8 characters sure. Because it's only 8 chars you think you can remember it no matter what it was.
But if it's 50, are you going to use deliberate obfuscations in it?
No, you're going to give it a pattern like "a sentence from a nursery rhyme with whitespace removed and all words capitalized." Now all you have to do is remember that and the nursery rhyme. So even if you forget it exactly, you're likely to reconstruct it within a few tries.
It's open software, so you can look at it any time you like.
Of course, so can the h4xx0rs.
And they don't have to pwn it until election day. By which time you no longer have open access to the code in the box. You can try to hack it, but you probably won't be able to tell what other hacks have been applied by looking at the binary.
The fact is, if the voting system is built on an operating system that allows a superuser access to all things, then it's ultimately vulnerable to all types of hack, as long as there's any exploit that allows superuser access.
And if it has an IP component over the public interwebs, all bets are off, no matter what TLA you're using to encrypt it.
Correction: no he can't. Not for a password. It's not legal in the USA for courts to compel people to decrypt encrypted evidence if the evidence might incriminate them, so it's not legal to cite them for contempt for refusing to do so.
Now, if the password was to evidence that would incriminate someone else and not him, then he could be held in contempt. It gets tricky if they think he's somehow involved, though, and they don't offer him immunity. He can continue to assert his rights against self-incrimination even if he had nothing to do with it and there's nothing in the encrypted information that would incriminate him. But if they ever found that out, they could slap him with Obstruction of Justice.
It's not illegal, but it's not likely to "easily happen". You're likely to make a 50-character password only if it's trivially easy for you to remember it, or if you have some easy means of recovering it.
It's either a proverb or ditty of some sort, or it's in another file that is itself somehow encrypted.
He'll get that for whatever they had on him that got him arrested.
They can also just keep asking him for his password. As long as he refuses, he's repeatedly breaking the law against refusing.
As someone mentioned, this process is simplified in America. The judge declares you in contempt and throws you in the hole indefinitely until you make up your mind to cooperate.
When they do, they'll use his refusal to give up his password as evidence, added to whatever else they have.
He can get years anyway. But he may know he has hundreds of files on that computer and that each one can be counted as a single crime, so years in lieu of centuries may be his best defense.
Of course, if he's guilty, I don't much care what they do to him.
That graphic is deliberately fucked up, with edges crossing where there's no need for them to do so.
What it shows when you decode it is that Nokia and Kodak are the most litigious, while the most frequent targets are Apple (no surpised), Sharp and Motorola.
9 of the bubbles are suing nobody, 5 are not being sued, and 3 are suing and being sued.
Nokia is involved in 10 cases, suing 8 companies and being countersued by 2 of them. I guess that's what you get for being a longtime pioneer and suddenly having your industry jumped by a bunch of linux-based hacks and an iPod with a phone chip in it.
Easily measured by sensitive devices designed to measure it. Like voltmeters. And the sensitivity has to rise parabolically as the measuring device retreats from the test sample, but nearly infinitely at the boundary of the sample, so the parabola starts out pretty stuck when it becomes the shape of the curve.
Frizzy-haired bints saying they "see" the aura around someone on a TV or movie screen are not gifted, they are nuts.
BTW, your linked picture is not an "energy field" produced by a human body. It is a computer-drawn representation of millimeter-wave RF emitted by electronic devices and reflected from a human body. And a gun.
So I'm using my psychic powers to say you're trolling.
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Better to just say you forgot it, and then forget it.
Because if you screw with them it pisses them off, and if they find out they nail you for perjury.
8 characters sure. Because it's only 8 chars you think you can remember it no matter what it was.
But if it's 50, are you going to use deliberate obfuscations in it?
No, you're going to give it a pattern like "a sentence from a nursery rhyme with whitespace removed and all words capitalized." Now all you have to do is remember that and the nursery rhyme. So even if you forget it exactly, you're likely to reconstruct it within a few tries.
I just have to wait for you to access it. You know you want to.
It's open software, so you can look at it any time you like.
Of course, so can the h4xx0rs.
And they don't have to pwn it until election day. By which time you no longer have open access to the code in the box. You can try to hack it, but you probably won't be able to tell what other hacks have been applied by looking at the binary.
The fact is, if the voting system is built on an operating system that allows a superuser access to all things, then it's ultimately vulnerable to all types of hack, as long as there's any exploit that allows superuser access.
And if it has an IP component over the public interwebs, all bets are off, no matter what TLA you're using to encrypt it.
He means "rigorous".
You mean "robustness".
0 marks all around.
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Correction: no he can't. Not for a password. It's not legal in the USA for courts to compel people to decrypt encrypted evidence if the evidence might incriminate them, so it's not legal to cite them for contempt for refusing to do so.
Now, if the password was to evidence that would incriminate someone else and not him, then he could be held in contempt. It gets tricky if they think he's somehow involved, though, and they don't offer him immunity. He can continue to assert his rights against self-incrimination even if he had nothing to do with it and there's nothing in the encrypted information that would incriminate him. But if they ever found that out, they could slap him with Obstruction of Justice.
It's not illegal, but it's not likely to "easily happen". You're likely to make a 50-character password only if it's trivially easy for you to remember it, or if you have some easy means of recovering it.
It's either a proverb or ditty of some sort, or it's in another file that is itself somehow encrypted.
You have to assert that you forgot it, and make it convincing. Just answering "no" when they ask you to write it down kills that angle.
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He'll get that for whatever they had on him that got him arrested.
They can also just keep asking him for his password. As long as he refuses, he's repeatedly breaking the law against refusing.
As someone mentioned, this process is simplified in America. The judge declares you in contempt and throws you in the hole indefinitely until you make up your mind to cooperate.
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They haven't tried him on their other evidence.
When they do, they'll use his refusal to give up his password as evidence, added to whatever else they have.
He can get years anyway. But he may know he has hundreds of files on that computer and that each one can be counted as a single crime, so years in lieu of centuries may be his best defense.
Of course, if he's guilty, I don't much care what they do to him.
Just to be clear: "until he gives up the password" means "forever" if he never gives it up. And yes, the judge can do that.
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WOPR was an IBM compatible?
Just to take the piss out of their subjects.
To you, a pair of slanted eyes is a feature, while the pattern of veins on the retina is a detail to be ignored.
To a robot, arms and legs are a feature, while the pattern of orifices and protruberances on a face is a detail to be ignored.
That graphic is deliberately fucked up, with edges crossing where there's no need for them to do so.
What it shows when you decode it is that Nokia and Kodak are the most litigious, while the most frequent targets are Apple (no surpised), Sharp and Motorola.
9 of the bubbles are suing nobody, 5 are not being sued, and 3 are suing and being sued.
Nokia is involved in 10 cases, suing 8 companies and being countersued by 2 of them. I guess that's what you get for being a longtime pioneer and suddenly having your industry jumped by a bunch of linux-based hacks and an iPod with a phone chip in it.
That happens to me every time I visit certain websites.
I get a popup telling me I'm infected and to click "OK" to have my computer scanned.
It's ever so nice of them to do that for me.
ISPs should be able to identify the IP addresses the bot is contacting and block it from getting out of the ISP.
Then it should track down those IP addresses and inform their ISPs that they are hosting a control node for a botnet.
Backbone providers should shut down access from any ISP that refuses to shut down botnet control nodes.
Debt is useful but it is hardly necessary to build a life and advance.
Only if you find your fortune independent of competition.
Once you have competition, if your competitor can borrow to increase his efficiency, you will lose in life, not gain.
Ever notice that banks will gladly lend to people who don't need the money but won't lend to people who need it the most?
This economic force is one of the sources of the growth in income disparity.
You're older, they're still fogies and these days 5 years is half a century, scientifically.
But which pocket would he pick?
Many materials have varying degrees of para- or diamagnetism and can be levitated.
Almost all materials have clouds of electrons creating electrostatic shielding by which they may be levitated.
For instance, this bottle is being levitated by the apparatus designed to create an electric field around its neck. The electric field is held in place by quantum forces mediated by virtual photons that keep the electrons in orbit about their atomic nuclei.
Easily measured by sensitive devices designed to measure it. Like voltmeters. And the sensitivity has to rise parabolically as the measuring device retreats from the test sample, but nearly infinitely at the boundary of the sample, so the parabola starts out pretty stuck when it becomes the shape of the curve.
Frizzy-haired bints saying they "see" the aura around someone on a TV or movie screen are not gifted, they are nuts.
BTW, your linked picture is not an "energy field" produced by a human body. It is a computer-drawn representation of millimeter-wave RF emitted by electronic devices and reflected from a human body. And a gun.
So I'm using my psychic powers to say you're trolling.