Telstra are already one of the crappiest telcos in Australia (and a company I have as little as possible to do with), I cant see how Elop could make things any worse.
There are any number of Muslim countries where saying the sort of things Donald Trump has said would get you locked up in some dark hole or worse. Why aren't these countries also saying "we will not allow people who say these things to enter our country" and banning not just Trump but anyone else who has said these anti-Muslim things from entering the country at all.
I dont know the specifics of this particular case but didn't they already decide that user interfaces aren't protected by copyright in the Lotus vs Borland case?
Or is there more to this case than just menu options and stuff?
Actually, Bernstein v. United States put forward the argument that human readable source code IS protected speech under the first amendment. Several courts agreed with that argument although the government loosened the restrictions on encryption before it got all the way to the supreme court.
I have a family member who is a doctor and has studied surgery (and no doubt done any number of surgeries in their time) and there is no way I would trust anyone without the proper qualifications to perform anything that involves cutting people open.
I didn't vote for these bastards last time and I have no intention of voting for them again. Unfortunatly as long as people continue to believe the propaganda and FUD spread across the front page of the Murdoch papers, people will continue to elect the Lieberal party and we will continue to get garbage laws.
Probably the greatest claim to fame for Diffie and Hellman would be the paper "New Directions in Cryptography" which described Diffie-Hellman key exchange and is one of the first public descriptions of strong (or strong for its day) cryptography. (back then most cryptography was controlled by governments, militaries and intelligence agencies).
I cant find a cite but I could swear the government tried to censor Diffie and Hellman and prevent them from publishing their work (or maybe I am thinking of some other cryptographic paper or presentation from that era)
I am surprised there is still a market for instant cameras or instant film outside of hardcore enthusiasts, what with digital cameras being so prevalent and there being many easy ways to print directly from a digital camera with no PC involved (and even plenty of places that will print photos from a digital camera onto archive-grade photo paper)
If you are interested in all that stuff, the excellent book "The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal" is a really good read, it talks all about the men behind the network and how it happened.
Men like Wes Clark are the reason computers are interactive boxes connected to the largest repository of information in the known universe instead of being batch processing beasts that eat punch cards and spit out fan fold paper (or more punch cards) a few hours later.
Not only do wireless keyboards and mice (regardless of technology) chew through batteries but they are also vulnerable to attacks? Glad I am not using them on my PC then (Logitech K120 keyboard and Gigabyte GM-M6580 laser mouse)
They should change the next version of iOS (for any hardware that it runs on including older models) and the next iPhone revision so that its not even possible to install new software on the phone if the phone is locked.
The system in use by the Commonwealth Bank requires both a unique code (given to you by the app) and also a pin number sent to you via SMS (meaning a thief needs to be able to steal both numbers somehow). Oh and the codes are one-time-use only and expire after 30 minutes so the thief needs to be able to get to a Commonwealth Bank ATM within 30 minutes and hope the legitimate owner of the account hasn't used the code in the mean time.
So for a screen scraper to be useful the hacker would need to specifically write it to look for and steal both the code AND SMS'd pin at the same time. And they would need to have someone stationed right next to a Commonwealth Bank ATM at that point to run the transaction through before the legitimate account holder (who would probably be right next to an ATM at the time they are using the phone app) runs the transaction.
Several banks here in Australia (the Commonwealth for one and I think also Westpac) have had the "get cash via a phone app" option for a while now (where you log onto the online banking app on your phone and get a code that you key into the ATM which will then give you cash without a card). Other banks (like the ANZ) are trialing a NFC solution where you can tap with your compatible NFC phone on a reader on the ATM instead of using your card.
There is no increase security issue with the cash-via-phone-app option as implemented by the Australian banks that have done it since the thief needs to steal your online banking password (and if they have that, they can transfer money via direct transfer to another account they control rather than risk being caught by an ATM camera withdrawing cash using this technology)
In fact the technology makes things more secure in that your account details cant be stolen by a card skimmer attached to the ATM.
I suspect part of the problem in the US is people who say "I dont particularly like these new laws but I dont consider them important enough to vote for the other guy when the other guy disagrees with my views on other issues I consider more important" or in many cases "I dont particularly like these new laws but everyone who actually stands a chance of winning supports these laws therefore it doesn't matter who I vote for therefore I will vote for the guy who supports my positions on other issues"
Its no different to an undercover cop pretending to be a drug dealer and engaging in a drug deal so the hidden cops can spring forth and bust the bad guy.
Google may make the core OS for Android devices but I can assure you that Samsung and HTC and LG and the other OEMs releasing Android devices do a lot of software work themselves. More to the point, it would be HTC or LG or Samsung or whoever that would need to produce a customized software stack with a backdoor in it if the FBI needed it, not Google (especially if the device the FBI wanted cracked would only run signed firmware)
I have an 802.11n WiFi router (that also has an ADSL2+ modem built in) and I can get WiFi signal in every part of my small apartment and even outside on the street. I have no need to spend the extra money buying a separate access point (or the extra power running one vs the power usage of my current router)
Getting enough people to care and stop buying PlayStation games and Xperia phones and Bravia TVs and VAIO laptops and stuff that Sony will even notice the sales drop (let alone act on it) is basically impossible.
Getting people to stop watching Sony-owned movies and TV content is even harder, especially given that its not obvious exactly which movies and TV shows Sony may have a stake in just by looking at all the production company logos.
Not if the passphrase is manipulated using something like argon2 or scrypt that are specifically designed to make brute-forcing the password/key difficult and computationally expensive.
I doubt even the NSA has the computational horsepower to crack the best of these schemes in a reasonable space of time (if you have the parameters set really high that is)
It wouldn't surprise me if the US government or the FBI or the NSA or someone have quietly leaned on Google and said "please stop working on this plugin of yours because it will make it harder for us to catch the terrorists and pedophiles and other bad people" with an implied threat of something more serious if Google didn't just drop it.
You dont need a plugin, just implement encryption via JavaScript where the private key pairs are stored on the server but encrypted with a secret key derived from a password the server never sees. Server sends an encrypted blob to the client, client inputs a special password which then decrypts their keys.
All of the communication happens over HTTPS so man-in-the-middle replacement of the JavaScript cant easily be done.
Is it as secure as having a dedicated setup with keys stored in the client and a plugin on the local system? (or using a dedicated client with proper encryption support) No. But its much more secure than doing nothing.
Of course this leads to 2 problems for Google. First is that Google looses the ability to scan everyone's email and use that to feed people targeted advertising. And the second and more serious is that Google is now unable to provide emails when sent a warrant or a secret letter or whatever and then has to compromise the system for everyone so it can obtain the private keys of the user(s) the government is interested in (or do what Lavabit did and shut it down but I dont think Google can do that)
The UK has a law that says that it will only recognize European Arrest Warrants (which is what Sweden are using to extradite Assange) if charges have been filed or if certain things have been done by a judge. Why wont the UK apply those laws in the Assange case (where AFAIK no charges have been filed and the judge hasn't done the certain things) and refuse extradition? (and say to Sweden they need to file charges or get the judge to do the certain things if they want Assange)
I am surprised we haven't seen the rulings in Oracle vs Google over APIs used by SCO (or whoever has inherited it all). Arguing that Linux copying the Unix APIs is a copyright violation and that Stalman and Torvalds broke the law in creating the GNU project and Linux kernel...
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Telstra are already one of the crappiest telcos in Australia (and a company I have as little as possible to do with), I cant see how Elop could make things any worse.
There are any number of Muslim countries where saying the sort of things Donald Trump has said would get you locked up in some dark hole or worse. Why aren't these countries also saying "we will not allow people who say these things to enter our country" and banning not just Trump but anyone else who has said these anti-Muslim things from entering the country at all.
I dont know the specifics of this particular case but didn't they already decide that user interfaces aren't protected by copyright in the Lotus vs Borland case?
Or is there more to this case than just menu options and stuff?
Actually, Bernstein v. United States put forward the argument that human readable source code IS protected speech under the first amendment. Several courts agreed with that argument although the government loosened the restrictions on encryption before it got all the way to the supreme court.
I have a family member who is a doctor and has studied surgery (and no doubt done any number of surgeries in their time) and there is no way I would trust anyone without the proper qualifications to perform anything that involves cutting people open.
I didn't vote for these bastards last time and I have no intention of voting for them again. Unfortunatly as long as people continue to believe the propaganda and FUD spread across the front page of the Murdoch papers, people will continue to elect the Lieberal party and we will continue to get garbage laws.
Probably the greatest claim to fame for Diffie and Hellman would be the paper "New Directions in Cryptography" which described Diffie-Hellman key exchange and is one of the first public descriptions of strong (or strong for its day) cryptography. (back then most cryptography was controlled by governments, militaries and intelligence agencies).
I cant find a cite but I could swear the government tried to censor Diffie and Hellman and prevent them from publishing their work (or maybe I am thinking of some other cryptographic paper or presentation from that era)
I am surprised there is still a market for instant cameras or instant film outside of hardcore enthusiasts, what with digital cameras being so prevalent and there being many easy ways to print directly from a digital camera with no PC involved (and even plenty of places that will print photos from a digital camera onto archive-grade photo paper)
If you are interested in all that stuff, the excellent book "The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal" is a really good read, it talks all about the men behind the network and how it happened.
Men like Wes Clark are the reason computers are interactive boxes connected to the largest repository of information in the known universe instead of being batch processing beasts that eat punch cards and spit out fan fold paper (or more punch cards) a few hours later.
Not only do wireless keyboards and mice (regardless of technology) chew through batteries but they are also vulnerable to attacks? Glad I am not using them on my PC then (Logitech K120 keyboard and Gigabyte GM-M6580 laser mouse)
They should change the next version of iOS (for any hardware that it runs on including older models) and the next iPhone revision so that its not even possible to install new software on the phone if the phone is locked.
The system in use by the Commonwealth Bank requires both a unique code (given to you by the app) and also a pin number sent to you via SMS (meaning a thief needs to be able to steal both numbers somehow). Oh and the codes are one-time-use only and expire after 30 minutes so the thief needs to be able to get to a Commonwealth Bank ATM within 30 minutes and hope the legitimate owner of the account hasn't used the code in the mean time.
So for a screen scraper to be useful the hacker would need to specifically write it to look for and steal both the code AND SMS'd pin at the same time. And they would need to have someone stationed right next to a Commonwealth Bank ATM at that point to run the transaction through before the legitimate account holder (who would probably be right next to an ATM at the time they are using the phone app) runs the transaction.
Several banks here in Australia (the Commonwealth for one and I think also Westpac) have had the "get cash via a phone app" option for a while now (where you log onto the online banking app on your phone and get a code that you key into the ATM which will then give you cash without a card). Other banks (like the ANZ) are trialing a NFC solution where you can tap with your compatible NFC phone on a reader on the ATM instead of using your card.
There is no increase security issue with the cash-via-phone-app option as implemented by the Australian banks that have done it since the thief needs to steal your online banking password (and if they have that, they can transfer money via direct transfer to another account they control rather than risk being caught by an ATM camera withdrawing cash using this technology)
In fact the technology makes things more secure in that your account details cant be stolen by a card skimmer attached to the ATM.
I suspect part of the problem in the US is people who say "I dont particularly like these new laws but I dont consider them important enough to vote for the other guy when the other guy disagrees with my views on other issues I consider more important" or in many cases "I dont particularly like these new laws but everyone who actually stands a chance of winning supports these laws therefore it doesn't matter who I vote for therefore I will vote for the guy who supports my positions on other issues"
Its no different to an undercover cop pretending to be a drug dealer and engaging in a drug deal so the hidden cops can spring forth and bust the bad guy.
Google may make the core OS for Android devices but I can assure you that Samsung and HTC and LG and the other OEMs releasing Android devices do a lot of software work themselves. More to the point, it would be HTC or LG or Samsung or whoever that would need to produce a customized software stack with a backdoor in it if the FBI needed it, not Google (especially if the device the FBI wanted cracked would only run signed firmware)
I have an 802.11n WiFi router (that also has an ADSL2+ modem built in) and I can get WiFi signal in every part of my small apartment and even outside on the street. I have no need to spend the extra money buying a separate access point (or the extra power running one vs the power usage of my current router)
Getting enough people to care and stop buying PlayStation games and Xperia phones and Bravia TVs and VAIO laptops and stuff that Sony will even notice the sales drop (let alone act on it) is basically impossible.
Getting people to stop watching Sony-owned movies and TV content is even harder, especially given that its not obvious exactly which movies and TV shows Sony may have a stake in just by looking at all the production company logos.
I dont know how Apple does it on its chips but other companies have done it via one-time-programmable fuses.
Not if the passphrase is manipulated using something like argon2 or scrypt that are specifically designed to make brute-forcing the password/key difficult and computationally expensive.
I doubt even the NSA has the computational horsepower to crack the best of these schemes in a reasonable space of time (if you have the parameters set really high that is)
It wouldn't surprise me if the US government or the FBI or the NSA or someone have quietly leaned on Google and said "please stop working on this plugin of yours because it will make it harder for us to catch the terrorists and pedophiles and other bad people" with an implied threat of something more serious if Google didn't just drop it.
You dont need a plugin, just implement encryption via JavaScript where the private key pairs are stored on the server but encrypted with a secret key derived from a password the server never sees. Server sends an encrypted blob to the client, client inputs a special password which then decrypts their keys.
All of the communication happens over HTTPS so man-in-the-middle replacement of the JavaScript cant easily be done.
Is it as secure as having a dedicated setup with keys stored in the client and a plugin on the local system? (or using a dedicated client with proper encryption support) No. But its much more secure than doing nothing.
Of course this leads to 2 problems for Google. First is that Google looses the ability to scan everyone's email and use that to feed people targeted advertising. And the second and more serious is that Google is now unable to provide emails when sent a warrant or a secret letter or whatever and then has to compromise the system for everyone so it can obtain the private keys of the user(s) the government is interested in (or do what Lavabit did and shut it down but I dont think Google can do that)
The UK has a law that says that it will only recognize European Arrest Warrants (which is what Sweden are using to extradite Assange) if charges have been filed or if certain things have been done by a judge. Why wont the UK apply those laws in the Assange case (where AFAIK no charges have been filed and the judge hasn't done the certain things) and refuse extradition? (and say to Sweden they need to file charges or get the judge to do the certain things if they want Assange)
I am surprised we haven't seen the rulings in Oracle vs Google over APIs used by SCO (or whoever has inherited it all). Arguing that Linux copying the Unix APIs is a copyright violation and that Stalman and Torvalds broke the law in creating the GNU project and Linux kernel...
Of the stories on the front page the only ones I wouldn't consider "news for nerds" would be the sexual misconduct case and the Jeep gearshift story.
On page 2, the story about road safety and white lines isn't "news for nerds" either IMO.