Unlikely, algae processed biodiesel is a much, much more likely step. It requires no rare earths, is simple to transport using existing infrastructure, poses little threat should containment fail, and most importantly uses well understood engines with more than a century of refinement behind them.
Very interesting post. Since I'm not in that kind of situation it never would have crossed my mind. Though I guess it would be little different than a spearphishing attempt against a corporate target. Perhaps for such a situation a smartcard with physical action like PIN input would be the most robust way to store the key as it would not expose the key after a general purpose OS compromise.
Having worked on both a farm and in a factory for just above minimum wage, hell yeah factory work is a hell of a lot better, and I was on a midsized US farm with tons of machinery to help me out, not doing everything with hand tools. A week of doubles running a machine is still easier than working nearly as many hours doing manual labor.
I really shouldn't feed a troll, but you really think the 300 million people that have moved off of subsistence farms to move to the city in the last generation haven't become richer? Sure their life sucks compared to a middle class westerner but damn is it an improvement over breaking your back to barely avoid starvation with no hope of improving your situation.
Meh, our datacenter has motion activated cameras and my phone is never off my person so I'm not worried about it in the case where I actually worry about security. All my personal communications I assume are subject to CALEA requests and so they have no need to compromise my end stations.
Because if they can break it they know eventually someone else WILL break it and so everything the government, the military, and the US private sector has protected with AES will be available to agents of countries hostile to the US national interest, and so they would be starting the hunt for the next standard encryption algorithm to be used for those purposes. Remember that the NSA made changes to the S-box of DES specifically to avoid attacks by methods that were not rediscovered in the general cryptography community for nearly 30 years. That change kept 3DES secure for another 5-7 years allowing them to proceed with the AES selection process. Despite what so many people think the NSA's first mission is to protect the integrity of the secrets of the US.
Exactly, there is not even a theoretical way to brute force AES256. Unless the NSA has some kind of attack against every commercial and open source implementation (and they wouldn't be doing their job if they did as assuring military and commercial uses of encryption are secure is a bigger part of their mandate than breaking codes) then I'm reasonably confident in the security of my communications unless the end devices were compromised before they left the factory.
NTP obviously would be one since pool.ntp.org would normally return a list of pool members that are closest to whatever google DNS server is responding to your anycast request instead of those that are closest to you.
No, it's not an illegal wiretap as it was authorized by the legal owner of the equipment, just like your employer most likely monitors all activity you perform online and is within their legal right because you are using their equipment. Furthermore ignorance is not a defense against receiving stolen property in all jurisdictions, only some.
I don't think that's true at all, many transoceanic links have dark pairs. I know the Google-cable was going to be only half lit at installation. The existence of dark fiber on transoceanic links is driven by many of the same economics as dark fiber on land, only magnified since the cables are so much more expensive, the installation makes trenching look cheap, and the lead times are measured in quarters instead of weeks.
I hope this is made into an RFC and MS adopts it. We run our own primary DNS servers because AT&T has been WAY too slow to respond to security issues with their DNS resolvers and AFAIK they still don't properly handle DNSSEC requests. We tried using Google as forwarders but at least at the time they were much slower than running our own primaries (especially once cache warmed). The one drawback has been the fact that we don't always get directed to the most local server by content delivery networks (youtube is especially bad, we often can't watch an HD stream despite sitting on a mostly unused DS3). The fact that CDN's don't work correctly unless you use your ISP's DNS resolvers is not a problem of Google's making but rather of the way CDN's have chosen to design their solutions.
I was thinking exactly the same thing, this seems like a major step backward from 7 where you gained vertical realestate versus the XP Explorer system.
The power comes through the basement and I'd bet dollars to donuts that the transfer switches that switch to generator power are down there as well. A bunch of London banks found out that this is a common mistake when the Thames flooded last year.
Except all the financial computer systems that rely on power and other utilities that are housed in the basements of the buildings which could get swamped by the storm surge. I know a lot of that stuff has moved to Jersey, but I'm not sure how vulnerable that area is to storm surge.
You have to get a bit above 90mph before significant sized limbs get carried, heck we had 75 mph winds in the thunderstorm last night and while it will uproot some trees you don't see it carrying branches across yards.
Yeah right, power and telecom frequently go out in a moderate thunderstorm down there. I have a coworker that's dealt with many offices at three different employers over the last 15 years and they've all had the same kinds of problems. The solution is to UPS everything and just not sweat it when the offices down there lose internet because you will NOT be able to get someone to respond in under 4 hours like you will stateside.
Don't feel bad about the high UID, many of us that have been here since the beginning didn't sign up for an account right away. Heck if it hadn't been for John Katz (and more to the point the ability to block his "articles") I might still be posting as AC.
Process Explorer allows you to search by resource and close an open handle forcibly. Won't work against a system process but should work for anything else.
He's an MBA, but one with a head on his shoulders who can see past this quarters results (in fact that's why he's our CEO and our former CEO is former).
producing 10+ million polished injection moulded cases a year?
I'm sure there are, and there are plenty with volumes in the millions that would be glad to add an extra shift to reach 10M per year if they were given the contract.
Are there any U.S. manufacturers that are creating 3G chipsets in this volume?
TI and Qualcomm are though I'm not sure where Qualcomm does its fabrication.
Are there any U.S. factories that are producing lithium batteries on a scale of those in Asia (100+ million cells a year).
Yep, or at least there will be soon. Two large facilities are being completed in the greater Detroit area right now and should start producing cells soon. Even if they can't produce these particular high volume products today there's very little reason that we can't build up these markets in the US other than everyone defaulting to looking at China for all manufacturing because they think we aren't capable of doing it here.
These were wifi boards, some of the more demanding PCB's made and at the time the company I supported was one of the top 3 wifi vendors by volume (top by profits). Again, there is no reason we can't make things in the US, there is knowledge here on how to do it and a workforce willing and able to do the work. If the problem is that we don't have the facilities then there are plenty of existing facilities sitting in mothballs that can be transformed for probably less than building a new facility in China.
Not all of them, my CEO is a great counterpoint. He believes in long term planning, one of his favorite anecdotes is about a speech Bernanke made where he points out that the US graduates very few civil engineers but lots of finance managers. The civil engineer on average is responsible for creating 21 jobs, the finance manager, two.
No, China does not dwarf us! It was just this year that China's total industrial output outpaced the US for the first time. This is what I'm trying to say, we still make things here and if people get their heads out of their rear and stop repeating this defeatist BS about how the US has no choice but to roll over and let China take over manufacturing because they are somehow better at it then we can continue to make things. We're capable of doing it and in fact WANT to do it because it should be able to support a middle class lifestyle.
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Unlikely, algae processed biodiesel is a much, much more likely step. It requires no rare earths, is simple to transport using existing infrastructure, poses little threat should containment fail, and most importantly uses well understood engines with more than a century of refinement behind them.
Very interesting post. Since I'm not in that kind of situation it never would have crossed my mind. Though I guess it would be little different than a spearphishing attempt against a corporate target. Perhaps for such a situation a smartcard with physical action like PIN input would be the most robust way to store the key as it would not expose the key after a general purpose OS compromise.
Having worked on both a farm and in a factory for just above minimum wage, hell yeah factory work is a hell of a lot better, and I was on a midsized US farm with tons of machinery to help me out, not doing everything with hand tools. A week of doubles running a machine is still easier than working nearly as many hours doing manual labor.
I really shouldn't feed a troll, but you really think the 300 million people that have moved off of subsistence farms to move to the city in the last generation haven't become richer? Sure their life sucks compared to a middle class westerner but damn is it an improvement over breaking your back to barely avoid starvation with no hope of improving your situation.
Meh, our datacenter has motion activated cameras and my phone is never off my person so I'm not worried about it in the case where I actually worry about security. All my personal communications I assume are subject to CALEA requests and so they have no need to compromise my end stations.
Because if they can break it they know eventually someone else WILL break it and so everything the government, the military, and the US private sector has protected with AES will be available to agents of countries hostile to the US national interest, and so they would be starting the hunt for the next standard encryption algorithm to be used for those purposes. Remember that the NSA made changes to the S-box of DES specifically to avoid attacks by methods that were not rediscovered in the general cryptography community for nearly 30 years. That change kept 3DES secure for another 5-7 years allowing them to proceed with the AES selection process. Despite what so many people think the NSA's first mission is to protect the integrity of the secrets of the US.
Exactly, there is not even a theoretical way to brute force AES256. Unless the NSA has some kind of attack against every commercial and open source implementation (and they wouldn't be doing their job if they did as assuring military and commercial uses of encryption are secure is a bigger part of their mandate than breaking codes) then I'm reasonably confident in the security of my communications unless the end devices were compromised before they left the factory.
NTP obviously would be one since pool.ntp.org would normally return a list of pool members that are closest to whatever google DNS server is responding to your anycast request instead of those that are closest to you.
No, it's not an illegal wiretap as it was authorized by the legal owner of the equipment, just like your employer most likely monitors all activity you perform online and is within their legal right because you are using their equipment. Furthermore ignorance is not a defense against receiving stolen property in all jurisdictions, only some.
I don't think that's true at all, many transoceanic links have dark pairs. I know the Google-cable was going to be only half lit at installation. The existence of dark fiber on transoceanic links is driven by many of the same economics as dark fiber on land, only magnified since the cables are so much more expensive, the installation makes trenching look cheap, and the lead times are measured in quarters instead of weeks.
I hope this is made into an RFC and MS adopts it. We run our own primary DNS servers because AT&T has been WAY too slow to respond to security issues with their DNS resolvers and AFAIK they still don't properly handle DNSSEC requests. We tried using Google as forwarders but at least at the time they were much slower than running our own primaries (especially once cache warmed). The one drawback has been the fact that we don't always get directed to the most local server by content delivery networks (youtube is especially bad, we often can't watch an HD stream despite sitting on a mostly unused DS3). The fact that CDN's don't work correctly unless you use your ISP's DNS resolvers is not a problem of Google's making but rather of the way CDN's have chosen to design their solutions.
I was thinking exactly the same thing, this seems like a major step backward from 7 where you gained vertical realestate versus the XP Explorer system.
The power comes through the basement and I'd bet dollars to donuts that the transfer switches that switch to generator power are down there as well. A bunch of London banks found out that this is a common mistake when the Thames flooded last year.
Guess you weren't paying attention to the happenings at blackhat this year, your GSM/HSPA connection is NOT safe.
Except all the financial computer systems that rely on power and other utilities that are housed in the basements of the buildings which could get swamped by the storm surge. I know a lot of that stuff has moved to Jersey, but I'm not sure how vulnerable that area is to storm surge.
You have to get a bit above 90mph before significant sized limbs get carried, heck we had 75 mph winds in the thunderstorm last night and while it will uproot some trees you don't see it carrying branches across yards.
Yeah right, power and telecom frequently go out in a moderate thunderstorm down there. I have a coworker that's dealt with many offices at three different employers over the last 15 years and they've all had the same kinds of problems. The solution is to UPS everything and just not sweat it when the offices down there lose internet because you will NOT be able to get someone to respond in under 4 hours like you will stateside.
Slashdot still doesn't recognize BBCode, only a limited subset of HTML =)
Don't feel bad about the high UID, many of us that have been here since the beginning didn't sign up for an account right away. Heck if it hadn't been for John Katz (and more to the point the ability to block his "articles") I might still be posting as AC.
Process Explorer allows you to search by resource and close an open handle forcibly. Won't work against a system process but should work for anything else.
He's an MBA, but one with a head on his shoulders who can see past this quarters results (in fact that's why he's our CEO and our former CEO is former).
producing 10+ million polished injection moulded cases a year?
I'm sure there are, and there are plenty with volumes in the millions that would be glad to add an extra shift to reach 10M per year if they were given the contract.
Are there any U.S. manufacturers that are creating 3G chipsets in this volume?
TI and Qualcomm are though I'm not sure where Qualcomm does its fabrication.
Are there any U.S. factories that are producing lithium batteries on a scale of those in Asia (100+ million cells a year).
Yep, or at least there will be soon. Two large facilities are being completed in the greater Detroit area right now and should start producing cells soon. Even if they can't produce these particular high volume products today there's very little reason that we can't build up these markets in the US other than everyone defaulting to looking at China for all manufacturing because they think we aren't capable of doing it here.
These were wifi boards, some of the more demanding PCB's made and at the time the company I supported was one of the top 3 wifi vendors by volume (top by profits). Again, there is no reason we can't make things in the US, there is knowledge here on how to do it and a workforce willing and able to do the work. If the problem is that we don't have the facilities then there are plenty of existing facilities sitting in mothballs that can be transformed for probably less than building a new facility in China.
Not all of them, my CEO is a great counterpoint. He believes in long term planning, one of his favorite anecdotes is about a speech Bernanke made where he points out that the US graduates very few civil engineers but lots of finance managers. The civil engineer on average is responsible for creating 21 jobs, the finance manager, two.
No, China does not dwarf us! It was just this year that China's total industrial output outpaced the US for the first time. This is what I'm trying to say, we still make things here and if people get their heads out of their rear and stop repeating this defeatist BS about how the US has no choice but to roll over and let China take over manufacturing because they are somehow better at it then we can continue to make things. We're capable of doing it and in fact WANT to do it because it should be able to support a middle class lifestyle.