The strongest security argument you can make against microkernels is that it's a security failure to spend more money protecting an asset than the asset is worth.
This is especially the case if you can make the loss someone elses.
Once NT was faced with competitive challenges and requirements to match earlier windows desktop use cases, the microkernel design fell rapidly to the wayside, with principal OS modules run as additional processes in Ring 0, or completely included as functions of the OS kernel. You saw this in graphics first, I think as early as 3.51, but it MIGHT have been 4.0.
I remember developers loving that the graphics driver could die and *not* take down the system while allowing the user to restart it. But then Microsoft broke it.
I keep my password on a written piece of paper in my wallet. It's 25 digits long, numbers letters symbols. Upon being arrested, I ate said paper.
My password is stored as the last 4 digits from the serial numbers contained on a stack of bills sorted by denomination in an envelope on my desk. Hey, where are the 100s and 50s?
No, I mean warrants and the use of the All Writs Act are done ex parte so nobody has standing to contest them in court. If the subject (not Facebook) wants to contest them, they have to argue that the evidence should be suppressed later and Facebook is not the one being charged so they cannot do that; Facebook is just a third party.
Instead, in order to gain standing to contest the court order, Facebook *must* be found in contempt which means not following it. Apple had to do the same thing.
So the court is going to hold Facebook in contempt, just like the rest of us. The court is also going to throw 'Facebook' in jail ? Which peon is going to take the fall for the corp ? Can't Facebook just claim the its' 4th amendment right are being violated, or go with the ever popular 5th amendment protection because it might be considered a member of a conspiracy after the fact ?
The court holding Facebook in contempt is actually required for Facebook to contest the order. The same thing happened in the Apple case. Without being held in contempt, Facebook has no further standing to challenge the order.
The courts have the authority to compel people to testify and the authority to come into a place of business and gather evidence. I don't think it would be much of a stretch to force a company to allow government employees to alter code. That could happen and it should be something that is argued strenuously in the courts.
This kind of compulsion goes far beyond any reasonable argument. It's one thing to say the government can gather evidence or even take action in a private company. It's a whole different thing to try to compel a private citizen, or company who employs private citizens, to write software that goes against their best interest. It's really just tyranny, and lazy tyranny at that.
I assume the government is arguing that it is covered by the All Writs Act.
Well, in their defense, the way the used to do it was to put a tap on a suspect's phone. According to Wikipedia, wiretapping has been around since the 1890s and was first used by the police in 1925.
So it's not like listening to telephone calls is this brand new thing.
They are still welcome to do that or require Facebook to provide a copy of the data. What they want however is for Facebook to change its system preventing end-to-end encryption.
Why can't they investigate like they used to. Its just to easy for them to sit on their ass and expect others to solve their problems for them. Just like most every one else these days.
Because they want to automate search and seizure. This is just the equivalent of tracking everybody using license place scanner, facial scanning, and cell phone location.
I'm planning on buying a few 2.5" SSDs and enclosures to back up my music and movies for long term archival/storage, since a mechanical HDD isn't the best to stick on a shelf for years at a time in between uses. SSDs aren't perfect, but they have no moving parts and are harder to damage (BluRays and DVDs can get scratched and degrade over time). SSDs should last a long while for a back up medium that's only occasionally written to.
SSDs are not a good choice for archival use because of the low retention time of dense unpowered NAND Flash memory which is only months to years. This might be avoided if they are left powered assuming they do idle time scrubbing but that presents other problems.
Yes alongside the crimes regarding 10gb nics... I'm sorry is 10+ yrs of this technology commonplace in thousands of datacenter systems and massive transistor density increases still not enough for 10gb nics to be the slowest you see... period. Can someone explain to me why the $300 ultra high end cpu's of a few years ago are now 4x+ that price for the same tier? Must be all these improvements in density and reduction in manufacturing cost.
The problem is that 10GBASE-T transceivers draw a lot of power; the requirements for the physical interface are incompatible with processes smaller than 40nm. This is not so much of a problem for desktop NICs but it is a massive problem for switches.
2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T have been developed because this problem has proven to be so intractable.
I still don't see how a ntpd server syncing over WiFi could be more precise than a stratum 0 server syncing with WWV. All you need to do is tell the stratum 0 server how far it is from the tower. Pretty damn accurate IMHO.
From OP:
For most of the WWV reception area, the signal bounce off of the ionosphere causes an uncorrectable doppler shift. It requires days to average this out meaning a local precision oscillator. The phase error is fun to watch on an oscilloscope.
I really do not see how your ntpd server is going to keep "better than a millisecond" precision over WiFi and I ran a few use cases;-)
Network latency has high jitter but less change in path length than WWV. A high precision local oscillator is still required though.
And what is very disturbing to this thread is that we're talking about a dystopian police state and nobody seems to notice, or care. And I'm living in a South American country that seems and feels far more free than the US.
My only advice for you: RISE!
The difference is that in the US, employees of the police state expect the sanction of their victims. Criminals are more honest.
Having lived in California for a long time and made the same observation, he is right. Police will use the stickers as an excuse for reasonable suspicion.
Actually second-amendmenters have it a lot easier dealing with police and similar (at least in the US) since they tend to be a lot more respectful and straightforward about their weapons than others. Also, most of the police/military forces agree with expressing at least your second constitutional right (not so much the first one).
They have it even easier if they pack their laptop into checked baggage which contains a firearm.
So basically, a clamshell iPill... I mean iPad... with two fragile/glass screens. I guess typing on it would be OK with some sort of clear overlay with squishy keys, but I still prefer a real keyboard.
At this rate, they will catch up to the Atari 400.
The USB-C standard is perfectly fine from a charging perspective and implimented 100% consistently on every mobile out there. It gets greyer on Laptops, but this isn't in scope.
Unfortunately it also includes provisions for charger authentication so devices can be tied to specific chargers.
Then we also have the issue of the higher current that is pushed all the time due to higher capacity batteries. Maybe the 5V on the USB isn't enough soon and we'll see higher voltages. 12V next?
That is already part of the USB-C standard. That is how it supports up to about 100 watts.
I so hope the EU will do something about that! Ridiculous nonsense.
The first USB-C controllers advertised in the trade magazines specifically listed charger authentication as a major feature. It was part of the design for USB-C from the start.
What if the government requires the private entity to search the rooms, for "safety?" Are private entities coerced to perform searches by a government entity covered by the 4th Amendment?
Yes, private entities acting on behalf of the government would be covered by the 4th Amendment but there are other ways the private entity could "agree" to do the searches which would avoid implicating the 4th amendment as far as the courts are concerned.
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The strongest security argument you can make against microkernels is that it's a security failure to spend more money protecting an asset than the asset is worth.
This is especially the case if you can make the loss someone elses.
Once NT was faced with competitive challenges and requirements to match earlier windows desktop use cases, the microkernel design fell rapidly to the wayside, with principal OS modules run as additional processes in Ring 0, or completely included as functions of the OS kernel. You saw this in graphics first, I think as early as 3.51, but it MIGHT have been 4.0.
I remember developers loving that the graphics driver could die and *not* take down the system while allowing the user to restart it. But then Microsoft broke it.
I keep my password on a written piece of paper in my wallet. It's 25 digits long, numbers letters symbols. Upon being arrested, I ate said paper.
My password is stored as the last 4 digits from the serial numbers contained on a stack of bills sorted by denomination in an envelope on my desk. Hey, where are the 100s and 50s?
Ten years for forgetting my pin number. I have done that.
They might just as well lock everyone up in advance, just in case.
Well, it *is* an island initially populated by criminals.
No, I mean warrants and the use of the All Writs Act are done ex parte so nobody has standing to contest them in court. If the subject (not Facebook) wants to contest them, they have to argue that the evidence should be suppressed later and Facebook is not the one being charged so they cannot do that; Facebook is just a third party.
Instead, in order to gain standing to contest the court order, Facebook *must* be found in contempt which means not following it. Apple had to do the same thing.
This is a move to show the market than Intel has something new and innovative to offer.
Is that new and innovative market segmentation?
For having an i7 that has 8 cores but not 16 threads? Is the i9 the new i7?
How many cores do you need for facebook, yahoo mail and netflix? /s
An extra core is needed for each application to support the spying software required by the court.
So the court is going to hold Facebook in contempt, just like the rest of us. The court is also going to throw 'Facebook' in jail ? Which peon is going to take the fall for the corp ? Can't Facebook just claim the its' 4th amendment right are being violated, or go with the ever popular 5th amendment protection because it might be considered a member of a conspiracy after the fact ?
The court holding Facebook in contempt is actually required for Facebook to contest the order. The same thing happened in the Apple case. Without being held in contempt, Facebook has no further standing to challenge the order.
The courts have the authority to compel people to testify and the authority to come into a place of business and gather evidence. I don't think it would be much of a stretch to force a company to allow government employees to alter code. That could happen and it should be something that is argued strenuously in the courts.
This kind of compulsion goes far beyond any reasonable argument. It's one thing to say the government can gather evidence or even take action in a private company. It's a whole different thing to try to compel a private citizen, or company who employs private citizens, to write software that goes against their best interest. It's really just tyranny, and lazy tyranny at that.
I assume the government is arguing that it is covered by the All Writs Act.
Well, in their defense, the way the used to do it was to put a tap on a suspect's phone. According to Wikipedia, wiretapping has been around since the 1890s and was first used by the police in 1925.
So it's not like listening to telephone calls is this brand new thing.
They are still welcome to do that or require Facebook to provide a copy of the data. What they want however is for Facebook to change its system preventing end-to-end encryption.
Why can't they investigate like they used to. Its just to easy for them to sit on their ass and expect others to solve their problems for them. Just like most every one else these days.
Because they want to automate search and seizure. This is just the equivalent of tracking everybody using license place scanner, facial scanning, and cell phone location.
I'm planning on buying a few 2.5" SSDs and enclosures to back up my music and movies for long term archival/storage, since a mechanical HDD isn't the best to stick on a shelf for years at a time in between uses. SSDs aren't perfect, but they have no moving parts and are harder to damage (BluRays and DVDs can get scratched and degrade over time). SSDs should last a long while for a back up medium that's only occasionally written to.
SSDs are not a good choice for archival use because of the low retention time of dense unpowered NAND Flash memory which is only months to years. This might be avoided if they are left powered assuming they do idle time scrubbing but that presents other problems.
Yes alongside the crimes regarding 10gb nics... I'm sorry is 10+ yrs of this technology commonplace in thousands of datacenter systems and massive transistor density increases still not enough for 10gb nics to be the slowest you see... period. Can someone explain to me why the $300 ultra high end cpu's of a few years ago are now 4x+ that price for the same tier? Must be all these improvements in density and reduction in manufacturing cost.
The problem is that 10GBASE-T transceivers draw a lot of power; the requirements for the physical interface are incompatible with processes smaller than 40nm. This is not so much of a problem for desktop NICs but it is a massive problem for switches.
2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T have been developed because this problem has proven to be so intractable.
I still don't see how a ntpd server syncing over WiFi could be more precise than a stratum 0 server syncing with WWV. All you need to do is tell the stratum 0 server how far it is from the tower. Pretty damn accurate IMHO.
From OP:
For most of the WWV reception area, the signal bounce off of the ionosphere causes an uncorrectable doppler shift. It requires days to average this out meaning a local precision oscillator. The phase error is fun to watch on an oscilloscope.
I really do not see how your ntpd server is going to keep "better than a millisecond" precision over WiFi and I ran a few use cases ;-)
Network latency has high jitter but less change in path length than WWV. A high precision local oscillator is still required though.
And what is very disturbing to this thread is that we're talking about a dystopian police state and nobody seems to notice, or care. And I'm living in a South American country that seems and feels far more free than the US.
My only advice for you: RISE!
The difference is that in the US, employees of the police state expect the sanction of their victims. Criminals are more honest.
Having lived in California for a long time and made the same observation, he is right. Police will use the stickers as an excuse for reasonable suspicion.
Actually second-amendmenters have it a lot easier dealing with police and similar (at least in the US) since they tend to be a lot more respectful and straightforward about their weapons than others. Also, most of the police/military forces agree with expressing at least your second constitutional right (not so much the first one).
They have it even easier if they pack their laptop into checked baggage which contains a firearm.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/...
So basically, a clamshell iPill ... I mean iPad ... with two fragile/glass screens. I guess typing on it would be OK with some sort of clear overlay with squishy keys, but I still prefer a real keyboard.
At this rate, they will catch up to the Atari 400.
The USB-C standard is perfectly fine from a charging perspective and implimented 100% consistently on every mobile out there. It gets greyer on Laptops, but this isn't in scope.
Unfortunately it also includes provisions for charger authentication so devices can be tied to specific chargers.
Then we also have the issue of the higher current that is pushed all the time due to higher capacity batteries. Maybe the 5V on the USB isn't enough soon and we'll see higher voltages. 12V next?
That is already part of the USB-C standard. That is how it supports up to about 100 watts.
apple will lock out non apple USB-C changes
I so hope the EU will do something about that! Ridiculous nonsense.
The first USB-C controllers advertised in the trade magazines specifically listed charger authentication as a major feature. It was part of the design for USB-C from the start.
What if the government requires the private entity to search the rooms, for "safety?" Are private entities coerced to perform searches by a government entity covered by the 4th Amendment?
Yes, private entities acting on behalf of the government would be covered by the 4th Amendment but there are other ways the private entity could "agree" to do the searches which would avoid implicating the 4th amendment as far as the courts are concerned.
http://le.alcoda.org/publicati...
riiiight, last I checked the USA government wanted a backdoor in everything because citizens are to be treated like criminals by default.
Citizens are criminals which have not been arrested, charged, or convicted yet.
(and what sort of country still uses imperial units in the 21st century?)
One whose citizens no longer count on their fingers.
Because the copy is encrypted? That was sort of the whole point.
If Dropbox is seeing anything except unencrypted data especially if they do the encryption, then it is not encrypted.
Granting access to unencrypted data to any Cloud service for encryption is a contradiction.