I doubt it, "Oh dear crypto's illegal we'd better stop using it for planning all our illegal activities":-)
I guess it will enable the law enforcement agencies to spot the supposed 'bad guys' easier, ie guilt by association. "You're using crypto so you must have something to hide"
E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be
secure or error-free as information could be
intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive
late or incomplete, or contain viruses
Even worse than M$ saying that outlooks sending of worms is a positive feature...
:-)
First, Sprint Broadband Direct can only be received on an exclusive microwave frequency band, which is under Sprint's sole control. The band is not shared with any other service. Additionally, our modems change frequencies on a per transmission basis, making reception of a specific traffic stream very difficult.
Second, a Sprint Broadband Direct customer must have our unique digital transceiver equipment (not available to the general public) in order to receive information from our wireless signals.
The third and complementing factor is that Sprint Broadband Direct uses a broadband modem that employs a "routed architecture", meaning that the modem will only deliver data packets that are specifically addressed to it. Many other cable-type
modems employ a "bridged architecture", and will pass and accept all packets. Our high quality modem products have a security advantage as a result of having routers built into them.
Basically - its all our stuff and can't be packet sniffed. Yeah right. Anyway, more reason to implement PGP (or similar) to at least sign email and always make sure usernames/passwords etc are going encrypted ie don't use telnet use ssh etc.
well looks a bit like the BSD style licence then. From whatI remember the BSD licence says that you make change you give to the copyright holder (whether not you deploy it AFAIK)
now if only the individual countries competition commisions could get together rather than doing this unilaterally there would be some real power do actaully chnage all this zone stuff.
About 12 years ago the UK gvmt got a new 'office' system (you know, email, word proc, spreadsheet etc) that could cope with security classifacitions of individuals etc. So some one with 'secret' access could get to stuff classified as 'top secret', but could get to 'unclassifed' and so on.
This system is called CHOTS.
The idea was to log ALL access and keep the records for 25 years, just like paper access records for the paper versions of the documents.
Now some clever chap did some maths and found out that even using the best storage technology of the time they'd need a warehouse the size of the Isle of Wight (ie about 147 square miles or 38,000 hectares).
I wonder how much storage room they'll need to this exercise, esp given the growth rate of every sort of communication system?
Well looks like Bruce Schneier's latest book is still correct.
The cryto guys do security based on trust and come with the X.509 certs etc.
The traditional comp sec guys always use risk assessment to implement security policies. IE the trust no-one, but look at mittigating risks of trusting some(one/thing).
Thats why X.509 never took off, trust is not a good thing in comp sec - just look at the M$ security model which is based on trust and regularly show 'issues'.
SCO has had this facility for well over 10 years which is when I last played with it.
It was very useful for solving issues with the 16MB to 16MB+8K area which many pre-pentium PCs used for special BIOS memory mapping stuff. It also helped out with being able to stop SCO Unix using the area of RAM that BOIS copied itself and Video RAM to before the BIOS become intelligent about his.
Every piece I've ever seen on DSL and cable modems always recommends very highly that you install either a personal or true firewall.
This spreading of un-FUD is purely the marketing droids trying to get as many people as possible on this new service. But not letting people aware of the risk is IMHO highly unresponsible.
If they tied up with Norton and their personal firewall software for Windoze they'd do something. Maybe they could subsidise the software or even up the price a bit to encourage responsible use of the broadband access. While this doesn't help the Apple or *nix user but an old 486 only costs a little which would be fine for a firewall.
I guess they are trying to down play the risks, but have too far in doing so. Its very fine balance they have to tread but I'd say they are on thin legal ice on this when your machine gets used in a DDOS attack...
OK Ok so I'm not the worlds best expert on this. I'm not spreading FUD, just thinking about possbile risks in all this.
OK so viral infections can be bad, but so can bacterial infections.
All we need is some bacteria to be revived from this that we humans have no defence against (our immune system or chemically aided) and 'pop' out goes the light on homo sapiends.
OK so this is worst case senario, but it _could_ happen which is why we should be thinking and evaluationg the risks so this sort of activity.
It would be nice to see the same thing for GSM (for those of us in Europe/Oceana). Also comparing the settings for the phones and low power transmit and hi power transmit. As GSM signals are transmitted from the phone in relation to their distance from the base station (ie it only transmits the amount of power its needs to).
Hence GSM gets around EU restrictions radiation levels as on full output GSM goes way over the highest allowable wattage that anyone should be near, but GSM hardly every transmits at these levels so they let it through.
Also some projections for the new 3G stuff would be nice as well.
I can take Rh's view that they helped to popularise and bring open source into the wider world, but not invented it.
I think the marketing droids at RH are getting above themselves, and letting out such ill-informed tosh doesn't help them at all. In fact is gives more fuel to the RH is the M$ of Linux brigade.
Come on guys, if your heads get any bigger that Hat will no fit...
There's other areas that are just as specific.
Heck financial law and bearking it is a complete nightmare to follow. There have been many many tax cases in the UK that have literally cost millions and resulted in no-conviction because the details are so complex and proofing wrong doing is almost impossible.
If they are going to go for tech courts then do the job properly and have others for medical, financial and other areas.
Maybe if they'd more mention of the nice cheap developer licence they wouldn't have got the 'hackers' playing quite so much.
But then if they'd have 'mentioned' the license when requesting the removal of code from websites people would have responded better. (or did I miss something in all this) - were they polite or just use strong arm tactics...alot can be mis-contrued from how you do things
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then its secure - yeah I know troll, but 10p says
there will be many such comments.
Technology ain't the problem, its the people...ooo it's windows, pointy clicky don't need an experienced sys-admin to look after it.
:-)
I doubt it, "Oh dear crypto's illegal we'd better stop using it for planning all our illegal activities" :-)
I guess it will enable the law enforcement agencies to spot the supposed 'bad guys' easier, ie guilt by association. "You're using crypto so you must have something to hide"
E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses
:-)
Even worse than M$ saying that outlooks sending of worms is a positive feature...
First, Sprint Broadband Direct can only be received on an exclusive microwave frequency band, which is under Sprint's sole control. The band is not shared with any other service. Additionally, our modems change frequencies on a per transmission basis, making reception of a specific traffic stream very difficult.
Second, a Sprint Broadband Direct customer must have our unique digital transceiver equipment (not available to the general public) in order to receive information from our wireless signals.
The third and complementing factor is that Sprint Broadband Direct uses a broadband modem that employs a "routed architecture", meaning that the modem will only deliver data packets that are specifically addressed to it. Many other cable-type modems employ a "bridged architecture", and will pass and accept all packets. Our high quality modem products have a security advantage as a result of having routers built into them.
Basically - its all our stuff and can't be packet sniffed. Yeah right. Anyway, more reason to implement PGP (or similar) to at least sign email and always make sure usernames/passwords etc are going encrypted ie don't use telnet use ssh etc.
seems the 'private' segment uses the 192.x.x.x networks range.
I thought only 192.168.x.x was non route-able. For a full class A 10.x.x.x is the choice...
maybe I'm wrong?
well looks a bit like the BSD style licence then. From whatI remember the BSD licence says that you make change you give to the copyright holder (whether not you deploy it AFAIK)
if one whether on of the two computer is married :-)
hmm maybe UI should read more than the headline
now if only the individual countries competition commisions could get together rather than doing this unilaterally there would be some real power do actaully chnage all this zone stuff.
About 12 years ago the UK gvmt got a new 'office' system (you know, email, word proc, spreadsheet etc) that could cope with security classifacitions of individuals etc. So some one with 'secret' access could get to stuff classified as 'top secret', but could get to 'unclassifed' and so on.
This system is called CHOTS.
The idea was to log ALL access and keep the records for 25 years, just like paper access records for the paper versions of the documents.
Now some clever chap did some maths and found out that even using the best storage technology of the time they'd need a warehouse the size of the Isle of Wight (ie about 147 square miles or 38,000 hectares).
I wonder how much storage room they'll need to this exercise, esp given the growth rate of every sort of communication system?
This ain't your problem. Its the co's purchasing managers to sort this out.
Get them to sort the phone out for you. Then of you make any personal calls own up to them...
Anyway if the US is anything like the UK this whole things changes on a weekly basis as the different firms fight it out.
Well looks like Bruce Schneier's latest book is still correct.
The cryto guys do security based on trust and come with the X.509 certs etc.
The traditional comp sec guys always use risk assessment to implement security policies. IE the trust no-one, but look at mittigating risks of trusting some(one/thing).
Thats why X.509 never took off, trust is not a good thing in comp sec - just look at the M$ security model which is based on trust and regularly show 'issues'.
M$ will now overhaul their security architecture (yeah I know alot of poeple think don't have one).
It will also make many of their customers think carefully about implementing a proper security policy as well.
IMHO this will be a good thing for the world as M$ will finally have to do something more than just issue patches...
SCO has had this facility for well over 10 years which is when I last played with it.
It was very useful for solving issues with the 16MB to 16MB+8K area which many pre-pentium PCs used for special BIOS memory mapping stuff. It also helped out with being able to stop SCO Unix using the area of RAM that BOIS copied itself and Video RAM to before the BIOS become intelligent about his.
Every piece I've ever seen on DSL and cable modems always recommends very highly that you install either a personal or true firewall.
This spreading of un-FUD is purely the marketing droids trying to get as many people as possible on this new service. But not letting people aware of the risk is IMHO highly unresponsible.
If they tied up with Norton and their personal firewall software for Windoze they'd do something. Maybe they could subsidise the software or even up the price a bit to encourage responsible use of the broadband access. While this doesn't help the Apple or *nix user but an old 486 only costs a little which would be fine for a firewall.
I guess they are trying to down play the risks, but have too far in doing so. Its very fine balance they have to tread but I'd say they are on thin legal ice on this when your machine gets used in a DDOS attack...
OK Ok so I'm not the worlds best expert on this. I'm not spreading FUD, just thinking about possbile risks in all this.
OK so viral infections can be bad, but so can bacterial infections.
All we need is some bacteria to be revived from this that we humans have no defence against (our immune system or chemically aided) and 'pop' out goes the light on homo sapiends.
OK so this is worst case senario, but it _could_ happen which is why we should be thinking and evaluationg the risks so this sort of activity.
It would be nice to see the same thing for GSM (for those of us in Europe/Oceana). Also comparing the settings for the phones and low power transmit and hi power transmit. As GSM signals are transmitted from the phone in relation to their distance from the base station (ie it only transmits the amount of power its needs to).
Hence GSM gets around EU restrictions radiation levels as on full output GSM goes way over the highest allowable wattage that anyone should be near, but GSM hardly every transmits at these levels so they let it through.
Also some projections for the new 3G stuff would be nice as well.
I can take Rh's view that they helped to popularise and bring open source into the wider world, but not invented it.
I think the marketing droids at RH are getting above themselves, and letting out such ill-informed tosh doesn't help them at all. In fact is gives more fuel to the RH is the M$ of Linux brigade.
Come on guys, if your heads get any bigger that Hat will no fit...
and when they do you replace them, get the backups out and but the data back on.
the HD ID is not friendly to this, nor using RAID arrays/network mounted filesystems to give greater speed/reliability etc.
Can't see it working except in the home environment and even then it may have problems.
at http://www.indetech.com/a log.class/news/20000407-INN-NEWCHAIR-IBO T.html
and http://www.accesslife.com/scripts/saisapi.dll/cat
amongst other places
There's other areas that are just as specific.
Heck financial law and bearking it is a complete nightmare to follow. There have been many many tax cases in the UK that have literally cost millions and resulted in no-conviction because the details are so complex and proofing wrong doing is almost impossible.
If they are going to go for tech courts then do the job properly and have others for medical, financial and other areas.
Maybe if they'd more mention of the nice cheap developer licence they wouldn't have got the 'hackers' playing quite so much.
But then if they'd have 'mentioned' the license when requesting the removal of code from websites people would have responded better. (or did I miss something in all this) - were they polite or just use strong arm tactics...alot can be mis-contrued from how you do things
but not yet granted.
hopefully the USPO will see prior art all over this and not grant them
yes I have looked at WAP - then ran way 'cos it suxs.
...
It's still an entension of the functionality which is what I was trying to point out. OOO loook new features, but you need a new phone
everyone upgrades...
1st its GSM
then WAP, now GPRS and in a couple of years UMTS.
Of course you have buy a complete new phone, can't upgrade the old one.
Thats why the phone co.s are pushing to get 3G out there (and wap/imode/gprs in the interim) so they can keep on churning out phones.
develop a lighter heatsink
or...
by then time the p6 comes out the major weight of the system will be the 20lb cooling system required.
This is just stupid - how much power is this thing pulling? and I thought the 400mhz UltraSparcII's had head problems - yeesh!