If I keep all of my data in a strongly encrypted container (that does not have a password that is brute force able in a reasonable amount of time), how do you expect to gain anything meaningful "dealing with it as mere data" without the decryption key which was stored in ram till you shut the machine off to clone the drive?
You want to keep stuff secret from the FBI during an investigation?
They used to call that "accessary-after-the-fact", but now it's just "accessary to X". If the FBI want to look at my gear because someone's doing something naughty on it, my response would be "Would you like a receipt with that?" Federal prison isn't my idea of a holiday resort.
Almost. It looks exactly like the rest of the structure of the container file; That being that the whole container is encrypted even if it is not entirely full, and therefore you'd expect the whole of the space taken by the container to be encrypted data. It's not that there's no data on the disk surface, but more that data from free space in the container file is indistinguishable from filled space when encrypted. It's this space which is used in hidden volumes.
This is why I have a tiny hidden partition on my TrueCrypt volume, using the same key as the container, holding a single text file, with the contents "This file exists to prevent any prosecution case stating that I have not provided the encryption key to any "hidden" volume on my computer, and would otherwise not exist."
All I have on there is some personal finance information, a password database and the obligatory BitCoin wallet anyway. I just don't want to spend 2 years in jail because the prosecution's lawyer was better than mine, should the situation arise.
Every single bell-curve for IQ I've seen has been almost perfectly symmetrical, maybe with a few 1/10ths of a percent difference in each half of the percentiles about the median. It's almost as though the IQ test was designed to give a value of 100 most often, and the rest of the population is arbitrarily given more or less points based upon the current most frequent count of correct answers. It's uncanny.
Forgive me if my use of certain language is inaccurate; It's been a while since I studied stats.
I guess you didn't work within the IT departments you're slating so thoroughly.
In no walk of life is the customer always right. The customer is a petulant 6 year old who needs to be told what can and can't be done, and needs to learn what reasonable expectations are. I'm all for providing 1st class service to someone who knows what they're doing, but far too often I'm presented with someone who's been shovelled into a position of power with no experience or knowledge, and who is totally impressionable by vendor buzzword-laden marketing drivel.
Case in point; We just got a wireless network upgrade. I was told about it the day it happened, despite being the senior IT technical person on site. The kit is nice, but totally over priced and over spec'd for what we need, it's not configured properly, and the cabling was shoddy. The whole project came over 40% more expensive than if I had sourced the kit myself, and would have cost parts only if I was only asked if I could do the work needed. But instead, my manager goes over my head to the Boss and gets this thing signed off, the upgrade is done, and I'm left picking up the pieces from the botched job as she signed off on completion after being shown some flashing lights in a cab.
TL;DR: I exist for the company's benefit, but they'd better do what the hell I said needs doing if they want stuff to work right.
Not really. Money in most contexts refers to fiat currency, i.e. tokens of value prescribed by law, typically by it being the only method of paying taxes. Bitcoin is a medium of exchange, or itself a commodity traded in barter. It is not money.
Part of the carrier package is custom firmware; Take it or leave it. Nobody is forcing you to take out a lengthy contract in order to get the latest shiny shiny.
Buy it in a lump sum with no contract, or accept the bloat (until some smart Russian offers tools to root and flash your own ROM, which I highly recommend. Cut cold boot time for my Desire HD from 4m to 45 seconds).
Hi, and thanks for your input. I've also read your response below, but I'm not addressing points in that as it directly relates to a child post.
I think you missed my point slightly. You state that writing a book takes years, yet I didn't impose any such time limit, only that the time taken to produce the work is finite. If you multiply the time and effort taken to write your book by your annual fee (whatever that may be) you arrive at the total value of your work. You may assign this arbitrarily, I don't know. However, divide this by the quantity of copies of your work to be sold and you have the cost of each copy. This is a model for total compensation for your work, wouldn't you agree?
Now, digital distribution means that there are infinite copies of your work available, therefore each copy costs less of a fraction of the total value of your work. 100,000 copies at $5 = 200,000 copies at $2.50. You have put no more effort into making those further 100,000 copies, yet you feel you should be compensated identically for them? I'm not talking about stealing your work, I'm talking about fair pricing. When your product is DRM locked up the wazzoo (impeding on my rights to ownership of products bought with my money; Note that I don't license your book, I buy a full reproduction to own) it is further devalued, despite the artificial scarcity brought about by DRM. My perceived value of your work is less compared to paperback copy. This is especially true when eBooks are priced identically to their dead-tree counterparts.
This is what I meant by a new compensation model. There is zero further cost to you, or your publisher, by producing further copies of your work in a digital format, and it is unfair to expect customers to get less of a product for a price based upon factors such as arbitrary artificial scarcity which should not apply.
Finally, I'll say something which will really get you irritated, but it's something I believe to be fundamentally true; Copyright infringement is not theft. If I steal your car, you no longer have your car. If I copy your work, you still have your work. You suffer no loss. Please don't propagate this logical fallacy further and instead refer to unlicensed use as it should be.
I can't help but be on the fence with this issue. On one hand, this is a work which took effort and time to create, and the author deserves compensation for their time if their work is used. On the other, I can't help but think that the time spent creating such works is finite, and once complete no further time or resources are spent, and considering the infinite resources provided by digital distribution, the cost per unit is extremely difficult to decide upon.
It will take people more intelligent than myself to resolve this situation, but it is a situation which needs resolving.
House counts ignorance of the facts as lying; If someone close to you has done something which caused your condition and you don't tell him about it, despite not knowing about it yourself, you're still lying to him in his eyes.
As enjoyable a show that it is, I absolutely would not let House anywhere near me in a medical setting.
Besides, this all confirms my opinion that GPs are nothing but walking encyclopedias, and have no actual problem solving ability. If A, then B, if A and C, then D. IMHO, unless they're a specialist of some sort (surgeons especially) then they're pretty low grade with regards to their "Professional" status. I'd rate a good Network Engineer as more intelligent.
Siemens didn't have a say; If you actually read the quotation, you'll note that NSS Labs decided the information was too dangerous to present. Siemens saying "We've not patched it yet! We'll be OMGPOWNIES if you tell everyone!" affected their decision, but it doesn't seem they were strong-armed by Siemens.
If anything, I'd say it would be more likely the DHS muscled NSS out of the conference, if there was any of that kind of play involved. If not, then they did what any reasonable researcher, and in fact person, should do; Assess the danger to society caused by withholding the information against the damage done by releasing it.
1. Needles dipped in quick-acting toxins/poisons say Saritoxin. You have to take down just one guy to scare up others. Probably the said US marshal, as you pretend to walk past him. Just incapacitating him and declaring that you have a poison needle, will be enough.
Won't work. The public no longer see hijacking as "Take us to Cuba and everyone goes free" anymore. That needle will prick one person, become useless, and everyone else in the plane will make sure the guy attempting the hijacking is removed using spades and plastic sacks.
Oh and you threaten a Air-hostess to get her to trick the pilot(s) into opening the cockpit door. They are allowed into the cockpits.
Cockpit doors are locked from the inside, and I would hope that there would be a challenge / response for opening the door. "Hi, you're coffee is ready" is cool, "Two sugars in your coffee?" is OMG TEH HYJAKKURS!
Smuggle in Anthrax powder or some such bio-hazardous material to the airport. If you are on a suicide mission like the 911 chaps, you can spread it around the airport *and* inside the flight. Everyone dead.
Anthrax is easily cured with antibiotics, and nowhere near as dangerous as most people are scared into believing by the media. Sarin gas is worse as it's a neurotoxin, but wide space of the airport lounges means it will either dilute quickly, or people will be able to evacuate.
4. You can purchase beer bottles from duty free shops at the Air port itself(and take it with you as cabin luggage). Break one to get an instant knife with sharp edge.
See answer to point 2.
ust hide plastic explosives with a timer in your check-in luggage. If it is disguised well enough to pass the x-ray, it can be timed to blow up when the flight is passing over a populated area.
Let's hope they don't target airport lounges, then. They don't seem to have cottoned on to that one yet.
6. Just overpower the air marshal with help of your friends, to get the weapons you need from him.
"Friends"? I take it you have more than one of these attackers on the plane, then? Again, a gun has so many rounds, and "sheeple" no longer see hijacking as something they can live through. Two or three are shot, and a press of people pull the hijackers into pieces small enough to hide in the overhead lockers.
Plan long term and get one of your guys an american citizenship like that David Coleman Headley guy and get him to become a commercial pilot. TSA can rape him..sorry pat him all they want. Pilots can crash the plane whenever they want.
Yup. Same with bus drivers, train drivers, nuclear facility workers, CIA agents blah blah blah. I guess you watched Salt last weekend?
Yes, they are idiots, but only because they spent so much fixing a problem which no longer exists; Flying passenger aircraft into buildings.
Experts are already bought and paid for with research funding, and failing to walk the party line gets you out of a job and out of your position of an advisor.
Dr David Nutt, advisor for drug policy to the Labour government, said marijuana shouldn't be reclassified to Class B (up from the C they dropped it to) and should be regulated, but legalised. Weed was reclassified, Nutt was fired.
The corruption is deeper than politicians, I'm afraid.
Hmmm, because baggage handlers got the pejorative term "throwers" by placing carefully every single bag of golf clubs, packing tube, and package marked with "fragile" or "do not bend" with the utmost care?
I'm just glad Customs stick a ball-point pen into the zip of your luggage to open it now instead of cutting the front open with a box cutter. At least it comes back in one piece, even if you are missing a bottle of perfume.
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So you're saying we should start manufacturing polymer-based socks?
Parse error: Infinite recursion. Execution terminated.
If I keep all of my data in a strongly encrypted container (that does not have a password that is brute force able in a reasonable amount of time), how do you expect to gain anything meaningful "dealing with it as mere data" without the decryption key which was stored in ram till you shut the machine off to clone the drive?
Oblig. xkcd
You want to keep stuff secret from the FBI during an investigation?
They used to call that "accessary-after-the-fact", but now it's just "accessary to X". If the FBI want to look at my gear because someone's doing something naughty on it, my response would be "Would you like a receipt with that?" Federal prison isn't my idea of a holiday resort.
So you're telling me that the principles which apply to RAID scale up well?
Shocked, I am!
Almost. It looks exactly like the rest of the structure of the container file; That being that the whole container is encrypted even if it is not entirely full, and therefore you'd expect the whole of the space taken by the container to be encrypted data. It's not that there's no data on the disk surface, but more that data from free space in the container file is indistinguishable from filled space when encrypted. It's this space which is used in hidden volumes.
This is why I have a tiny hidden partition on my TrueCrypt volume, using the same key as the container, holding a single text file, with the contents "This file exists to prevent any prosecution case stating that I have not provided the encryption key to any "hidden" volume on my computer, and would otherwise not exist."
All I have on there is some personal finance information, a password database and the obligatory BitCoin wallet anyway. I just don't want to spend 2 years in jail because the prosecution's lawyer was better than mine, should the situation arise.
Every single bell-curve for IQ I've seen has been almost perfectly symmetrical, maybe with a few 1/10ths of a percent difference in each half of the percentiles about the median. It's almost as though the IQ test was designed to give a value of 100 most often, and the rest of the population is arbitrarily given more or less points based upon the current most frequent count of correct answers. It's uncanny.
Forgive me if my use of certain language is inaccurate; It's been a while since I studied stats.
Rubbish. They want the highest Prime95 and SuperPi scores and to find the next Mersenne prime.
I guess you didn't work within the IT departments you're slating so thoroughly.
In no walk of life is the customer always right. The customer is a petulant 6 year old who needs to be told what can and can't be done, and needs to learn what reasonable expectations are. I'm all for providing 1st class service to someone who knows what they're doing, but far too often I'm presented with someone who's been shovelled into a position of power with no experience or knowledge, and who is totally impressionable by vendor buzzword-laden marketing drivel.
Case in point; We just got a wireless network upgrade. I was told about it the day it happened, despite being the senior IT technical person on site. The kit is nice, but totally over priced and over spec'd for what we need, it's not configured properly, and the cabling was shoddy. The whole project came over 40% more expensive than if I had sourced the kit myself, and would have cost parts only if I was only asked if I could do the work needed. But instead, my manager goes over my head to the Boss and gets this thing signed off, the upgrade is done, and I'm left picking up the pieces from the botched job as she signed off on completion after being shown some flashing lights in a cab.
TL;DR: I exist for the company's benefit, but they'd better do what the hell I said needs doing if they want stuff to work right.
Now websites (in both Facebook and have been set up to use crowdsourcing to identify the hooligans.
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BOTH facebook?? These people mean business!
You should see what happened when he accidentally a whole bottle of coke.
Not really. Money in most contexts refers to fiat currency, i.e. tokens of value prescribed by law, typically by it being the only method of paying taxes. Bitcoin is a medium of exchange, or itself a commodity traded in barter. It is not money.
Part of the carrier package is custom firmware; Take it or leave it. Nobody is forcing you to take out a lengthy contract in order to get the latest shiny shiny.
Buy it in a lump sum with no contract, or accept the bloat (until some smart Russian offers tools to root and flash your own ROM, which I highly recommend. Cut cold boot time for my Desire HD from 4m to 45 seconds).
Hi, and thanks for your input. I've also read your response below, but I'm not addressing points in that as it directly relates to a child post.
I think you missed my point slightly. You state that writing a book takes years, yet I didn't impose any such time limit, only that the time taken to produce the work is finite. If you multiply the time and effort taken to write your book by your annual fee (whatever that may be) you arrive at the total value of your work. You may assign this arbitrarily, I don't know. However, divide this by the quantity of copies of your work to be sold and you have the cost of each copy. This is a model for total compensation for your work, wouldn't you agree?
Now, digital distribution means that there are infinite copies of your work available, therefore each copy costs less of a fraction of the total value of your work. 100,000 copies at $5 = 200,000 copies at $2.50. You have put no more effort into making those further 100,000 copies, yet you feel you should be compensated identically for them? I'm not talking about stealing your work, I'm talking about fair pricing. When your product is DRM locked up the wazzoo (impeding on my rights to ownership of products bought with my money; Note that I don't license your book, I buy a full reproduction to own) it is further devalued, despite the artificial scarcity brought about by DRM. My perceived value of your work is less compared to paperback copy. This is especially true when eBooks are priced identically to their dead-tree counterparts.
This is what I meant by a new compensation model. There is zero further cost to you, or your publisher, by producing further copies of your work in a digital format, and it is unfair to expect customers to get less of a product for a price based upon factors such as arbitrary artificial scarcity which should not apply.
Finally, I'll say something which will really get you irritated, but it's something I believe to be fundamentally true; Copyright infringement is not theft. If I steal your car, you no longer have your car. If I copy your work, you still have your work. You suffer no loss. Please don't propagate this logical fallacy further and instead refer to unlicensed use as it should be.
I can't help but be on the fence with this issue. On one hand, this is a work which took effort and time to create, and the author deserves compensation for their time if their work is used. On the other, I can't help but think that the time spent creating such works is finite, and once complete no further time or resources are spent, and considering the infinite resources provided by digital distribution, the cost per unit is extremely difficult to decide upon.
It will take people more intelligent than myself to resolve this situation, but it is a situation which needs resolving.
I loathe split screen multiplayer, and wish they would come up with a solution giving 2 players the whole screen to work with.
Definite case of "YMMV" there, bud.
House counts ignorance of the facts as lying; If someone close to you has done something which caused your condition and you don't tell him about it, despite not knowing about it yourself, you're still lying to him in his eyes.
As enjoyable a show that it is, I absolutely would not let House anywhere near me in a medical setting.
Besides, this all confirms my opinion that GPs are nothing but walking encyclopedias, and have no actual problem solving ability. If A, then B, if A and C, then D. IMHO, unless they're a specialist of some sort (surgeons especially) then they're pretty low grade with regards to their "Professional" status. I'd rate a good Network Engineer as more intelligent.
Siemens didn't have a say; If you actually read the quotation, you'll note that NSS Labs decided the information was too dangerous to present. Siemens saying "We've not patched it yet! We'll be OMGPOWNIES if you tell everyone!" affected their decision, but it doesn't seem they were strong-armed by Siemens.
If anything, I'd say it would be more likely the DHS muscled NSS out of the conference, if there was any of that kind of play involved. If not, then they did what any reasonable researcher, and in fact person, should do; Assess the danger to society caused by withholding the information against the damage done by releasing it.
ISPs won't upgrade because there isn't any IPv6 content. No content is being migrated to IPv6 because there's no ISPs supporting it.
No, this does not surprise me.
Did he have a headset / headphones on?
Put your phone next to your speakers and have someone call you. That sound was almost certainly what gave it away.
Where can I donate to this guy's... Whatever I can donate to to support this guy?
I'm not even American. I still want to give this man money and support.
1. Needles dipped in quick-acting toxins/poisons say Saritoxin. You have to take down just one guy to scare up others. Probably the said US marshal, as you pretend to walk past him. Just incapacitating him and declaring that you have a poison needle, will be enough.
Won't work. The public no longer see hijacking as "Take us to Cuba and everyone goes free" anymore. That needle will prick one person, become useless, and everyone else in the plane will make sure the guy attempting the hijacking is removed using spades and plastic sacks.
Oh and you threaten a Air-hostess to get her to trick the pilot(s) into opening the cockpit door. They are allowed into the cockpits.
Cockpit doors are locked from the inside, and I would hope that there would be a challenge / response for opening the door. "Hi, you're coffee is ready" is cool, "Two sugars in your coffee?" is OMG TEH HYJAKKURS!
Smuggle in Anthrax powder or some such bio-hazardous material to the airport. If you are on a suicide mission like the 911 chaps, you can spread it around the airport *and* inside the flight. Everyone dead.
Anthrax is easily cured with antibiotics, and nowhere near as dangerous as most people are scared into believing by the media. Sarin gas is worse as it's a neurotoxin, but wide space of the airport lounges means it will either dilute quickly, or people will be able to evacuate.
4. You can purchase beer bottles from duty free shops at the Air port itself(and take it with you as cabin luggage). Break one to get an instant knife with sharp edge.
See answer to point 2.
ust hide plastic explosives with a timer in your check-in luggage. If it is disguised well enough to pass the x-ray, it can be timed to blow up when the flight is passing over a populated area.
Let's hope they don't target airport lounges, then. They don't seem to have cottoned on to that one yet.
6. Just overpower the air marshal with help of your friends, to get the weapons you need from him.
"Friends"? I take it you have more than one of these attackers on the plane, then? Again, a gun has so many rounds, and "sheeple" no longer see hijacking as something they can live through. Two or three are shot, and a press of people pull the hijackers into pieces small enough to hide in the overhead lockers.
Plan long term and get one of your guys an american citizenship like that David Coleman Headley guy and get him to become a commercial pilot. TSA can rape him..sorry pat him all they want. Pilots can crash the plane whenever they want.
Yup. Same with bus drivers, train drivers, nuclear facility workers, CIA agents blah blah blah. I guess you watched Salt last weekend?
Yes, they are idiots, but only because they spent so much fixing a problem which no longer exists; Flying passenger aircraft into buildings.
Security prior to 9/11 was just as adequate for the most part.
Incorrect. Now we lock and reinforce cockpit doors.
Experts are already bought and paid for with research funding, and failing to walk the party line gets you out of a job and out of your position of an advisor.
Dr David Nutt, advisor for drug policy to the Labour government, said marijuana shouldn't be reclassified to Class B (up from the C they dropped it to) and should be regulated, but legalised. Weed was reclassified, Nutt was fired.
The corruption is deeper than politicians, I'm afraid.
Hmmm, because baggage handlers got the pejorative term "throwers" by placing carefully every single bag of golf clubs, packing tube, and package marked with "fragile" or "do not bend" with the utmost care?
I'm just glad Customs stick a ball-point pen into the zip of your luggage to open it now instead of cutting the front open with a box cutter. At least it comes back in one piece, even if you are missing a bottle of perfume.