True story:
I previously travelled a lot for business and was always shipping packages via FEDEX.
A few times instead of dialing 1800-GO-FEDEX (800-463-3339), I misdialed the last digit and a phone sex line answered.
Anyway - once I was on speakerphone at a client site and misdialed, and the clients looked at me with a variety of shock and mirth.
Regardless of how extreme some people respond to some parts of anger, this is a pretty positive thing. I'd rather have someone rant about something online than go out and live out the murder they wished upon someone./stabbity
Sure, but if your blu-ray player can decode the disc then there must be a fixed key stored in it's memory. It would have to be the same key for all players too. That would mean that one only had to find the key once to be able to play all discs.It would be rather nasty if the players didn't store the keys but downloaded them. It will probably be a long while before consumers are prepared to accept a player that has to have a net connection to work.
I don't think the infamous "isroot = 1" is an example of obfuscated code.It is actually quite straightforward. I didn't RTFA (but again who does?;-P ), but I guess the "obfuscated" malware is something like a just-in-time code spitter: the attack code is generated at runtime, on-demand, in an obfuscated manner, bypassing common antivirus software. If the payload is not hard-coded, the malware can masquerade itself as an innocuous application more easily.Correct me if I'm wrong.
Nah, if you're really hardcore you'll tattoo your messages onto the heads of couriers. If you need to make a secure transmission, you just have to wait for their hair to regrow.
I had long feared that the skilled cryptographer Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography , had been utterly replaced by Bruce Schneier the security consultant who peddles his wares in all of his recent lightweight publications. It's nice to see the cryptographer return.
What else would you expect from an environment where workers are treated as a scarce commodity and there are no real penalties to prevent this sort of behaviour? I'm sure that call centre fellow had waiting job offers as he stepped out his former employer's office. And that's assuming he ended up getting canned. An Indian friend runs a US-based company, and he's told me that he would never outsource his clients' confidential information management to India (or any non-G8 country for that matter) specific
Stories like this are actually interesting and have a math/science side to them, instead of being mindless humor that everyone has already seen elsewhere. This is something that a math teacher could show her students to make them interested, more so than all the silly posters and videos they used when I was going through grade school.
Perhaps you should clarify, for hyperbole's sake, that there is one NSA room in one major hub. It's well-known now, and the government has gotten quite a lot of crap about it.Conspiracy theory is when you extend this, sans evidence, to "they must have one in every major hub".
Speaking of frothing.... This wasn't an "active choice" to free a child molester it was a judge using common sense and realizing that this was a search without a proper warrant and throwing it out just as he would\should if an officer kicked your door down without a proper warrant.Troll indeed!
Yeah, I don't understand either why there has to be a news item on Slashdot every time they release a game. Is there really a consensus about Penny Arcade being so great?
I guess it's a matter of opinion but their famous web comic is so unfunny to me I'm trying hard to imagine someone laughing at it and at what point of the story that could happen.
This is in contrast, for example, with Apple's iPhone which does not have this application sandboxing feature and allows access to all features available to the user when compromised
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So don't get a retarded proprietary music player*. * It's not their fault you don't think before you buy.
Am I the only one that is completely confused?
True story: I previously travelled a lot for business and was always shipping packages via FEDEX. A few times instead of dialing 1800-GO-FEDEX (800-463-3339), I misdialed the last digit and a phone sex line answered. Anyway - once I was on speakerphone at a client site and misdialed, and the clients looked at me with a variety of shock and mirth.
Am I the only one that is completely confused?
Catholicism is a derivative of the Christian faiths
"feeling" what a capacitor does is very dangerous.
Has someone told phelps? Has to be said. :)
Regardless of how extreme some people respond to some parts of anger, this is a pretty positive thing. I'd rather have someone rant about something online than go out and live out the murder they wished upon someone. /stabbity
The point was, it's not much competition if it SUCKS, is it?
Sure, but if your blu-ray player can decode the disc then there must be a fixed key stored in it's memory. It would have to be the same key for all players too. That would mean that one only had to find the key once to be able to play all discs.It would be rather nasty if the players didn't store the keys but downloaded them. It will probably be a long while before consumers are prepared to accept a player that has to have a net connection to work.
I don't think the infamous "isroot = 1" is an example of obfuscated code.It is actually quite straightforward. I didn't RTFA (but again who does? ;-P ), but I guess the "obfuscated" malware is something like a just-in-time code spitter: the attack code is generated at runtime, on-demand, in an obfuscated manner, bypassing common antivirus software. If the payload is not hard-coded, the malware can masquerade itself as an innocuous application more easily.Correct me if I'm wrong.
I had long feared that the skilled cryptographer Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography , had been utterly replaced by Bruce Schneier the security consultant who peddles his wares in all of his recent lightweight publications. It's nice to see the cryptographer return.
Who would you have teaching courses on legal matters if not lawyers?
What else would you expect from an environment where workers are treated as a scarce commodity and there are no real penalties to prevent this sort of behaviour? I'm sure that call centre fellow had waiting job offers as he stepped out his former employer's office. And that's assuming he ended up getting canned. An Indian friend runs a US-based company, and he's told me that he would never outsource his clients' confidential information management to India (or any non-G8 country for that matter) specific
Stories like this are actually interesting and have a math/science side to them, instead of being mindless humor that everyone has already seen elsewhere. This is something that a math teacher could show her students to make them interested, more so than all the silly posters and videos they used when I was going through grade school.
Perhaps you should clarify, for hyperbole's sake, that there is one NSA room in one major hub. It's well-known now, and the government has gotten quite a lot of crap about it.Conspiracy theory is when you extend this, sans evidence, to "they must have one in every major hub".
Am I the only one that is completely confused?
You have to set the bar somewhere, and then stick to it.
Actually it's "Rent Seeking Behavior" and if you are in business chances are you are doing it in some way shape or form.
Yeah, I don't understand either why there has to be a news item on Slashdot every time they release a game. Is there really a consensus about Penny Arcade being so great? I guess it's a matter of opinion but their famous web comic is so unfunny to me I'm trying hard to imagine someone laughing at it and at what point of the story that could happen.
I'm going to shoot the next guy who hates brown http://shedied.deviantart.com/art/Quit-messin-with-the-shirt-101719893 Put that on your desktop!
This is in contrast, for example, with Apple's iPhone which does not have this application sandboxing feature and allows access to all features available to the user when compromised