They haven't blown the cover on anything. They suck as a leak site. They have uncovered jack shit. You haven't named a single unknown thing they've exposed.
I take it you are conceding the debate due to Godwin's law?
There is no business case to be made to [release linux drivers]
Before I buy personal hardware, I check to see if it works well in Linux. Before my organization buys hardware, it requires that it work in linux, as the vast majority of our datacenter runs RedHat.
Do you sell to businesses or computing enthusiasts? There's your business case. If you're selling to soccer mom's, well, then you would have a point.
I got so sick of trying to get my broadcom card working on Mythbuntu 10.04, I just gave up and bought Windows 7. By spending $99 on Windows I saved... how many hours of frustration?
I tell friends: try linux. If it works on all your hardware without requiring you to dig through forums or edit text files, use it. Otherwise, save your time and sanity and get Windows. This action by broadcom means the people who take my advice will stick with linux:-)
Wkikleaks is not leaking anything. It is teaching us nothing new. You obviously agree with my assessment since you are trying to change the subject to Nazis rather than argue with it.
With Nessus, the "high" severity results are the only ones that really matter. And even then they sometimes don't. For example: "you are using a version of PHP with a security hole in one of the API calls your programs might use" is high, but it isn't a real vulnerability unless you actually use that specific call.
Getting people biometrics is sure cheaper than teaching people how to read! Way to go, Indian government! Keep the people ignorant to save a few bucks.
Yeah, that's war. That's not new. That's not a "leak." Anybody with half a brain knows this already. If any of this surprises you, there's a large air bubble in your skull.
So far, he hasn't released stuff that embarrasses governments. I like the idea of a good whistle-blowing site, but wikileaks isn't one. Has it uncovered a conspiracy? No. Has it found serious evidence of corruption? No. All wikileaks has done is tooted its own horn and shown what we already know: that war is a messy business.
Where is the evidence of price fixing or securities fraud? Voting machine tampering? You know that sort of thing is going on, but wikileaks as failed at drawing even a single leak about such topics. War is war. We know that. Try blowing the whistle on something we don't know!
I have a Samsung netbook. The keyboard is very comfortable to use. The battery lasts for eight hours. The construction is solid. The screen is big enough for programming, web browsing, and even flash games. Best of all: it is extremely portable - being small is a virtue.
It sounds like you elected to buy a low-quality device with a small keyboard. That's a problem with you, not a problem with netbooks in general.
Dear advertisers: If you put ads on top of the content, I will not buy your product. If I click your shit, it's because I missed the X button. I will make a conscious effort to never send a cent your way.
Google: if you can't make a profit without running ads ON TOP OF your youtube videos, everyone will migrate to a site which can do so eventually.
Anyone who has even considered buying a graphics card recently knows that Fermi is the latest-generation GPU architecture from NVIDIA. It uses smaller transistors and crams many more cores on to one chip compared to previous generations.
So in one part of Europe, internet access is a fundamental human right. In another part of Europe, it can taken away entirely for the minor crime of copyright infringement.
When is the EU civil war coming? There needs to be a Scandinavian Lincoln to conquer France and free the oppressed.
A true believer of what? All formal religions I'm familiar with make specific claims about creation. Which religion contains the tenet "in the beginning, God created the rules of M-theory, and the rest followed naturally from that?"
Full disclosure here, I work in the cryptography field.
You misrepresent the difficulty of nationwide S/MIME MITM. To my knowledge it has never been done or even attempted. If it were attempted, it would certainly have been discovered. Obviously, this is not a trivial operation.
You also misunderstand what a fingerprint is. If I am so concerned about every CA handing over its private keys to the government of India, I need only verify someone's S/MIME certificate by fingerprint. At this point, the CA doesn't matter at all.
the government can simply replace your public key with theirs
No, they can't. Such a MITM attack would not be "simple" by any definition of the term. The Indian government does not control every (any?) CA. And even if they did, verifying certificates really is a simple matter of asking someone what their fingerprint is.
you run into issues like how to deliver the public part of your S/MIME certificate securely.
You don't need to deliver your public key securely. It's public. That's the point. You use CAs or fingerprints to verify certificates if you have serious concerns about MITM attacks.
I don't think S/MIME MITM by governments which control CAs is a practical concern at this point, but even if it becomes one, a person need only configure his email device to use explicit certificate trust instead of trusting the PKI.
Actually, they make a lot of sense. If you rely on blackberry encryption, you have no idea when your privacy is being invaded by the Indian government. With S/MIME, they can't even attempt to spy on you without you being aware. They won't go fishing through your correspondence. They won't data-mine you. They would need to be specifically targeting you and admitting to you that you're under investigation to even have a chance of seeing your mail.
You can create your own certificates or get free certificates from places like Comodo.
One quirk of S/MIME is that the subject line is not encrypted. This is a good place to add the text "India can suck my beef jerky" to every encrypted message.
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They haven't blown the cover on anything. They suck as a leak site. They have uncovered jack shit. You haven't named a single unknown thing they've exposed.
I take it you are conceding the debate due to Godwin's law?
No. Having cards hanging off your laptop, on the other hand, is really silly.
Before I buy personal hardware, I check to see if it works well in Linux. Before my organization buys hardware, it requires that it work in linux, as the vast majority of our datacenter runs RedHat.
Do you sell to businesses or computing enthusiasts? There's your business case. If you're selling to soccer mom's, well, then you would have a point.
I got so sick of trying to get my broadcom card working on Mythbuntu 10.04, I just gave up and bought Windows 7. By spending $99 on Windows I saved... how many hours of frustration?
I tell friends: try linux. If it works on all your hardware without requiring you to dig through forums or edit text files, use it. Otherwise, save your time and sanity and get Windows. This action by broadcom means the people who take my advice will stick with linux :-)
Wkikleaks is not leaking anything. It is teaching us nothing new. You obviously agree with my assessment since you are trying to change the subject to Nazis rather than argue with it.
With Nessus, the "high" severity results are the only ones that really matter. And even then they sometimes don't. For example: "you are using a version of PHP with a security hole in one of the API calls your programs might use" is high, but it isn't a real vulnerability unless you actually use that specific call.
Getting people biometrics is sure cheaper than teaching people how to read! Way to go, Indian government! Keep the people ignorant to save a few bucks.
Yeah, that's war. That's not new. That's not a "leak." Anybody with half a brain knows this already. If any of this surprises you, there's a large air bubble in your skull.
So far, he hasn't released stuff that embarrasses governments. I like the idea of a good whistle-blowing site, but wikileaks isn't one. Has it uncovered a conspiracy? No. Has it found serious evidence of corruption? No. All wikileaks has done is tooted its own horn and shown what we already know: that war is a messy business.
Where is the evidence of price fixing or securities fraud? Voting machine tampering? You know that sort of thing is going on, but wikileaks as failed at drawing even a single leak about such topics. War is war. We know that. Try blowing the whistle on something we don't know!
I have a Samsung netbook. The keyboard is very comfortable to use. The battery lasts for eight hours. The construction is solid. The screen is big enough for programming, web browsing, and even flash games. Best of all: it is extremely portable - being small is a virtue.
It sounds like you elected to buy a low-quality device with a small keyboard. That's a problem with you, not a problem with netbooks in general.
Dear advertisers: If you put ads on top of the content, I will not buy your product. If I click your shit, it's because I missed the X button. I will make a conscious effort to never send a cent your way.
Google: if you can't make a profit without running ads ON TOP OF your youtube videos, everyone will migrate to a site which can do so eventually.
Anyone who has even considered buying a graphics card recently knows that Fermi is the latest-generation GPU architecture from NVIDIA. It uses smaller transistors and crams many more cores on to one chip compared to previous generations.
Those of us who are familiar with your wife's genitalia won't disagree with you.
There is an EU constitution. There is a US constitution. The EU is a union of states. The US is a federation of states. Sounds pretty similar to me.
So in one part of Europe, internet access is a fundamental human right. In another part of Europe, it can taken away entirely for the minor crime of copyright infringement.
When is the EU civil war coming? There needs to be a Scandinavian Lincoln to conquer France and free the oppressed.
The Anonymous Coward, forced to acknowledge his own ignorance, squeaks out "learn a bit" and runs away. How typical.
The appropriate response is to stop trusting your ISP to encrypt your data. Use end-to-end encryption, like S/MIME.
They can sniff my BlackBerry data, but they can never make me share my S/MIME key!
A true believer of what? All formal religions I'm familiar with make specific claims about creation. Which religion contains the tenet "in the beginning, God created the rules of M-theory, and the rest followed naturally from that?"
Full disclosure here, I work in the cryptography field.
You misrepresent the difficulty of nationwide S/MIME MITM. To my knowledge it has never been done or even attempted. If it were attempted, it would certainly have been discovered. Obviously, this is not a trivial operation.
You also misunderstand what a fingerprint is. If I am so concerned about every CA handing over its private keys to the government of India, I need only verify someone's S/MIME certificate by fingerprint. At this point, the CA doesn't matter at all.
No, they can't. Such a MITM attack would not be "simple" by any definition of the term. The Indian government does not control every (any?) CA. And even if they did, verifying certificates really is a simple matter of asking someone what their fingerprint is.
You don't need to deliver your public key securely. It's public. That's the point. You use CAs or fingerprints to verify certificates if you have serious concerns about MITM attacks.
I don't think S/MIME MITM by governments which control CAs is a practical concern at this point, but even if it becomes one, a person need only configure his email device to use explicit certificate trust instead of trusting the PKI.
Actually, they make a lot of sense. If you rely on blackberry encryption, you have no idea when your privacy is being invaded by the Indian government. With S/MIME, they can't even attempt to spy on you without you being aware. They won't go fishing through your correspondence. They won't data-mine you. They would need to be specifically targeting you and admitting to you that you're under investigation to even have a chance of seeing your mail.
There is a solution: Use S/MIME. This is the email encryption standard supported by all major mail clients without need for plugins. It can even work with web-based gmail using a firefox addon: http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-smime/gmail-smime.html
You can create your own certificates or get free certificates from places like Comodo.
One quirk of S/MIME is that the subject line is not encrypted. This is a good place to add the text "India can suck my beef jerky" to every encrypted message.