Wasnt there a decision in Europe a few years ago about closed interfaces between software/hardware components that allowed one to reverse engineer anything in order to build a complimantary product?
business.com was sold a while back? I'm pretty damn sure that it was sold a couple years ago for approx. $750,000. If that's the case, I'd say this guy made a nice turnover on profit. If anybody can confirm this, I'd appreciate it.
I was wondering about that too. I've always thought it was easier to compromise a person than crypto anyway, so it would be easier to just shell out moolah to a disgruntled someone instead of all the cloak 'n dagger shenanagins. I like the super secret naming of the key too - "NSAKEY" Gee, who's that for? Not the NSA, they're not that obvious.....
On the flight topic, Being an american I have to bring up the Wrights. I'm not saying that they were first, but the american public school system seems to think so. Is there any proof? Anything I could look at while Im at work, for instance?
True - Where there was no sherrif to get the bad guys you had a mob go do it instead. Only problem is that sometimes they got the right guy, sometimes not. But hey, I guess that is still true in our legal system sometimes, but being an optimist I'd say less often than the mob-ruled justice system.
It's the wild west in here, Baby! Really - It seems that we're on a frontier and things are going to be wild for quite a while untill the new-ness wears off. Ethics will develop themselves in this industry just as they have in others. Im not saying that all industries are ethical, but they do eventually develop some sense of what is right and wrong. Give it time.
How do they "Spot the Fed" anyway? Wouldnt the Fed probably just be a normal looking guy? I dont think they would send in a square-jawed, clean-shaven, charcoal-suit-wearin, earphone-listenin, ray-ban sportin guy/girl. (But I would wear that just to get a reaction:) )
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Wasnt there a decision in Europe a few years ago about closed interfaces between software/hardware components that allowed one to reverse engineer anything in order to build a complimantary product?
Could this fall under the same legal umbrella?
business.com was sold a while back? I'm pretty damn sure that it was sold a couple years ago for approx. $750,000. If that's the case, I'd say this guy made a nice turnover on profit. If anybody can confirm this, I'd appreciate it.
I was wondering about that too. I've always thought it was easier to compromise a person than crypto anyway, so it would be easier to just shell out moolah to a disgruntled someone instead of all the cloak 'n dagger shenanagins. I like the super secret naming of the key too - "NSAKEY" Gee, who's that for? Not the NSA, they're not that obvious.....
On the flight topic, Being an american I have to bring up the Wrights. I'm not saying that they were first, but the american public school system seems to think so. Is there any proof? Anything I could look at while Im at work, for instance?
True - Where there was no sherrif to get the bad guys you had a mob go do it instead. Only problem is that sometimes they got the right guy, sometimes not. But hey, I guess that is still true in our legal system sometimes, but being an optimist I'd say less often than the mob-ruled justice system.
It's the wild west in here, Baby! Really - It seems that we're on a frontier and things are going to be wild for quite a while untill the new-ness wears off. Ethics will develop themselves in this industry just as they have in others. Im not saying that all industries are ethical, but they do eventually develop some sense of what is right and wrong. Give it time.
How do they "Spot the Fed" anyway? Wouldnt the Fed probably just be a normal looking guy? I dont think they would send in a square-jawed, clean-shaven, charcoal-suit-wearin, earphone-listenin, ray-ban sportin guy/girl. (But I would wear that just to get a reaction :) )