France constantly ranks up near the top in nations where the State facilitates or actively participates in corporate espionage.
They were one of the first countries to pass a "key disclosure law", allowing law enforcement to demand people decrypt data.
Encryption in France has always been tightly controlled and even today it is permitted only for authentication and integrity. Confidentiality is essentially at the whim of the gov't.
France ranks right up there with China as far as many U.S. gov't agencies are concerned when it comes to "make sure the cloud data doesn't ever transit there".
That isn't how I read it. I read it like management said "to make it legit, you have to pick one of the FOSS projects that we are using software from this year. How about, say...CloneZilla?" If they downloaded a new revision or patch release (2.1.2 from 2.0, say), then it most certainly could be legitimately labeled "support".
I see the problems on both ends. It isn't simple to fix.
Snowden gave the trove of files to The Guardian at least. The specific leaks, after the initial ones, are decided by Glenn Greenwald and not Snowden.
Whether Greenwald gave some stuff to the Independent or Snowden did that earlier is unknown.
But my guess would be the whole episode of the UK Gov't detaining Mr. Miranda and forcing The Guarding to shred some systems seriously pissed off the British Press. Releasing UK-specific material is most likely payback. Spreading it around to other papers is most likely a signal that "threaten the Guardian with prior restraint, you better be ready to shut down every paper in the UK".
GCHQ and Whitehall fucked up royally with that and they are now going to pay for threatening a major newspaper.
More to the point, Larry thinks the NSA program of collecting everything is "excellent" and "necessary".
Larry also is whining about Google adhering to the Sun Java license as it was written and intended. Larry would prefer they send him large amounts of money instead.
Larry can go to his private Hawaiian island fuck himself.
The whole point of the TPM is that once secret keys are installed, they can't be removed -- by anyone.
By taking ownership of the TPM unit, a new SRK is created, unique to the system. It is ensconced in the TPM chip and there it shall stay. That is the point -- securing the private key.
The keys created in the TPM are supposed to be unique to the system -- not something you wander around with. They are irrevocably tied to the system. That is the entire point.
As long as the TPM_EK is generated internally to the TPM, what's the point?
TPM is just a secure hardware keystore. It allows you to store secret keys in it. Don't want it? Don't activate it.
It is most commonly used in corporate machines, but can be used in Linux to support LUKS for full-disk encryption.
As usual, people fear what they don't understand. The trick to TPM is *WHO HAS THE KEYS*. If *I* have the keys, it is a great feature. TPM itself isn't inherently bad any more than any safe is inherently bad.
Stallman's piece focuses exclusively on TPM being implemented as a mandated piece where either the gov't or the media industry has the keys. Focusing on one theoretical use case and determining the entire system is evil is just plain wrong.
Uh, these are PUBLIC key servers. The entire point of PUBLIC keys is to share them as widely as possible. If the NSA wants to help, more power to them.
1. SSH extensions for Chrome, allowing you to SSH to a remote system. 2. Remote Desktop Apps for Chrome, allowing you to remotely connect to a full desktop. Like maybe a dev system you have set up in a cloud environment somewhere. 3. Web-based development environments like ICEcoder and Brackets for web (html/css/js) development. 4. Web-based IDEs for full every other language like Codiad and Cloud9.
Then there is always booting into Dev mode and loading a full Linux system w/dev environment off a USB stick.
My 5 year old is just entering Kindergarten. Pushing him to code at this age is wrong. He needs to be a kid first. And I say that as someone who has already raised 3 kids to become a pilot, a programmer and physical therapist/fitness instructor.
Considering they were profitable with those, they have learned.
I just bought an Acer C7 Chromebook for my 5-year old son. He uses it to watch YouTube videos. My wife liked it so much, she has taken it over and I'm buying another one.
99% of what she does in through the browser. Actually, make that 100%. There isn't anything she uses the computer for that doesn't have a web interface. Stick AdBlock Plus in Chrome and you have a machine that boots from cold to fully ready in 7 seconds, with a fast, clean browsing experience w/Flash and PDF support. (And the only time it boots from cold is when there is a full Chrome update that requires a restart.)
Chromebooks are fantastic devices for what 80% of the population does with computers. For $199 it was by far and away the best thing out there.
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France constantly ranks up near the top in nations where the State facilitates or actively participates in corporate espionage.
They were one of the first countries to pass a "key disclosure law", allowing law enforcement to demand people decrypt data.
Encryption in France has always been tightly controlled and even today it is permitted only for authentication and integrity. Confidentiality is essentially at the whim of the gov't.
France ranks right up there with China as far as many U.S. gov't agencies are concerned when it comes to "make sure the cloud data doesn't ever transit there".
They're just jealous and are looking for tips.
I think someone is upset at the changes Yahoo is doing now that they have Tumblr. All of his llama porn was de-indexed.
He could, but then he'd have to kill you.
That isn't how I read it. I read it like management said "to make it legit, you have to pick one of the FOSS projects that we are using software from this year. How about, say...CloneZilla?" If they downloaded a new revision or patch release (2.1.2 from 2.0, say), then it most certainly could be legitimately labeled "support".
I see the problems on both ends. It isn't simple to fix.
Education time. When browsing the submissions list in Slashdot, if you click the - button to vote down an article, it gives you optional reasons.
One of those reasons is "slow news day". Learn it. Live it. Love it.
Yeah, I just recently saw that. And the Guardian has now partnered with The New York Times to get some protection under the U.S. First Amendment.
This is just going to get more and more interesting.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/23/guardian-news-york-times-partnership
You've obviously never seen the movie Grease, or you'd know the FBI has been doing that sort of thing since the 50s.
There's an EMACS command to do that.
The GP was implying that when he said "Look for the Starbucks logo!"
Correction. NASDAQ does not license NYSE-Euronext UDP. They run NASDAQ-OMX INET. They are the major competitor for trading platforms to Euronext.
INET, however, also runs on Linux.
Mea culpa. Too many tabs onpen.
Snowden gave the trove of files to The Guardian at least. The specific leaks, after the initial ones, are decided by Glenn Greenwald and not Snowden.
Whether Greenwald gave some stuff to the Independent or Snowden did that earlier is unknown.
But my guess would be the whole episode of the UK Gov't detaining Mr. Miranda and forcing The Guarding to shred some systems seriously pissed off the British Press. Releasing UK-specific material is most likely payback. Spreading it around to other papers is most likely a signal that "threaten the Guardian with prior restraint, you better be ready to shut down every paper in the UK".
GCHQ and Whitehall fucked up royally with that and they are now going to pay for threatening a major newspaper.
Just a guess, mind you.
Specifically, NASDAQ runs UTP from NYSE-Euronext.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Trading_Platform
UTP runs on Linux [pdf link].
https://nysetechnologies.nyx.com/sites/technologies.nyx.com/files/L5756_NYSE%20Tech%20UTP_IM_OST_100105b.pdf
Crescent ROLLS, maybe. But a crescent wrench, probably not. I'd torrent some butter while I was at it, just to make it complete.
Hasn't Lady Gaga done that already?
No shit. I mean, why start now?
More to the point, Larry thinks the NSA program of collecting everything is "excellent" and "necessary".
Larry also is whining about Google adhering to the Sun Java license as it was written and intended. Larry would prefer they send him large amounts of money instead.
Larry can go to his private Hawaiian island fuck himself.
You're confusing energy with fuel.
The whole point of the TPM is that once secret keys are installed, they can't be removed -- by anyone.
By taking ownership of the TPM unit, a new SRK is created, unique to the system. It is ensconced in the TPM chip and there it shall stay. That is the point -- securing the private key.
The keys created in the TPM are supposed to be unique to the system -- not something you wander around with. They are irrevocably tied to the system. That is the entire point.
As long as the TPM_EK is generated internally to the TPM, what's the point?
TPM is just a secure hardware keystore. It allows you to store secret keys in it. Don't want it? Don't activate it.
It is most commonly used in corporate machines, but can be used in Linux to support LUKS for full-disk encryption.
As usual, people fear what they don't understand. The trick to TPM is *WHO HAS THE KEYS*. If *I* have the keys, it is a great feature. TPM itself isn't inherently bad any more than any safe is inherently bad.
Stallman's piece focuses exclusively on TPM being implemented as a mandated piece where either the gov't or the media industry has the keys. Focusing on one theoretical use case and determining the entire system is evil is just plain wrong.
http://torrentfreak.com/dotcoms-mega-debuts-spy-proof-messaging-this-summer-email-follows-130711/
A link to an actual article.
Are those actual links, or just the <a> tags?
Uh, these are PUBLIC key servers. The entire point of PUBLIC keys is to share them as widely as possible. If the NSA wants to help, more power to them.
There are:
1. SSH extensions for Chrome, allowing you to SSH to a remote system.
2. Remote Desktop Apps for Chrome, allowing you to remotely connect to a full desktop. Like maybe a dev system you have set up in a cloud environment somewhere.
3. Web-based development environments like ICEcoder and Brackets for web (html/css/js) development.
4. Web-based IDEs for full every other language like Codiad and Cloud9.
Then there is always booting into Dev mode and loading a full Linux system w/dev environment off a USB stick.
My 5 year old is just entering Kindergarten. Pushing him to code at this age is wrong. He needs to be a kid first. And I say that as someone who has already raised 3 kids to become a pilot, a programmer and physical therapist/fitness instructor.
Yeah, the problem is when I click on your name and go to your Slashdot profile you forgot to post your public key in your bio.
You DID know Slashdot allows that, right? Right below the box where you have your sig is one for your public key.
Considering they were profitable with those, they have learned.
I just bought an Acer C7 Chromebook for my 5-year old son. He uses it to watch YouTube videos. My wife liked it so much, she has taken it over and I'm buying another one.
99% of what she does in through the browser. Actually, make that 100%. There isn't anything she uses the computer for that doesn't have a web interface. Stick AdBlock Plus in Chrome and you have a machine that boots from cold to fully ready in 7 seconds, with a fast, clean browsing experience w/Flash and PDF support. (And the only time it boots from cold is when there is a full Chrome update that requires a restart.)
Chromebooks are fantastic devices for what 80% of the population does with computers. For $199 it was by far and away the best thing out there.