That's not an argument against using x as a security strategy, it's an argument against removing x.
When x can be removed by someone else, then "security through x" is not security at all. When x = obscurity, any desktop search tool will do the trick. When x = filesystem rights, anybody with a bootable CD can read the filesystem as root. When x = strong encryption, now you're talking.
...it becomes easier to see the "security through obscurity" really doesn't work. It's not that a desktop search compromises security, it's that the security wasn't there in the first place.
Technically, searching for Bush would would turn up even more hits, since he shows up in non-capaign releated news too, but you can see a pattern here.
Somewhat OT, but this is as good a place to ask as any. Has Kerry dropped any hints about who he would select for AG? A (brief) google search turned up nada for me.
I blame Ashcroft fully for rolling over on Microsoft. The Patriot Act land-grab was no big suprise after that.
Most slashdotters are computer geeks: probably true. Most homeschooling families are bible-pounders: demonstrably untrue.
As a geeky/.er and a recent non-bible-pounding homeschool parent, I would have to disagree with the last part of this statement. Most other homeschooling families that I have personally met and spoken with choose homeschool for religious reasons. Also, the *vast* majority of commercially available homeschool material is marketted as having a religious slant. We choose to start homeschooling one of our children for other reasons, but the more I learn about the homeschool community, the more I feel that we are in the minority (a growing minorty, but still).
Not that being a minority is a bad thing. Our experience with homeschool so far has been rewarding and I would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone considering giving it a shot. It's not easy, but you and your child will get back far more than you put into it.
they lose no rights to the trademark if the rest of the world uses it as a generic name.
Like Kleenex and Q-tip. People generically refer to tissues as Kleenex no matter what the band name is (Puffs, actual Kleenex, Wal-Mart Great Value Tissues, etc.). Apple would love that sort of name recognition from the public.
It's boilerplate text used in any serious IE vulnerability report. Google for
site:cert.org "use a different web browser"
and include the omitted similar entries, and you will find no less that eight Vulnerability Notes, the highest-numbered of which is "US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#784102". All eight contain a paragraph similar to the following:
Use a different web browser
There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser. Such a decision may, however, reduce the functionality of sites that require IE-specific features such as DHTML, VBScript, and ActiveX. Note that using a different web browser will not remove IE from a Windows system, and other programs may invoke IE, the WebBrowser ActiveX control, or the HTML rendering engine (MSHTML).
CERT recommending dumping IE is old news. The only thing that's newsworthy about this story is the fact that mainstream media has finally picked up on it.
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I hear a lot of rhetoric about this sometimes quoted "right" on these boards. I think many would see a bill like this to be open season on P2P sharing again.
Open season? Did the season ever close? Anybody "on these boards" with a desire to share protected content probably has enough Google skillz to circumvent the lame DVD and CD encryption in use now. DRM is only a hinderance to ordinary citizens who want to use the media that they bought and paid for.
Froogle roolz. I ordered my USR5610B from Eagle for about $50 with tax/shipping/etc, and it was backordered for about 3 weeks, but it did come eventually. Plugged and played, no drivers, no nuthin. Research vendors with care.
Late 80's to early 90's corprate-owned stores had Xenix 386 machines for management functions. POS was proprietary but linked to the xenix box by coax ethernet (this was a *long* time ago).
Franchise-owned stores had a lot of leeway in selecting their own equipment, and were usually more cost-concious (ie low-end). They should be all over Linux if only for the free-as-in-beer aspect.
Anyone who is willing to dump MFC for a better thing, and has their eyes on the future, is likely to head.NET-ward anyway.
MS is busy herding all the cattle toward.NET and there are rumors of a new installer for Longhorn. Could it be that everything that MS is releasing as open-source (WIX and WTL) is simply abandon-ware?
"MS plans new vaporware campaign for X software package to compete with Y competitor. Could this be the end for Y's software Z?"
Unfortunately, expirience shows that more than once, the answer to this question has been "Yes, it is the end of Y's software Z". Microsoft has killed more than one company with toxic vapor.
The one thing Macromedia has going for it is a huge installed base of web pages with Flash content. However, with the plugin API of MSIE being crippled over the Eolas patent, a large portiion of that installed base is being shot down (yes MS has posted "guidelines" for modifying pages to work in the new scheme, but what about unmaintained pages?). The plugin breakage coupled with vaporware threats start looking a bit more ominous.
I noticed in Hannibal that Agent Starling used an iMac, but the mental hospital orderly used NetZero on a windows laptop, and the crooked italian cop used Internet Explorer to log in to the FBI web site.
That settles it. Bad guys use windows, and good guys don't.
If LKML, KernelTrap, Slashdot, and Newsforge stories all qualify as secret, that is.
... the Free Software Foundation, a Boston-based group that controls the licensing process for Linux and other "free" programs,
I don't know about "controlling" the licensing. They wrote the license, Linus and various other project maintainers chose to use the license. There is not much "control" to be wielded here. Open is open.
...has been making threats to Cisco Systems and Broadcom over a networking router that runs the Linux operating system.
The first actual statement of fact in the article, even though "threats" might be a bit of a stretch. Moglen was quoted farther down that all of his conversations had been ammicable and that a resolution would probably be reached without going to court. That doesn't sound very threatening.
They're one of the perpetual Unix licensees from way back -- ESR.
...so HP has seen SCO's source. They *know* that there is no merit to SCO's claims. If there were a hint of a claim, you can bet that they wouldn't be leaving their asses uncovered with an indemnification offer.
A quick google on todays event turns up surpisingly little. It is shameful how the media conglomerates are sweeping DMCA related stories under the rug.
Slashdot Mirror
Fine, Friendly, Freakin, ... take your pick. See also: FVWM.
That's not an argument against using x as a security strategy, it's an argument against removing x.
When x can be removed by someone else, then "security through x" is not security at all. When x = obscurity, any desktop search tool will do the trick. When x = filesystem rights, anybody with a bootable CD can read the filesystem as root. When x = strong encryption, now you're talking.
...it becomes easier to see the "security through obscurity" really doesn't work. It's not that a desktop search compromises security, it's that the security wasn't there in the first place.
You can see the same thing at Google News.
Badnaik 463 hits
Nader 9550 hits
Kerry 153000 hits
Technically, searching for Bush would would turn up even more hits, since he shows up in non-capaign releated news too, but you can see a pattern here.
Somewhat OT, but this is as good a place to ask as any. Has Kerry dropped any hints about who he would select for AG? A (brief) google search turned up nada for me.
I blame Ashcroft fully for rolling over on Microsoft. The Patriot Act land-grab was no big suprise after that.
... of my oldest was always A Fish Out of Water. She didn't know it, but it was her first science fiction story, right down to the "Black Box".
Most slashdotters are computer geeks: probably true. Most homeschooling families are bible-pounders: demonstrably untrue.
/.er and a recent non-bible-pounding homeschool parent, I would have to disagree with the last part of this statement. Most other homeschooling families that I have personally met and spoken with choose homeschool for religious reasons. Also, the *vast* majority of commercially available homeschool material is marketted as having a religious slant. We choose to start homeschooling one of our children for other reasons, but the more I learn about the homeschool community, the more I feel that we are in the minority (a growing minorty, but still).
As a geeky
Not that being a minority is a bad thing. Our experience with homeschool so far has been rewarding and I would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone considering giving it a shot. It's not easy, but you and your child will get back far more than you put into it.
they lose no rights to the trademark if the rest of the world uses it as a generic name.
Like Kleenex and Q-tip. People generically refer to tissues as Kleenex no matter what the band name is (Puffs, actual Kleenex, Wal-Mart Great Value Tissues, etc.). Apple would love that sort of name recognition from the public.
That way my anniversary would be easy to remember.
Today is our Fourteenth anniversary. I can't really say I planned it that way though...
site:cert.org "use a different web browser"
and include the omitted similar entries, and you will find no less that eight Vulnerability Notes, the highest-numbered of which is "US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#784102". All eight contain a paragraph similar to the following:
CERT recommending dumping IE is old news. The only thing that's newsworthy about this story is the fact that mainstream media has finally picked up on it.
(Proudly posting and emailing with mozilla since M18)
I hear a lot of rhetoric about this sometimes quoted "right" on these boards. I think many would see a bill like this to be open season on P2P sharing again.
Open season? Did the season ever close? Anybody "on these boards" with a desire to share protected content probably has enough Google skillz to circumvent the lame DVD and CD encryption in use now. DRM is only a hinderance to ordinary citizens who want to use the media that they bought and paid for.
Froogle roolz. I ordered my USR5610B from Eagle for about $50 with tax/shipping/etc, and it was backordered for about 3 weeks, but it did come eventually. Plugged and played, no drivers, no nuthin. Research vendors with care.
Late 80's to early 90's corprate-owned stores had Xenix 386 machines for management functions. POS was proprietary but linked to the xenix box by coax ethernet (this was a *long* time ago).
Franchise-owned stores had a lot of leeway in selecting their own equipment, and were usually more cost-concious (ie low-end). They should be all over Linux if only for the free-as-in-beer aspect.
Anyone who is willing to dump MFC for a better thing, and has their eyes on the future, is likely to head .NET-ward anyway.
.NET and there are rumors of a new installer for Longhorn. Could it be that everything that MS is releasing as open-source (WIX and WTL) is simply abandon-ware?
MS is busy herding all the cattle toward
If this memo is true, however, it's going to look fishy to anyone with half a brain at the FTC/DOJ.
Assuming, of course, that there is anybody at the FTC/DOJ with half a brain (or a pair of balls).
Damn! I just got a timing belt from Advance on Monday. Oh well, I know where my next round of oil and filter are coming from.
does Linux have comparable DRM system to allow for distribution of protected content?
No, Virgina, there is no such thing as protected content. That was only a bedtime story told to CEO's and recording execs to help them sleep at night.
More like
Microsoft: Here's $50,000. Go buy some more crack.
Why is it that cops always arrest one of somebody?
Real cops don't talk that way, just movie cops and TV cops. The story is from the Hollywood Reporter, after all.
"MS plans new vaporware campaign for X software package to compete with Y competitor. Could this be the end for Y's software Z?"
Unfortunately, expirience shows that more than once, the answer to this question has been "Yes, it is the end of Y's software Z". Microsoft has killed more than one company with toxic vapor.
The one thing Macromedia has going for it is a huge installed base of web pages with Flash content. However, with the plugin API of MSIE being crippled over the Eolas patent, a large portiion of that installed base is being shot down (yes MS has posted "guidelines" for modifying pages to work in the new scheme, but what about unmaintained pages?). The plugin breakage coupled with vaporware threats start looking a bit more ominous.
I noticed in Hannibal that Agent Starling used an iMac, but the mental hospital orderly used NetZero on a windows laptop, and the crooked italian cop used Internet Explorer to log in to the FBI web site.
That settles it. Bad guys use windows, and good guys don't.
OK, I did RTFA, and it is mostly bashing.
For months, in secret,
If LKML, KernelTrap, Slashdot, and Newsforge stories all qualify as secret, that is.
I don't know about "controlling" the licensing. They wrote the license, Linus and various other project maintainers chose to use the license. There is not much "control" to be wielded here. Open is open.
The first actual statement of fact in the article, even though "threats" might be a bit of a stretch. Moglen was quoted farther down that all of his conversations had been ammicable and that a resolution would probably be reached without going to court. That doesn't sound very threatening.
The last several Forbes articles that even mentioned Linux were just plain old bashing.
Now, maybe I'll RTFA.
...so HP has seen SCO's source. They *know* that there is no merit to SCO's claims. If there were a hint of a claim, you can bet that they wouldn't be leaving their asses uncovered with an indemnification offer.
... from the Center for Democracy and Technology website.
http://www.cdt.org/testimony/030917davidson.shtml
A quick google on todays event turns up surpisingly little. It is shameful how the media conglomerates are sweeping DMCA related stories under the rug.