Traditional RFID chips are vulnerable to side-channel attacks, whereby a hacker can extract a cryptographic key from the chip. However, a hacker would need to execute a cryptographic algorithm many times to extract usable information, as each execution leaks only a small amount of information. The new RFID chip runs a random-number generator that creates a new secret key after each transaction.
So they're backing up the base crypto in the chip with a stream cipher: instead of generating random session keys with a public-key cipher, they're generating secret keys with a random-number generator (i.e. a stream cipher) and using those to generate a session key to generate a session key. Which may be even less secure, if the RNG (i.e. stream cipher) is itself insecure. Perhaps they can fix that by using another RNG to generate an initial state for the RNG which generates the key which generates the session key for the transaction.
Why bother with war and destruction when you simply become the world financial system? My bet is that if any system is going to achieve emergent sentience, it will be our economic system, interlinked between computers and parliaments and treaties and community banks and credit systems.
... that speech is such an incredible mound of crazy that I don't even know where to begin.
When you get back to your office, look around you at work, and pay attention. For these are your friends and colleagues who are under attack. Their skin is black, and brown, and ochre, as well as white. They speak Mandarin, and Spanish, and Hindu, and Farsi, as well as English. They celebrate Diwali, and Kwanzaa, and Ramadan, as well as Christmas and Chanukkah. And they are under assault.
And when they are under attack, you are under attack. For they are the future of the American economy. They are the future of consumption. They are the future of advertising and media. They are your childrens’ classmates, your in-laws, the parents of your future grandchildren.
OK... so who, exactly, has these fine folks "under assault"?
It is for this very reason – the virtuous circle that links freedom to advertise to freedom of the press to freedom of expression to economic freedom – that Article 19, the influential NGO, says: “The right to freedom of expression covers any kind of information or ideas, not only contributions to political, cultural or artistic debate but also mundane and commercially motivated expressions.”
And this is why I hate the ad-block profiteers.
Evil is revealed!
Shine, an Israeli startup trying to sell ad-blocking software to mobile phone networks, is backed prominently by Horizons Ventures, the VC arm of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing, and run by his girlfriend. His other investments include Spotify and Facebook.
The latest ad-blocking company is a Web browser startup called “Brave.” It was launched by former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, whose last major investment was in banning gay marriage in California. His business model not only strips advertisements from publishers’ pages – it replaces them with his own for-profit ads.
Notice how quickly we went from cultural inclusiveness to blaming the Chinese and the Israelis (but gay marriage!)
They may attempt to dignify their practices with such politically correct phrases as “reasonable advertising,” “responsible advertising,” and “acceptable ads”; and they can claim as loudly as they want that they seek “constructive rapport” with other stakeholders. But in fact, they are engaged in the techniques of The Big Lie
I guess he knows the Big Lie when he sees it.
Well, in their race to the bottom and frenzy for investment, the ad-block profiteers seem more intent on killing each other than on killing advertising
Oh, God. It's the ad blockers who are in a race to the bottom...
But more importantly, an embrace of LEAN principles will bring this industry back to the rational center – focused on making money, to be sure, but cognizant that successful businesses require long-term attention to and concern for the users themselves. Remember that those users represent all races and creeds, and that their happiness success means your success and happiness, too.
The article regarding goto's is named "GOTO's considered harmful", it is not named "GOTO's are the worst idea ever", it is also not called "GOTO's are to be avoided at all costs", it is also not named "GOTO's are an invention of the devil and all language designers using it should burn in hell".
Yourdon's book "Structured design: fundamentals of a discipline of computer program and systems design" was my first introduction to the idea of structure programming, and has continued to influence me simply by the idea that good design has a coherent rationale, and an overall structure. Sounds obvious? Not really.
Yeah, he got a little nutty with the TEOTWAWKI stuff about Y2K. Seems kind of quaint now.
So how does the self-defense situation work in this scenario? A thug invades your house without notice and then what? Do you get the gun cabinet key out, take out the gun, load the gun only to find that the mugger has already knocked you in the head with his bat? Are you supposed to carry your gun on you at home at all times?
The way "self-defense" works in this scenario is that your realize in the first place that the risk of your child being injured or killed by the loaded gun you leave lying around is far higher than the risk that a "thug invades your house", and you make the rational decision that overall risk reduction takes priority over a thoughtless, brain-stem response to a hypothetical fear.
Jesus Murphy, the term "homebrew" came from people who used to brew their own beer at home. We rarely see this done these days, and even those who do it make a shitty lager or a pissy ale.
That's almost certainly because most mash tuns run systemd now. The best systemd can do is a shitty lager or a pissy ale.
I think this decline in the quality of homebrew reflects what has happened to the Linux community as a whole lately. The quality has dropped like a rock. So much Linux software has gotten worse. GNOME 3 looks awful. Systemd and PulseAudio still have caused me nothing but trouble. Firefox gets worse with each release. Wayland is nowhere to be found.
Yeah, Dude. I would never build a homebrew router because GNOME 3 / PulseAudio / Firefox. Those things make Linux routers totally worthless.
Please don't. My company is building tools that help businesses understand their customers through WiFi. We're having to waste a lot of time building heuristics that determine whose MAC switched when they blip off and a new one randomly appears. We're barely off the ground with this stuff, now we're probably going to have to build new heuristics for Android devices.
How about if the businesses "understand" that their customers don't want to be fucking tracked?
No actually I don't. It's unacceptable that virtually no one cares that the biggest cause of death in men under 45 is suicide.
First, that's factually incorrect. According to the CDC, suicides are number two, after "Unintentional Injuries".
That's right, the leading cause of death in men under 45 is "hold my beer and watch this". Suicide is second Maybe these are the biggest cause of death in men under 45 because men's general health overall is so good that just about the only thing that will take them out is if they decide to do it themselves, through self-harm or simple stupidity?
The article says "The practice in 1960 would have been not to list the female Computers as formal co-authors". The blurb above replaces "Computers" with "contributors", painting a false and offensive picture.
Sigh.
The "computers" were, in fact, significant contributors who were, as a matter of policy, not listed as co-authors. Because they were female. (See PIckering's Harem. )
One of the most disgusting recent copyright stunts was the Anne Frank Foundation extending the copyright on her diary by claiming Otto Frank as a co-author.
If anything ought to be considered owned by the world as a whole, it's Anne Frank's diary.
The rise of "social justice" has meant that good journalism is deemed "intolerant", "bigoted", "racist", "sexist", "homophobic", "transphobic", and any number of similar false accusations.....
Yes, there's some pretty nutty people on the Right, just as there are on any side with that this many people involved. I'm more worried when I don't hear about the other side's cartoon characters.
The left's cartoon characters aren't leading candidates for President.
Depends on the subject. They are very blatantly biased and actually act as a propaganda tool for the Democrats when it comes to 2nd amendment rights issues.
Recognizing that most 2nd amendment rights advocates in the U.S. are raving nutjobs is not bias, it's contact with basic reality. This is but one of many issues where false equivalence is turning U.S. journalism into a farce.
I was a loyal watcher of AJE on the web: by far the best TV journalism avaiilable in the U.S. Then they started AJAM, which sucked, and blocked access to AJE from the US. (Thanks, Al Gore!) Why is it that media organizations which produce perfectly good journalistic content for consumption outside the U.S. produce dumbed-down, shallow garbage as soon as it's specifically intended for a U.S. market? CNN is the same way: CNN International is still a pretty good (not great) news channel. I saw HLN (formerly CNN Headline News) for the first time in a long time the other day. It was literally a ripoff of America's Funniest Home Videos, except it was home videos of children being run over by cars and the like, sort of "America's Funniest Lurid Death Videos". What. The. Fuck?
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"Hackproof"?? From TFA
Traditional RFID chips are vulnerable to side-channel attacks, whereby a hacker can extract a cryptographic key from the chip. However, a hacker would need to execute a cryptographic algorithm many times to extract usable information, as each execution leaks only a small amount of information. The new RFID chip runs a random-number generator that creates a new secret key after each transaction.
So they're backing up the base crypto in the chip with a stream cipher: instead of generating random session keys with a public-key cipher, they're generating secret keys with a random-number generator (i.e. a stream cipher) and using those to generate a session key to generate a session key. Which may be even less secure, if the RNG (i.e. stream cipher) is itself insecure. Perhaps they can fix that by using another RNG to generate an initial state for the RNG which generates the key which generates the session key for the transaction.
It's stream ciphers all the way down!
... hitting yourself in the head with a hammer may cause headaches, or unconsciousness.
Why bother with war and destruction when you simply become the world financial system? My bet is that if any system is going to achieve emergent sentience, it will be our economic system, interlinked between computers and parliaments and treaties and community banks and credit systems.
And then we're really fucked.
... that speech is such an incredible mound of crazy that I don't even know where to begin.
When you get back to your office, look around you at work, and pay attention. For these are your friends and colleagues who are under attack. Their skin is black, and brown, and ochre, as well as white. They speak Mandarin, and Spanish, and Hindu, and Farsi, as well as English. They celebrate Diwali, and Kwanzaa, and Ramadan, as well as Christmas and Chanukkah. And they are under assault.
And when they are under attack, you are under attack. For they are the future of the American economy. They are the future of consumption. They are the future of advertising and media. They are your childrens’ classmates, your in-laws, the parents of your future grandchildren.
OK ... so who, exactly, has these fine folks "under assault"?
It is for this very reason – the virtuous circle that links freedom to advertise to freedom of the press to freedom of expression to economic freedom – that Article 19, the influential NGO, says: “The right to freedom of expression covers any kind of information or ideas, not only contributions to political, cultural or artistic debate but also mundane and commercially motivated expressions.”
And this is why I hate the ad-block profiteers.
Evil is revealed!
Shine, an Israeli startup trying to sell ad-blocking software to mobile phone networks, is backed prominently by Horizons Ventures, the VC arm of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing, and run by his girlfriend. His other investments include Spotify and Facebook.
The latest ad-blocking company is a Web browser startup called “Brave.” It was launched by former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, whose last major investment was in banning gay marriage in California. His business model not only strips advertisements from publishers’ pages – it replaces them with his own for-profit ads.
Notice how quickly we went from cultural inclusiveness to blaming the Chinese and the Israelis (but gay marriage!)
They may attempt to dignify their practices with such politically correct phrases as “reasonable advertising,” “responsible advertising,” and “acceptable ads”; and they can claim as loudly as they want that they seek “constructive rapport” with other stakeholders. But in fact, they are engaged in the techniques of The Big Lie
I guess he knows the Big Lie when he sees it.
Well, in their race to the bottom and frenzy for investment, the ad-block profiteers seem more intent on killing each other than on killing advertising
Oh, God. It's the ad blockers who are in a race to the bottom...
But more importantly, an embrace of LEAN principles will bring this industry back to the rational center – focused on making money, to be sure, but cognizant that successful businesses require long-term attention to and concern for the users themselves. Remember that those users represent all races and creeds, and that their happiness success means your success and happiness, too.
Also, kittens! And babies! And kittens!
Someone like Uber would have walked away from the case and thrown the driver under the bus
Congratulations! You win the /. mixed-metaphor award for the week.
How to they fucking work?
incredibly jarring
Or incredible Jar-Jaring.
That's like comparing the wright flyer to a paper airplane.
Which is a pretty excellent comparison actually.
The article regarding goto's is named "GOTO's considered harmful", it is not named "GOTO's are the worst idea ever", it is also not called "GOTO's are to be avoided at all costs", it is also not named "GOTO's are an invention of the devil and all language designers using it should burn in hell".
No, no! That's systemd.
Yourdon's book "Structured design: fundamentals of a discipline of computer program and systems design" was my first introduction to the idea of structure programming, and has continued to influence me simply by the idea that good design has a coherent rationale, and an overall structure. Sounds obvious? Not really.
Yeah, he got a little nutty with the TEOTWAWKI stuff about Y2K. Seems kind of quaint now.
Godspeed, Mr. Yourdon.
So how does the self-defense situation work in this scenario? A thug invades your house without notice and then what? Do you get the gun cabinet key out, take out the gun, load the gun only to find that the mugger has already knocked you in the head with his bat? Are you supposed to carry your gun on you at home at all times?
The way "self-defense" works in this scenario is that your realize in the first place that the risk of your child being injured or killed by the loaded gun you leave lying around is far higher than the risk that a "thug invades your house", and you make the rational decision that overall risk reduction takes priority over a thoughtless, brain-stem response to a hypothetical fear.
Are you sure you're not thinking of commercial microbrewing?
He's thinking of home brewing:
https://www.brewersassociation...
If you're the GGP, then in addition to being a completely insane person, you definitely haven't tasted what homebrewers are making.
Jesus Murphy, the term "homebrew" came from people who used to brew their own beer at home. We rarely see this done these days, and even those who do it make a shitty lager or a pissy ale.
That's almost certainly because most mash tuns run systemd now. The best systemd can do is a shitty lager or a pissy ale.
A proper IPA can only be done with Sys V init.
What do you do / use as wireless solution? Do you have wifi APs without traditional routing capabilities?
Just hook a wireless access point to your router and configure it as an ethernet switch. Done and done.
I think this decline in the quality of homebrew reflects what has happened to the Linux community as a whole lately. The quality has dropped like a rock. So much Linux software has gotten worse. GNOME 3 looks awful. Systemd and PulseAudio still have caused me nothing but trouble. Firefox gets worse with each release. Wayland is nowhere to be found.
Yeah, Dude. I would never build a homebrew router because GNOME 3 / PulseAudio / Firefox. Those things make Linux routers totally worthless.
Isn't knowing the definition of a prime number enough?
Totally. It's not like prime numbers can be applied to anything useful like cryptography.
Please don't. My company is building tools that help businesses understand their customers through WiFi. We're having to waste a lot of time building heuristics that determine whose MAC switched when they blip off and a new one randomly appears. We're barely off the ground with this stuff, now we're probably going to have to build new heuristics for Android devices.
How about if the businesses "understand" that their customers don't want to be fucking tracked?
Thank you.
No actually I don't. It's unacceptable that virtually no one cares that the biggest cause of death in men under 45 is suicide.
First, that's factually incorrect. According to the CDC, suicides are number two, after "Unintentional Injuries".
That's right, the leading cause of death in men under 45 is "hold my beer and watch this". Suicide is second Maybe these are the biggest cause of death in men under 45 because men's general health overall is so good that just about the only thing that will take them out is if they decide to do it themselves, through self-harm or simple stupidity?
Nope. Must be the feminazis.
The article says "The practice in 1960 would have been not to list the female Computers as formal co-authors". The blurb above replaces "Computers" with "contributors", painting a false and offensive picture.
Sigh.
The "computers" were, in fact, significant contributors who were, as a matter of policy, not listed as co-authors. Because they were female. (See PIckering's Harem. )
One of the most disgusting recent copyright stunts was the Anne Frank Foundation extending the copyright on her diary by claiming Otto Frank as a co-author.
If anything ought to be considered owned by the world as a whole, it's Anne Frank's diary.
The rise of "social justice" has meant that good journalism is deemed "intolerant", "bigoted", "racist", "sexist", "homophobic", "transphobic", and any number of similar false accusations.....
The debate was last night, Donald.
Yes, there's some pretty nutty people on the Right, just as there are on any side with that this many people involved. I'm more worried when I don't hear about the other side's cartoon characters.
The left's cartoon characters aren't leading candidates for President.
What a fine example of the effectiveness of the propaganda networks. Or have you forgot to add sarcasm tags?
Sorry, Dude, but these guys make it entirely clear all on their own.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Depends on the subject. They are very blatantly biased and actually act as a propaganda tool for the Democrats when it comes to 2nd amendment rights issues.
Recognizing that most 2nd amendment rights advocates in the U.S. are raving nutjobs is not bias, it's contact with basic reality. This is but one of many issues where false equivalence is turning U.S. journalism into a farce.
This.
I was a loyal watcher of AJE on the web: by far the best TV journalism avaiilable in the U.S. Then they started AJAM, which sucked, and blocked access to AJE from the US. (Thanks, Al Gore!) Why is it that media organizations which produce perfectly good journalistic content for consumption outside the U.S. produce dumbed-down, shallow garbage as soon as it's specifically intended for a U.S. market? CNN is the same way: CNN International is still a pretty good (not great) news channel. I saw HLN (formerly CNN Headline News) for the first time in a long time the other day. It was literally a ripoff of America's Funniest Home Videos, except it was home videos of children being run over by cars and the like, sort of "America's Funniest Lurid Death Videos". What. The. Fuck?