I work at the Intellectual Ventures Lab where we work on inventions. While the patent system isn't ideal, we're certainly not the paragon of evil Timothy Lee makes us out to be. The invention we've invested the most in is a reactor powered by nuclear waste. We have over 30 scientists working on that now. We are developing many inventions to help eradicate malaria and have a team devoted to epidemiological modeling for that.
Intellectual Ventures has already paid over $330MM to inventors from its licensing work. We're inventors & we love invention. We're trying to create more ways for inventors to succeed at what they're good at. - Pablos.
I work at the Intellectual Ventures Lab where this system is being created. Just wanted to respond to a few points in the comments:
DDT is non-discriminatory. It does kill mosquitoes, but it harms lots of other life forms as well. Because of its abuse, there are bans and economic sanctions that prevent its use. Changing that is a political problem.
Using lasers, we don't expect to eradicate mosquitoes entirely, but they can be a way to help reduce their populations enough that malaria can't survive. In particular, the laser system can help create a perimeter to keep people safe.
As far as we know, there aren't any species that rely solely on mosquitoes as a food source.
Thanks, I will try to respond if there are further questions here.
You can purchase a ridiculously cheap ($50) 128bit SSL cert, trusted by browsers from http://www.geotrust.com
All you need a valid credit card to get a cert. The CA key is loaded in almost all of the browsers, the notable exception being Opera.
They do send a 'auth check' by emailing the domain admin contact you can select.
The entire ordering process (including filling out forms) takes less than about 5 or ten minutes.
This should SCARE you if you're relying on the security provided by Veri$ign and the root that ship with browsers. - pablos.
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S/MIME has security flaws built into the specification, such as the requirement to support 40 bit keys. It is based on X.509, and thus inherits a hierarchical trust model. As practiced, this is more troublesome than the ad-hoc web of trust that PGP facilitates. X.509 also uses ASN.1 encoding, which is a bitch for developers. Finally, if you've ever tried to get two S/MIME implementations to talk to each other, you'd know why nobody is behind it.
All that said, I think there are a few important things to learn from the S/MIME implementations we've seen from Netscape & Microsoft. They are very user friendly and opportunistic about encrypting email. PGP implementations could be done this way in the future as well.
True, the entropy of the CTF network architecture each year, is roughly equal to that of the entire internet. We had a tough time getting everything at DEF CON 8. The DEF CON 9 capture is certainly much better, but we're bound to have missed some bits here and there. Also, as other posts have pointed out, the contest had a very strange design which allowed flag hosts to come up and down faster than an MTV weened script kiddie's attention span could track. We're expecting the DEF CON 10 CTF, hosted by the Ghetto Hackers will improve capture possibilities a great dea. - pablos.
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I work at the Intellectual Ventures Lab where we work on inventions. While the patent system isn't ideal, we're certainly not the paragon of evil Timothy Lee makes us out to be. The invention we've invested the most in is a reactor powered by nuclear waste. We have over 30 scientists working on that now. We are developing many inventions to help eradicate malaria and have a team devoted to epidemiological modeling for that.
Intellectual Ventures has already paid over $330MM to inventors from its licensing work. We're inventors & we love invention. We're trying to create more ways for inventors to succeed at what they're good at. - Pablos.
I work at the Intellectual Ventures Lab where this system is being created. Just wanted to respond to a few points in the comments:
DDT is non-discriminatory. It does kill mosquitoes, but it harms lots of other life forms as well. Because of its abuse, there are bans and economic sanctions that prevent its use. Changing that is a political problem.
Using lasers, we don't expect to eradicate mosquitoes entirely, but they can be a way to help reduce their populations enough that malaria can't survive. In particular, the laser system can help create a perimeter to keep people safe.
As far as we know, there aren't any species that rely solely on mosquitoes as a food source.
Thanks, I will try to respond if there are further questions here.
You can purchase a ridiculously cheap ($50) 128bit SSL cert, trusted by browsers from http://www.geotrust.com
All you need a valid credit card to get a
cert. The CA key is loaded in almost all of the browsers, the notable exception being Opera.
They do send a 'auth check' by emailing the domain admin contact you can select.
The entire ordering process (including filling out forms) takes less than about 5 or ten minutes.
This should SCARE you if you're relying on the security provided by Veri$ign and the root that ship with browsers. - pablos.
S/MIME has security flaws built into the specification, such as the requirement to support 40 bit keys. It is based on X.509, and thus inherits a hierarchical trust model. As practiced, this is more troublesome than the ad-hoc web of trust that PGP facilitates. X.509 also uses ASN.1 encoding, which is a bitch for developers. Finally, if you've ever tried to get two S/MIME implementations to talk to each other, you'd know why nobody is behind it.
All that said, I think there are a few important things to learn from the S/MIME implementations we've seen from Netscape & Microsoft. They are very user friendly and opportunistic about encrypting email. PGP implementations could be done this way in the future as well.
True, the entropy of the CTF network architecture each year, is roughly equal to that of the entire internet. We had a tough time getting everything at DEF CON 8. The DEF CON 9 capture is certainly much better, but we're bound to have missed some bits here and there. Also, as other posts have pointed out, the contest had a very strange design which allowed flag hosts to come up and down faster than an MTV weened script kiddie's attention span could track. We're expecting the DEF CON 10 CTF, hosted by the Ghetto Hackers will improve capture possibilities a great dea. - pablos.
Just take the name of any car and preceed it by the word "Anal" for hours of fun.
Ford makes some of the best:
Anal Explorer
Anal Probe
Anal Expedition
This should work for some company names too.