Is it just me or does clustering a large number of Tor nodes in a small handful of commercial data centers sort of defeat the purpose when it comes to packet sniffing, anonymity (commercial service has physical + RAM access) and bypassing regional censorship?
If user A goes through Tor node B and exits at node C, and B and C are both hosted on EC2 where everything that happens on B and C could be secretly logged for all we know...A isn't very anonymous is he?
There's a link to the poorly-paywalled nytimes article in there. Funny thing is they like to keep the fact that they're doing research a secret and constantly emphasize that they put very little money into research, because research makes shareholders nervous. Shows you how far ahead shareholders (or their HFT servers) are thinking.
You're technically correct (the best kind of correct!) but getting it to work 99% of the time is still a ways off and will require some big technological breakthroughs. Even today's best (in terms of cracking difficulty) DRM schemes, HDCP and TPM-enabled DRM, are still crackable with hardhacks - there are even home HDCP circumvention kits, all you have to do is tap into some wires running out of a TV's HDCP decoder (or you could just get an HDCP stripper box and hope the key doesn't get blacklisted). TPM-enabled DRM is the toughest as it places the decryption keys in a tamper-proofed piece of hardware, but even this has been broken using some fancy equipment.
Let's even say, for the sake of argument, that you can use quantum encryption tech to have the data stream encrypted until it reaches the pixels and speakers themselves. A sufficiently sharp camera with some software pointed at the screen could effectively make a digital rip via light, and then you could tie into the speaker cone leads (sorry, no way to do the same for speakers without super-advanced nanotech) and get a good analog audio rip. You'd have a very good rip using the analog hole, which will always exist until there are surveillance cameras in our homes or non-DRM'ed files are impossible to open.
The big issue here is in how a state broadcaster and a regulator conspired to very much go against the interests of the public. In that regard it certainly is a "news at 11"
Yes it's news, they're both news...although I find this equally unsurprising:-(
I know, it sucks. Got my hands on the last open phone, luckily. I'm hoping to hack a GSM Droid 4 for my next one. I really hope they unlock the bootloader.
The other side's arguments consist of "WAAAAH I hate the nature of computers, make them work different so that *I* will be the master of other people's computers and those people will be forced to pay whenever any content my company has a perpetual copyright on is viewed with one, WAAAH!"
From the psychoanalyst side of me I hear a little voice screaming 'awe look at the jealous baby throwing a tantrum.'
LOL, that's like saying a pro race car driver with a Caparo T1, Bowler Tomcat and a KTM supermotard in his garage calling a Nissan GTR a locked-down toy is jealous.
Huh, I was double-checking what the GP said, and my first thought was to try entering "911" as an unlock code, but I figured it would only be safe to test if I could pull the battery real quick, and that could mess up my filesystem...
If you didn't click the link in the first place, you are a genius.
Sweet! I saw that the link went to InfoWorld and had questions about Windows shit and said "fuck that, I don't need you to validate my geekiness with your 3-paragraph ad-laden web pages."
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Is it just me or does clustering a large number of Tor nodes in a small handful of commercial data centers sort of defeat the purpose when it comes to packet sniffing, anonymity (commercial service has physical + RAM access) and bypassing regional censorship?
If user A goes through Tor node B and exits at node C, and B and C are both hosted on EC2 where everything that happens on B and C could be secretly logged for all we know...A isn't very anonymous is he?
This was a test. You should have said "First post! CHOOSE ME!"
They only have one and it doesn't have a standard docking connector. Also the controls are backwards.
The only reasons I don't exceed the posted speed limit is because I see a cop, or it would be unsafe. Most of the time neither of those are true.
Google as well. Saw an interesting article on Google X labs, their "skunkworks"-style division yesterday.
http://www.slashgear.com/google-x-labs-plans-robot-researchers-to-map-the-future-14194990/
There's a link to the poorly-paywalled nytimes article in there. Funny thing is they like to keep the fact that they're doing research a secret and constantly emphasize that they put very little money into research, because research makes shareholders nervous. Shows you how far ahead shareholders (or their HFT servers) are thinking.
No, you'll notice the spacing and capitalization don't match the Nintendo handheld.
Another failed armchair psychoanalyst. It would be fun if a real psychologist came into this discussion right now.
You're technically correct (the best kind of correct!) but getting it to work 99% of the time is still a ways off and will require some big technological breakthroughs. Even today's best (in terms of cracking difficulty) DRM schemes, HDCP and TPM-enabled DRM, are still crackable with hardhacks - there are even home HDCP circumvention kits, all you have to do is tap into some wires running out of a TV's HDCP decoder (or you could just get an HDCP stripper box and hope the key doesn't get blacklisted). TPM-enabled DRM is the toughest as it places the decryption keys in a tamper-proofed piece of hardware, but even this has been broken using some fancy equipment.
Let's even say, for the sake of argument, that you can use quantum encryption tech to have the data stream encrypted until it reaches the pixels and speakers themselves. A sufficiently sharp camera with some software pointed at the screen could effectively make a digital rip via light, and then you could tie into the speaker cone leads (sorry, no way to do the same for speakers without super-advanced nanotech) and get a good analog audio rip. You'd have a very good rip using the analog hole, which will always exist until there are surveillance cameras in our homes or non-DRM'ed files are impossible to open.
The big issue here is in how a state broadcaster and a regulator conspired to very much go against the interests of the public. In that regard it certainly is a "news at 11"
Yes it's news, they're both news...although I find this equally unsurprising :-(
Yes.
I can confirm this.
Now there's thinking ahead! :D
True, somebody's gotta do it...
I know, it sucks. Got my hands on the last open phone, luckily. I'm hoping to hack a GSM Droid 4 for my next one. I really hope they unlock the bootloader.
The other side's arguments consist of "WAAAAH I hate the nature of computers, make them work different so that *I* will be the master of other people's computers and those people will be forced to pay whenever any content my company has a perpetual copyright on is viewed with one, WAAAH!"
What are the odds that would happen?
In the same country that has "super-injunctions" and doesn't find them funny or disgusting at all? Somewhere between zero and negative infinity.
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_secrets_privilege#Supreme_Court_recognition_in_United_States_v._Reynolds
Arguments for inherently impossible protection system that consumers hate flawed, news at 11.
From the psychoanalyst side of me I hear a little voice screaming 'awe look at the jealous baby throwing a tantrum.'
LOL, that's like saying a pro race car driver with a Caparo T1, Bowler Tomcat and a KTM supermotard in his garage calling a Nissan GTR a locked-down toy is jealous.
Huh, I was double-checking what the GP said, and my first thought was to try entering "911" as an unlock code, but I figured it would only be safe to test if I could pull the battery real quick, and that could mess up my filesystem...
My Treo 650 had the same problem. On the lock screen, the Unlock button was about 3mm away from the "1-Click dial 911" button.
So Slashdot editors know exactly as much about geek interests as our grandmothers.
Actually I feel a little better about the editors now. I mean they're trying, it's the thought that counts right?
Angry Birds is a good game. It's just a very simple game, like Pac-Man or Joust.
They also have the right to tax all storage media because "they would be used for piracy anyway".
Well then use them for piracy anyway, and never pay for music. Problem solved.
If you didn't click the link in the first place, you are a genius.
Sweet! I saw that the link went to InfoWorld and had questions about Windows shit and said "fuck that, I don't need you to validate my geekiness with your 3-paragraph ad-laden web pages."
KNEEL BEFORE MY AWESOME BRAIN POWER!