So I understand that Symantec is either using very poor cryptography or even exchanging authentication credentials in plain text! Have they had any chance to read a few basic documents about, say, ssh? M0R0N5!
is the very wrong quotation! The original source quotes instead:
/proc/<pid>/mem
which is the memory as seen by a certain process whose PID is <pid>. Moreover, there's no "/proc/mem" file and the "//" whould be interpreted as "/". But maybe that'd be just the Slashdot editor.
As soon as people will start playing with TV firmwares, just like they did with smartphones and routers, we'll get better TVs. Which in turn is not what manufacturers and broadcasters want.
Forensics is done by people. The same people that looks for evidences can create them, alter them. And I'm not talking just about "digital forensics". Anything can be altered, created or deleted. Forever. By mistake, bug or on purpose. It doesn't really matter. With digital forensics it's just way easier. I can seize your hard disk, I put some porn in it, I create the browsing history, the temporary files, the antivirus scanner logs, the system logs for an USB medium insertion and removal, the thumbnails etc. etc. How can you prove you were not watching porn on your PC? It's all about "trust". The forensics people have more than you have. And it doesn't mean they deserve it. But the judge will likely believe them more than you.
Anything into a computer is a file. Which can be created, deleted and changed at your will. Do you really think you can put someone in jail because of a bunch of files in his computer? Ah!
Do you really think that once you put something private online it will be private forever? Privacy is a process, not a product or, worse, a tag on a file. Do you want to keep your "digital life" private? Forget about putting it online.
That's because today's linkers want to do it all in RAM.
How much insanity nowadays!
Doing everything in RAM is not just insane. It's EVILLY WRONG. Back storage (aka HDs/SSDs) is currently 100+ times larger than RAM and 100+ times "faster" than it used to be 10 years ago. And, anyway, GNU compiling and linking tools can do it with reasonably sized storage.
But you chose that Windows OS, so you deserve such a mistake!
It's insane that a compiler, any compiler, needs 3+GB to "just" link a whatever big number of object files into an executable. It's insane that a single piece of software cannot be linked in a 32bit environment. That is, a Windows32 environment, as it can be linked into a 32bit Linux environment. How much insanity nowadays!
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... and please, yes, troll me down!
So I understand that Symantec is either using very poor cryptography or even exchanging authentication credentials in plain text!
Have they had any chance to read a few basic documents about, say, ssh?
M0R0N5!
is the very wrong quotation!
The original source quotes instead:
which is the memory as seen by a certain process whose PID is <pid>.
Moreover, there's no "/proc/mem" file and the "//" whould be interpreted as "/".
But maybe that'd be just the Slashdot editor.
And here too.
Look here
To prosecute someone more than once for the same reason?
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Why not throwing the waste there instead of the landfill?
There's still someone talking about the eCat.
Or like this one for LGs.
Correct.
someone else's responsibility!
That's childish!
As soon as people will start playing with TV firmwares, just like they did with smartphones and routers, we'll get better TVs.
Which in turn is not what manufacturers and broadcasters want.
I use NTP on my systems!
They fix the timers, I got mine fixed. Automagically!
I's more likely.
Forensics is done by people.
The same people that looks for evidences can create them, alter them.
And I'm not talking just about "digital forensics". Anything can be altered, created or deleted. Forever.
By mistake, bug or on purpose. It doesn't really matter.
With digital forensics it's just way easier.
I can seize your hard disk, I put some porn in it, I create the browsing history, the temporary files, the antivirus scanner logs, the system logs for an USB medium insertion and removal, the thumbnails etc. etc.
How can you prove you were not watching porn on your PC?
It's all about "trust". The forensics people have more than you have. And it doesn't mean they deserve it.
But the judge will likely believe them more than you.
Because you think that the only data being transmitted is just observation ones.
Ah!
What about the management and alarming data on a remooote probe?
Is that you, Mariastella?
Anything into a computer is a file. Which can be created, deleted and changed at your will.
Do you really think you can put someone in jail because of a bunch of files in his computer?
Ah!
I'm looking forward for the solution to time drift and delay for transmission!
it can actually fly!
Do you really think that once you put something private online it will be private forever?
Privacy is a process, not a product or, worse, a tag on a file.
Do you want to keep your "digital life" private?
Forget about putting it online.
A number of other OSes can do it with a reasonably sized system. Which is not 3+GB RAM.
That's because today's linkers want to do it all in RAM.
How much insanity nowadays!
Doing everything in RAM is not just insane. It's EVILLY WRONG.
Back storage (aka HDs/SSDs) is currently 100+ times larger than RAM and 100+ times "faster" than it used to be 10 years ago.
And, anyway, GNU compiling and linking tools can do it with reasonably sized storage.
But you chose that Windows OS, so you deserve such a mistake!
It's insane that a compiler, any compiler, needs 3+GB to "just" link a whatever big number of object files into an executable.
It's insane that a single piece of software cannot be linked in a 32bit environment. That is, a Windows32 environment, as it can be linked into a 32bit Linux environment.
How much insanity nowadays!