When I still had my FB account, I did something similar. I began uploading random images of different people, mythological creatures and inanimate objects and tagging myself in them.
We can finally quiet the "moon landing was a hoax" nutjobs. With the ability to make long-exposure images that resolve objects just 0.02 arcseconds across — the equivalent of a dime viewed from more than a hundred miles away", we can actually take pictures of all the junk we left behind as proof that we were actually there.
Well, remember, you are comparing some of the most revered people in United States history with some guy who just has a lot of money. What did Hamad do that would justify such a monument? And usually, monuments are erected by future generations as a tribute to someone. This is just some rich knucklehead who was bored.
Yeah, it was. You can just make out the name on the ship when the shuttle carrying the new cadets lifts off from the shipyards in Iowa (with Kirk and McCoy on board).
If this person had secured his connection and someone had broken the encryption to download illegal pornography, how likely would it have been that the law enforcement would have believed him?
I know TFA mentioned it took three days and a "forensic" analysis of his electronics before they finally really believed him, but I wonder if it wouldn't have taken longer if the signal had been encrypted. Since these law enforcement personnel couldn't be bothered to do some basic research before over-reacting, how likely would they have been to believe Barry's claims if the router had been encrypted?
Barry: "No, really, I didn't do it!"
Law Enforcement: "Don't lie to us! That's impossible! Your wireless connection is encrypted!!"
and I've not actually met anyone with an unusable optical disc created professionally that wasn't faulty out the box from the manufacturer ever. Now you have.
They don't need to do that. Each MS drive is "programmed" at the factory, and as long as the signature on that sector is valid it's all good to go. The drive contains the serial number *and* the signature (in a sector), this way the MS drive is a self-contained unit that will work in any XBox.
Oh, duh. I knew I should have read your post a 4th time. You already said it might be on the MBR (or another HD lcoation) which of course, is on the hard drive which I still have in my hand when I get my "new" XBox back. My brain is obviously not functioning very well now. I had this idea in my head that you were saying that the HD Serial # and the XBox were somehow "paired", but that's not what you said at all.
Take the serial number of the drive, sign it with Microsoft private key and put the signed text into the MBR or somewhere else where it will be not touched by the filesystem. Anyone with the Microsoft public key (and certainly any Xbox) can verify who signed the drive.
But when you send your XBox in for repair, they ship you a different console as a replacement (this has happened twice to me). Each time MS has made it clear that the hard drive is NOT to be shipped with the unit so therefore the repair center has no access to the hard drive serial number. This would mean that when I plugged my hard drive into the new console, it would not pass verification as a legitimate, MS approved hard drive because the hard drive signature on the console would not match my original HD.
"...it's no surprise that the city with the highest level was Washington DC,..."
That's a surprise to me, but perhaps I live a sheltered life. Is the implication that being involved in politics makes you more likely to indulge in cocaine use or that being involved in politics causes you to exude cocaine through the pores in your skin? Neither of these thoughts are pleasant.
I don't have a problem with it. People can do what they want, but if they do it outside, then they don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. I like the idea of BM, but it's simply not private and to believe that your activities will not be noticed, reported, photographed, recorded or video taped simply because the organizers tell you that at BM you are free to do what you want is simply ignorant.
"I personally wouldn't care if there's a photo of me smoking a joint at an event like Burning Man, but I imagine for some other people this could be a disaster. Plus there's always the exploitative assholes that come to events like this just to take pictures of naked people and post them on their blog."
If people are doing something that they wouldn't want someone to take a picture of them doing, then they should probably do it behind closed doors and not out in plain sight.
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When I still had my FB account, I did something similar. I began uploading random images of different people, mythological creatures and inanimate objects and tagging myself in them.
We can finally quiet the "moon landing was a hoax" nutjobs. With the ability to make long-exposure images that resolve objects just 0.02 arcseconds across — the equivalent of a dime viewed from more than a hundred miles away", we can actually take pictures of all the junk we left behind as proof that we were actually there.
Well, remember, you are comparing some of the most revered people in United States history with some guy who just has a lot of money. What did Hamad do that would justify such a monument? And usually, monuments are erected by future generations as a tribute to someone. This is just some rich knucklehead who was bored.
Yeah, it was. You can just make out the name on the ship when the shuttle carrying the new cadets lifts off from the shipyards in Iowa (with Kirk and McCoy on board).
Well, I initially read the summary as, "...SCROTUM-Centaurus Arm..." so we may not be too far off.
Or maybe I watch too much sci-fi porn.
Yep. Mine too.
If this person had secured his connection and someone had broken the encryption to download illegal pornography, how likely would it have been that the law enforcement would have believed him?
I know TFA mentioned it took three days and a "forensic" analysis of his electronics before they finally really believed him, but I wonder if it wouldn't have taken longer if the signal had been encrypted. Since these law enforcement personnel couldn't be bothered to do some basic research before over-reacting, how likely would they have been to believe Barry's claims if the router had been encrypted?
Barry: "No, really, I didn't do it!"
Law Enforcement: "Don't lie to us! That's impossible! Your wireless connection is encrypted!!"
ROFLMAO!!
Quite right. I thought about reading the full story but then something shiny distracted me.
uh...what? I just read the summary. Did you expect me to actually RTFA? ;)
"Obama would already be on his way back"
Uh...in other news, he is.
This will not end well.
Beat me to it. WTF is a Kin?
Guess the scientists were right because I am already underwater on the mortgage!
An unladen African Swallow?
...how quickly my home declined in value in 2008 and 2009!
"founders - collapses: breaks down, literally or metaphorically"
and I've not actually met anyone with an unusable optical disc created professionally that wasn't faulty out the box from the manufacturer ever.
Now you have.
"Sure, Ryan and his boys can make it hack-proof. But that don't mean we ain't gonna hack it."
They don't need to do that. Each MS drive is "programmed" at the factory, and as long as the signature on that sector is valid it's all good to go. The drive contains the serial number *and* the signature (in a sector), this way the MS drive is a self-contained unit that will work in any XBox.
Oh, duh. I knew I should have read your post a 4th time. You already said it might be on the MBR (or another HD lcoation) which of course, is on the hard drive which I still have in my hand when I get my "new" XBox back. My brain is obviously not functioning very well now. I had this idea in my head that you were saying that the HD Serial # and the XBox were somehow "paired", but that's not what you said at all.
I'll just be moving along now...
Take the serial number of the drive, sign it with Microsoft private key and put the signed text into the MBR or somewhere else where it will be not touched by the filesystem. Anyone with the Microsoft public key (and certainly any Xbox) can verify who signed the drive.
But when you send your XBox in for repair, they ship you a different console as a replacement (this has happened twice to me). Each time MS has made it clear that the hard drive is NOT to be shipped with the unit so therefore the repair center has no access to the hard drive serial number. This would mean that when I plugged my hard drive into the new console, it would not pass verification as a legitimate, MS approved hard drive because the hard drive signature on the console would not match my original HD.
What a twist!
"...it's no surprise that the city with the highest level was Washington DC,..."
That's a surprise to me, but perhaps I live a sheltered life. Is the implication that being involved in politics makes you more likely to indulge in cocaine use or that being involved in politics causes you to exude cocaine through the pores in your skin? Neither of these thoughts are pleasant.
I don't have a problem with it. People can do what they want, but if they do it outside, then they don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. I like the idea of BM, but it's simply not private and to believe that your activities will not be noticed, reported, photographed, recorded or video taped simply because the organizers tell you that at BM you are free to do what you want is simply ignorant.
"I personally wouldn't care if there's a photo of me smoking a joint at an event like Burning Man, but I imagine for some other people this could be a disaster. Plus there's always the exploitative assholes that come to events like this just to take pictures of naked people and post them on their blog."
If people are doing something that they wouldn't want someone to take a picture of them doing, then they should probably do it behind closed doors and not out in plain sight.