I don't know why so many people - Republicans and Democrats and Independents - want the government to do more and spend more for us.
I'd like for someone to do more for us, but I can't seem to get Google (or Apple, or Lenovo, or...) to give a shit about what I want. Since I'd rather have something done than nothing, the government - sucky as it is - is the remaining option, with the all the delightful garbage that accompanies.
One of the local stations used to play Grateful Dead concert bootlegs, uninterrupted late at night, once a week. They'd warn you that you were about to hear the concert from X date, and you were going to need a tape of X length to capture it at the beginning.
They are not a commercial radio station.
You wanna make money, amuse the fools with light content and mix in lots of advertisements that pay the bills. You want art, you have quarterly begathons where you appeal to the listeners that "we don't make you listen to commercials, please give us money so we can keep sharing this relevant art with you."
There's a lot more fools and advertisers trying to reach those fools than there are connoisseurs who can underwrite radio stations. There are a lot more radio stations attempting to serve the former audience than the latter.
You could merge your PF music files together, so they play as intended, and possibly make edited versions of those few songs you want "in the mix" with more radio-ish fade-outs.
Somehow, I don't think they'd have such a problem if the entire album was offered as a single file (or possibly two, for the A/B sides), rather than discrete tracks.
Makes perfect sense. Name-based host sharing; there's a webserver tied to the IP address that hands back different websites depending on what name you use to get there.
If the name you use is an IP address, expect a boring default site.
It is the internet. Still, showing them that there's someone watching and encouraging them to move along isn't a terrible idea. (I'd love to hear the counterpoint - 'yes! let them try to break into my system.' - what's your reasoning? How could that possibly be a good thing?)
If you stop letting them try to break in, their 200,000 years takes a lot longer.
Right... If someone was standing at the door of your house for a year, trying to pick the lock, you'd just let them keep trying until they opened it? I mean, it's not like they're getting in, right?
Once upon a time, we thought computers with 640k of RAM were huge. Now, you can buy a machine with 128gigabytes or RAM and 24 processor cores for about the same price as a small car. My first hard drive was 10 megabytes - I've now got a USB drive the size of my thumbnail that holds 4gigs, and that's old. Lots of numbers that used to seem huge now seem trivial. I have to believe we're going to see the same scale of changes in crypto, within my lifetime.
I've seen some technological evolution over the years. I don't want to be on the receiving end of a nasty surprise in a few years because I guessed wrong.
Fearmongering? Maybe. It's only paranoia if they aren't actually out to get you. If they actually are out to get you, it's called caution.
Not trolling, actually. Possibly naive. Probably paranoid.
You don't get to maintain control of all copies of the codetext (if you did, why bother encrypting?). The goal of encryption is to protect against future interception. Since we don't get to just move the documents into a newer, stronger, safer enclosure, we need to make sure that the enclosure we put them in is strong enough up front.
Most people don't care about website authentication (beyond "address bar is green"), and since the CA's that people pay to get their certificates charge more for longer certificates, most people don't pay the premium price. They buy "good enough", and lean toward the cheaper side.
We're talking about protecting a data store (of goodness knows what - possibly incriminating evidence, possibly highly valuable trade secrets) against unintended future retrieval; I don't think that 4096 is long enough for that, in two years. 2048 is plenty long in a revocable key arrangement for authentication purposes, today.
We're gambling on where the state of the art with brute forcing hardware will be tomorrow, and that gets moved dramatically as smart crypto types figure out elegant attacks.
Now, if I had just said "Let's use Dual_EC_DRBG! It's totally safe!" that'd be either funny or troll.
No, I'm not confusing symmetric with asymmetric. Really. You can all buy me a subscription to apologize when it turns out that 16384 bit RSA is cracked in 2015.
Our definitions of "good enough" may differ somewhat.
"Adequate" is a moving target. To hit a moving target, you aim for where the target will be, not where it is now.
Processors are getting cheaper, thousand node botnets aren't unheard of. That's today. My guts are telling me we hear about some brilliant new attack on RSA or similar algorithm every 8 months, which cuts the time to solve by 90%.
Back in the olden days, people thought that 56bit DES was hot stuff (they were wrong). Processors are now measured in Gigahertz instead of Megahertz - 3 orders of magnitude. Multiply that by the number of cores - 4 in a desktop is pretty common, 12 in a server isn't ridiculous - and that server, which would have classed as a "supercomputer" 15 years ago is now only $5000 - there's a lot of horsepower. Now we're thinking that 2 more orders of magnitude on the keylength is going to save us? (see below)
Who knows what tomorrow will bring?
(the below part: I know that key complexity isn't linear. I also know that brute force attacks aren't getting more expensive, and that the only defense is to make recovery prohibitively expensive for an attacker - that the data they get won't be useful after the time they spent getting it. I also feel just a bit justified for saying 16kbit - since our friends linked in TFS are saying 15kbit.)
TLDR: Ridiculously longer keys are probably smart.
... until there's a 640kbit key. 640k ought to be enough for anybody.
But seriously, it was just a few years back when we though 128bit keys were unbreakably long. Now 2048bit is standard, and about to get broken. 4096bit isn't enough right now. 16kbit is just about right, but that will get broken in early 2015.
Measure how much RF is blasting through there. A field strength meter or possibly a spectrum analyzer will be very helpful with this pursuit.
Don't trust the MPE guidelines (if you did, you need to base it off the "uncontrolled exposure" side, only far more conservative), because they want you to die a gruesome painful death.
Measure first, build your Farraday cage, measure again, improve your Farraday cage... ad nauseum.
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I don't know why so many people - Republicans and Democrats and Independents - want the government to do more and spend more for us.
I'd like for someone to do more for us, but I can't seem to get Google (or Apple, or Lenovo, or...) to give a shit about what I want. Since I'd rather have something done than nothing, the government - sucky as it is - is the remaining option, with the all the delightful garbage that accompanies.
Interesting... timeframe? I thought that "artsy on commercial stations" pretty much stopped by the mid 1980's.
One of the local stations used to play Grateful Dead concert bootlegs, uninterrupted late at night, once a week. They'd warn you that you were about to hear the concert from X date, and you were going to need a tape of X length to capture it at the beginning.
They are not a commercial radio station.
You wanna make money, amuse the fools with light content and mix in lots of advertisements that pay the bills. You want art, you have quarterly begathons where you appeal to the listeners that "we don't make you listen to commercials, please give us money so we can keep sharing this relevant art with you."
There's a lot more fools and advertisers trying to reach those fools than there are connoisseurs who can underwrite radio stations. There are a lot more radio stations attempting to serve the former audience than the latter.
You could merge your PF music files together, so they play as intended, and possibly make edited versions of those few songs you want "in the mix" with more radio-ish fade-outs.
Somehow, I don't think they'd have such a problem if the entire album was offered as a single file (or possibly two, for the A/B sides), rather than discrete tracks.
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Let's hope they get permanently blocked by their ISP (and others) for three strikes.
I heard a rumor that he's been carefully studying John DeLorean's autobiography.
Assets make money. Liabilities cost money.
Unless he's reselling the cocaine for profit, it's a liability.
Makes perfect sense. Name-based host sharing; there's a webserver tied to the IP address that hands back different websites depending on what name you use to get there.
If the name you use is an IP address, expect a boring default site.
The more you know...
The best part was doing DNS reverse lookups of domain names
Isn't that a forward lookup?
Reverse DNS Lookup should turn a number into a name. A lookup turns a name into a number.
(Yes, there's always one in the group. I'm usually him.)
It is the internet. Still, showing them that there's someone watching and encouraging them to move along isn't a terrible idea. (I'd love to hear the counterpoint - 'yes! let them try to break into my system.' - what's your reasoning? How could that possibly be a good thing?)
If you stop letting them try to break in, their 200,000 years takes a lot longer.
Right... If someone was standing at the door of your house for a year, trying to pick the lock, you'd just let them keep trying until they opened it? I mean, it's not like they're getting in, right?
AC knows his stuff. Pay attention. (I have no mod points today. :( )
+1 on renting an expert and equipment to help assure the event is a success, and not a headache because nobody can get online.
No worries. Paranoid people like me don't do online backups anyway.
The paper key is fascinating and all, and probably a good idea. Carry on. (I may start backing up my (longer) keys that way, in fact.)
I'll admit I'm probably out of touch with the current state of crypto.
I remember a time when DES (56 bit symmetrical) was revered as high security. Then, a few years later, a test showed it was cracked in 56 days. Then, a year later, it was 2.4 days. Then, a few years later, it was under 1 day.
Once upon a time, we thought computers with 640k of RAM were huge. Now, you can buy a machine with 128gigabytes or RAM and 24 processor cores for about the same price as a small car. My first hard drive was 10 megabytes - I've now got a USB drive the size of my thumbnail that holds 4gigs, and that's old. Lots of numbers that used to seem huge now seem trivial. I have to believe we're going to see the same scale of changes in crypto, within my lifetime.
I've seen some technological evolution over the years. I don't want to be on the receiving end of a nasty surprise in a few years because I guessed wrong.
Fearmongering? Maybe. It's only paranoia if they aren't actually out to get you. If they actually are out to get you, it's called caution.
Not trolling, actually. Possibly naive. Probably paranoid.
You don't get to maintain control of all copies of the codetext (if you did, why bother encrypting?). The goal of encryption is to protect against future interception. Since we don't get to just move the documents into a newer, stronger, safer enclosure, we need to make sure that the enclosure we put them in is strong enough up front.
Most people don't care about website authentication (beyond "address bar is green"), and since the CA's that people pay to get their certificates charge more for longer certificates, most people don't pay the premium price. They buy "good enough", and lean toward the cheaper side.
We're talking about protecting a data store (of goodness knows what - possibly incriminating evidence, possibly highly valuable trade secrets) against unintended future retrieval; I don't think that 4096 is long enough for that, in two years. 2048 is plenty long in a revocable key arrangement for authentication purposes, today.
We're gambling on where the state of the art with brute forcing hardware will be tomorrow, and that gets moved dramatically as smart crypto types figure out elegant attacks.
Now, if I had just said "Let's use Dual_EC_DRBG! It's totally safe!" that'd be either funny or troll.
No, I'm not confusing symmetric with asymmetric. Really. You can all buy me a subscription to apologize when it turns out that 16384 bit RSA is cracked in 2015.
Our definitions of "good enough" may differ somewhat.
"Adequate" is a moving target. To hit a moving target, you aim for where the target will be, not where it is now.
Processors are getting cheaper, thousand node botnets aren't unheard of. That's today. My guts are telling me we hear about some brilliant new attack on RSA or similar algorithm every 8 months, which cuts the time to solve by 90%.
Back in the olden days, people thought that 56bit DES was hot stuff (they were wrong). Processors are now measured in Gigahertz instead of Megahertz - 3 orders of magnitude. Multiply that by the number of cores - 4 in a desktop is pretty common, 12 in a server isn't ridiculous - and that server, which would have classed as a "supercomputer" 15 years ago is now only $5000 - there's a lot of horsepower. Now we're thinking that 2 more orders of magnitude on the keylength is going to save us? (see below)
Who knows what tomorrow will bring?
(the below part: I know that key complexity isn't linear. I also know that brute force attacks aren't getting more expensive, and that the only defense is to make recovery prohibitively expensive for an attacker - that the data they get won't be useful after the time they spent getting it. I also feel just a bit justified for saying 16kbit - since our friends linked in TFS are saying 15kbit.)
TLDR: Ridiculously longer keys are probably smart.
... until there's a 640kbit key. 640k ought to be enough for anybody.
But seriously, it was just a few years back when we though 128bit keys were unbreakably long. Now 2048bit is standard, and about to get broken. 4096bit isn't enough right now. 16kbit is just about right, but that will get broken in early 2015.
That could never amount to anything significant!
Great advice, but for my family's safety, I'd want a professional survey and a report with a PE signature on it, not an amateur survey.
There's plenty of reason to wear Tyvek jumpsuits. They're comfortable, stylish, and company provided. It's like a trifecta!
Chicken wire is too coarse for microwave.
People who build these things use much finer mesh; take a look.
Obviously, you're concerned.
Measure how much RF is blasting through there. A field strength meter or possibly a spectrum analyzer will be very helpful with this pursuit.
Don't trust the MPE guidelines (if you did, you need to base it off the "uncontrolled exposure" side, only far more conservative), because they want you to die a gruesome painful death.
Measure first, build your Farraday cage, measure again, improve your Farraday cage... ad nauseum.
Thank goodness I'm on Token Ring.
According to legend, God showed the Irish how to make whisky, so that they wouldn't take over the world.
Too many exports from Bushmill's, Jameson, Tullamore, Michael Collins, Clontarf...?
(More power to 'em and all, just trying to better understand the cause.)