What the fuck? A government checking the code it runs on computers with sensitive data is "national socialist"? You think the United States government doesn't do this on CIA and DOD computers? Or are you a nut against building roads?
We're talking about doing this only for government computers used for sensitive government data.
It was the fire department from the next town over, where the people are smart enough to pay for a fire department. I bet that guy spent plenty of time going on about the stupid democrats in the next town over who pay higher taxes so they have a fire department. Well I guess he found out the hard way why they don't mind their taxes paying for a fire department in that town. Why should the good people of the next town over pay for nearby towns who aren't willing to set up their own fire departments, volunteer or otherwise?
If you have record of it, the question is moot. The government has every right to issue a warrant to confiscate every physical object from you think is evidence (like your written copy of the encryption key). What they can't do is try to force you reveal the contents of your mind against your will. Where you hid the written copy of the encryption key is also protected by the 5th, so the government will have to find it without your help.
It's about how the state would force you to give up the information not whether the state has a right to that information. Breaking down your door isn't a big deal, however torturing someone to force them to revile a password is. The state is forbidden from trying to force a suspect to reveal the contents of their mind, because of how the state would have to force information from a person, not because of whether or not the state should be able to use that information.
The 5th amendment protects the contents of the mind for a reason. The real purpose of the 5th amendment has nothing to do with the right of a suspect not to harm his or her self; the purpose of the 5th amendment is to act as a prohibition against torture. The fifth amendment is really about the right of a suspect not to be harmed by the state in an attempt by the state to extract information from the suspect against their will. Waterboarding and imprisonment for a long periods of time without due process of law are exactly the types of things the 5th amendment is meant to prevent, so by the spirit of the law, passwords should be protected.
What the fuck is with no web GUI like every other router on the planet? Forcing you to install unsupported apple crap to administrator the damn thing on Windows, which is nearly impossible to administer from Linux. Such a damn pain.
Between VPNs and the number of employees who take laptops home, but don't have access to sensitive data because they don't work on anything sensitive, I'm willing to bet 70% of corporate laptops don't have sensitive data on their hard drive, and the 3% don't have competent IT departments. Not every corporate laptop needs to be encrypted.
They aught to be using more than one factor of authentication if they expect their system to be secure. Facial recognition (by a human guard) and the card, passcode and the card, or some other factor to prevent a stolen or forged card from being a security risk.
I would kill for more Deep Space Nine. Yeah, I know, the books. The Dominion War in DS9 was the true hayday for Star Trek and science fiction. It was all downhill after that.
That's another issue. Considering that issue what the article is about is completely pointless to discuss. Yeah, you can do that, so who cares if you can remove someone's finger prints and surgically implant them onto someone else, when you can just spoof the finger print reader?
Most people try to crack WiFi because they don't have internet, in which case it would impossible to access a cluster. It would be cool if it got you internet anywhere there was wifi, but it won't work, because you can't log into the cluster without internet anyway, so what's the point? Besides stealing data of course.
This is only a security threat if someone removes my finger and graft's it to someone else's hand so they can get my data. So my data is only as secure as the skin on my finger. I'm so scared. The likelihood of someone stealing my finger to get data is really high. Worse, they'll steal my eyeball to fake an iris scan. Maybe soon they'll just steal my brain and remove the passwords I have memorized. I'm sure in all those scenarios what I'll be thinking is "OMG, My Data!"
I didn't think cell phones were powerful enough to run VMs, or even full operating systems. That's what laptops are for. No, I don't want my cell phone to replace my laptop. Random shit I might need to do without my laptop, like check the weather, my email, or even read the paper, is nice on cell phone. Virtualization? What the fuck? You know they made this great invention - a full fledged computer you can fit in your backpack, it only weighs about 5 pounds, and does everything your desktop does, it's called a laptop, you can even install a SIP client on it and make phone calls.
I don't accept cookies I don't know I want, and I don't run scripts I don't know I need to run. It's not that big of a hassle. Firefox's addons, cookiesafe (let's you decide what cookies you accept), noscript (we all should know about that), and BetterPrivacy (blocks lso cookies), will protect your privacy, and your computer from exploits. I'm all for surfing the web default-deny. There is no reason every website I visit should be able to run whatever scripts they want and tag my computer with cookies. And it gets rid of 90% of adds too, as a fringe benefit.
Dude, use the same password and the same junk email account, and/or username, for everything you don't care about. Create a fake online you for all the things that ask you register. Don't use your "I don't give a rats ass if someone hacks this account" password for things you care about, that's bad for security.
Actually it was supposed to be a joke. Whomever modded it down is an M$ fanboy with no sense of humor.
I suppose this is from 1994? I doubt viewing fonts on a Linux system could end up rooting your machine. <bad sense of humor>Some would say that's because one can't view fonts on a Linux machine anyway.</bad sense of humor>
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What the fuck? A government checking the code it runs on computers with sensitive data is "national socialist"? You think the United States government doesn't do this on CIA and DOD computers? Or are you a nut against building roads?
We're talking about doing this only for government computers used for sensitive government data.
So right! You could just save yourself $5000 and run Linux.
It was the fire department from the next town over, where the people are smart enough to pay for a fire department. I bet that guy spent plenty of time going on about the stupid democrats in the next town over who pay higher taxes so they have a fire department. Well I guess he found out the hard way why they don't mind their taxes paying for a fire department in that town. Why should the good people of the next town over pay for nearby towns who aren't willing to set up their own fire departments, volunteer or otherwise?
If you have record of it, the question is moot. The government has every right to issue a warrant to confiscate every physical object from you think is evidence (like your written copy of the encryption key). What they can't do is try to force you reveal the contents of your mind against your will. Where you hid the written copy of the encryption key is also protected by the 5th, so the government will have to find it without your help.
It's about how the state would force you to give up the information not whether the state has a right to that information. Breaking down your door isn't a big deal, however torturing someone to force them to revile a password is. The state is forbidden from trying to force a suspect to reveal the contents of their mind, because of how the state would have to force information from a person, not because of whether or not the state should be able to use that information.
The 5th amendment protects the contents of the mind for a reason. The real purpose of the 5th amendment has nothing to do with the right of a suspect not to harm his or her self; the purpose of the 5th amendment is to act as a prohibition against torture. The fifth amendment is really about the right of a suspect not to be harmed by the state in an attempt by the state to extract information from the suspect against their will. Waterboarding and imprisonment for a long periods of time without due process of law are exactly the types of things the 5th amendment is meant to prevent, so by the spirit of the law, passwords should be protected.
Not when your using active directory. You can't use your desktop to share with other users without the admin's permission.
What the fuck is with no web GUI like every other router on the planet? Forcing you to install unsupported apple crap to administrator the damn thing on Windows, which is nearly impossible to administer from Linux. Such a damn pain.
Fuck no, their cookies are denied too!
Web browsers should work on a default-deny basis for everything but html.
Between VPNs and the number of employees who take laptops home, but don't have access to sensitive data because they don't work on anything sensitive, I'm willing to bet 70% of corporate laptops don't have sensitive data on their hard drive, and the 3% don't have competent IT departments. Not every corporate laptop needs to be encrypted.
They aught to be using more than one factor of authentication if they expect their system to be secure. Facial recognition (by a human guard) and the card, passcode and the card, or some other factor to prevent a stolen or forged card from being a security risk.
It wasn't google employees it was end users with google accounts who installed the malware.
I would kill for more Deep Space Nine. Yeah, I know, the books. The Dominion War in DS9 was the true hayday for Star Trek and science fiction. It was all downhill after that.
That's another issue. Considering that issue what the article is about is completely pointless to discuss. Yeah, you can do that, so who cares if you can remove someone's finger prints and surgically implant them onto someone else, when you can just spoof the finger print reader?
Yeah, I'm sure that's the actual usage they're expecting.
For that price you can get a backup internet connection.
Most people try to crack WiFi because they don't have internet, in which case it would impossible to access a cluster. It would be cool if it got you internet anywhere there was wifi, but it won't work, because you can't log into the cluster without internet anyway, so what's the point? Besides stealing data of course.
This is only a security threat if someone removes my finger and graft's it to someone else's hand so they can get my data. So my data is only as secure as the skin on my finger. I'm so scared. The likelihood of someone stealing my finger to get data is really high. Worse, they'll steal my eyeball to fake an iris scan. Maybe soon they'll just steal my brain and remove the passwords I have memorized. I'm sure in all those scenarios what I'll be thinking is "OMG, My Data!"
I didn't think cell phones were powerful enough to run VMs, or even full operating systems. That's what laptops are for. No, I don't want my cell phone to replace my laptop. Random shit I might need to do without my laptop, like check the weather, my email, or even read the paper, is nice on cell phone. Virtualization? What the fuck? You know they made this great invention - a full fledged computer you can fit in your backpack, it only weighs about 5 pounds, and does everything your desktop does, it's called a laptop, you can even install a SIP client on it and make phone calls.
I don't accept cookies I don't know I want, and I don't run scripts I don't know I need to run. It's not that big of a hassle. Firefox's addons, cookiesafe (let's you decide what cookies you accept), noscript (we all should know about that), and BetterPrivacy (blocks lso cookies), will protect your privacy, and your computer from exploits. I'm all for surfing the web default-deny. There is no reason every website I visit should be able to run whatever scripts they want and tag my computer with cookies. And it gets rid of 90% of adds too, as a fringe benefit.
Dude, use the same password and the same junk email account, and/or username, for everything you don't care about. Create a fake online you for all the things that ask you register. Don't use your "I don't give a rats ass if someone hacks this account" password for things you care about, that's bad for security.
Yeah, right, like Slashdoters fuck.
Actually it was supposed to be a joke. Whomever modded it down is an M$ fanboy with no sense of humor.
I suppose this is from 1994? I doubt viewing fonts on a Linux system could end up rooting your machine. <bad sense of humor>Some would say that's because one can't view fonts on a Linux machine anyway.</bad sense of humor>
Windows malware is Microsoft's fault, because their OS is insecure, and generally sucks.
IE6 Sucks. Windows XP is still stable is works great. What's the comparison now?