They'd be technically violating the copyright by re-transmitting/broadcasting/recording or other methods of copying or whatever it says on those copyright things. But im sure it wont stop someone somewhere. As gods of technology and robin hoods of IP some white-hat hackers could put together a nice distributed thing for this, but i dont think any of us actually watch the olympics?
Well firstly you need two people, and if Bush is going to have his spoilt brat way they will have to be man and woman, not woman and woman or man and man. If theres an issue of one of them being from outside the country then theres all that crap about making sure they arnt just trying to get citizenship. The TV repair license is _just_ a membership of a club that lets anyone in if they have 50 bucks, and serves no purpose what-so-ever (marrage has plenty of legal and financial implications).
A license is legal permission for you to do something because you have passed a standard test to prove you are competent (eg pilot, driver, doctor etc) this isnt a license. He should sue them saying that its not a license and demand they change the name to "membership" then pay it out of the winnings.
I am a lawyer because some guy on AIM said i was good with that sort of stuff.
Erm who presented these as problems? now lets look at the real issues: hardware support, hardware support, hardware support. (Oh and the GIMP not having vital adjustment layers and effects stacks)/
"I note with interest that your book was originally going to be titled "girl.com" and yet it was changed before publication to my domain name. Was this because girl.com is a pornography site? This shows, to me, an awareness on your part that naming the book after a domain name was significant. It's a shame you didn't consider the significance your actions would have to me."
One of my school's plays was called girl.com too! - it was something about a girl band making it big. A group of us looked it up one day and they changed it.. pitty, we really should have kept it to ourselves until after the first night!
The point is, they probably took one look at girl.com and thought "porn, lots of money, bad reputation", then took one look at katie.com and thought "single owner, small fry, we have more lawyers". What i dont understand is what legal standpoint Penguin has? how could a lawyer even take up the case? They must have something? It makes no sense if they dont!
If the legal system worked she wouldn't need to be stressed - she shouldn't need to hire a lawyer, she should just spend 10 minutes with free legal counsel and then sit back and watch these people fail because they have no legal standing what-so-ever. What happens next? Does the rapist demand the name because he fucked someone called "Katie"? Or does she get jail? In this legal system anything could happen if you have a good lawyer.
There's a degree of expectancy in crime and vandalism. If you buy a car, you cant expect the manufacturer to make it indestructible with un-scratch-able paint - thats just not realistic, so when someone keys it you're quite rightly pissed off with them. Software however has more expectancy - most of the flaws that are exploited in Windows just shouldn't be there, they are the result of bad practice and realistically you should be able to expect that your OS can handle it, therefore when someone exploits it you might be pissed off with them but id be more pissed off with say Microsoft for not telling me in the first place about the flaw. True there are very few physical real world situations where this applies - but for example, suppose someone walks into your local bank and casually asks the clerk to withdraw all the money from your account and signs the receipt with some totally random name and then walks out with all your money and isnt even on the security camera because it points the wrong direction. That person has committed fraud but the bank is at fault! I would expect my bank to ask for some ID, my card or at the very least check the bloody signature but they have failed even the most basic security. I would be more pissed off with the bank than with the crook.
This guy didnt write the virus to make a profit and as far as i know it didnt do any damage and just required a patch (yes that means overtime for the sysadmins who were hopefully paid but it could have been allot worse and now if someone wants to try the same thing again but with more damage they will have to get past the patches).
Maybe its just me but why do I not have the urge to kill this guy? I've had several of these stupid things but yet if i was to see anyone hang it would be the heads of the MPAA, RIAA, SCO etc. I could sit down with him and have a good chat and i wouldnt feel any anger? Im guessing the general population would want him lynched but these are probably the same sort of people who blame doctors for letting someone die when they're forcecd to work 100 hour shifts with no budget, aging equipment and abusive people. Parents who blame GTA for warping their poor helpless 12 year old kids' minds and forcing them to go out and shoot people after saying how their kids were addicted to the _18_ rated game. And probably the same people that beat the shit out of pediatricians because they see the word pedophile (because they're above the law anyway and imposing their own justice on people is the right thing to do in a modern society)
Depends what the backup is - Hospitals could survive on paper records for a week, banks often have their local computers crash (windows terminals) and im sure their big systems have some sort of fail-safe (some paper receipts and a guy taking phone calls but at a slower rate?) educational? who cares, air traffic control has paper backup - all the planes are recorded on slips and planes can be flown by hand. nuclear plants will just drop the control rods in at the first sign of trouble. any company thats sole purpose is on the web (online store etc) will be in trouble. But the real mission critical system of them all is solitare imagine the chaos!
Also coffee, if that coffee machine goes down you've had it!
The only problem is, any sort of flag thats checked in software is going to be cracked and these tiny little crack files or instructions are gonna be p2p'd, emailed and otherwise spread around and theres absolutely nothing they can do about it. Just about any hardware implemented flag system can be cracked similarly - you just need an off-the-shelf micro controller (just try banning general electronics components i dare anyone) a cheapo off-the-shelf or homemade cable to connect it to your PC and a small program and soldering instructions to get it on your hardware. You could probably even skip the chip and connect a spare USB/comm port to the pins directly and do whatever is needed to bypass the protection. Its going to be a continuous battle and the logical conclusion would be screens that have the DRM circuitry built in to their surfaces with self-destruct tamper protection and randomised refresh patterns and optical illusions to put off cameras. People on the inside are naturally gona screw up stuff like this - i would, information will be leaked and backdoors stuck in and im sure that goes on already because some of these DRM systems are just too lame to be for real!
Really? so its no-go if you want to sell pop-up blockers through pop-ups, but if you want proprietry lockin with DRM that mandates you cant make backups and if you move machines you cant transfer your license or if you want to charge universities and other institutions for royalties for copyright theft their students havnt yet commited thats fine?
I dont know why everyone is complaining and demanding stricter laws? its not like theres no way around this. They are able to do this because of a bug (and dont bother telling me its a feature) of windows 2k/xp that defaults to leaving this security hole known as "windows messenger" turned on. Sure these people are scum and i'd love to see them both burn at the stake, and technically they've been doing something that any of us would get life over because its "hacking into a remote computer system" or some bullshit like that but really we should be fighting to make stuff like this legal. All it takes is for Microsoft to default the service to off and for people who dont need it to turn it off or make sure it cant be reached from outside their network (or get a bloody firewall). Once thats done theres no more problem, no need to stick stupid laws in to complicate what is already a very crap constitution. Same goes for pop-up windows - they are part of the javascript implementation, just turn that functionality off and you no longer have a problem. If it was a service that was needed and there was no forseeable fix to stop its misuse then just maybe legal action would be needed, but thats not the case here, its just a stupid function that can be disabled in 10 seconds.
Thats what the new protocol would be for - some kind of system that would allow people to use their home connections without the pigs sorry ISPs finding out. It would be kinda like NAT, the ISP is just gonna see a request for xx/yy they wont know that those packets are actually gonna be transmitted somewhere else afterwards. The system would need to unsure security aswell - if you're VOIPing someone across town and dont want it being listened too, and a way to fairly distribute and manage the bandwidth. Its not that far out.
Capitalism isnt the absolute best and only way of doing things, infact for allot of things it sucks donky shit and it doesnt even suck it through a sewage pipe it sucks it through a straw!!
Imagine a volunteer adhoc city/country/world-wide wifi network with spare net bandwidth donated by thousends of people from homes to universities to city authorities and decent wifi bandwidth, signal and security. Now imagine everyone with really cheap massproduced wifi-PDAs or just wifi-enabled phones and laptops that could handle VOIP and web/email. And finally imagine the icing on the cake - the pissed off mobile phone carriers' faces:) oh that would be so good:) one day it will surely be a reality?
Also there are things you wouldnt have bought anyway either because you just couldnt afford them or would have taken them back because you hated them - for example, how many students would you honestly say would pay for 3D Max (~£500/£1000) or something like PSpice (~£50,000)?? Same goes for allot of CDs and DVDs too. Lots of people just cant afford many CDs/DVDs. People have got to stop this bullshit about IP theft being the same thing as physical theft, its not, it might not be moral but its certainly is different. Another thing thats got to stop is this idiotic thinking that filesharing is going to go away and we will all go back to normal. Filesharing has been around long before the internet and generally societies dont go backwards they go forwards - filesharing will never ever stop, it will only get bigger, faster and less trackable, get over it.
I smell a big fat rat. Why not include mp3 support? it wouldnt add a significant cost or technical problem? give the user the choice. Or is there something else going on here? pressure not to include mp3? but why? its not like it cant convert mp3 files?! This makes no sense, its the equivalent of selling a car that only takes petrol from a specially shaped hose that no station has. for no reason! Its totally utterly insane, its just so insane i cant even think! its like burning _all_ your money and then not even sticking around to watch it, its the sort of thing insane people would even think twice about! WTF is goin on in sony? an explination would be a great story.
im pretty sure it is a fuse, we already have transistors and SCRs amd field effect transistors etc so i doubt its just another switch (no-where do they say it can be un-blown and they always call it a fuse). Why not call a switch a switch? you dont call a plane a car that can fly. its kinda like you have Read Only Memory - which can _only_ be read, but then you have Programmable Read Only Memory which can only be read except it can be written which is really stupid grammer, even worse is EPROM! and then EEPROM!
damn skimming, didnt see that electromigration was used _in_ the fuse, ok e-fuse makes sense, eFUSE is stupid, arguing about capitalisation is also abit stupid.
wow, now they've invented the 'eFUSE' maybe they could invent the 'eLAMP' and 'eDIODE' and 'eTRANSISTOR' - amazing 'e' components that can be controlled electronically!!
i know on-chip fuses (PROM?) have been around before and this seems to basically just be the same thing but more reliable and with 'e' on the end which im guessing stands for electromigration, which AFAIK is a problem with very small paths on chips that get screwed up by the flow of electrons and some sort of ionic-bondage-thingy interaction. Why call it eFUSE? probably because they have marketing idiots.
is this going to be used for DRM? if the chip detects tampering, could the same fuses that work in this system could be hijacked by the DRM to destroy the chip? What are the security implications of this? could someone fire off the fuses remotely?
yep there are dip switches on my doorbell too but only about 8. is NFC still wireless? i would have thought an actual physical connection would be safer. Long keys might not be needed but considering the cost isnt a problem anymore with cheap memory, the longer the key the more secure, future proof, and geeky your product becomes. Whats the deal with bluetooth? and why didnt they just push wide adoption of this sort of thing from the start? i.e phones having a little metal bit and if both phones have it you just tap them together until they beep and then you've got a super-secure connection (although im sure someone would comeup with a way of picking up the EMF from afew feet away and grabbing the key.
Pretty surprised at Mozilla for having confidential bugs - is this something old from less open days or something? The browser window must be a sandbox thers no other way, this goes for every browser out there and most other things. Java, Javascript and any other styling or scripting languages must be implemented in some sort of sandbox, i know people want to have pop-up windows that hide or control the interface but there must be sacred parts (such as the address and status) that cannot be changed by anything - including extensions, no-one needs to put scrolling text in the status bar or change the reported address and users need to check that they are where they think they are before doing anything confidential. the padlock has to be the most worrying bit, and i hope the proof-of-concept writer kept their identity otherwise paypal will probably go nuts on them and cite some DMCA crap or something.
Is it that big a deal? its better than on TV shows where they stop "and take a minute to mention a product that could change your life.." its not like the story shouldnt be on/. and if they are getting paid they gotta keep the thing running somehow, consider that most sites cant even survive 10 minutes of what slashdot.org servers take 24/7
I would have thought - for a keyboard (or cordless phone, mouse etc etc) it would be very easy for the manufacturer to stick in a very very long symetric key - eg 1Mbit that both the transmitter and reciever units had, that way you would need an awful lot of clear text to break it and brute force would be out. 1Mbit of memory is worth nothing and even something like 16k that comes on most cheap microcontrollers would do. I would even go as far as to have a little metal spot that you could touch them together with and that would make them generate a new key together. It could work for most devices that generally only need to talk in pairs and just need a one-off setup. Is this total crap or what?
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They'd be technically violating the copyright by re-transmitting/broadcasting/recording or other methods of copying or whatever it says on those copyright things. But im sure it wont stop someone somewhere. As gods of technology and robin hoods of IP some white-hat hackers could put together a nice distributed thing for this, but i dont think any of us actually watch the olympics?
Well firstly you need two people, and if Bush is going to have his spoilt brat way they will have to be man and woman, not woman and woman or man and man. If theres an issue of one of them being from outside the country then theres all that crap about making sure they arnt just trying to get citizenship. The TV repair license is _just_ a membership of a club that lets anyone in if they have 50 bucks, and serves no purpose what-so-ever (marrage has plenty of legal and financial implications).
A license is legal permission for you to do something because you have passed a standard test to prove you are competent (eg pilot, driver, doctor etc) this isnt a license. He should sue them saying that its not a license and demand they change the name to "membership" then pay it out of the winnings.
I am a lawyer because some guy on AIM said i was good with that sort of stuff.
Erm who presented these as problems? now lets look at the real issues: hardware support, hardware support, hardware support. (Oh and the GIMP not having vital adjustment layers and effects stacks)/
"I note with interest that your book was originally going to be titled "girl.com" and yet it was changed before publication to my domain name. Was this because girl.com is a pornography site? This shows, to me, an awareness on your part that naming the book after a domain name was significant. It's a shame you didn't consider the significance your actions would have to me."
One of my school's plays was called girl.com too! - it was something about a girl band making it big. A group of us looked it up one day and they changed it.. pitty, we really should have kept it to ourselves until after the first night!
The point is, they probably took one look at girl.com and thought "porn, lots of money, bad reputation", then took one look at katie.com and thought "single owner, small fry, we have more lawyers". What i dont understand is what legal standpoint Penguin has? how could a lawyer even take up the case? They must have something? It makes no sense if they dont!
If the legal system worked she wouldn't need to be stressed - she shouldn't need to hire a lawyer, she should just spend 10 minutes with free legal counsel and then sit back and watch these people fail because they have no legal standing what-so-ever. What happens next? Does the rapist demand the name because he fucked someone called "Katie"? Or does she get jail? In this legal system anything could happen if you have a good lawyer.
There's a degree of expectancy in crime and vandalism. If you buy a car, you cant expect the manufacturer to make it indestructible with un-scratch-able paint - thats just not realistic, so when someone keys it you're quite rightly pissed off with them. Software however has more expectancy - most of the flaws that are exploited in Windows just shouldn't be there, they are the result of bad practice and realistically you should be able to expect that your OS can handle it, therefore when someone exploits it you might be pissed off with them but id be more pissed off with say Microsoft for not telling me in the first place about the flaw. True there are very few physical real world situations where this applies - but for example, suppose someone walks into your local bank and casually asks the clerk to withdraw all the money from your account and signs the receipt with some totally random name and then walks out with all your money and isnt even on the security camera because it points the wrong direction. That person has committed fraud but the bank is at fault! I would expect my bank to ask for some ID, my card or at the very least check the bloody signature but they have failed even the most basic security. I would be more pissed off with the bank than with the crook.
This guy didnt write the virus to make a profit and as far as i know it didnt do any damage and just required a patch (yes that means overtime for the sysadmins who were hopefully paid but it could have been allot worse and now if someone wants to try the same thing again but with more damage they will have to get past the patches).
Maybe its just me but why do I not have the urge to kill this guy? I've had several of these stupid things but yet if i was to see anyone hang it would be the heads of the MPAA, RIAA, SCO etc. I could sit down with him and have a good chat and i wouldnt feel any anger? Im guessing the general population would want him lynched but these are probably the same sort of people who blame doctors for letting someone die when they're forcecd to work 100 hour shifts with no budget, aging equipment and abusive people. Parents who blame GTA for warping their poor helpless 12 year old kids' minds and forcing them to go out and shoot people after saying how their kids were addicted to the _18_ rated game. And probably the same people that beat the shit out of pediatricians because they see the word pedophile (because they're above the law anyway and imposing their own justice on people is the right thing to do in a modern society)
Depends what the backup is - Hospitals could survive on paper records for a week, banks often have their local computers crash (windows terminals) and im sure their big systems have some sort of fail-safe (some paper receipts and a guy taking phone calls but at a slower rate?) educational? who cares, air traffic control has paper backup - all the planes are recorded on slips and planes can be flown by hand. nuclear plants will just drop the control rods in at the first sign of trouble. any company thats sole purpose is on the web (online store etc) will be in trouble. But the real mission critical system of them all is solitare imagine the chaos!
Also coffee, if that coffee machine goes down you've had it!
The only problem is, any sort of flag thats checked in software is going to be cracked and these tiny little crack files or instructions are gonna be p2p'd, emailed and otherwise spread around and theres absolutely nothing they can do about it. Just about any hardware implemented flag system can be cracked similarly - you just need an off-the-shelf micro controller (just try banning general electronics components i dare anyone) a cheapo off-the-shelf or homemade cable to connect it to your PC and a small program and soldering instructions to get it on your hardware. You could probably even skip the chip and connect a spare USB/comm port to the pins directly and do whatever is needed to bypass the protection. Its going to be a continuous battle and the logical conclusion would be screens that have the DRM circuitry built in to their surfaces with self-destruct tamper protection and randomised refresh patterns and optical illusions to put off cameras. People on the inside are naturally gona screw up stuff like this - i would, information will be leaked and backdoors stuck in and im sure that goes on already because some of these DRM systems are just too lame to be for real!
Is this some kind of Christian thing?
Really? so its no-go if you want to sell pop-up blockers through pop-ups, but if you want proprietry lockin with DRM that mandates you cant make backups and if you move machines you cant transfer your license or if you want to charge universities and other institutions for royalties for copyright theft their students havnt yet commited thats fine?
I dont know why everyone is complaining and demanding stricter laws? its not like theres no way around this. They are able to do this because of a bug (and dont bother telling me its a feature) of windows 2k/xp that defaults to leaving this security hole known as "windows messenger" turned on. Sure these people are scum and i'd love to see them both burn at the stake, and technically they've been doing something that any of us would get life over because its "hacking into a remote computer system" or some bullshit like that but really we should be fighting to make stuff like this legal. All it takes is for Microsoft to default the service to off and for people who dont need it to turn it off or make sure it cant be reached from outside their network (or get a bloody firewall). Once thats done theres no more problem, no need to stick stupid laws in to complicate what is already a very crap constitution. Same goes for pop-up windows - they are part of the javascript implementation, just turn that functionality off and you no longer have a problem. If it was a service that was needed and there was no forseeable fix to stop its misuse then just maybe legal action would be needed, but thats not the case here, its just a stupid function that can be disabled in 10 seconds.
Thats what the new protocol would be for - some kind of system that would allow people to use their home connections without the pigs sorry ISPs finding out. It would be kinda like NAT, the ISP is just gonna see a request for xx/yy they wont know that those packets are actually gonna be transmitted somewhere else afterwards. The system would need to unsure security aswell - if you're VOIPing someone across town and dont want it being listened too, and a way to fairly distribute and manage the bandwidth. Its not that far out.
Capitalism isnt the absolute best and only way of doing things, infact for allot of things it sucks donky shit and it doesnt even suck it through a sewage pipe it sucks it through a straw!!
Imagine a volunteer adhoc city/country/world-wide wifi network with spare net bandwidth donated by thousends of people from homes to universities to city authorities and decent wifi bandwidth, signal and security. Now imagine everyone with really cheap massproduced wifi-PDAs or just wifi-enabled phones and laptops that could handle VOIP and web/email. And finally imagine the icing on the cake - the pissed off mobile phone carriers' faces :) oh that would be so good:) one day it will surely be a reality?
Also there are things you wouldnt have bought anyway either because you just couldnt afford them or would have taken them back because you hated them - for example, how many students would you honestly say would pay for 3D Max (~£500/£1000) or something like PSpice (~£50,000)?? Same goes for allot of CDs and DVDs too. Lots of people just cant afford many CDs/DVDs. People have got to stop this bullshit about IP theft being the same thing as physical theft, its not, it might not be moral but its certainly is different. Another thing thats got to stop is this idiotic thinking that filesharing is going to go away and we will all go back to normal. Filesharing has been around long before the internet and generally societies dont go backwards they go forwards - filesharing will never ever stop, it will only get bigger, faster and less trackable, get over it.
I smell a big fat rat. Why not include mp3 support? it wouldnt add a significant cost or technical problem? give the user the choice. Or is there something else going on here? pressure not to include mp3? but why? its not like it cant convert mp3 files?! This makes no sense, its the equivalent of selling a car that only takes petrol from a specially shaped hose that no station has. for no reason! Its totally utterly insane, its just so insane i cant even think! its like burning _all_ your money and then not even sticking around to watch it, its the sort of thing insane people would even think twice about! WTF is goin on in sony? an explination would be a great story.
im pretty sure it is a fuse, we already have transistors and SCRs amd field effect transistors etc so i doubt its just another switch (no-where do they say it can be un-blown and they always call it a fuse). Why not call a switch a switch? you dont call a plane a car that can fly. its kinda like you have Read Only Memory - which can _only_ be read, but then you have Programmable Read Only Memory which can only be read except it can be written which is really stupid grammer, even worse is EPROM! and then EEPROM!
damn skimming, didnt see that electromigration was used _in_ the fuse, ok e-fuse makes sense, eFUSE is stupid, arguing about capitalisation is also abit stupid.
wow, now they've invented the 'eFUSE' maybe they could invent the 'eLAMP' and 'eDIODE' and 'eTRANSISTOR' - amazing 'e' components that can be controlled electronically!!
i know on-chip fuses (PROM?) have been around before and this seems to basically just be the same thing but more reliable and with 'e' on the end which im guessing stands for electromigration, which AFAIK is a problem with very small paths on chips that get screwed up by the flow of electrons and some sort of ionic-bondage-thingy interaction. Why call it eFUSE? probably because they have marketing idiots.
is this going to be used for DRM? if the chip detects tampering, could the same fuses that work in this system could be hijacked by the DRM to destroy the chip? What are the security implications of this? could someone fire off the fuses remotely?
yep there are dip switches on my doorbell too but only about 8. is NFC still wireless? i would have thought an actual physical connection would be safer. Long keys might not be needed but considering the cost isnt a problem anymore with cheap memory, the longer the key the more secure, future proof, and geeky your product becomes. Whats the deal with bluetooth? and why didnt they just push wide adoption of this sort of thing from the start? i.e phones having a little metal bit and if both phones have it you just tap them together until they beep and then you've got a super-secure connection (although im sure someone would comeup with a way of picking up the EMF from afew feet away and grabbing the key.
Pretty surprised at Mozilla for having confidential bugs - is this something old from less open days or something? The browser window must be a sandbox thers no other way, this goes for every browser out there and most other things. Java, Javascript and any other styling or scripting languages must be implemented in some sort of sandbox, i know people want to have pop-up windows that hide or control the interface but there must be sacred parts (such as the address and status) that cannot be changed by anything - including extensions, no-one needs to put scrolling text in the status bar or change the reported address and users need to check that they are where they think they are before doing anything confidential. the padlock has to be the most worrying bit, and i hope the proof-of-concept writer kept their identity otherwise paypal will probably go nuts on them and cite some DMCA crap or something.
Is it that big a deal? its better than on TV shows where they stop "and take a minute to mention a product that could change your life.." its not like the story shouldnt be on /. and if they are getting paid they gotta keep the thing running somehow, consider that most sites cant even survive 10 minutes of what slashdot.org servers take 24/7
I would have thought - for a keyboard (or cordless phone, mouse etc etc) it would be very easy for the manufacturer to stick in a very very long symetric key - eg 1Mbit that both the transmitter and reciever units had, that way you would need an awful lot of clear text to break it and brute force would be out. 1Mbit of memory is worth nothing and even something like 16k that comes on most cheap microcontrollers would do. I would even go as far as to have a little metal spot that you could touch them together with and that would make them generate a new key together. It could work for most devices that generally only need to talk in pairs and just need a one-off setup. Is this total crap or what?