Holy carp, there's some insight! I'm in the middle of some dealings with Chinese manufacturing, and your assessment is maddeningly accurate. It's like engineered corruption all the way through.
There's no specific law for passwords; it is an interpretation of laws covering obstruction of justice. If you don't, they simply get a warrant. If you still don't disclose, you're up for contempt and probably a slew of other infractions. I'm am curious about the case you cite, actually. I'm really glad to hear that the judge didn't just rubber-stamp it and presumably put some thought into the request.
Wrong branch, buddy. What you really want is Steganography, where you hide the good data in other more innocuous data. The trick is coming up with plausible deniability. If they see a program called Super Stenographer in your Start Menu, you're busted. You are required by federal law to disclose relevant passwords during a search, just like handing the keys to your car over to a police officer during a "probable cause" search. However, if you keep your decryption program off of the machine on a removable disk, there's a good chance they won't find it in a regular screening search. I think it's better to keep sensitive data off of anything that travels into an uncontrolled environment, which to me means anywhere outside of my data center. If you don't have it, they can't get it either.
In the article, it says that Radius went to an encrypted network to access company data. Given the recent news of stolen laptops, and the ensuing uproar over the data contained on them, it seems to me that everyone should take this approach. There are very few places that I go in the course of business that don't have some kind of network access. Even the hot dog stand down the street has free wifi, for crying out loud! Of course, you need an access scheme sufficient to keep thieves and DHS agents out of your database, but that's a solved problem with revocable certs, etc.
The note about going through the recent documents log and browser history has me concerned, though. I may set the defaults on my work machine to never-save on the history. I can think of any number of services to archive bookmarks online. The idea here is that your travel machine may be lost, stolen, broken, or compromised at any time, and we should behave as such.
It sucks that we have to protect ourselves from unreasonable search and seizure by our government, but we'll just have to deal with it for now. Not to get off on a rant here, but I think the Second Amendment should be interpreted to include strong encryption. The writers of the Constitution put that in there as a safeguard against jackbooted government thugs. In today's world, I see no political difference between a Kentucky Long Rifle and AES-128.
Duh, the Canadians have flappy heads. Easy to spot, no worries here. Or you could ask them where they've been, and when they say "oot and aboot" you just throw the dirty bacon eaters in the brig.
Hm, here I thought I was the only one who couldn't get the master doc thing working in MS Office. OO.o was just too easy to get it going, no fighting at all. I have been using the Beta 2.2 for a while, works fine, even pulls pivot tables in properly from Excel. I'm the office guinea pig, I'm heavily leaning toward giving it the thumbs up with this new release.
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I think you missed the point. It's running a fully graphical Linux in 2MB of solid-state memory. It just happens to be residing in the BIOS chip, which means no other hardware is necessary to get a functioning system. I think it's awfully cool.
Like just about every field today, touch-sensitive tech is a patent minefield. I'd be willing to bet the UK company is Quantum, which has a whole boatload of touch-patents. It could be a patent on the touch sense methods, or a patent on the use of a touch screen on a cell phone, or anything along those lines. Without more info, it's all just speculation of course, but this is Slashdot so I know I'm in good company.
The NSA still does a secure erasure / destruction process on flash-based drives. A clever person with an SEM can read a few layers deep on a flash cell, sorta similar to magnetic media. DRAM and SRAM don't really have any kind of long-term storage capability, so it's a non-issue there. Of course, physical destruction is always good, which is why some of the highest security solid-state disks include a mechanism for this.
No kidding, is there even a Windows equivalent of dmesg or/var/log/*? I'm genuinely curious. I just looked in C:\Windows\Debug, and there are some empty log files. I found one that was a few KB, so I tried to open it. MS Application Search services didn't recognize the file, which seems like a really bad design to me. (Description: Windows does not recognize this file type).
I've been messing with a GX533 dev board for quite a while. It runs XP Pro out of the box, without a heatsink or a fan, which is pretty amazing. Once you load up the AMD graphics and sound drivers, it's pretty handy for general use. Linux is, of course, a no-brainer. The kernel source is hosted on the AMD developers site, which is easy to access (open signups).
The PIC is OK, PIC-2 will be better with the ethernet actually brought out, instead of the USB dongle. The PIC runs a "special" version of WinCE, which is locked to the PIC hardware and licensed extremely cheaply from MS. This box was NOT meant for us, the Slashdot crowd. But it is a cool piece of hardware, anyway.
The LX800 (GX3, sorta) with the CS5536 gives you full-on USB 2.0. Plus a lot more general performance. Is it an Athlon? Certainly not, but it's certainly good for a lot of applications other than CAD modeling or simulating nuclear explosions.
So, you're saying you can build a motorcycle from scratch while remodeling your kitchen?
MTV will rot your brain for sure, but watching Discovery, PBS, and TLC is like watching Macguyver and thinking you can build a bomb from some gum and a D-cell battery. They leave a lot of stuff out. Have the Teutels ever shown you how to work that TIG welder?
Mr T told me, don't be a foo, stay in skoo. So I did.
I think the point was that the insurance co could now see that I watch tons of auto racing and general car shows (which I do), then assume that I drive like a maniac (which I also do on occasion) and therefore jack my rates. The problem is that they assume that I'll be more risky to insure and do a pre-emptive strike on my wallet. That would suck.
ARCNET is still around, actually. SMSC makes the controllers. ARCNET is a deterministic (time-wise) network, so it's nice for industrial controls. Ethernet is a CSMA/CD network, so you're never quite sure when you'll get time to talk across the network. That kind of thing gets to be important when you've got a time and sequence sensitive process going on.
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Holy carp, there's some insight! I'm in the middle of some dealings with Chinese manufacturing, and your assessment is maddeningly accurate. It's like engineered corruption all the way through.
What does mil-spec code look like? Do you have to put //SIR! after every semicolon?
The Catholic Church(tm).
Yeah, too bad hardly anyone bought a NeXT box, isn't it?
There's no specific law for passwords; it is an interpretation of laws covering obstruction of justice. If you don't, they simply get a warrant. If you still don't disclose, you're up for contempt and probably a slew of other infractions. I'm am curious about the case you cite, actually. I'm really glad to hear that the judge didn't just rubber-stamp it and presumably put some thought into the request.
Wrong branch, buddy. What you really want is Steganography, where you hide the good data in other more innocuous data. The trick is coming up with plausible deniability. If they see a program called Super Stenographer in your Start Menu, you're busted. You are required by federal law to disclose relevant passwords during a search, just like handing the keys to your car over to a police officer during a "probable cause" search. However, if you keep your decryption program off of the machine on a removable disk, there's a good chance they won't find it in a regular screening search. I think it's better to keep sensitive data off of anything that travels into an uncontrolled environment, which to me means anywhere outside of my data center. If you don't have it, they can't get it either.
In the article, it says that Radius went to an encrypted network to access company data. Given the recent news of stolen laptops, and the ensuing uproar over the data contained on them, it seems to me that everyone should take this approach. There are very few places that I go in the course of business that don't have some kind of network access. Even the hot dog stand down the street has free wifi, for crying out loud! Of course, you need an access scheme sufficient to keep thieves and DHS agents out of your database, but that's a solved problem with revocable certs, etc.
The note about going through the recent documents log and browser history has me concerned, though. I may set the defaults on my work machine to never-save on the history. I can think of any number of services to archive bookmarks online. The idea here is that your travel machine may be lost, stolen, broken, or compromised at any time, and we should behave as such.
It sucks that we have to protect ourselves from unreasonable search and seizure by our government, but we'll just have to deal with it for now. Not to get off on a rant here, but I think the Second Amendment should be interpreted to include strong encryption. The writers of the Constitution put that in there as a safeguard against jackbooted government thugs. In today's world, I see no political difference between a Kentucky Long Rifle and AES-128.
That would be pretexting.
Obligatory "screw you!!1!" to Carly for messing up the calculator division.
Duh, the Canadians have flappy heads. Easy to spot, no worries here. Or you could ask them where they've been, and when they say "oot and aboot" you just throw the dirty bacon eaters in the brig.
Hm, here I thought I was the only one who couldn't get the master doc thing working in MS Office. OO.o was just too easy to get it going, no fighting at all. I have been using the Beta 2.2 for a while, works fine, even pulls pivot tables in properly from Excel. I'm the office guinea pig, I'm heavily leaning toward giving it the thumbs up with this new release.
I think you missed the point. It's running a fully graphical Linux in 2MB of solid-state memory. It just happens to be residing in the BIOS chip, which means no other hardware is necessary to get a functioning system. I think it's awfully cool.
Like just about every field today, touch-sensitive tech is a patent minefield. I'd be willing to bet the UK company is Quantum, which has a whole boatload of touch-patents. It could be a patent on the touch sense methods, or a patent on the use of a touch screen on a cell phone, or anything along those lines. Without more info, it's all just speculation of course, but this is Slashdot so I know I'm in good company.
The NSA still does a secure erasure / destruction process on flash-based drives. A clever person with an SEM can read a few layers deep on a flash cell, sorta similar to magnetic media. DRAM and SRAM don't really have any kind of long-term storage capability, so it's a non-issue there. Of course, physical destruction is always good, which is why some of the highest security solid-state disks include a mechanism for this.
No kidding, is there even a Windows equivalent of dmesg or /var/log/*? I'm genuinely curious. I just looked in C:\Windows\Debug, and there are some empty log files. I found one that was a few KB, so I tried to open it. MS Application Search services didn't recognize the file, which seems like a really bad design to me. (Description: Windows does not recognize this file type).
I don't think the energy at the Earth's surface will be enough to hurt your ham, but then I'm not a pig farmer so who knows?
Not around here. Most of our checkers are recent immigrants or mentally handicapped.
I used to think like that, too. Not so much anymore. Try "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut.
There's always going to be a bottom rung of people who really can't do much more than run a cash register. What happens to them?
Don't you mean reverse polish / the best notation ever / is?
I've been messing with a GX533 dev board for quite a while. It runs XP Pro out of the box, without a heatsink or a fan, which is pretty amazing. Once you load up the AMD graphics and sound drivers, it's pretty handy for general use. Linux is, of course, a no-brainer. The kernel source is hosted on the AMD developers site, which is easy to access (open signups).
The PIC is OK, PIC-2 will be better with the ethernet actually brought out, instead of the USB dongle. The PIC runs a "special" version of WinCE, which is locked to the PIC hardware and licensed extremely cheaply from MS. This box was NOT meant for us, the Slashdot crowd. But it is a cool piece of hardware, anyway.
The LX800 (GX3, sorta) with the CS5536 gives you full-on USB 2.0. Plus a lot more general performance. Is it an Athlon? Certainly not, but it's certainly good for a lot of applications other than CAD modeling or simulating nuclear explosions.
So, you're saying you can build a motorcycle from scratch while remodeling your kitchen?
MTV will rot your brain for sure, but watching Discovery, PBS, and TLC is like watching Macguyver and thinking you can build a bomb from some gum and a D-cell battery. They leave a lot of stuff out. Have the Teutels ever shown you how to work that TIG welder?
Mr T told me, don't be a foo, stay in skoo. So I did.
It's not an option because the Indian government will not allow US citizens to work there. They've got an amazingly one-way division of labor.
I think the point was that the insurance co could now see that I watch tons of auto racing and general car shows (which I do), then assume that I drive like a maniac (which I also do on occasion) and therefore jack my rates. The problem is that they assume that I'll be more risky to insure and do a pre-emptive strike on my wallet. That would suck.
ARCNET is still around, actually. SMSC makes the controllers. ARCNET is a deterministic (time-wise) network, so it's nice for industrial controls. Ethernet is a CSMA/CD network, so you're never quite sure when you'll get time to talk across the network. That kind of thing gets to be important when you've got a time and sequence sensitive process going on.
The 7868W was the last great Motorola phone, IMHO. It was just a phone, it worked well, and it didn't look girly or playschool. It was all business.
Too bad I dropped mine in a toilet. I just couldn't bring myself to putting that thing by my head after that.
Sure, here's a good one. They've got a pretty interesting technology for making a gigantic correlator.
http://www.globallocate.com/