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  1. Re:Why the banks support a standard 2 factor syste on JP Morgan Breach Tied To Two-Factor Authentication Slip · · Score: 1

    Last I checked RSA is using a seed in their hardware tokens. That was what the debate was about and thus the assumptions relate to a RSA style seed based token not some other theoretical device.

  2. Re:Why the banks support a standard 2 factor syste on JP Morgan Breach Tied To Two-Factor Authentication Slip · · Score: 1

    Use a soft token, store as many seeds and OTP's are you like. The a reason RSA tokens only have one seed is they get $$$ for each one adding some buttons to scroll up/down is a very minor security risk to make it much more functional. Modern phones are putting the seeds in hardware vaults, not quite as good but a decent trade off.

  3. Re:Why the banks support a standard 2 factor syste on JP Morgan Breach Tied To Two-Factor Authentication Slip · · Score: 1

    Yes it is as your using the same seed. An attack that breaks e-trade's security can then give them the seed for your bank etc etc. Software tokens make having many seeds trivial, it would be trivial to do the same for hardware tokens to some extent.

  4. Re:Why the banks support a standard 2 factor syste on JP Morgan Breach Tied To Two-Factor Authentication Slip · · Score: 2

    Do you understand that using a single RSA style dongle for multiple places is a huge risk? We have standards based ways of doing this, but that does not get RSA a massive paycheck or somebody else that is huge on the hook should it fail. Hell phones are actually getting better at this putting those keys in internally hardened hardware, it's not as secure as a hard token but prevents most we got the keys to the kingdom attacks.

  5. Re:A matter of procedure... on Microsoft Gets Industry Support Against US Search Of Data In Ireland · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is they could have sought a warrant in Ireland, since they have stronger privacy protections the fishing expeditions would not be allowed. That is why they are trying to make an end run to avoid that having to show cause etc etc etc.

  6. Perhaps the need a bigger highway? on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Eminent domain those house and get some more lanes in.

    Probably better to put a new highway in off to one side or another, considering it's LA go with both.

  7. Re:Just in time. on Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    But they do time limited error recovery is a basic firmware difference between consumer and enterprise drives.

  8. Re:Just in time. on Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure it's even fair to consider an ent sata a enterprise drive, if they were comparing to sas that would be something.

  9. Re:This is an overreaction on Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site · · Score: 1

    The correct response is simple, declare them terrorists, cut off there funding etc etc.

  10. Re:Or people could, you know, do their damn jobs.. on BGP Hijacking Continues, Despite the Ability To Prevent It · · Score: 1

    Teirs of providers screwed up, Telecom Italia should have never accepted the routes. Considering that the whole AS has 84 ipv4 prefixes that could/should be summarized it's a pretty static list. They have one "client" bgp session to their own second AS. Telecom Italia is big enough where it looks like bigger fish dropped the ball filtering it's nearly 40k routes (possibly also hardware issues 40k long prefix lists can make routers unhappy).

  11. Re:Required -- Except When It Isn't on BGP Hijacking Continues, Despite the Ability To Prevent It · · Score: 1

    RADB for one. RPKI is pretty ugly and untill everybody uses it it's not that useful. RADB is here now and you can require that everybody registers as a condition of peering/transit.

  12. Re:Lawsuit, paid by... on Once Again, Baltimore Police Arrest a Person For Recording Them · · Score: 1

    The first two tend to be protected as elected officials doing their jobs which included discretion in these matters. The union is protecting it's members that is it's job and why unions are worthless throwbacks to fix issues of the 1800's.

  13. Re:Too small to be of any benefit. on LG To Show Off New 55-Inch 8K Display at CES · · Score: 1

    That chart must be for the middle aged or older not wearing glasses or refusing to get them. Or maybe it's using comcast's 1080p thats compressed to hell and back.

  14. Re:Have Both on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    The correct multi monitor setup is multiple computers + synergy or similar.

  15. Re:Broadband Internet needs to be classified utili on Civil Rights Groups Divided On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The nice thing about an all optical solution is no active devices are needed at the muni level. Passive mux and management of cwdm channels is all that is really needed. Other bits like macsec can help keep the muni's honest.

  16. Re:use your own cable modem on Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots · · Score: 1

    That is nothing try getting a cable card out of them.

  17. Re:Broadband Internet needs to be classified utili on Civil Rights Groups Divided On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Split the difference, glass between your house and one or more central points is a utility. Layered networks a switched/vlaned muni network that can get community services, lifeline internet, emergency services, startup ISP's, local patching, or whatever people can think to do with it. Now bigger providers can take a pure optics handoff as well. The muni is only taking care of glass and potentially it's own swtich network. The muni potentialy has the long term view to put the glass underground.

  18. Re:This is of course complete nonsense on US Treasury Dept: Banks Should Block Tor Nodes · · Score: 1

    Blocking the apparent source IP's is useless it may even help the use better means. Flagging the transactions for further inspection without letting on to the source could be rather useful. A block just means the attacker moves to a different vector say routing through a botnet. Hell low tech and a router on a cantenna to a mcdonalds wifi half a mile away.

  19. So it reads your mind on Pizza Hut Tests New "Subconscious Menu" That Reads Your Mind · · Score: 1

    Does that mean it knows you would much rather eat somewhere else?

  20. Re:Bail terms - no more money making on Kim Dotcom Faces Jail At Bail Hearing · · Score: 2

    Yup a "fugitive" as in fighting extradition. Those pesky assets might let him mount a functional defense.

    I'm sorry but seizing somebody assets so he can no longer mount a defense is entirely contrary to fair or just.

    Because another country will not extradite does not make him a fugitive. Nations have these sovereign rights for a reason so that we do not have some world law, so that they may pick what is right and wrong and to what extent internally.

  21. Re:Obvious is obvious on The Driverless Future: Buses, Not Taxis · · Score: 1

    Because outside of cities public transport is a joke.

    You still need a car to get to the station, often with insufficient parking.

    Timing is poor as in your a couple minutes late and now have to wait 15 30 60 minutes till the next train, often it is the same train come back for the next pass.

    Trains overall time to destination is worse then driving. Stopping in every town, slower than highway max speed (real speed not posted). Look at where public transport works, it's faster than driving via high speed rail.

    Buses well those are just workfare programs, automated trains make far more sense.

  22. Re:Constant writes such as backups, security camer on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    Streaming block writes, a 15k has about the same average write speed as a 6tb 7200 similar cost and 10x the capacity.

    Now if your backup or DVR app effectively makes that random writes, sure there is a point but get an app and/or file system that is not broken by design.

  23. Re:Spinning media can't go beyond 7200 rpm on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    Would you buy those 15k's new today? What usage pattern would favor 15k's vs ssd's? Space is similar if not in favor of the ssd's. IOPS SSD's win hands down. Price really depends on how much vendor gouging is going on, but if you need enterprise storage you tend to need IOP's so far fewer SSD's can do the same job as a lot of 15k spindles.

    Sure enterprise bulk or near line enterprise 7200's give you a ton of space.

  24. Re:Does rights-corp have anything to take? on Class-Action Suit Claims Copyright Enforcement Company Made Harassing Robo-calls · · Score: 1

    That is a HUGE if.

  25. Does rights-corp have anything to take? on Class-Action Suit Claims Copyright Enforcement Company Made Harassing Robo-calls · · Score: 1

    These places tend to be asset-less companies that do not care about being sued, they simply form another shell and fold.