Re:Ubuntu Hacks... thanks for the review!
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Ubuntu Hacks
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I worked with Bill in one of his previous lives, and can vouch for his skills in teaching Ubuntu. He got me up, running, and addicted to this lovely distro a couple of years ago. He knows his stuff, and he's good at explaining it.
The encryption key is pretty useless unless you know what algorithm it was used with. So, of course, they'll need to have the code for the implementation of whatever encryption program you were using, which brings up a couple of interesting issues:
1) What about compression algorithms, specifically codecs? Presumably, the government will need the code for all of these patented secrets.
2) I recall seeing an algorithm, back in the 1980s, that would translate any string of bytes into a plausable description of a baseball game. This could be modified to describe any other (ahem, endless) activity (*cough*cricket*cough*). So when the government asks, what's to stop you from just handing them a random "key" and this "decryption" algorithm?
When email started, the challenge was just to make it work -- get the bits from one machine to another. Now the challenge is making it useful in a sea of spam.
The same is true for what Sklar and Graafstra are experimenting with; they're just trying to make the technology work.
There's a big difference between making a technology work and making a technology work usefully in a world of nasty, exploitive, corrupt people.
If the installed base size is the critical factor for exploit success, then why are there more successful exploits for Microsoft IIS than there are for Apache?
Have a look at what the hard-core road warriors carry -- the folks with airline status that lets them get on the plane first. You'll see one briefcase/backpack brand more than any other: Tumi. Yeah, they're expensive -- $150-600 and they never discount 'em, but they're guaranteed for life.
It will take killer abuse, protect the contents, and stay good looking doing it. I've destroyed TravelPro stuff without ever checking it. My Tumi just gets that happy 50-mission look.
The best part is that it comes witht the little talked-about Tumi SpaceWarp(TM) technology. Somehow these suckers are smaller on the outside and larger on the inside than anything else I've used. I can't believe they don't mention this in the brochures.
Take care, brad
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I worked with Bill in one of his previous lives, and can vouch for his skills in teaching Ubuntu. He got me up, running, and addicted to this lovely distro a couple of years ago. He knows his stuff, and he's good at explaining it.
Take care,
brad
The encryption key is pretty useless unless you know what algorithm it was used with. So, of course, they'll need to have the code for the implementation of whatever encryption program you were using, which brings up a couple of interesting issues:
1) What about compression algorithms, specifically codecs? Presumably, the government will need the code for all of these patented secrets.
2) I recall seeing an algorithm, back in the 1980s, that would translate any string of bytes into a plausable description of a baseball game. This could be modified to describe any other (ahem, endless) activity (*cough*cricket*cough*). So when the government asks, what's to stop you from just handing them a random "key" and this "decryption" algorithm?
Take care,
brad
Oh noooooo. Mr. Sluggo is in charge of the celebration....
OOooooooo
Think about it this way:
When email started, the challenge was just to make it work -- get the bits from one machine to another. Now the challenge is making it useful in a sea of spam.
The same is true for what Sklar and Graafstra are experimenting with; they're just trying to make the technology work.
There's a big difference between making a technology work and making a technology work usefully in a world of nasty, exploitive, corrupt people.
Take care,
brad
If the installed base size is the critical factor for exploit success, then why are there more successful exploits for Microsoft IIS than there are for Apache?
Take care,
brad
Have a look at what the hard-core road warriors carry -- the folks with airline status that lets them get on the plane first. You'll see one briefcase/backpack brand more than any other: Tumi. Yeah, they're expensive -- $150-600 and they never discount 'em, but they're guaranteed for life.
It will take killer abuse, protect the contents, and stay good looking doing it. I've destroyed TravelPro stuff without ever checking it. My Tumi just gets that happy 50-mission look.
They also have ones that are more suitable for the civilized gender.
The best part is that it comes witht the little talked-about Tumi SpaceWarp(TM) technology. Somehow these suckers are smaller on the outside and larger on the inside than anything else I've used. I can't believe they don't mention this in the brochures.
Take care,
brad
At 35, the Internet is now old enough to be President of the United States.
Take care,
brad
T-shirt: My other computer is your Windows box.
Take care,
brad
If this happens, you can add it to Heinlein's successful predictions along with waterbeds, waldos, and television on airplanes.
Take care,
brad