I was just talking to the wife about how I learned knotting and how to use knots to pull two threads together with minimal effort (the simple start-from-the-middle-and-work-towards-the-ends method) as I was tying a cabin case onto a flatbed bike truck (don't ask). Basically I learned by trial and error, where threads had to go for the best knot for a given situation. Now I can tie just about any knot you show me a photo of, but I'm buggered if I could actually *name* many.
Where you have democracy you have division. The Maker Movement is all about community, all about just fucking doing it, all about togetherness in venture, all about maximising the potential of the individual by using his skills where appropriate and someone else doing what he can't, all about sharing the rewards. Fuck democracy. All that does is alienate 49% of the participants who will then go do something else, to the detriment of the community.
Democracy in such an environment is asking a carpenter to do fine electronics and a systems engineer to dovetail a cabinet. It ain't gonna fucking happen. Let them both do what they're good at, not what "The Majority" want them to do.
(I am a Maker, I know where my local Hackspace is, and I've been tinkering around in there fixing stuff that just seems to be laying abandoned. Just the other night I got a drill press working again (that apparently hasn't worked in about two years) and tagged it for an electrical safety inspection. Why? A: I know what I'm doing around mechanical devices, motors and pillar tools in particular, and b: it needed doing, the space has only two working drill presses. Three now. Waiting for a vote on something like that, it would have rusted away to nothing).
When a companys interest is in keeping you as a customer, the last thing they want to do is piss you off (ARE YOU LISTENING, MICROSOFT??). Government has no such qualms about upsetting you, unless you own your own jet you're fucked anyway. Apple has a clear interest in keeping the money flowing, ergo not upsetting its customer base who would probably slide to GNU/Linux in a heartbeat, Government wants (and they have made this absolutely clear) ALL data about EVERYBODY, in REAL TIME.
I'll ask again, who are you going to trust, the company whose survival depends on happy returning custom? Or a Government who is out to asset strip you, digitise your life then murder you?
I think the problem with the iCloud keychain is exactly that it holds private keys on a remote system to which others have access. My private keys are held on a CDR and a flash drive in a safe to which I have sole access (I set the combination myself). That was the idea of the iCloud one as well, but along with weak passwords the whole system was found to be flawed. For some reason they're still pushing it as the dog's bollocks of password management. Just do a search on "iCloud keychain", the first page of Google results is practically nothing but problems with privileged anonymous access!
That information is public, has been since at least October 2014. The key generation is all done on the hardware in a cryptographic coprocessor. At no point is any data sent to Apple, it doesn't need to be - the algorithm is hardcoded on the copro and obfuscated to protect it from prying eyes.
I'm not paranoid, it's those other cunts who're out to get me.
(actually I am paranoid, I freely admit it, but don't let them know that. Not to the point of it affecting my life though, unless it involves walking through an unlit urban area)
they can't find Apple in contempt if Apple doesn't store salt values for each and every totally unique key. That's why Apple has the algorithm, but given the quintillions of possible keys, this is an exercise in trying to beat the heat death of the universe.
You can't open a safe if you don't have the combination, and the court can't find you in contempt if you DO NOT KNOW IT. The only burden on them is proving that you might have CAUSE to know it. The burden on YOU is thus simply to prove that you do not possess such knowledge.
why would Apple have the keys anyway? This is what they're basically trying to say, they might have the algorithm but without the salt (key) which only the USERS will have, and to each one totally unique, it's fucking useless.
didn't they do something similar in the SCO case? IIRC IBM were basically served with a producer for their source code so they PRINTED it on eight tons of paper. Hey, they complied with the order... not their fault that SCO nor the court specified the format.
CCTV isn't admissable as evidence because PHYSICS.
At twelve feet, even a HD CCTV camera, which has a coverage angle of ~120 degrees, cannot separate a person's eyes.
Sure, you can make out what colour clothes someone is wearing, but all you can do with that is extract a confession.
"Do you own a yellow t-shirt and blue jeans?" "Yes." [established, show CCTV] "Is this you walking down the street?" "Yes." "This footage is taken from the bank CCTV outside right before you robbed that old lady. You are hereby charged with armed robbery and murder."
unlikely since they tap straight off the biggest backbone in the United States (its own Azure service). Microsoft have, like all other backbone providers, exponentially increasing bandwidth potential. Useful since they shun bittorrent for distribution, instead preferring to serve up content directly from their own cloud.
(OP here): I had AU set to install critical updates ONLY, I got hammered with the GWX crap, I've posted elsewhere and elsewhen a tutorial on how to disable it (involves killing automatic updates and doing some actual research into what new updates are actually critical security patches), it's a tedious process I'm glad to not be doing thirty times a day on clients machines, but I've just said that I have no doubt the money would be really useful right now, I'm burying my mum next week.:(
I did read rumours dotted about (sorry I don't have urls handy) about Windows logon being ported to entirely cloud-based via Live accounts or somesuch. That's software as a service for you, no internet connection (like you're in a cave), no desktop. Wonderful.
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I was just talking to the wife about how I learned knotting and how to use knots to pull two threads together with minimal effort (the simple start-from-the-middle-and-work-towards-the-ends method) as I was tying a cabin case onto a flatbed bike truck (don't ask). Basically I learned by trial and error, where threads had to go for the best knot for a given situation. Now I can tie just about any knot you show me a photo of, but I'm buggered if I could actually *name* many.
Where you have democracy you have division. The Maker Movement is all about community, all about just fucking doing it, all about togetherness in venture, all about maximising the potential of the individual by using his skills where appropriate and someone else doing what he can't, all about sharing the rewards. Fuck democracy. All that does is alienate 49% of the participants who will then go do something else, to the detriment of the community.
Democracy in such an environment is asking a carpenter to do fine electronics and a systems engineer to dovetail a cabinet. It ain't gonna fucking happen. Let them both do what they're good at, not what "The Majority" want them to do.
(I am a Maker, I know where my local Hackspace is, and I've been tinkering around in there fixing stuff that just seems to be laying abandoned. Just the other night I got a drill press working again (that apparently hasn't worked in about two years) and tagged it for an electrical safety inspection. Why? A: I know what I'm doing around mechanical devices, motors and pillar tools in particular, and b: it needed doing, the space has only two working drill presses. Three now. Waiting for a vote on something like that, it would have rusted away to nothing).
I have lots of recipes involving eggs, would you pay me two grand per recipe for me to post them on a blog?
Love,
A terminal ovovore.
I'm pretty sure most of them do.
Demonstrative point: how many of them lock their windows and front doors when they leave the house?
When a companys interest is in keeping you as a customer, the last thing they want to do is piss you off (ARE YOU LISTENING, MICROSOFT??). Government has no such qualms about upsetting you, unless you own your own jet you're fucked anyway. Apple has a clear interest in keeping the money flowing, ergo not upsetting its customer base who would probably slide to GNU/Linux in a heartbeat, Government wants (and they have made this absolutely clear) ALL data about EVERYBODY, in REAL TIME.
I'll ask again, who are you going to trust, the company whose survival depends on happy returning custom? Or a Government who is out to asset strip you, digitise your life then murder you?
that said, even passwords are useless without salt values which will be on the originating system.
I think the problem with the iCloud keychain is exactly that it holds private keys on a remote system to which others have access. My private keys are held on a CDR and a flash drive in a safe to which I have sole access (I set the combination myself). That was the idea of the iCloud one as well, but along with weak passwords the whole system was found to be flawed. For some reason they're still pushing it as the dog's bollocks of password management. Just do a search on "iCloud keychain", the first page of Google results is practically nothing but problems with privileged anonymous access!
something something proxy bypass something something owned.
I trust Apple more than I trust the US Government.
Which you rather? The entity that's demanding backdoor access, or the one that say it isn't actually possible by virtue of the system's design?
question: who sponsored this study?
That information is public, has been since at least October 2014. The key generation is all done on the hardware in a cryptographic coprocessor. At no point is any data sent to Apple, it doesn't need to be - the algorithm is hardcoded on the copro and obfuscated to protect it from prying eyes.
I'm not paranoid, it's those other cunts who're out to get me.
(actually I am paranoid, I freely admit it, but don't let them know that. Not to the point of it affecting my life though, unless it involves walking through an unlit urban area)
they can't find Apple in contempt if Apple doesn't store salt values for each and every totally unique key. That's why Apple has the algorithm, but given the quintillions of possible keys, this is an exercise in trying to beat the heat death of the universe.
You can't open a safe if you don't have the combination, and the court can't find you in contempt if you DO NOT KNOW IT.
The only burden on them is proving that you might have CAUSE to know it. The burden on YOU is thus simply to prove that you do not possess such knowledge.
why would Apple have the keys anyway? This is what they're basically trying to say, they might have the algorithm but without the salt (key) which only the USERS will have, and to each one totally unique, it's fucking useless.
didn't they do something similar in the SCO case? IIRC IBM were basically served with a producer for their source code so they PRINTED it on eight tons of paper.
Hey, they complied with the order... not their fault that SCO nor the court specified the format.
be interesting to find out for sure...
CCTV isn't admissable as evidence because PHYSICS.
At twelve feet, even a HD CCTV camera, which has a coverage angle of ~120 degrees, cannot separate a person's eyes.
Sure, you can make out what colour clothes someone is wearing, but all you can do with that is extract a confession.
"Do you own a yellow t-shirt and blue jeans?"
"Yes."
[established, show CCTV]
"Is this you walking down the street?"
"Yes."
"This footage is taken from the bank CCTV outside right before you robbed that old lady. You are hereby charged with armed robbery and murder."
unlikely since they tap straight off the biggest backbone in the United States (its own Azure service). Microsoft have, like all other backbone providers, exponentially increasing bandwidth potential. Useful since they shun bittorrent for distribution, instead preferring to serve up content directly from their own cloud.
(OP here): I had AU set to install critical updates ONLY, I got hammered with the GWX crap, I've posted elsewhere and elsewhen a tutorial on how to disable it (involves killing automatic updates and doing some actual research into what new updates are actually critical security patches), it's a tedious process I'm glad to not be doing thirty times a day on clients machines, but I've just said that I have no doubt the money would be really useful right now, I'm burying my mum next week. :(
the first one.
(though I might have said the second one just to bake your noodle).
I might start to sound a bit tinfoil, but isn't SAAS and TIA sort of merging here, if the rumours are actually true?
the Fujitsu would probably run Android, there again it is only a 500 Celeron single core with 256MB RAM and 30GB hard drive...
probably, if you use actual beef in your big mac rather than the rusk-packed crap they use...
I did read rumours dotted about (sorry I don't have urls handy) about Windows logon being ported to entirely cloud-based via Live accounts or somesuch. That's software as a service for you, no internet connection (like you're in a cave), no desktop. Wonderful.
yeah, that wasn't me.
Thanks, Ed. :)