We're expected to maintain confidentiality in a reasonable matter, not approach it with the paranoia of a computer security expert.
So.... in the era before Google apps, at the end of the day you just left client documents laying about untended and exited the building without locking the door?
But that's the entire point of System Encryption right there! Someone gains physical access to your machine and they still can't do squat to read the contents (short of beating you with a hose to get the password or spending serious supercomputer time). System Encryption was designed for precisely this application.
Rubber hose? We doan need no steenkin rubber hose! We doan need no super-whatis neither. We make two trips to machine: One to install hardware keylogger, one to pick it up and put in pocket and walk away.
Just tape the damn phone to you, like under an arm. Then you won't be bothered with having to keep the phone with you. Just position it so that the charging jack is accessible, plug it in while you sleep.
Now wasn't that easy, quick and simple?
On a less sarcastic note: You do know that nearly all cell phones use low power BT and that the 30m range is for absolutely perfect conditions? That in the real world of walls / wiring, metal clad big appliances and ambient noise that range can be as low as scant (single digit) meters?
I've got a feeling I'm one of the few (maybe the only) here who has ever programmed an analog computer. They had default settings, be they operational amplifier (electronic) or shaft/cam/lever (mechanical) designs.
Of course, some sort of plausible deniability encryption a la Truecrypt would also be good, in case the secret police catch you with your phone.
Truecrypt - a product I'm right fond of and use - isn't going to be able to stand up to the cryptanalysis that some police forces will bring to bear. Their notion of plausible deniability differs: They'll believe you're telling the truth just before (or just after) your death by acts of torture.
I think a blend of well established practice and tech will serve them better. In the form of microSD passed hand to hand or via drops. They're small, elude most metal detectors and can easily hidden or easily disposed of should the need arise.
Methinks some ISPs aren't going to like this once it is released "for real".
From Comcast's TOS:
Prohibited Uses of HSI. You agree not to use HSI for operation as an Internet service provider, a server site for ftp, telnet, rlogin, e-mail hosting, "Web hosting" or other similar applications, for any business enterprise, or as an end-point on a non-Comcast local area network or wide area network.
Of course I use the company property for personal and private activities - there is really no longer any separation between my work and personal activities because I lack the discipline to separate them.
The Federal Candy Corp. will show up a lot quicker if you fire up a transmitter that walks over Emergency / Military / Aviation Services freqs. Trouncing AM/FM may get them to show up - after the money (station owner) starts squawking. A complaint from mere mortals - eventually. Maybe.
The other thing is RF isn't what most people think it is - 100's of Khz or higher. The managed spectrum starts at 9KHz. Lot's of things emit RF, including some non-obvious things, like Compact Fluorescent Lamps.
So, a 'noisy' CFL can get you a visit from a federal officer. No warrant needed sez the FCC, just an instrument reading. Sounds like over-stepping bounds to me via Pretzel Logic. Also not what the CA 1934 intended - regulation of transmitters of high power (among other things like licensing, spectrum managment, etc), not ambient, low power noise sources natural or man-made.
As the A.C. below notes, not if it's an OEM issue of XP - the EULA ties XP to the machine it shipped with.
What he can do is blow away the XP install on that machine, install Linux and Virtualbox, then install that OEM XP as a Guest and do the activation over the phone. XP's EULA's are blissfully unaware of virtualizing, unlike Vista's which is, and does prohibit this trick.
Caveat: Some OEM releases of XP (looking at you HP) don't make nice - the installer looks for Vendor / Machine identifiers and will croak on ya. Dell plays nice, I did this with an 8600 / XP Pro rig.
.... Also you have to have a net connection for HULU. If your out of wifi range of 300' your not going to be watching hulu.
Well yes, nimrod - you have to have a connection via the toobs to access hulu.com Now grab something to steady yourself or sit down for this next part is truly very shocking: It works over 3G connections. At 480p even.
O, the irony of this sub-thread: A discussion of backing up Gmail via POP / IMAP as opposed to backing up the original source of the data, to wit, your own damned machine as if that's easier
The key notion is backup. Simplest (and easiest) is backup the local machine. Fetch and store from Gmail is an extra step - not needed.
... Put your license and other info under "Help"... people will see it if/when necessary.
You're kidding, right? You mean that Help that people click only after dialing 3, 4 or 10 digits on a phone and calling someone? Who then treks down the hall / across town to move the mousie thing for them? That "Help"?
Tracking the ISS is doable. And while we're in the interesting hard-hacks arena: The ISS moves along at quite a clip. There's going to be a nice Doppler shift to contend with.
Encryption is not the answer for them - good old fashioned lips-to-ear is (the interview room is bugged).
Consider: The laptop / PDA / cellphone is subject to search going and coming. Also consider they can be compelled to divulge password / keyfiles or face the ire of the Court and that assumes conventional doctrines apply (and that's dubious). This is not a typical legal setting, this is the Bush Administration's ball game - they own the field, the bat, the ball, the glove...
The US Manhattan Project produced two designs and two devices (Fat Man and Little Boy). Fat Man (the one the diagram relates) is an implosion device. That design was tested at Trinity. The other design we didn't bother to test: The physics and engineering of the gun was (and still is) well understood. We knew that design would work, no testing needed.
So where am I going with this? The knowledge to build a working fission device has always been available. The knowledge to build one that does not weigh tons, has adequate internal shielding of critical components (so that it will work when called upon to do so, energetic neutrons / protons + solid state devices = erratic solid state devices)* - that's what is hard to come by.
Or another way to put it: The physics is easy - any university-level text on the subject tells how it works in detail. It's the engineering that's hard.
IOW: Nothing (new) to see here, move along:)
* For an example of what is required to engineer a usable electronic / computational platform in the presence (sparse, at that) of energetic particles google up the Gravity Probe B project (the control schemes). Impressive is.
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We're expected to maintain confidentiality in a reasonable matter, not approach it with the paranoia of a computer security expert.
So .... in the era before Google apps, at the end of the day you just left client documents laying about untended and exited the building without locking the door?
But that's the entire point of System Encryption right there! Someone gains physical access to your machine and they still can't do squat to read the contents (short of beating you with a hose to get the password or spending serious supercomputer time). System Encryption was designed for precisely this application.
Rubber hose? We doan need no steenkin rubber hose! We doan need no super-whatis neither. We make two trips to machine: One to install hardware keylogger, one to pick it up and put in pocket and walk away.
Only fools use single-token authentication.
Let's try this instead:
;)
wget http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/1984.pdf
or 2 page layout:
wget http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/1984-2.pdf
wget http://www.msxnet.org/orwell/print/animal_farm.pdf
I have mod points. Happily sacificed. Now on the count of three - everybody wget 'em
"License to read" == bullshit.
Duct tape.
Just tape the damn phone to you, like under an arm. Then you won't be bothered with having to keep the phone with you. Just position it so that the charging jack is accessible, plug it in while you sleep.
Now wasn't that easy, quick and simple?
On a less sarcastic note: You do know that nearly all cell phones use low power BT and that the 30m range is for absolutely perfect conditions? That in the real world of walls / wiring, metal clad big appliances and ambient noise that range can be as low as scant (single digit) meters?
I've got a feeling I'm one of the few (maybe the only) here who has ever programmed an analog computer. They had default settings, be they operational amplifier (electronic) or shaft/cam/lever (mechanical) designs.
Of course, some sort of plausible deniability encryption a la Truecrypt would also be good, in case the secret police catch you with your phone.
Truecrypt - a product I'm right fond of and use - isn't going to be able to stand up to the cryptanalysis that some police forces will bring to bear. Their notion of plausible deniability differs: They'll believe you're telling the truth just before (or just after) your death by acts of torture.
I think a blend of well established practice and tech will serve them better. In the form of microSD passed hand to hand or via drops. They're small, elude most metal detectors and can easily hidden or easily disposed of should the need arise.
Methinks some ISPs aren't going to like this once it is released "for real".
From Comcast's TOS:
Prohibited Uses of HSI. You agree not to use HSI for operation as an Internet service provider, a server site for ftp, telnet, rlogin, e-mail hosting, "Web hosting" or other similar applications, for any business enterprise, or as an end-point on a non-Comcast local area network or wide area network.
When did we as a society get our collective sense of entitlement?
That would be 1967, aka the Summer of Love.
Folks tell me I was there ... but I have no recollection of that event.
Screwdriver? Ok. But a bit of broken off toothpick? Years after the fact, I'm still looking for that fucking moron.
>
.... IIRC, LGA 1366 has a tripe-channel memory controller ....
So ... it's optimized for WIndows Server?
Of course I use the company property for personal and private activities - there is really no longer any separation between my work and personal activities because I lack the discipline to separate them.
Ye Olde Slashdot "fixed that for you".
Hmmmm... a couple o' things:
The Federal Candy Corp. will show up a lot quicker if you fire up a transmitter that walks over Emergency / Military / Aviation Services freqs. Trouncing AM/FM may get them to show up - after the money (station owner) starts squawking. A complaint from mere mortals - eventually. Maybe.
The other thing is RF isn't what most people think it is - 100's of Khz or higher. The managed spectrum starts at 9KHz. Lot's of things emit RF, including some non-obvious things, like Compact Fluorescent Lamps.
So, a 'noisy' CFL can get you a visit from a federal officer. No warrant needed sez the FCC, just an instrument reading. Sounds like over-stepping bounds to me via Pretzel Logic. Also not what the CA 1934 intended - regulation of transmitters of high power (among other things like licensing, spectrum managment, etc), not ambient, low power noise sources natural or man-made.
As the A.C. below notes, not if it's an OEM issue of XP - the EULA ties XP to the machine it shipped with.
What he can do is blow away the XP install on that machine, install Linux and Virtualbox, then install that OEM XP as a Guest and do the activation over the phone. XP's EULA's are blissfully unaware of virtualizing, unlike Vista's which is, and does prohibit this trick.
Caveat: Some OEM releases of XP (looking at you HP) don't make nice - the installer looks for Vendor / Machine identifiers and will croak on ya. Dell plays nice, I did this with an 8600 / XP Pro rig.
.... Also you have to have a net connection for HULU. If your out of wifi range of 300' your not going to be watching hulu.
Well yes, nimrod - you have to have a connection via the toobs to access hulu.com Now grab something to steady yourself or sit down for this next part is truly very shocking: It works over 3G connections. At 480p even.
* Most people just use a male to male plug, ...
Those of us with for-real electrical backgrounds call such a contrivance a death trap.
O, the irony of this sub-thread: A discussion of backing up Gmail via POP / IMAP as opposed to backing up the original source of the data, to wit, your own damned machine as if that's easier
The key notion is backup. Simplest (and easiest) is backup the local machine. Fetch and store from Gmail is an extra step - not needed.
... Put your license and other info under "Help"... people will see it if/when necessary.
You're kidding, right? You mean that Help that people click only after dialing 3, 4 or 10 digits on a phone and calling someone? Who then treks down the hall / across town to move the mousie thing for them? That "Help"?
It's not conflation. It's the A-Team classic pincer manuever.
Tracking the ISS is doable. And while we're in the interesting hard-hacks arena: The ISS moves along at quite a clip. There's going to be a nice Doppler shift to contend with.
" ... catalyzing all the violence that has been the undercurrent of world politics in the past few millennium."
There, fixed that for you.
Encryption is not the answer for them - good old fashioned lips-to-ear is (the interview room is bugged).
Consider: The laptop / PDA / cellphone is subject to search going and coming. Also consider they can be compelled to divulge password / keyfiles or face the ire of the Court and that assumes conventional doctrines apply (and that's dubious). This is not a typical legal setting, this is the Bush Administration's ball game - they own the field, the bat, the ball, the glove ...
The US Manhattan Project produced two designs and two devices (Fat Man and Little Boy). Fat Man (the one the diagram relates) is an implosion device. That design was tested at Trinity. The other design we didn't bother to test: The physics and engineering of the gun was (and still is) well understood. We knew that design would work, no testing needed.
So where am I going with this? The knowledge to build a working fission device has always been available. The knowledge to build one that does not weigh tons, has adequate internal shielding of critical components (so that it will work when called upon to do so, energetic neutrons / protons + solid state devices = erratic solid state devices)* - that's what is hard to come by.
Or another way to put it: The physics is easy - any university-level text on the subject tells how it works in detail. It's the engineering that's hard.
IOW: Nothing (new) to see here, move along :)
* For an example of what is required to engineer a usable electronic / computational platform in the presence (sparse, at that) of energetic particles google up the Gravity Probe B project (the control schemes). Impressive is.