ANPR is half-baked, though, what we need are secure IDs for cars, not a big plate with some easily duplicated characters on it. I don't drive, but I'd hate to have to try to prove I wasn't driving a car bearing my hypothetical car's registration plate. It amazes me that anyone with a functioning brain would advocate automated legal action against someone holding up a series of characters on a reflective strip.
Criminals use cloned plates, this results in "us taxpayers" having to clear our names in court if the only evidence is a series of digits collected by ANPR at a certain place and time. The database necessary to generate cloned plates is accessible to the public, so it's accessible to criminals.
The 3d technique would be an attempt at actual security, the Lenovo technique is described in the IdeaPad manual as a convenience feature.
I don't foresee any major problems with Lenovo shipping this software on all their machines, though it would be nice if they made it crash less frequently and educated the user about the risks of using it.
People have locked things up with simple, easily copied metal shapes for a few thousand years, believing that this was security.
On my wife's IdeaPad I can log in by holding up my macbook in front of it with iPhoto showing a picture of my wife's face in full screen mode. I tried a few photos and the one that worked was taken face-to-face, in the same way that the inbuilt webcam would take it. I found that I need to tilt the macbook screen slightly so the LCD viewing angle achieved the right level of contrast for the camera in the IdeaPad.
I could just use the password to log in, but that would be boring.
This is some of the best advice I've ever seen on Slashdot. Fred has either experienced hearing damage personally or is close to a person or people who have. I damaged my hearing a little several years ago and although I can still hear things I can't always tell where the sound is coming from and I know that the frequency response of my hearing is now far from flat. You can't easily imagine the effects of this, it's actually easier to imagine being totally deaf.
Modify it back again, either by heat-gunning a ROM off the board and replacing it with an EPROM/EEPROM with the original BIOS code on it or by flash upgrading it if it's still on EEPROM.
OK, I've posted already about this but people have overlooked it, the quote.com site which has been used by MS as an example of a site which moved away from Sun to embrace MS DNA uses this server...
http://applets1.quote.com/
Connected to applets1.quote.com. Escape character is '^]'.
All the dynamic content that I've found so far apart from the page shells is sourced from another Linux box which looks like it may be in a cluster. This is a leading edge Linux site, not an NT showcase. It just happens to have a few NT boxes making up part of the solution, possibly as part of the deal with
If you visit quote.com you will see a nice animated chart featured prominently on the front page, well I suspected GD when I saw this as the fonts are quite distintive, not only that but if you view the gif code in a text editor you discover it has been produced by whirlgif 2.01, a unix gif animation product... This part of the site is a live dynamic feature and its running UNIX. As for the MS page, its the usual "out of context" FUD. No news there.
If it really is Microsoft I suspect they would've ensured that the hosting company had removed the sample files from IIS/4.0 as advised on the relevant security pages relating to that product. See l0pht advisory dated 05/07/99 (mm/dd/yy).
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ANPR is half-baked, though, what we need are secure IDs for cars, not a big plate with some easily duplicated characters on it. I don't drive, but I'd hate to have to try to prove I wasn't driving a car bearing my hypothetical car's registration plate. It amazes me that anyone with a functioning brain would advocate automated legal action against someone holding up a series of characters on a reflective strip.
Criminals use cloned plates, this results in "us taxpayers" having to clear our names in court if the only evidence is a series of digits collected by ANPR at a certain place and time. The database necessary to generate cloned plates is accessible to the public, so it's accessible to criminals.
The 3d technique would be an attempt at actual security, the Lenovo technique is described in the IdeaPad manual as a convenience feature.
I don't foresee any major problems with Lenovo shipping this software on all their machines, though it would be nice if they made it crash less frequently and educated the user about the risks of using it.
People have locked things up with simple, easily copied metal shapes for a few thousand years, believing that this was security.
On my wife's IdeaPad I can log in by holding up my macbook in front of it with iPhoto showing a picture of my wife's face in full screen mode. I tried a few photos and the one that worked was taken face-to-face, in the same way that the inbuilt webcam would take it.
I found that I need to tilt the macbook screen slightly so the LCD viewing angle achieved the right level of contrast for the camera in the IdeaPad.
I could just use the password to log in, but that would be boring.
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This is some of the best advice I've ever seen on Slashdot. Fred has either experienced hearing damage personally or is close to a person or people who have. I damaged my hearing a little several years ago and although I can still hear things I can't always tell where the sound is coming from and I know that the frequency response of my hearing is now far from flat. You can't easily imagine the effects of this, it's actually easier to imagine being totally deaf.
Modify it back again, either by heat-gunning a ROM off the board and replacing it with an EPROM/EEPROM with the original BIOS code on it or by flash upgrading it if it's still on EEPROM.
OK, I've posted already about this but people have overlooked it, the quote.com site which has been used by MS as an example of a site which moved away from Sun to embrace MS DNA uses this server...
http://applets1.quote.com/
Connected to applets1.quote.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 22:08:32 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) ApacheJServ/1.1
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
All the dynamic content that I've found so far apart from the page shells is sourced from another Linux box which looks like it may be in a cluster. This is a leading edge Linux site, not an NT showcase. It just happens to have a few NT boxes making up part of the solution, possibly as part of the deal with
http://www.quotestory.com/developer.asp
Just looking deeper, ALL the clever applet stuff which is hooked up to the live quoting system is coming from a204.g.akamai.net which is a Linux box.
If you visit quote.com you will see a nice animated chart featured prominently on the front page, well I suspected GD when I saw this as the fonts are quite distintive, not only that but if you view the gif code in a text editor you discover it has been produced by whirlgif 2.01, a unix gif animation product... This part of the site is a live dynamic feature and its running UNIX. As for the MS page, its the usual "out of context" FUD. No news there.
If it really is Microsoft I suspect they would've ensured that the hosting company had removed the sample files from IIS/4.0 as advised on the relevant security pages relating to that product.
See l0pht advisory dated 05/07/99 (mm/dd/yy).