Thank you. With all this talk about encryption, I'm surprised there hasn't been more talk of other ways to hide information. I would be honestly surprised if the evil geniuses that the NSA etc. are nominally after would be deterred by any of this. There are too many other ways to hide data within data to make me think that this is anything other than laziness in the US sigint community.
Mr. Hamilton, do you realize that you are illustrating his point exactly? The point being that humans are running and coding the software. Other factors will determine what is used to as great (or greater) a degree than what works best in an objective sense. Dogma and tantrums don't make converts of anybody you'ld actually want on your side.
Okay, so there's a computer programmer walking down the street with a rat on his shoulder....an old lady sees this and says: "what are you doing with that filthy creature?"
All respect to Hemos, but Slashdot is a much simpler proposition than Ebay, even is it were getting 10 million hits a day. The forums could be divided among different servers on/., but on Ebay the need for cross-communication between different parts of the database is much greater.
Whoever is in charge of maintaining Ebay has a herculean task, and I respect them.
However:
I don't like the way Ebay handled the Ebayla fiasco, I didn't like the way they dealt (er, didn't deal with) the earlier allegations of security problems, and I'm just plain concerned about Ebay's growth outstripping their ability to keep up with it.
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Thank you. With all this talk about encryption, I'm surprised there hasn't been more talk of other ways to hide information. I would be honestly surprised if the evil geniuses that the NSA etc. are nominally after would be deterred by any of this. There are too many other ways to hide data within data to make me think that this is anything other than laziness in the US sigint community.
Mr. Hamilton, do you realize that you are illustrating his point exactly? The point being that humans are running and coding the software. Other factors will determine what is used to as great (or greater) a degree than what works best in an objective sense. Dogma and tantrums don't make converts of anybody you'ld actually want on your side.
Okay, so there's a computer programmer walking down the street with a rat on his shoulder....an old lady sees this and says: "what are you doing with that filthy creature?"
"Squeak, squeak" says the rat.
:^)
The author seems to believe wealth grants automatic expertise. If Torvalds is Lenin, who does that make Bob Metcalfe? George Wallace?
Okay, who wants to make a cheap joke about plugging in cables?
All respect to Hemos, but Slashdot is a much simpler proposition than Ebay, even is it were getting 10 million hits a day. The forums could be divided among different servers on /., but on Ebay the need for cross-communication between different parts of the database is much greater.
Whoever is in charge of maintaining Ebay has a herculean task, and I respect them.
However:
I don't like the way Ebay handled the Ebayla fiasco, I didn't like the way they dealt (er, didn't deal with) the earlier allegations of security problems, and I'm just plain concerned about Ebay's growth outstripping their ability to keep up with it.