I'm kind of new to encryption, so if somebody could give me some more info, and answer me this question, that would be cool. Sorry, this is kind of off topic, but why is PGP used everywhere, and not just XOR'ed messages.
I'm not talking about simple XOR, where every character is changed by a single amount (which can be solved by running a loop 256 times), but one where each character is modified by a different value, based on a "one time pad" file.
i.e.
Bob, lets kill Joe tonight (message)
a4g6uk98hgdwegfh6532d7ih44 (key, also includes high ascii values which are not here because of the lameness filter)
gregjlghrtg095gjr234fsasdf (result, also high ascii)
I'm assuming, that without the key (or a way to duplicate it), that the message would be "unbreakable", because without knowing the key, there is no real way to decrypt the message - Sure, you can try every possible combination, and even filter out results that don't make sense (or aren't in a dictionary), but there are still thousands of
a four letter word could be
"four"
"kill"
"hell"
"fuck"
"HTML"
"idea"
"hack"
"shit"
"book"
"unix"
"1337"
"them"
"blow"
" bob"
"b ob"
"bob "
etc...
It would seem that the same restrictions apply
PGP users have to keep their private key safe, just as users of this method would have to keep their "key disk" safe.
I belive PGP can be broken with enough time / effort, as could this method, but I belive that there would be a shitload more garbage for people to sort through using this method. Besides, I'm sure that the NSA has some way of reading PGP / whatever encrypted messages already. Seriously, the stealth bomber was designed in 1970, and although it's not the "best of the best", it is still considered an acheivement today, they have some pretty nifty shit somewhere.
The advantages I see to encryption like this are:
- Keydisks can be physically destroyed quickly. Stuff on HDD's tend to stay there, you smash a CD, it breaks into several hundred pieces, tends not to be put back together.
- A message could be one of thousands of the possibilities, and without the key, it would be unknown which one was actually correct. I'm sure you'll get some great works of literature (i.e. monkeys writing shakespeare) popping out.
- With some additional ambiguity, such as codenames, possible translations of the message, padding the message with garbage values, a constant message size, bad spelling, personally giving the disk to the receipient (business card CD's would be perfect for this, although the 8cm ones look a lot cooler for this), etc.... it would seem that this system would be VERY secure.
Of course, there would be no way to prove that you didn't write "bob, lets kill the president tomorow" without handing over the key.
If anyone can help me out / unconfuse me, it would be great... Suggesting some good sources would be great too.
Thanks.
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That when the word subscription is mentiond with another company, with 9 letters, begining with M, most of/. bitches quite furiously.
Why is it that this would be different than "forced upgrading"? I don't get why this is being hailed, while MS subscriptions get shit on every time they are announced on/.
Can someone explain?
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I've heard that guam is much worse than australia - more bugs, snakes, shitty weather, while greenland is just fucking cold (and even less women)
I also think australia was a penal colony, not a marine outpost, where you got transfered to after you pissed someone important off.
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2 hours? Damn. I've built boxes while AT the fry's parking lot (because if you take it home and it is broken (likely scenario at fried, er fry's) ya gotta go back to the store again), in well under half an hour (inverters are nice). Whatever...
Though self built machines usually don't have small, cramped, super sharp-edged shitty cases (i.e. compaq, HP - though dell is fairly decent) that can only be serviced by midgets.
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that this isn't for a mission to mars, just a training mission (so all the arguements about weighing too much, sending miners and marines to mines, etc, etc are kind of moot)
but if you can bring 2 liters of any alcohol, you might as well bring 2 liters on moonshine, a few packs of coolaid, some sugar and make "nuclear slurpies". That'll warm you up on a cold night...
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I belive boiled would be more appropriate - I believe NASA "injects" several (hundred) thousand gallons of water beneath the shuttle during the launch.
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But there is a difference between a corp such as McDonalds, who was not given anything that belongs to the general public, and DirecTV
(which is owned by Hughes Electronics, which is in turn a subsidiary of General Motors) who was granted free use of a slice of spectrum.
I think extra benefits should cost more $$. If the FCC is selling parts of the spectrum, they might as well go all the way.
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Remember pets.com? Mind you, DirecTV paid how much for the spectrum that they use to Canadian (or for that matter, American) government agencies? Considering that their service is useless without a slice of spectrum, I believe that the US government is entitled to a small share of the profits.
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Yes. But there is a fundamental difference between whether somebody can receive a signal, and whether the signal received is admissible in court. Corporations are not people, therefore the "expectations of privacy" are very different.
Canadian courts ruled it fully legal and permissible to use the signals how you want. Mind you, the real thieves are the satelite companies that paid little / nothing for a slice of spectrum that they use to make billions.
Whats withe the Canadian bashing? But then I see that your grammar is well, typical of someone who attended an American public high school. Canadians may be hosers, but compared to being called (I don't know how to put this gently) a prejudiced American, it's not really an insult.
At least I can sow my flag on a backpack and not have "problems", like getting the shit beaten out of me, or being robbed. Fuck yeah, I'm a hoser. Damn proud of it too.
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Everything you mentioned - completely legal. Sorry.
It's legal to sniff emf, 802.11, cordless phone calls, the whole em spectrum is yours, as a resident of the USA to do with as you please with one or two exceptions (data received on a 900mhz can not be distributed to other parties or some other such bullshit, its also illegal to sell scanners / modchips).
As for peeping tom laws, there is a difference between receiving any EM signal, and using it in different ways. Peeping tom laws are designed to stop people from sitting outside your window with their dicks in their hands. It's legal for people to look through your windows, and even record those "signals", but not legal for them to do some crazy shit with it. The supreme court recently ruled that it is illegal for the police to drive down the streets with infra-red scanners looking for drug houses. This does not mean that infra-red scanners are illegal in general - only that use of them by police would be inadmissible as evidence.
I believe, by your arguement, you would be willing to sacrifice the freedom of the press in order to eliminate a few paparattzi (sp?)
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Pardon me. But how much did these wonderful, happy people pay for their little slice of spectrum? Which, at least at this current point in time still officially belongs to the taxpayers of the United States (in the USA)? OK. We have that down. These companies make how much every month off each paying customer - $10 (if I pay $60 a month for satelite, I'm sure they make $10 profit, they weren't exactly losing money when they were charging $20/mth/subscriber, so I feel that my estimate is very, very conservative.) ?
Multiply that by the number of subscribers.
Now, think hard about how much money the government of the USA gets from these corporations (lets not include bribes ^H ^H ^H ^H ^H ^H "campaign contributions")
Essentially these companies are ripping off the federal government, and the citizens of the USA. They sell a product for the average of $55/mth that is worth exactly $0 without the slice of the spectrum provided at little / no cost to them.
The worst part is that these bastards were making a tidy profit at $20/month, but decided to jack up prices because they knew people would pay.
Mind you, there are other places in the world besides the USA, and doing this evil thing is not a crime, nor even viewed upon as something "bad".
I'm afraid that you've been watching a bit too much American Bullshit-vision, and / or have attended an American public school. Check a world map - see all those pretty colours? Those are different countries, not American possesions / states.
And last, but not least, these wonderful people, on a day to day basis, blast you with enough radio waves, with enough power to power a pair of headphones with no external power source. No conclusive studies have shown what the effects of this amount of radiation are on the human body.
I don't pirate cable nor satelite. TV is pretty much all bullshit, with a few exceptions. Peasant vision (i.e. "free" channels) is good enough for me. Too many goddamn ads too.
And, if you want to split hairs, the satelite companies do not pay for the content, but for the delivery mechanism. The advertisers pay for the majority of the content.
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Why do they have to protect their data?
The airwaves, like it or not, belong to the public, and with one major exception, the public can do whatever the hell they want to with it.
By your analogy, if you live with a whole bunch of people in a dorm / commune / whatever, the food in the fridge belongs to everybody. (i.e. the food inside belongs to all of you, just like the radio spectrum, it is not that there is an "outsider" involved.
Mind you, you are still legally allowed to "capture" the cell phone frequencies, just illegal to create/buy a receiver, or to use / distribute the information gained.
Another fact is that the major tv companies have not paid a dime for their use of a major slice of really, really nice (one of the nicest portions of the)spectrum.
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why not? it won't hose your windows box. There is even a "security" program that kills the swap file on boot.
If you have enough ram you shouldn't even be using a swap file (I'm not, and got 768mb of ram in my 2k server box). Though I wouldn't reccomend it with 256mb of ram (although it is possible)
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Come on, even though win98 is disgustingly open by default, Linux is nothing to write home about either. A common thread between all os's is that the administrator has to know what their doing. Though I doubt that windows will be running on it.
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Victory? Bullshit.
This guy owns over 700 domains with the suffix sucks. That means he pays $28,000 just for the domains, plus whatever he pays for hosting. Every year. Mind you, thats more than I and quite literally, tens of millions of americans made last year.
If we want to factor in hosting, this guy is probably looking at a $100,000 bill each year.
Added to that - he's probably not making a profit
Even if he is buying names in bulk - for $10 a piece, that's still 7 large plus hosting - Lets not mention the fact that the legal fees associated with this must of have been quite a nice sum.
There is no victory here for the "little guy", the "little guy" doesn't have the backing to blow money defending him/herself against a corporation that literally has billions to defend itself.
The basic issue is that even frivilous lawsuits, legal challenges, etc.. are enough to either make the little guy capitulate or run out of $$.
Eventually the *sucks sites are going to be controlled by big business, or by "business interests" (i.e. the competition) - not by independent people who are the majority of the american public.
This victory is a hollow and false one - fuck you sheep who are parading this like it's the best thing since the toilet.
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I'm not talking about simple XOR, where every character is changed by a single amount (which can be solved by running a loop 256 times), but one where each character is modified by a different value, based on a "one time pad" file.
i.e.
Bob, lets kill Joe tonight (message)
a4g6uk98hgdwegfh6532d7ih44 (key, also includes high ascii values which are not here because of the lameness filter)
gregjlghrtg095gjr234fsasdf (result, also high ascii)
I'm assuming, that without the key (or a way to duplicate it), that the message would be "unbreakable", because without knowing the key, there is no real way to decrypt the message - Sure, you can try every possible combination, and even filter out results that don't make sense (or aren't in a dictionary), but there are still thousands of
a four letter word could be
"four"
"kill"
"hell"
"fuck"
"HTML"
"idea"
"hack"
"shit"
"book"
"unix"
"1337"
"them"
"blow"
" bob"
"b ob"
"bob "
etc...
It would seem that the same restrictions apply
PGP users have to keep their private key safe, just as users of this method would have to keep their "key disk" safe.
I belive PGP can be broken with enough time / effort, as could this method, but I belive that there would be a shitload more garbage for people to sort through using this method. Besides, I'm sure that the NSA has some way of reading PGP / whatever encrypted messages already. Seriously, the stealth bomber was designed in 1970, and although it's not the "best of the best", it is still considered an acheivement today, they have some pretty nifty shit somewhere.
The advantages I see to encryption like this are:
- Keydisks can be physically destroyed quickly. Stuff on HDD's tend to stay there, you smash a CD, it breaks into several hundred pieces, tends not to be put back together.
- A message could be one of thousands of the possibilities, and without the key, it would be unknown which one was actually correct. I'm sure you'll get some great works of literature (i.e. monkeys writing shakespeare) popping out.
- With some additional ambiguity, such as codenames, possible translations of the message, padding the message with garbage values, a constant message size, bad spelling, personally giving the disk to the receipient (business card CD's would be perfect for this, although the 8cm ones look a lot cooler for this), etc.... it would seem that this system would be VERY secure.
Of course, there would be no way to prove that you didn't write "bob, lets kill the president tomorow" without handing over the key.
If anyone can help me out / unconfuse me, it would be great... Suggesting some good sources would be great too.
Thanks.
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Why is it that this would be different than "forced upgrading"? I don't get why this is being hailed, while MS subscriptions get shit on every time they are announced on
Can someone explain?
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I also think australia was a penal colony, not a marine outpost, where you got transfered to after you pissed someone important off.
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Though self built machines usually don't have small, cramped, super sharp-edged shitty cases (i.e. compaq, HP - though dell is fairly decent) that can only be serviced by midgets.
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but if you can bring 2 liters of any alcohol, you might as well bring 2 liters on moonshine, a few packs of coolaid, some sugar and make "nuclear slurpies". That'll warm you up on a cold night...
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(or something)
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(which is owned by Hughes Electronics, which is in turn a subsidiary of General Motors) who was granted free use of a slice of spectrum.
I think extra benefits should cost more $$. If the FCC is selling parts of the spectrum, they might as well go all the way.
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Intercept -
To stop, deflect, or interrupt the progress or intended course of
Receive -
To take or acquire (something given, offered, or transmitted)
To hear or see (information, for example)
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Canadian courts ruled it fully legal and permissible to use the signals how you want. Mind you, the real thieves are the satelite companies that paid little / nothing for a slice of spectrum that they use to make billions.
Whats withe the Canadian bashing? But then I see that your grammar is well, typical of someone who attended an American public high school. Canadians may be hosers, but compared to being called (I don't know how to put this gently) a prejudiced American, it's not really an insult.
At least I can sow my flag on a backpack and not have "problems", like getting the shit beaten out of me, or being robbed. Fuck yeah, I'm a hoser. Damn proud of it too.
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It's legal to sniff emf, 802.11, cordless phone calls, the whole em spectrum is yours, as a resident of the USA to do with as you please with one or two exceptions (data received on a 900mhz can not be distributed to other parties or some other such bullshit, its also illegal to sell scanners / modchips).
As for peeping tom laws, there is a difference between receiving any EM signal, and using it in different ways. Peeping tom laws are designed to stop people from sitting outside your window with their dicks in their hands. It's legal for people to look through your windows, and even record those "signals", but not legal for them to do some crazy shit with it. The supreme court recently ruled that it is illegal for the police to drive down the streets with infra-red scanners looking for drug houses. This does not mean that infra-red scanners are illegal in general - only that use of them by police would be inadmissible as evidence.
I believe, by your arguement, you would be willing to sacrifice the freedom of the press in order to eliminate a few paparattzi (sp?)
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Multiply that by the number of subscribers.
Now, think hard about how much money the government of the USA gets from these corporations (lets not include bribes ^H ^H ^H ^H ^H ^H "campaign contributions")
Essentially these companies are ripping off the federal government, and the citizens of the USA. They sell a product for the average of $55/mth that is worth exactly $0 without the slice of the spectrum provided at little / no cost to them.
The worst part is that these bastards were making a tidy profit at $20/month, but decided to jack up prices because they knew people would pay.
Mind you, there are other places in the world besides the USA, and doing this evil thing is not a crime, nor even viewed upon as something "bad".
I'm afraid that you've been watching a bit too much American Bullshit-vision, and / or have attended an American public school. Check a world map - see all those pretty colours? Those are different countries, not American possesions / states.
And last, but not least, these wonderful people, on a day to day basis, blast you with enough radio waves, with enough power to power a pair of headphones with no external power source. No conclusive studies have shown what the effects of this amount of radiation are on the human body.
I don't pirate cable nor satelite. TV is pretty much all bullshit, with a few exceptions. Peasant vision (i.e. "free" channels) is good enough for me. Too many goddamn ads too.
And, if you want to split hairs, the satelite companies do not pay for the content, but for the delivery mechanism. The advertisers pay for the majority of the content.
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is dead now.
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The airwaves, like it or not, belong to the public, and with one major exception, the public can do whatever the hell they want to with it.
By your analogy, if you live with a whole bunch of people in a dorm / commune / whatever, the food in the fridge belongs to everybody. (i.e. the food inside belongs to all of you, just like the radio spectrum, it is not that there is an "outsider" involved.
Mind you, you are still legally allowed to "capture" the cell phone frequencies, just illegal to create/buy a receiver, or to use / distribute the information gained.
Another fact is that the major tv companies have not paid a dime for their use of a major slice of really, really nice (one of the nicest portions of the)spectrum.
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If you have enough ram you shouldn't even be using a swap file (I'm not, and got 768mb of ram in my 2k server box). Though I wouldn't reccomend it with 256mb of ram (although it is possible)
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This guy owns over 700 domains with the suffix sucks. That means he pays $28,000 just for the domains, plus whatever he pays for hosting. Every year. Mind you, thats more than I and quite literally, tens of millions of americans made last year.
If we want to factor in hosting, this guy is probably looking at a $100,000 bill each year.
Added to that - he's probably not making a profit
Even if he is buying names in bulk - for $10 a piece, that's still 7 large plus hosting - Lets not mention the fact that the legal fees associated with this must of have been quite a nice sum.
There is no victory here for the "little guy", the "little guy" doesn't have the backing to blow money defending him/herself against a corporation that literally has billions to defend itself.
The basic issue is that even frivilous lawsuits, legal challenges, etc.. are enough to either make the little guy capitulate or run out of $$.
Eventually the *sucks sites are going to be controlled by big business, or by "business interests" (i.e. the competition) - not by independent people who are the majority of the american public.
This victory is a hollow and false one - fuck you sheep who are parading this like it's the best thing since the toilet.
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