It seems that Mr. Mitnick is going to remain the punchbag of the US authorities for some time to come.
Having spent several years in prison without trial, then being told that you cannot access that which has made your livlihood up to that point (not to mention the tuna fish debarcle), he's still not getting a break. And he even tries to help out the Government!
I was at a presentation about this kind of technology several years ago (someone from British Telecom came to give a talk to a bunch of us from University). The basic idea was that you could emit light a photon at a time, and pick this up later on.
If you had a snoop (Eve), the data would be corrupted due to the fact that only one photon existed per data element - later, you could check this and discard any bad data.
You still have to do the actual communication using your favourite strong encryption system. However, this system gets around the problems associated with key distribution over a distance.
Currently, HP and Compaq use ARM... also, they are running WinCE (or whatever MS has decided to call it this week). As a result, could a marketplace open up for these devices where you could choose the OS to run on them? Clearly, the OS would have to be overwritable in the system (flash, or some other chip storage), but there could be a blossoming of this market on this fact alone!
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It seems that Mr. Mitnick is going to remain the punchbag of the US authorities for some time to come.
Having spent several years in prison without trial, then being told that you cannot access that which has made your livlihood up to that point (not to mention the tuna fish debarcle), he's still not getting a break. And he even tries to help out the Government!
Some thanks he was given.
I was at a presentation about this kind of technology several years ago (someone from British Telecom came to give a talk to a bunch of us from University). The basic idea was that you could emit light a photon at a time, and pick this up later on.
If you had a snoop (Eve), the data would be corrupted due to the fact that only one photon existed per data element - later, you could check this and discard any bad data.
You still have to do the actual communication using your favourite strong encryption system. However, this system gets around the problems associated with key distribution over a distance.
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Currently, HP and Compaq use ARM... also, they are running WinCE (or whatever MS has decided to call it this week). As a result, could a marketplace open up for these devices where you could choose the OS to run on them? Clearly, the OS would have to be overwritable in the system (flash, or some other chip storage), but there could be a blossoming of this market on this fact alone!