Yes, that is exactly what is being said. And it is true. Federal law around the servicing of automobiles sold to the public is quite strict. It is either a 5 or 7 year window where the vehicle must be serviced and the parts stocked for any specific model of vehicle.
GM didn't kill the EV1 because big oil wanted them to, or some other evil conspiracy. They killed it because if they sold the cars off they would have been liable for parts and service for several years and the cost was significantly more than was worth the effort -- even in PR.
Bin Liden's falling out with Saudi Arabia was over their invitation of American troops to defend them from Iraq after the initial invasion of Kuwait. Bin Laden publicly denounced Saudi dependence on the U.S. military, arguing the two holiest shrines of Islam, Mecca and Medina, the cities in which the Prophet Mohamed received and recited Allah's message, should only be defended by Muslims. Bin Laden's criticism of the Saudi monarchy led them to try to silence him. They subsequently revoked his citizenship and he relocated to Sudan.
He declared war on the United States in August of 1996 because after defeating the Iraqis, the U.S. left troops in The Kingdom. His fatwa was titled "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places" and explicitly states that the highest prioriy is pushing the unbelievers out of the Holy Land.
What al-Qaida really wants ranks right up there with my son wanting a pony. Neither is ever going to get remotely what they state, nor are they capable of really trying. al-Qaida knows they have to defeat the "near enemy" -- all of the autocratic rulers of the Middle East -- to form their beloved Caliphate before they can think about dealing with the "far enemy" -- the West. Notice how little progress they've made on that front. What, Iran? Anything else?
Considering bin Laden ranked the Shia right there with Infidels and Jews, I'd say he had his hands full with formenting a Muslim civil war before getting anywhere else.
al-Qaida's weapon on 9/11/2001 was surprise, and you know it. SOP for dealing with a hijacking was sit back and wait until it was over. That'll never happen again. al-Qaida has virtually no ability to strike the West with any force. They also have their hands full with all of the "Arab Spring" issues to even think about dealing with the "far enemy" at all.
If the Islamists can't even hold Egypt when it was handed to them on a silver platter, their so called "demand" that the U.S. convert to Islam ranks somewhere just below them all getting ponies for Christmas.
They can't even get Sharia implemented in places like Egypt, Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon and Jordan, much less anywhere outside their home turf.
Reading their Christmas wish list and taking it for gospel is disingenuous. Especially when it looks like it isn't going anywhere near according to plan. Egypt shows that just because the autocrat was out doesn't mean anyone really wants the Islamists in. Just trading boots.
That was by design, and how EVERYONE does it. Only the core cryptographic module is certified. Everything else is a wrapper around it. Since FIPS only requires the crypto functions to be evaluated, this makes it possible to make changes to every other component without invalidating the certificate.
RSA, for example, licenses their certified BSAFE library to several vendors. The other vendors can fiddle with GUIs, interfaces or whatever without having to get their individual products certifed.
If they certified every last little piece, instead of just the crypto module, you'd never be able to do any updates.
"Image" is for fools. If you're serious about keeping it safe -- rather than just using Switzerland as a marketing slogan -- do some research about the location of where you want to set up shop.
The Crypto AG thing was just one tidbit on Switzerland. Are you aware they have a data retention ordinance? The "Federal Act on Surveillance of Postal and Telecommunications Traffic" is the name. Be prepared to keep logs of everything in and out for at least 6 months.
Random number generators cannot be verified - it's a computationally infeasible problem. If the NSA has subtly tampered with a product, there's no way to tell from the outside looking in. You *might* be able to tell by looking at the generator source.
While the generator may not be able to be verified, the output should be. Generating a large amount of random data from the questioned source, then testing for randomness should allow you to establish a level of confidence in the generator.
Will the security researchers be putting that level of scrutiny on evey desktop application?
Screw trying to backdoor the security software. It is much easier to simply backdoor something innocuous to get a foothold on the machine. Once it is compromised, just read all the encrypted stuff BEFORE IT GETS ENCRYPTED.
History has shown for centuries that the wealthier a society becomes the smaller the family size gets. The more money people have, the less kids.
By your logic the richest societies would be the most populous. Take a look at the growth rates of the top 20 economies in the world and you'll see that many of them are not only low but NEGATIVE. Plot it over time and you can see the correlation to economic growth is inverse to population growth.
Then stick it in a closet, or a basement or the back of some cabinet. Screw the trendy little bricks. Get yourself a BeagleBone Black or a Raspberry Pi and mount it on a wall next to a switch in a closet.
I ended up buying a small rack (12U, 2-post, desktop) and putting a small 1U switch, 1U UPS and 2U mini-itx server in it. It sits in a closet where I had a power outlet installed on a separate circuit and an air vent installed. I also cut small hole in the wall to the closet to allow conduit and run networking cables. One runs to a ceiling mounted wireless access point which I plan on upgrading to 802.11ac next weekend.
Too much of what comes out (*cough* Apple *cough*) comes from the computer-as-a-fashion-accessory mentality.
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Yes, that is exactly what is being said. And it is true. Federal law around the servicing of automobiles sold to the public is quite strict. It is either a 5 or 7 year window where the vehicle must be serviced and the parts stocked for any specific model of vehicle.
GM didn't kill the EV1 because big oil wanted them to, or some other evil conspiracy. They killed it because if they sold the cars off they would have been liable for parts and service for several years and the cost was significantly more than was worth the effort -- even in PR.
Sealand!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
A good chunk of the Preppers don't believe in vaccines to begin with.
Bullshit.
Bin Liden's falling out with Saudi Arabia was over their invitation of American troops to defend them from Iraq after the initial invasion of Kuwait. Bin Laden publicly denounced Saudi dependence on the U.S. military, arguing the two holiest shrines of Islam, Mecca and Medina, the cities in which the Prophet Mohamed received and recited Allah's message, should only be defended by Muslims. Bin Laden's criticism of the Saudi monarchy led them to try to silence him. They subsequently revoked his citizenship and he relocated to Sudan.
He declared war on the United States in August of 1996 because after defeating the Iraqis, the U.S. left troops in The Kingdom. His fatwa was titled "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places" and explicitly states that the highest prioriy is pushing the unbelievers out of the Holy Land.
What al-Qaida really wants ranks right up there with my son wanting a pony. Neither is ever going to get remotely what they state, nor are they capable of really trying. al-Qaida knows they have to defeat the "near enemy" -- all of the autocratic rulers of the Middle East -- to form their beloved Caliphate before they can think about dealing with the "far enemy" -- the West. Notice how little progress they've made on that front. What, Iran? Anything else?
Considering bin Laden ranked the Shia right there with Infidels and Jews, I'd say he had his hands full with formenting a Muslim civil war before getting anywhere else.
al-Qaida's weapon on 9/11/2001 was surprise, and you know it. SOP for dealing with a hijacking was sit back and wait until it was over. That'll never happen again. al-Qaida has virtually no ability to strike the West with any force. They also have their hands full with all of the "Arab Spring" issues to even think about dealing with the "far enemy" at all.
If the Islamists can't even hold Egypt when it was handed to them on a silver platter, their so called "demand" that the U.S. convert to Islam ranks somewhere just below them all getting ponies for Christmas.
They can't even get Sharia implemented in places like Egypt, Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon and Jordan, much less anywhere outside their home turf.
Reading their Christmas wish list and taking it for gospel is disingenuous. Especially when it looks like it isn't going anywhere near according to plan. Egypt shows that just because the autocrat was out doesn't mean anyone really wants the Islamists in. Just trading boots.
Humping the robot's leg doesn't count.
That was by design, and how EVERYONE does it. Only the core cryptographic module is certified. Everything else is a wrapper around it. Since FIPS only requires the crypto functions to be evaluated, this makes it possible to make changes to every other component without invalidating the certificate.
RSA, for example, licenses their certified BSAFE library to several vendors. The other vendors can fiddle with GUIs, interfaces or whatever without having to get their individual products certifed.
If they certified every last little piece, instead of just the crypto module, you'd never be able to do any updates.
Uh, no. Cert 1747 was issued originally in June 2012 and renewed as recently as August 23, 2013. It is the latest and greatest.
Bzzzt! Wrong! OpenSSL jumped thru the hoops and has a FIPS 140-2 version.
"Image" is for fools. If you're serious about keeping it safe -- rather than just using Switzerland as a marketing slogan -- do some research about the location of where you want to set up shop.
The Crypto AG thing was just one tidbit on Switzerland. Are you aware they have a data retention ordinance? The "Federal Act on Surveillance of Postal and Telecommunications Traffic" is the name. Be prepared to keep logs of everything in and out for at least 6 months.
And, yes, fewer people are sending money to Switzerland.
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
So, test the data before using it.
Random number generators cannot be verified - it's a computationally infeasible problem. If the NSA has subtly tampered with a product, there's no way to tell from the outside looking in. You *might* be able to tell by looking at the generator source.
While the generator may not be able to be verified, the output should be. Generating a large amount of random data from the questioned source, then testing for randomness should allow you to establish a level of confidence in the generator.
See: http://www.stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/
If you haven't already, you should read thru this. Both the article and, if you're seriously interested, the accompanying PhD thesis document.
David A. Wheelerâ(TM)s Page on Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC) - Countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers
Also on the list, a pony. Preferrably one with a frickin' laser beam on its head.
That is a red herring.
Will the security researchers be putting that level of scrutiny on evey desktop application?
Screw trying to backdoor the security software. It is much easier to simply backdoor something innocuous to get a foothold on the machine. Once it is compromised, just read all the encrypted stuff BEFORE IT GETS ENCRYPTED.
The very definition of FPGA. See Xilinx.
Pissed that now they're all going to end up with Windows Mobile.
Wow. No.
History has shown for centuries that the wealthier a society becomes the smaller the family size gets. The more money people have, the less kids.
By your logic the richest societies would be the most populous. Take a look at the growth rates of the top 20 economies in the world and you'll see that many of them are not only low but NEGATIVE. Plot it over time and you can see the correlation to economic growth is inverse to population growth.
Then stick it in a closet, or a basement or the back of some cabinet. Screw the trendy little bricks. Get yourself a BeagleBone Black or a Raspberry Pi and mount it on a wall next to a switch in a closet.
I ended up buying a small rack (12U, 2-post, desktop) and putting a small 1U switch, 1U UPS and 2U mini-itx server in it. It sits in a closet where I had a power outlet installed on a separate circuit and an air vent installed. I also cut small hole in the wall to the closet to allow conduit and run networking cables. One runs to a ceiling mounted wireless access point which I plan on upgrading to 802.11ac next weekend.
Too much of what comes out (*cough* Apple *cough*) comes from the computer-as-a-fashion-accessory mentality.
Eclipse requires a class or two unto itself. DrJava is easier to get started and focusing on learing JAVA and not the IDE.
Speed Reading 101. If the author admits right up front they are clueless, your average rate of finishing articles goes through the roof.
That is a very poor assumption. Lots of private organizations use money unwisely, even to the point of committing outright fraud.
But think of the profits we can make from harvesting all of the green cheese!
I'm betting "big dairy" will never let this scenario happen.
Thank you. I was wondering where all the upstream contributions were, or if this was just support licenses for Red Hat and Apache.
Between the CIA and the DoDIA they have over half a billion in the category "open source". Very interesting.