"AES utilizing 256-bit keys.AES-256 is accepted by the US Government for protecting TOP SECRET data. AES is implemented in JavaScript for the LastPass.com website, and in C++ for speed in the Internet Explorer and Firefox plug-ins. This is important because your sensitive data is always encrypted and decrypted locally on your computer before being synchronized. Your master password never leaves your computer and your key never leaves your computer. No one at LastPass (or anywhere else) can decrypt your data without you giving up your password (we will never ask you for it). Your key is created by taking a SHA-256 hash of your password. When you login, we make a hash of your username concatenated with your password, and that hash is what's sent to verify if you can download your encrypted data."
In the meantime, check out https://lastpass.com/ - you get to use a single password to protect all of your other passwords. You can generate random ones, store the passwords in the cloud, so are accessible by you, anywhere. I cannot do justice here to the security and features offered.
Essentially you visit a site, and LastPass fills in the username/password for you.
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I suggest you check out evga.com's PD02 client. I have bought dozens of them, and they are sleek, cheap ($300) and identically technically to the FX100/P20.
Thank you for your correction for my (slightly lame) joke. I'm glad you enjoyed it enough to note it as only (slightly lame) and not (really lame) because then I would have felt terrible! I'm also sorry you got pissed off as I didn't realize that it was a sensitive issue with you. I'll be sure to check my facts with you in future to avoid posting anything else as rediculous and inaccurate as this! I'll go back to building with my legos...
Google have no obligations to the Linux/OSS communities, period. The fact that they've invested so much time, money and effort into not only their own Linux app, but also back to the Wine community should be applauded. Nobody is forcing you to use this. Don't like the way they've done it? Don't use it.
Seriously, give them a break. They're making baby steps in the right direction. They've released what, a pre-beta via their labs? And so many people on Slashdot are expecting it to be a polished product... that's just wrong. Their forte is definitely not Linux desktop apps, but from the sounds of things, they certainly want to improve. Oh shock! They're not there on day 1. Or day 2. Well, Linux wasn't written in a day, nor were the plethora of other desktop apps for Linux.
Let's not forget the human factor. Those programmers that worked on getting Picasa running on Google I'm sure would love some positive feedback to encourage them to continue working hard on it. I know I would. They're probably also unhappy that this pre-beta version isn't 'up to par' with the Windows version, but they're working on improving that. Reading their FAQ endeared the team that did this to me.
As for Wine usage. Big deal. It's not like they're charging you $69 for the app. It works, and they aim to improve it. Sounds to me like they had a hard time trying to get it to work on so many different distros, instead of just say.. Red Hat. This project was only announced 4-5 months ago. Let's hope to see Google Earth before Christmas!
Since 1994, a free game has existed on the internet for Tolkien fans from around the world to immerse themselves in his world.
The game is created by volunteers, for free. It's a game by Tolkien fans, for Tolkien fans, and it's growing in size all the time.
To play it, you need a computer with internet access, and a good imagination usually helps.
The Two Towers is open to all, and welcomes new players.
Friend of mine once left a banana skin 'gainst a particularly fine Mandrake 7.2 iso'd CD. Seemed there was discoloration (blackish I think) after the event, requiring the disk to be replaced.
(Second note: I'm not sure of the makeup of a fungus, but maybe we should be encrypting our data onto the fungus instead of burning a CD ?;p)
I work for a large College. I'm a comp. tech that wanders around to different outcenters and fixes their problems. This includes virii. Being a College, it's a heavy user of MS products, especially MS Word. My first run in with a virus was a Word 97 Macro, Ethan.
There was no network, so the students used floppy disks. The staff at a particular outcenter were requesting that users give the disks to staff at the start of a session to virus check them. Only one computer had the latest software and definition files on. Each disk went in to this machine, the disk was checked (which could take a minute or two) then returned to the student. If the student had another disk they wanted to use, they had to hand this in as well. In a room with 24 machines, at about 2 minutes/disk, that's almost an hour's work and waiting for both staff and student for each session, of which there were several each day. It all added up.
As part of my job, I had to install virus checkers onto ALL the machines, to prevent this disk checking procedure. The machines were really old, the CD-ROM drives disfunctional. The BIOSs were passworded, but the guy that had passworded them had since died, without telling anyone the password.
So the only option was to take each machine apart, reset the CMOS with disconnecting the battery, plug in a hard drive with the software and definition files on, then install, put the machine back together, then virus check the entire machine.
That's without taking into account the damage that the virus can do (which isn't much).
That's one way of looking at it, but don't forget the other way: What damage in terms of reputation to the college has the virus done? Many students become scared with talk of virii. All it takes is for people to say 'I went to xyz college and got a virus on my disk which got onto my home computer'. Also, students can become frustrated at having to wait around for their disks to be checked, and indeed many did not care about the procedure and used their disks, unscanned.
The time I spent driving around to outcenters to solve their virus problems could be better spent improving their current facilities, in turn making students happier, which has the knock on effect of more enrolments, which means more money for the college (That's my delusion of grandeur for the day)
Be cool.
Hi, I'm a.sig virus. Please copy my into your.sig and help me spread!
How about you post your IP address here and let the skr1pt-k1dd13z have a go:-)
Anyhow, my Linux box is more secure than a run-of-the-mill BSD box as it is unplugged, in a fire-proof lead-lined steel box, encased in eight-foot thick cement, hidden in a secret location, (I'm thinking Batcave(tm)-type places), with an armed penguin on guard!
In any case, I forgot to install TCP/IP support into my kernel:-)
I've been using explore2fs for quite a while. It's a Delphi program, in Windows Explorer, and although it's a little slow, it gives full read and experimental write access to all partitions on all drives on your computer. Open source, too!
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It's not. That's between a citizen and the government, not between two private parties.
Fortunately they don't have access to your unencrypted passwords.. https://lastpass.com/support.php?cmd=showfaq&id=1096
"AES utilizing 256-bit keys.AES-256 is accepted by the US Government for protecting TOP SECRET data. AES is implemented in JavaScript for the LastPass.com website, and in C++ for speed in the Internet Explorer and Firefox plug-ins.
This is important because your sensitive data is always encrypted and decrypted locally on your computer before being synchronized. Your master password never leaves your computer and your key never leaves your computer. No one at LastPass (or anywhere else) can decrypt your data without you giving up your password (we will never ask you for it). Your key is created by taking a SHA-256 hash of your password. When you login, we make a hash of your username concatenated with your password, and that hash is what's sent to verify if you can download your encrypted data."
In the meantime, check out https://lastpass.com/ - you get to use a single password to protect all of your other passwords. You can generate random ones, store the passwords in the cloud, so are accessible by you, anywhere. I cannot do justice here to the security and features offered.
Essentially you visit a site, and LastPass fills in the username/password for you.
I suggest you check out evga.com's PD02 client. I have bought dozens of them, and they are sleek, cheap ($300) and identically technically to the FX100/P20.
Hi Xerxesdaphat,
Thank you for your correction for my (slightly lame) joke. I'm glad you enjoyed it enough to note it as only (slightly lame) and not (really lame) because then I would have felt terrible! I'm also sorry you got pissed off as I didn't realize that it was a sensitive issue with you. I'll be sure to check my facts with you in future to avoid posting anything else as rediculous and inaccurate as this! I'll go back to building with my legos...
Suit has been filed against a well known business and a school for violations of Moore's law.
Google have no obligations to the Linux/OSS communities, period. The fact that they've invested so much time, money and effort into not only their own Linux app, but also back to the Wine community should be applauded. Nobody is forcing you to use this. Don't like the way they've done it? Don't use it.
Seriously, give them a break. They're making baby steps in the right direction. They've released what, a pre-beta via their labs? And so many people on Slashdot are expecting it to be a polished product... that's just wrong. Their forte is definitely not Linux desktop apps, but from the sounds of things, they certainly want to improve. Oh shock! They're not there on day 1. Or day 2. Well, Linux wasn't written in a day, nor were the plethora of other desktop apps for Linux.
Let's not forget the human factor. Those programmers that worked on getting Picasa running on Google I'm sure would love some positive feedback to encourage them to continue working hard on it. I know I would. They're probably also unhappy that this pre-beta version isn't 'up to par' with the Windows version, but they're working on improving that. Reading their FAQ endeared the team that did this to me.
As for Wine usage. Big deal. It's not like they're charging you $69 for the app. It works, and they aim to improve it. Sounds to me like they had a hard time trying to get it to work on so many different distros, instead of just say.. Red Hat. This project was only announced 4-5 months ago. Let's hope to see Google Earth before Christmas!
Since 1994, a free game has existed on the internet for Tolkien fans from around the world to immerse themselves in his world.
The game is created by volunteers, for free. It's a game by Tolkien fans, for Tolkien fans, and it's growing in size all the time.
To play it, you need a computer with internet access, and a good imagination usually helps.
The Two Towers is open to all, and welcomes new players.
I'll see you there!
~J
Friend of mine once left a banana skin 'gainst a particularly fine Mandrake 7.2 iso'd CD. Seemed there was discoloration (blackish I think) after the event, requiring the disk to be replaced. (Second note: I'm not sure of the makeup of a fungus, but maybe we should be encrypting our data onto the fungus instead of burning a CD ? ;p)
I work for a large College. I'm a comp. tech that wanders around to different outcenters and fixes their problems. This includes virii. Being a College, it's a heavy user of MS products, especially MS Word. My first run in with a virus was a Word 97 Macro, Ethan. There was no network, so the students used floppy disks. The staff at a particular outcenter were requesting that users give the disks to staff at the start of a session to virus check them. Only one computer had the latest software and definition files on. Each disk went in to this machine, the disk was checked (which could take a minute or two) then returned to the student. If the student had another disk they wanted to use, they had to hand this in as well. In a room with 24 machines, at about 2 minutes/disk, that's almost an hour's work and waiting for both staff and student for each session, of which there were several each day. It all added up. As part of my job, I had to install virus checkers onto ALL the machines, to prevent this disk checking procedure. The machines were really old, the CD-ROM drives disfunctional. The BIOSs were passworded, but the guy that had passworded them had since died, without telling anyone the password. So the only option was to take each machine apart, reset the CMOS with disconnecting the battery, plug in a hard drive with the software and definition files on, then install, put the machine back together, then virus check the entire machine. That's without taking into account the damage that the virus can do (which isn't much). That's one way of looking at it, but don't forget the other way: What damage in terms of reputation to the college has the virus done? Many students become scared with talk of virii. All it takes is for people to say 'I went to xyz college and got a virus on my disk which got onto my home computer'. Also, students can become frustrated at having to wait around for their disks to be checked, and indeed many did not care about the procedure and used their disks, unscanned. The time I spent driving around to outcenters to solve their virus problems could be better spent improving their current facilities, in turn making students happier, which has the knock on effect of more enrolments, which means more money for the college (That's my delusion of grandeur for the day) Be cool. Hi, I'm a .sig virus. Please copy my into your .sig and help me spread!
Anyhow, my Linux box is more secure than a run-of-the-mill BSD box as it is unplugged, in a fire-proof lead-lined steel box, encased in eight-foot thick cement, hidden in a secret location, (I'm thinking Batcave(tm)-type places), with an armed penguin on guard!
In any case, I forgot to install TCP/IP support into my kernel :-)
I AM a two-bit Kansis City whore! I'm here, I'm reading, I'm even damned well replying, what more can you ask for? Bl00d ? I Read at +2!
..Who is General Protection and why is he reading my hard drive?
I've been using explore2fs for quite a while. It's a Delphi program, in Windows Explorer, and although it's a little slow, it gives full read and experimental write access to all partitions on all drives on your computer. Open source, too!