In BitTorrent Sync, Having used it a bit (not too much), just syncing a few directories with friends and testing it out with a swarm of "Very Small" Azure 2008 nodes, which was a bunch of fun to stand up 10 (at $0.02 per hour each) of them and immediately have my own personal akaimai cloud.
It does not encrypt at the file level, but it would be easy to either; A) for most security create a Trucrypt volume single file (assuming its not mounted) which could be replicated across the BTSync members
B) Mount a Volume in Trucrypt and have Bittorrent sync Syncronise a directory within that volume - this will be saved in the clear at the recipient end, but will be transmitted encrypted with AES.
The one point that does have to be addressed with BitTorrent Sync is that it is closed source... This (I assume) is due to certain parts of the BitTorrent magic sauce that BitTorrent Sync uses, but it does mean you can never be quite sure of the encryption.
MEGA is well intentioned Im sure, but the Javascript code in MEGA does not cut it for serious security, and they need to dp waaay better for an email service. Remember that ALL THE DATA is being retained now, so one crack in the system and there is a way in.
Air tight security is do-able, but needs to be serious - I wish Mega lots of luck.
The fact that its limited by Windows 8 is a big problem for this device, and thats Microsofts problem and no-one elses.
The fact that Microsoft seem unable to make a decent OS is the real elephant in the room here, if Windows 8 was as ground breaking, stable and powerful as (for example) Windows NT 4 had been relatively when it came out, they would be selling these by the boatload, and no one would care.
Im pissed off by it because I want a decent OS, not a phone OS conversion.. (Metro - 2 dimensional monochrome graphics is like looking at something from the eighties.
Windows 7 (which was only just good enough) will have to do for another couple of years.
Can anyone explain any advantage to these rules, other than "it makes the cops job easier".
And they casually talk about destroying our privacy (and by association related rights like freedom of expression) not to mention security...... just to make their jobs easier..
Imagine if every new road, even out in the desert had to have cameras and microphones, to record not just who drove on the road, but what they were talking about. All installed at the users expense.
And the authorities have complete access to it (without judicial intervention), Yet somehow that data will remain secure?
LOIC (Low Earth Ion Canon) has a catchy name, and has a cool cache among people who dont know much, but it floods the target with packets from your IP address, there is no external vector, so there is no way of hiding your IP address..
maybe the members of anonymous should have checked that
I was shocked when I found this out (Steve Gibson's "Security Now" podcast)
What did they think would happen?
This should be a strong warning to people who think of using LOIC.
I wonder if he will insist the new computers will use "Cobol Data" and "skip logic". These are BS concepts he used in one of his early speaches. should should not act like he knows about IT when he obviously doesnt. http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/08/12/special-report-is-us-chief-information-officer-cio-vivek-kundra-a-phony/ Basically he claims to have been the CEO of a company with 2 employees. A guy like that should not be holding his Role
sends all (or at least 99%) of its power to the wheels. Each wheel is capable of 120 KW (155 HP) which gives it a practical output of 480KW(>600HP). Compare that to a 6 litre BFAC engine that produces 450HP, but only 280HP gets near the wheels. All the other power is simply lost.
Electric cars are not "there yet" but the underlying technology has massive fundamental advantages over internal combustion technology.
I would not go so far as to say "infinitely worse" - remember only 3 years ago howard said global warming was not happening.
But I was expecting far better. this kowtowing to the american copyright tzars is disgusting, especially since everyone knows it will make no difference in the end (filtering WILL go the same way as DRM in the end - ie itll be dropped)
Porting the OS/2 API would solve alot of these problems, quickly (relatively) and permanently.
I wonder how many of the people who are pushing for a ground up rewrite of the OS would be happy with that.
A few years back I got a savage requirement to relive my C64 old days, and even though there were emulators that were if anything "better than the real thing" - thanks to virtual disks etc, they were of no interest to Me. I had to have the "real thing" back. I don't understand it, but there it is. Thank goodness I did'nt want to run an old Cray OS:)
EBay are only attempting this because they are a monopoly and are vigorously trying to monetize that point.
I think it is high time there was a competing auction service in Australia (although unfortunatley the nature of action sites gravitate to one). In New Zealand there is a site called TradeMe.co.nz and it was first and saw off eBay. The Service is much better, and there are many features which eBay (in Australia) don't bother with (better pictures) anti snipe delays etc etc. Unfortunately it will take a mass of people power to unseat eBay, and so ultimatley they will get away with this. Frankly I'm sick of it and going back to the trading post.. 'They're dreamin' - The Castle
This was only explained to me once, but Ill try. Chlorophyll molecules have at their focal point, ONE (big - compared to the other atoms) magnesium atom. Imagine it looks (sort of) like a dead scorpian on its back (the magnesium atom is at the head) at the energy it absorbs increases, the tail tip curls up til it touches the "head" and releases all the energy built up. OH - MAGNESIUM IS GREEN BTW. Most of the molecule is not green, but the m olecule is usually made to face the green head outwards (while laying on its back as it were). Hope this helps. this is one of those things where the natural solution is INCREDIBLE COOL. To all the biochemists who are cringing at my terrible lay-explaination - I apologise proifusley.
Also, if the rooms are too big, maybe you could have a robot like an omnibot or something that wanders around the house and constantly updates the position of any RFIDs it senses, possibly while vaccuming, or delivering beer to the TV room.
BTW to answer the main question of the this thread - an RFID probably could not do any triangulation, but it would be pretty trivial for even a small device that had two sensors to do so.
Truth is that for what I want to use it for (web, maybe some music, listen to podcasts), the Linux version should be fine (in fact probably superior XP because of security and performance).
However I will insist that I can run Starcraft on it (sorry - but I love that old game) so I will be stuck with XP still.
I understand that Windows Server 2008 (based on alot of SIMILAR technology to Vista) is able to be pared down to just a Command Line. Why can't they do that do Vista?. This is the part I don't get about the Vista being so bloated. Everytime I have gone back to fix my own code, I have made it faster, smaller and better. Why does the MS software seem to be going in the other diretion? Sorry 3 minute boot times - unacceptable. My 486/100 could boot Windows 3.11 in 30 seconds. that was 94' I have never encountered a faster MS computer system (If you see what I mean).
Rather than pointing at anything else as evil, Anyone who truly believes that Google is evil, when they so obviously are'nt, either has some weird axe to grind, or is insane.
Im not joking. Google have done so much for the industry, rather than holding any corner of its business to ransom. To call them the "new evil" is completely absurd.
The summary says it would allow a dictionary attack against the groups...
FTA... "Consequently spammers are able to launch dictionary attacks against these domains using forged envelope sender addresses.."
And you are spot on. The "backscatter" does not appear to include the orininal message.
And since the sender of the reply is "noreply@googlegroups.com", I can't actually see how you would use it to dictionary attack (except on googlegroups).
You could, however still use it for a DOS attack vector (by spoofing the sender address), but mainly, this will only enable a dictionary attack of the googlegroups (but what can you do about that anyway?)
This would appear (to me - just quickly) to comply with RFC 2821, so I actually fail to see the point of the story... hmmm
I'm not sure if you are aware that most of the spam farms use a method called "Kiting". If you are a registrar, You can register a domain for 4 (or 5) days without paying anything. You can just reregister after 4.5 days, again without paying anything. Ad infernitum. Domain farms are set up as their own registrars, and run software which keeps millions (and I mean many millions) of domains on the boil at once). This means when a domain gets squatted by the big squatters, if it is getting traffic, they will never release it, and they will never pay a cent for it. I site with alot of traffic can bring in hundreds of dollars a year when it is "parked", this is why they value these domains at $1500, just to start. There is a company in QLD Australia who use this method, and are currently the owners of 2.5% of all the.com domains registered on the internet (thats a list of names bigger than most people could read).
When you use one of these things, you only hold down the button till the phone call disconnects (usually ten seconds at most). The you let it off. You usually find if they call back, they get the phone call over with quickly.
This hysterical crazy talk about many people dying in a skyscraper because of this kind "black spot" is just nonsense (You really have to wonder how the human race made it to the 1980s without cell phones at all).
In Japan people are very polite on trains regarding talking on phones, most people wisper and cover their mouths while talking.
In the US, Australia and the UK (where I have most of my experience of it, you often encounter "Exhibition Talkers" who seem to believe the whole carriage is interested in their little world. Asking them to "keep it down please" will only result in abuse.
LOL I would love to claim I was being subtle. but I was'nt. Yes I probably fell for this one hook line and sinker. And shortly after posting that I thought the whole thing must have been BS. I suppose the guts of my post was that not doing something legal because the FEDs might intimidate you was just SOO wrong. Anyway my bad. Ultimitley I fell for the Troll.:( Thanks for pointing it out though, as without your post I would have kept wondering.
"It was the other thwee - not me! - Signed Rick" - The Young Ones - TV license episode
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In BitTorrent Sync,
Having used it a bit (not too much),
just syncing a few directories with friends
and testing it out with a swarm of "Very Small" Azure 2008 nodes, which was a bunch of fun to stand up 10 (at $0.02 per hour each) of them and immediately have my own personal akaimai cloud.
It does not encrypt at the file level, but it would be easy to either;
A) for most security create a Trucrypt volume single file (assuming its not mounted) which could be replicated across the BTSync members
B) Mount a Volume in Trucrypt and have Bittorrent sync Syncronise a directory within that volume - this will be saved in the clear at the recipient end, but will be transmitted encrypted with AES.
The one point that does have to be addressed with BitTorrent Sync is that it is closed source...
This (I assume) is due to certain parts of the BitTorrent magic sauce that BitTorrent Sync uses, but it does mean you can never be quite sure of the encryption.
Cheers R.
According to Security Now/Steve Gibson, the encryption/security on the MEGA file site is not very sound
https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-390.htm (search for "Java Crypto" to get about 3/4 way through the show) or listen to the podcast..
MEGA is well intentioned Im sure, but the Javascript code in MEGA does not cut it for serious security, and they need to dp waaay better for an email service.
Remember that ALL THE DATA is being retained now, so one crack in the system and there is a way in.
Air tight security is do-able, but needs to be serious - I wish Mega lots of luck.
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Agree entirely. Please Mod Up parent
The fact that its limited by Windows 8 is a big problem for this device, and thats Microsofts problem and no-one elses.
The fact that Microsoft seem unable to make a decent OS is the real elephant in the room here, if Windows 8 was as ground breaking, stable and powerful as (for example) Windows NT 4 had been relatively when it came out, they would be selling these by the boatload, and no one would care.
Im pissed off by it because I want a decent OS, not a phone OS conversion.. (Metro - 2 dimensional monochrome graphics is like looking at something from the eighties.
Windows 7 (which was only just good enough) will have to do for another couple of years.
Happy New Year..
Can anyone explain any advantage to these rules, other than "it makes the cops job easier".
And they casually talk about destroying our privacy (and by association related rights like freedom of expression) not to mention security.. .... just to make their jobs easier..
Imagine if every new road, even out in the desert had to have cameras and microphones, to record not just who drove on the road, but what they were talking about. All installed at the users expense.
And the authorities have complete access to it (without judicial intervention),
Yet somehow that data will remain secure?
In that case...
NOT EVEN IF ... they manage to get certified as a bank, using some loophole. (or any other means really).
EVEN IF they finally start behaving like a Luxembourg company and allow donations wikileaks again.
LOIC (Low Earth Ion Canon) has a catchy name, and has a cool cache among people who dont know much, but it floods the target with packets from your IP address, there is no external vector, so there is no way of hiding your IP address..
maybe the members of anonymous should have checked that
I was shocked when I found this out (Steve Gibson's "Security Now" podcast)
What did they think would happen?
This should be a strong warning to people who think of using LOIC.
Sorry - my mistake - the company had one employee (guess who?)
I wonder if he will insist the new computers will use "Cobol Data" and "skip logic". These are BS concepts he used in one of his early speaches. should should not act like he knows about IT when he obviously doesnt.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/08/12/special-report-is-us-chief-information-officer-cio-vivek-kundra-a-phony/
Basically he claims to have been the CEO of a company with 2 employees. A guy like that should not be holding his Role
"fissile" is not the same as "fossil".
A fissile material is one capable of sustaining a fission reaction.
I agree with your point though.
Heres another thing to think of as well.
A high performance Ferrari will lose 25% of its power in the drive train (ie after the power leaves the engine and before it gets to the wheels).
A BFAC (Big Fat American Car) may lose up to 40% (depending on length of Drive Train, type of gearbox, differential etc etc)
An electric car such as the "Lightning"
http://www.lightningcarcompany.co.uk/
sends all (or at least 99%) of its power to the wheels. Each wheel is capable of 120 KW (155 HP) which gives it a practical output of 480KW(>600HP). Compare that to a 6 litre BFAC engine that produces 450HP, but only 280HP gets near the wheels. All the other power is simply lost.
Electric cars are not "there yet" but the underlying technology has massive fundamental advantages over internal combustion technology.
I agree.
I would not go so far as to say "infinitely worse" - remember only 3 years ago howard said global warming was not happening.
But I was expecting far better. this kowtowing to the american copyright tzars is disgusting, especially since everyone knows it will make no difference in the end (filtering WILL go the same way as DRM in the end - ie itll be dropped)
Can you repeat that please.
The words after "Pretty soon," were replaced with "{redacted for your security}"
I think you have the solution in a nutshell here.
Porting the OS/2 API would solve alot of these problems, quickly (relatively) and permanently.
I wonder how many of the people who are pushing for a ground up rewrite of the OS would be happy with that.
A few years back I got a savage requirement to relive my C64 old days, and even though there were emulators that were if anything "better than the real thing" - thanks to virtual disks etc, they were of no interest to Me. I had to have the "real thing" back. :)
I don't understand it, but there it is. Thank goodness I did'nt want to run an old Cray OS
EBay are only attempting this because they are a monopoly and are vigorously trying to monetize that point.
I think it is high time there was a competing auction service in Australia (although unfortunatley the nature of action sites gravitate to one).
In New Zealand there is a site called TradeMe.co.nz and it was first and saw off eBay. The Service is much better, and there are many features which eBay (in Australia) don't bother with (better pictures) anti snipe delays etc etc.
Unfortunately it will take a mass of people power to unseat eBay, and so ultimatley they will get away with this.
Frankly I'm sick of it and going back to the trading post..
'They're dreamin' - The Castle
This was only explained to me once, but Ill try.
Chlorophyll molecules have at their focal point, ONE (big - compared to the other atoms) magnesium atom. Imagine it looks (sort of) like a dead scorpian on its back (the magnesium atom is at the head) at the energy it absorbs increases, the tail tip curls up til it touches the "head" and releases all the energy built up. OH - MAGNESIUM IS GREEN BTW. Most of the molecule is not green, but the m olecule is usually made to face the green head outwards (while laying on its back as it were). Hope this helps. this is one of those things where the natural solution is INCREDIBLE COOL. To all the biochemists who are cringing at my terrible lay-explaination - I apologise proifusley.
I think this is a great idea as well.
Also, if the rooms are too big, maybe you could have a robot like an omnibot or something that wanders around the house and constantly updates the position of any RFIDs it senses, possibly while vaccuming, or delivering beer to the TV room.
BTW to answer the main question of the this thread - an RFID probably could not do any triangulation, but it would be pretty trivial for even a small device that had two sensors to do so.
ASUS will shortly be releasing the ASUS eee PC 900 with an 8.9" screen capable of 1024x600. That should be a lot more usable.
http://eeepc.asus.com/global/news03042008.htm
Now if only they could add a nipple mouse.
Truth is that for what I want to use it for (web, maybe some music, listen to podcasts), the Linux version should be fine (in fact probably superior XP because of security and performance).
However I will insist that I can run Starcraft on it (sorry - but I love that old game) so I will be stuck with XP still.
I understand that Windows Server 2008 (based on alot of SIMILAR technology to Vista) is able to be pared down to just a Command Line.
Why can't they do that do Vista?.
This is the part I don't get about the Vista being so bloated. Everytime I have gone back to fix my own code, I have made it faster, smaller and better.
Why does the MS software seem to be going in the other diretion?
Sorry 3 minute boot times - unacceptable. My 486/100 could boot Windows 3.11 in 30 seconds. that was 94' I have never encountered a faster MS computer system (If you see what I mean).
Rather than pointing at anything else as evil, Anyone who truly believes that Google is evil, when they so obviously are'nt, either has some weird axe to grind, or is insane.
Im not joking. Google have done so much for the industry, rather than holding any corner of its business to ransom. To call them the "new evil" is completely absurd.
YES. THE HEADING IS QUITE MISLEADING.
The summary says it would allow a dictionary attack against the groups...
FTA... "Consequently spammers are able to launch dictionary attacks against these domains using forged envelope sender addresses.."
And you are spot on. The "backscatter" does not appear to include the orininal message.
And since the sender of the reply is "noreply@googlegroups.com", I can't actually see how you would use it to dictionary attack (except on googlegroups).
You could, however still use it for a DOS attack vector (by spoofing the sender address), but mainly, this will only enable a dictionary attack of the googlegroups (but what can you do about that anyway?)
This would appear (to me - just quickly) to comply with RFC 2821, so I actually fail to see the point of the story... hmmm
I'm not sure if you are aware that most of the spam farms use a method called "Kiting". .com domains registered on the internet (thats a list of names bigger than most people could read).
If you are a registrar, You can register a domain for 4 (or 5) days without paying anything. You can just reregister after 4.5 days, again without paying anything. Ad infernitum.
Domain farms are set up as their own registrars, and run software which keeps millions (and I mean many millions) of domains on the boil at once).
This means when a domain gets squatted by the big squatters, if it is getting traffic, they will never release it, and they will never pay a cent for it. I site with alot of traffic can bring in hundreds of dollars a year when it is "parked", this is why they value these domains at $1500, just to start.
There is a company in QLD Australia who use this method, and are currently the owners of 2.5% of all the
Damn good posting.
Well done. Answers the question pretty damn well.
Thanks
When you use one of these things, you only hold down the button till the phone call disconnects (usually ten seconds at most). The you let it off. You usually find if they call back, they get the phone call over with quickly.
This hysterical crazy talk about many people dying in a skyscraper because of this kind "black spot" is just nonsense (You really have to wonder how the human race made it to the 1980s without cell phones at all).
In Japan people are very polite on trains regarding talking on phones, most people wisper and cover their mouths while talking.
In the US, Australia and the UK (where I have most of my experience of it, you often encounter "Exhibition Talkers" who seem to believe the whole carriage is interested in their little world. Asking them to "keep it down please" will only result in abuse.
LOL :(
I would love to claim I was being subtle. but I was'nt.
Yes I probably fell for this one hook line and sinker. And shortly after posting that I thought the whole thing must have been BS.
I suppose the guts of my post was that not doing something legal because the FEDs might intimidate you was just SOO wrong.
Anyway my bad. Ultimitley I fell for the Troll.
Thanks for pointing it out though, as without your post I would have kept wondering.
"It was the other thwee - not me! - Signed Rick" - The Young Ones - TV license episode