All information is good -- information technology?
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Information Poisoning
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All information is good, information technology can be abused, as can any technology... both industry and government are to be feared in abuse of technology... the press (including slashdot) are what protects us from abuse by exposing it.
Mostly agree except:
CIO is interested in all information no matter how done.
CTO is interested in technology which is not limited to information. After all technology is used to for other things than computers;-)
I know my son would want to test it out. If MS follows its own pattern, the first XBox will be horrible... after a few versions it will destroy the compitition... Borg Unite
Consider the steps to breaking a cipher:
1. know that there is an enciphered message.
2. know the encryption method
3. attack the cipher
While attacks on enigma are well know, if you can avoid 1 or 2 no will get to 3.
Even week encryption methods are good if you can hide the fact that there is a secret message or if the method is not familiar.
For older encryption methods, keeping the messages short and changing the keys frequently will prevent attackers from decrypting your message. This requires exchanging keys securely L
A historical point about the enigma cracking is that British intelligence knew there were enciphered messages, got a hold of an enigma machine to find out what the method was, accumulated vast amounts of messages. Only then did Turing develop the computer to quickly find the key. A tough problem was when the Nazis upgraded the machine and the British did not have an example to figure out what was different
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All information is good, information technology can be abused, as can any technology ... both industry and government are to be feared in abuse of technology ... the press (including slashdot) are what protects us from abuse by exposing it.
Mostly agree except: CIO is interested in all information no matter how done. CTO is interested in technology which is not limited to information. After all technology is used to for other things than computers ;-)
I know my son would want to test it out. If MS follows its own pattern, the first XBox will be horrible ... after a few versions it will destroy the compitition ... Borg Unite
Consider the steps to breaking a cipher: 1. know that there is an enciphered message. 2. know the encryption method 3. attack the cipher While attacks on enigma are well know, if you can avoid 1 or 2 no will get to 3. Even week encryption methods are good if you can hide the fact that there is a secret message or if the method is not familiar. For older encryption methods, keeping the messages short and changing the keys frequently will prevent attackers from decrypting your message. This requires exchanging keys securely L A historical point about the enigma cracking is that British intelligence knew there were enciphered messages, got a hold of an enigma machine to find out what the method was, accumulated vast amounts of messages. Only then did Turing develop the computer to quickly find the key. A tough problem was when the Nazis upgraded the machine and the British did not have an example to figure out what was different