(or unfeasible to be exact)
The study of elliptic curves - as a branch of mathematics is not very old one. And as Elliptic Curve Cryptography originates from this theory.... I think this is one of the main reasons why it has not yet been commonly approved for mission critical tasks. Currently, yes, we do know that it is pretty(very) strong against brute-force attacks - but there is still a significant chance that a fundamenta flaws or new discoveries are achieved in ECC theory - leading to easy compromise of previous implementations based on it.
Remember those computer games from 10-20 years ago. Many of them asked you to look up a certain word (4th word, 5th row for example) from the manual. Some of them even contained those "magical two circles" made of paper, which you needed to turn to reveal the secret code.
Now, why has not anyone in the music industry come up with this yet. Clearly, after every 30 seconds of CD-listening, the copy-protection contained should ask (with a sexy female voice) guestions like : "On page 3, of the pamphlet that came with CD you purchased, which one of the following ten options best describes the hair color of Britney Spears, punch ff>> 1-10 times to enter your answer". Simple as that, copy-protection re-inveted!
The NBI investigation was launched recently at Sonera's own request".
Ofcourse, after the breach had been already made public by Helsingin Sanomat. Anyway, yes, I agree - it's better that this is discussed publicly - than kept secret. Oh, and to me it's the same which telco it was - the interesting part is that atleast now everyone knows any company can get caught for it. Also, hopefully this makes the BOFHs at all the gazillion ISPs consider their acts before lurking customer emails - it still the same issue even though the media is different.
Naturally it all depends on what type of software you are looking for, but in case it is something that needs to be seriously tailored, maybe next the agency could consider having it created, instead of selecting it off the shelf and tailoring it. I mean, if - and as it seems - Openchallenge gets the train really going, it might provide some new possibilities for government agencies as well - combining resources to get the task done, under open source. This is what one EU commisioner had to say:
I congratulate you with the practical and inspiring approach taken by OpenChallenge. It is interesting that this scheme both stimulates the release of open source software and is also operated by people within the open source community itself. Perhaps such a "challenge posting" scheme is also of interest for public authorities to promote open source development. -- Erkki Liikanen European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society.
They've had these things for years, you can get em for 10 bucks at radio shack. The sound quality is crap, as can be expected. They'll work with anything you can plug a headphone jack into.
Ohh, they are those things. Somehow that "old" invention put together with new stuff got me misleaded. Thanks:)
See for example this car adapter: "Did you know you can use your MP3 Player in your car to enjoy through your car speakers? Play your portable CD players, Mini Disc and MP3 players through any audio cassette player! It is fully compatible with ALL our MP3 Players. This device is fully compatible with all our MP3 CD Players!" - has anyone actually used this or similar product? Does the thing have a dramatic effect on sound quality?
Two senior security staff at Finnish telco Sonera have been remanded in custody, charged with breaching customer privacy by allegedly riffling through private telephone records in an attempt to identify an internal mole
Read the rest here. Now, I consider this worse - you can expect policy to breach privacy - but you are not supposed to expect that from a major telco....or...actually...are you?
Hopefully this will provide you all with a chance to contribute and help tackle the problems/tasks Kofi Annan stated: If all countries are to benefit, we need more and better strategic public-private partnerships. That is one of the primary functions of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, which brings together CEOs, government officials, nongovernmental organizations, technical experts and other information industry leaders.
I had this idea some two-or-so years ago. Meanwhile, I think someone already implemented it. I personally, and I think a significant percentage of others, don't have a look at the keyboard very often. After typing millions of characters you just know where the keys of the qwerty keyboard are. So, I think the perfect solution for especially PDA usage, would be to wear "data gloves" - with no physical keyboard at all.
You would just "calibrate" your "keyboard" by typing "Ok, now lets calibrate this keyboard - the keys are here 123 poi zxc mnb". And after then just start typing.
The only problem with this is that - the "data gloves" are expensive and clumsy. If someone knows how build something like this otherwise, please let me know:))
it's *very*, *very* difficult to write 100% portable code.
yes, but it might be *very*, *very*, impossible to get manage than non-portable code. Well, there's more experienced minds in here, but I would say atleast maximing the percentage of platform independant code is the path to go. Hehehe, giving advices is just so easy - and fun!:)
firstly, sorry if this is messy. This PDA terminal does not quite refresh. All the data I get will be freely and completely available for everyone and anyone to use. What I meant was just that I do not wish to collect information that cannot be published at all. Btw, your idea of concetrating on e50 is good, and if we got those mapped it would be a great start.
but they're running a competition to guess the exact date and time that the bug will be reported
before I finish this shell script to flood the bug report database... reset rate-counter...right, the 200 000th bug will be reported in about 42 minutes and 42 seconds. I mean seriously, their intention is probably good - to get serious bug reports - but you can just assume the side effects with all the geeks involved:)
I'll probably be organizing a quite large (read ~ 300+ people) PGP/GnuPG-Key-Signing-Event. Everyone suspiciously eyeing each others ID and reading fingerprints to everyone else is quite out of the question with such numbers. How would you organize something like that
Have a group of 10 individuals (changing constantly) do the initial verfication of the IDs (passport, etc), then if it passes this test, display the IDs on the wall using a projector, while displaying the live-image of the guy/girl in another image on the wall. Now, if anyone does not say "BOOOOOOOO!" I think he has been pretty well verified.
It might be better to have some sort of website somewhere with a form for people to use to fill out that contact database for you, rather than trying to somehow harvest that data from/. posts. If people believe in this idea, they'll volunteer their time to help make this a very thorough database.
Ok, I now punched in webpage with a form for entering the data, you can access it here.
It might be better to have some sort of website somewhere with a form for people to use to fill out that contact database for you, rather than trying to somehow harvest that data from/. posts. If people believe in this idea, they'll volunteer their time to help make this a very thorough database.
Ok, I now punched in webpage with a form for entering the data, you can access it here.
It might be better to have some sort of website somewhere with a form for people to use to fill out that contact database for you, rather than trying to somehow harvest that data from/. posts. If people believe in this idea, they'll volunteer their time to help make this a very thorough database.
Good idea, I will whip up something quick now and post the url here.
I think the article I posted was still maybe a bit unclear, I was maybe a bit too tired when posting it:) What I am aiming to do, is not to list publicly the contact details for the individuals in these companies. Doing so would be also against (atleast the finnish) law.
Instead, if we take the for example the 500 biggest companies in the world - I would like to get a hunch on: what is their view on Open Source, what Open source related activities do they have going on (are they researching, do they have existing projects based on open source), what other companies are these activities linked to.
Do you think all these people will mind you putting their names and contact information into a huge database?
I am not going to put their names and contact details in a publicly acceptable database. Publishing that information would actually be against the finnish law. However, there are significant (non-personating, is this english:)) pieces of other information which can be published and which benefits many. Also, the contact details are not as important as the other information - currently I have no idea about how majority of the the top 500 companies see open source.
As stated in some other thread as well, read the first 2 lines of the atleast : "Fake News written by James Baughn". And still, if you wish to speculate on the matter. Speculate on whether you are still capable of choosing your favorite/bin/l33t if you are capable of speculating on this speculative hoax?
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(or unfeasible to be exact) The study of elliptic curves - as a branch of mathematics is not very old one. And as Elliptic Curve Cryptography originates from this theory .... I think this is one of the main reasons why it has not yet been commonly approved for mission critical tasks. Currently, yes, we do know that it is pretty(very) strong against brute-force attacks - but there is still a significant chance that a fundamenta flaws or new discoveries are achieved in ECC theory - leading to easy compromise of previous implementations based on it.
Now, why has not anyone in the music industry come up with this yet. Clearly, after every 30 seconds of CD-listening, the copy-protection contained should ask (with a sexy female voice) guestions like : "On page 3, of the pamphlet that came with CD you purchased, which one of the following ten options best describes the hair color of Britney Spears, punch ff>> 1-10 times to enter your answer". Simple as that, copy-protection re-inveted!
Ofcourse, after the breach had been already made public by Helsingin Sanomat. Anyway, yes, I agree - it's better that this is discussed publicly - than kept secret. Oh, and to me it's the same which telco it was - the interesting part is that atleast now everyone knows any company can get caught for it. Also, hopefully this makes the BOFHs at all the gazillion ISPs consider their acts before lurking customer emails - it still the same issue even though the media is different.
I congratulate you with the practical and inspiring approach taken by OpenChallenge. It is interesting that this scheme both stimulates the release of open source software and is also operated by people within the open source community itself. Perhaps such a "challenge posting" scheme is also of interest for public authorities to promote open source development. -- Erkki Liikanen European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society.
Feel free to mod my previous post down - it seems the "interesting product" I referred to is just the dull old cassette adapter trick. Sorry :)
Yeah, I was stupid enough to be misleaded to think this was something fancy and new. :)
Ohh, they are those things. Somehow that "old" invention put together with new stuff got me misleaded. Thanks :)
See for example this car adapter: "Did you know you can use your MP3 Player in your car to enjoy through your car speakers? Play your portable CD players, Mini Disc and MP3 players through any audio cassette player! It is fully compatible with ALL our MP3 Players. This device is fully compatible with all our MP3 CD Players!" - has anyone actually used this or similar product? Does the thing have a dramatic effect on sound quality?
s/policy/police/
Read the rest here. Now, I consider this worse - you can expect policy to breach privacy - but you are not supposed to expect that from a major telco....or...actually...are you?
Hopefully this will provide you all with a chance to contribute and help tackle the problems/tasks Kofi Annan stated:
If all countries are to benefit, we need more and better strategic public-private partnerships. That is one of the primary functions of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, which brings together CEOs, government officials, nongovernmental organizations, technical experts and other information industry leaders.
You would just "calibrate" your "keyboard" by typing "Ok, now lets calibrate this keyboard - the keys are here 123 poi zxc mnb". And after then just start typing.
The only problem with this is that - the "data gloves" are expensive and clumsy. If someone knows how build something like this otherwise, please let me know :))
...just might be the perfect playground for Transmeta. Enough said, you speculate the rest :)
yes, but it might be *very*, *very*, impossible to get manage than non-portable code. Well, there's more experienced minds in here, but I would say atleast maximing the percentage of platform independant code is the path to go. Hehehe, giving advices is just so easy - and fun! :)
...uhm...ahmmm...mmm. Dunno what to add.
firstly, sorry if this is messy. This PDA terminal does not quite refresh. All the data I get will be freely and completely available for everyone and anyone to use. What I meant was just that I do not wish to collect information that cannot be published at all. Btw, your idea of concetrating on e50 is good, and if we got those mapped it would be a great start.
before I finish this shell script to flood the bug report database... reset rate-counter...right, the 200 000th bug will be reported in about 42 minutes and 42 seconds. I mean seriously, their intention is probably good - to get serious bug reports - but you can just assume the side effects with all the geeks involved :)
Have a group of 10 individuals (changing constantly) do the initial verfication of the IDs (passport, etc), then if it passes this test, display the IDs on the wall using a projector, while displaying the live-image of the guy/girl in another image on the wall. Now, if anyone does not say "BOOOOOOOO!" I think he has been pretty well verified.
Ok, I now punched in webpage with a form for entering the data, you can access it here.
Ok, I now punched in webpage with a form for entering the data, you can access it here.
Good idea, I will whip up something quick now and post the url here.
Instead, if we take the for example the 500 biggest companies in the world - I would like to get a hunch on: what is their view on Open Source, what Open source related activities do they have going on (are they researching, do they have existing projects based on open source), what other companies are these activities linked to.
I am not going to put their names and contact details in a publicly acceptable database. Publishing that information would actually be against the finnish law. However, there are significant (non-personating, is this english :)) pieces of other information which can be published and which benefits many. Also, the contact details are not as important as the other information - currently I have no idea about how majority of the the top 500 companies see open source.
As stated in some other thread as well, read the first 2 lines of the atleast : "Fake News written by James Baughn". And still, if you wish to speculate on the matter. Speculate on whether you are still capable of choosing your favorite /bin/l33t if you are capable of speculating on this speculative hoax?
Yes after reading the article in more details, apparently my previous post was crap. Please mod it down, it's misleading. Sorry.