Since SCO recently received a $50 million dollar cash infusion, what's to stop them from siphoning off some of that money into phony investment accounts? These accounts could then purchase SCOX in small batches, enough to keep the share price in the $15-20 range while the insiders sell out.
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Reverse-engineering Windows applications. Normally it's easier to just guess how something works and re-implement it in Linux, but guesswork won't help you decode an undocumented compression algorithm or decrypt a DRM-protected movie.
True, SoftICE is much faster and has better debugging features. But Windows developers aren't stupid -- if they really don't want you stepping through their code, the program can either disable SoftICE, or detect its presence and refuse to run.
That's the advantage of Bochs: It's undetectable. Slow execution won't give it away, because the real-time clock is as fake as all the other Bochs hardware. It's like hardware ICE without the $40,000 price tag.
Also, because Bochs is open-source, you can put in useful hacks like "Copy this big chunk of memory from the virtual computer to a file on the real computer every time this line is executed".
Last month I went to a computer fair to buy a new Linux machine. In one box was an assortment of about 30 books, all brand-new, with their covers on. Next to them was a sign:
... the police would tell you to give them the key to open the encryption. If you just say "nope.. I won't do it", I'm pretty sure you get into a lot of trouble in ANY country - not just Australia.
In any country? Maybe in England or Australia, but certainly not in the United States.
Thanks to the 5th Amendment, no one in the United States can be punished for refusing to testify against himself. Every accused person has the right to remain silent. The only way prosecuters could force you to hand over passwords would be to grant you immunity. Which they might do, if they think the contents of your hard drive could incriminate someone else.
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Since SCO recently received a $50 million dollar cash infusion, what's to stop them from siphoning off some of that money into phony investment accounts? These accounts could then purchase SCOX in small batches, enough to keep the share price in the $15-20 range while the insiders sell out.
Reverse-engineering Windows applications. Normally it's easier to just guess how something works and re-implement it in Linux, but guesswork won't help you decode an undocumented compression algorithm or decrypt a DRM-protected movie.
True, SoftICE is much faster and has better debugging features. But Windows developers aren't stupid -- if they really don't want you stepping through their code, the program can either disable SoftICE, or detect its presence and refuse to run.
That's the advantage of Bochs: It's undetectable. Slow execution won't give it away, because the real-time clock is as fake as all the other Bochs hardware. It's like hardware ICE without the $40,000 price tag.
Also, because Bochs is open-source, you can put in useful hacks like "Copy this big chunk of memory from the virtual computer to a file on the real computer every time this line is executed".
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In any country? Maybe in England or Australia, but certainly not in the United States.
Thanks to the 5th Amendment, no one in the United States can be punished for refusing to testify against himself. Every accused person has the right to remain silent. The only way prosecuters could force you to hand over passwords would be to grant you immunity. Which they might do, if they think the contents of your hard drive could incriminate someone else.