For various reasons, including device security, if you create an image of an encrypted volume you change its hash value - rendering the data completely useless even if you had the correct key. Even if you then copied the data back to the original drive - the hash would change again. When you encrypt a volume you have to do it in situ if you want to ever stand a chance of recovering it.
This is not correct. There is nothing magical about encrypted data, it can be copied just like any other stream of bits.
...or bootlegging albums (like in a famous recent case in Canada), sending DMCA requests for works they don't own, chargin royalties on blank media, etc. It does make me chuckle - in a disgusted sort of way - whenever that industry attempts anything like an ethical argument.
This kind of plays into the whole ethical/lawful debate. From what it appears, the majority don't have a big ethical problem with buying a handbag designed to look like someone else's. What does that mean, and what really causes the most benefit vs harm?
I see your point - although I wanted to point out that censorship goes well beyond 'offending' me - sort of like I would be "offended" if you stabbed me:)
I've often thought that a good balance for news laws would be to either pass them with a huge majority or "pay for them" by sacrificing a different law, to try and prevent a huge mass of largely ineffective laws from taking place.
Of course, there is always the consideration that passing laws left and right is just to mkae everyone guilty, and then using selective enforcement as a form of unilateral control while "only punishing lawbreakers".
Maybe piracy evolved to be as prevalent as it is today _because_ of market forces balancing out the effect of a general perception of "unfair" copyright terms.
In economics we speak in terms of equity; i.e. "fairness", and that capitalism, for all it's strneghts, does not gaurantee equity. Perhaps the invisible hand of the market does, in fact, cover equity as well, it just manifests itself as piracy.
It sounds like our current congress requires constant pressure to listen to the people.
I wouldn't put up with an employee that required constant oversight to do what I ask him; why is it tolerated with the public servants of our country - of the people?
Maybe the problem is having a business model that is incompatible with sharing of information.
From the inception of the information revolution, information became easy to copy. It will be that way until you take away all computers and networks.
The real question - is there something we can do to reduce the damages these powerful industries do, while kicking and screaming on their way to irrelevance?
It's not really "Is the climate changing." The climate changes all the time, from short to long term. The question is - are WE causing the climate change?
I've been using Arch for years, and the constant flow of virii and rootkits that were deluging me might finally go away! With all the recent news of linux package repositories being the main vector of all these advanced persistent threats my CPO (Chief Pentest Officer) has been telling me about, I can now breath a sigh of relief.
from MS will be the ability to run the GUI application on the headless server, but have it show up on your client. Eventually, they will have encrypted command channels too, and maybe a 3rd party will make a compression plugin for low-latency links. Maybe antoher 3rd party will setup some kind of easy public-key authentication scheme for arbitrary (i.e. non AD hosts).
In the meantime, I'll just ssh -XC like I have been doing in the *nix world for the past 10 years.
I used to release works that I made under MIT or artistic - thinking the GPL was too extreme for my tastes. It is becoming clear to me that businesses _predictably_ try to "proprietize" anything they can - morals are never part of the equation. The only defense you have when writing software for the public (and keep it that way) is the include clear, strong, and pervasive licenses such as the GPL.
The legal framework we live in, at least here stateside, basically demands we protect our works' right to be free and shared in an active fashion. Corporations only have incentives to try and lock down and monopolize anything they can - it makes sense and history continues to repeat itself. Looks like RMS was right; everything I write is GPL from here on out.
Copyright, trademark, and patents are all different - please don't confuse them, the same people that invented the propaganda term "IP" are the same that would love the confusion to grow.
They have different purposes, cover completely different ideas, and are definitely not interchangeable.
She should take a hint from KFC, not fulfill the promise, and just delay it in courts until it turns into a $3 coupon years later that requires OCD record keeping to capitalize on.
Oh wait, this is a small business, those don't hold voting rights in our corporatocracy.
Person 1 wants money, and person 2 wants to give it to them. Person 2 has lots of money to spend that he's trusted with by other people, so he can't just give the money to person 1, so he comes up with a way to include it as part of a bigger deal that looks like business.
Sounds like the textbook definition of corruption I learned in macro econ in highschool. This clumsy scheme is just above obvious, too. I guess it works so well with Chertoff and Rapiscan, hell, why even try to hide it anymore?
Wallstreet should get a clue - they don't need to create 5 layers of finiancial instruments to hide corruption anymore - this is 2011. The govt does whatever the hell it wants, and if you don't like it the media will paint you to be an unwashed mass who needs "to get a job".
Right after the Columbine thing happend (I was in highschool), the school I was at started banning stuff left and right. Noting the ridiculousness in a very similar fashion to waht you are doing here, me and a few buddies printed out a ream of flyers declaring that "Sharp writing utensils, including pencils and pens will be confiscated" and that you have to use "approved safe" writing instruments like markers and crayons.
We then snuck out during an assembly and taped them up everywhere. Amazing, noone got caught - but it was effective. A few students took them home, some discussion started, and some of the bans were lifted (including dusters/long coats).
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Wouldn't work.
For various reasons, including device security, if you create an image of an encrypted volume you change its hash value - rendering the data completely useless even if you had the correct key. Even if you then copied the data back to the original drive - the hash would change again. When you encrypt a volume you have to do it in situ if you want to ever stand a chance of recovering it.
This is not correct. There is nothing magical about encrypted data, it can be copied just like any other stream of bits.
I usually try to. Right now, I honestly can't think anything but
FUCK the TSA, everything they do, and everything they stand for.
when the US introduced this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtILxBszyf8 to Canada, and it took off there like crazy :P
...or bootlegging albums (like in a famous recent case in Canada), sending DMCA requests for works they don't own, chargin royalties on blank media, etc. It does make me chuckle - in a disgusted sort of way - whenever that industry attempts anything like an ethical argument.
This kind of plays into the whole ethical/lawful debate. From what it appears, the majority don't have a big ethical problem with buying a handbag designed to look like someone else's. What does that mean, and what really causes the most benefit vs harm?
I see your point - although I wanted to point out that censorship goes well beyond 'offending' me - sort of like I would be "offended" if you stabbed me :)
I've often thought that a good balance for news laws would be to either pass them with a huge majority or "pay for them" by sacrificing a different law, to try and prevent a huge mass of largely ineffective laws from taking place.
Of course, there is always the consideration that passing laws left and right is just to mkae everyone guilty, and then using selective enforcement as a form of unilateral control while "only punishing lawbreakers".
Maybe piracy evolved to be as prevalent as it is today _because_ of market forces balancing out the effect of a general perception of "unfair" copyright terms.
In economics we speak in terms of equity; i.e. "fairness", and that capitalism, for all it's strneghts, does not gaurantee equity.
Perhaps the invisible hand of the market does, in fact, cover equity as well, it just manifests itself as piracy.
Interesting. I think your point is both insightful and brings up a good point, and yet you posted AC. My paradigm just broke.
It sounds like our current congress requires constant pressure to listen to the people.
I wouldn't put up with an employee that required constant oversight to do what I ask him; why is it tolerated with the public servants of our country - of the people?
Maybe the problem is having a business model that is incompatible with sharing of information.
From the inception of the information revolution, information became easy to copy. It will be that way until you take away all computers and networks.
The real question - is there something we can do to reduce the damages these powerful industries do, while kicking and screaming on their way to irrelevance?
It's not really "Is the climate changing." The climate changes all the time, from short to long term.
The question is - are WE causing the climate change?
I've been using Arch for years, and the constant flow of virii and rootkits that were deluging me might finally go away!
With all the recent news of linux package repositories being the main vector of all these advanced persistent threats my CPO (Chief Pentest Officer) has been telling me about, I can now breath a sigh of relief.
from MS will be the ability to run the GUI application on the headless server, but have it show up on your client. Eventually, they will have encrypted command channels too, and maybe a 3rd party will make a compression plugin for low-latency links. Maybe antoher 3rd party will setup some kind of easy public-key authentication scheme for arbitrary (i.e. non AD hosts).
In the meantime, I'll just ssh -XC like I have been doing in the *nix world for the past 10 years.
I used to release works that I made under MIT or artistic - thinking the GPL was too extreme for my tastes.
It is becoming clear to me that businesses _predictably_ try to "proprietize" anything they can - morals are never part of the equation. The only defense you have when writing software for the public (and keep it that way) is the include clear, strong, and pervasive licenses such as the GPL.
The legal framework we live in, at least here stateside, basically demands we protect our works' right to be free and shared in an active fashion. Corporations only have incentives to try and lock down and monopolize anything they can - it makes sense and history continues to repeat itself. Looks like RMS was right; everything I write is GPL from here on out.
Copyright, trademark, and patents are all different - please don't confuse them, the same people that invented the propaganda term "IP" are the same that would love the confusion to grow.
They have different purposes, cover completely different ideas, and are definitely not interchangeable.
QT Designer is quite good.
She should take a hint from KFC, not fulfill the promise, and just delay it in courts until it turns into a $3 coupon years later that requires OCD record keeping to capitalize on.
Oh wait, this is a small business, those don't hold voting rights in our corporatocracy.
You sound pretty biased. You sound like someone who inherited an all Oracle shop. Sorry :P
How do you know he violated his oaths?
Oh shit, yeah - that's what a trial is for - my bad.
Well, set us straight then.
Person 1 wants money, and person 2 wants to give it to them. Person 2 has lots of money to spend that he's trusted with by other people, so he can't just give the money to person 1, so he comes up with a way to include it as part of a bigger deal that looks like business.
Sounds like the textbook definition of corruption I learned in macro econ in highschool. This clumsy scheme is just above obvious, too. I guess it works so well with Chertoff and Rapiscan, hell, why even try to hide it anymore?
Wallstreet should get a clue - they don't need to create 5 layers of finiancial instruments to hide corruption anymore - this is 2011. The govt does whatever the hell it wants, and if you don't like it the media will paint you to be an unwashed mass who needs "to get a job".
Sorry, I started to vent a little there.
Right after the Columbine thing happend (I was in highschool), the school I was at started banning stuff left and right. Noting the ridiculousness in a very similar fashion to waht you are doing here, me and a few buddies printed out a ream of flyers declaring that "Sharp writing utensils, including pencils and pens will be confiscated" and that you have to use "approved safe" writing instruments like markers and crayons.
We then snuck out during an assembly and taped them up everywhere. Amazing, noone got caught - but it was effective. A few students took them home, some discussion started, and some of the bans were lifted (including dusters/long coats).
It was the proudest moment of highschool for me :)
Nice. I'll have to check out your SIMple software, although I'm going to come right out and say you didn't pick a very google friendly name :P
Someone has thought of the kids!! http://maketecheasier.com/doudoulinux-a-fun-linux-distro-for-kids/2010/11/26