> Self-replicating planet-destroying machine army released in a war 3 billion years ago are exterminating any sign of intelligent life as soon as they see the first radio waves. > The closest were 41 light years from us.
Yeah. Just because you don't hear or see them, doesn't mean they aren't out to get 'ya!
> The captain of a disabled vessel abandoned it only to return to retrieve his personal effects rather than destroy the books.
AFAIK, 3 out of 4 books were destroyed. The 4th, however, the one in the captain's room was overlooked in the panic. It was a U-Boat...not sure which one. That way it was captured. Didn't mean though, that the Allies now were able to read everything. They never could, in fact, read or decipher all there was. So the Enigma was not broken per se, but certainly in large and sufficient part due to already mentioned reasons both technical and human.
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> "Irregardless" [wikipedia.org]. > Shut up... you cuntsniff.
But at least 'irregardless' has a Wikipedia entry, whereas your term of endearment doesn't, irregardless of your personal preference towards its unsanctioned use.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Coming to think of it...does anybody have additional information on how the Tibetan's now deal with things in the aftermath of Ghostnet? WOuld love to know if they wised up/got support to use e-mail authentication/encryption and generally beefed up security....
- for 20 years now malware targets mostly DOS/Windows, yet these guys still use exactly that - the main vector of malware coming in is via e-mail attachments, yet these guys keep clicking on them - signed e-mails and attachments would make reception thereof fairly safe, yet these guys have no idea about it - nevermind encryption, cause why would these guys be responsible towards their sources - etc.pp.
So I'd say....TOLD YOU SO....but then these guys probably would feign complete ignorance and amazement over the fact, that especially the totalitarian governments of the world don't exactly work with white gloves on and...GASP...don't give a shit about your self-aggrandized ego of 'a journalist' and the hallowed freedom of press!
> when you can put a gun to his head and a knife at his crotch? > "Put your finger on the scanner or we cut your balls off" > would pretty much do it for anybody.
Well, for roughly 50% of 'anybody' anyway... Just sayin'.
> the article really boils down to is that SSL is useless if the client and server > can't trust the certificate authority. Which should be freaking obvious.
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> Where can I get free samples of this new product?
www.federalreserve.gov
Not exactly free...printing costs do apply.
> Linux is killing me!
It does, as always, a good job!
> 1) Hire them to spy on a friend
> 2) Tell friend they're spying on him
> 3) Friend sues them
> 4) Profit!!!!
5) Thank $DEITY, that friend will never utter 'I got nothing to hide' again...
6) Move to next person/GOTO 1
> i never saw how OOo was making sun money.
Oracle now charges 90 bucks for the ODF plugin for MSO!
Well, all you had to do was to guess kdawson's password and then delete your article from the admin console! :-)
> > > charges of providing classified information to a newspaper reporter in hundreds of e-mail messages in 2006 and 2007
> > How is it that a guy dumb enough to use e-mail for this was a senior NSA official?
I think you meant it the other way around (the diff is not just cosmetic):
How is it that a senior NSA official was dumb enough to use e-mail for this?
> Self-replicating planet-destroying machine army released in a war 3 billion years ago are exterminating any sign of intelligent life as soon as they see the first radio waves.
> The closest were 41 light years from us.
Yeah. Just because you don't hear or see them, doesn't mean they aren't out to get 'ya!
> The captain of a disabled vessel abandoned it only to return to retrieve his personal effects rather than destroy the books.
AFAIK, 3 out of 4 books were destroyed. The 4th, however, the one in the captain's room was overlooked in the panic. It was a U-Boat...not sure which one. That way it was captured. Didn't mean though, that the Allies now were able to read everything. They never could, in fact, read or decipher all there was. So the Enigma was not broken per se, but certainly in large and sufficient part due to already mentioned reasons both technical and human.
> Why not just use passphrases? Have a minimum password length of 20 characters
I personally like the simplicity of it. However, it sucks having to type that every 15 minutes your (enforced) screensaver lock kicks in...
> like explaining who Jesus was to the Pope.
Might not be a bad idea. He might learn a thing or two...
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> $ cat windowsshutdown-login.txt
> Administrator
> password
Man, how'd you do that? Now I have to change my, umm, password! :-/
> you'd prefer Ratpoison with a bunch of terminals running Emacs ;)
Emacs IS my desktop, you insensitive clod!
> And then people would bitch about bloat because supporting all those features, options,
> and workflows would required a fuckton more code.
Perhaps they could use that new-fangled programming thingy that makes additional features modular add-on's....
> "Irregardless" [wikipedia.org].
> Shut up... you cuntsniff.
But at least 'irregardless' has a Wikipedia entry, whereas your term of endearment doesn't, irregardless of your personal preference towards its unsanctioned use.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Check out Perspectives: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/
Of course, by removing all CA's, manually/permanently accepting the site's cert you'll also be warned if it changes (pretty much like SSH then).
Coming to think of it...does anybody have additional information on how the Tibetan's now deal with things in the aftermath of Ghostnet? WOuld love to know if they wised up/got support to use e-mail authentication/encryption and generally beefed up security....
> > Everytime we buy Chinese stuff, we're supporting communism.
> And don't forget that it makes baby Jesus cry.
Please provide adequate proof for your claim. Cell phone video on Youtube will suffice. :-P
> https is very easy to MITM if you can inject bogus signed certificates.
agreed
> For that you need to control a CA.
agreed
> for example, CNNIC whose root certificate is included in MSIE and Firefox.
agreed
> Bug 542689 - Please remove CNNIC CA root certificate from NSS
agreed BUT: Why do you single out this particular CA when the valid issues you raised APPLY TO ALL OF THEM?!
- for 20 years now malware targets mostly DOS/Windows, yet these guys still use exactly that
- the main vector of malware coming in is via e-mail attachments, yet these guys keep clicking on them
- signed e-mails and attachments would make reception thereof fairly safe, yet these guys have no idea about it
- nevermind encryption, cause why would these guys be responsible towards their sources
- etc.pp.
So I'd say....TOLD YOU SO....but then these guys probably would feign complete ignorance and amazement over the fact, that especially the totalitarian governments of the world don't exactly work with white gloves on and...GASP...don't give a shit about your self-aggrandized ego of 'a journalist' and the hallowed freedom of press!
The dog ate my finger!!
> when you can put a gun to his head and a knife at his crotch?
> "Put your finger on the scanner or we cut your balls off"
> would pretty much do it for anybody.
Well, for roughly 50% of 'anybody' anyway... Just sayin'.
> ... Duke Nukem Forever has ALSO been released.
It has. But only for HURD right now....
> the article really boils down to is that SSL is useless if the client and server
> can't trust the certificate authority. Which should be freaking obvious.
Yet we all do!