One of the first things I did when I heard about the bombing was to download PGP for Palm, this even though I don't have a palm device; I'm looking at getting a handera with a IBM Microdrive.
When any threat of terrorism comes about, we always hear of lawmakers wanting to crack down on crypto. I'd be interested to know:
If you were required to hand over your keys and passphrases to law enforcement officers, would you?
I personally would not, I'd rather stand tall and go to jail. I have a right to crypto wether in law or not.
Please reply.
CBC News (Canada) is reporting that international flights to ports in the USA have been diverted to:
Halifax (Serving East Coast)
Toronto (East Coast and North)
Vancouver (Servinge West Coast: SanFran, Seattle, LA, etc.)
Whitehorse, Yukon Territioy (Serving Alaska, North)
I understand that there are extreem delays, in the air, (wating for landing clearence) on the tarmacs and within the airports (Searches, Immigration/Customs).
Emergency locations such as schools and halls will be housing passangers (reported in halifax, presumably elsewhere).
I do not have contact numbers, perhaps call your local news media, or airline office, etc.
The WTO, or any other TA arbitrtor has the position to rule in disputes of a particular forign / domestice basis.
If brazil refuses to allow any Microsoft software to be used by anyone, MS has a case here. If they refuse to use any Closed Source software made by anyone from home or abroad, it could be argued that brazil's choice is fair because it is applied to domestic projects as well.
Kind of like 'hey our software corps suffer too.'
If they have a FTA that states that closed source software or software in general is tradeable, they can not refuse to allow C.S.S. They can still reuse to use it. It's a small distincition but I'll get to that later.
So far, only gov. agencies and crown corps, are the only people to be subject to this law, and they still allow non libre software when needed.
If Ottowa (Canada) decides to use IBM's database, there's nothing under NAFTA to say that they have to install MS/Access/MSSQL/Crap next to it or face a ruling. They still have a choice!
They just can't refuse any to use any US database solutions if they use domestic solutions.
MS Still has to market their stuff before people CHOOSE to use it. If I use linux, the WTO can't demand that I dualboot Windows. Geeze.
A headphone jack would not be too to rig up with the right gear from the rat-shack though it would'nt have volume control.
I think the general premise is that this is for use with a stereo, and not a portable device.
Also, you could easily serve mp3s from that old 486, a machine which could'nt play 44kHz/16 in mono without stuttering. If you hapen to run this with a P3, it should produce performace loss as near to nothing as makes no odds.
Also, yes, it's me again. A PDA such as Palm, outside if IRDA is NOT a WIRELESS DEVICE! A pager is, rim wireless is, a cell is, but a PDA is not, please!
I would think that virus, worm Trojan etc. protection would ideally be performed at a lower level that the application interface.
To explain what I mean, these wireless devices will have a common communications protocol, and possibly nothing or very much more in relation to the UI, presentation, you know user stuff. Say nothing of the actual, Um, activate LCD node 23h-87v, and check to see if this cell is paid for.
Any good anti-viral developer would realize that the best place to nip this sort of thing in the bud would be in a clean area. There's nothing to say that a worm that rot-13's your contact list or something of the like will actually be able to wipe your activation codes after sending them to heroin dealers in Detroit.
The easiest place for a virus to work and propagate is at a high level, such as outlook in the windows world, and this will probably be true in the wireless world.
There's nothing that says that Ericsson, Nokiea, Motorola, Sony, Tom, Dick, and Harry have to use the same underlying chipset to perform these tasks. I've never heard of a standard in all cell phones WAP chip!
If AV vendors concentrate on these particular chipsets, to say Norton NokieaAV for example, they will better be able to handle this threat. Only interface with the network like messaging would to receive updates.
That said, the less easy; more work, more hassle, more coding area of wireless virus writing, should concentrate on the underlying chipset to do the same job. What good is an AV product if it can't be updated, or worse yet can't be installed! I wouldn't be suppressed if the memory cores of these devices, being that they contain activation codes, are just as hard to re-program as DirecTV HuCards.
The place to get it done is at the chipset level, talking in native code, not protocol code. Find a back door before manufacturer-X finds it, and you're set.
Any AV vendor will also have to do a good job of preventing back doors in their code as well, so it's probably bound to be a large mess.
Windows 95 sold, so did NT4, so did 98, 98se, Win2k, WinMe.
Your comment couldn't be further from the truth.
Linux just doesn't have ZDNet on the payroll, a single corperate image, and a billion shiny catalogues to go with a fancy dan 'cirtifiquoite of augentacy'
>(im not commenting on the US govt and its spying - thats not something i can do as i dont live in the US)
Well, yes you can comment on that, I live in Canada, so, I think I will.
The CIA claims, that they're primary purpose in life to to listen in on what we all have to say in any tangible electronic forum. What they do with this is they're own buisness I suppose.
But to be clear, any citizen of a country that has formal cooperative leglislating or policing agreements should be concerned; it makes it just that much more easy for them. I don't want to blab on about the wonders of the tempest project or any other garbage, but I live in a nation who's regard for local democracy is less than admirable.
Canada has joint agreements with the USA on everything from how my computers and phones should work to what CSIS (Canadian FBI/CIA/NSA in one) does in life.
The best thing any average joe has going for him is that he is average and seen to be meek.
What is clear, is that if Americans had decent democratic self respect they would refuse to sanction undemocratic autonomous work, but how many of you know what your senator is up to tomorrow?
We complain about patent abuse, the DMCA and all kinds of junk, but if the US.GOV refuses to represent it's own citizens best interests, how on earth can we expect it to respect forign nations, the UN, NATO, or anything else.
After 20 years of Microsoft bunguling, we could finally say good riddens to bad rubbish, but DOJ doen't think that that is 'necessary' oh well. I've got a PowerPC Macintosh running Debian, so revenge may yet be mine.
Perhaps, but the licence for win2k will leave you bleading from parts elsewhere. Next, you find CodeRed MMXVI wipeing you bios and lighting your monitor on fire.
Seccondly lets pay attention folks, all these linux worms have pretty simple solutions. For example:
Step one: Get rid of redhat.
Step two: Get rid of bind. (or anything else you don't need.
My box has one open port on it: 22 (SSH2) that's it. Not even discard. Why bother. Lock it down so it won't lock up. OK!
I might be forced to try 2.4.5-pre1, because I was trying to use 2.4.3 stable with major problems.
A recent stable kernel patch would be great, though qudoes for having a kernel patch to do this to begin with!
The kernel guys are doing great, the only problem is that there is a catchy disease spreading on slashdot to load up the newest kernel on earth 20 minutes after linus et al, make the final patch.
Also, I'll admit that I have no legitimate reason to use a LoopbackEFS, but it's fun dammit!
I'm someone who most likely doesn't want open source distribution of my technology because I need to protect my licensees, who create content for public consumption.
I patent my methods to enforce licensing; enforcing the absence of fair use, backups, or otherwise legal duplication of my licensees content, because they don't want that, so I don't want it either.
Someone in Canada, creates an unlicensed decoder, and releases it to the public.
Why don't I like this? Why do I care?
It's because it violates my patent, why do I have a patent, see above.
So, an open-source group wants to license, my stuff, sure, I could grant a license, more money, but, I need to protect my primary licensees who create content, see top. I create a license that is untenable within an O.S. development environment or plainly refuse, either way, Hollywood (ie MGM), and Japan (ie JapanVideoCompany, Sony), my two main licensees receive enforcement of their monopoly on encoding/decoding processes through my monopoly.
I expect no legal challange to my monopoly, because patent laws give me the next twenty years to have my fun. If need be, I just point at all the companies who profit from my stuff and tell the US Gov, that people can pick and choose from all these people, the Gov, being stupid and corrupt (lobbyists everywhere) will roll over and everything is fine.
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I personally would not, I'd rather stand tall and go to jail. I have a right to crypto wether in law or not. Please reply.
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Reported on CBC -NOW- 3:58
Hijacked plain in yukon was actually low on fuel, and sent the code indicating a Hijack, to gather attention. They certainly got it!
from interview with -Wil Engle - Former Amer. Airlines.
Also, in Kabul Afganastan, bombings or otherwise explosions are being broadcast.
CBC News (Canada) is reporting that international flights to ports in the USA have been diverted to:
Halifax (Serving East Coast)
Toronto (East Coast and North)
Vancouver (Servinge West Coast: SanFran, Seattle, LA, etc.)
Whitehorse, Yukon Territioy (Serving Alaska, North)
I understand that there are extreem delays, in the air, (wating for landing clearence) on the tarmacs and within the airports (Searches, Immigration/Customs).
Emergency locations such as schools and halls will be housing passangers (reported in halifax, presumably elsewhere).
I do not have contact numbers, perhaps call your local news media, or airline office, etc.
The WTO, or any other TA arbitrtor has the position to rule in disputes of a particular forign / domestice basis.
If brazil refuses to allow any Microsoft software to be used by anyone, MS has a case here. If they refuse to use any Closed Source software made by anyone from home or abroad, it could be argued that brazil's choice is fair because it is applied to domestic projects as well.
Kind of like 'hey our software corps suffer too.'
If they have a FTA that states that closed source software or software in general is tradeable, they can not refuse to allow C.S.S. They can still reuse to use it. It's a small distincition but I'll get to that later.
So far, only gov. agencies and crown corps, are the only people to be subject to this law, and they still allow non libre software when needed.
If Ottowa (Canada) decides to use IBM's database, there's nothing under NAFTA to say that they have to install MS/Access/MSSQL/Crap next to it or face a ruling. They still have a choice!
They just can't refuse any to use any US database solutions if they use domestic solutions.
MS Still has to market their stuff before people CHOOSE to use it. If I use linux, the WTO can't demand that I dualboot Windows. Geeze.
A headphone jack would not be too to rig up with the right gear from the rat-shack though it would'nt have volume control.
I think the general premise is that this is for use with a stereo, and not a portable device.
Also, you could easily serve mp3s from that old 486, a machine which could'nt play 44kHz/16 in mono without stuttering. If you hapen to run this with a P3, it should produce performace loss as near to nothing as makes no odds.
Also, yes, it's me again. A PDA such as Palm, outside if IRDA is NOT a WIRELESS DEVICE! A pager is, rim wireless is, a cell is, but a PDA is not, please!
I would think that virus, worm Trojan etc. protection would ideally be performed at a lower level that the application interface.
To explain what I mean, these wireless devices will have a common communications protocol, and possibly nothing or very much more in relation to the UI, presentation, you know user stuff. Say nothing of the actual, Um, activate LCD node 23h-87v, and check to see if this cell is paid for.
Any good anti-viral developer would realize that the best place to nip this sort of thing in the bud would be in a clean area. There's nothing to say that a worm that rot-13's your contact list or something of the like will actually be able to wipe your activation codes after sending them to heroin dealers in Detroit.
The easiest place for a virus to work and propagate is at a high level, such as outlook in the windows world, and this will probably be true in the wireless world.
There's nothing that says that Ericsson, Nokiea, Motorola, Sony, Tom, Dick, and Harry have to use the same underlying chipset to perform these tasks. I've never heard of a standard in all cell phones WAP chip!
If AV vendors concentrate on these particular chipsets, to say Norton NokieaAV for example, they will better be able to handle this threat. Only interface with the network like messaging would to receive updates.
That said, the less easy; more work, more hassle, more coding area of wireless virus writing, should concentrate on the underlying chipset to do the same job. What good is an AV product if it can't be updated, or worse yet can't be installed! I wouldn't be suppressed if the memory cores of these devices, being that they contain activation codes, are just as hard to re-program as DirecTV HuCards.
The place to get it done is at the chipset level, talking in native code, not protocol code. Find a back door before manufacturer-X finds it, and you're set.
Any AV vendor will also have to do a good job of preventing back doors in their code as well, so it's probably bound to be a large mess.
I suspect that they are posturing to bail out.
I just had to mirror this: http://members.home.net/mlafranc/dancemonkeyboy.mp eg
PS, I'm aware of the irony
>Linux is just more proof shit does not sell.
Windows 95 sold, so did NT4, so did 98, 98se, Win2k, WinMe.
Your comment couldn't be further from the truth.
Linux just doesn't have ZDNet on the payroll, a single corperate image, and a billion shiny catalogues to go with a fancy dan 'cirtifiquoite of augentacy'
>(im not commenting on the US govt and its spying - thats not something i can do as i dont live in the US)
.GOV refuses to represent it's own citizens best interests, how on earth can we expect it to respect forign nations, the UN, NATO, or anything else.
Well, yes you can comment on that, I live in Canada, so, I think I will.
The CIA claims, that they're primary purpose in life to to listen in on what we all have to say in any tangible electronic forum. What they do with this is they're own buisness I suppose.
But to be clear, any citizen of a country that has formal cooperative leglislating or policing agreements should be concerned; it makes it just that much more easy for them. I don't want to blab on about the wonders of the tempest project or any other garbage, but I live in a nation who's regard for local democracy is less than admirable.
Canada has joint agreements with the USA on everything from how my computers and phones should work to what CSIS (Canadian FBI/CIA/NSA in one) does in life.
The best thing any average joe has going for him is that he is average and seen to be meek.
What is clear, is that if Americans had decent democratic self respect they would refuse to sanction undemocratic autonomous work, but how many of you know what your senator is up to tomorrow?
We complain about patent abuse, the DMCA and all kinds of junk, but if the US
Spy away, I do grow tired.
After 20 years of Microsoft bunguling, we could finally say good riddens to bad rubbish, but DOJ doen't think that that is 'necessary' oh well. I've got a PowerPC Macintosh running Debian, so revenge may yet be mine.
Happly alluminum annv. IBM!
Perhaps, but the licence for win2k will leave you bleading from parts elsewhere. Next, you find CodeRed MMXVI wipeing you bios and lighting your monitor on fire.
Seccondly lets pay attention folks, all these linux worms have pretty simple solutions. For example:
Step one: Get rid of redhat.
Step two: Get rid of bind. (or anything else you don't need.
My box has one open port on it: 22 (SSH2) that's it. Not even discard. Why bother. Lock it down so it won't lock up. OK!
This rant brought to you by Super Cow Corp.
Ditto!
I might be forced to try 2.4.5-pre1, because I was trying to use 2.4.3 stable with major problems.
A recent stable kernel patch would be great, though qudoes for having a kernel patch to do this to begin with!
The kernel guys are doing great, the only problem is that there is a catchy disease spreading on slashdot to load up the newest kernel on earth 20 minutes after linus et al, make the final patch.
Also, I'll admit that I have no legitimate reason to use a LoopbackEFS, but it's fun dammit!
Please kids, it's simple, I got my PATCH within 25 seconds of typying:
src@primal:~$ ftp ftp.ca.kernel.org
ftp
me@myaddress.com
cd pub/linux/kernel/v2.4
get patch-2.4.8.bz2
get patch-2.4.8.bz2.sign
bye
KeepItSimpleStupid
Use a MIRROR!
ftp.YOURCOUNTRYABBREV.kernel.org
I patent my methods to enforce licensing; enforcing the absence of fair use, backups, or otherwise legal duplication of my licensees content, because they don't want that, so I don't want it either.
Someone in Canada, creates an unlicensed decoder, and releases it to the public.
Why don't I like this? Why do I care?
It's because it violates my patent, why do I have a patent, see above.
So, an open-source group wants to license, my stuff, sure, I could grant a license, more money, but, I need to protect my primary licensees who create content, see top. I create a license that is untenable within an O.S. development environment or plainly refuse, either way, Hollywood (ie MGM), and Japan (ie JapanVideoCompany, Sony), my two main licensees receive enforcement of their monopoly on encoding/decoding processes through my monopoly.
I expect no legal challange to my monopoly, because patent laws give me the next twenty years to have my fun. If need be, I just point at all the companies who profit from my stuff and tell the US Gov, that people can pick and choose from all these people, the Gov, being stupid and corrupt (lobbyists everywhere) will roll over and everything is fine.
This man lives in British Columbia, Canada
Hmm, I tried that already.
Seems that compressing compressed data (ie, MPEG2, MP3, JPEG, etc.) doesn't work all too well.