Your rant (heh) was with GMail, but your arguments are not.
You don't know what your provider is doing with your e-mail. Anybody not computer literate doesn't know what their administrator or boss is doing with their e-mail or files, whether they are concerned with privacy or not. Also, anybody sharing private (very private) data through a public network like that is going to get his ass handed to him one way or the other, with or without privacy legislation.
And by the way, I'm not a citizen of the US. Excuse me for not thinking paranoid.
I get the point that some web-based mail client doesn't work on a particular browser from a particular OS (which is being mitigated by several commenters, so I've probably read more of the story than you did). The Parent was questioning the use of web-based messaging altogether. Don't be a smart-ass.
Privacy concerns with e-mail? Apart from the fact that SMTP is plaintext all the way from you to the recipient, there are a lot more unscrupulous messaging "administrators" than Google has eyes prying at your e-mail. Wake up, Google isn't wanking off at our mail. Indexing services read your e-mail to generate revenue by content-based advertising and they can't afford to fuck up that way. And sometimes the ads are spot-on. I find the advertising on Google's pages far less intrusive and annoying than the average tv/radio commercial.
Third, I don't use e-mail services for anything that would harm my privacy, anything possibly embarassing or confidential anyways. Not GMail's, not anybody's.
blahblahblahwill enable further erosion from the government without resistance. YOU scare me.
Any more rediculous sensationalist statements? Sjeesj. I don't know about you people, but I'm not living out my life fearing the next, so-called terrorist, action.
Incremental releases is just another way of saying that the product is never finished, which happens to be the same reason why a service pack is released. Stop crying like a teenager.
Just wait until somebody invents 'HDCP compliant audio devices' and your player will only send digital, encrypted content out that same socket. They've done it to display devices, audio may not be very far behind.
Psychos are usually disconnected from reality, from trauma or brain damage, in a way we can't begin to grasp. The correct term would be 'personality disorder'.
They need to be designed well, manufactured well, and each one needs to go through testing before going out the door.
I haven't seen any of the big manufacturer's production lines lately, but I can imagine that many millions of dollars are spent on research that should lead to compatible and supportable products. HP and Dell don't just smash together a few components and call it a new product line; though this is probably more true for the server products than desktop products. How many DL380s have you heard of going up in smoke?
So, assuming that they didn't just skip the design, manufacturing and testing phase, you'll have to quantify "well" for your argument to hold. If they have shipped 50,000 of these systems (I have no idea) and 2 of them are technically 'not up to spec', then can the manufacturer be blamed for negligence?
In-office employees in his study became disappointed at having fewer and weaker relationships.
This would be exactly why some people would get more work done when not at the office. Not everybody is waiting for some semi-personal work relationship and I personally can't put up with prolonged chit-chat.
Insert - Yes (And Shift-Insert used to be 'paste' in the good old C++ IDE)
Winkey + M (Minimize all), E (Explore), F (Find), R (Run). Use them all the time.
Menu - agree, but it's useful if you're die-hard keyboard-only
Numlock - Built-in keyboards for laptops have to share the arrow keypad with the numeric keys. And the LED used to make a good HDD LED indicator.
Of course, it's not just the parser. It's the content as well, or, more specifically, parsing malicious content without properly sanitizing. In that respect, if you make any file executable, does your un*x box sanitize malicious code it executes?
Do you read and interpret the source code of everything you download?
The only difference here is that Windows operating systems have a number of file formats that will execute by default, which, to be honest, make them a little easier to use. Meanwhile, keep on wondering why *nix desktop adoption has been in progress for the last.. umm.. decades.
Saving $$$ is up the ally of the C*Os alright, but in the grand scheme of things, management is not the group getting the work done. And maintaining IT infrastructure, even if out-sourced, means getting work done. Businesses need management because of the size of either the work-force or the task at hand, it's not a role that exists by itself.
You are implying that C*Os should ditch their own workforce, so their management role is no longer needed? Yeah.
Next to that, folks with a degree, any kind, should be focusing on constructive thinking.
06/13/05 [...] Two years ago, Nicholas Carr was an IT outsider with a provocative take on the future that unexpectedly touched off an industry firestorm.
[...] Rather than disappearing as a forgotten flashpoint, Carr today is part of the industry, sharing his viewpoints on the speaking circuit. It's a gig, he says, that has become his career and primary source of income. He has given presentations or made public appearances around the globe nearly three times a month for the past year. And the next year probably won't be much different.
The guy has been "in this business" for a whopping four years, giving a few presentations each month? People are listening to him because he wears a tie. Must be, it can't be based off merit, can it?
Mutation is behind the entire concept of evolution. Sometimes, genetic mutation will drive you bald or limp. Then you die. Sometimes, genetic mutation will cause a newborn to be blessed with +1 CHA or +1 INT. Those are the specimen that thrive.
The conclusion is very valid, brute-forcing won't get you anywhere even at 2^512. But you're not telling the whole story.
A 2048-bit modulus does not imply a 2048-bit keyspace. The prime factors which make up the public modulus are (roughly) around the same size, because relatively small primes can't be used. Since you only have to find a factor that is always less than 2^1024, that takes a good chunk off the factor-space. Finding prime factors is a hard problem which all of RSA is built on, but a clever program probably won't blindly test all 2^1024 possibilities. OTOH, the PGP key-generator tests the keys it generates for certain nice properties, so they can't be found easily by the well-known math tricks.
Also, factoring the modulus by brute force might not be the only way to crack RSA.
On top of that, RSA itself is not used to encrypt data, because it's simply too slow and impractical. Symmetric-key encryption is used for that, which is obviously another attack vector.
But I rely on crypto as well, so we need to have faith:)
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Your rant (heh) was with GMail, but your arguments are not.
You don't know what your provider is doing with your e-mail. Anybody not computer literate doesn't know what their administrator or boss is doing with their e-mail or files, whether they are concerned with privacy or not. Also, anybody sharing private (very private) data through a public network like that is going to get his ass handed to him one way or the other, with or without privacy legislation.
And by the way, I'm not a citizen of the US. Excuse me for not thinking paranoid.
The last I agree to, but that doesn't fly when you can't install applications. Kiosks, WAP phones and next-generation cars come to mind.
I get the point that some web-based mail client doesn't work on a particular browser from a particular OS (which is being mitigated by several commenters, so I've probably read more of the story than you did). The Parent was questioning the use of web-based messaging altogether. Don't be a smart-ass.
Third, I don't use e-mail services for anything that would harm my privacy, anything possibly embarassing or confidential anyways. Not GMail's, not anybody's.
blahblahblahwill enable further erosion from the government without resistance. YOU scare me.
GMail has been free to sign up for for ages. You don't need an invitation to http://mail.google.com/mail/signupsign up anymore.
Hell yes! I want one of those filter ehh... thingies! Preferably kidney-shaped. Where can I get one!!1!
Any more rediculous sensationalist statements? Sjeesj. I don't know about you people, but I'm not living out my life fearing the next, so-called terrorist, action.
Bye! Gotta get to work.
Incremental releases is just another way of saying that the product is never finished, which happens to be the same reason why a service pack is released. Stop crying like a teenager.
Someone tried to explain this to the general public waay back in 1990.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/navy/docs/np13/np13appc.htm
Just wait until somebody invents 'HDCP compliant audio devices' and your player will only send digital, encrypted content out that same socket. They've done it to display devices, audio may not be very far behind.
I'll shut up now.
Psychos are usually disconnected from reality, from trauma or brain damage, in a way we can't begin to grasp. The correct term would be 'personality disorder'.
They need to be designed well, manufactured well, and each one needs to go through testing before going out the door.
I haven't seen any of the big manufacturer's production lines lately, but I can imagine that many millions of dollars are spent on research that should lead to compatible and supportable products. HP and Dell don't just smash together a few components and call it a new product line; though this is probably more true for the server products than desktop products. How many DL380s have you heard of going up in smoke?
So, assuming that they didn't just skip the design, manufacturing and testing phase, you'll have to quantify "well" for your argument to hold. If they have shipped 50,000 of these systems (I have no idea) and 2 of them are technically 'not up to spec', then can the manufacturer be blamed for negligence?
In-office employees in his study became disappointed at having fewer and weaker relationships.
This would be exactly why some people would get more work done when not at the office. Not everybody is waiting for some semi-personal work relationship and I personally can't put up with prolonged chit-chat.
What timezone you in? That should read 20,002,008AD-40,002,008AD.
Hate to reply to myself, but I forgot a big one... Ctrl-Alt-Insert for VMWare.
Insert - Yes (And Shift-Insert used to be 'paste' in the good old C++ IDE)
Winkey + M (Minimize all), E (Explore), F (Find), R (Run). Use them all the time.
Menu - agree, but it's useful if you're die-hard keyboard-only
Numlock - Built-in keyboards for laptops have to share the arrow keypad with the numeric keys. And the LED used to make a good HDD LED indicator.
HTH
http://xkcd.com/368/
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The red switch
xor ax,ax
mov [volume],ax
Of course, it's not just the parser. It's the content as well, or, more specifically, parsing malicious content without properly sanitizing. In that respect, if you make any file executable, does your un*x box sanitize malicious code it executes?
Do you read and interpret the source code of everything you download?
The only difference here is that Windows operating systems have a number of file formats that will execute by default, which, to be honest, make them a little easier to use. Meanwhile, keep on wondering why *nix desktop adoption has been in progress for the last.. umm.. decades.
Saving $$$ is up the ally of the C*Os alright, but in the grand scheme of things, management is not the group getting the work done. And maintaining IT infrastructure, even if out-sourced, means getting work done. Businesses need management because of the size of either the work-force or the task at hand, it's not a role that exists by itself.
You are implying that C*Os should ditch their own workforce, so their management role is no longer needed? Yeah.
Next to that, folks with a degree, any kind, should be focusing on constructive thinking.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/061305widernetcarr.html
06/13/05
[...]
Two years ago, Nicholas Carr was an IT outsider with a provocative take on the future that unexpectedly touched off an industry firestorm.
[...]
Rather than disappearing as a forgotten flashpoint, Carr today is part of the industry, sharing his viewpoints on the speaking circuit. It's a gig, he says, that has become his career and primary source of income. He has given presentations or made public appearances around the globe nearly three times a month for the past year. And the next year probably won't be much different.
The guy has been "in this business" for a whopping four years, giving a few presentations each month? People are listening to him because he wears a tie. Must be, it can't be based off merit, can it?
Mutation is behind the entire concept of evolution. Sometimes, genetic mutation will drive you bald or limp. Then you die. Sometimes, genetic mutation will cause a newborn to be blessed with +1 CHA or +1 INT. Those are the specimen that thrive.
The conclusion is very valid, brute-forcing won't get you anywhere even at 2^512. But you're not telling the whole story.
:)
A 2048-bit modulus does not imply a 2048-bit keyspace. The prime factors which make up the public modulus are (roughly) around the same size, because relatively small primes can't be used. Since you only have to find a factor that is always less than 2^1024, that takes a good chunk off the factor-space. Finding prime factors is a hard problem which all of RSA is built on, but a clever program probably won't blindly test all 2^1024 possibilities. OTOH, the PGP key-generator tests the keys it generates for certain nice properties, so they can't be found easily by the well-known math tricks.
Also, factoring the modulus by brute force might not be the only way to crack RSA.
On top of that, RSA itself is not used to encrypt data, because it's simply too slow and impractical. Symmetric-key encryption is used for that, which is obviously another attack vector.
But I rely on crypto as well, so we need to have faith