As I understand it, he's unable to tell his story for money, while Tsumatso Shimomura (no way in hell that's spelled right) and John Markoff are getting rich off of Takedown the book, and the soon to be released movie.
Maybe that's why they worked so hard to catch him.
According to this article, you beam your account number across Palms, and when the user synchs, your account is billed n dollars. So if you do a hard reset on your Palm, you just have to re-enter your account information. You don't "lose" any money.
My first impression when I saw this was "Wow, how long before someone writes an IR sniffer?" Luckily, they seem clueful. Dan Boneh and Martin Hellman (as in Diffie-Hellman encryption) both helped develop the software, so I imagine its reasonably secure. Plus, they use the high-test encryption, opting for security over exportability. IMHO more companies need to take this attitude. Then again, the government needs to get a clue and so do most software houses (hint, XORing passwords is NOT secure!).
I'll probably wait a little while for them to get the bugs out of a nationwide rollout, but I can't wait to be able to buy a jolt with my Palm III!
I'm still waiting for R6, code named LinuXXX. Features include new programs like Xnudetorvalds and nhooker, an ncurses based frontend to the old prostitute database 'hooker'.
Rather than claim to have an original bone in my body, I found Hacker News Networks description of the article a little less glowing. I also wonder if the Greg Shipley mentioned in the article is actually Pete Shipley.
ISS Gets Free Advertising contributed by lamer Here's a nice 'adverticle' for ISS. ISS must be really wonderful because they have "tangled" with cDc, that horrible hacker group that makes Microsoft's life "miserable". I don't suppose it's possible that MS makes its own life miserable by putting out 3rd rate software? Nah. And I don't suppose it is possible that the author of this article did any research other than contacting ISS? Nah.
I think/. should have a big ol' entry of its own, describing why its named what it is and so forth. I also want a big flat file with all the entries, because the Jargon File makes a great coffee table book when printed. I guess I'll just have to make a PERL spider to take care of it.
A cracker is what you're thinking of, and the word is in pretty common usage among most clues. A cracker breaks into systems, a hacker is someone who excels at computing, so to speak. Search/.'s archives for the word "Cracker" and you'll find that it. Or better yet, because "3y3 h4v3 m4d 3133t H7M1 s/http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=cra cker
I've heard about this before, and I'm pretty sure that this isn't a joke. Then again, it could be a cleverly orchestrated joke reaching the highest levels of government covering up far more sinister robotic dogs. The truth is out there...
AFAIK Jon Katz is not Jonathan Katz, TV's Dr. Katz. Although Jonathan Katz is a bit of a geek, as he did go on Conan O'Brian and show off his PalmPilot Pro.
Also, did anyone else notice that Leela (or whatever, the one-eyed alien) was Agent "1BDI"? Say it out loud... It's subtle stuff like this that's going to make the show a hit.
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Maybe that's why they worked so hard to catch him.
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http://www.wired.com/new s/news/technology/story/20958.html
According to this article, you beam your account number across Palms, and when the user synchs, your account is billed n dollars. So if you do a hard reset on your Palm, you just have to re-enter your account information. You don't "lose" any money.
My first impression when I saw this was "Wow, how long before someone writes an IR sniffer?" Luckily, they seem clueful. Dan Boneh and Martin Hellman (as in Diffie-Hellman encryption) both helped develop the software, so I imagine its reasonably secure. Plus, they use the high-test encryption, opting for security over exportability. IMHO more companies need to take this attitude. Then again, the government needs to get a clue and so do most software houses (hint, XORing passwords is NOT secure!).
I'll probably wait a little while for them to get the bugs out of a nationwide rollout, but I can't wait to be able to buy a jolt with my Palm III!
Damnit, now I'm a pundit! Watch it kids, or you'll end up like this too!
Am I really off base on this? Isn't this what happened with just about every market MS gets into late?
http://www.attrition.org/negation/
Moderators: I don't beg for upping of my posts scores, but I think its important for everyone to see JP for who he is.
I hope no one tries to export this. Terrorists and child pornographers may use this piece of art to kill us all.
I'm still waiting for R6, code named LinuXXX. Features include new programs like Xnudetorvalds and nhooker, an ncurses based frontend to the old prostitute database 'hooker'.
Rather than claim to have an original bone in my body, I found Hacker News Networks description of the article a little less glowing. I also wonder if the Greg Shipley mentioned in the article is actually Pete Shipley.
From http://www.hackernews.com/arch.html?0608 99
ISS Gets Free Advertising
contributed by lamer
Here's a nice 'adverticle' for ISS. ISS must be really wonderful because they have "tangled" with cDc, that horrible hacker group that makes Microsoft's life "miserable". I don't suppose it's possible that MS makes its own life miserable by putting out 3rd rate software? Nah. And I don't suppose it is possible that the author of this article did any research other than contacting ISS? Nah.
How can an entire community as anarchaic as the Linux community do anything officially?
The Melody Index (MELDEX) from is designed to do just that. You sing a few bars and in theory it will come up with the song. I doubt that it will be too successful, as anyone who's ever had a friend who just had to sing that new techno song to you knows. Still, pretty interesting stuff. Pertinent links: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990419 /08/odd-melody http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/dlib /dlib/may97/meldex/05witten.html http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~nzdl/meldex
Does anyone else notice that the Wired News slashbox seems old?
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cracker.h tml
I think /. should have a big ol' entry of its own, describing why its named what it is and so forth. I also want a big flat file with all the entries, because the Jargon File makes a great coffee table book when printed. I guess I'll just have to make a PERL spider to take care of it.
A cracker is what you're thinking of, and the word is in pretty common usage among most clues. A cracker breaks into systems, a hacker is someone who excels at computing, so to speak. Search /.'s archives for the word "Cracker" and you'll find that it. Or better yet, because "3y3 h4v3 m4d 3133t H7M1 s/http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=cra cker
I've heard about this before, and I'm pretty sure that this isn't a joke. Then again, it could be a cleverly orchestrated joke reaching the highest levels of government covering up far more sinister robotic dogs. The truth is out there...
AFAIK Jon Katz is not Jonathan Katz, TV's Dr. Katz. Although Jonathan Katz is a bit of a geek, as he did go on Conan O'Brian and show off his PalmPilot Pro.
How about a /. Poll over Katz v. Taco?
Also, did anyone else notice that Leela (or whatever, the one-eyed alien) was Agent "1BDI"? Say it out loud... It's subtle stuff like this that's going to make the show a hit.