Is there such thing as 'open' encryption? That's just a waste of clock cycles. You might as well have a straight pass-through if everyone knows what it's doing anyway..
(New York, New York-AP) The World Wide Web ('Web') today returned to its roots as a text-only medium after Intel's new Display Encryption took effect. Millions of websites were unable to display screen shots of their new products, as well as Open Source projects attempting to garner support for their programs.
Surprisingly, there was minimal backlash. The first hot spot was from QoS bandwidth ISP providers who suddenly discovered that all high-price accounts were cancelled in favor of 56k modem access again. The other was from within the Billion dollar WWW Sex industry, many of whom were busy running their collections through jpg->ascii converters.
"This is tight, dude!" a 3 year veteran of AOL from Manhatten exclaimed. "Now all my websites load several times quicker!"
Not everyone is pleased, however.
Microsoft, new champion for the working people, has promised to add Encrypted Screen Shot decryption to their new version of Internet Explorer 2000. They're currently evaluating Open Source licenses for the add-on. Taking a page from Sun's License, the M$PL basically states that anyone on a Windows 2000 machine running Internet Explorer 2000 is able to use the code. They feel the code is safe as it is actually source code for the MS Back Orifice II program, but when run through a proprietary Windows 2000-only converter, will suddenly decrypt screen shots.
The Internet is becoming commercialized to the point where security break-ins aren't just about replacing someone's homepage, it's costing companies real money due to their e-commerce portals being down. Where should the protection start? Are changes needed to the servers, the various routers, or the Internet Protocol itself? Based on the fact that the Internet *probably* isn't going to go anywhere for a while, what is the best long-term solution, and not some quick kluge?
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Is there such thing as 'open' encryption? That's just a waste of clock cycles. You might as well have a straight pass-through if everyone knows what it's doing anyway..
(New York, New York-AP) The World Wide Web ('Web') today returned to its roots as a text-only medium after Intel's new Display Encryption took effect. Millions of websites were unable to display screen shots of their new products, as well as Open Source projects attempting to garner support for their programs.
Surprisingly, there was minimal backlash. The first hot spot was from QoS bandwidth ISP providers who suddenly discovered that all high-price accounts were cancelled in favor of 56k modem access again. The other was from within the Billion dollar WWW Sex industry, many of whom were busy running their collections through jpg->ascii converters.
"This is tight, dude!" a 3 year veteran of AOL from Manhatten exclaimed. "Now all my websites load several times quicker!"
Not everyone is pleased, however.
Microsoft, new champion for the working people, has promised to add Encrypted Screen Shot decryption to their new version of Internet Explorer 2000. They're currently evaluating Open Source licenses for the add-on. Taking a page from Sun's License, the M$PL basically states that anyone on a Windows 2000 machine running Internet Explorer 2000 is able to use the code. They feel the code is safe as it is actually source code for the MS Back Orifice II program, but when run through a proprietary Windows 2000-only converter, will suddenly decrypt screen shots.
The Internet is becoming commercialized to the point where security break-ins aren't just about replacing someone's homepage, it's costing companies real money due to their e-commerce portals being down. Where should the protection start? Are changes needed to the servers, the various routers, or the Internet Protocol itself? Based on the fact that the Internet *probably* isn't going to go anywhere for a while, what is the best long-term solution, and not some quick kluge?