>but I certainly wouldn't use non-encrypted email >for anything mission-critical. Exactly, but the problem is when a judge orders you to hand over your keys, and that's what a lot of the article was about.
>Suppose I have a very long passphrase, and >considerable mental effort is required to >reproduce it. Say you make few spelling errors in >it and on purpose do not remember exactly what >these errors are, so you have to try several >times each time you type it. Can you be required >to make this effort?
This reminds me of the ACC and Gentry Lee's book "Rama II". In it, three military officers on a spacecraft have 50 digit numeric codes to arm the ship's nuclear bombs. The entry of any two of the officers' sequences activates the bombs, so the system is defended against the actions of either a single rogue officer or a stubborn one. The scheme is called Trinity.
During the spaceflight, one of the officers dies in surgery. Near the end of the book, the two remaining officers are ordered by Earth to activate the bombs for a time-delay, set them down inside a giant spacecraft that's about to crash into Earth, and leave in their own exploration ship.
Anyway, the 50-digit string that one of the officers had was a mathematical sequence that he didn't actually remember, but he knew how to work out. I don't have the book handy, but it was some kind of obscure theorem that the authors described. It's an interesting way to generate a password for when you're shipping a HD across the country or something similiar.
>There's nothing private about it, no matter how >many layers of cryptography you've wrapped around >it or how well you've squirreled it away. Bullshit. With enough crypto layered around an email --- or any other piece of data for that matter --- no one besides the recipient and the sender are ever gonna see it.
If they demand the keys, you can always develop a case of the forgets. "Oops, I forget my password." "Oops. I forget where I stored my email." "Oops. I forget what encryption scheme I used to encrypt it."
Is it illegal to "forget" information like that in a civil trial? I know that a judge wouldn't take to kindly to that in a criminal trial, for sure...
Bzzt! Wrong! It's pretty damned important to quite a few Canadian readers who have cable net access, such as customers of Shaw's @Home and NBTel's Vibe services. Some of us care about where the future of cable internet will be, and whether or not we should be worried large companies *cough*Shaw*cough* trying to manipulate ISP just as cable TV companies have been manipulated.
Oh course, you'll just post a reply saying that Canada is the 51st state, but hey, we get all the benefits of being North American citizens as well. I'm pretty happy with total life expectancy. Are you happy with yours?
I once dreamed that the original female voice cast of Evangelion sung all hundred-odd versions of "Fly Me Too The Moon". After Asuka's techno-bossa version, my head exploded.
And yeah, The Sopranos is pretty interesting. I've only seen a few eps at a friend's place. I don't, read: can't, get HBO. I'd like to see more.
End Fundy Cable's New Brunswick Cable TV Monopoly! I'm surprised MS doesn't relocate head office to Saint John, what with our provincial gov't's love of monopolies.
My god, that X-Files episode was the second lamest thing I watched all weekend. A few memorable quotes, but completely sub-par and a waste of Gunmen potential.
The lamest thing I saw on the weekend was undoubtedly "Max Knight, Ultra Spy" that I caught a half-hour of while eating lunch at home. It was like they just wrote down random jargon file entries and spewed them back out.
>>Things the US should stop exporting: McDonalds >>(eat British, eat Burger King:-), Windows and >>Sunny Delight. Damn straight!
>You forgot one thing: Cars! Take a look in the most recent Popular Science. There's a cool little concept car from Chevy called the Tandem 2000. It looks like a jet aircraft's cockpit on four wheels. Wonderful little machine. I hope they start production on them, I'll need something to replace my '91 VW Golf in a year or so...
>What I'd like is a combination GUI/CLI file >manager. Isn't that just what Midnight Commander is? No icons, but it's simple and gets the job done. I've been using it ever since I first installed Slackware 3.4.
Try "mp3blaster". It's ncurses, but has just about everything you'll need built in. Playlists, volume control, random play, plus the usual play/pause/forward skip/back skip/forward 15s/back 15s/stop controls.
Selecting files to play is pretty easy. You can recurse all subdirectories below the current one with just one key, F3, and... oh hell, just try it.:) The colors don't seem to play nice in xterms, though. Maybe it's just something on my particular system... but who needs colors anyway?
Actually, the Atlantic Time Zone is the first. It's the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. To make it even weirder, Newfoundland has their own time zone, and it's a half-hour ahead of us Maritimers. It's a sort of running joke among some CBC fans to say "(whatever time they mentioned in the conversation plus 30 minutes) in Newfoundland." in a serious announcer-type voice.
Yikes. That's the kind of paragraph that would give my old english teacher a heart attack. I need coffe now...
Really. I'd like to see the studies, statistics, and data indicating this conclusion. I'm a man, but I know many women in the hacking (no, not cracking, but I'll leave *that* rant to someone more eloquent) community. Granted, there are far fewer women involved in this field than men, but to say that there are "next to no female hackers" is going much too far.
This book sounds like an interesting read, if only to find out what goes on in the minds of non-techies with respect to techies, but I really hope it's not too expensive. Books are steep enough nowadays. Which reminds me... when I'm not a student anymore, I'm going to invest in a college textbook publishing company. Bloody textbook prices are driving me crazy. They must be making some major cash at those publishing companies...
Not being an administrator, I have a different perspective. All I see is a solution in which I can easily filter out spam, should this solution become widespread.
I don't know the exact process, but isn't email almost always relayed through several servers between the sender and the recipient? If the first server in the chain refuses to relay the ADV tagged email, all the ones down the line aren't affected, right? If there's an informal agreement between admins to mysteriously lose certain emails, well, it's not their fault, right? (Wink, wink.)
I suppose I'm being overly simplistic, though. I'm certain that smarter people can tell me how I'm being stupid. After all, being able to have users easily delete spam isn't important.
Good to see that at least one gov't can make sensible legislation. It doesn't make spam an offense, either civil or criminal, but it does provide a way for individuals to get rid of the damned stuff. Freedom of speech is preserved. Pretty slick, Colorado!
>When do you think they'll start copy-protecting >food? "I'm sorry, sir, but those tomatoes you >planted will only grow once. We wouldn't want you >distributing tomatoes to all your friends without >paying our license fee."
It's being done by several bioenginering companies, most notably one called Monsanto. (I think that's how it's spelled, I heard the story on CBC radio.) Anyway, Monsanto sell enhanced grains to farmers that are better able withstand disease, insects and pesticide. The only catch is that the plants that these seeds will result in don't produce seeds of their own, and affect the land they're grown on in such a way that the farmers have to go back to the company every year, or lose the use of that land for several years before they can plant unmodified food. This has become quite an issue out in western Canada. I don't know if Monsanto operates in the US, though.
I'm all for genetically modified foods, so long as (oh, god, this sounds so corny) it's used only for good. IE: Larger crop yields so that less people starve to death, better yields for dry climates, etc, but this company took it too far.
I know what this may seem off-topic, but think about it. There are several parallels to the encrypted video debate.
Absolutely! I plan to do this very same thing if this scheme goes through. Of course, once parts start to fail after a few years, it becomes a problem...
BUT WAIT! If a few smaller companies recognize that most consumers won't want this technology, they might develop their own monitors/vid cards/sound cards, or simply buy (by then) obsolete patents on 1280x1024 analog monitors and cards and the like and improve upon them.
If enough of these theoretical rebel companies offer their products at signifigantly lower prices, the Encryption Cartel would be in trouble.
Which brings me to an important point: What is Creative's stance on end-to-end encryption? Being the dominant sound card manufacturer out there, if they don't go along with all this, this scheme for controlling playback of content could be in trouble.
Please forgive my disjointed writing style. It's friday afternoon and I'm really stressed out.
>They have a large R&D labs and could turn out an >amazing amount of wonderful code if they were >just taken and shoved into the light kicking and >screaming. I love that mixed metaphor. I'm going to have to rip it off sometime.
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>but I certainly wouldn't use non-encrypted email
>for anything mission-critical.
Exactly, but the problem is when a judge orders you to hand over your keys, and that's what a lot of the article was about.
>Suppose I have a very long passphrase, and
>considerable mental effort is required to
>reproduce it. Say you make few spelling errors in
>it and on purpose do not remember exactly what
>these errors are, so you have to try several
>times each time you type it. Can you be required
>to make this effort?
This reminds me of the ACC and Gentry Lee's book "Rama II". In it, three military officers on a spacecraft have 50 digit numeric codes to arm the ship's nuclear bombs. The entry of any two of the officers' sequences activates the bombs, so the system is defended against the actions of either a single rogue officer or a stubborn one. The scheme is called Trinity.
During the spaceflight, one of the officers dies in surgery. Near the end of the book, the two remaining officers are ordered by Earth to activate the bombs for a time-delay, set them down inside a giant spacecraft that's about to crash into Earth, and leave in their own exploration ship.
Anyway, the 50-digit string that one of the officers had was a mathematical sequence that he didn't actually remember, but he knew how to work out. I don't have the book handy, but it was some kind of obscure theorem that the authors described. It's an interesting way to generate a password for when you're shipping a HD across the country or something similiar.
>There's nothing private about it, no matter how
>many layers of cryptography you've wrapped around
>it or how well you've squirreled it away.
Bullshit. With enough crypto layered around an email --- or any other piece of data for that matter --- no one besides the recipient and the sender are ever gonna see it.
If they demand the keys, you can always develop a case of the forgets. "Oops, I forget my password." "Oops. I forget where I stored my email." "Oops. I forget what encryption scheme I used to encrypt it."
Is it illegal to "forget" information like that in a civil trial? I know that a judge wouldn't take to kindly to that in a criminal trial, for sure...
Bzzt! Wrong! It's pretty damned important to quite a few Canadian readers who have cable net access, such as customers of Shaw's @Home and NBTel's Vibe services. Some of us care about where the future of cable internet will be, and whether or not we should be worried large companies *cough*Shaw*cough* trying to manipulate ISP just as cable TV companies have been manipulated.
Oh course, you'll just post a reply saying that Canada is the 51st state, but hey, we get all the benefits of being North American citizens as well. I'm pretty happy with total life expectancy. Are you happy with yours?
The scary thing is that's exactly what happened... Damn you, Frank Sinatra! :)
I once dreamed that the original female voice cast of Evangelion sung all hundred-odd versions of "Fly Me Too The Moon". After Asuka's techno-bossa version, my head exploded.
>meaning? purpose? grit?
:)
You just had to say that word, didn't you.
And yeah, The Sopranos is pretty interesting. I've only seen a few eps at a friend's place. I don't, read: can't, get HBO. I'd like to see more.
End Fundy Cable's New Brunswick Cable TV Monopoly! I'm surprised MS doesn't relocate head office to Saint John, what with our provincial gov't's love of monopolies.
My god, that X-Files episode was the second lamest thing I watched all weekend. A few memorable quotes, but completely sub-par and a waste of Gunmen potential.
The lamest thing I saw on the weekend was undoubtedly "Max Knight, Ultra Spy" that I caught a half-hour of while eating lunch at home. It was like they just wrote down random jargon file entries and spewed them back out.
I bet we could make a Beowulf cluster out of these!
Huh? We're already talking about Beowulf? Dammit.
>>Things the US should stop exporting: McDonalds :-), Windows and
>>(eat British, eat Burger King
>>Sunny Delight.
Damn straight!
>You forgot one thing: Cars!
Take a look in the most recent Popular Science. There's a cool little concept car from Chevy called the Tandem 2000. It looks like a jet aircraft's cockpit on four wheels. Wonderful little machine. I hope they start production on them, I'll need something to replace my '91 VW Golf in a year or so...
Dammit, we need more funny stuff like this! It's the best way to fight these obsessive-religious nuts.
I'm not flaming the calm, rational religious people, so chill.
>What I'd like is a combination GUI/CLI file
>manager.
Isn't that just what Midnight Commander is? No icons, but it's simple and gets the job done. I've been using it ever since I first installed Slackware 3.4.
Try "mp3blaster". It's ncurses, but has just about everything you'll need built in. Playlists, volume control, random play, plus the usual play/pause/forward skip/back skip/forward 15s/back 15s/stop controls.
:) The colors don't seem to play nice in xterms, though. Maybe it's just something on my particular system... but who needs colors anyway?
Selecting files to play is pretty easy. You can recurse all subdirectories below the current one with just one key, F3, and... oh hell, just try it.
>--and with utils like "linuxconf" (which I
:)
>personally would never use; it takes over your
>entire system. My friends call it meinconf.
ROTFL! That's great! I'm going to go symlink linuxconf now.
Of course, this discussion has now violated Godwin's law...
Actually, the Atlantic Time Zone is the first. It's the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. To make it even weirder, Newfoundland has their own time zone, and it's a half-hour ahead of us Maritimers. It's a sort of running joke among some CBC fans to say "(whatever time they mentioned in the conversation plus 30 minutes) in Newfoundland." in a serious announcer-type voice.
Yikes. That's the kind of paragraph that would give my old english teacher a heart attack. I need coffe now...
Yeah, but it would play right into the hands of those freaks who think that OS is a communist plot. The old USSR and all that, don't cha know.
"No one likes a math geek, Scully." - Mulder
:)
'Nuff said.
>Why are there next to no female hackers?
Really. I'd like to see the studies, statistics, and data indicating this conclusion. I'm a man, but I know many women in the hacking (no, not cracking, but I'll leave *that* rant to someone more eloquent) community. Granted, there are far fewer women involved in this field than men, but to say that there are "next to no female hackers" is going much too far.
This book sounds like an interesting read, if only to find out what goes on in the minds of non-techies with respect to techies, but I really hope it's not too expensive. Books are steep enough nowadays. Which reminds me... when I'm not a student anymore, I'm going to invest in a college textbook publishing company. Bloody textbook prices are driving me crazy. They must be making some major cash at those publishing companies...
Not being an administrator, I have a different perspective. All I see is a solution in which I can easily filter out spam, should this solution become widespread.
I don't know the exact process, but isn't email almost always relayed through several servers between the sender and the recipient? If the first server in the chain refuses to relay the ADV tagged email, all the ones down the line aren't affected, right? If there's an informal agreement between admins to mysteriously lose certain emails, well, it's not their fault, right? (Wink, wink.)
I suppose I'm being overly simplistic, though. I'm certain that smarter people can tell me how I'm being stupid. After all, being able to have users easily delete spam isn't important.
Good to see that at least one gov't can make sensible legislation. It doesn't make spam an offense, either civil or criminal, but it does provide a way for individuals to get rid of the damned stuff. Freedom of speech is preserved. Pretty slick, Colorado!
>When do you think they'll start copy-protecting
>food? "I'm sorry, sir, but those tomatoes you
>planted will only grow once. We wouldn't want you
>distributing tomatoes to all your friends without
>paying our license fee."
It's being done by several bioenginering companies, most notably one called Monsanto. (I think that's how it's spelled, I heard the story on CBC radio.) Anyway, Monsanto sell enhanced grains to farmers that are better able withstand disease, insects and pesticide. The only catch is that the plants that these seeds will result in don't produce seeds of their own, and affect the land they're grown on in such a way that the farmers have to go back to the company every year, or lose the use of that land for several years before they can plant unmodified food. This has become quite an issue out in western Canada. I don't know if Monsanto operates in the US, though.
I'm all for genetically modified foods, so long as (oh, god, this sounds so corny) it's used only for good. IE: Larger crop yields so that less people starve to death, better yields for dry climates, etc, but this company took it too far.
I know what this may seem off-topic, but think about it. There are several parallels to the encrypted video debate.
Absolutely! I plan to do this very same thing if this scheme goes through. Of course, once parts start to fail after a few years, it becomes a problem...
BUT WAIT! If a few smaller companies recognize that most consumers won't want this technology, they might develop their own monitors/vid cards/sound cards, or simply buy (by then) obsolete patents on 1280x1024 analog monitors and cards and the like and improve upon them.
If enough of these theoretical rebel companies offer their products at signifigantly lower prices, the Encryption Cartel would be in trouble.
Which brings me to an important point: What is Creative's stance on end-to-end encryption? Being the dominant sound card manufacturer out there, if they don't go along with all this, this scheme for controlling playback of content could be in trouble.
Please forgive my disjointed writing style. It's friday afternoon and I'm really stressed out.
Tis true, tis true! I shall go as well.
There's a GST down under, too. And in the Maritimes, that 2.14 is actually 2.30. Damned blended sales tax...
>They have a large R&D labs and could turn out an
>amazing amount of wonderful code if they were
>just taken and shoved into the light kicking and
>screaming.
I love that mixed metaphor. I'm going to have to rip it off sometime.