OK, apart from the fact that all of you who drive are already carrying a form of government-issued ID, the Department of Defense is already using something like this. It's called a CAC card. It's a combination identification and smartcard. It gets me onto the base, into the PX and helps decrypt my email. It's a straw-man argument to say that "the terrorists" are going to mass producing these and getting in and out of Ft. Meade at will. Just as it is not with my CAC card, I get get to every place on post. The level of effort is going to be far too difficult when there's so many other software targets to hit.
American roulette wheels have 2 greens. There are a few tables here in Vegas that have single green, and the smart roulette player (oxymoron) will take a few minutes to find that table. Most of the big Strip casinos don't carry them, or may have one, tucked away somewhere. The off-Strip casinos are a bit more open with their roulette wheels, or placement of low-minimum blackjack tables (try finding a $5 table at one of the big Strip casinos after 5PM).
I will wager that IRC chats will be considered to be public, the same as cops eavesdropping on a conversation in the park or going though someone's trash when it has been set on the curb for pickup. Neither actions require a warrant,and can be done at any time.
If you don't want the government listenting in on your IRC chats, either get a private IRC server, or go crypto. It's already a wellknown fact that law enforcement, intelligence, vigilantes and other entities already snoop on IRC channels, so how is this a suprise to anyone?
Unless I'm totally missing something, why not just use port forwarding on your NAT?
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You know, it cuts both ways:
Do you want someone who has spent their entire professional career in politics, with no "real world" experience? Someone who doesn't know how much a gallon of gas or milk costs?
It's hard to relate to the very people you're supposed to be leading/representing when you've got no connection to them at all.
Oh, and EnCase isn't the only product that "holds water in court". It's one of the only commercial products that have been tested over and over that produce secure, reliable results. You *could* do the same with TCT or TASK provided that you follow the rules of evidence, the chain of custory, and document everything you do.
That would be EnCase from Guidance Software, and yes it does support Reiser. Even if it didn't, it can still make a bit-for-bit image copy, then its a simple matter of mounting it in Linux via loopback.
I'm wondering what the obsession that Slashdotters have with Microsoft. One day recently, there were THREE articles on the front page involving MS in some way. Yeah, you all hate MS but it appears that none of you can't stop talking about them. What's more is that the usual following discussion can typically be boiled down to the same tired old rhetoric that's been bandied about for years.
MS could declare that the sky is blue or 1+1=2 and Slashdot will spend the rest of the week with pendantic arguments and nitpicks proving the sky is blue or 1+1=2 only with Linux.
You're a very naive person. What are you going to do if the government doesnt act like your "servants"? Withhold your taxes? Will you command the Secret Service agents to go away because you're their boss when they come to collect you? While you're at it, why don't you go knocking at the door to Area 51 and demand to see the alien spacecraft. You're the boss, afterall.
Are you willing to accept the consequences of what can happen if you require programs like this to be run on State and Federal computers, and a security vulnerability is discovered?
In addition, there are certain ethical issues in question here running programs like this. It's eaiser and a lot more cleaner to just forbid it.
It's not up to you to decide how another agency or company should use their idle CPUs. Maybe in your little corner of the world, you say its OK, and that's your perogative. But out here, it's a no-go. You're not telling me how I'm to use my machines. If I want those cycles to go to waste, that's my choice and the decision of my higher-ups. Please do purchase a fresh Clue sometime soon. Your current one seems to have gone stale.
You might think it's funny, but where I work it's all business, and you would thank me for taking my job so seriously. It might be a bummer for you that I'm forcing you to uninstall your silly little screen saver or Bonzi Buddy, but there's a reason for it, and on my network it's my way or the highway, literally. If you can't grasp that, I'm fortunate that I don't have you for a user. If you were, you wouldn't be for long.
Maybe there's a history of this guy breaking the rules or exposing the network to risk and this is just the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. We may not have evidence, but there isn't anything that says there isn't any evidence either. You're berating someone for making an assumption while making one yourself.
I'm a network security manager at a government facility. We have *very* strict policies on what software can be installed on our computers. It's not a matter of how many CPU cycles it is or isnt taking up, it's about maintaining a network that has established policies and standards. An unapproved piece of software, or one that hasn't been put through rigorous testing yet introduces an unacceptable risk that I and my higherups will not tolerate. In Corporate America, should a vulnerability arise in @Home's client, you might have your email published, or somthing like that. For my network, the consequences can be much more dire. I have and will continue to enforce our published policies no matter who is breaking the rules.
To put it another way, they most likely had a policy about unauthorized software on their computers. This sysadmin knowingly broke that policy, irregardless of how innocuous you believe the software to be. Most companies have provisions in their HR handbooks that say they can be fired for that.
Bought this last week. The story part reads as pretty bad fiction. Maybe I'm just used to reading Tom Clancy... some of the technical info is good, but there are a few gaps in the information present. There was one part in the story where I was totally lost.
As for the "hack along with the story" part, you can just download the zip and hack away. The back story helps a bit, but I had already cracked the thing a few weeks ago.
Only the voter and the machine know who you voted for. Your voting receipt is encrypted with your public key. Verification is the same thing. You receive a reciept that is a hash of your vote, encrypted with your public key and signed with whatever voting authority's public key.
Voting by email could work, but probably not with the scheme being proposed.
Every military member has a CAC card which serves as a military ID but it is also a smartcard. Every person in the DoD is issued a digital certificate by the DoD when the card is issued. It should just be an academic exercise to create a voting station where the user inserts his CAC, votes and receives a confirmation that is encrypted with the user's public key and signed with the appropriate private key as an audit trail. I think this scheme fulfills the requirements for a "trusted" voting system. Voters are securely authenticated, votes are audited and cryptographically secured. Of course, the flaw usually lies in the implementation...
I'm not overly concerned. I had a three month trial subscription when I bought my new car. At least I didn't wind up having to pay $40/month to learn that:
1) XM is just as bad as FM when it comes to what is being played.
2) XM is like expanded cable. To quote Springsteen "57 channels an nothin' on".
3) Because of XM's bad programming, I spent the bulk of my time listening to one of the Comedy Channels. After about a week, I could recite all the routines they were running, as they weren't rotating their content at all.
Not necessarily. Not going the Windows route does not automatically mean Open Source. There are dozens of proprietary, closed-source alternatives out there.
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OK, apart from the fact that all of you who drive are already carrying a form of government-issued ID, the Department of Defense is already using something like this. It's called a CAC card. It's a combination identification and smartcard. It gets me onto the base, into the PX and helps decrypt my email. It's a straw-man argument to say that "the terrorists" are going to mass producing these and getting in and out of Ft. Meade at will. Just as it is not with my CAC card, I get get to every place on post. The level of effort is going to be far too difficult when there's so many other software targets to hit.
Lex Luthor already tried something similar in Superman I. I don't think the movie studios are going to be lining up at your door.
American roulette wheels have 2 greens. There are a few tables here in Vegas that have single green, and the smart roulette player (oxymoron) will take a few minutes to find that table. Most of the big Strip casinos don't carry them, or may have one, tucked away somewhere. The off-Strip casinos are a bit more open with their roulette wheels, or placement of low-minimum blackjack tables (try finding a $5 table at one of the big Strip casinos after 5PM).
With politicos still being conned into banning dihydrogen monoxide, it's still a safe bet this can be too.
I will wager that IRC chats will be considered to be public, the same as cops eavesdropping on a conversation in the park or going though someone's trash when it has been set on the curb for pickup. Neither actions require a warrant,and can be done at any time.
If you don't want the government listenting in on your IRC chats, either get a private IRC server, or go crypto. It's already a wellknown fact that law enforcement, intelligence, vigilantes and other entities already snoop on IRC channels, so how is this a suprise to anyone?
You're treating the symptoms and not the disease.
Unless I'm totally missing something, why not just use port forwarding on your NAT?
You know, it cuts both ways:
Do you want someone who has spent their entire professional career in politics, with no "real world" experience? Someone who doesn't know how much a gallon of gas or milk costs?
It's hard to relate to the very people you're supposed to be leading/representing when you've got no connection to them at all.
Oh, and EnCase isn't the only product that "holds water in court". It's one of the only commercial products that have been tested over and over that produce secure, reliable results. You *could* do the same with TCT or TASK provided that you follow the rules of evidence, the chain of custory, and document everything you do.
That would be EnCase from Guidance Software, and yes it does support Reiser. Even if it didn't, it can still make a bit-for-bit image copy, then its a simple matter of mounting it in Linux via loopback.
I'm wondering what the obsession that Slashdotters have with Microsoft. One day recently, there were THREE articles on the front page involving MS in some way. Yeah, you all hate MS but it appears that none of you can't stop talking about them. What's more is that the usual following discussion can typically be boiled down to the same tired old rhetoric that's been bandied about for years.
MS could declare that the sky is blue or 1+1=2 and Slashdot will spend the rest of the week with pendantic arguments and nitpicks proving the sky is blue or 1+1=2 only with Linux.
This isn't anything new, please move on.
You're a very naive person. What are you going to do if the government doesnt act like your "servants"? Withhold your taxes? Will you command the Secret Service agents to go away because you're their boss when they come to collect you? While you're at it, why don't you go knocking at the door to Area 51 and demand to see the alien spacecraft. You're the boss, afterall.
Are you willing to accept the consequences of what can happen if you require programs like this to be run on State and Federal computers, and a security vulnerability is discovered?
In addition, there are certain ethical issues in question here running programs like this. It's eaiser and a lot more cleaner to just forbid it.
It's not up to you to decide how another agency or company should use their idle CPUs. Maybe in your little corner of the world, you say its OK, and that's your perogative. But out here, it's a no-go. You're not telling me how I'm to use my machines. If I want those cycles to go to waste, that's my choice and the decision of my higher-ups. Please do purchase a fresh Clue sometime soon. Your current one seems to have gone stale.
I suspect you are a former high school football player turned college frat boy who has to put people down to make yourself feel better. Ass!
I'm guessing that you were the one he used to pick on.
You might think it's funny, but where I work it's all business, and you would thank me for taking my job so seriously. It might be a bummer for you that I'm forcing you to uninstall your silly little screen saver or Bonzi Buddy, but there's a reason for it, and on my network it's my way or the highway, literally. If you can't grasp that, I'm fortunate that I don't have you for a user. If you were, you wouldn't be for long.
Maybe there's a history of this guy breaking the rules or exposing the network to risk and this is just the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. We may not have evidence, but there isn't anything that says there isn't any evidence either. You're berating someone for making an assumption while making one yourself.
Easy lob...
I'm a network security manager at a government facility. We have *very* strict policies on what software can be installed on our computers. It's not a matter of how many CPU cycles it is or isnt taking up, it's about maintaining a network that has established policies and standards. An unapproved piece of software, or one that hasn't been put through rigorous testing yet introduces an unacceptable risk that I and my higherups will not tolerate. In Corporate America, should a vulnerability arise in @Home's client, you might have your email published, or somthing like that. For my network, the consequences can be much more dire. I have and will continue to enforce our published policies no matter who is breaking the rules.
To put it another way, they most likely had a policy about unauthorized software on their computers. This sysadmin knowingly broke that policy, irregardless of how innocuous you believe the software to be. Most companies have provisions in their HR handbooks that say they can be fired for that.
I shed no tears for this guy.
Bought this last week. The story part reads as pretty bad fiction. Maybe I'm just used to reading Tom Clancy... some of the technical info is good, but there are a few gaps in the information present. There was one part in the story where I was totally lost.
As for the "hack along with the story" part, you can just download the zip and hack away. The back story helps a bit, but I had already cracked the thing a few weeks ago.
Try reading it again with your thinking cap on. And thanks for offering your own solution, ass. It's always easier to criticize, isn't it?
I guess I just wasn't clear in my explanation....
Only the voter and the machine know who you voted for. Your voting receipt is encrypted with your public key. Verification is the same thing. You receive a reciept that is a hash of your vote, encrypted with your public key and signed with whatever voting authority's public key.
Anonymity and verification remain.
Voting by email could work, but probably not with the scheme being proposed.
Every military member has a CAC card which serves as a military ID but it is also a smartcard. Every person in the DoD is issued a digital certificate by the DoD when the card is issued. It should just be an academic exercise to create a voting station where the user inserts his CAC, votes and receives a confirmation that is encrypted with the user's public key and signed with the appropriate private key as an audit trail. I think this scheme fulfills the requirements for a "trusted" voting system. Voters are securely authenticated, votes are audited and cryptographically secured. Of course, the flaw usually lies in the implementation...
I'm not overly concerned. I had a three month trial subscription when I bought my new car. At least I didn't wind up having to pay $40/month to learn that:
1) XM is just as bad as FM when it comes to what is being played.
2) XM is like expanded cable. To quote Springsteen "57 channels an nothin' on".
3) Because of XM's bad programming, I spent the bulk of my time listening to one of the Comedy Channels. After about a week, I could recite all the routines they were running, as they weren't rotating their content at all.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
FFW is going open source
Not necessarily. Not going the Windows route does not automatically mean Open Source. There are dozens of proprietary, closed-source alternatives out there.
And a kernel panic sunk mine. We're even-steven.
Please patch and recompile your humor binary. It's a bit dated.