WTF? You mean you can have a hello kitty app that extends the functionality of the cell phone by using the vibrator? No wonder so many Japanese people have cell phones!
Yahoo web mail only uses HTTPS when you are logging in, and only if you manually choose it. The actual emails are transfered via regular HTTP. Therefore, you could conceivably read somebody's Yahoo email at the same time as them, without knowing the password.
I'm glad I only use Yahoo email as my throwaway. (Not that I have anything worth encrypting, but you know, tinfoil hats and all.) In fact I just switched to using secure POP and SMTP with my main (private!!) email account, while reading the comments here. I also changed my passwords very recently for both of my email accounts.
I was a Windows 95 (and sometimes OS/2 3) user until I discovered Linux. That was back around the time of Slackware 4/7. I had my desktop system running Slackware almost exclusively, until Freei (which was easily used w/o ad banner, so I could use it on linux) kicked the bit-bucket, and then I started using Windows again (so I could use NetZero - YUCK!), on a laptop.
And then I got the 667Mhz PowerBook G4 I have now (see my user bio for full specs), and it's great. I intend to upgrade when the PPC 970 laptops come out, although I don't know how I'll get the money to do so. But I just spent $160, with about $40 left to go (RAM), on the parts to build an Athlon XP 1600+ system to use Linux on.
Why? Because I want to maintain my Linux skills, and have a cheap PC box to modify/upgrade at will, and Virtual PC is much too slow. I also would like to get involved in free (open source) software development, and specifically I would like to work on a Pentium-optimized version of Slackware Linux. (I have been working on it, but I've had to compile the packages in VPC, which is slow and no fun at all.)
Now I suppose we should stop clogging this thread with offtopic comments, so please reply to the journal entry if you'd like to write anything. Thanks!
may I inquire how you can find the key without searching the full keyspace?
Confucious say: The place where you find something is the last place you look for it (unless you're stupid).
In other words, once it gets found, you don't have to keep looking. Therefore, you most likely haven't searched the full keyspace by the time you find the correct key.
From the forums on the Operation Project X site, by user "KONGEN": All that I have learned so far is (taken from verios threads):
There are 2^2048 possible keys
What we are trying to do is factor the key.
Factoring the key means finding all the prime numbers that we can divide the Xbox key into (it must be an integer).
We know that the key is a RSA key - and we know that the key is two eual primes a the same length
We will be able to eliminate around 80% of the keyspace *before* only checking numbers that end in 1,3,7,9 (only primes can end at these numbers). Then by only checking with numbers that end in 1,3,7,9 we can eliminate 60% of the 80%. On top of this, we are only trying 309 digit numbers.
What we do is that we take a random number and try all the possible keys ending with 1,3,7 and 9.
Since this number of possible keys is so great we cannot possibly hope to check them all in our lifetime, so we go for the luck factor. we randomly generate a number within the range of possiblity (1,000,000) and check the possiblities in that range (400,000) and hope for the best
Dude, it's a distributed computing project. Theoretically, with enough computers, it could be done in a few years.
Well okay, it would have to be something like a couple of stadiums filled with dual processor 3Ghz systems running full-time, but hey, they just might get lucky. They don't have to search the entire keyspace in order to find the right key.
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Mod this up, and I'll send you an open source program. (Actually, you already posted here and therefore cannot moderate me. Dang.)
It's not "have compiler, will travel", it's:
1. Get GCC
2. ???????
3. PROFIT!!!!
Duh. (If "Funny" doesn't count towards karma, neither should "offtopic" or "troll".)
WTF? You mean you can have a hello kitty app that extends the functionality of the cell phone by using the vibrator? No wonder so many Japanese people have cell phones!
And I thought Sushi was wierd.
The Amazing Slashdotter: Able to bring a distro dispute into a completely unrelated topic.
Get your tickets now!
P.S. Slackware is the best!
Parents, please educate your children, be responsible and so they will learn to be responsible, and use your good example when they grow up.
A-MEN BRUTHAH!!!!!!!!
Of course because you know this, murphy's law dictates that not only are you single, you're also sterile.
Sad, isn't it?
Yes, but should it be "Quick & Dirty" or "Correct and Proper"?
That makes 2 raps in one story's comments.
Mine: The Windows Rap (No, I'm no rapper, but I thought it wasn't too shabby)
(Please don't mod this post up, mod the linked comment up!)
THE WINDOWS RAP
Yo I'm Bill Gates,
I wrote BASIC for da first PC,
fo' dat you can thank ME,
and now I got yo windows XP!
[CHORUS]
Lawsuits, lawsuits, we got lawyers by da dozen!
If yo copy our software for your cousin,
Gunna put you in da big house! *
We hate the Mac,
Steve Jobs is on crack!
I cancelled IE,
they can't live without me!
(CHORUS)
Free software dudes,
they're all Linux hippies
I eat penguin for dinner,
and you don't see me gettin' thinner!
(CHORUS)
Yeah, we get all the games first
and we squash competition
we don't care, now whydontcha get outta my hair!
(CHORUS)
Hah, Mac switchers, we tried that
they found out it was fake,
we thought it was phat!
(CHORUS)
Bust a service pack, baby! W00t! *
(Lines with * are said, not sung)
This song is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Yahoo web mail only uses HTTPS when you are logging in, and only if you manually choose it. The actual emails are transfered via regular HTTP. Therefore, you could conceivably read somebody's Yahoo email at the same time as them, without knowing the password.
I'm glad I only use Yahoo email as my throwaway. (Not that I have anything worth encrypting, but you know, tinfoil hats and all.) In fact I just switched to using secure POP and SMTP with my main (private!!) email account, while reading the comments here. I also changed my passwords very recently for both of my email accounts.
So there. Lest I get 0wn3d.
There's not a jury in the land that would convict you.
What about an Amish one?
How about a project to translate the books to 1337 speak?
20,000 1346u35 und3r 7h3 534
h4x0r3d by Ju135 V3rn
7h3y w4s 0wn3d by 7h3 c4p74!n
Or even worse, the Bible in 1337: (7h3 n3w h4x0r v3r510n?)
7h0u 5h417 n0t k!11, d00d.
WRONG! You're only living proof that your daddy likes sex!
Think about it for a moment. Duh.
What they really have to worry about is SCO code....
I was a Windows 95 (and sometimes OS/2 3) user until I discovered Linux. That was back around the time of Slackware 4/7. I had my desktop system running Slackware almost exclusively, until Freei (which was easily used w/o ad banner, so I could use it on linux) kicked the bit-bucket, and then I started using Windows again (so I could use NetZero - YUCK!), on a laptop.
And then I got the 667Mhz PowerBook G4 I have now (see my user bio for full specs), and it's great. I intend to upgrade when the PPC 970 laptops come out, although I don't know how I'll get the money to do so. But I just spent $160, with about $40 left to go (RAM), on the parts to build an Athlon XP 1600+ system to use Linux on.
Why? Because I want to maintain my Linux skills, and have a cheap PC box to modify/upgrade at will, and Virtual PC is much too slow. I also would like to get involved in free (open source) software development, and specifically I would like to work on a Pentium-optimized version of Slackware Linux. (I have been working on it, but I've had to compile the packages in VPC, which is slow and no fun at all.)
If the students are willing to jack off in class, you already have a problem, even without porn.
Who the hell is going to spank their monkey in the middle of class? Duh!
Start saving those pennies.
I am, I am!
Just added it, thanks!
Now I suppose we should stop clogging this thread with offtopic comments, so please reply to the journal entry if you'd like to write anything. Thanks!
may I inquire how you can find the key without searching the full keyspace?
Confucious say: The place where you find something is the last place you look for it (unless you're stupid).
In other words, once it gets found, you don't have to keep looking. Therefore, you most likely haven't searched the full keyspace by the time you find the correct key.
From the forums on the Operation Project X site, by user "KONGEN":
All that I have learned so far is (taken from verios threads):
There are 2^2048 possible keys
What we are trying to do is factor the key.
Factoring the key means finding all the prime numbers that we can divide the Xbox key into (it must be an integer).
We know that the key is a RSA key - and we know that the key is two eual primes a the same length
We will be able to eliminate around 80% of the keyspace *before* only checking numbers that end in 1,3,7,9 (only primes can end at these numbers). Then by only checking with numbers that end in 1,3,7,9 we can eliminate 60% of the 80%. On top of this, we are only trying 309 digit numbers.
What we do is that we take a random number and try all the possible keys ending with 1,3,7 and 9.
Since this number of possible keys is so great we cannot possibly hope to check them all in our lifetime, so we go for the luck factor. we randomly generate a number within the range of possiblity (1,000,000) and check the possiblities in that range (400,000) and hope for the best
I hope this will help you.
KONGEN
:-) Oh boy, another fan! I should probably think of something funny to add to the journal now...
Dude, Chinese people are white. Or did you mean "non-caucasian"? (Just buggin' ya.)
OK, now what?
What would be really deliciously ironic would be a big stack of X-boxes running the cracking app.
Hehe.
Dude, it's a distributed computing project. Theoretically, with enough computers, it could be done in a few years.
Well okay, it would have to be something like a couple of stadiums filled with dual processor 3Ghz systems running full-time, but hey, they just might get lucky. They don't have to search the entire keyspace in order to find the right key.
When he gets tired of this setup, that can be his next project: an ultralite plane made from computer cases and using case/CPU fans for power.
Wow, orphans and prostitutes! What a great family tree! :-P
A pr0n joke posted only 5 minutes after the story was. That's the efficiency of slashdot forya.
What the heck: Imagine a MOSIX or beowulf cluster of these using the evil bit to transmit "all your base are belong to us" in soviet russia!
seriously...wow.