Or do you not consider files kept in a secure electronic medium (preferably a secure j-ring or somesuch) private?
It was a joke...
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>3) Burlington Coat Factory announced they would be using RHAT support (260 stores).
Speaking of Slashdot interviews, couldn't someone get an interview with whoever was responsible for the Linux usage at Burlington Coat Factory.
It seems whenever the commercial viability of Linux comes up, I always here about this store. Now, I don't believe we have BCF here (though I can't really claim a clue about what coat stores there are in Stockholm), so maybe I'v missed that it is a huge store in America that really matters a lot to people, but if it isn't maybe we should calm down a little.
I mean, people are bound to notice that it comes up over and over and over and assume that they are the only bussiness to ever use Linux. `Cause, I mean, they aren't, right?
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Even if I had encryption that every expert assured me could not be cracked for the next thousand years, I'd still prefer not to broadcast the encrypted data. Much less if I am not bothering with encryption.
What about the/etc/passwd file?
You are more or less broadcasting the most secret information on the system to every user, yet you trust it.
Geez, next people will be saying that having secret passwords or not broadcasting the private key of public key cryptograpy is "security through obscurity." Something needs to be secret.
No people should memorize their private keys (after all, the key is only about keylength/5 (100 - 400 today) characters in alphanumerics, if we start training our children from kindergarten they should manage).:-)
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Seriously, the last realm of print magazines in my home is the toilet, since I still spend idle time there, and I haven't figured out a nice way to put in a computer.
Taking a laptop with one isn't really desireable, to heavy to hold up, and resting on the legs is a little to close to the active regions during that particular activity to be confortable.
Ok, 500 USD might be a bit much for 10-15 minutes a day, but if I had that sort of money:-).
I guess one would have to install Cybersitter or something to discourage any guests from improper activities. (I'm going to be moderated down now...)
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
In reality, this is probably an obscurity, not a security matter. Unencrypted information is not safe on the office network anyways, so if you are relying on the physical seperation of the network you are not very secure.
Of course, I am aware 99% procent of all businesses (including everywhere I have worked) DO rely on the physical seperation for all but the most secret information, but still.
I do agree about the cost thing though. Built in wireless lans are a good thing because they get lans into the households, but for any bussiness that can afford to hire a highschool kid to pull the wires, ethernet will always be faster, cheaper, and easier.
Standards would be nice to, home lans are all the cooler if they can interact with non computer electronics...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
There is something almost morbid about the way that site owners go out of their way to do cool stuff so the sites can end up on Slashdot - and in effect be killed right away.
It's sort of like a sacrifice society really, the highest honor we can attain is to be stomped to death by the masses.
Come to think of it, that is what our whole fame thing is about, both on and offline I guess.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
I'm no expert, but there does seem to be some confusion here about what can and can't be done with electronic elections.
Chapter 6.1 of Applied Cryptography (second edition) gives a summary, and shows a lot of different protocols. Several of them meet all the standards one could expect from an election, including the important one that one should not be able to prove how one voted (no selling votes). A little digging in the Counterpane crypto-papers, gave these papers online (I'm sure there are many more).
"Blind multisignature schemes and their relevance to electronic voting" http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8967/ TR-95-16.zip
"A Secure and Optimally Efficient Multi-Authority Election Scheme" http://www.research.ibm.com/security/election.ps
"Unconditionally Untraceable and Fault-tolerant Broadcast and Secret Ballot Election" http://www.semper.org/sirene/publ/PfWa5_92DC1_1I B.ps.gz
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>In my opinion, it works the way it is now, and if it ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT.)
You call less than half of the population voting, ever, to be something that "ain't broke".
While I don't think it will solve anything to have more people voting (can you say "populism" anyone), anyone who does believe in democracy cannot argue that the current system isn't horribly broken.
As far as the problems are concerned, I reffer you to all the hundreds of articles written on this subject. Schneier spends a good chapter on it in Applied Cryptography (or as someone here said "The Bible").
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
It is nice to see an American newspaper showing such understanding of a very important issue. I really wish we would see this kind of mainstream publication around the crypto issue (which for now is a lot more important - and really shares a lot with this debate (the long term vs short term esp.))
I'm not sure the transparency is all good though. As long as we are not able to excersise individual freedom, but are forced by violence into the obedience of autocratic governments (regardless of whether they are controlled by a dictator, corrupt lobbyists, or >50% of the population) letting the very people that we allow to dictate our lives know all about is very dangerous. Society as it exists works because we can get away with breaking the rules (smoking up, speeding, whatever).
However, like online piracy, and like crytography, and like a million other technologies that conservatives have deemed dangerous, this is not a matter of choice. We are not in a position to choose whether we like this or not - having an opinion is futile. Transparency is the future, like it or not, for better or worse.
It is my belief that was has to go is our current regimes. It is they, not itself, that turns transparency into a nightmare. For the "global village" that the article discusses to be real (and we all no that in a real village things can get pretty harsh for the weak and deviant - it is all but a utopia), power, and freedom must be evenly distributed among us and we will have to learn to rule ourselfs. For better or worse.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
It was never really a question of a backdoor in the first place. The keys in question allow Microsoft to sign the crypto modules used within the the CryptoAPI, and for Windows to reject modules not signed by those keys. If the NSA have a key, they would be able to produce fake crypto routines to replace CryptoAPI standard ones: obviously an advantage, but not enough to be a back door.
The reason they had to make it this complicated, and not just integrate the whole thing, is of course US Regime's anti-crypto campaign.
All this is IIUC.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
> In a world without copyrights I can take your source code, modify it, distribute it binary-only (with heavy copy protection), sell it, etc. Bill Gates can take GNU software and incorporate it into Windows (with heavy copy protection).
Except that in a world without copyrights there would be no Bill Gates-s...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Yeah, most soldiers join the army cause they are diehard pacifists and think that just being nice to each other and turning away from those who hurt us we will solve all our problems!
Modern armies are full of people who get off on the whole thing...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Read the question again: he does want people to be able to copy his works, but he does not want them slapping their own, restricted, copyrights onto them.
This is not supporting intellectual property (un-)rights, but trying to circumvent the problems they are causing.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
With a GPL like license, it would be "sticky" and apply to derived works of your article as well, right? But how is that defined for writing: that it's OK for someone to cut a paragraph here or there from your article as long as they allow people to do the same from their's?
Would an article be derived work if you are referenced as a source (I guess not, since IP doesn't apply to ideas)? What about if you were quoted?
I agree with you that something like this should be in place, I have also seen things I have written popping up elsewhere (though not as bad your example). Maybe you should check the with the IDG people who are working on the "Open Book" on Linux??
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
I'm very impressed that Kleinrock was openly skeptical of the 2^128 ipv6 limit. That shows someone with real perspective to look beyond his own perspective and what seems obvious today.
All limits are broken some time, no matter how strange it seems today.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
That's the whole point, they will release a fix for it, but only after a couple of months, so that people who want the very latest and very best have to buy a whole new computer.
This beats the never realized Intel plan to lock the clocks of their processors in lameness factor.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
>If you use it for serious mail, you're an idiot. Which is of course what most of us have been saying for years, but seeing as no one listened until now, I do think all the noise is justified. The point of the discussion is suposed to be something along the lines of: "If Hotmail stinks and can't be used for serious work, will all other Internet applications stink as well?"
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Crypto algorithms are short and sweet (well not always) but Crypto modes and protocols are often complicated and cumbersome, especially if you want the program to be useful.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Pornography is not a big time waister, a couple of peeks to make a employees day better is likely to help both him and the company in the long run. Plus people work faster and better if they can releave some sexual tension every now and then.
If your company has anybody remotely techie you should start checking for slashdot instead. It takes lots of time, but gives very little sexual pleasure (sorry people:-) ).
The world needs to grow up...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Well, replacing the brain is dificult because you can't replace the nerves that connect it to the eyes and ears once removed. But, the head transplant requires that we gain this technology (since the spine has to be reconnected - as the article mentions), so the step might actually not be that big.
That said, I'm not sure I agree with the person who claimed to be fine with a 500 year old woman looking like a 25 year old ("Well, I tell you young man, orgasms sure aren't what they used to be!!")....
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
This was the headline of a tabloid here in Sweden this morning. Though at the time I assumed it was just more Internet FUD. Could it be that we are finally seeing public awareness to network security??? Hopefully we can smudge Microsoft over this story in in the popular press.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Actually, that isn't such a bad idea. If there was a script that sent a "first post" message, then at least the wouldn't get pleasure (???) of doing it. And the script could generate the messages at -1 automatically so we wouldn't have to see them.
Maybe the lamers would just go bother some other site...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Aren't films made up of series of jpegs called mjpegs? I seem to remember some software (Xing?) that made video too mjpeg while you worked with it (for obvious reasons, there are problems with cutting and stuff in mpeg video).
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Or do you not consider files kept in a secure electronic medium (preferably a secure j-ring or somesuch) private?
It was a joke...
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>3) Burlington Coat Factory announced they would be using RHAT support (260 stores).
/. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Speaking of Slashdot interviews, couldn't someone get an interview with whoever was responsible for the Linux usage at Burlington Coat Factory.
It seems whenever the commercial viability of Linux comes up, I always here about this store. Now, I don't believe we have BCF here (though I can't really claim a clue about what coat stores there are in Stockholm), so maybe I'v missed that it is a huge store in America that really matters a lot to people, but if it isn't maybe we should calm down a little.
I mean, people are bound to notice that it comes up over and over and over and assume that they are the only bussiness to ever use Linux. `Cause, I mean, they aren't, right?
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Even if I had encryption that every expert assured me could not be cracked for the next thousand years, I'd still prefer not to broadcast the encrypted data. Much less if I am not bothering with encryption.
/etc/passwd file?
:-)
/. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
What about the
You are more or less broadcasting the most secret information on the system to every user, yet you trust it.
Geez, next people will be saying that having secret passwords or not broadcasting the private key of public key cryptograpy is "security through obscurity." Something needs to be secret.
No people should memorize their private keys (after all, the key is only about keylength/5 (100 - 400 today) characters in alphanumerics, if we start training our children from kindergarten they should manage).
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Seriously, the last realm of print magazines in my home is the toilet, since I still spend idle time there, and I haven't figured out a nice way to put in a computer.
Taking a laptop with one isn't really desireable, to heavy to hold up, and resting on the legs is a little to close to the active regions during that particular activity to be confortable.
Ok, 500 USD might be a bit much for 10-15 minutes a day, but if I had that sort of money
I guess one would have to install Cybersitter or something to discourage any guests from improper activities. (I'm going to be moderated down now...)
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In reality, this is probably an obscurity, not a security matter. Unencrypted information is not safe on the office network anyways, so if you are relying on the physical seperation of the network you are not very secure.
Of course, I am aware 99% procent of all businesses (including everywhere I have worked) DO rely on the physical seperation for all but the most secret information, but still.
I do agree about the cost thing though. Built in wireless lans are a good thing because they get lans into the households, but for any bussiness that can afford to hire a highschool kid to pull the wires, ethernet will always be faster, cheaper, and easier.
Standards would be nice to, home lans are all the cooler if they can interact with non computer electronics...
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There is something almost morbid about the way that site owners go out of their way to do cool stuff so the sites can end up on Slashdot - and in effect be killed right away.
It's sort of like a sacrifice society really, the highest honor we can attain is to be stomped to death by the masses.
Come to think of it, that is what our whole fame thing is about, both on and offline I guess.
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I'm no expert, but there does seem to be some confusion here about what can and can't be done with electronic elections.
Chapter 6.1 of Applied Cryptography (second edition) gives a summary, and shows a lot of different protocols. Several of them meet all the standards one could expect from an election, including the important one that one should not be able to prove how one voted (no selling votes). A little digging in the Counterpane crypto-papers, gave these papers online (I'm sure there are many more).
"Blind multisignature schemes and their relevance to electronic voting"
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8967
"A Secure and Optimally Efficient Multi-Authority Election Scheme"
http://www.research.ibm.com/security/election.p
"Unconditionally Untraceable and Fault-tolerant Broadcast and Secret Ballot Election"
http://www.semper.org/sirene/publ/PfWa5_92DC1_1
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>In my opinion, it works the way it is now, and if it ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT.)
/. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
You call less than half of the population voting, ever, to be something that "ain't broke".
While I don't think it will solve anything to have more people voting (can you say "populism" anyone), anyone who does believe in democracy cannot argue that the current system isn't horribly broken.
As far as the problems are concerned, I reffer you to all the hundreds of articles written on this subject. Schneier spends a good chapter on it in Applied Cryptography (or as someone here said "The Bible").
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It is nice to see an American newspaper showing such understanding of a very important issue. I really wish we would see this kind of mainstream publication around the crypto issue (which for now is a lot more important - and really shares a lot with this debate (the long term vs short term esp.))
I'm not sure the transparency is all good though. As long as we are not able to excersise individual freedom, but are forced by violence into the obedience of autocratic governments (regardless of whether they are controlled by a dictator, corrupt lobbyists, or >50% of the population) letting the very people that we allow to dictate our lives know all about is very dangerous. Society as it exists works because we can get away with breaking the rules (smoking up, speeding, whatever).
However, like online piracy, and like crytography, and like a million other technologies that conservatives have deemed dangerous, this is not a matter of choice. We are not in a position to choose whether we like this or not - having an opinion is futile. Transparency is the future, like it or not, for better or worse.
It is my belief that was has to go is our current regimes. It is they, not itself, that turns transparency into a nightmare. For the "global village" that the article discusses to be real (and we all no that in a real village things can get pretty harsh for the weak and deviant - it is all but a utopia), power, and freedom must be evenly distributed among us and we will have to learn to rule ourselfs. For better or worse.
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It was never really a question of a backdoor in the first place. The keys in question allow Microsoft to sign the crypto modules used within the the CryptoAPI, and for Windows to reject modules not signed by those keys. If the NSA have a key, they would be able to produce fake crypto routines to replace CryptoAPI standard ones: obviously an advantage, but not enough to be a back door.
The reason they had to make it this complicated, and not just integrate the whole thing, is of course US Regime's anti-crypto campaign.
All this is IIUC.
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> In a world without copyrights I can take your source code, modify it, distribute it binary-only (with heavy copy protection), sell it, etc. Bill Gates can take GNU software and incorporate it into Windows (with heavy copy protection).
Except that in a world without copyrights there would be no Bill Gates-s...
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Yeah, most soldiers join the army cause they are diehard pacifists and think that just being nice to each other and turning away from those who hurt us we will solve all our problems!
Modern armies are full of people who get off on the whole thing...
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Read the question again: he does want people to be able to copy his works, but he does not want them slapping their own, restricted, copyrights onto them.
This is not supporting intellectual property (un-)rights, but trying to circumvent the problems they are causing.
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With a GPL like license, it would be "sticky" and apply to derived works of your article as well, right? But how is that defined for writing: that it's OK for someone to cut a paragraph here or there from your article as long as they allow people to do the same from their's?
Would an article be derived work if you are referenced as a source (I guess not, since IP doesn't apply to ideas)? What about if you were quoted?
I agree with you that something like this should be in place, I have also seen things I have written popping up elsewhere (though not as bad your example). Maybe you should check the with the IDG people who are working on the "Open Book" on Linux??
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I'm very impressed that Kleinrock was openly skeptical of the 2^128 ipv6 limit. That shows someone with real perspective to look beyond his own perspective and what seems obvious today.
All limits are broken some time, no matter how strange it seems today.
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That's the whole point, they will release a fix for it, but only after a couple of months, so that people who want the very latest and very best have to buy a whole new computer.
This beats the never realized Intel plan to lock the clocks of their processors in lameness factor.
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Thats funny, I found it quite conforting.
Oh, wait, maybe you are on the wrong side of the corrupt, effectively totalitarian, world repressing regime...
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>If you use it for serious mail, you're an idiot. Which is of course what most of us have been saying for years, but seeing as no one listened until now, I do think all the noise is justified. The point of the discussion is suposed to be something along the lines of: "If Hotmail stinks and can't be used for serious work, will all other Internet applications stink as well?"
/. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
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Crypto algorithms are short and sweet (well not always) but Crypto modes and protocols are often complicated and cumbersome, especially if you want the program to be useful.
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Pornography is not a big time waister, a couple of peeks to make a employees day better is likely to help both him and the company in the long run. Plus people work faster and better if they can releave some sexual tension every now and then.
If your company has anybody remotely techie you should start checking for slashdot instead. It takes lots of time, but gives very little sexual pleasure (sorry people
The world needs to grow up...
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Ten million years or so...
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Well, replacing the brain is dificult because you can't replace the nerves that connect it to the eyes and ears once removed. But, the head transplant requires that we gain this technology (since the spine has to be reconnected - as the article mentions), so the step might actually not be that big.
That said, I'm not sure I agree with the person who claimed to be fine with a 500 year old woman looking like a 25 year old ("Well, I tell you young man, orgasms sure aren't what they used to be!!")....
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This was the headline of a tabloid here in Sweden this morning. Though at the time I assumed it was just more Internet FUD. Could it be that we are finally seeing public awareness to network security??? Hopefully we can smudge Microsoft over this story in in the popular press.
/. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
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Actually, that isn't such a bad idea. If there was a script that sent a "first post" message, then at least the wouldn't get pleasure (???) of doing it. And the script could generate the messages at -1 automatically so we wouldn't have to see them.
Maybe the lamers would just go bother some other site...
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Aren't films made up of series of jpegs called mjpegs? I seem to remember some software (Xing?) that made video too mjpeg while you worked with it (for obvious reasons, there are problems with cutting and stuff in mpeg video).
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