How about this for an application, the cells are so light that they can form the skin of a hydrogen lofted blimp with enough surface area to run all of it's payload and convert it's water ballast to hydrogen to allow for buoyancy control. The reverse process of ballast recovery uses a hydrogen/oxygen fuel cell so that no water is lost in total, and additional power is generated. What we are talking about here is mid to upper stratosphere cruising blimps with an endurance measured in years. e.g. Project Loon type communications networks. These are particularly important as they can be deployed very quickly if our communications satellites are destroyed by a solar flare and we can't put more of them up quickly because the dead ones also triggered a space junk collision cascade.
Since when are sites that require "Adobe Flash" safe for kids when a child can be manipulated into turning on the camera and microphone in the flash settings?
Many a boy on his way to school has been scared for life by those unfortunate NSFL events.
But what can the family do? They love her dearly and like to keep their elders close, even when she would be better off in the dementia ward of the local nursing home.
"Orenstein found that the All Writs Act does not apply in instances where Congress had the opportunity but failed to create an authority for the government to get the type of help it was seeking, such as having firms ensure they have a way to obtain data from encrypted phones."
So he is saying, OK if you want it, put it in law explicitly and see how the voters react to it. Seems to be conformation of what I pointed out the other day, this "issue" is confected with the aim of getting it into the lime light and making it a current political diving point.
This work is not about making Borg soldiers, it is about fixing broken humans to improve their quality of life.
The author of the article is a chauvinist because this fantastic medical work is Australian, and the brain child of a civilian, http://www.findanexpert.unimel...
Where some of the funding came from for the latest round of animal test is irrelevant.
What a dumb-assed move leading up to such an important legal challenge, insulting the people who will decide your case.
Is it really an issue of constitutional law? I now doubt it, because if Olson and Apple were so confident in their interpretation of the law, i.e. they were sure they had a case, why would they put so much effort into creating this media sideshow? Why are they trying to fight this in the court of public opinion? Is this entire game really a confected drama that is designed to shove the issue into the lime light in time for the presidential elections in the USA? Are they really trying to make the "right to absolute digital privacy" an issue that neither side of politics would otherwise discuss?
Why are they ignoring the fact that Apple's cooperation is not required to crack their phones and that the real issue is the time and cost to the FBI of using other methods? Put the all of the arguments and facts in one place and things don't add up neatly, so who is telling distracting stories, who is telling lies, and who does not have a clue what they are talking about?
Any system feature that allows for the remote uploading of data such that it then is treated as privileged executable code will allow anyone with knowledge of this feature to have as much control over the system as the people who developed, or who currently administer, it.
"Backdoor" implies a deliberate act, but it is another matter to prove it was not simply incompetence.
So is it possible to create an entirely secure backdoor? Yes it is, but if other people have physical access to the compromised systems it is very hard to stop them from also finding the key to the backdoor. And I mean key literally. The problem with keyed backdoors is that it is very hard to deny that it's creation was not a deliberate act and so we see various entities balancing the risk of other's using their backdoor with the benefit they can gain from using it themselves.
Then there are more subtle scenarios that the likes of Mc Nutcase are too shallow to appreciate. e.g. A backdoor that has reached it's end-of-life can be allowed to be "discovered" so that it's use by third parties can be monitored, with the accessible data being not as valuable as it seems, or even salted so that the patterns in it will leave traces on the systems it passed through.
Are Apple phones backdoored? I don't know, but what I do know is that the right people with the right gear can pull the keys off any piece of commodity hardware they can physically access and take to their labs.
So why is Mc Nutcase not talking about such things? Perhaps broadcasting the truth and the entire truth is not his primary agenda?
This does matter because if it is dominated by one gender the insights will be skewed by the experiences and attitudes, not to mention the agendas, of that gender.
I agree with the principle that the victims and their family are no more important that any other citizen when it comes to the legal system's obligations to protect, investigate and prosecute, because in such crimes the attack was against your entire society, way of life, and political system.
As for your view that your phone is currently secure, well that is just naivety, the problem is that the cost involved in cracking it open safely is very high. It is not a question of if it is possible. The FBI just want Apple to help do what is possible (by others) but faster and for less cost.
Perhaps not all of them but it is a thing many talk about, that different locations have a distinct quality to the natural light there. Not just location either, but seasonal variation too. It would not surprise me if the NN was also sensitive to these clues. Which makes me wonder can Weyand el al get their NN to tell them additional things about the image such as time of day and day of year, perhaps even in some cases actual year because it can cross reference images in the same location with known dates against an image that it has geo-located and know what the weather (lighting conditions) were for that point in time near that location.
Corporations have the financial and legal "power" to delay the inevitable significantly, and I can understand why they would wish to do so, however they may just force governments to find solutions that do not require cooperation. Is that not a worse outcome? If a court stands between the government and a citizen's data you still have some rights, but if the government is forced to develop a universal methodology for compromising a seized system's security they may not even bother going through the courts, thereby avoiding what is currently a reasonable and transparent process. Some may argue that such a "universal methodology" is not possible, but they are overlooking options that are available when you have physical control of a device.
When I was in my final year of High School I had my English teacher verbally abuse me in front of the class because I used WordStar to type up my assignments, she seem to think that using a computer for tasks as basic as word processing was somehow cheating. She also had some sort of socialist delusion that I was somehow disadvantaging other students because they did not have or use computers the same way, but not once did she bother to help me with the "dyslexia like" difficulties that I had even though she like to ridicule me about the errors it caused in my work. How things have changed since then, but I expect they are now being just as ignorant and myopic about something else and in some ways things never change.
Yes the idea does seem fundamentally flawed in that it could never transform instantly therefore there is a range after a point beyond the target and before the point of complete self destruction where the projectile would probably do far more damage to a soft target than it otherwise would.
As a ground to air type projectile it may be ideal, however just having them explode on a timed fuse would do the same job and that is a very old idea.
I am not surprised that they have no funding.
The only acceptable "new" weapon is one that works at a long range and rapidly renders active combatants incapable of cognition for a limited period of time, long enough to capture and incarcerate them, a matter of hours at most and without permanent damage. However I am sure that most governments would settle for leaving them brain dead. This is where things are headed due to the interaction of two ideologies, the killing to enforce political will is OK camp, and the all killing is always wrong camp. You end up with weapons that are in some ways more horrific than what they replaced. Oh well that is hairless monkeys for you.
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Well duh! Oh well I guess that if the study helps people to "get" what meditation is about it is a good thing.
I look forward to reading their review on play.google.com
"It is a killer app."
How about this for an application, the cells are so light that they can form the skin of a hydrogen lofted blimp with enough surface area to run all of it's payload and convert it's water ballast to hydrogen to allow for buoyancy control. The reverse process of ballast recovery uses a hydrogen/oxygen fuel cell so that no water is lost in total, and additional power is generated. What we are talking about here is mid to upper stratosphere cruising blimps with an endurance measured in years. e.g. Project Loon type communications networks. These are particularly important as they can be deployed very quickly if our communications satellites are destroyed by a solar flare and we can't put more of them up quickly because the dead ones also triggered a space junk collision cascade.
Just wait till the Martians find about that, NASA you are so busted.
Since when are sites that require "Adobe Flash" safe for kids when a child can be manipulated into turning on the camera and microphone in the flash settings?
Many a boy on his way to school has been scared for life by those unfortunate NSFL events.
But what can the family do? They love her dearly and like to keep their elders close, even when she would be better off in the dementia ward of the local nursing home.
...making it a current political dividing point.
"The ruling is not binding in any other court"
"Orenstein found that the All Writs Act does not apply in instances where Congress had the opportunity but failed to create an authority for the government to get the type of help it was seeking, such as having firms ensure they have a way to obtain data from encrypted phones."
So he is saying, OK if you want it, put it in law explicitly and see how the voters react to it. Seems to be conformation of what I pointed out the other day, this "issue" is confected with the aim of getting it into the lime light and making it a current political diving point.
This work is not about making Borg soldiers, it is about fixing broken humans to improve their quality of life.
The author of the article is a chauvinist because this fantastic medical work is Australian, and the brain child of a civilian, http://www.findanexpert.unimel...
Where some of the funding came from for the latest round of animal test is irrelevant.
What a dumb-assed move leading up to such an important legal challenge, insulting the people who will decide your case.
Is it really an issue of constitutional law? I now doubt it, because if Olson and Apple were so confident in their interpretation of the law, i.e. they were sure they had a case, why would they put so much effort into creating this media sideshow? Why are they trying to fight this in the court of public opinion? Is this entire game really a confected drama that is designed to shove the issue into the lime light in time for the presidential elections in the USA? Are they really trying to make the "right to absolute digital privacy" an issue that neither side of politics would otherwise discuss?
Why are they ignoring the fact that Apple's cooperation is not required to crack their phones and that the real issue is the time and cost to the FBI of using other methods? Put the all of the arguments and facts in one place and things don't add up neatly, so who is telling distracting stories, who is telling lies, and who does not have a clue what they are talking about?
Look at it more abstractly:
Any system feature that allows for the remote uploading of data such that it then is treated as privileged executable code will allow anyone with knowledge of this feature to have as much control over the system as the people who developed, or who currently administer, it.
"Backdoor" implies a deliberate act, but it is another matter to prove it was not simply incompetence.
So is it possible to create an entirely secure backdoor? Yes it is, but if other people have physical access to the compromised systems it is very hard to stop them from also finding the key to the backdoor. And I mean key literally. The problem with keyed backdoors is that it is very hard to deny that it's creation was not a deliberate act and so we see various entities balancing the risk of other's using their backdoor with the benefit they can gain from using it themselves.
Then there are more subtle scenarios that the likes of Mc Nutcase are too shallow to appreciate. e.g. A backdoor that has reached it's end-of-life can be allowed to be "discovered" so that it's use by third parties can be monitored, with the accessible data being not as valuable as it seems, or even salted so that the patterns in it will leave traces on the systems it passed through.
Are Apple phones backdoored? I don't know, but what I do know is that the right people with the right gear can pull the keys off any piece of commodity hardware they can physically access and take to their labs.
So why is Mc Nutcase not talking about such things? Perhaps broadcasting the truth and the entire truth is not his primary agenda?
So I'd get better performance and security if I'd rolled my own on a decent FPGA chip?
This does matter because if it is dominated by one gender the insights will be skewed by the experiences and attitudes, not to mention the agendas, of that gender.
I'm not so sure, poop clouds are already a well established phenomena.
Give me a nudge too, when you hear back about it, I want to buy about $10,000 worth of them if they really perform that well.
I agree with the principle that the victims and their family are no more important that any other citizen when it comes to the legal system's obligations to protect, investigate and prosecute, because in such crimes the attack was against your entire society, way of life, and political system.
As for your view that your phone is currently secure, well that is just naivety, the problem is that the cost involved in cracking it open safely is very high. It is not a question of if it is possible. The FBI just want Apple to help do what is possible (by others) but faster and for less cost.
Perhaps not all of them but it is a thing many talk about, that different locations have a distinct quality to the natural light there. Not just location either, but seasonal variation too. It would not surprise me if the NN was also sensitive to these clues. Which makes me wonder can Weyand el al get their NN to tell them additional things about the image such as time of day and day of year, perhaps even in some cases actual year because it can cross reference images in the same location with known dates against an image that it has geo-located and know what the weather (lighting conditions) were for that point in time near that location.
What a bizarre situation, if the Chinese government have more knowledge of how to get into an iPhone than the FBI do.
That is the actual situation is it not?
Well perhaps not that exact item, but you get the idea, https://www.google.com/search?...
http://www.amazon.com/Glow-Fob...
Why is it that when you apply a Kalman filter to http://inhabitat.com/ all the content vanished?
Corporations have the financial and legal "power" to delay the inevitable significantly, and I can understand why they would wish to do so, however they may just force governments to find solutions that do not require cooperation. Is that not a worse outcome? If a court stands between the government and a citizen's data you still have some rights, but if the government is forced to develop a universal methodology for compromising a seized system's security they may not even bother going through the courts, thereby avoiding what is currently a reasonable and transparent process. Some may argue that such a "universal methodology" is not possible, but they are overlooking options that are available when you have physical control of a device.
When I was in my final year of High School I had my English teacher verbally abuse me in front of the class because I used WordStar to type up my assignments, she seem to think that using a computer for tasks as basic as word processing was somehow cheating. She also had some sort of socialist delusion that I was somehow disadvantaging other students because they did not have or use computers the same way, but not once did she bother to help me with the "dyslexia like" difficulties that I had even though she like to ridicule me about the errors it caused in my work. How things have changed since then, but I expect they are now being just as ignorant and myopic about something else and in some ways things never change.
And cancers too perhaps, "site-specifically recognizes a ... sequence".
Apple can never create a secure phone unless it completely destroys itself the moment it leaves your hand.
Yes the idea does seem fundamentally flawed in that it could never transform instantly therefore there is a range after a point beyond the target and before the point of complete self destruction where the projectile would probably do far more damage to a soft target than it otherwise would.
As a ground to air type projectile it may be ideal, however just having them explode on a timed fuse would do the same job and that is a very old idea.
I am not surprised that they have no funding.
The only acceptable "new" weapon is one that works at a long range and rapidly renders active combatants incapable of cognition for a limited period of time, long enough to capture and incarcerate them, a matter of hours at most and without permanent damage. However I am sure that most governments would settle for leaving them brain dead. This is where things are headed due to the interaction of two ideologies, the killing to enforce political will is OK camp, and the all killing is always wrong camp. You end up with weapons that are in some ways more horrific than what they replaced. Oh well that is hairless monkeys for you.