Actually, I believe most of this to be a first ammendment issue. Arrest the people who distribute copyrighted music, but all napster is is a forum. Its much like banning people from entering central park because a large number of pedophiles frequent it (speaking hypothetically of course).
that we will not stop until we block Sony. We will block Sony at their servers. We will block Sony at our ISPs. We will block sony at our computers and, failing that, we will block Sony at our wallets.
Sony, the victim of a self fulfilling denial of service prophecy.
Yet again, I find more reasons to be happy I stopped playing Everquest.
"If you look this list over, and measure each system¦s number of vulnerabilities against the number of its customers, Linux is arguably the worst operating-system product in history, and Microsoft¦s the best. " --Fred Moody
If a lot of people buy Hondas as their car of choice, then the Honda is the superior car? MS' OS is the best because people buy a lot of it? Where did [Moody] come up with that argument? My OS is the best because my anticompetitive practices force people to buy it with their computer, and my office suite has become the business standard; even though the system has to be rebooted daily and you have to download dozens of patches before things work the way I advertised.
I would argue that if more people use a particular OS, its has less of an excuse for having vulnerabilities. More people are available to report them, and it has a larger resource base of profits to hire people to fix them. Its vulnerabilities are WORSE, because there are more available at a given time to be exploited, more hackers spend time learning about them because of the availability of targets, and more man-hours need be wasted fixing them.
By that argument, MS' OS is the worst, undeniably. And that argument makes a lot more sense than [Moody's] piece of flame bait.
Chris Ross
Prokaryotic Developmental Responses
The University of Texas at Dallas
oh, wait, I never paid in the first place. I didn't like it. I could care less about its conclusion. And its so short... Heres to a glorious failure Steve.
Decryption per se, does not necessarily reveal the encryption algorithm, and a list of sites that are blocked does not comprise anything that has been engineered, it is not a program, not a structure, not a machine; it is a list. Can one "engineer" a list? I don't quite see how then decrypting a list of blocked URLs constitutes reverse engineering if you did not rip apart the original program to reveal the encryption; and this could have been done without doing perhaps using differential cryptanalysis or a brute force known-plaintext attack (since you know some of the sites that are blocked). So in short; I don't think the company has a leg to stand on. Download the decryptor today!
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Actually, I believe most of this to be a first ammendment issue. Arrest the people who distribute copyrighted music, but all napster is is a forum. Its much like banning people from entering central park because a large number of pedophiles frequent it (speaking hypothetically of course).
Sony, the victim of a self fulfilling denial of service prophecy.
Yet again, I find more reasons to be happy I stopped playing Everquest.
"If you look this list over, and measure each system¦s number of vulnerabilities against the number of its customers, Linux is arguably the worst operating-system product in history, and Microsoft¦s the best. " --Fred Moody If a lot of people buy Hondas as their car of choice, then the Honda is the superior car? MS' OS is the best because people buy a lot of it? Where did [Moody] come up with that argument? My OS is the best because my anticompetitive practices force people to buy it with their computer, and my office suite has become the business standard; even though the system has to be rebooted daily and you have to download dozens of patches before things work the way I advertised. I would argue that if more people use a particular OS, its has less of an excuse for having vulnerabilities. More people are available to report them, and it has a larger resource base of profits to hire people to fix them. Its vulnerabilities are WORSE, because there are more available at a given time to be exploited, more hackers spend time learning about them because of the availability of targets, and more man-hours need be wasted fixing them. By that argument, MS' OS is the worst, undeniably. And that argument makes a lot more sense than [Moody's] piece of flame bait. Chris Ross Prokaryotic Developmental Responses The University of Texas at Dallas
oh, wait, I never paid in the first place. I didn't like it. I could care less about its conclusion. And its so short... Heres to a glorious failure Steve.
Decryption per se, does not necessarily reveal the encryption algorithm, and a list of sites that are blocked does not comprise anything that has been engineered, it is not a program, not a structure, not a machine; it is a list. Can one "engineer" a list? I don't quite see how then decrypting a list of blocked URLs constitutes reverse engineering if you did not rip apart the original program to reveal the encryption; and this could have been done without doing perhaps using differential cryptanalysis or a brute force known-plaintext attack (since you know some of the sites that are blocked). So in short; I don't think the company has a leg to stand on. Download the decryptor today!