Dijkstra (EWD) said it best: "People thought that [higher level languages] would make programming a lot easier, even solve the programming problem. But when you look closely the trivial aspects of programming had been automated while the hard ones remained. The higher programming languages which had been intended to facilitate programming proved, coupled with the increasing ambitions of the applications, to be more intellectually demanding to the programmer."
Let's see: - game consoles -> most are closed - smart TV -> most are closed ? - mobile -> some are closed and Android is slowly getting more closed (or less useful when not using closed software) - pc -> Mac isn't closed yet, but Mac OS X now has System Integrity Protection, next step is to close the hardware. Windows ? Well Windows already has an app store and 'Secure Boot', we all know what comes next - even monitors include some DRM protocols
It has been shown again and again biometrics don't really work: - they can't be precise, because humans aren't solid objects. So they have to have pretty large tolerances which makes it easier for them to be fooled - the most used biometric systems start failing when people get above 65, so it's just pure age discrimination - when someone has a made a good enough copy of your biometric characteristics you can't easily replace your own
Why do people, or should I say companies and governments, keep trying to use it ?
You can't just speed up development teams by adding more team members.
But the devops / microservices do help you to create an culture / architecture where you get more but smaller parts each with their own team.
Thus you'd have more teams.
So the project as a whole can might go faster if you can chop your software up in different pieces without any interdependence (which obviously doesn't always apply to all problems).
How about a 4-person electric car with solar panels on the roof that produces more energy than it uses by average per day use* ? http://www.gizmag.com/stella-l...
Ohh, cool. The comments for that article are horrible by the way. Saying it's completely impossible.
Well, not in that price range though.;-)
Producing a car with such a low weight is still expensive and if it became cheaper it would help diesel/gas powered cars too, thus making it harder to compete.
Anyway I meant mass-production and some what affordable like the first Tesla car will take a long time.
The prices of a taxi medallion I've seen from the US don't seem to apply to the Netherlands.
"In Boston, taxi medallions average $700,000, and similarly-inflated prices exist in other cities" http://www.forbes.com/sites/sc...
But Amsterdam is the most expensive and I believe far above every other city in the Netherlands: In 2013: € 7.960,00 for 3 years (8,928.64 USD) In 2014: € 11.880,00 for 3 years (13,327.58 USD)
The city claims that this is the real cost of what they need to do (whatever that is).
Of course the FBI isn't happy about people going dark.
It's easier without having to deal with the encryption.
More and more endpoints are also getting full disk encryption.
Thinking long term, the FBI doesn't want to be in an arms race with the software developers of browsers, operating systems and the like.
Will they still be able to hack to software running on the endpoints ?
Maybe someday they won't find a way around it. Even though they have a court order they might not be able to do what they are asked to do. That is what scares them.
The same thing has been going on with the FCC and WiFi for many, many years.
The EPA isn't any different, see the quote from the article below.
"A group of automobile manufacturers said that opening the code to scrutiny could create “serious threats to safety and security.” And two months ago, the E.P.A. said it, too, opposed such a move because people might try to reprogram their cars to beat emission rules."
The EPA or FCC won't be the ones that will fix this.
There is only one solution, start creating the open source code, it will take many, many years but eventually it will be as good or even better than the original manufacturers.
Haven't read it yet, but I assume it's something like this (below may or may not work, it's an example):
- attacker controls WiFi network - user visits any HTTP-website - attacker injects iframe of some other domain for which it wants to attack the user - the iframe sets a session cookie over HTTP - later during that browsing session, the user visits the real site over HTTPS - the browser sends the session cookie it got over HTTP - the user logs into the site - the attacker now has a logged-in session cookie of the user for the site
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I've never had the need to (because I'm careful where I use it online) so I don't know if this is true.
But iDeal has no refund, at all.
The band transfers the money and it's gone.
If you don't get what you asked for, you might be out of luck.
Something like Bitcoin would allow for a mutually agreed up on third party to do arbitration with a contract.
Always amazed by these ideas.
Dijkstra (EWD) said it best:
"People thought that [higher level languages] would make programming a lot easier, even solve the programming problem. But when you look closely the trivial aspects of programming had been automated while the hard ones remained. The higher programming languages which had been intended to facilitate programming proved, coupled with the increasing ambitions of the applications, to be more intellectually demanding to the programmer."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you are using Windows you already have a problem, it doesn't matter much on Windows if your SSH uses their crypto API, right ?
They can already just install hidden updates and what else could go wrong.
Have you ever looked at Bitcoin ?
This is probably true.
The problem with telnet is it's still vulnerable (all the clear).
While an up to date OpenSSH OpenSSL/LibreSSL is not.
If it worked so well as the headline claimed then they wouldn't be writing articles about it, but using it to buy/sell stocks and options. ;-)
And still pretty much everyone reacted and fixed a whole bunch of things.
So in practice it doesn't really matter.
Anyway, it would have been great if the summary has mentioned it. :-)
This is the original logjam attack from May this year.
Even the PDF points to the same site:
https://weakdh.org/
Open platform you say ?
Let's see:
- game consoles -> most are closed
- smart TV -> most are closed ?
- mobile -> some are closed and Android is slowly getting more closed (or less useful when not using closed software)
- pc -> Mac isn't closed yet, but Mac OS X now has System Integrity Protection, next step is to close the hardware. Windows ? Well Windows already has an app store and 'Secure Boot', we all know what comes next
- even monitors include some DRM protocols
It has been shown again and again biometrics don't really work:
- they can't be precise, because humans aren't solid objects. So they have to have pretty large tolerances which makes it easier for them to be fooled
- the most used biometric systems start failing when people get above 65, so it's just pure age discrimination
- when someone has a made a good enough copy of your biometric characteristics you can't easily replace your own
Why do people, or should I say companies and governments, keep trying to use it ?
The Celeron version was also newer and more expensive.
Kind of an unfair comparison.
You can't just speed up development teams by adding more team members.
But the devops / microservices do help you to create an culture / architecture where you get more but smaller parts each with their own team.
Thus you'd have more teams.
So the project as a whole can might go faster if you can chop your software up in different pieces without any interdependence (which obviously doesn't always apply to all problems).
Keep the data at your home, they need a warrant to get into your home.
Eben Moglen was pretty clear about that (no I don't know at what minute exactly he said this):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you are going to store your data with somebody else, encrypt it before you upload it and you keep the encryption key.
Nothing wrong with keeping a backup with someone else as long as you encrypt it:
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
http://www.duplicati.com/
I'm forgetting about an other provider which also has an open source program with encryption.
"with no frills at all."
First of all, the predecessor from 2013 was already road legal. Which means it has all the things you need to get on the road.
And it's actually pretty comfortable and it has a lot more features then you might expect:
http://www.solarteameindhoven....
While it does have a heater for clearing the windows which it needs to make it road legal.
The biggest problem is obvious: missing air-conditioning because it would use so much energy.
Obviously, it's not even near getting to a production car.
The point is to push the state of art and win the competition:
http://www.worldsolarchallenge... (in this case the more practical cruiser class)
Also to show how 'close' we are to having productions cars with solar or at least show how things are progressing.
It's a step up from this:
http://images2.fanpop.com/imag...
It's like F1 is trying to push the state of the art. Obviously F1 cars are not for normal production use either.
How about a 4-person electric car with solar panels on the roof that produces more energy than it uses by average per day use* ?
http://www.gizmag.com/stella-l...
A company in Australia is trying to make a car you can buy, even if it's still very expensive:
http://www.gizmag.com/immortus...
* in the Netherlands, which is in't the US. The average car owner in the US drivers more miles.
Ohh, cool. The comments for that article are horrible by the way. Saying it's completely impossible.
Well, not in that price range though. ;-)
Producing a car with such a low weight is still expensive and if it became cheaper it would help diesel/gas powered cars too, thus making it harder to compete.
Anyway I meant mass-production and some what affordable like the first Tesla car will take a long time.
Long term, if solar keeps improving the way it does I would expect cars just have their own panels:
http://www.greenoptimistic.com...
But it's still a long way away.
The prices of a taxi medallion I've seen from the US don't seem to apply to the Netherlands.
"In Boston, taxi medallions average $700,000, and similarly-inflated prices exist in other cities"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sc...
But Amsterdam is the most expensive and I believe far above every other city in the Netherlands:
In 2013: € 7.960,00 for 3 years (8,928.64 USD)
In 2014: € 11.880,00 for 3 years (13,327.58 USD)
The city claims that this is the real cost of what they need to do (whatever that is).
In Dutch:
http://m.taxipro.nl/straattaxi...
Of course the FBI isn't happy about people going dark.
It's easier without having to deal with the encryption.
More and more endpoints are also getting full disk encryption.
Thinking long term, the FBI doesn't want to be in an arms race with the software developers of browsers, operating systems and the like.
Will they still be able to hack to software running on the endpoints ?
Maybe someday they won't find a way around it. Even though they have a court order they might not be able to do what they are asked to do. That is what scares them.
The same thing has been going on with the FCC and WiFi for many, many years.
The EPA isn't any different, see the quote from the article below.
"A group of automobile manufacturers said that opening the code to scrutiny could create “serious threats to safety and security.” And two months ago, the E.P.A. said it, too, opposed such a move because people might try to reprogram their cars to beat emission rules."
The EPA or FCC won't be the ones that will fix this.
There is only one solution, start creating the open source code, it will take many, many years but eventually it will be as good or even better than the original manufacturers.
No, not a 100%, but the less pictures you upload the less pictures that can be used to learn to distinguish me from the next guy.
Haven't read it yet, but I assume it's something like this (below may or may not work, it's an example):
- attacker controls WiFi network
- user visits any HTTP-website
- attacker injects iframe of some other domain for which it wants to attack the user
- the iframe sets a session cookie over HTTP
- later during that browsing session, the user visits the real site over HTTPS
- the browser sends the session cookie it got over HTTP
- the user logs into the site
- the attacker now has a logged-in session cookie of the user for the site
Something a long those lines...
Why would you single out software ?
The whole world has lost their mind (with the US being one of the countries at the front).
Let's take the economy as an example.
You think this interest rate is normal ?:
http://www.tradingeconomics.co...
You think quantitative easing is the new normal ?
Even if you agree that these are necessary measures you'd have to agree they should only be temporarily.
Is it just me or is IBM a lot more open about what they are doing in comparison to for example Google or Microsoft ?
PS There are no pictures of me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.