Grace Period Purpose: Give users a reasonable interval during which to protect their systems against newly reported vulnerabilities
- Begins with public notice of vulnerability, and lasts for 30 days
- Is immediately curtailed if vulnerability becomes actively exploited
Do I read this correctly? Does this mean that when an exploit is shown to exist in the wild, then they immediately switch to "full disclosure" mode? This means that there is now an incentive to put an exploit in the wild: it means you can publish your work. Even if you leak the exploit surreptitously.
I know I must be preaching to the choir here, but, this seems exceedingly stupid. Am I missing something?
I've been listening to the radio and a few webcasts. Most witness accounts share three things:
Claim that the plane was making strange, louder-than-normal noise during ascent
Claim that one wing was "on fire" during most of ascent.
Claim that "something came off" the wing that was burning, after which the plane plummeted straight down. The phrase "like a rock" was used twice by witnesses on CBS.
But since this is a Harvard researcher being written up in the Harvard press, my hype-o-meter is on the alert. Then I read this:
Lieber has "philosophical differences" with the industry's "top-down" approach to nanotechnology--taking big things and making them smaller. "The way to truly revolutionize the future," he says, "is to take a completely different approach: build things from the bottom up."
Pardon me, but have these philosophical differences yielded even a working flip-flop yet? The world is littered with "proofs of concept" that are too difficult to implement. I'll admit that this technology is extremely promising, but at this highly experimental stage of development it's hardly time to go bashing the accomplishments of the semiconductor industry. Unless, of course, you're trying to drum up press for yourself.
That said, sounds pretty cool. I'll be even more interested when they can form some basic logic circuits with it.
If that doesn't prove that putting a finite communications resource in the exclusive hands of a single telecommunications firm is a bad thing, I don't know what does.
Slashdot Mirror
Should they publish something titled,
"This is the vulnerability of our Nuclear Piles"?
If there is a nuclear pile on the desktop of every home, then yes.
"This is where you can cross the border undetected",
If there is a border on the desktop of every home, then yes.
"This is how to make a Fake ID?"
If photo ID's are checked to allow access to the desktop of every home, then yes.
Hope this answers your question.
From the powerpoint slide:
Grace Period
Purpose: Give users a reasonable interval during which to protect their systems against newly reported vulnerabilities
- Begins with public notice of vulnerability, and lasts for 30 days
- Is immediately curtailed if vulnerability becomes actively exploited
Do I read this correctly? Does this mean that when an exploit is shown to exist in the wild, then they immediately switch to "full disclosure" mode? This means that there is now an incentive to put an exploit in the wild: it means you can publish your work. Even if you leak the exploit surreptitously.
I know I must be preaching to the choir here, but, this seems exceedingly stupid. Am I missing something?
CNN may be down but the Washington Post is up and has a photo.
Abcnews.go.com appears to be down.
MSNBC is up with coverage.
But since this is a Harvard researcher being written up in the Harvard press, my hype-o-meter is on the alert. Then I read this:
Lieber has "philosophical differences" with the industry's "top-down" approach to nanotechnology--taking big things and making them smaller. "The way to truly revolutionize the future," he says, "is to take a completely different approach: build things from the bottom up."
Pardon me, but have these philosophical differences yielded even a working flip-flop yet? The world is littered with "proofs of concept" that are too difficult to implement. I'll admit that this technology is extremely promising, but at this highly experimental stage of development it's hardly time to go bashing the accomplishments of the semiconductor industry. Unless, of course, you're trying to drum up press for yourself.
That said, sounds pretty cool. I'll be even more interested when they can form some basic logic circuits with it.
One word: Verizon.
If that doesn't prove that putting a finite communications resource in the exclusive hands of a single telecommunications firm is a bad thing, I don't know what does.
You know, if it just ran WinCE, when it bluescreened, you could use it as a flash light.
Too bad!
you will need a master power switch to turn yourself off and on for take-off and landings!
This device could be implemented easily using Bluetooth. I'll get right on it.