You could know the whole source code of the machines, if it requires someone's password and token, you'd have to have altered everything in order to get those. And the software can be signed and required to pass verification upon boot, so it's not that easy.
Either way, the question was about about protocols, and it is already possible to have 99.99999% secure connections. I'd say 100%, but you have to consider the human element and those can and will most likely fail sometime.
Two factor authentication requires a code generated by a second machine (or a card, etc).
This article describes man in the middle attacks, this should never be possible to do even if you know the source code of the whole thing. Public key encryption and signing should be enough to stop any attempt like this.
He said he was trying to research voting protocols. It is possible to create a protocol that will be secure 99.999999% of the time.
PS: If you have enough access to a machine that should be guarded from any such attempt... true, you might be able to tweek the outcome of a vote, but if you want to influence something you could simply go after the weakest link in the chain: Human beings.
Most of the "job creators" politicians talk about are owners of companies that, much like apple, create jobs overseas. They are rich, have enough money and pull to avoid getting taxed and contribute to the ridiculous unemployment rates the US has now.
As for the news, it is true that apple has the money to fight these, but you have to understand that it is mostly alone fighting every other single company that produces cell phones. Even if apple has some IPs, they will get burned eventually. They should have focused on keeping their allies (like samsung or google) and not trying to shoot in every direction.
Same thing as cars that drive themselves. People die on the road every day due to human error, bu the moment a car with no driver crashes into something / hurts someone all hell will break loose.
This thing could be way more effective than any man at doing it's job. One mistake and it'd be dead.
There is this misconception that humans can fail, but machines can't. What they forget is that the men who built the machine were human too, so, it'll never be perfect.
Just think on what you said. The GPS could be proof that you were doing something like that and not ditching work. Even though it would be invading some of your privacy, it could also be used to justify your absence during a certain period.
It's a double edged sword, I'm quite sure you can find good argument for both sides, but I'm just saying that if I owned a company I'd want to check on my employees during work hours. If I'm paying them to work, I actually want to make reasonably sure they do.
That's the point. There is nothing wrong with using whatever means someone wants to check if you're inside (they could have a chip in your employee card, for example, that'd tell them where you are at all times inside the building).
They should not have been tracking him outside of the workplace / work hours.
If you take your private car out during the time you're supposed to be working, the company should be allowed to check that, right?
They already use cameras and supervisors that aren't exactly there to keep track, but end up doing it.
There are companies that use rfids to keep track of their employees. I honestly see no problem in that, if it doesn't go outside the scope of my workplace.
I don't think tracking you with a GPS during work hours is wrong. From my understanding the problem was they were tracking him 24/7, and that's illigal.
Just making sure you're where you're supposed to be during your work hours should be expected.
I use it every day (almost) while on queue or waiting for something and don't have the kindle with me.
You don't like the page change effect? Fine. But it's highly usable and with black background and white letters doesn't even hurt my eyes. Personal Oppinion != fact
This makes no sense at all. Amazon lets you read your kindle books in the iPad, the iPhone, Android phones, Android tables (including a rooted nook color), PC's, Mac OS X, all this besides the kindle. If you were stuck with kindles only, I'd agree with you, but pretty much everything BUT other ebook readers work.
Remember that by controlling the platform where you read the books they can also speak for the quality of their service. If only kindles and kindle software reads kindle books, amazon won't get as many complaints about lousy formatting, rendering, pagination or things like that. Android phones actually are a great example of this issue, every single phone can run Android, but the cheap ones provide a really bad user experience. It's not google's or Android's fault, but almost every single costumer of those phones believes they are both to blame (instead of blaming the crappy hardware)
And in the end I believe they used mobi simply because when they were developing the first kindle, ePub still wasn't the standard... And then they had already chosen that format, so they stuck with it. It works well, why fix it?
I wouldn't mind ePub support (trivial thing to add) and a decent PDF engine on my kindle. But, even after using the latest nook, I still think it is the best e-reader on the market.
This might sound cruel, and I'm sure I'll be modded down too, but animals have been going extinct since the beginning of time... Isn't it the circle of life? Aren't species supposed to die off eventually?
Because that makes a lot more sense than just use SFTP or SCP.
And something I noticed, files I transfer with SCP either fail or or things actually get done right. With FTP and others I've lost count of the times files actually got corrupted while transferring without any kind of warning.
That adding to security concerns should be enough to force the switch in an enterprise environment.
No, the perceived bloat is, believe it or not, the addons people use.
The biggest difference between them and chrome is that chrome first loads the UI and lets you see "something" before they go and load their addons (they even seem to start loading the home page - if you have one - before every addon is there). This is not real speed, but actually perceived speed - which is actually a web-1-0-1 rule. You don't need to be faster, you just need to look faster and/or busy when you're not.
Firefox actually finishes loading everything before they go ahead and render something. This might look good on paper, but it isn't. Those 2 seconds of "nothing" are noticed and usually enough for someone else to get bored and click some other browser.
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you already have to use your elector card to identify yourself in most countries. That doesn't mean you can vote in whoever you want.
You could know the whole source code of the machines, if it requires someone's password and token, you'd have to have altered everything in order to get those. And the software can be signed and required to pass verification upon boot, so it's not that easy.
Either way, the question was about about protocols, and it is already possible to have 99.99999% secure connections. I'd say 100%, but you have to consider the human element and those can and will most likely fail sometime.
Two factor authentication requires a code generated by a second machine (or a card, etc).
This article describes man in the middle attacks, this should never be possible to do even if you know the source code of the whole thing. Public key encryption and signing should be enough to stop any attempt like this.
He said he was trying to research voting protocols. It is possible to create a protocol that will be secure 99.999999% of the time.
PS: If you have enough access to a machine that should be guarded from any such attempt... true, you might be able to tweek the outcome of a vote, but if you want to influence something you could simply go after the weakest link in the chain: Human beings.
Encryption and a two-factor authentication system should allow you to do this.
The problem is bigger than that.
Most of the "job creators" politicians talk about are owners of companies that, much like apple, create jobs overseas. They are rich, have enough money and pull to avoid getting taxed and contribute to the ridiculous unemployment rates the US has now.
As for the news, it is true that apple has the money to fight these, but you have to understand that it is mostly alone fighting every other single company that produces cell phones. Even if apple has some IPs, they will get burned eventually. They should have focused on keeping their allies (like samsung or google) and not trying to shoot in every direction.
Same thing as cars that drive themselves. People die on the road every day due to human error, bu the moment a car with no driver crashes into something / hurts someone all hell will break loose.
This thing could be way more effective than any man at doing it's job. One mistake and it'd be dead.
There is this misconception that humans can fail, but machines can't. What they forget is that the men who built the machine were human too, so, it'll never be perfect.
Just think on what you said. The GPS could be proof that you were doing something like that and not ditching work. Even though it would be invading some of your privacy, it could also be used to justify your absence during a certain period.
It's a double edged sword, I'm quite sure you can find good argument for both sides, but I'm just saying that if I owned a company I'd want to check on my employees during work hours. If I'm paying them to work, I actually want to make reasonably sure they do.
That's the point. There is nothing wrong with using whatever means someone wants to check if you're inside (they could have a chip in your employee card, for example, that'd tell them where you are at all times inside the building).
They should not have been tracking him outside of the workplace / work hours.
If you take your private car out during the time you're supposed to be working, the company should be allowed to check that, right?
They already use cameras and supervisors that aren't exactly there to keep track, but end up doing it.
There are companies that use rfids to keep track of their employees. I honestly see no problem in that, if it doesn't go outside the scope of my workplace.
I don't think tracking you with a GPS during work hours is wrong. From my understanding the problem was they were tracking him 24/7, and that's illigal.
Just making sure you're where you're supposed to be during your work hours should be expected.
I use it every day (almost) while on queue or waiting for something and don't have the kindle with me.
You don't like the page change effect? Fine. But it's highly usable and with black background and white letters doesn't even hurt my eyes. Personal Oppinion != fact
This makes no sense at all. Amazon lets you read your kindle books in the iPad, the iPhone, Android phones, Android tables (including a rooted nook color), PC's, Mac OS X, all this besides the kindle. If you were stuck with kindles only, I'd agree with you, but pretty much everything BUT other ebook readers work.
Remember that by controlling the platform where you read the books they can also speak for the quality of their service. If only kindles and kindle software reads kindle books, amazon won't get as many complaints about lousy formatting, rendering, pagination or things like that. Android phones actually are a great example of this issue, every single phone can run Android, but the cheap ones provide a really bad user experience. It's not google's or Android's fault, but almost every single costumer of those phones believes they are both to blame (instead of blaming the crappy hardware)
And in the end I believe they used mobi simply because when they were developing the first kindle, ePub still wasn't the standard... And then they had already chosen that format, so they stuck with it. It works well, why fix it?
I wouldn't mind ePub support (trivial thing to add) and a decent PDF engine on my kindle. But, even after using the latest nook, I still think it is the best e-reader on the market.
Oh, we all did, we just didn't want to disappoint you... You never know when one of these develops feelings :\
that was funny
That's why architects design buildings, and not engineers. They are actually educated to do this sort of thing, believe it or not.
It's over 30% of the money they make
I'd say that desperate teenagers would do almost anything to get rid of acne.
The mind can rationalize almost everything when trying to achieve a dream like this one.
I would never call them dumb, just victims of a scam.
This might sound cruel, and I'm sure I'll be modded down too, but animals have been going extinct since the beginning of time... Isn't it the circle of life? Aren't species supposed to die off eventually?
Should we be interfering with the laws of nature?
Is that two way communication?
This appears to be a real sd card, not just some gadget that uses the SD card slot.
That it could be used for this, I guess it's not surprise to anyone, that you could incorporate it in a real size SD card, could be news.
And maybe because Photoshop is actually good value?
Because that makes a lot more sense than just use SFTP or SCP.
And something I noticed, files I transfer with SCP either fail or or things actually get done right. With FTP and others I've lost count of the times files actually got corrupted while transferring without any kind of warning.
That adding to security concerns should be enough to force the switch in an enterprise environment.
You almost look like a major news outlet, spinning the numbers like that.
3% difference is what it was, and standard deviations usually cover that much.
It's like saying that buying two lottery tickets doubles your chances of winning. It does, but it's a ridiculously low chance.
No, the perceived bloat is, believe it or not, the addons people use.
The biggest difference between them and chrome is that chrome first loads the UI and lets you see "something" before they go and load their addons (they even seem to start loading the home page - if you have one - before every addon is there). This is not real speed, but actually perceived speed - which is actually a web-1-0-1 rule. You don't need to be faster, you just need to look faster and/or busy when you're not.
Firefox actually finishes loading everything before they go ahead and render something. This might look good on paper, but it isn't. Those 2 seconds of "nothing" are noticed and usually enough for someone else to get bored and click some other browser.
Well, their numbers showed 97% vs 95% "success". That's irrelevant, even if some phones are dumb enough to keep fighting for 3g.