But the password "encryption" is lossy. If you still call that encryption, I'll introduce you to my nice encryption program:
#!/bin/bash rm "$1" touch "$1"
It's strictly one-way and completely unbreakable.
...for the *nix implementation.
Microsoft managed to produce an insecure implementation of that same algorigthm in DOS 5.0, easily cracked with the included UNDELETE.EXE utility. It was super efficient and could crack just about any such recently encrypted file in less than a second!
I should do that -- I wonder how much $$ I can get by publishing such an e-book? My current Face-Tweet count is at an all-time, staggering, breathtaking, death-defying, intartube-busting high of zero!
Yep, because twitter and facebook are not about reading (or information gathering) they are about self expression. Everyone's a writer nowadays, nobody is reading...
If you post self centered crap on the interwebz, and nobody cares enough to read about it, have you really "expressed" yourself?
It's the modern day version of "If a tree falls in the forest, and noone's around, does it make a sound?"
Only this one has an easy answer... it doesn't matter, because all your privacy are belong to them.
Would such a University give out degrees? I'm not sure such a thing would hold much clout. I would have to stoop to actually getting to know a potential hire from this university rather than stare at their GPA and 'work' experience!
Hey, if the news media can cite Wikipedia as a reliable source of information all the time, then we must be able to trust the quality of education one gets from some Wikiversity.
Oh, and at the Wikiversity, the philosphy of student-generated content extends to degrees. When YOU feel you have earned your degree, YOU make it so. Personally, I plan to get my first 10 degrees within a month or so of them opening.
Yeah, we are talking about people who wanted extensions. Now they might get an additional extension of a day or three, I doubt there will be much complaining there.
No, because bad things happen to phones kept in pockets.
Really? I went like 7 years with a phone on a belt holster. One got lost cuz it fell off the holster in a restaurant booth without bothering to inform me. And another one sat so that the screen faced outward, so it got cracked one day when it met face to face with the striker plate of a doorway.
Well my replacement was a 9mm thick candybar for which there was no holsters available...so I went with the pocket route since it was so thin. Had that phone for 2 years, never a single issue because of the pocket storage. Currently have a iPhone 3GS, 1 year old, pocket stored all the time, and not even a scratch on the glass.
I just read an article that states warranty companies are 82% more likely to write biased reviews about products they sell warranties for. Coincidence? Nah, it couldn't be.
Yes, it could be, but then one must also consider that 47% of statistics are made up.
So, you don't put glasses in a case; carry violins in a case; transport laptops in a case?
I don't wear glasses, but from what I've seen any of the higher end (as in not some $9.99 wallyworld specials) tend to come with a protective case for when they are not in use. The iPhone does not come with such a case, nor was it really designed to be not in use.
I am also not a musician, but I suspect the same is true with the violin. And that is something that spends way more of its life in storage/transport than your glasses or iDevice.
And while most laptops do not come with cases, I believe most people buy them because the handle/strap makes it a lot easier to carry a bulky (compared to a phone) device along with various bits like the a/c adapter, some USB drives, etc. They have padding, but that does little to protect the precious screen (which may not even be covered by glass!).
Why are we still choosing and typing in passwords? Replace the password repo with a key repo. The site should generate a large random password for each user. We could do it with the password fields now. Simply automatically generate a big (100 character), secure password when someone applies for an account and get them to cut/paste it into the password field, the browser will automatically cache it. The user never has to see it again. Hell, I bet javascript could even do it automatically.
Yeah, works great when you want to log into gmail while at your friends house to show him that hilarious chain-quoted viral-forwarded lolcat pic that's been going around.
Sounds silly, but that's a realistic scenario for which your security model completely inconveniences the user to the point of preventing them from using the system in the first place.
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But the password "encryption" is lossy. If you still call that encryption, I'll introduce you to my nice encryption program:
It's strictly one-way and completely unbreakable.
...for the *nix implementation.
Microsoft managed to produce an insecure implementation of that same algorigthm in DOS 5.0, easily cracked with the included UNDELETE.EXE utility. It was super efficient and could crack just about any such recently encrypted file in less than a second!
One way encryption is still encryption
Perhaps, although when people [ab]use the term one-way encryption they pretty much always are referring to cryptographic hashing.
I strongly suspect that the exploits try to inject platform-dependent malware, though.
Nah they write the malware in Java, too ;)
I should do that -- I wonder how much $$ I can get by publishing such an e-book? My current Face-Tweet count is at an all-time, staggering, breathtaking, death-defying, intartube-busting high of zero!
with the eyedrops that I have to deal with my cataracts then they won't be going outside
Just wait until this lady travels there!
Google has been asked to do four things before the Canadian Government would consider the matter resolved
You're going to end the summary there? What a damn cliffhanger!
Yeah, what an eh hole!.
Yep, because twitter and facebook are not about reading (or information gathering) they are about self expression. Everyone's a writer nowadays, nobody is reading...
If you post self centered crap on the interwebz, and nobody cares enough to read about it, have you really "expressed" yourself?
It's the modern day version of "If a tree falls in the forest, and noone's around, does it make a sound?"
Only this one has an easy answer... it doesn't matter, because all your privacy are belong to them.
Next thing you know we have teachers who think Linux is a Windows program and that no computer can run without a Microsoft OS.
Some do.
Malware is executable software. The evercookie isn't software, it's a simple marker.
And what puts that "simple marker" on your computer? Oh yeah, JavaScript, which last time I checked is executable software.
Let me help you find the comment page you thought you were on.
Exploit because our Web Server wasn't patched up on Windows Updates
Hacked web server, Windows, same sentence, tl;dr.
Sorry, had to ;)
Yes, better terms like, say, good hacker and bad hacker?
All I want for Christmas
is my own bot net
my own bot net
see my own bot net.
Platform independent security holes...sweet.
I just enter the uuddlrlrba and then hit the power button because I know I'm going to beat the game anyway with all those lives.
Would such a University give out degrees? I'm not sure such a thing would hold much clout. I would have to stoop to actually getting to know a potential hire from this university rather than stare at their GPA and 'work' experience!
Hey, if the news media can cite Wikipedia as a reliable source of information all the time, then we must be able to trust the quality of education one gets from some Wikiversity.
Oh, and at the Wikiversity, the philosphy of student-generated content extends to degrees. When YOU feel you have earned your degree, YOU make it so. Personally, I plan to get my first 10 degrees within a month or so of them opening.
Yeah, we are talking about people who wanted extensions. Now they might get an additional extension of a day or three, I doubt there will be much complaining there.
No, because bad things happen to phones kept in pockets.
Really? I went like 7 years with a phone on a belt holster. One got lost cuz it fell off the holster in a restaurant booth without bothering to inform me. And another one sat so that the screen faced outward, so it got cracked one day when it met face to face with the striker plate of a doorway.
Well my replacement was a 9mm thick candybar for which there was no holsters available...so I went with the pocket route since it was so thin. Had that phone for 2 years, never a single issue because of the pocket storage. Currently have a iPhone 3GS, 1 year old, pocket stored all the time, and not even a scratch on the glass.
I just read an article that states warranty companies are 82% more likely to write biased reviews about products they sell warranties for. Coincidence? Nah, it couldn't be.
Yes, it could be, but then one must also consider that 47% of statistics are made up.
So, you don't put glasses in a case; carry violins in a case; transport laptops in a case?
I don't wear glasses, but from what I've seen any of the higher end (as in not some $9.99 wallyworld specials) tend to come with a protective case for when they are not in use. The iPhone does not come with such a case, nor was it really designed to be not in use.
I am also not a musician, but I suspect the same is true with the violin. And that is something that spends way more of its life in storage/transport than your glasses or iDevice.
And while most laptops do not come with cases, I believe most people buy them because the handle/strap makes it a lot easier to carry a bulky (compared to a phone) device along with various bits like the a/c adapter, some USB drives, etc. They have padding, but that does little to protect the precious screen (which may not even be covered by glass!).
Wait, the iPhone 4 has TWO screens? Damn I am going have to get one now. Who cares if it has bad antennae, I want moar screens!
Why are we still choosing and typing in passwords? Replace the password repo with a key repo. The site should generate a large random password for each user. We could do it with the password fields now. Simply automatically generate a big (100 character), secure password when someone applies for an account and get them to cut/paste it into the password field, the browser will automatically cache it. The user never has to see it again. Hell, I bet javascript could even do it automatically.
Yeah, works great when you want to log into gmail while at your friends house to show him that hilarious chain-quoted viral-forwarded lolcat pic that's been going around.
Sounds silly, but that's a realistic scenario for which your security model completely inconveniences the user to the point of preventing them from using the system in the first place.
It would really freak people out, cause I'm 6" but they're used to looking down at me.
Being looked down upon sort of comes with the territory of being 6 inches tall.
Sorry, I had to :P
Get with the times man, Interwebz connected toasters...that is old news, like 20 years ago old even.
By 2001 toasters were already dishing out weather forecasts on bread, and in 2005 you could run Unix on one.
But alas, no IPv6 capable toasters yet :(
Apps
Or in marketing speak, "Amazon Exclusives!"