... about why they cant get themselves together over there be civilized.
yeah yeah, bad joke
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that's a very very good point. it shows how the Linux community is able to take MS head on while MS has to resort to bashing open source by calling us cancerous viral speading insecure thingys.
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in some algorithms keys get generated by multiplying two large primes (RSA is one such algorithm). the terminology the guy gives was wrong, it really should be factoring products of large primes.
I read somewhere (i think NYTimes) that one area the DoJ was pushing for was to force MS to publish their specs for things like file formats and their other propritary "standards." MS was very resistant to that, as they would about publishing anything prorietary.
Thiking about this, I actually think it would be in MS's better interest to publish those specs. Some of their products are already de facto standards in the business world. Publishing those specs would allow competitors to write competing software (ie- StarOffice) that's compatible more easily, but that would be MS's consequence for abusing a monopoly. But by publishing the spec, that would make MS the "setter of the standard," something that they have always wanted to be.
actually, i do have a clue about java. 1.1 had a horrible VM. 1.4 OTOH is awesome of what i've seen of it (ie - the flight sim demo from the JavaOne Conf last June). I made that post to let off some steam over a Thread problem I was having, using a school machine that has 1.1 installed.
By the same token, Perl executes at about the same as Java because both languages are compiled into bytecode before they're executed. Yet some people think Perl is god while Java stinks.
Due to the current wave of anthrax troubles in the US, do you think a system will be developed somewhere to allow for Certified Email that employes the applications of crpyto to certifying digital signitures, certificate authority, etc? Even if such a service is funneled through a government agent like the Postal Service at like 5 cents per message to be certified, do you think such a service would be useful?
Immediately after the events of 11 September, lawmakers twiddled with the idea of backdoors in crypto products. Last week I read somewhere (not sure if it was on slashdot or some other news site) that lawmakers were backing down on this for some reason (can't remember why).
Is this 'backing down' accurate? What do you think caused the change of heart? And what is your opinion of backdoors in general? Do you think they would work as lawmakers intend them to?
not necessarily... Exchange systems permissions are set by an administrator, so if someone were to send an email saying "Do this" where "this" is removing permissions, it'll get the sender no where.
So if an open source version were being used, one would have an admin set up the permissions such that users could not modify them.
i'm aware that GNU -> GNU's Not Unix! infinite recursion. I'm referring to 'Linux' being expanded to 'GNU/Linux' which by the same rule can then be expanded to 'GNU/GNU/Linux' and so on and so forth....
I'm just tryin to be silly, not really intending anything useful...
that wasnt the problem for the allied forces. They feared that if the germans would truly find out about Enigma's compromise, they would simply pull out a backup plan or quickly throw one together, which would mean trouble for those responsible for decrypting those messages.
Yes, technology did advance in radar, sonar, etc, but SIGINT was still a very critical piece of the war.
D-Day was another example. The Allied forces knew that one of their encryption schemes (whatever it was) had been broken by the Axis powers. So during the planning of D-Day, the Allies sent out false plans using that encryption just to let the Axis powers find it. That's why the Axis troops weren't at Normandy the morning of D-Day, the troops were at another location far away from Normandy. Yes there were still troops to contend with at Normandy, but that was a very small number because most of them were sent to the other location.
Some call that a key piece to ending the war in Europe, or at least to the success of D-Day for the Allies.
now that you say it, I do recall BWI (Baltimore/Washington) having my phone go through the xray machine. San Fran and Birmingham had me put the phone in they tray with my keys. But I still had to demo the backlight for them.
yup. That's what the case was in Zimmermann's Note.
The story goes that he transmitted it from Berlin to the Mexican Ambassador to the US in Washington DC, and that is what was picked up by the Brits. Some of the Note was intended for him, the rest was to be sent on to Mexico City, including that part about regaining control of some of the southwestern US states.
The Brits knew that the Ambassador would rewrite the note before passing on the appropriate parts to Mexico City. The Brits did that and then gave the note to the US.
When Germany investigated the compromise (after it became known that the US had the Note), they concluded that poor security by the Mexicans allowed an Allied spy to find the message in Mexico City. Hence they continued using Enigma on messages and the Brits continued cracking them.
That (and the example you give) allowed the Allied forces to continue breaking messages, because they feared the Axis powers would begin using a different encyption technique should they find out about the compromise of Enigma.
that's a good point. you can tuck something inside a second battery slot or empty drive slot. But then again, laptops are required to still go through the xray machine, where something would (hopefully) be found.
But honestly, I dont know what turning something on would provide. A terrorist can always key a fake electronic device to act like a real device when placed under inspection. A cell phone is perfect for that, as they dont go through xray nor metal detectors (at least that was the case last time I was at an airport last August), and all one has to do is turn on the backlight or display panel.
Maybe it's just a false sense of security that some policy maker thought up.
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... about why they cant get themselves together over there be civilized.
yeah yeah, bad joke
that's a very very good point. it shows how the Linux community is able to take MS head on while MS has to resort to bashing open source by calling us cancerous viral speading insecure thingys.
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in some algorithms keys get generated by multiplying two large primes (RSA is one such algorithm). the terminology the guy gives was wrong, it really should be factoring products of large primes.
I read somewhere (i think NYTimes) that one area the DoJ was pushing for was to force MS to publish their specs for things like file formats and their other propritary "standards." MS was very resistant to that, as they would about publishing anything prorietary.
Thiking about this, I actually think it would be in MS's better interest to publish those specs. Some of their products are already de facto standards in the business world. Publishing those specs would allow competitors to write competing software (ie- StarOffice) that's compatible more easily, but that would be MS's consequence for abusing a monopoly. But by publishing the spec, that would make MS the "setter of the standard," something that they have always wanted to be.
actually, i do have a clue about java. 1.1 had a horrible VM. 1.4 OTOH is awesome of what i've seen of it (ie - the flight sim demo from the JavaOne Conf last June). I made that post to let off some steam over a Thread problem I was having, using a school machine that has 1.1 installed.
By the same token, Perl executes at about the same as Java because both languages are compiled into bytecode before they're executed. Yet some people think Perl is god while Java stinks.
Java:
faithInHumanity--;
// 10 seconds later....
System.out.println(faithInHumanity);
Due to the current wave of anthrax troubles in the US, do you think a system will be developed somewhere to allow for Certified Email that employes the applications of crpyto to certifying digital signitures, certificate authority, etc? Even if such a service is funneled through a government agent like the Postal Service at like 5 cents per message to be certified, do you think such a service would be useful?
Immediately after the events of 11 September, lawmakers twiddled with the idea of backdoors in crypto products. Last week I read somewhere (not sure if it was on slashdot or some other news site) that lawmakers were backing down on this for some reason (can't remember why).
Is this 'backing down' accurate? What do you think caused the change of heart? And what is your opinion of backdoors in general? Do you think they would work as lawmakers intend them to?
From the episode of Mensa taking charge of Springfield:
[steven-hawking]Homer, your theory of a donut shaped universe is intriguing[/steven-hawking]
IANYL
I Am Not YOUR Lawyer?? Are you saying you're a lawyer, just not the lawyer for nmilford?
well, how often would someone need to change permissions on some things? We use Exchange at work, and those calls are very rare.
sorry, i cant quite get the accent mark above the a in 'viola'
not necessarily ... Exchange systems permissions are set by an administrator, so if someone were to send an email saying "Do this" where "this" is removing permissions, it'll get the sender no where.
So if an open source version were being used, one would have an admin set up the permissions such that users could not modify them.
making it possible for one person to access another's calander (given proper permissions) and viola! An open source alternative to MS Exchange!
i'm aware that GNU -> GNU's Not Unix! infinite recursion. I'm referring to 'Linux' being expanded to 'GNU/Linux' which by the same rule can then be expanded to 'GNU/GNU/Linux' and so on and so forth....
I'm just tryin to be silly, not really intending anything useful...
wouldnt that be infinitely recursive? Consider:
Type Linux -> Replace with GNU/Linux -> Replace with GNU/GNU/Linux -> Replace with GNU/GNU/GNU/Linux -> and so on.....
telling konqueror to lie about its User Agent causes the page to render correctly save the background which is the wrong color.
I think you got a slight grammer problem there. Are you saying that the background color is wrong under Konqueror?
i actually thought the MS-Free-Fridays mod is what was causing those formkey errors last weekend.
5.0 works for me
that wasnt the problem for the allied forces. They feared that if the germans would truly find out about Enigma's compromise, they would simply pull out a backup plan or quickly throw one together, which would mean trouble for those responsible for decrypting those messages.
Yes, technology did advance in radar, sonar, etc, but SIGINT was still a very critical piece of the war.
D-Day was another example. The Allied forces knew that one of their encryption schemes (whatever it was) had been broken by the Axis powers. So during the planning of D-Day, the Allies sent out false plans using that encryption just to let the Axis powers find it. That's why the Axis troops weren't at Normandy the morning of D-Day, the troops were at another location far away from Normandy. Yes there were still troops to contend with at Normandy, but that was a very small number because most of them were sent to the other location.
Some call that a key piece to ending the war in Europe, or at least to the success of D-Day for the Allies.
[homer]D'oh![/homer]
guess i got the facts mixed up. Still, the same or similar rules for handling decrypted info that were part of WWII also existed in WWI.
now that you say it, I do recall BWI (Baltimore/Washington) having my phone go through the xray machine. San Fran and Birmingham had me put the phone in they tray with my keys. But I still had to demo the backlight for them.
yup. That's what the case was in Zimmermann's Note.
The story goes that he transmitted it from Berlin to the Mexican Ambassador to the US in Washington DC, and that is what was picked up by the Brits. Some of the Note was intended for him, the rest was to be sent on to Mexico City, including that part about regaining control of some of the southwestern US states.
The Brits knew that the Ambassador would rewrite the note before passing on the appropriate parts to Mexico City. The Brits did that and then gave the note to the US.
When Germany investigated the compromise (after it became known that the US had the Note), they concluded that poor security by the Mexicans allowed an Allied spy to find the message in Mexico City. Hence they continued using Enigma on messages and the Brits continued cracking them.
That (and the example you give) allowed the Allied forces to continue breaking messages, because they feared the Axis powers would begin using a different encyption technique should they find out about the compromise of Enigma.
that's a good point. you can tuck something inside a second battery slot or empty drive slot. But then again, laptops are required to still go through the xray machine, where something would (hopefully) be found.
But honestly, I dont know what turning something on would provide. A terrorist can always key a fake electronic device to act like a real device when placed under inspection. A cell phone is perfect for that, as they dont go through xray nor metal detectors (at least that was the case last time I was at an airport last August), and all one has to do is turn on the backlight or display panel.
Maybe it's just a false sense of security that some policy maker thought up.