They can claim that any bunch of random data on your disk is actually hiding something encrypted
This may be technically true, and the poor, random, but arrested sod may get away with the usual blank stares. Anyone using TC, Vsoft, or any of the full disk encryption software on the other hand, will have a hard time convincing me or anybody that the random stuff on your drive is not actually data if the boot loader pops up. As for me, the wall in my study room also happens to be, ehm, decorated with some certificates for IT courses, photos and old entrance tickets from LAN parties etc. and I have books about technical/programming stuff lying around. How are you EVER going to convince anybody that you don't know how that 'random data' ended up on your hard drive?
Unless full disk encryption is enabled by default in future operating systems, blank stares or denying the obvious are not going to get us out of trouble.
Well, it's a very specific piece of equipment indeed. But I'm not in the US military and I have nothing to do with NSA, so please enlighten me what the use of such a device would be. As I see it, a SECRET system connected to a TOP SECRET system is no longer classified SECRET (and may not even connect if it's not accredited for the classification, and may not even be close to each other, in case of red/black). What environment would need a system that handles all classification levels? A more practical method that I'm aware of is to tunnel information across security boundaries by protecting/encrypting it up to the classification required.
But we digress, we were talking about introducing malicious code in third party software. I don't really see how classification levels fit into the equation. Apparently, the Integrity operating system is so small that it can be fully audited, behaves predictable under all tested parameters, and the EAL6 certification simply means that it can be trusted to behave accordingly, to a very high degree. Yeah, you need to trust two parties instead of one. But it seems to me the next-best thing to writing it yourself.
I'm well aware of the context of the article I linked to. But that complex international situation you speak of, with overlapping (military) treaties, nations seeking war -not necessarily in Europe- and a shift of power across continents, has disappeared all of a sudden? How is our situation different from 1918?
A repeat of the 2008 Mumbai attacks would hardly start a nuclear war given that 9-11 didn't. It takes a bit more than a few idiots with light weapons to escalate to that level of conflict.
Yeah. And the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Serbian student didn't set in motion the events that caused Austria, Serbia, Russia, Germany, France, Britain and Japan to mobilize, leading to World War I.
This is the reason why the NSA has never approved any computer system for handling all classification levels -- it is not economical to develop a custom system, but it is not secure to trust a third party system
Not true. The INTEGRITY RTOS has been deemed EAL6+ certified by NSA, from what I've heard it has so little lines of code that auditing is possible.
I'm not really trying to make a point here, but we simply will never know what the 'ideal solution' you're speaking of is even about. The mere existence of 7 billion people by 2012 is easily underestimated.
Happy Saturday evening! Having a sip of wine and listening to 1997's trance, thereby consuming all the world's resources. Yay.
With that precise an answer, I think you might mean "exactly 32 million books" and an "average book weight of exactly 12 ounces". Personally, I think I'd just go with "11 million kilograms", unless you feel lucky.:-)
No! No! No! We'll end up with horrific rounding errors when somebody else picks up the number and tries to convert it into a measurement of angular momentum.
Any decent navigation system shouldn't require you to look at the screen, instead it should provide unambiguous voice instructions. Both nav-systems I've used (several TomTom models and the Professional system built into BMW cars) do this very well.
The Win7 dev updates are frankly pitiful when compared to the full repertoire available in OS X
Because those 'dev updates' are also available on XP SP3 and Vista and as such are not mentioned as new features in Win7? Components/Interfaces are useless in a single version of an OS without support for the others.
Don't forget the corporate/mobile network-aware managed firewall, support for DNSSEC, hugely improved deployment/imaging maintainance tools, a usefully revamped taskbar with application-sensitive context menus/history, new remote desktop protocol that supports media streaming and 3D applications. And the whole UAC thing is a lot less intrusive than its predecessor's.
I like 7. I don't like IE8, but that's another matter.
If the entire sentence were a quote, then the second example would be correct, at least around here (NLD). But the "dd" is not a quote, it's a literal string that should not include the period.
spent so much time decorating the front door that they forgot to check inside the constant stream of animal-shaped wooden statues delivered to the service entrance.
I give up. What does any of this have to do with ponies?
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They can claim that any bunch of random data on your disk is actually hiding something encrypted
This may be technically true, and the poor, random, but arrested sod may get away with the usual blank stares. Anyone using TC, Vsoft, or any of the full disk encryption software on the other hand, will have a hard time convincing me or anybody that the random stuff on your drive is not actually data if the boot loader pops up.
As for me, the wall in my study room also happens to be, ehm, decorated with some certificates for IT courses, photos and old entrance tickets from LAN parties etc. and I have books about technical/programming stuff lying around. How are you EVER going to convince anybody that you don't know how that 'random data' ended up on your hard drive?
Unless full disk encryption is enabled by default in future operating systems, blank stares or denying the obvious are not going to get us out of trouble.
It doesn't have a receiver anyway. It's just a radio transmitter.
I don't care. Does it run Linux?
And does it have a private key?
But how do we know that just by reading the subject line?
You don't. Parent must have read the Summary. Even worse, he might have read The Article.
Well, it's a very specific piece of equipment indeed. But I'm not in the US military and I have nothing to do with NSA, so please enlighten me what the use of such a device would be. As I see it, a SECRET system connected to a TOP SECRET system is no longer classified SECRET (and may not even connect if it's not accredited for the classification, and may not even be close to each other, in case of red/black). What environment would need a system that handles all classification levels? A more practical method that I'm aware of is to tunnel information across security boundaries by protecting/encrypting it up to the classification required.
But we digress, we were talking about introducing malicious code in third party software. I don't really see how classification levels fit into the equation. Apparently, the Integrity operating system is so small that it can be fully audited, behaves predictable under all tested parameters, and the EAL6 certification simply means that it can be trusted to behave accordingly, to a very high degree. Yeah, you need to trust two parties instead of one. But it seems to me the next-best thing to writing it yourself.
I'm well aware of the context of the article I linked to. But that complex international situation you speak of, with overlapping (military) treaties, nations seeking war -not necessarily in Europe- and a shift of power across continents, has disappeared all of a sudden? How is our situation different from 1918?
A repeat of the 2008 Mumbai attacks would hardly start a nuclear war given that 9-11 didn't. It takes a bit more than a few idiots with light weapons to escalate to that level of conflict.
Yeah. And the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Serbian student didn't set in motion the events that caused Austria, Serbia, Russia, Germany, France, Britain and Japan to mobilize, leading to World War I.
Maybe your cat doesn't like strings. Try this: /dev/mem | strings | yarn
$ cat
This is the reason why the NSA has never approved any computer system for handling all classification levels -- it is not economical to develop a custom system, but it is not secure to trust a third party system
Not true. The INTEGRITY RTOS has been deemed EAL6+ certified by NSA, from what I've heard it has so little lines of code that auditing is possible.
Dang. I don't want to be in your hosts file. That would constitute a very serious breach of something, the privacy of my computer's name, whatever.
You need your own, separate Internet.
That will be some undocumented API, for sure.
I find your lack of green hills disturbing.
I'm not really trying to make a point here, but we simply will never know what the 'ideal solution' you're speaking of is even about. The mere existence of 7 billion people by 2012 is easily underestimated.
Happy Saturday evening! Having a sip of wine and listening to 1997's trance, thereby consuming all the world's resources. Yay.
With that precise an answer, I think you might mean "exactly 32 million books" and an "average book weight of exactly 12 ounces". Personally, I think I'd just go with "11 million kilograms", unless you feel lucky. :-)
No! No! No! We'll end up with horrific rounding errors when somebody else picks up the number and tries to convert it into a measurement of angular momentum.
The weight of LoC in 11 significant digits is silly enough as it is.
Then my argument would be that you shouldn't be doing 200 when you need directions.
Any decent navigation system shouldn't require you to look at the screen, instead it should provide unambiguous voice instructions. Both nav-systems I've used (several TomTom models and the Professional system built into BMW cars) do this very well.
Parent was probably referring to V for Vendetta.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8fI-dGWT74
Woops. Intended to mod insightful. Does /. have a CLI? I hate clicking.
The Win7 dev updates are frankly pitiful when compared to the full repertoire available in OS X
Because those 'dev updates' are also available on XP SP3 and Vista and as such are not mentioned as new features in Win7? Components/Interfaces are useless in a single version of an OS without support for the others.
Don't forget the corporate/mobile network-aware managed firewall, support for DNSSEC, hugely improved deployment/imaging maintainance tools, a usefully revamped taskbar with application-sensitive context menus/history, new remote desktop protocol that supports media streaming and 3D applications. And the whole UAC thing is a lot less intrusive than its predecessor's.
I like 7. I don't like IE8, but that's another matter.
And what's infuriating is that the last four digits are the most important; the first 5 are determined based on time and place of birth.
Which is precisely why asking for the first five would be a completely ineffective to ascertain your identity.
SSNs were never intended to provide identification, and with flaws like this it's no wonder they weren't.
Umm, I don't think this was meant to be informative. I think SharpFang was trying to be funny.
You're trying to be informative, Wise Guy?
If the entire sentence were a quote, then the second example would be correct, at least around here (NLD). But the "dd" is not a quote, it's a literal string that should not include the period.
Both of them make sense.
spent so much time decorating the front door that they forgot to check inside the constant stream of animal-shaped wooden statues delivered to the service entrance.
I give up. What does any of this have to do with ponies?
Stop right there. StrongWebmail requires the boss' password to answer e-mail on his behalf or to view his calendar? What a piece of crap.