That part I agree, but it's not about being unable to be found. It's about getting away with it,
You'd only get away with it until the bike was x-rayed or disassembled. After that, it's all over. No way you can hide a motor and the drive components from being found. And then you lose the race, the sponsorships, and all that goes with it.
That means that bikes will be sitting somewhere--theoretically in a secure area--for some period of time after the x-ray.
Everything you mention is just a matter of logistics. With even rudimentary security this wouldn't be an issue. Bies get confiscated after the race and are locked up, no tampering.
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In any long bike race, it's unlikely that every foot of the course is under the watchful eye of officials, leaving room for a secret exchange.
Actually, every foot of almost every race is filmed both by track cams and chase cars.
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But that does not make the method foolproof.
With a modest effort, it could be made so foolproof as to be virtually unbeatable.
They could supply the cyclists with a standard bicycle. Make everyone ride bikes that's are exactly the same, and weigh exactly the same. Give them 5-15minutes before the start to adjust the bike.
They could do that too, but a simple x-ray would catch them cold, no two ways about it. Even if you managed to build/mold the battery into the composite frame somehow, you still need a motor and the drive mechanism...and those will show up on an x-ray.
If there's any doubt, any doubt at all, take the bike apart and strip it completely down to its component parts. I believe they do this in some motor sports after the race to make sure there haven't been any illegal mods to the engine, so they could certainly do it to a bike.
That would require trained professionals who could interpret the images,
I'm not sure you'd need trained professionals, looking at an x-ray image and spotting anomalies isn't exactly rocket science.
But even if you did, so what? As someone else pointed out, it would be very hard to conceal batteries and a motor from an x-ray image.
Seriously, it'd be damn hard to hide components of a battery and a motor so they couldn't be recognized If anything unusual is spotted, the bike is taken apart and examined. I doubt you could build a motor and power supply into a bike such that it couldn't be found.
A simple solution that would be 100% effective at catching cheaters with hidden motors: x-ray the bikes just before the start of the race, and immediately after they pass the finish line.
If you think he's actually telling you anything that would really keep him out, then you're exactly as gullible as he wants.
Oh, sure, he'll give you some bullshit, low-level tips, but do you really think that the "NSA Hacker Chief" is going to do anything that's going to make his job harder? I sure don't.
Nowadays it is a general purpose computer and a user-tracking device, which happens to have the functionality of making calls.
I understand that. What's your point?
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You might want to give more consideration when choosing that kind of tracking device/computer you will carry on you..
Why? So I can act like an asshat and wave my shiny rectangle around proclaiming its superiority? What a pathetic, embarrassing, and repulsive thing to do. No, what I have works for for me, I don't need some brand-obsessed loser shucking and jiving in my face about why his or her phone is "better". It's awkward and low-class in the extreme. Please stop it.
To be clear: I don't care what kind of phone you have. I'll never care what kind of phone you have. I have more important things in life to be concerned with than that kind of shallow consumeristic-nonsense.
Conversely, I don't care what your opinion is of the phone I have. I'll never care what your opinion is of the phone I have.
If you like your phone and it helps fill in all of the empty spots in your paper-thin ego, good for you! More power to ya. But I don't want to hear you blathering on about it to me, okay? It's embarrassing to hear people gushing about their phone. The first thing I think when I hear that shit is, "Holy crap, what a loser."
For me, I just prefer the interface, and the apps I do use work really well. Plus, it's brainlessly easy to use with my PC. Yeah - certain people think I am an oddball, but I am more about the functionality over style points.
Seems to me that you've made a perfectly rational choice, free of any illogical allegiance to any particular platform. You have sensible, well-articulated reasons for your choice.
I recently upgraded from an ancient Nokia to a Samsung Rugby Pro. It was $99. It does everything I want, I like it, and it's easy to use. The End.
You won't find me dissing an iphone, blackberry, or windows user for their choice, nor will you see me blathering on about how great my phone is and why it's obviously so much better than any other phone in the history of phoning.
If someone wants to take the time to evangelize against my choice, they're welcome to do so but I probably won't bother listening...because I just don't care. It's a phone, it's not my life or an Ego Totem. I don't get my sense of self from a fucking phone.
So to all the fanatical phone-strokers out there, good for you, enjoy your choice, we're happy for ya, just please shut the fuck up about it and let the rest of us exist without hearing about how much you loooooooooooooove your mass-produced rectangle, okay?
The only way that three people can keep a secret is if two of them are dead - and even then....
Even this is no longer true.:(
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Experience has shown time and time again that there will never be perfect secrecy - just "good enough for now" is the best we can hope for.
Worse yet is that what is secret today will be exposed tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after that. All that stuff people have encrypted or hidden will eventually be decrypted or dragged out into the light. "You can bet your ass it'll come to pass", as they say. And it will.
So you're using SuperUber-Blowfish-SupperDish crypto with a 40 garjillion-bit key? Yeah, that'll be good for a while, but not forever. Quantum-computing may in fact herald an end to meaningful encryption, we just don't know how much it'll change things but the smart money is on major upheavals in supposedly "secure" communication.
During WWII the Allies kept reams of intercepted communications from the German and the Japanese (and everyone else) even though it was encrypted and unreadable....because they knew that someday they'd be able to decrypt it and see what was being said. It has enormous potential military and political value even if you can't read it today.
The NSA is, or course, doing the same thing right this minute, archiving everything they can get their sticky little fingers on. They may not be able to decrypt it today, but eventually they'll be able to.
Sadly, Cyanogenmod is not available for my rather pedestrian (but very usable) Samsung Rugby Pro.
I'd like to root this phone if only to remove some of the bullshit apps/icons that I'll never ever ever ever use.
I don't want the facebook app, the QR Code app, the AT&T Family Bullshit Locator app, and a slew of others, but there's just no way to get rid of them that I can see.:(
and I can't even choose where on my homescreen I want to place an icon.
Yeah, seriously, what the fuck is up with that?? I was amazed that on an ipad you cannot put an icon where you want. It ends up in the first available empty spot when you first download it, and there it will stay forever and ever until the end of time. That's just retarded.
Seriously, what the fuck is up with that? Are we lowly, worm-like users such imbeciles that we're not even allowed to change the location of an icon? What possible fucking harm could that cause, or what "trouble" could we possibly get into by letting us choose the location of the icons? It's fucking insulting.
Android lets you do this, why the hell won't Apple allow you to?
My god, I knew gamers could be pathetic but didn't think they came in droves. How truly pathetic.
There's a lot that could be said on this topic, but I hear you. I think many of these games foster a certain non-social behavior to drive the "engagement" metric, and for whatever reason, many people flock to this shit.
I used to get on my son for spending hours "collecting colored pixels" because it all seemed like such a waste of time. He grew out of most of it after he realized that he had nothing -ZERO- to show for all the time he'd spent in various games. NOTHING whatsoever to show for it except a lack of real friends. Nuh-Thing.
And he kind of woke up one day and said, "WTF am I doing??" He still plays a little here and there, but now it's mostly just a distraction for him, not the central focus of his life.
So you're a level 937-Uber-Mage with Expanded Bimbo Powers and a Magic Bottomless Supper Dish, so fucking what? Can you put that on your resume? Will ANYONE ever be impressed by that except for level 936-Uber-Mages? Is that what you're going to have inscribed on your tombstone?
I find the whole thing odd, but on the other hand if that's what people want to do, more power to 'em. They're not hurting anyone (well, except maybe themselves) so I'm happy that they can do something they enjoy and have at least the illusion of being "friends" with other "people". (None of those "friends" would really give a fuck if they heard that a guild member had actually died in a horrible fire, but still, for some people it's better than zoning out in front of the TV every night, right?)
I'm in the same position as you, with about ~100 sites of my own. The vast majority would not benefit in the slightest from encryption, yet it would impose significant costs and hassle on me to get certificates for every site, keep them updated, etc etc etc.
It seems pointless to me. No one gives a fuck if (for example) the recipe for Walnut Blueberry Muffins that someone grabs from one of my sites is "safe from prying eyes". FFS, I put it out there specifically so people could find it and use it. No one gets arrested or threatened or ostracized for wanting to make blueberry muffins. What's the need for HTTPS security there?
There's no secret shit there, it's a public site meant to be browsed by anyone and everyone. How the fuck would encryption benefit the users of that site?
...even though they can't give a sane explanation for why my call for a pizza to to ask my wife what we want to do for dinner should be handled with the same stringency as nuclear launch codes from the POTUS.
But, but...what if you asked for anchovies? Would you really want just anyone to know that? My god, man, think of your children. Or their children, or somebody's children.
Damn, that would certainly ruin my entire life and cause me to spiral into a deep depression, culminating in madness and suicide. If I had a WoW account.
The second group is the fanboys. These tend to fall heavily on Apple's side but, Google and Microsoft have them too. They wrap their own identities into brands they use making them part of their metaphorical tribe.
Yes, but why?? What do they gain from this?? A sense of belonging or something?
There are fanboys of any platform that are always eager to make fun of competitors to their Chosen Idol
I've often wondered about the motivation for this kind of behavior...is it simply a form of self-reassurance, or bolstering of one's ego to confirm that a given decision (i.e. Android versus Apple) was the "right" decision? Or is it a way to possibly makeup for thinking that one has, in fact, made the "wrong" decision? What's the motivation to take sides and hoot like bands of rival monkeys at a waterhole??
It's so weird. I own an Android phone, but I don't brag about it. I'm sure an iPhone or Lumia or Brand X would work just as well for me. Conversely, I don't diss people who happen to own a different brand of gadget, vehicle, or clothing than I do. Why would I?
It just all seems so weird to me, like some kind of abstracted dick-waving or patriotism or something. Why would I care what brand of phone someone uses? Why would I care about them knowing or caring about what brand of phone I use?
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That part I agree, but it's not about being unable to be found. It's about getting away with it,
You'd only get away with it until the bike was x-rayed or disassembled. After that, it's all over. No way you can hide a motor and the drive components from being found. And then you lose the race, the sponsorships, and all that goes with it.
That means that bikes will be sitting somewhere--theoretically in a secure area--for some period of time after the x-ray.
Everything you mention is just a matter of logistics. With even rudimentary security this wouldn't be an issue. Bies get confiscated after the race and are locked up, no tampering.
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In any long bike race, it's unlikely that every foot of the course is under the watchful eye of officials, leaving room for a secret exchange.
Actually, every foot of almost every race is filmed both by track cams and chase cars.
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But that does not make the method foolproof.
With a modest effort, it could be made so foolproof as to be virtually unbeatable.
No matter what system is used to try to catch cheaters, cheaters will find a weakness in the system and exploit it.
Good luck defeating an x-ray, and good luck defeating the process of disassembling a bike into its component parts for examination.
They could supply the cyclists with a standard bicycle. Make everyone ride bikes that's are exactly the same, and weigh exactly the same. Give them 5-15minutes before the start to adjust the bike.
They could do that too, but a simple x-ray would catch them cold, no two ways about it. Even if you managed to build/mold the battery into the composite frame somehow, you still need a motor and the drive mechanism...and those will show up on an x-ray.
If there's any doubt, any doubt at all, take the bike apart and strip it completely down to its component parts. I believe they do this in some motor sports after the race to make sure there haven't been any illegal mods to the engine, so they could certainly do it to a bike.
These are all before 9.2 so have been patched on all devices from the 4S onwards.
My point stands, there has never been an IOS vulnerability and there never will be, except of course for all the ones they've found so far.
That would require trained professionals who could interpret the images,
I'm not sure you'd need trained professionals, looking at an x-ray image and spotting anomalies isn't exactly rocket science.
But even if you did, so what? As someone else pointed out, it would be very hard to conceal batteries and a motor from an x-ray image.
Seriously, it'd be damn hard to hide components of a battery and a motor so they couldn't be recognized If anything unusual is spotted, the bike is taken apart and examined. I doubt you could build a motor and power supply into a bike such that it couldn't be found.
A simple solution that would be 100% effective at catching cheaters with hidden motors: x-ray the bikes just before the start of the race, and immediately after they pass the finish line.
They mean "the first one they've found". It's unlikely that it's the first time this has ever happened.
This is, again, why I have an iPhone
Yes, because no iphone has ever had a security vulnerability, now or in the future. It's impossible, IOS is simply impossible to hack, spoof, or do anything bad to, ever. It just can't be done, there is no way to do it. No one has ever hacked an IOS device and no one ever will. Ever. It's just completely out of the question. The words "vulnerability" and "IOS" should never even be found in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence. IOS has never had a security vulnerability and never will, updates are strictly there to add exciting new features. Everyone knows that.
If you think he's actually telling you anything that would really keep him out, then you're exactly as gullible as he wants.
Oh, sure, he'll give you some bullshit, low-level tips, but do you really think that the "NSA Hacker Chief" is going to do anything that's going to make his job harder? I sure don't.
Nowadays it is a general purpose computer and a user-tracking device, which happens to have the functionality of making calls.
I understand that. What's your point?
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You might want to give more consideration when choosing that kind of tracking device/computer you will carry on you..
Why? So I can act like an asshat and wave my shiny rectangle around proclaiming its superiority? What a pathetic, embarrassing, and repulsive thing to do. No, what I have works for for me, I don't need some brand-obsessed loser shucking and jiving in my face about why his or her phone is "better". It's awkward and low-class in the extreme. Please stop it.
To be clear: I don't care what kind of phone you have. I'll never care what kind of phone you have. I have more important things in life to be concerned with than that kind of shallow consumeristic-nonsense.
Conversely, I don't care what your opinion is of the phone I have. I'll never care what your opinion is of the phone I have.
If you like your phone and it helps fill in all of the empty spots in your paper-thin ego, good for you! More power to ya. But I don't want to hear you blathering on about it to me, okay? It's embarrassing to hear people gushing about their phone. The first thing I think when I hear that shit is, "Holy crap, what a loser."
For me, I just prefer the interface, and the apps I do use work really well. Plus, it's brainlessly easy to use with my PC. Yeah - certain people think I am an oddball, but I am more about the functionality over style points.
Seems to me that you've made a perfectly rational choice, free of any illogical allegiance to any particular platform. You have sensible, well-articulated reasons for your choice.
I recently upgraded from an ancient Nokia to a Samsung Rugby Pro. It was $99. It does everything I want, I like it, and it's easy to use. The End.
You won't find me dissing an iphone, blackberry, or windows user for their choice, nor will you see me blathering on about how great my phone is and why it's obviously so much better than any other phone in the history of phoning.
If someone wants to take the time to evangelize against my choice, they're welcome to do so but I probably won't bother listening...because I just don't care. It's a phone, it's not my life or an Ego Totem. I don't get my sense of self from a fucking phone.
So to all the fanatical phone-strokers out there, good for you, enjoy your choice, we're happy for ya, just please shut the fuck up about it and let the rest of us exist without hearing about how much you loooooooooooooove your mass-produced rectangle, okay?
Make your own fucking news site then.
Fine, I will. And it'll have blackjack and hookers, and you won't be allowed in, Mr "Anonymous Coward", if that even is your real name.
The only way that three people can keep a secret is if two of them are dead - and even then ....
Even this is no longer true. :(
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Experience has shown time and time again that there will never be perfect secrecy - just "good enough for now" is the best we can hope for.
Worse yet is that what is secret today will be exposed tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after that. All that stuff people have encrypted or hidden will eventually be decrypted or dragged out into the light. "You can bet your ass it'll come to pass", as they say. And it will.
So you're using SuperUber-Blowfish-SupperDish crypto with a 40 garjillion-bit key? Yeah, that'll be good for a while, but not forever. Quantum-computing may in fact herald an end to meaningful encryption, we just don't know how much it'll change things but the smart money is on major upheavals in supposedly "secure" communication.
During WWII the Allies kept reams of intercepted communications from the German and the Japanese (and everyone else) even though it was encrypted and unreadable....because they knew that someday they'd be able to decrypt it and see what was being said. It has enormous potential military and political value even if you can't read it today.
The NSA is, or course, doing the same thing right this minute, archiving everything they can get their sticky little fingers on. They may not be able to decrypt it today, but eventually they'll be able to.
Some app gets an update for some feature? Whoo hoo, that certainly is news.
Wake me up when something happens.
Again, just my opinion, but the UI is absolutely NOT the weak point for Microsoft. Apps are.
What apps? The MS App store is a wasteland. I've seen more activity in a morgue.
Sadly, Cyanogenmod is not available for my rather pedestrian (but very usable) Samsung Rugby Pro.
I'd like to root this phone if only to remove some of the bullshit apps/icons that I'll never ever ever ever use.
I don't want the facebook app, the QR Code app, the AT&T Family Bullshit Locator app, and a slew of others, but there's just no way to get rid of them that I can see. :(
and I can't even choose where on my homescreen I want to place an icon.
Yeah, seriously, what the fuck is up with that?? I was amazed that on an ipad you cannot put an icon where you want. It ends up in the first available empty spot when you first download it, and there it will stay forever and ever until the end of time. That's just retarded.
Seriously, what the fuck is up with that? Are we lowly, worm-like users such imbeciles that we're not even allowed to change the location of an icon? What possible fucking harm could that cause, or what "trouble" could we possibly get into by letting us choose the location of the icons? It's fucking insulting.
Android lets you do this, why the hell won't Apple allow you to?
My god, I knew gamers could be pathetic but didn't think they came in droves. How truly pathetic.
There's a lot that could be said on this topic, but I hear you. I think many of these games foster a certain non-social behavior to drive the "engagement" metric, and for whatever reason, many people flock to this shit.
I used to get on my son for spending hours "collecting colored pixels" because it all seemed like such a waste of time. He grew out of most of it after he realized that he had nothing -ZERO- to show for all the time he'd spent in various games. NOTHING whatsoever to show for it except a lack of real friends. Nuh-Thing.
And he kind of woke up one day and said, "WTF am I doing??" He still plays a little here and there, but now it's mostly just a distraction for him, not the central focus of his life.
So you're a level 937-Uber-Mage with Expanded Bimbo Powers and a Magic Bottomless Supper Dish, so fucking what? Can you put that on your resume? Will ANYONE ever be impressed by that except for level 936-Uber-Mages? Is that what you're going to have inscribed on your tombstone?
I find the whole thing odd, but on the other hand if that's what people want to do, more power to 'em. They're not hurting anyone (well, except maybe themselves) so I'm happy that they can do something they enjoy and have at least the illusion of being "friends" with other "people". (None of those "friends" would really give a fuck if they heard that a guild member had actually died in a horrible fire, but still, for some people it's better than zoning out in front of the TV every night, right?)
I'm in the same position as you, with about ~100 sites of my own. The vast majority would not benefit in the slightest from encryption, yet it would impose significant costs and hassle on me to get certificates for every site, keep them updated, etc etc etc.
It seems pointless to me. No one gives a fuck if (for example) the recipe for Walnut Blueberry Muffins that someone grabs from one of my sites is "safe from prying eyes". FFS, I put it out there specifically so people could find it and use it. No one gets arrested or threatened or ostracized for wanting to make blueberry muffins. What's the need for HTTPS security there?
There's no secret shit there, it's a public site meant to be browsed by anyone and everyone. How the fuck would encryption benefit the users of that site?
...even though they can't give a sane explanation for why my call for a pizza to to ask my wife what we want to do for dinner should be handled with the same stringency as nuclear launch codes from the POTUS.
But, but...what if you asked for anchovies? Would you really want just anyone to know that? My god, man, think of your children. Or their children, or somebody's children.
But they hacked his WoW account!
Damn, that would certainly ruin my entire life and cause me to spiral into a deep depression, culminating in madness and suicide. If I had a WoW account.
The second group is the fanboys. These tend to fall heavily on Apple's side but, Google and Microsoft have them too. They wrap their own identities into brands they use making them part of their metaphorical tribe.
Yes, but why?? What do they gain from this?? A sense of belonging or something?
Okay, I gotta say that's a pretty nifty little hack.
There are fanboys of any platform that are always eager to make fun of competitors to their Chosen Idol
I've often wondered about the motivation for this kind of behavior...is it simply a form of self-reassurance, or bolstering of one's ego to confirm that a given decision (i.e. Android versus Apple) was the "right" decision? Or is it a way to possibly makeup for thinking that one has, in fact, made the "wrong" decision? What's the motivation to take sides and hoot like bands of rival monkeys at a waterhole??
It's so weird. I own an Android phone, but I don't brag about it. I'm sure an iPhone or Lumia or Brand X would work just as well for me. Conversely, I don't diss people who happen to own a different brand of gadget, vehicle, or clothing than I do. Why would I?
It just all seems so weird to me, like some kind of abstracted dick-waving or patriotism or something. Why would I care what brand of phone someone uses? Why would I care about them knowing or caring about what brand of phone I use?
I don't understand it, I really don't.