Q: How safe are these transactions? Can't someone intercept the data or get incorrectly charged for purchases when carrying the card?
A: These transactions are just as safe as, if not more safe than, traditional payment transactions, as the PayPass feature incorporates special security technology to prevent "replay" fraud. MasterCard PayPass also provides more consumer control, since the card doesn't have to leave your hands to be swiped by the merchant. Additionally, MasterCard PayPass provides zero liability in North America, just like all MasterCard payment programs.
No It's not "like walking around with my card number tattooed on my forehead"
It doesn't really look like RFID more like a multipart handshake based on RFID technology
The article suggests in option (c) copying the secure WMA files to the PC and then burning these WMA files to a standard CD, and then use iTunes to rip the songs.
What's the quality going to be like after all this format conversion?
Tosh Brick PCMCI Cards
Netgear 802.11b wireless
3Com abg wireless (madwifi)
IBM abg wireless (bit duff hence the 3Com)
2 * Symbol 2Mb/s 8-2.11 FHSS (Can anybody help get these working in linux)
Breezecom 2Mb/s 802.11 FHSS
Netgear 10/100 Ethernet
Madge 16/4 Cardbus
Compact Flash -> PCMCIA
3G/GPRS
Cables
USB Serial
D9M-D9F
D9F-D9F Null modem
Cisco rollover
Satelcom Megapac Console (Bet no-one eles has one of these)
various 9-25 and 25-25 pin serial adapters
Cat 5, Cat5 crossover
Stubby ratchet screwdriver Small philips screwdriver (Small flathead missing) Own up if your out there
Knoppix 3.9, 3.8 with qemu, 3.81, 3.7 Debian 3.1 Free from magazine SUSE 9.2 Free from magazine Fedora core 4 ditto
Ecklestone excellent, Piper fit, a little scarey for the kids, but that's how it should be. Son 7 didn't hide behind the sofa but we'll see if he has nigntmares tonight. No Daleks yet but zombified shop window dummies and a man eating, burping wheely bin.
from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/faq.html
1.3 Which OSes run on Xen? To achieve such high performance, Xen requires that OSes are ported to run on it. So far we have stable ports of Linux 2.4, Linux 2.6, and NetBSD. Ports of FreeBSD and Plan 9 are nearing completion.
The privacy lobby has a very loud voice, sure the retailers would like to embed but at first this just won't happen. The last thing that the retailers want is bad publicity and the loss of custom.
Sure there is so much that they could do, ie write who when and where the item was bought into a RW tag, but at the moment this is seen as publicly unacceptable.
RF tags have so many more uses than building customer profiles and spying on your customers. Stock management is the primary driver at the moment.
I'm not sure why they need RFID for '"inventry control" (anti shoplifting)' these tags have been around for decades.
Of course they dont want you to be able to move tags around between items, but then the same goes for tags with bar codes.
The public wont accept embedded tags (yet) so we will see a lot of removeable tags and soon.
Answer me this. Would you have a problem buying a pair of shoes with an obvious RFID tag that was removed at the point of sale.
I wouldn't have a problem, but I wouldn't be happy buying the same with the tag embedded in the sole. Do you think that a major retailer would risk it?
RFID can be implemented by retailers without affecting the customer's privacy.
The simple solution is not to embed the tag within the garment but for the tag takes the form of a label that is removed at the point of sale
The retailer gets full advantage of the tags within their stock chain. The purchaser has no privacy issues. Additionally the retailer also has the advantage that the tag can be reused.
Q: Does GRUB work with XFS? Yes there is native XFS filesystem support for GRUB starting with version 0.91 and up. There is a GRUB rpm that supports XFS in the download section for the 1.0.2 installer on the FTP sites.
Q: Does LILO work with XFS? This depens on where you install LILO. For MBR installation: Yes. For root partitions: No, because the XFS superblock goes where LILO would be installed. This is to maintain compatibility with the Irix on-disk format. This will not be changed. Putting the Superblock on the swap partition is reported to work but not guaranteed.
I can see no reason that cisco use GPL software as long as they comply with the licence.
I seem to remember about a year ago a small stink being kicked up about the use of GPL software in their 6500 series Network Analysis Module.
Since the stink there have been references to the following licenses on their website under the NAM and IDS modules
Apache, BSD, expat, GPL, LGPL, JDOM, STLPort
Also the notes for the NAM documents the following
GNU General Public License The Catalyst 6500 Network Analysis Module contains software covered under the GNU Public License (listed below). If you would like to obtain the source for the modified GPL code in the Network Analysis Module, please send a request to nam_sw_req@Cisco.com.
I think that something similar for the Linksys stuff would be very nice, their probobly working on it internally right now.
It is not a simple case of removing the tag when you leave the store. These tags will be sewn behind labels and in seams.
Some of the tags are read-write. What is written to the tag at the point of purchase is up to the retailer. Date sold, price paid, customer number (linked to credit records).
In addition it is possible to not only identify the product number but also configure a serial number.
So as you walk through the door of the store, You can be identified by your shoes and jacket. The store now that you only ever buy during the sale, you have a bad credit payment history and that you wareing your wife's underware.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/pdfdocs/colourmap.gif
"Without that keyword, the code-sheet is useless."
But having the code-sheet would make it trivial to brute force the passwords.
From http://www.mastercard.com/aboutourcards/faqs.html# q5 www.mastercard.com
Q: How safe are these transactions? Can't someone intercept the data or get incorrectly charged for purchases when carrying the card?
A: These transactions are just as safe as, if not more safe than, traditional payment transactions, as the PayPass feature incorporates special security technology to prevent "replay" fraud. MasterCard PayPass also provides more consumer control, since the card doesn't have to leave your hands to be swiped by the merchant. Additionally, MasterCard PayPass provides zero liability in North America, just like all MasterCard payment programs.
No It's not "like walking around with my card number tattooed on my forehead"
It doesn't really look like RFID more like a multipart handshake based on RFID technology
"burn the music back to CD and rip it again".
The article suggests in option (c) copying the secure WMA files to the PC and then burning these WMA files to a standard CD, and then use iTunes to rip the songs.
What's the quality going to be like after all this format conversion?
What's im mine
Tosh
Brick
PCMCI Cards
Netgear 802.11b wireless
3Com abg wireless (madwifi)
IBM abg wireless (bit duff hence the 3Com)
2 * Symbol 2Mb/s 8-2.11 FHSS (Can anybody help get these working in linux)
Breezecom 2Mb/s 802.11 FHSS
Netgear 10/100 Ethernet
Madge 16/4 Cardbus
Compact Flash -> PCMCIA
3G/GPRS
Cables
USB Serial
D9M-D9F
D9F-D9F Null modem
Cisco rollover
Satelcom Megapac Console (Bet no-one eles has one of these)
various 9-25 and 25-25 pin serial adapters
Cat 5, Cat5 crossover
Stubby ratchet screwdriver
Small philips screwdriver
(Small flathead missing) Own up if your out there
Knoppix 3.9, 3.8 with qemu, 3.81, 3.7
Debian 3.1 Free from magazine
SUSE 9.2 Free from magazine
Fedora core 4 ditto
Cable ties
Thinnet T Piece (No I dont know why)
Good one Larry, had us going
I won't have had this much fun in months!
:)
:(
I can see a giant flashing neon sign above your head that says "VIRGIN"
Or "MARRIED"
How are some of our other old friends doing.
Modern NOS's have nearly caught up with where Banyan Vines was 15 years ago. Dont flame me I said nearly.
Doh, "Smacks Head"
Thanks for the whack with the clue stick.
Let's see if I gan get my brian out of neutral before my next post.
krrrrunnnnch
What I find even more odd is that the ripples are to the left of the moon on the inside of it's orbit and to the right on the outside.
Would you not expect the ripples to be behind the moon's direction of motion?
slashnik
Ade would have been perfect as the new Doctor, (-DM's and forehead studs) never mind maybe next time
It may or may not be junk today, however what a Cisco router does is not rocket science.
It is about time that someone put Cisco under some price pressure. A little competition in the market can only be good for the end user.
Another near monopoly to come crashing down.
Cisco, time to pull your finger out.
Wife has just smacked me round the ear
The daughter's seven, the son's nearly nine.
Think I'll shutdown and catchup on how the family's doning.
No I haven't been that busy, I think the laptops cooking my bollocks.
Pretty good
Ecklestone excellent, Piper fit, a little scarey for the kids, but that's how it should be. Son 7 didn't hide behind the sofa but we'll see if he has nigntmares tonight. No Daleks yet but zombified shop window dummies and a man eating, burping wheely bin.
Best since Tom Baker
Can't wait for next week
or even
4 /Monitoring/plume_in_the_evening_8march05.html
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Eruption0
slashnik
How can this guy call this a Merlin Engine.
Doesn't Rolls Royce have the trademark on this?
Plato said that Atlantis existed West of the Pillars of Hercules (Generally accepted to be the Rock of Gibralta). Has Cyprus moved.
More to the point with the rise is sea level over the past 10,000 years we should expect to find signs of lost civilisation below current sea level.
Why do they always have to be Atlantis?
slashnik
from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/faq .html
1.3 Which OSes run on Xen?
To achieve such high performance, Xen requires that OSes are ported to run on it. So far we have stable ports of Linux 2.4, Linux 2.6, and NetBSD. Ports of FreeBSD and Plan 9 are nearing completion.
I don't get it!
But it is happening
The privacy lobby has a very loud voice, sure the retailers would like to embed but at first this just won't happen. The last thing that the retailers want is bad publicity and the loss of custom.
Sure there is so much that they could do, ie write who when and where the item was bought into a RW tag, but at the moment this is seen as publicly unacceptable.
RF tags have so many more uses than building customer profiles and spying on your customers. Stock management is the primary driver at the moment.
I'm not sure why they need RFID for '"inventry control" (anti shoplifting)' these tags have been around for decades.
Of course they dont want you to be able to move tags around between items, but then the same goes for tags with bar codes.
The public wont accept embedded tags (yet) so we will see a lot of removeable tags and soon.
Answer me this. Would you have a problem buying a pair of shoes with an obvious RFID tag that was removed at the point of sale.
I wouldn't have a problem, but I wouldn't be happy buying the same with the tag embedded in the sole.
Do you think that a major retailer would risk it?
If they did could they keep a lid on it
slashnik
RFID can be implemented by retailers without affecting the customer's privacy.
The simple solution is not to embed the tag within the garment but for the tag takes the form of a label that is removed at the point of sale
The retailer gets full advantage of the tags within their stock chain.
The purchaser has no privacy issues.
Additionally the retailer also has the advantage that the tag can be reused.
slashnik
Grub's OK
Q: Does GRUB work with XFS?
Yes there is native XFS filesystem support for GRUB starting with version 0.91 and up. There is a GRUB rpm that supports XFS in the download section for the 1.0.2 installer on the FTP sites.
Be careful those of you who still use lilo
Q: Does LILO work with XFS?
This depens on where you install LILO. For MBR installation: Yes. For root partitions: No, because the XFS superblock goes where LILO would be installed. This is to maintain compatibility with the Irix on-disk format. This will not be changed. Putting the Superblock on the swap partition is reported to work but not guaranteed.
I can see no reason that cisco use GPL software as long as they comply with the licence.
I seem to remember about a year ago a small stink being kicked up about the use of GPL software in their 6500 series Network Analysis Module.
Since the stink there have been references to the following licenses on their website under the NAM and IDS modules
Apache, BSD, expat, GPL, LGPL, JDOM, STLPort
Also the notes for the NAM documents the following
GNU General Public License
The Catalyst 6500 Network Analysis Module contains software covered under the GNU Public License (listed below). If you would like to obtain the source for the modified GPL code in the Network Analysis Module, please send a request to nam_sw_req@Cisco.com.
I think that something similar for the Linksys stuff would be very nice, their probobly working on it internally right now.
slashnik
It is not a simple case of removing the tag when you leave the store. These tags will be sewn behind labels and in seams.
Some of the tags are read-write. What is written to the tag at the point of purchase is up to the retailer. Date sold, price paid, customer number (linked to credit records).
In addition it is possible to not only identify the product number but also configure a serial number.
So as you walk through the door of the store, You can be identified by your shoes and jacket. The store now that you only ever buy during the sale, you have a bad credit payment history and that you wareing your wife's underware.
slashnik