Certainly with OpenPGP - but not the NAI version..
Here's what he said about the last version he oversaw...7.0.3
Let me assure all PGP users that all versions of PGP produced by NAI, and PGP Security, a division of NAI, up to and including the current (January 2001) release, PGP 7.0.3, are free of back doors. In all previous releases, up through PGP 6.5.8, this has been proven by the release of complete source code for public peer review. New senior management assumed control of PGP Security in the final months of 2000, and decided to reduce how much PGP source code they would publish. If NAI ever publishes the complete PGP 7.0.3 source code, I am confident that the public will be able to see that there are still no back doors. Until that time, I can offer only my own assurances that this version of PGP was developed on my watch, and has no back doors. In fact, I believe it to be the most secure version of PGP produced to date.
He may not support backdoors...but he's no longer working on that product. Whatever NAI chose to do to drive him out feels like something that would compromise the security of future versions of PGP
Ever since Phil Zimmerman left because of of "differences" with NAI, I was extremely reluctant to upgrade to future versions for fear of "backdoors" that might have been included in the product - things that wouldn't have happened under his watch but are now more likely.
So I stopped upgrading the free version at the last version he personally oversaw...7.0.3
I think weight has more to do with launching it into space...when every pound costs thousands of dollars to transport, what seems miniscule suddenly becomes very important.
By putting a weight limit on it, they were able to restrict people building monsterous devices that couldn't be transported or rebuilt cheaply.
I lost access to JPG and GIF files after uninstalling some scanning software...
Three days later...I was still no closer...I tried recreating JPG extensions just like JPEG extensions...no go. Trying to create a correct file type was a nightmare.
Finally, I just said screw it...I open up photoshop now to see my stuff. Who needs I.E. to look at GIFS and JPEG's anyway.
Finally, a practical use for the FCC...Thank God. This is one of the few times where a little government intervention wouldn't hurt.
Try explaining to your boss why the firewall detected all these adult site alerts when all you were trying to do was look for Dana Bourgouis guitars...
Let me put it this way...if those in the vocal minority (Slashdot) want to
a) help the Corporate Business World ween from the dirty nipple of M$
b) Make Linux widespread enough to help those 5-6 companies making distros stay in business
Then it will WANT to make it easier and better to use.
Prime example...I installed a firewall that was a Unix/BSD variant...I was kinda freaked cause I know nothing about core Unix or BSD....however, by the time the firewall was done installing...I had a compact, ready to use configurable firewall without having to go thru all the recompile, remove components, etc, etc.
Customing Linux installs for servers, firewalls, etc, etc...getting rid of all that crap people really don't want (like 17 text editors ) - will help this gain acceptance...no they don't HAVE to do it...but if Linux continues to be a jack of all trades, it will be masters of none.
And if that's all the/. community wants, fine...but then why bitch about how it never takes over in the mainstream? To some degree, I think M$ actually WANTS more distros and complexity in Linux...it dilutes the impact.
Here's our opportunity....guys...if Linux is ever to be a viable operating system (at least to Corporate America) - it needs to take advantage of this....
CFO's do listen with their wallets...make Linux EASY to use, even at the expense of some of the more configurable options...and secure, and you'll see it become a viable file/web server in the market...I laugh when I hear people griping about MS service packs and a kernel has to be recompiled every week.
Follow the cue of Linux embedded devices...easy for users and admins.
Just out of curiousity...how does this engine work...what principles of physics does this satellite use and what would it's benefits be?..first time I heard of one is when I found that's what powers TIE fighters
I woke up one night at 3am thinking my pager had beeped and gone off...when it hadn't I was confused...10 minutes later...I think the same thing..but it's in the living room.
turns out that was a heat warning on my motherboard. The fan for the cpu had gotten wore out and was dying...I killed the box and bought a new fan the next day...but I could have fried my processor if the box hadn't started beeping and woken me up.
They're probably using this as a test for the RIAA...and they knew no hacker would try to break it cause no hacker would ever want to.
I can hear the sales committee to RIAA 6 months later.."See, our propritary technology hasn't been cracked - it's safe to implement for all CD sales...
Two weeks later...teenage munchkins find out they can't listen to Limp Bisquit and break the encoding...end of story.
Funny as hell...why Charley Pride? Covering Jim Reeves, no less?
The masses are spoon-fed by corporations, and individuals looking for a voice or something different will seek and find it.
This is just like music, where 99.9% of the music out there is pushed by majors, paid off by song promoters, and bribed onto radio stations that play the same song over and over. You want Alejandro or the Vigilantes of Love? Too damn bad, right? No...you just have to look, listen, and use word of mouth to do an end-run around the business.
Why should web content be any different? Feed the masses, but leave the interesting underground sites and URL's. I'm smart, I'll find them, and I won't need an interactive portal with them.
RB
So you mean all those artists and Apple lied?
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Remember the Apple commerical promoting their new CD burner with all the artists (George Clinton, Smash Mouth, Liz Phair,) - and about 30 others on a stage, and they guy was saying he wanted to burn each of their tracks to a CD for a mix...
And George said "It's your music - burn it" - you mean they lied????? I can't create a mix tape of my own stuff that I bought cause it's stealing???? (they afraid I'm sucking profits from NOW compilations? They pissed cause I burned my own copy of the Beatles "1" from the entire catalog I already own?)
Of course, I'm not endorsing the stealing of MP3's, but fer crying out loud...can't a guy make a mix CD of his stuff without the RIAA trying to bitch about that too...? They did this with Consumer Audio CD's (basically stand alone CD burners) and got the media price kicked way up to 4-5 bucks a disk because of taxes and fees...only reason they haven't gotten this far is because users aren't computer savvy enough to put mp3 to computer disk, but they're getting there.
Time to stockpile, kiddies...snag a few hundred and hit the black market when they're illegal.
Idiots probably tracked an IP that changed when a DHCP license didn't get renewed...If it's like my cable modem, you don't get a static IP. Two weeks later...hmmm..let's hit this IP...whoops? Wrong one now.
That's the rocket science of the MPAA for you...I feel like killing someone.
Two months ago, my firewall reported a scan from an IP...I was bored, so I checked it out and it looked like a home computer...on a hunch, I tried mapping to the \\www.xxx.yyy.zzz\c share with no password.
It was infected by a trojan that replicates off of unprotected C drive shares in Windows...I was looking at his C drive...and I thought about replacing everything on his desktop except for a note telling him he was infected with a trojan and his HD was open to the world.
Thank God I wised up...He could have had me prosecuted!!!! God I'm so starting to hate the government.
"I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life" - Ryan Adams
My first picture of a space station (in a Star Wars book about questions on Space - of all things) was a shot of that Giant wheel space station...you know...the one that spins and people use the gravity in the big wheel - just like on 2001..
I guess I won't see that baby in my lifetime...ah well...it was a nice dream.
I still remember the one quote...the US hopes to have a permanent space station before the end of the century...guess we came pretty close, huh?
Clearchannel doesn't even use local DJ's half the time...and their 200 stations are all using pretty much the same payola inspired playlists, so now we can have lots of crap on the internet that sounds exactly the same as the crap everywhere else.
You want innovation? go to www.radiok.org - Real college radio. Screw corporate radio and their crap once and for all.
The only thing new about this is it's interacting with online gambling. Interesting if it could be used in a monetary sense - like Texas Hold Em or 7 Card Stud to actually win money. (if you're playing video draw poker, you're playing to lose. The house has the best odds) - In fact, I half wonder if it's being done right now...people playing online and feeding odds and stats into a computer to see if they've got the odds to win.
FYI - the most commonly recognized poker playing software is Wilson Software - www.wilsonsw.com - they design poker programs with very detailed programmable profiles...That's how I improved my game...a thousand hands a day no problemo. (it's also good for simulation - wondering if you'd save or lose money raising AK preflop? Run 100000 hands and find out!)
The most interesting thing is this...Poker is actually a lot like a casino. You think you're playing each other, but if you get the ten best players together, then all you have is 10 steady declines of bankrolls. The house rake sucks it all away at 10% a hand. The best way to make money at poker is to find a fish - which I'm thinking he could program this thing to beat no problemo
shouldn't happen to such a cool guy.
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I got a copy of Car Wars signed back in '86 by Steve Jackson (the little plastic box version)- at a convention in Missoula, MT...he was cool
The hell he went through with the Govt. and now this would put most businessmen out of work. It's good to see someone who loves the hobby sticking in there, and I'll have to take a look at some of their new products...(haven't bought one since "Killer" in the mid 90's at college.
Whereas most people would have just canned and moved on, he posted to the website, offered to help those laid off find new jobs, and in general has been the king of CEO's, (if that's what he actually is - maybe a better term is head honcho) - we should all be so lucky.
The "you use our email, so we're stealing your spare processing power and renting it out and you agreed to this with a click-thru agreement so screw you" company...distributed computing seems to be quite a bargain for them..
So, it looks like this thing can do computations about a billion times faster then conventional methods....that's gotta knock a hole in current key lengths and security...I wonder how fast this thing has to get before brute forcing a 256 bit key becomes feasible. (big math people out there anywhere?)
Fortunately, that should also offer a slew of new possibilities for encryption schemes that were previously too slow or bulky.
Can you hear it? That's the collective ignorant outcry of a hundred thousand geeks who can make a Linux box fly but can't recognize satire when they read it.
This is not a real dot-com people...It's half tongue-in-cheek, half satire. You must chill.
Now if anyone who doesn't believe me wants to invest in my plan to turn the volume up on your computer from the internet, email me the money.
I was under the impression that once Quantum cryptography and computing became a reality, that conventional means would just fall to pieces....but all this looks like is a way to transmit binary data via photons...and then you're sure it wasn't observed cause it's not tampered with...that isn't really the best way that I can imagine to ensure eternal security and vigilance against the forces of evil..
Sounds like security thru obsecurity to me, ("my password is asdfasdf, but we're secure because no one observed it being transmitted and no one observed our message...woo hoo!!!!" - oh, what's that? TEMPEST attacks?...never mind)
Lord, don't even joke about this - they might do it...
And in this situation, this would actually put a much worse load on the operating routers that have to recalculate routing tables for flapping and downed routes.
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I use Qwest's call screening service.
Works fine...except when I get calls from Qwest asking me to upgrade my service or notify me of special offers.
Unbelievable.
RB
Phil Zimmerman left NAI early this year..so while he says he would not support any backdoors...it's not really his call to make on this product anymore...Certainly with OpenPGP - but not the NAI version..
Here's what he said about the last version he oversaw...7.0.3
Let me assure all PGP users that all versions of PGP produced by NAI, and PGP Security, a division of NAI, up to and including the current (January 2001) release, PGP 7.0.3, are free of back doors. In all previous releases, up through PGP 6.5.8, this has been proven by the release of complete source code for public peer review. New senior management assumed control of PGP Security in the final months of 2000, and decided to reduce how much PGP source code they would publish. If NAI ever publishes the complete PGP 7.0.3 source code, I am confident that the public will be able to see that there are still no back doors. Until that time, I can offer only my own assurances that this version of PGP was developed on my watch, and has no back doors. In fact, I believe it to be the most secure version of PGP produced to date.
He may not support backdoors...but he's no longer working on that product. Whatever NAI chose to do to drive him out feels like something that would compromise the security of future versions of PGP
Ever since Phil Zimmerman left because of of "differences" with NAI, I was extremely reluctant to upgrade to future versions for fear of "backdoors" that might have been included in the product - things that wouldn't have happened under his watch but are now more likely.
So I stopped upgrading the free version at the last version he personally oversaw...7.0.3
I think weight has more to do with launching it into space...when every pound costs thousands of dollars to transport, what seems miniscule suddenly becomes very important.
By putting a weight limit on it, they were able to restrict people building monsterous devices that couldn't be transported or rebuilt cheaply.
I lost access to JPG and GIF files after uninstalling some scanning software...
Three days later...I was still no closer...I tried recreating JPG extensions just like JPEG extensions...no go. Trying to create a correct file type was a nightmare.
Finally, I just said screw it...I open up photoshop now to see my stuff. Who needs I.E. to look at GIFS and JPEG's anyway.
Finally, a practical use for the FCC...Thank God. This is one of the few times where a little government intervention wouldn't hurt.
Try explaining to your boss why the firewall detected all these adult site alerts when all you were trying to do was look for Dana Bourgouis guitars...
Or your wife/girlfriend for that matter.
RB
The Soundblaster Live Value does this...use it with a wave encoder...like even free Goldwave, and you're in business.
I use it on streaming broadcasts....a good way to get a copy.
RB
ok...no not anything...it doesn't have to be...
/. community wants, fine...but then why bitch about how it never takes over in the mainstream? To some degree, I think M$ actually WANTS more distros and complexity in Linux...it dilutes the impact.
Let me put it this way...if those in the vocal minority (Slashdot) want to
a) help the Corporate Business World ween from the dirty nipple of M$
b) Make Linux widespread enough to help those 5-6 companies making distros stay in business
Then it will WANT to make it easier and better to use.
Prime example...I installed a firewall that was a Unix/BSD variant...I was kinda freaked cause I know nothing about core Unix or BSD....however, by the time the firewall was done installing...I had a compact, ready to use configurable firewall without having to go thru all the recompile, remove components, etc, etc.
Customing Linux installs for servers, firewalls, etc, etc...getting rid of all that crap people really don't want (like 17 text editors ) - will help this gain acceptance...no they don't HAVE to do it...but if Linux continues to be a jack of all trades, it will be masters of none.
And if that's all the
Here's our opportunity....guys...if Linux is ever to be a viable operating system (at least to Corporate America) - it needs to take advantage of this....
CFO's do listen with their wallets...make Linux EASY to use, even at the expense of some of the more configurable options...and secure, and you'll see it become a viable file/web server in the market...I laugh when I hear people griping about MS service packs and a kernel has to be recompiled every week.
Follow the cue of Linux embedded devices...easy for users and admins.
Just out of curiousity...how does this engine work...what principles of physics does this satellite use and what would it's benefits be?..first time I heard of one is when I found that's what powers TIE fighters
: ) - It's true...TIE = Twin Ion Engine
I woke up one night at 3am thinking my pager had beeped and gone off...when it hadn't I was confused...10 minutes later...I think the same thing..but it's in the living room.
turns out that was a heat warning on my motherboard. The fan for the cpu had gotten wore out and was dying...I killed the box and bought a new fan the next day...but I could have fried my processor if the box hadn't started beeping and woken me up.
They're probably using this as a test for the RIAA...and they knew no hacker would try to break it cause no hacker would ever want to.
I can hear the sales committee to RIAA 6 months later.."See, our propritary technology hasn't been cracked - it's safe to implement for all CD sales...
Two weeks later...teenage munchkins find out they can't listen to Limp Bisquit and break the encoding...end of story.
Funny as hell...why Charley Pride? Covering Jim Reeves, no less?
The masses are spoon-fed by corporations, and individuals looking for a voice or something different will seek and find it.
This is just like music, where 99.9% of the music out there is pushed by majors, paid off by song promoters, and bribed onto radio stations that play the same song over and over. You want Alejandro or the Vigilantes of Love? Too damn bad, right? No...you just have to look, listen, and use word of mouth to do an end-run around the business.
Why should web content be any different? Feed the masses, but leave the interesting underground sites and URL's. I'm smart, I'll find them, and I won't need an interactive portal with them.
RB
Remember the Apple commerical promoting their new CD burner with all the artists (George Clinton, Smash Mouth, Liz Phair,) - and about 30 others on a stage, and they guy was saying he wanted to burn each of their tracks to a CD for a mix...
And George said "It's your music - burn it" - you mean they lied????? I can't create a mix tape of my own stuff that I bought cause it's stealing???? (they afraid I'm sucking profits from NOW compilations? They pissed cause I burned my own copy of the Beatles "1" from the entire catalog I already own?)
Of course, I'm not endorsing the stealing of MP3's, but fer crying out loud...can't a guy make a mix CD of his stuff without the RIAA trying to bitch about that too...? They did this with Consumer Audio CD's (basically stand alone CD burners) and got the media price kicked way up to 4-5 bucks a disk because of taxes and fees...only reason they haven't gotten this far is because users aren't computer savvy enough to put mp3 to computer disk, but they're getting there.
Time to stockpile, kiddies...snag a few hundred and hit the black market when they're illegal.
RB
Idiots probably tracked an IP that changed when a DHCP license didn't get renewed...If it's like my cable modem, you don't get a static IP. Two weeks later...hmmm..let's hit this IP...whoops? Wrong one now.
That's the rocket science of the MPAA for you...I feel like killing someone.
RB
Two months ago, my firewall reported a scan from an IP...I was bored, so I checked it out and it looked like a home computer...on a hunch, I tried mapping to the \\www.xxx.yyy.zzz\c share with no password.
It was infected by a trojan that replicates off of unprotected C drive shares in Windows...I was looking at his C drive...and I thought about replacing everything on his desktop except for a note telling him he was infected with a trojan and his HD was open to the world.
Thank God I wised up...He could have had me prosecuted!!!! God I'm so starting to hate the government.
"I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life" - Ryan Adams
My first picture of a space station (in a Star Wars book about questions on Space - of all things) was a shot of that Giant wheel space station...you know...the one that spins and people use the gravity in the big wheel - just like on 2001.. I guess I won't see that baby in my lifetime...ah well...it was a nice dream. I still remember the one quote...the US hopes to have a permanent space station before the end of the century...guess we came pretty close, huh?
Clearchannel doesn't even use local DJ's half the time...and their 200 stations are all using pretty much the same payola inspired playlists, so now we can have lots of crap on the internet that sounds exactly the same as the crap everywhere else.
You want innovation? go to www.radiok.org - Real college radio. Screw corporate radio and their crap once and for all.
The only thing new about this is it's interacting with online gambling. Interesting if it could be used in a monetary sense - like Texas Hold Em or 7 Card Stud to actually win money. (if you're playing video draw poker, you're playing to lose. The house has the best odds) - In fact, I half wonder if it's being done right now...people playing online and feeding odds and stats into a computer to see if they've got the odds to win.
FYI - the most commonly recognized poker playing software is Wilson Software - www.wilsonsw.com - they design poker programs with very detailed programmable profiles...That's how I improved my game...a thousand hands a day no problemo. (it's also good for simulation - wondering if you'd save or lose money raising AK preflop? Run 100000 hands and find out!)
The most interesting thing is this...Poker is actually a lot like a casino. You think you're playing each other, but if you get the ten best players together, then all you have is 10 steady declines of bankrolls. The house rake sucks it all away at 10% a hand. The best way to make money at poker is to find a fish - which I'm thinking he could program this thing to beat no problemo
I got a copy of Car Wars signed back in '86 by Steve Jackson (the little plastic box version)- at a convention in Missoula, MT...he was cool
The hell he went through with the Govt. and now this would put most businessmen out of work. It's good to see someone who loves the hobby sticking in there, and I'll have to take a look at some of their new products...(haven't bought one since "Killer" in the mid 90's at college.
Whereas most people would have just canned and moved on, he posted to the website, offered to help those laid off find new jobs, and in general has been the king of CEO's, (if that's what he actually is - maybe a better term is head honcho) - we should all be so lucky.
The "you use our email, so we're stealing your spare processing power and renting it out and you agreed to this with a click-thru agreement so screw you" company...distributed computing seems to be quite a bargain for them..
So, it looks like this thing can do computations about a billion times faster then conventional methods....that's gotta knock a hole in current key lengths and security...I wonder how fast this thing has to get before brute forcing a 256 bit key becomes feasible. (big math people out there anywhere?)
Fortunately, that should also offer a slew of new possibilities for encryption schemes that were previously too slow or bulky.
On your mark, get set, encrypt
Can you hear it? That's the collective ignorant outcry of a hundred thousand geeks who can make a Linux box fly but can't recognize satire when they read it.
This is not a real dot-com people...It's half tongue-in-cheek, half satire. You must chill.
Now if anyone who doesn't believe me wants to invest in my plan to turn the volume up on your computer from the internet, email me the money.
RB
I was under the impression that once Quantum cryptography and computing became a reality, that conventional means would just fall to pieces....but all this looks like is a way to transmit binary data via photons...and then you're sure it wasn't observed cause it's not tampered with...that isn't really the best way that I can imagine to ensure eternal security and vigilance against the forces of evil..
Sounds like security thru obsecurity to me, ("my password is asdfasdf, but we're secure because no one observed it being transmitted and no one observed our message...woo hoo!!!!" - oh, what's that? TEMPEST attacks?...never mind)
Lord, don't even joke about this - they might do it...
And in this situation, this would actually put a much worse load on the operating routers that have to recalculate routing tables for flapping and downed routes.