you'd think that with all the problems in the past with bind, they would have considered security to be a primary goal, not a "side effect".
But immediately below Conrad states:
I can't speak to earlier versions of BIND (I wasn't involved in their design), but security was
among the core requirements of the BIND version 9 project.
The coolest thing about my job is that Xbox is a fixed platform. Performance is my favorite thing, and for the first time since the original 4.77 MHz PC, I can actually justify taking the time to understand things down to the metal and figure out how to really optimize, because the machine is never going to change.
First time since the IBM PC this going to be a fixed platform?!? I guess he must have gone into a coma or something and completely missed the NES, Genesis, TG-16, SNES, Neo*Geo, Saturn, Play Station, etc.:-)
I think what he meant that it's the first time he could justify getting down to the metal, blah blah blah. In between he worked on PCs (WinNT and Quake IIRC).
If anyone has any actual hard evidence for or against NSA backdoors in commercial software, I'd be very interested in seeing it
Here's some reading:
This thread on SlashDot.
This article on Freedom Forum.
While those are nice reads, I'd hardly call them "hard evidence"! The FF article is hardly conclusive, and the track record for./ threads for hard information is... well, we'll say it's not so good.
According the NPR news, the judge just ordered MP3.com to pay $25,000/CD. UMG claims MP3.com copied about 10,000 CDs while MP3 says it's less than 5,000. So the total amount to be paid will vary according the number of CDs determined (by the judge?) to have been copied.
I meant that Intel should be responsible in the sense of being accountable...that is, a company should be liable for intentionally acquiring another's trade secrets.
"Why should anyone but the leakee be responsible for a corparation's inability to keep its secrets?"
Answer: Corporate espionage, for one example. If Joe Blow leaves AMD and -happens- to be hired by Intel, Intel should be responsible for publishing or using any trade secrets Joe brings with him.
I believe I have seen something like this before (but then again that's never stopped thesis authors before:). We have lots of search engines for web pages and their text. However, a crawler which goes through and indexes only images and has an attached AI unit which classifies those images somehow (that's your department) is relatively original and potentially very useful.
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But immediately below Conrad states:
So it does zone transfers, but are they by the standards? What about DNSSEC and TSIG? And DDNS? These are all pretty important standards...
If anyone has any actual hard evidence for or against NSA backdoors in commercial software, I'd be very interested in seeing it Here's some reading: This thread on SlashDot. This article on Freedom Forum. While those are nice reads, I'd hardly call them "hard evidence"! The FF article is hardly conclusive, and the track record for ./ threads for hard information is... well, we'll say it's not so good.
According the NPR news, the judge just ordered MP3.com to pay $25,000/CD. UMG claims MP3.com copied about 10,000 CDs while MP3 says it's less than 5,000. So the total amount to be paid will vary according the number of CDs determined (by the judge?) to have been copied.
I meant that Intel should be responsible in the sense of being accountable...that is, a company should be liable for intentionally acquiring another's trade secrets.
"Why should anyone but the leakee be responsible for a corparation's inability to keep its secrets?" Answer: Corporate espionage, for one example. If Joe Blow leaves AMD and -happens- to be hired by Intel, Intel should be responsible for publishing or using any trade secrets Joe brings with him.
I believe I have seen something like this before (but then again that's never stopped thesis authors before :). We have lots of search engines for web pages and their text. However, a crawler which goes through and indexes only images and has an attached AI unit which classifies those images somehow (that's your department) is relatively original and potentially very useful.