-jcr The trouble is, when you put together an unoptimized, unscalable, hastily coded demo to prove the feasibility of something or to make a stopgap before the real version is available the code *lasts forever*. The real version doesn't come and hack is laid on top of hack to make the demo the real thing and you own it.
Hence the quickie stopgap I put together in shell scripts and python in three months is now production code critical to a multi billion dollar business and it regularly demands attention from me and only me. The team of programmers didn't arrive.
Defeating TPM is like reproducing a functional professor zorg's guide to alien etiquette. Defeating a TPM is like recreating a TPM. It isn't that hard.
Either the game vendor's keys came with your TPM when you got it.. That's a problem.
Or the game makes a key pair in your TPM when it is installed. That is not a problem. Make your own TPM that lets you export the private keys. The application won't know the difference.
TPMs, as the spec says, do not protect against someone with physical access.
Break the underlying cryptography (AES - unlikely, SHA-1 - maybe). SHA-1's not encryption. It's a hash function. A certificate signature uses both a hash and an encryption algorithm E.G. SHA256 with RSA encryption.
The counting population of Canada is a fraction of the counting population of the USA. The population of counters rises linearly with the population of voters. The 'humans count' solution scales beautifully.
>Getting frisked, waiting in lines, and getting piddly pretzels is for us members of the great unwashed.
Some of us great unwashed who work for corporations with their own jets get to use them and avoid the airport hell.
It may be economy seating, but it is at the local airport, you park in front of the terminal, walk in, wave your badge and get on the plane. 10 Minutes from getting out of the car to being airborne.
That is about 3 hours saved at each end compared to the 'real' airport across town.
So I can fly to my destination, have a full day and fly back with no stupid 4.00am wakeup, no stupid 11.00pm return and no stupid overnight stay in a hotel where the staff steal stuff from your room.
Are you dense? Where does the electricity come from for electrolysis? How are you going to transport said hydrogen? Mass transit in America? Fat chance. Americans are too ingrained with their love of cars as if their cars were more precious than family members. Put an American in almost any European city and they will start using public transport, because it is easier than dealing with a car.
American's don't 'love' their cars. The zoning, design and construction of their homes and cities make them reliant on cars.
If the IETF or W3C or someone mandated that all internet endpoints had a locally cached copy of a Rick Astley video, then direct access to youtube isn't required and MSN's blocking could be circumvented.
I never scour the keyboard for CapsLock, because I never use CapsLock. I can press the shift key on the occasions I need to. Ctrl however, is much more useful, and would best be places in a convenient location. Hence the happy hacking keyboard.
The Caps Lock is still there. Why on Earth did they leave the Caps Lock there? I'm sticking with my happy hacking keyboard, with the much more useful Ctrl key on the left center.
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>but porting all kind of applications to the Web has some advantages that locally executed apps don't have.
That is not what I was thinking while flying 35000 feet above the Atlantic ocean last night.
I was however able to write some code and compile it with my locally executed copies of vim, gcc and cygwin.
>You obviously know nothing about nuclear weapons.
So nobody has to shoot him.
Got it, first guess.
-jcr The trouble is, when you put together an unoptimized, unscalable, hastily coded demo to prove the feasibility of something or to make a stopgap before the real version is available the code *lasts forever*. The real version doesn't come and hack is laid on top of hack to make the demo the real thing and you own it.
Hence the quickie stopgap I put together in shell scripts and python in three months is now production code critical to a multi billion dollar business and it regularly demands attention from me and only me. The team of programmers didn't arrive.
I expect this will be no different.
Either the game vendor's keys came with your TPM when you got it.. That's a problem.
Or the game makes a key pair in your TPM when it is installed. That is not a problem. Make your own TPM that lets you export the private keys. The application won't know the difference.
TPMs, as the spec says, do not protect against someone with physical access.
>>"They" don't get to authenticate anything on my machine.
>Then "You" don't get to play these games.
If it comes to that, then they're missing out on revenue. Their loss. I play Bolo.
The last time I checked, I was the one with physical access to my machine and its TPM. They keys in it are mine and mine only.
"They" don't get to authenticate anything on my machine.
For Bushnell to do what he wants to do, he requires a level of control over the initial provisioning of TPMs that he's not going to get.
A TPM is great for keeping my keys from Nolan Bushnell. It is also great to let me be sure which image of code I'm running on my machine.
It is not great at letting Nolan Bushnell look into my machine and see what code I'm running.
He smoketh the crypto crack. He should read the TPM spec and see what it really does.
>As a naive Brit who's only ever voted on paper..
Don't worry, you've comprehended it perfectly.
>Getting frisked, waiting in lines, and getting piddly pretzels is for us members of the great unwashed.
Some of us great unwashed who work for corporations with their own jets get to use them and avoid the airport hell.
It may be economy seating, but it is at the local airport, you park in front of the terminal, walk in, wave your badge and get on the plane. 10 Minutes from getting out of the car to being airborne.
That is about 3 hours saved at each end compared to the 'real' airport across town.
So I can fly to my destination, have a full day and fly back with no stupid 4.00am wakeup, no stupid 11.00pm return and no stupid overnight stay in a hotel where the staff steal stuff from your room.
American's don't 'love' their cars. The zoning, design and construction of their homes and cities make them reliant on cars.
>Alan Mathison Turing worked there and he was a homosexual.
Don't ask, don't tell.
>Whose laws of physics?
The ones verifiable through experiment.
> (they aren't secret, but private)
What is the difference?
Or you could just stop being Mormon. You don't need anyone's permission.
>FLDS != LDS.
FLDS ~= LDS
It is not the 'underwear' part that is weird, it is the 'magic' part.
I don't discriminate. Anyone thinking their clothing has properties outside the laws of physics is weird.
Non Westerners might think my preference for Marks & Spencer underwear is weird, however that is an aesthetic judgment, not a religious one.
If the IETF or W3C or someone mandated that all internet endpoints had a locally cached copy of a Rick Astley video, then direct access to youtube isn't required and MSN's blocking could be circumvented.
If it stop inconsiderate bastards leaving their dog's shit on the pavement, I'm all for it.
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
In MS Windows, try caps-as-ctrl.reg. You will need to reboot after installing.
Nahh. I just plug in my happy hacking keyboard. No config necessary.I never scour the keyboard for CapsLock, because I never use CapsLock. I can press the shift key on the occasions I need to. Ctrl however, is much more useful, and would best be places in a convenient location. Hence the happy hacking keyboard.
My happy hacking keyboard does what is required.
I'm in the market for a robust, high quality, compact keyboard with the right layout. But nothing has surpassed the happy hacking keyboard yet.
More importantly I don't want to have to fart around with keyboard maps in Linux, Windows and MacOS whenever I switch keyboard.
The Caps Lock is still there. Why on Earth did they leave the Caps Lock there? I'm sticking with my happy hacking keyboard, with the much more useful Ctrl key on the left center.