FERPA is a civil matter, and a student doesn't even have a direct cause of action; only the U.S. Department of Education can sanction a school for violating FERPA. And there are no criminal penalties of any kind. Are you confusing FERPA with some other law?
Not intended as a troll, but seems to have worked as one. The point is that in the bad old days pre-OS X is that every little trivial utility that was free for Windows cost for the Mac. That culture has carried over, but has been ameliorated by (e.g. ftp vs. Transmit one poster pointed out and Azureus vs. Acquisition) the free programs that are easily ported because of OS X's basis in Unix.
Obviously, this offended someone who chose to mod my post Flamebaitwho didn't realize I have more (/.) karma than God.
Ah--so if Windows (which I assume it was running, they'd have probably hung the poor guy if he had been running Linux) logs the S.M.A.R.T. times, they could be compared. Thanks.
I understand what you're saying, but if I were the one testifying before Congress, I would have to say the data must be assumed compromised. Given that the machine was fenced, there were a number of people who had an opportunity to obtain the data and then put the machine back into the pawn circuit so that it looked like a ham-handed theft. I agree that the initial theft was a crime of opportunity, but wouldn't rule out a sophisticated grab of the data.
As far as the encryption hypothesis, given the PR fallout they were expecting by the way this event was "managed," I can be fairly certian that if the data had been encrypted the public would never have heard about the laptop theft.
But someone taking an image copy of the disk wouldn't touch the MAC times. There is no way they can be certain those data weren't copied, though I'm sure their announcement will help mollify the millions of current and former servicemen and women whose vitals are subject to misuse. And as a bonus, I'll bet this breach will be used as an example of something pervasive "trusted" computing could have prevented.
That's the price of running on the minority platform--the stuff that's free and widely available on Windows is $20 shareware on the Mac. This has changed quite a bit with Apple having switched to a Unix-based OS, but yet examples like Acquisition show that there's money to be made copying Windows freeware concepts and selling them as crippleware on the Mac.
Soon, Windows will ship with a USB stick that has the Key on it, or some other hardware, that will enable the install.
Not a chance, because then they'd be without excuses for not allowing transferable licenses. They like selling the same person the same version of Windows several times via forced OEM licensing too much to use a dongle other than the machine itself.
Bet you'll see a contribution from the industry, perhaps laundered through an astroturf organization of some kind. Or maybe they've gone back to the old fashioned envelopes full of $100 bills.
I bet the tape has already been accidentally erased now the this is getting national coverage. Just another instance of a corrupt police force that doesn't like being caught out.
. . . I might not want my life "bound up" in one piece of hardware, but I sure don't want it depending on paying some "service provider" every month while they share my files with every three letter agency, investigator, advertiser, and anyone else under the sun who will pay, either. I'll stick with open source software running on my desktop for my personal files, thank-you-very-much. If I need to not be "bound up," I'll VNC in over SSH.
Exactly--and I thought when I read the article header that Activision was going to address that by giving a discount on download-only product--a move which would have made sense. Damned if I'm going to pay $50 and install Steam spyware, (and sometimes on top of that a monthly fee--Gawd, what are people thinking???) in order to play a game.
And by providing the censored service, you provide the Chinese people that much less incentive to throw off the yoke of their oppressors and bring back the legitimate government-in-exile from Taipei. Hope that's something you can live with.
He'll lose his day job? Nice house, lots of travel, top notch food etc? You forgot to mention celibacy. That'd be a dealbreaker for me, not that the College of Cardinals has called me or anything.
Smoothwall's okay, so long as you trust it's nutcase project leader. IPCop is a better alternative for those who don't want to run software controlled by a sociopath.
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The proceeds of any such insurance should be seized to pay the victims of his fraud.
FERPA is a civil matter, and a student doesn't even have a direct cause of action; only the U.S. Department of Education can sanction a school for violating FERPA. And there are no criminal penalties of any kind. Are you confusing FERPA with some other law?
True. I don't know if VIM is even valid--unless the subtraction rule works for > 1 character to the left. Not using MVI :).
Obviously, this offended someone who chose to mod my post Flamebaitwho didn't realize I have more (/.) karma than God.
Ah--so if Windows (which I assume it was running, they'd have probably hung the poor guy if he had been running Linux) logs the S.M.A.R.T. times, they could be compared. Thanks.
But when? The times logged by smart are aggregates (e.g. time under load) and aren't pegged to an external clock.
I'm not sure how much use the S.M.A.R.T. attributes would be, unless the hard disk had a built-in clock. Now spare sectors, on the other hand . . .
As far as the encryption hypothesis, given the PR fallout they were expecting by the way this event was "managed," I can be fairly certian that if the data had been encrypted the public would never have heard about the laptop theft.
Actually, it's 1/3 of 18 :). And I use VIM, which could be 1,006 if you abused the rules enough.
But someone taking an image copy of the disk wouldn't touch the MAC times. There is no way they can be certain those data weren't copied, though I'm sure their announcement will help mollify the millions of current and former servicemen and women whose vitals are subject to misuse. And as a bonus, I'll bet this breach will be used as an example of something pervasive "trusted" computing could have prevented.
That's the price of running on the minority platform--the stuff that's free and widely available on Windows is $20 shareware on the Mac. This has changed quite a bit with Apple having switched to a Unix-based OS, but yet examples like Acquisition show that there's money to be made copying Windows freeware concepts and selling them as crippleware on the Mac.
No, but they can sure cut a news agency out of any future inside scoops they might have to dish out.
Soon, Windows will ship with a USB stick that has the Key on it, or some other hardware, that will enable the install.
Not a chance, because then they'd be without excuses for not allowing transferable licenses. They like selling the same person the same version of Windows several times via forced OEM licensing too much to use a dongle other than the machine itself.
That, and they'll be wanting the same price for a downloadable locked to one device as for the paper book. Good luck with that.
Bet you'll see a contribution from the industry, perhaps laundered through an astroturf organization of some kind. Or maybe they've gone back to the old fashioned envelopes full of $100 bills.
I bet the tape has already been accidentally erased now the this is getting national coverage. Just another instance of a corrupt police force that doesn't like being caught out.
"Live Free or Die," indeed.
. . . I might not want my life "bound up" in one piece of hardware, but I sure don't want it depending on paying some "service provider" every month while they share my files with every three letter agency, investigator, advertiser, and anyone else under the sun who will pay, either. I'll stick with open source software running on my desktop for my personal files, thank-you-very-much. If I need to not be "bound up," I'll VNC in over SSH.
Exactly--and I thought when I read the article header that Activision was going to address that by giving a discount on download-only product--a move which would have made sense. Damned if I'm going to pay $50 and install Steam spyware, (and sometimes on top of that a monthly fee--Gawd, what are people thinking???) in order to play a game.
And by providing the censored service, you provide the Chinese people that much less incentive to throw off the yoke of their oppressors and bring back the legitimate government-in-exile from Taipei. Hope that's something you can live with.
He'll lose his day job? Nice house, lots of travel, top notch food etc?
You forgot to mention celibacy. That'd be a dealbreaker for me, not that the College of Cardinals has called me or anything.
What are you doing about all those ills you're judging the rest of us for not helping fix? Besides osting tripe here, I mean.
As a *AA/police honeypot.
Smoothwall's okay, so long as you trust it's nutcase project leader. IPCop is a better alternative for those who don't want to run software controlled by a sociopath.
. . . for Apple's DRM and vendor lock-in -- Brilliant!