You need to adjust your tin foil hat. I took my droid, my tablet, and my laptop, and there really isn't that much to worry about if you follow basic security practices, like not sending any plaintext passwords, closing any ports or services you don't need, and not doing financial transactions or other very confidential things there. And I'm sure the assorted 3-letter agencies already know all about anyone they are interested in.
Off topic, but I'm also still waiting for one with integrated GPS position AND orientation, somewhere in the general neighborhood of the consumer price range.
Can I buy a pass to temporarily raise the legal blood alcohol limit? Can I buy a pass that changes the definition of premeditative homicide? Or oooh, what about genocide?...
They just don't advertise those passes...and you have to be a major corporation or senator to get them.
The common adage of a chain being only as strong as the weakest link is very true in security. It may seem like the potential for misuse is minimal, but security-/hacker-minded individuals work mostly by finding ways that seemingly unimportant problems affect other things they are connected to. Some of the other comments talk about a DoS-type of attack that can be performed by flooding this vulnerable communication channel; what if it is discovered that this type of DoS attack could, for example, specifically target the braking system?
So... Amazon will know everywhere I crossed a word out and replaced it with "goat" in my copy of the kama sutra? Wonder what this will do for that area of their page that recommends products to me based on things I've previously done on their site...
Actually, patent applications are public documents. How else would someone be able to check whether or not an invention was already patented? Though it would not surprise me if the DMCA somehow allowed that kind of take-down request, as it appears to have been written by some variation of the infinite monkey theorem... I think I will call it the "Finite Legislator Theorem": if a legislator types random words for long enough, it will eventually produce a document that can pass as a law.
Actually, it's the method or process they are trying to patent that has to be non-obvious. If they have developed innovative and non-obvious methods of patent trolling, they can patent those methods. Although, the more specific your claims get, the less useful they are as less of the people you would go after will actually fall under the more specific claim.
TKIP is not a cipher; it is a keying protocol. When you use TKIP, the actual cipher you are using is called RC4, which is older and has more known vulnerabilities than AES. It is also the cipher typically used by WEP, though the keying protocol WEP uses contains additional vulnerabilities. TKIP basically takes RC4, which was designed to encrypt a single stream of data, and creates a protocol around it for sending arbitrary packets, which may not be reliably delivered. WPA2 provides a more secure way to similarly wrap the AES cipher, but retains support for TKIP/RC4 for legacy devices.
There's actually an interesting proof floating around out there about exactly how much time and CPU power would be required to perform a brute force attack on 256-bit AES, and the conclusion is something like the amount of power required to do so with anything resembling current technology exceeds the output of the sun for the the next 100 years or so. Due mostly to apathy (and not remembering the password for my WAP), I still use WEP at home, but I live in an apartment complex with several unsecured networks readily available, so if anyone really wanted to get on the intarwebs, they would just use those. There will always be an arms race between the people developing security and the people breaking it, but as long as you aren't the easiest target, it is unlikely that the "bad guys" will go after you. BTW, last I checked, you can sniff packets quite effectively on a cable network, and probably on DSL too, so if you want to tap a residential internet user, you don't really need to crack WiFi.
I actually have only ridden the subway once. I just figured you wouldn't be able to get a good signal in an underground tunnel. I guess cell phones are getting better.
They made it illegal because they thought that would stop people from being irresponsible. Kind of like how they thought prohibition would stop husbands from beating their wives, or banning marijuana would stop people from going on homicidal rampages.
Very nice on paper, but in the real world, authority is granted by one thing and one thing alone: the ability to accomplish your objectives through the direct application of force. Contracts exist only by the enforcement of a third, more powerful party, or the realization by *both* parties to the contract that following its stipulations is for each of them individually a better solution than fighting it out. When the constitution was written, the government was small and average citizens had the means to oppose it should it start acting against their collective interests. The conditions have changed fundamentally since that time.
Unfortunately, your rights pretty much stop at the U.S. border. If you're entering the country, they can search and seize whatever they please. The current administration has also unfortunately demonstrated that the USA can be turned into a police state regardless of what the Constitution says because nobody is really fighting them on it. Probably because fighting the government is "unAmerican"... of course in my opinion, fighting a government that is compromising our freedom is at the very heart of being a true American.
I got a Foxconn board for my new Debian server I built recently. I got it because I used one of their boards for an XP box and it seemed pretty stable. I got a board with 6 SATA ports on it because I had some heavy RAID requirements. I ended up having to get an LSI RAID card because I couldn't get Debian, CentOS, or Suse to even recognize all the hard drives. Knoppix and a couple other distros wouldn't even recognize the CD-ROM drive (IDE, not SATA). Foxconn is now officially on my hardware blacklist. Who else is with me?
Does the transcoded WMA/ASF file play in Linux? Microsoft could have helped out on this one to get all the evil cross-platform MP3 files out there transcoded into their proprietary formats:)
The encrypted version most likely overwrote the plaintext version in-place, but I suppose it is possible there are plaintext fragments still floating about...according to what I've heard about forensics, you might have a chance if you take your hard drive platters out and borrow the nearest electron microscope to examine them:)
Do I just not know some Windows Admin secret magic, or is it true that I really can't back up my applications. I'd like to be able to reinstall Windows and then restore all of my applications. I used to back up my Windows systems by loading Knoppix (or any other live Linux distro) from a CD, plugging in an external hard drive, and using dd to make a bit-for-bit duplicate of each partition I wanted. Down sides to this include you have to shut down the system to back it up, you can't do incremental updates, and unless you know the right tricks, you need a backup drive larger than the drive you're backing up regardless of how much of it is actually being used.
Political issues aside, if somebody with control over your ISP wants to keep you from seeing something, you're pretty much hosed unless you can get an encrypted connection out that has some plausible legitimate explanation. Hijacking a large domain would still work well if you just proxy everything else but the site in question, as would a plethora of other traffic monitoring and filtering systems. You can try putting the material in lots of different places, but your readers then have to keep up with you as fast as the entity that is filtering you.
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You need to adjust your tin foil hat. I took my droid, my tablet, and my laptop, and there really isn't that much to worry about if you follow basic security practices, like not sending any plaintext passwords, closing any ports or services you don't need, and not doing financial transactions or other very confidential things there. And I'm sure the assorted 3-letter agencies already know all about anyone they are interested in.
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Focus Stacking
Panoramic Stitching
You forgot IR and UV.
Off topic, but I'm also still waiting for one with integrated GPS position AND orientation, somewhere in the general neighborhood of the consumer price range.
Can I buy a pass to temporarily raise the legal blood alcohol limit? Can I buy a pass that changes the definition of premeditative homicide? Or oooh, what about genocide? ...
They just don't advertise those passes...and you have to be a major corporation or senator to get them.
...it can be used to counter the claim that the people buying the machines are just wiping them to put pirated windows on.
Why would people do such a thing? I wipe pirated windows installs so I can put linux on.
The common adage of a chain being only as strong as the weakest link is very true in security. It may seem like the potential for misuse is minimal, but security-/hacker-minded individuals work mostly by finding ways that seemingly unimportant problems affect other things they are connected to. Some of the other comments talk about a DoS-type of attack that can be performed by flooding this vulnerable communication channel; what if it is discovered that this type of DoS attack could, for example, specifically target the braking system?
So... Amazon will know everywhere I crossed a word out and replaced it with "goat" in my copy of the kama sutra? Wonder what this will do for that area of their page that recommends products to me based on things I've previously done on their site...
Actually, patent applications are public documents. How else would someone be able to check whether or not an invention was already patented? Though it would not surprise me if the DMCA somehow allowed that kind of take-down request, as it appears to have been written by some variation of the infinite monkey theorem... I think I will call it the "Finite Legislator Theorem": if a legislator types random words for long enough, it will eventually produce a document that can pass as a law.
Actually, it's the method or process they are trying to patent that has to be non-obvious. If they have developed innovative and non-obvious methods of patent trolling, they can patent those methods. Although, the more specific your claims get, the less useful they are as less of the people you would go after will actually fall under the more specific claim.
TKIP is not a cipher; it is a keying protocol. When you use TKIP, the actual cipher you are using is called RC4, which is older and has more known vulnerabilities than AES. It is also the cipher typically used by WEP, though the keying protocol WEP uses contains additional vulnerabilities. TKIP basically takes RC4, which was designed to encrypt a single stream of data, and creates a protocol around it for sending arbitrary packets, which may not be reliably delivered. WPA2 provides a more secure way to similarly wrap the AES cipher, but retains support for TKIP/RC4 for legacy devices.
There's actually an interesting proof floating around out there about exactly how much time and CPU power would be required to perform a brute force attack on 256-bit AES, and the conclusion is something like the amount of power required to do so with anything resembling current technology exceeds the output of the sun for the the next 100 years or so. Due mostly to apathy (and not remembering the password for my WAP), I still use WEP at home, but I live in an apartment complex with several unsecured networks readily available, so if anyone really wanted to get on the intarwebs, they would just use those. There will always be an arms race between the people developing security and the people breaking it, but as long as you aren't the easiest target, it is unlikely that the "bad guys" will go after you. BTW, last I checked, you can sniff packets quite effectively on a cable network, and probably on DSL too, so if you want to tap a residential internet user, you don't really need to crack WiFi.
I actually have only ridden the subway once. I just figured you wouldn't be able to get a good signal in an underground tunnel. I guess cell phones are getting better.
have a couple kids, then tell me how aware passengers are of things outside the vehicle ;)
it's the act of engaging in a phone conversation while driving that causes accidents, not the fact that you're holding a phone with one hand.
Awesome. We've finally figured it out. Next step: outlaw passenger seats. Can't have any of them talking to the driver either.
or boats...or busses...or subways...sort of a moot point for subways though...
They made it illegal because they thought that would stop people from being irresponsible. Kind of like how they thought prohibition would stop husbands from beating their wives, or banning marijuana would stop people from going on homicidal rampages.
A mistake by the Bush administration? It seems to be serving the Bush administration's interests rather well...
Very nice on paper, but in the real world, authority is granted by one thing and one thing alone: the ability to accomplish your objectives through the direct application of force. Contracts exist only by the enforcement of a third, more powerful party, or the realization by *both* parties to the contract that following its stipulations is for each of them individually a better solution than fighting it out. When the constitution was written, the government was small and average citizens had the means to oppose it should it start acting against their collective interests. The conditions have changed fundamentally since that time.
Unfortunately, your rights pretty much stop at the U.S. border. If you're entering the country, they can search and seize whatever they please. The current administration has also unfortunately demonstrated that the USA can be turned into a police state regardless of what the Constitution says because nobody is really fighting them on it. Probably because fighting the government is "unAmerican" ... of course in my opinion, fighting a government that is compromising our freedom is at the very heart of being a true American.
I got a Foxconn board for my new Debian server I built recently. I got it because I used one of their boards for an XP box and it seemed pretty stable. I got a board with 6 SATA ports on it because I had some heavy RAID requirements. I ended up having to get an LSI RAID card because I couldn't get Debian, CentOS, or Suse to even recognize all the hard drives. Knoppix and a couple other distros wouldn't even recognize the CD-ROM drive (IDE, not SATA). Foxconn is now officially on my hardware blacklist. Who else is with me?
Does the transcoded WMA/ASF file play in Linux? Microsoft could have helped out on this one to get all the evil cross-platform MP3 files out there transcoded into their proprietary formats :)
Worms I can deal with. Defiling my MP3 collection with WMA/ASF? That's harsh.
The encrypted version most likely overwrote the plaintext version in-place, but I suppose it is possible there are plaintext fragments still floating about...according to what I've heard about forensics, you might have a chance if you take your hard drive platters out and borrow the nearest electron microscope to examine them :)
I have my parallel universes on RAID5
Political issues aside, if somebody with control over your ISP wants to keep you from seeing something, you're pretty much hosed unless you can get an encrypted connection out that has some plausible legitimate explanation. Hijacking a large domain would still work well if you just proxy everything else but the site in question, as would a plethora of other traffic monitoring and filtering systems. You can try putting the material in lots of different places, but your readers then have to keep up with you as fast as the entity that is filtering you.