EM leaks have no real solution at this stage except to shield like crazy. There is potential for some kind of white noise generator but different pieces of electronics would require one tuned to them and the levels required would make a blanket device expensive, or overly large.
Every emitter is also a receiver. Generating white noise sufficient to disrupt eavesdropping could potentially disrupt the device itself. I don't think that's generally a good solution even if it was possible.
Don't forget the roof itself. I don't have aluminum siding, but I do have an aluminum roof. I have to lean against a window to have a mobile phone conversation. I have to leave my phone on a windowsill in order for people to call me. And it doesn't just affect signal propogating in/out of the house. Signals generated within the house (like from a WiFi access point) don't travel very well. I physically wired my home after getting tired of all the dead spots.
I imagine that if I had aluminum siding as well, the place could withstand a nuclear blast.
If the entire Linux technology sphere magically vanished overnight (don't ask me how), would the damage to the economy be in excess of $25 billion? Just because there's no liquidity doesn't mean there's no value.
Cyanide is toxic because it disrupts aerobic respiration. Specifically it inhibits cytochrome C oxidase. I find it highly unlikely that A) primitive life was aerobic (in fact we KNOW it was not, since there was no free oxygen in the first place) and B) even if it was, that it would possess this enzyme. Calling cyanide an "antithesis" of life is a bit overboard.
The same argument goes for formaldehyde. Just because something is toxic to you or me doesn't necessarily mean it would be toxic to some extremely primitive life form. Generally life will make use of what is at hand. For all we know, early life DEPENDED on cyanide.
Russia wants to have complete control over energy in this region, and so they're going to annex parts of Georgia (actually, all of it, if the West doesn't do anything).
Such as what? Go to war with them? No fucking thank you.
Uh, I don't think you get it. We're talking about evil governments here. If you only had "clean" data on your drive, why was it encrypted? That's evidence of guilt in itself (in these people's minds).
A nuclear blast, of any size, is just a small *blip* on the scale of the energy needed to actually dislodge stuff like that. Nuclear weapons only work as atmospheric explosion weapons - they are not "tsunami causing", or "earthquake causing" (much), or "asteroid blasting". Heck, none of these scenarios really work.
Depends how unstable the fault actually is. It could be waiting for a final small push. Even if it didn't trigger a full collapse, it certainly wouldn't IMPROVE the stability of the fault. It would be a risk, because if it didn't work you've just wasted your nuke.
Who decided to base a mile on 5,280 feet, with a foot being twelve inches, I'll never know.
This information is easily found. But consider that 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6 -- that's quite a few factors. And 5280 feet was designed to be approximately equal to 1000 strides of the average person (with a stride being two steps).
I'm not really saying this in defense of the imperial system, just giving facts..
What's really scary about La Palma is that somebody with a hefty nuclear weapon might be able to actually trigger the landslide. If I was a bad guy with a decent sized nuke, I wouldn't waste it trying to sneak it into the US. I'd just blow up the Cubre Vieja fault and let the wave do the work for me. Somebody really should be watching that island.
We tried, we even have the metric conversion act of 1975. There are simply too many people who resist change and can't do the math in their head. I understand the difficulties with Fahrenheit to Celsius, but it isn't hard to multiply a pound by 2.2. You can even round it to 2 if you had to.
I think this misses the point. Don't convert to some other system in order to comprehend. Just develop a native feel for what "1 degree Celcius" actually IS, what a kilogram actually IS. If somebody tells me they weight 72 kilos, I don't convert that to pounds in order to get a feel for what that means. I simply understand what 72 kilograms is.
It's like being fluent in a foreign language. A fluent speaker of French as a second language doesn't translate in their head back and forth with their native language. They just speak the damn language.
Dude got caught. "In custody," I assume that means police custody. Refusing to turn over the password at this point will not gain him anything but an additional charge of extortion. Does he think he could strike a deal to be let go? He's insane.
There was a precedent set, in the '70s or '80s if I remember correctly, that loading a program image into RAM did not constitute a "copy" in the sense of copyright infringement, as this was by definition required for the program to function as intended. Can somebody remind me of the details?
You meet the wrong people, you do the wrong things sometimes. Esp. when you are young and dumb (as I mentioned I was)
I don't think it makes you a demon. Just somebody who clearly didn't care that it was wrong. Saying "I stopped because it was dumb" would have been enough, right?
I'm no "pillar of morality." But yes, if the world really WAS composed of such "pillars" we wouldn't need laws.
I see, so your argument is that if it can't be fixed by the discoverer, they should keep it obscure. That way, there is no incentive for the vendor to solve the problem since they don't even know about it. Thus, leaving the door open for other nasty people to discover it and exploit it with nobody aware it is even possible. Good plan you got there.
If they are so sue happy what is preventing them in suing/. for giving defamatory information or helping in hacking their system and asking for the logs of the users.
I never touched an Amiga. But, I was always jealous of the kids with their IBM PC Jr's who submitted cool graphics programs for 3-2-1 Contact's magazine. There were no graphics primitives in C64 basic.
I remember the typical delay loop in C64 BASIC: FORD=1TO1000:NEXTD The fact that whitespace was optional always made things interesting to decipher.
I'm sure these guys (and gals?) had a ton of fun. I see a lot of comments of the "what a bunch of dorks"-kind. I don't think they're any more dorks than any person who has a hobby and likes to associate and share his experiences and passion with like-minded folks. Don't over think it - it's just socializing and fun, nothing else.
Call me a dork -- I have three C64's, two of which were purchased in the mid 80s. So I was collecting them before it was even cool to do so. They are among some of my most precious possessions -- I dare not even power them up for fear of wear and tear. I reserve that for one of the later models I got on eBay a few years ago.
My life orbits around technology. This is entirely due to Commodore. Yes, those dorky little obsolete boxes are the source of my wealth and happiness. The only thing more precious is my family, and my box of COMPUTE!'s Gazette magazines along with a few issues of 3-2-1 Contact.
Yeah, a stupid computer can tell the difference. That says little about the magnitude of the difference. The Republicans and Democrats differ on mostly meaningless affairs, but spend most of their time working together on bloating the government and bringing the pork home.
One of the more interesting ways of looking at the data is in terms of which issues (i.e., issues on the ballot) resulted in the highest information gain w.r.t. party membership, expressed in bits. This is easily seen by constructing a decision tree with issue outcomes as the internal nodes, and party membership at the leaves. The rootmost branches of such a tree end up containing issues like: abortion legislation, gun control legislation, health care legislation. The "stupid computer" is able to determine rather quickly that the two parties differ most significantly in terms of these specific issues.
Now, you may live in a universe where gun control, abortion, and health care are "meaningless" or peripheral issues but I tend to think of them as pretty damn important.
I think you're missing the point, which is that Powell in some sense falls into both parties and this is WHAT makes him (at least according to this) such a good candidate. I've done my own data mining studies on the US Senate, and the computer was able to easily divide the Senate into two camps. Uninterestingly, it placed almost all the Democrats into one camp, and all the Republicans into the other. So even a stupid computer can tell the difference.
You're taking the one guy who bucks tradition and using it as an example for why the parties are indistinguishable. You have it completely backwards.
(And by the way, the only Senator my data mining system got "wrong" was Hillary Clinton -- she ended up placed with the Republicans.)
Why not ditch the Mini-ITX and use a laptop instead? This is the brain, as well as being a full-fledged console with flip-up display and full integrated keyboard.
The problem in the article was that the cards were easy to defeat because the PIN and card number can easily be captured and reproduced. Thus just account and PIN (i.e. user/pass) are insufficient.
I originally brought up the RSA token, but it now occurs to me that perhaps it would have been overkill at least in THIS scenario. Suppose all PINs are kept in a database. But what is written to the mag-stripe on the card is NOT the PIN, but rather an RSA-signed hash of the PIN. The ATM verifies the signed hash against the PIN you input on the console. Now, even if the PIN database is stolen, the attackers cannot forge the ATM card because that would require them to recreate these signed hashes, which is impossible. The only way to clone the ATM card would be to physically acquire it and copy the data off the mag-stripe. And if you already have the card, what's the point of cloning it?
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EM leaks have no real solution at this stage except to shield like crazy. There is potential for some kind of white noise generator but different pieces of electronics would require one tuned to them and the levels required would make a blanket device expensive, or overly large.
Every emitter is also a receiver. Generating white noise sufficient to disrupt eavesdropping could potentially disrupt the device itself. I don't think that's generally a good solution even if it was possible.
Don't forget the roof itself. I don't have aluminum siding, but I do have an aluminum roof. I have to lean against a window to have a mobile phone conversation. I have to leave my phone on a windowsill in order for people to call me. And it doesn't just affect signal propogating in/out of the house. Signals generated within the house (like from a WiFi access point) don't travel very well. I physically wired my home after getting tired of all the dead spots.
I imagine that if I had aluminum siding as well, the place could withstand a nuclear blast.
If the entire Linux technology sphere magically vanished overnight (don't ask me how), would the damage to the economy be in excess of $25 billion? Just because there's no liquidity doesn't mean there's no value.
Cyanide is toxic because it disrupts aerobic respiration. Specifically it inhibits cytochrome C oxidase. I find it highly unlikely that A) primitive life was aerobic (in fact we KNOW it was not, since there was no free oxygen in the first place) and B) even if it was, that it would possess this enzyme. Calling cyanide an "antithesis" of life is a bit overboard.
The same argument goes for formaldehyde. Just because something is toxic to you or me doesn't necessarily mean it would be toxic to some extremely primitive life form. Generally life will make use of what is at hand. For all we know, early life DEPENDED on cyanide.
Russia wants to have complete control over energy in this region, and so they're going to annex parts of Georgia (actually, all of it, if the West doesn't do anything).
Such as what? Go to war with them? No fucking thank you.
Uh, I don't think you get it. We're talking about evil governments here. If you only had "clean" data on your drive, why was it encrypted? That's evidence of guilt in itself (in these people's minds).
A nuclear blast, of any size, is just a small *blip* on the scale of the energy needed to actually dislodge stuff like that. Nuclear weapons only work as atmospheric explosion weapons - they are not "tsunami causing", or "earthquake causing" (much), or "asteroid blasting". Heck, none of these scenarios really work.
Depends how unstable the fault actually is. It could be waiting for a final small push. Even if it didn't trigger a full collapse, it certainly wouldn't IMPROVE the stability of the fault. It would be a risk, because if it didn't work you've just wasted your nuke.
Who decided to base a mile on 5,280 feet, with a foot being twelve inches, I'll never know.
This information is easily found. But consider that 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6 -- that's quite a few factors. And 5280 feet was designed to be approximately equal to 1000 strides of the average person (with a stride being two steps).
I'm not really saying this in defense of the imperial system, just giving facts..
What's really scary about La Palma is that somebody with a hefty nuclear weapon might be able to actually trigger the landslide. If I was a bad guy with a decent sized nuke, I wouldn't waste it trying to sneak it into the US. I'd just blow up the Cubre Vieja fault and let the wave do the work for me. Somebody really should be watching that island.
We tried, we even have the metric conversion act of 1975. There are simply too many people who resist change and can't do the math in their head. I understand the difficulties with Fahrenheit to Celsius, but it isn't hard to multiply a pound by 2.2. You can even round it to 2 if you had to.
I think this misses the point. Don't convert to some other system in order to comprehend. Just develop a native feel for what "1 degree Celcius" actually IS, what a kilogram actually IS. If somebody tells me they weight 72 kilos, I don't convert that to pounds in order to get a feel for what that means. I simply understand what 72 kilograms is.
It's like being fluent in a foreign language. A fluent speaker of French as a second language doesn't translate in their head back and forth with their native language. They just speak the damn language.
Dude got caught. "In custody," I assume that means police custody. Refusing to turn over the password at this point will not gain him anything but an additional charge of extortion. Does he think he could strike a deal to be let go? He's insane.
There was a precedent set, in the '70s or '80s if I remember correctly, that loading a program image into RAM did not constitute a "copy" in the sense of copyright infringement, as this was by definition required for the program to function as intended. Can somebody remind me of the details?
You meet the wrong people, you do the wrong things sometimes. Esp. when you are young and dumb (as I mentioned I was)
I don't think it makes you a demon. Just somebody who clearly didn't care that it was wrong. Saying "I stopped because it was dumb" would have been enough, right?
I'm no "pillar of morality." But yes, if the world really WAS composed of such "pillars" we wouldn't need laws.
I see, so your argument is that if it can't be fixed by the discoverer, they should keep it obscure. That way, there is no incentive for the vendor to solve the problem since they don't even know about it. Thus, leaving the door open for other nasty people to discover it and exploit it with nobody aware it is even possible. Good plan you got there.
Well I'm happy to know that you only stopped helping criminals because you were too afraid of being caught yourself. Morals? Who needs 'em!
If they are so sue happy what is preventing them in suing /. for giving defamatory information or helping in hacking their system and asking for the logs of the users.
Let them. That's not the AC's problem, is it?
I never touched an Amiga. But, I was always jealous of the kids with their IBM PC Jr's who submitted cool graphics programs for 3-2-1 Contact's magazine. There were no graphics primitives in C64 basic.
I remember the typical delay loop in C64 BASIC: FORD=1TO1000:NEXTD The fact that whitespace was optional always made things interesting to decipher.
I'm sure these guys (and gals?) had a ton of fun. I see a lot of comments of the "what a bunch of dorks"-kind. I don't think they're any more dorks than any person who has a hobby and likes to associate and share his experiences and passion with like-minded folks. Don't over think it - it's just socializing and fun, nothing else.
Call me a dork -- I have three C64's, two of which were purchased in the mid 80s. So I was collecting them before it was even cool to do so. They are among some of my most precious possessions -- I dare not even power them up for fear of wear and tear. I reserve that for one of the later models I got on eBay a few years ago.
My life orbits around technology. This is entirely due to Commodore. Yes, those dorky little obsolete boxes are the source of my wealth and happiness. The only thing more precious is my family, and my box of COMPUTE!'s Gazette magazines along with a few issues of 3-2-1 Contact.
SYS 64738? I'll never.
Yeah, a stupid computer can tell the difference. That says little about the magnitude of the difference. The Republicans and Democrats differ on mostly meaningless affairs, but spend most of their time working together on bloating the government and bringing the pork home.
One of the more interesting ways of looking at the data is in terms of which issues (i.e., issues on the ballot) resulted in the highest information gain w.r.t. party membership, expressed in bits. This is easily seen by constructing a decision tree with issue outcomes as the internal nodes, and party membership at the leaves. The rootmost branches of such a tree end up containing issues like: abortion legislation, gun control legislation, health care legislation. The "stupid computer" is able to determine rather quickly that the two parties differ most significantly in terms of these specific issues.
Now, you may live in a universe where gun control, abortion, and health care are "meaningless" or peripheral issues but I tend to think of them as pretty damn important.
So what happens when the FBI DB gets hacked and some serial killer changes his Eye Scan with mine.
Take person's FBI records, timestamp them, cryptographically sign. Problem solved. Good luck fucking with that even if you have access to it.
I think you're missing the point, which is that Powell in some sense falls into both parties and this is WHAT makes him (at least according to this) such a good candidate. I've done my own data mining studies on the US Senate, and the computer was able to easily divide the Senate into two camps. Uninterestingly, it placed almost all the Democrats into one camp, and all the Republicans into the other. So even a stupid computer can tell the difference.
You're taking the one guy who bucks tradition and using it as an example for why the parties are indistinguishable. You have it completely backwards.
(And by the way, the only Senator my data mining system got "wrong" was Hillary Clinton -- she ended up placed with the Republicans.)
Why not ditch the Mini-ITX and use a laptop instead? This is the brain, as well as being a full-fledged console with flip-up display and full integrated keyboard.
HOLY CRAP; are you some sort of detective?
DUH... That's what my profile says, isn't it?
Ick. In the above post I should have written "account number" everywhere I said PIN. Sorry. Obviously the cards do not have the PIN on them.
The problem in the article was that the cards were easy to defeat because the PIN and card number can easily be captured and reproduced. Thus just account and PIN (i.e. user/pass) are insufficient.
I originally brought up the RSA token, but it now occurs to me that perhaps it would have been overkill at least in THIS scenario. Suppose all PINs are kept in a database. But what is written to the mag-stripe on the card is NOT the PIN, but rather an RSA-signed hash of the PIN. The ATM verifies the signed hash against the PIN you input on the console. Now, even if the PIN database is stolen, the attackers cannot forge the ATM card because that would require them to recreate these signed hashes, which is impossible. The only way to clone the ATM card would be to physically acquire it and copy the data off the mag-stripe. And if you already have the card, what's the point of cloning it?