As Symantec is unwilling to specify the new purposes for these certificates, and as they are aware of the risk to Google’s users, they have requested that Google take preventative action by removing and distrusting this root certificate.
Later in TFA:
Symantec has indicated that they do not believe their customers, who are the operators of secure websites, will be affected by this removal.
Symantec is retiring the certificate, and has asked for it to be removed from Google (and probably other) products. End of story. Nobody should be affected.
With a DNS address you are providing a mapping that is continually updated by the DNS system. This would be more analogous to having a three word coordinate assigned to you 'my . personal . address' that you can update with different lat/lon values as you see fit. This has a real technical value (besides being handy to humans) in that you can move a service to a different address without the maintenance of sending a new IP to all end users manually.
This is more like providing a static mapping of names to every ipv4 address that exists, so 192.168.0.1 would always be 'ground meat sausage banana'.
Maybe I am missing something, but what is the advantage of the words being randomly assigned? In UTM, we know that zones 10U - 20R are vaguely covering the USA, and that zones starting with 10 are west of those starting with 11. Is that a design shortcoming somehow?
Since the globe will never get larger or smaller, and the only really challenging part is deciding how to cover the glove with regular sized squares, how is it impossible to make an open source mapping?
I mentioned UTM in another post to you because it is a pretty good system for providing maps that have units in (approximate) meters instead of degrees. It is a well known standard that could easily be augmented with names for square areas. MGRS is an example of this narrowing the globe into 100km(ish) square units.
But you had to look them up. You had to go to a website, type both in, look at a fucking map, and determine that they are not right next to each other.
No other global coordinate system requires this, so there has to be a pretty good argument for why it is actually a good thing.
You have a lot to say about UTM for someone that could not be troubled to even look at the Wikipedia page.
The three word system has a checksum in the fact that there are many more word mappings than actual rectangles on earth, so there will be no match in the database... but no real mathematical checksum.
It is a fun approach to the coordinate problem, but it IS NOT giving anyone more of an address than they did with lat/lon coordinates. Besides being easy to communicate (which is a big plus) it does not actually do anything that has not already been done... just with a startup and a licensing fee...
The obvious problem is getting everyone to use it, as they say in their video it would need to be added to services such google maps and integrated into GPS apps.
I have gotten 100% of the things that I invested in too, but never felt bad when the schedules got pushed back, or it looked like the thing might never come.
It is fun if you are chill, but if you really really expect something, even the wait for a project that produces fruit might be too much.
For example, I invested in a few HexBright flashlights. They eventually came, and were cool... it took a really long time. Watching the team design them, and watching progress update videos was fun. During the wait, I had to buy a different flashlight to satisfy my flashlight needs, from a real store. Kickstarter is not a store.
Business environment is also kind of why the price is so low. Most of the time they are ransoming a little downtime while restoring a backup, not priceless data.
Upon further review, it appears that the article text was written by someone that was intimately familiar with some Twitch happening, and wrote something from that perspective. Not really written as news, or with any general appeal in mind at all. Combine that with the blog like ramblings of Bennett, and I seriously wonder why I keep coming here. Kind of a compulsion more than anything.
Who's blindly trusting them? I trust my own self signed cert that I use for my own purposes.
This deliberately ignores the real use case of digital certificates... communicating with other entities while preventing man in the middle attacks. The trusted CAs in browsers might not be perfect, but again, they are almost infinitely better than no infrastructure at all, which is the only real alternative at this time.
"April 8, 2014: Microsoft began charging millions for support of its Windows XP product. "
What is your point though? I doubt the article poster's enterprise has extended enterprise XP support, and neither do most people who need to upgrade from XP.
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From TFA:
As Symantec is unwilling to specify the new purposes for these certificates, and as they are aware of the risk to Google’s users, they have requested that Google take preventative action by removing and distrusting this root certificate.
Later in TFA:
Symantec has indicated that they do not believe their customers, who are the operators of secure websites, will be affected by this removal.
Symantec is retiring the certificate, and has asked for it to be removed from Google (and probably other) products. End of story. Nobody should be affected.
With a DNS address you are providing a mapping that is continually updated by the DNS system. This would be more analogous to having a three word coordinate assigned to you 'my . personal . address' that you can update with different lat/lon values as you see fit. This has a real technical value (besides being handy to humans) in that you can move a service to a different address without the maintenance of sending a new IP to all end users manually.
This is more like providing a static mapping of names to every ipv4 address that exists, so 192.168.0.1 would always be 'ground meat sausage banana'.
Maybe I am missing something, but what is the advantage of the words being randomly assigned? In UTM, we know that zones 10U - 20R are vaguely covering the USA, and that zones starting with 10 are west of those starting with 11. Is that a design shortcoming somehow?
Since the globe will never get larger or smaller, and the only really challenging part is deciding how to cover the glove with regular sized squares, how is it impossible to make an open source mapping?
I mentioned UTM in another post to you because it is a pretty good system for providing maps that have units in (approximate) meters instead of degrees. It is a well known standard that could easily be augmented with names for square areas. MGRS is an example of this narrowing the globe into 100km(ish) square units.
Thank you :)
Ignored in our shiny new thing fever... why can't I just give UPS the coordinates to my door?
But you had to look them up. You had to go to a website, type both in, look at a fucking map, and determine that they are not right next to each other.
No other global coordinate system requires this, so there has to be a pretty good argument for why it is actually a good thing.
You have a lot to say about UTM for someone that could not be troubled to even look at the Wikipedia page.
The three word system has a checksum in the fact that there are many more word mappings than actual rectangles on earth, so there will be no match in the database... but no real mathematical checksum.
It is a fun approach to the coordinate problem, but it IS NOT giving anyone more of an address than they did with lat/lon coordinates. Besides being easy to communicate (which is a big plus) it does not actually do anything that has not already been done... just with a startup and a licensing fee...
Anyway, I love one of the blocks that could map to my place: "drones totally toasted" ;)
Not that anyone would go to Iceland anyways, but you just gave your physical location to within 4.2 meters on an internet forum.
The obvious problem is getting everyone to use it, as they say in their video it would need to be added to services such google maps and integrated into GPS apps.
Which they plan to charge them money for.
How does this system help more than say, the UTM coordinate system?
Even latitude/longitude coordinates give you some clue at all about where they are, which is all this system is attempting to crudely replace.
Where is 'correct . battery . staple'?
Is it near 'stupid . coordinate . system'?
By this system your house probably has hundreds of addresses. This is a vague replacement for GPS coordinates, not for street addresses.
I have gotten 100% of the things that I invested in too, but never felt bad when the schedules got pushed back, or it looked like the thing might never come.
It is fun if you are chill, but if you really really expect something, even the wait for a project that produces fruit might be too much.
For example, I invested in a few HexBright flashlights. They eventually came, and were cool... it took a really long time. Watching the team design them, and watching progress update videos was fun. During the wait, I had to buy a different flashlight to satisfy my flashlight needs, from a real store. Kickstarter is not a store.
it's slightly different, it's a conditional purchase/pre-pay.
This might be what it feels like, but it is not the arrangement caused by giving money to Kickstarter.
Even calling it a gamble is misleading. It is a sort-of donation, that you might get a free gift for later.
Trying to get something from Kickstarter is a fool's errand. It is not a web store.
Business environment is also kind of why the price is so low. Most of the time they are ransoming a little downtime while restoring a backup, not priceless data.
German?
The Johnson space center is in Houston, TX.
Upon further review, it appears that the article text was written by someone that was intimately familiar with some Twitch happening, and wrote something from that perspective. Not really written as news, or with any general appeal in mind at all. Combine that with the blog like ramblings of Bennett, and I seriously wonder why I keep coming here. Kind of a compulsion more than anything.
Evidently to whoever wrote that collection of words.
But what about how the Slashdot article text has no semantic meaning?
Who's blindly trusting them? I trust my own self signed cert that I use for my own purposes.
This deliberately ignores the real use case of digital certificates... communicating with other entities while preventing man in the middle attacks. The trusted CAs in browsers might not be perfect, but again, they are almost infinitely better than no infrastructure at all, which is the only real alternative at this time.
To be fair, even Symantec SSL certificates are more secure than just blindly trusting self signed certs.
Having DKIM setup, and a legitimate signed TLS certificate helps some too.
Adding DKIM signatures helps a lot too.
"April 8, 2014: Microsoft began charging millions for support of its Windows XP product. "
What is your point though? I doubt the article poster's enterprise has extended enterprise XP support, and neither do most people who need to upgrade from XP.