Yeah, they'll just use that national database with every person's current face and facial features linked to their real identity and an SSN. It will match the blurry shot of the top of your head (or hat) from the security tapes several weeks or months old, when they realize what happened, along with the accurate description by the 16 year old minimum wage cashier girl recalling the exact instance.
While masking or changing your fingerprint is not extremely difficult, impersonating another person's fingerprint is a little more difficult. You would have to target a specific person with a fingerprint account at one of the stores, and get a VERY clean print of theirs. The print can be cut by various black market vendors on the net, but it would be much easier to clone their credit card and ID. The idea isn't to build an impenetrable system (go ahead, propose an unbreakable system of your own that is within the reach of your average grocery store), but one that deters fraud more than the current system. The problem is, security is only as good as the weakest link in the chain. Why would anyone try to dupe the fingerprint system when they can fraud checks, or credit cards? It's like building a fortress with a giant barricaded steel door, and an unguarded wobbly wooden door next to it.
Read the laws on these "white collar" crimes and compare them to the laws regarding shoplifting or minor crimes. If you don't believe the legal system is built to keep upper class citizens out of jail you are missing something.
Another thing to take into consideration is the levels of law enforcement. City and county police are dealing with murders, meth lab explosions, armed robbery of businesses, and plenty of things that fall into a higher category of importance in their manuals than your house getting broken into. FBI is dealing with terrorism, multi-million dollar scams, building systems like Carnivore to pretend they have a clue what's going on in the information age, and other things that bring them press attention and a pat on the back. eBay is busy making money, ignoring customer complaints and trying their best to keep things that drop their stock price out of the media, making money, pretending fraud doesn't happen on the net, and making money.
If you are looking for broadband inet access in Eastern WA, Spokane has it.
I would beg to differ. As a resident of the Spokane suburbs, I can say that unless you live in the center of downtown you are either too far from a CO for DSL, your neighborhood isn't wired for it, and you certainly can't get cable (I don't know if cable is available anywhere in Spokane, certainly not in the rural areas). This is great news; I think it will be competing with a new technology to deliver broadband over powerlines though.
I got some at the p2p conference in SF a while back, it tastes great. Between Pepsi and Coca-Cola it's closer to coke or RC Cola. If you are a cola-addict you will be able to tell it apart from the name brand, but still quite good. As far as home-made cola, that's an entirely different subject...
I would have to agree. Unless I'm trying to make a profit off it, I release all my new software in the public domain. "Here you go, I don't care what you do with it, I'm writing this for my own knowledge and to better the software world, not to push some agenda."
Re:Other then unreal and quake? What distro?
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I would recommend the new Mandrake 8 (ISOs are available from www.mandrake.com). This is an excellent desktop OS for people who are either fairly new to Linux or just like the nice graphical interface (Graphical LILO, Aurora, etc). Plus with the hardware detection and the Windows-like config tools in X, it beats the pants off using linuxconf.
Technical documentation of Espra is in progress but we are getting slammed with all the work in making a release and during the p2p conference at that! But one of the reasons technical docs weren't at the top of our list is because it's quite simple actually:
* It is a Freenet client
* Music is cataloged with xml files on Freenet
* The code is freely available and it of course contains ALL the technical information.
We released beta 1 at the p2p conference in SF today and things are moving at the speed of light in development. ESP Worldwide is funding the development and the program is free and open source (don't ask how we make money its too complex;) ).
Hey Ian, just a head's up from the Espra team; we're all going to be there too along with some other ESP employees. We'll be watching all the Freenet developer talks, so hopefully we can meet up and do some dev talk afterwards.
The GPL is all about being a hypocrit. Open source zealots don't like how you can't benefit from closed-source projects so they will make sure closed-source won't benefit from open-source either. I know that on the project I work on the licensing creates way too many headaches.
If it's all about being free and open why don't we just make everything public domain and not restrict users. If closed-source projects use open-source code, they aren't stealing profits from open-source code because it's open anyways. And if closed-source projects used the open-source code wouldn't that make the closed-source projects better because they are using open, tested code? My flame for today, I guess it's just because of all the licensing headaches I get at work.
What would happen if someone released this code totally anonymously under the GNU GPL license? Can you do that? Just say... get a yahoo mail account and an anonymous sourceforge account, release the new program under it's correct license, do all the work through your laptop and a payphone out in the boonies (ok now I'm getting a little paranoid).
Actually if you download the full.zip file (not just the decoding binary) and download the trial version of CyberPatrol to get the cyber.not file, you can compile the cndecode.c program on linux and use it to break the code. I am running on a win2000 box at home but i tested this theory out on my sourceforge shell account.
Now noone will know what's going on with Mozilla! At least the software I'm currently running (SurfWatch) blocks access to it. An interesting note, since I'm affiliated with peacefire.org my web alias has been blacklisted and any website that mentions my alias is banned by these home filters. A lot of legitimate websites have been blocked because these filtering companies don't actually look at what they're blocking.
Curses! http://www.mozillazine.org is blocked by SurfWatch! Just when I was about to get a stable browser that works, the filtering companies decide open source software is against their morals:-(
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I would gladly use SRP... as soon as sourceforge.net uses it on it's servers... as soon as I can use it to log into my shell accounts and cvs repositories instead of SSH. Even if this technology is far superior to SSH, I won't use it until it becomes more standardized.
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Yeah, they'll just use that national database with every person's current face and facial features linked to their real identity and an SSN. It will match the blurry shot of the top of your head (or hat) from the security tapes several weeks or months old, when they realize what happened, along with the accurate description by the 16 year old minimum wage cashier girl recalling the exact instance.
While masking or changing your fingerprint is not extremely difficult, impersonating another person's fingerprint is a little more difficult. You would have to target a specific person with a fingerprint account at one of the stores, and get a VERY clean print of theirs. The print can be cut by various black market vendors on the net, but it would be much easier to clone their credit card and ID. The idea isn't to build an impenetrable system (go ahead, propose an unbreakable system of your own that is within the reach of your average grocery store), but one that deters fraud more than the current system. The problem is, security is only as good as the weakest link in the chain. Why would anyone try to dupe the fingerprint system when they can fraud checks, or credit cards? It's like building a fortress with a giant barricaded steel door, and an unguarded wobbly wooden door next to it.
Read the laws on these "white collar" crimes and compare them to the laws regarding shoplifting or minor crimes. If you don't believe the legal system is built to keep upper class citizens out of jail you are missing something.
Another thing to take into consideration is the levels of law enforcement. City and county police are dealing with murders, meth lab explosions, armed robbery of businesses, and plenty of things that fall into a higher category of importance in their manuals than your house getting broken into. FBI is dealing with terrorism, multi-million dollar scams, building systems like Carnivore to pretend they have a clue what's going on in the information age, and other things that bring them press attention and a pat on the back. eBay is busy making money, ignoring customer complaints and trying their best to keep things that drop their stock price out of the media, making money, pretending fraud doesn't happen on the net, and making money.
So this is where it's going, completely anonymous internet access around the globe. Terrifying, in a word.
I find your comparison of Psilocybin to LSD appalling.
Oh yeah, PHP programmers know what's up.
Now if only the CD and DVD players would shut up when they are spinning a disc...
If you are looking for broadband inet access in Eastern WA, Spokane has it.
I would beg to differ. As a resident of the Spokane suburbs, I can say that unless you live in the center of downtown you are either too far from a CO for DSL, your neighborhood isn't wired for it, and you certainly can't get cable (I don't know if cable is available anywhere in Spokane, certainly not in the rural areas). This is great news; I think it will be competing with a new technology to deliver broadband over powerlines though.
I got some at the p2p conference in SF a while back, it tastes great. Between Pepsi and Coca-Cola it's closer to coke or RC Cola. If you are a cola-addict you will be able to tell it apart from the name brand, but still quite good. As far as home-made cola, that's an entirely different subject...
I would have to agree. Unless I'm trying to make a profit off it, I release all my new software in the public domain. "Here you go, I don't care what you do with it, I'm writing this for my own knowledge and to better the software world, not to push some agenda."
I would recommend the new Mandrake 8 (ISOs are available from www.mandrake.com). This is an excellent desktop OS for people who are either fairly new to Linux or just like the nice graphical interface (Graphical LILO, Aurora, etc). Plus with the hardware detection and the Windows-like config tools in X, it beats the pants off using linuxconf.
Technical documentation of Espra is in progress but we are getting slammed with all the work in making a release and during the p2p conference at that! But one of the reasons technical docs weren't at the top of our list is because it's quite simple actually:
* It is a Freenet client
* Music is cataloged with xml files on Freenet
* The code is freely available and it of course contains ALL the technical information.
Check out Espra.
;) ).
We released beta 1 at the p2p conference in SF today and things are moving at the speed of light in development. ESP Worldwide is funding the development and the program is free and open source (don't ask how we make money its too complex
Hey Ian, just a head's up from the Espra team; we're all going to be there too along with some other ESP employees. We'll be watching all the Freenet developer talks, so hopefully we can meet up and do some dev talk afterwards.
The GPL is all about being a hypocrit. Open source zealots don't like how you can't benefit from closed-source projects so they will make sure closed-source won't benefit from open-source either. I know that on the project I work on the licensing creates way too many headaches.
If it's all about being free and open why don't we just make everything public domain and not restrict users. If closed-source projects use open-source code, they aren't stealing profits from open-source code because it's open anyways. And if closed-source projects used the open-source code wouldn't that make the closed-source projects better because they are using open, tested code? My flame for today, I guess it's just because of all the licensing headaches I get at work.
Oh my!
Yes, but did Edgar Allen Poe give his consent to allow his proprietary encryption system be reverse engineered?
Or, http://www.wcc.cx/cgi-bin/proxy/startproxy.cgi?URL =http%3A%2F%2Fwww.2600.com%2Fnews%2F2000 %2F0821.html
What would happen if someone released this code totally anonymously under the GNU GPL license? Can you do that? Just say... get a yahoo mail account and an anonymous sourceforge account, release the new program under it's correct license, do all the work through your laptop and a payphone out in the boonies (ok now I'm getting a little paranoid).
Actually if you download the full .zip file (not just the decoding binary) and download the trial version of CyberPatrol to get the cyber.not file, you can compile the cndecode.c program on linux and use it to break the code. I am running on a win2000 box at home but i tested this theory out on my sourceforge shell account.
My friend said he was gonna buy it, I'll have to tell him about this. Looks like a pretty awesome game.
Now noone will know what's going on with Mozilla! At least the software I'm currently running (SurfWatch) blocks access to it. An interesting note, since I'm affiliated with peacefire.org my web alias has been blacklisted and any website that mentions my alias is banned by these home filters. A lot of legitimate websites have been blocked because these filtering companies don't actually look at what they're blocking.
Curses! http://www.mozillazine.org is blocked by SurfWatch! Just when I was about to get a stable browser that works, the filtering companies decide open source software is against their morals :-(
I would gladly use SRP... as soon as sourceforge.net uses it on it's servers... as soon as I can use it to log into my shell accounts and cvs repositories instead of SSH. Even if this technology is far superior to SSH, I won't use it until it becomes more standardized.
Cool, maybe the rootkit project will get finished now ;-)