No once claims that neither OpenVPN or OpenSSL are compromised. In fact it's highly unlikely that it have happened so no the NSA and others have not outwit the smart techies at all, at least there is no evidence of that happening. The people involved with OpenSSL is a very tough crowd to sneak something pass, remember that the Debian problem with OpenSSL was never sent upstream and that it was caught due to OpenSSL beeing OSS. If it had been closed, then that particular problem would never have surfaced.
The code is only 58k LOC so it's quite easy to check for backdoors if you want to. At it's core though OpenVPN uses OpenSSL for encryption which is a much better place for a backdoor. However if OpenSSL contains a backdoor then quite a lot of "safe" software is compromised.
The margin does not come into play here, what I said was that they could have sold Android phones while still developing their own software (and even Windows Phones). Instead they choose to completely ignore Android, drop their own software and stall the company for several years while they switched over to Windows Phone.
If they had sold Android phones while pursuing their other possibilities they would possibly not lost the brand/market like they now did.
So you don't remember how they laughed at Android and compared it with trying to keep warm in the winter by peeing in your pants? The switch to MS was more to do with hostile takeover than not a NIH problem.
If they hadn't been so damn stupid they could have joined the Android bandwagon, it's not like Samsung, HTC, LG or any of the others that joined haven't been able to also build handsets with other OSes. Big big NIH was in play here.
Or they wanted what is happening on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Stock Market right now, Nokia is up 41% and there are already (after being open for half the day) 20 times as much trades as there is on a normal day for Nokia. They large shareholders are probably selling all they can at the moment.
And that would change what? Considering the number of ISP:s that is under the NSAs thumb, you can pretty much assume that all three nodes that you use in Tor is monitored by the NSA and such they can simply do traffic analysis based on time and size of data packets. I wouldn't be too surprised if they have the capcity to inject extra data at the source ISP (say that they monitor www.groklaw.org and thus injects a large amount of extra data in the reply from the server by injecting them at the ISP-level so even Groklaw won't see it) then they can track where that extra large packet went eventually in case they didn't have access to all three nodes but only the source and destination.
Or they simply do as every other company does and uses this (celebrating the over $10 million) to get peoples attention to the project in order to get more pre-orders.
That depends upon how big you are, if you are a small company then 10000 units can be alot, the kin was made be the behemoth Microsoft that needs to sell millions of units just to break even.
Or if you had bothered to ever read the little faq on the Ubuntu Edge påage you would have discovered that they indeed will allow a refund if you are not satisfied with the end product.
It might be harder to port it to Java but then Microsoft have thousands of developers and all the money in the world so that should be quite easy for them.
Sorry, I for some reason didn't understand that your comment was regarding the GTA04, I assumed that you where talking about the Ubuntu Edge... Well so much for making an ass out of me...
The Samsung Galaxy S which was a flagship model was released this time in 2010 and it had a single core 1Ghz CPU with 512MB RAM and 16GB storage. Still GP claims that 4GM RAM, 128GB storage and "the fastest multi core processor made in 2013" would be less specs than something available in 2010??
So you didn't actually install the server version but the desktop edition. The server version does not have a boot splash and does not install X (unless you tell it to explicitly).
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The rest of us knows that -l is the first column above anyways...
No once claims that neither OpenVPN or OpenSSL are compromised. In fact it's highly unlikely that it have happened so no the NSA and others have not outwit the smart techies at all, at least there is no evidence of that happening. The people involved with OpenSSL is a very tough crowd to sneak something pass, remember that the Debian problem with OpenSSL was never sent upstream and that it was caught due to OpenSSL beeing OSS. If it had been closed, then that particular problem would never have surfaced.
The code is only 58k LOC so it's quite easy to check for backdoors if you want to. At it's core though OpenVPN uses OpenSSL for encryption which is a much better place for a backdoor. However if OpenSSL contains a backdoor then quite a lot of "safe" software is compromised.
OpenVPN consists of: xx@yy:~/openvpn-2.2.1$ cat *.c | wc
58973 179450 1502171
Quite easy to validate a mere 58k lines of code actually, especially since many of them are blank lines and comments.
The margin does not come into play here, what I said was that they could have sold Android phones while still developing their own software (and even Windows Phones). Instead they choose to completely ignore Android, drop their own software and stall the company for several years while they switched over to Windows Phone.
If they had sold Android phones while pursuing their other possibilities they would possibly not lost the brand/market like they now did.
So you don't remember how they laughed at Android and compared it with trying to keep warm in the winter by peeing in your pants? The switch to MS was more to do with hostile takeover than not a NIH problem.
OpenVPN?
If they hadn't been so damn stupid they could have joined the Android bandwagon, it's not like Samsung, HTC, LG or any of the others that joined haven't been able to also build handsets with other OSes. Big big NIH was in play here.
The numbers are almost funny, Nokia on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki market is up 41.6% since yesterday but down 41.2% since three years ago (3 sep 2010)
Or they wanted what is happening on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Stock Market right now, Nokia is up 41% and there are already (after being open for half the day) 20 times as much trades as there is on a normal day for Nokia. They large shareholders are probably selling all they can at the moment.
So giving the authorizes more means and data to track you is "to fight them" from your point of view?
And that would change what? Considering the number of ISP:s that is under the NSAs thumb, you can pretty much assume that all three nodes that you use in Tor is monitored by the NSA and such they can simply do traffic analysis based on time and size of data packets. I wouldn't be too surprised if they have the capcity to inject extra data at the source ISP (say that they monitor www.groklaw.org and thus injects a large amount of extra data in the reply from the server by injecting them at the ISP-level so even Groklaw won't see it) then they can track where that extra large packet went eventually in case they didn't have access to all three nodes but only the source and destination.
You do realise that he didn't talk about today but of when the USA was founded?
Or they simply do as every other company does and uses this (celebrating the over $10 million) to get peoples attention to the project in order to get more pre-orders.
That depends upon how big you are, if you are a small company then 10000 units can be alot, the kin was made be the behemoth Microsoft that needs to sell millions of units just to break even.
The first days pre orders are not shown on the page for some reason, that is probably why they don't add up.
Or if you had bothered to ever read the little faq on the Ubuntu Edge påage you would have discovered that they indeed will allow a refund if you are not satisfied with the end product.
the ubundu edge campain on indiegogo is escrowed, if they dont raise the $30M then everyone gets their money back.
It might be harder to port it to Java but then Microsoft have thousands of developers and all the money in the world so that should be quite easy for them.
To be honest I'm not surprised, but it's quite sickening.
Why does it cost them $112.3 million to collect this money and to distribute it. A profit margin of 12% is better than most retail businesses.
There has never been an alternative cd for the server edition, it's only the desktop edition that has an alternative.
Sorry, I for some reason didn't understand that your comment was regarding the GTA04, I assumed that you where talking about the Ubuntu Edge... Well so much for making an ass out of me...
The Samsung Galaxy S which was a flagship model was released this time in 2010 and it had a single core 1Ghz CPU with 512MB RAM and 16GB storage. Still GP claims that 4GM RAM, 128GB storage and "the fastest multi core processor made in 2013" would be less specs than something available in 2010??
So you didn't actually install the server version but the desktop edition. The server version does not have a boot splash and does not install X (unless you tell it to explicitly).