The hackers only figured out how to get the old key. Which means they have a method for defeating arbitrary keys.
The hackers don't have the new key. The new key can be discovered by the same method used to extract the old one. Even encrypting, splitting, or otherwise obfuscating the new key only adds a layer; the code is also exposed in RAM and can be reverse-engineered so ultimately the same attack should work.
What are you, stupid? Yeah, that's me. Thanks for pointing it out.
I've been helping a relative with Alzheimer's, and I've been able to do pretty much anything I wanted, aside from dealing with actual money.
Telephone service is particularly easy to mess with; I just called repairs and ordered service changes and no attempt was ever made to check on me. I was able to add and delete services, change phone numbers and billing addresses, etc. I didn't even have be at the service location to order any changes.
For utility accounts, all the info I've ever needed was on the bills. Again, I was able to change services, update billing records, etc. all without any difficulty. It's been very convenient for me to be able to set things up without having to muck around with Powers of Attorney and so on, but it gives me the shivers to realize what must be possible to one "skilled in the arts".
Once you have utility bills with your address on them you can establish a residence and a lot of stuff follows from that. For instance, I could easily get a library card and enroll my kids in school in the town where this relative lives.
With a little bit of creativity I could probably do stuff with money, too. I guess it's a good thing I'm honest, huh?
From Judge Feikins' appendix (Page 26 of the pdf): However, an otherwise copyrightable text can be used as a method of operation of a computer - for instance, an original, copyrightable poem could be used as a password... Under this reasoning, an individual who copied a poem solely to use as a password would not have infringed the copyright, because in that scenario, the alleged infringer would have the defense that the poem has "merged" with a method of operation (the password).
So it seems to me that a spammer could use Habeas' copyrighted haiku header, claiming that it was being used as a "password" and therefore (at least in the 6th Circuit) not infringement. Of course, IANAL. But that's what it looks like to me.
Of course, Judge Feikins is speaking strictly for himself here, not on behalf of the 6th Circuit. But it's a clear indication of his position...
I own a domain that relates to a popular TV show -- many people use characters' email addresses when polluting registration databases (instead of using BugMeNot) and I get that email.
I also set up an AOL screenname "ignoreallemail@aol.com" and I use it when I'm polluting a database myself. I don't think that one can be killed. AOL dumps the inbox for me as it fills, but since I don't read any email there, I don't care.
I tried to post a bug report on their Windows Client Forum, but the authentication routine failed to recognize my account ID when I copied and pasted it from the e-mail message I had just received.
Yup -- same here.
I'm running W98SE, with a screensaver password set. When coming out of the screensaver, the password box comes up but it does not have focus. The mouse cursor moves, but clicking inside the password box does not shift the focus. Clicking outside the password box produces an error beep. If I leave the system alone the screensaver reactivates so the system's not frozen, I just can't get the focus where it belongs!
The good news is that boinc does run alongside S@H Classic, despite what the boinc transition page says. Because of the screensaver issue, I've kept Classic as my screensaver. Boinc runs in the background; maybe it doesn't get any slices when the screensaver is active (I dunno) but it definitely gets CPU when I'm working on something else.
Finally, the "Account ID" thing is really awful; am I supposed to write that novel on a stack of notecards and carry it around to install boinc/SETI on my various machines?! I think I shan't.
Also, not really a bug as such but the boinc/SETI graphics really suck.
My quota first went to -2048.0MB. I have an email from Yahoo (dated dated 6/14/04, 11:00pm) confirming this:
You are currently exceeding your Yahoo! Mail storage quota by a very large amount. You are only allowed -2048.0MB of storage but you are currently using 0.0MB of storage. [RED FONT]Your account has been temporarily disabled from receiving new messages.[/RED FONT]
Watch those script bugs, folks!:-) Fortunately my email was not actually disabled... And the next day I got an email telling me my capacity was now 2GB. The next thing was to figure out what to do with 2GB, seeing as how I have my in-house mailserver poll Yahoo every minute. So what I did was to create a special folder and a filter to sort incoming messages with a specific tag into that folder. Yahoo's POP access doesn't dump the extra folder's contents, so I can just email stuff to myself and Yahoo will store it for me.
These are "tray product" and are not warranted by Intel. If your processor-sans-fan dies on you, your beef is with the people you bought it from -- not Intel. There is no wiggle on that policy.
Why do you think the bare processors are so much cheaper? You're not paying for the warranty, that's why! Don't kid yourself that warranties are "free" because they aren't.
The prions that cause BSE... can easily withstand 1 hour at 360 C.
Assuming that prions survive the process of being converted to fuel, how long do they last at typical diesel combustion temperatures, which start around 550C and go up?
Of course, we'll have to be sure to label bovine-derived biodiesel "Not for human consumption"...
Yeah, I've had that problem here. I've tried Mandrake, RedHat, and the new Linspire thingy and none of them support my soundcard. Well, RedHat did after I fiddled with it a lot. I don't really know what I did to get sound working on RH9...
The problem is, of course, my own fault. I built a system with an obscure soundcard that hasn't been on the market long enough for the dev community to figure it out.
For anyone who might want to take on writing a driver for a young, obscure soundcard, I'd like to suggest you try mine. The company is some hole-in-the-wall outfit called "Creative Labs" (I wonder how much they paid for that name) and the model is "AWE64 ISA".
Or, I suppose I could just get something common and well-documented. Then I wouldn't have these problems.
the experiments have been discussed on./ a few times
Maybe we're supposed to read it backwards to reveal a secret message, like "Taco is Dead" or something?
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...by sending it to mars they'd be 'distributing' it, and must provide a way... for anyone there to get the source code for only the cost of duplication and delivery
Not a problem -- anyone receiving the distributed binary is welcome to the source code; they need but to ask and we'll happily provide it for the cost of duplication (trivial) and delivery (a few hundred million USD). NASA might even be willing to accept the request itself as payment, depending on what form the request was in...
Copy protection schemes either don't work (Region coding) or they kill the technology (DAT) -- sometimes both (DAT). I'm not "1337" enough to crack these things myself, but I know others are -- and will.
Media companies in general are still working from an outdated business model. Their day has passed, and they're looking for laws to preserve themselves. What they should be doing is producing products that obviate internet distribution. Provide something that is desirable but not downloadable. Cassettes didn't kill radio, VHS didn't kill analog TV. MP3s won't kill CDs, and MPG/AVI/OGMs won't kill DVDs. Like all technologies, CDs and DVDs will be done in by obsolescence.
The movie and music industries will be with us always. Individual companies may come and go, depending on their ability to provide a product the public wants.
If light beer is as good as regular beer, why do they still make regular beer? If CDs and DVDs are allowing rampant piracy and causing the entertainment companies to go broke, why are they still selling CDs and DVDs? If digital TV is going to kill DVD sales then don't put your best shows on DTV -- that's all.
The thing is, DTV won't kill DVD sales either. And "protected" DTV will not deter those who want to copy it, it will only piss off Joe Consumer.
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Descent has been doing this since 1995.
ISTR that Muslix64's attack worked by identifying the keys in active RAM. So how does revoking the keys defeat this attack?
The poisons one is quite interesting. Has a poison to make from horse excrement...
Isn't that redundant?
... a scratch teenager.
Jordan is the best movie character ever.
Explain the huge smoke cloud? Why explain it? It's obviously the engine exhaust from their takeoff.
I've been helping a relative with Alzheimer's, and I've been able to do pretty much anything I wanted, aside from dealing with actual money.
Telephone service is particularly easy to mess with; I just called repairs and ordered service changes and no attempt was ever made to check on me. I was able to add and delete services, change phone numbers and billing addresses, etc. I didn't even have be at the service location to order any changes.
For utility accounts, all the info I've ever needed was on the bills. Again, I was able to change services, update billing records, etc. all without any difficulty. It's been very convenient for me to be able to set things up without having to muck around with Powers of Attorney and so on, but it gives me the shivers to realize what must be possible to one "skilled in the arts".
Once you have utility bills with your address on them you can establish a residence and a lot of stuff follows from that. For instance, I could easily get a library card and enroll my kids in school in the town where this relative lives.
With a little bit of creativity I could probably do stuff with money, too. I guess it's a good thing I'm honest, huh?
Done.
This movie makes me cry like a girl...
When you're marketing to GWB, you have to do things a bit differently. These bots are designed to handle nucular ordinance -- get used to it.
From Judge Feikins' appendix (Page 26 of the pdf): ...
However, an otherwise copyrightable text can be used as a method of operation of a computer - for instance, an original, copyrightable poem could be used as a password
Under this reasoning, an individual who copied a poem solely to use as a password would not have infringed the copyright, because in that scenario, the alleged infringer would have the defense that the poem has "merged" with a method of operation (the password).
So it seems to me that a spammer could use Habeas' copyrighted haiku header, claiming that it was being used as a "password" and therefore (at least in the 6th Circuit) not infringement. Of course, IANAL. But that's what it looks like to me.
Of course, Judge Feikins is speaking strictly for himself here, not on behalf of the 6th Circuit. But it's a clear indication of his position...
I own a domain that relates to a popular TV show -- many people use characters' email addresses when polluting registration databases (instead of using BugMeNot) and I get that email.
I also set up an AOL screenname "ignoreallemail@aol.com" and I use it when I'm polluting a database myself. I don't think that one can be killed. AOL dumps the inbox for me as it fills, but since I don't read any email there, I don't care.
I tried to post a bug report on their Windows Client Forum, but the authentication routine failed to recognize my account ID when I copied and pasted it from the e-mail message I had just received.
Yup -- same here.
I'm running W98SE, with a screensaver password set. When coming out of the screensaver, the password box comes up but it does not have focus. The mouse cursor moves, but clicking inside the password box does not shift the focus. Clicking outside the password box produces an error beep. If I leave the system alone the screensaver reactivates so the system's not frozen, I just can't get the focus where it belongs!
The good news is that boinc does run alongside S@H Classic, despite what the boinc transition page says. Because of the screensaver issue, I've kept Classic as my screensaver. Boinc runs in the background; maybe it doesn't get any slices when the screensaver is active (I dunno) but it definitely gets CPU when I'm working on something else.
Finally, the "Account ID" thing is really awful; am I supposed to write that novel on a stack of notecards and carry it around to install boinc/SETI on my various machines?! I think I shan't.
Also, not really a bug as such but the boinc/SETI graphics really suck.
My quota first went to -2048.0MB. I have an email from Yahoo (dated dated 6/14/04, 11:00pm) confirming this:
:-) Fortunately my email was not actually disabled... And the next day I got an email telling me my capacity was now 2GB. The next thing was to figure out what to do with 2GB, seeing as how I have my in-house mailserver poll Yahoo every minute. So what I did was to create a special folder and a filter to sort incoming messages with a specific tag into that folder. Yahoo's POP access doesn't dump the extra folder's contents, so I can just email stuff to myself and Yahoo will store it for me.
You are currently exceeding your Yahoo! Mail storage quota by a very large amount. You are only allowed -2048.0MB of storage but you are currently using 0.0MB of storage. [RED FONT]Your account has been temporarily disabled from receiving new messages.[/RED FONT]
Watch those script bugs, folks!
Still not retiring the DAT, though.
many places sell chips separate of fans
These are "tray product" and are not warranted by Intel. If your processor-sans-fan dies on you, your beef is with the people you bought it from -- not Intel. There is no wiggle on that policy.
Why do you think the bare processors are so much cheaper? You're not paying for the warranty, that's why! Don't kid yourself that warranties are "free" because they aren't.
The prions that cause BSE ... can easily withstand 1 hour at 360 C.
Assuming that prions survive the process of being converted to fuel, how long do they last at typical diesel combustion temperatures, which start around 550C and go up?
Of course, we'll have to be sure to label bovine-derived biodiesel "Not for human consumption"...
Yeah, I've had that problem here. I've tried Mandrake, RedHat, and the new Linspire thingy and none of them support my soundcard. Well, RedHat did after I fiddled with it a lot. I don't really know what I did to get sound working on RH9...
The problem is, of course, my own fault. I built a system with an obscure soundcard that hasn't been on the market long enough for the dev community to figure it out.
For anyone who might want to take on writing a driver for a young, obscure soundcard, I'd like to suggest you try mine. The company is some hole-in-the-wall outfit called "Creative Labs" (I wonder how much they paid for that name) and the model is "AWE64 ISA".
Or, I suppose I could just get something common and well-documented. Then I wouldn't have these problems.
I use Dave barry's blog as my start page.
If it was on Slashdot 2 years ago, does it still count as a dupe?
But I really think it's justified:
./ a few times
the experiments have been discussed on
Maybe we're supposed to read it backwards to reveal a secret message, like "Taco is Dead" or something?
...by sending it to mars they'd be 'distributing' it, and must provide a way ... for anyone there to get the source code for only the cost of duplication and delivery
Not a problem -- anyone receiving the distributed binary is welcome to the source code; they need but to ask and we'll happily provide it for the cost of duplication (trivial) and delivery (a few hundred million USD). NASA might even be willing to accept the request itself as payment, depending on what form the request was in...
I once ran off a batch of resumes on an ASR-33 Teletype -- no lowercase, crappy canary-yellow roll-feed newsprint paper, etc.
One of those resumes got me a decent job...
What kind of moron steals a computer, hooks it up the internet without first...
An "arrested" moron, apparently.
... at the Broadcast Flag.
Copy protection schemes either don't work (Region coding) or they kill the technology (DAT) -- sometimes both (DAT). I'm not "1337" enough to crack these things myself, but I know others are -- and will.
Media companies in general are still working from an outdated business model. Their day has passed, and they're looking for laws to preserve themselves. What they should be doing is producing products that obviate internet distribution. Provide something that is desirable but not downloadable. Cassettes didn't kill radio, VHS didn't kill analog TV. MP3s won't kill CDs, and MPG/AVI/OGMs won't kill DVDs. Like all technologies, CDs and DVDs will be done in by obsolescence.
The movie and music industries will be with us always. Individual companies may come and go, depending on their ability to provide a product the public wants.
If light beer is as good as regular beer, why do they still make regular beer? If CDs and DVDs are allowing rampant piracy and causing the entertainment companies to go broke, why are they still selling CDs and DVDs? If digital TV is going to kill DVD sales then don't put your best shows on DTV -- that's all.
The thing is, DTV won't kill DVD sales either. And "protected" DTV will not deter those who want to copy it, it will only piss off Joe Consumer.