> The political background is that Greece is notoriously corrupt and pro-terror. [...] > They ran unchecked because they paid off the Security Services [...] > Greece's semi-official attitude towards terrorism is extremely lax [...] > Fussing about bugging Greece is like fussing about bugging > Saudi or Pakistan or Iran
Get your facts (and your mind) straight. Quick.
> if not our active at-war enemies now then certainly overtly > hostile to our interests
While this is easily proved false, I suppose that anyone "hostile to your interests" should be expecting a bomb anytime soon, right ?
Geez. Glad you're not the one responsible for pushing any bomb-related button.
What I understand from the article is that the actual video stream isn't protected; what's encrypted is the server/file location and (perhaps) a username/password.
In economic theory, there's the citadel model and the insurance model. As Bruce has pointed out in http://www.schneier.com/essay-024.html , The Citadel model basically says, "If you have this stuff and do these things, then you'll be safe." The Insurance model says, "Inevitably things will go wrong, so you need to plan for what happens when they do. [...] But in practice, no one has ever built a citadel that is both functional and dependable.
So while a desire for security is understandable, thinking that you will do this-and-that (antivirus programs, firewalls, code signing, you name it) and you will never have trouble is a lose-lose situation: You both impede your job and end up with some kind of trouble sooner or later.
By the way, I do code sign my programs. I have distributed my (department's) public key, and almost forced our clients to trust it. Next project: Teach them that a program that says "MyCompany S.A." and is not automagically trusted, is, well, not from MyCompany:-)
A vote from me. We use it to post announcements
in our web site (Access -> MySQl -> WWW via Zope).
I don't even think it's bad, after all, the infrastucture is what counts.
As for how to do it, you'll be surpised when you
find out how simple it is whit ODBC. A hint:
it a wise idea to tunnel your connection using
SSH, so you can be pretty sure noone's sniffing
your mysql passwords.
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Dimitris
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> The political background is that Greece is notoriously corrupt and pro-terror.
[...]
> They ran unchecked because they paid off the Security Services
[...]
> Greece's semi-official attitude towards terrorism is extremely lax
[...]
> Fussing about bugging Greece is like fussing about bugging
> Saudi or Pakistan or Iran
Get your facts (and your mind) straight. Quick.
> if not our active at-war enemies now then certainly overtly
> hostile to our interests
While this is easily proved false, I suppose that anyone "hostile to your interests" should be expecting a bomb anytime soon, right ?
Geez. Glad you're not the one responsible for pushing any bomb-related button.
Is it really so ? Or have I missed something ?
In economic theory, there's the citadel model and the insurance model. As Bruce has pointed out in http://www.schneier.com/essay-024.html , The Citadel model basically says, "If you have this stuff and do these things, then you'll be safe." The Insurance model says, "Inevitably things will go wrong, so you need to plan for what happens when they do. [...] But in practice, no one has ever built a citadel that is both functional and dependable.
So while a desire for security is understandable, thinking that you will do this-and-that (antivirus programs, firewalls, code signing, you name it) and you will never have trouble is a lose-lose situation: You both impede your job and end up with some kind of trouble sooner or later.
By the way, I do code sign my programs. I have distributed my (department's) public key, and almost forced our clients to trust it. Next project: Teach them that a program that says "MyCompany S.A." and is not automagically trusted, is, well, not from MyCompany :-)
A vote from me. We use it to post announcements
in our web site (Access -> MySQl -> WWW via Zope).
I don't even think it's bad, after all, the infrastucture is what counts.
As for how to do it, you'll be surpised when you
find out how simple it is whit ODBC. A hint:
it a wise idea to tunnel your connection using
SSH, so you can be pretty sure noone's sniffing
your mysql passwords.
--
Dimitris