I hope more browsers end up using SVG. There are some very nifty uses that can be made of it - an example of which is the porn database - http://pdatabase.dyndns.biz (how's it going, John?:) )
I've always wondered why bookmarks don't sort themselves by most often used to least recently. Maybe it will happen now. But the changes to tabbed browsing behaviour - hmm - I hope that means something like memory optimisation and not making it more like the tabs in Konqueror. Blech.
In distributions that expect you to use root, users tend to leave a terminal logged into root all the time.
Do what I do on my servers: In/etc/profile:
TMOUT=3600
typeset -r TMOUT
It sets a read-only variable which is the bash timeout. Sure, people can start another shell and get around the reading of/etc/profile, but it is useful if you work with people that like to remain logged in.
I just prefer Gentoo because it's a rolling upgrade. No "reboot the box, insert CD, be offline for 30 mins, and then faff around some".
With Gentoo, if you need a new $package, emerge it. If not, leave it alone.
No, it's the "copy data elsewhere" that perhaps he's having the problem with. What if it's a laptop, which is common type of system to run an encrypted filesystem on? Perhaps he doesn't have any other machines, and it's pretty tricky to hook up a second drive to a laptop.
I mean, I have no problem with it - boot with rescue CD/roll back to working kernel ver, copy drive to another drive, upgrade kernel, start new encryption system, copy data back from second drive. Yes, it's fairly simple. But if you don't have the knowledge/spare system resources to do it, it's not so easy.
I seem to remember a stat that in the first Gulf War, more British troops were killed by US friendly fire, than by the "enemy". Too many trigger happy American troops, just wanting to shoot something.
Recently on UK TV as well, there was a report on Channel 4 news about the difference between the US and the UK in how they police a town.
The UK guys wear soft caps, walk around, talk to the locals, try and befriend the kids, and generally act like people you can get on with. Then towards the end of the report, the US came past. Speeding through in their Hummers which were bristling with guns, without stopping. Quite a difference.
If it's true, it can only be good news. The more big companies that use Linux for their products, the more defen[c|s]e there will be for any legal challenges that affect it - hurrah!
cat/dev/dsp | openssl -magic -command -line -stuff | nc remotemachine 2500 to send.
Something similar to reverse. I did it via piping it through gpg. Trouble is, it was unbuffered. You'd need to make sure that the soundcard bitrate was set to something slow enough for the network. I'm sure sox can do it.
I have access to one of these systems, and I've been tracking myself on a website of mine for years now. Just for fun, really. (And to see if it would be a way police could monitor speeding - better to know if it's possible before they do it.:) It's not - there are too many errors - the cell sizes near motorways are too large and vague). The first thing anyone asks when I tell them is - can you track anyone? And I tell them, yes, on this network. The second thing they ask: Can you tell me where my girlfriend/boyfriend is right now? To which I tell them: I could, but I'm not going to.
It's scary. I think a lot of people would abuse it given half a chance.
You can sign up for developer accounts with most phone networks in the UK - but the queries are expensive. 10p each with a minimum of 5000 per month - that sort of thing.
First, nice to see them using nyud.net. Secondly, does anyone know of a good writeup about how a human cryptographer would go about breaking an Enigma code? After reading http://www.bytereef.org.nyud.net:8080/m4-project-f irst-break.html, it's left me wondering how the humans did it.
I bought an iRiver IFP 899 purely because it said it supported Ogg Vorbis. However, I'm at a loss to get most of my files to play on it. Apparently, things have to be encoded at a minimum of 96k/s and a max of 224. But even supplying oggenc with those parameters, it still can't play them. /me shakes fist at iRiver.
What form would/could a backdoor take?
An ICMP packet with a particular payload that would be read by the firewall before it was passed/dropped?
Or would it rely on the computer itself initiating a connection to a server on the net to check if it should bind cmd.exe to a connection?
Or are we talking about purely physical access backdoors? I.e. a second public key that all files are encrypted to as well as the owners key?
If there are any governments/embassies/corporations that don't want Mr UK/US Gov to be able to read their data, they should well start looking at other systems. Preferably ones that are "Open".
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Trouble is, if it looks like unformatted (I assume you mean unallocated) disk space to the police, it will look like unallocated disk space to the OS. And when something decides it needs it, it will be allocated.
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Please, someone in the U.K. gov get a clue about encryption!
The UK has quite a clue about cryptography. Read up about Bletchley House, Enigma, and public key encryption, which was developed in GCHQ quite a few years before Messrs Diffie and Hellman did.
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I hope more browsers end up using SVG. There are some very nifty uses that can be made of it - an example of which is the porn database - http://pdatabase.dyndns.biz (how's it going, John? :) )
I've always wondered why bookmarks don't sort themselves by most often used to least recently. Maybe it will happen now. But the changes to tabbed browsing behaviour - hmm - I hope that means something like memory optimisation and not making it more like the tabs in Konqueror. Blech.
Do what I do on my servers: In /etc/profile: /etc/profile, but it is useful if you work with people that like to remain logged in.
TMOUT=3600
typeset -r TMOUT
It sets a read-only variable which is the bash timeout. Sure, people can start another shell and get around the reading of
I just prefer Gentoo because it's a rolling upgrade. No "reboot the box, insert CD, be offline for 30 mins, and then faff around some".
With Gentoo, if you need a new $package, emerge it. If not, leave it alone.
No, it's the "copy data elsewhere" that perhaps he's having the problem with. What if it's a laptop, which is common type of system to run an encrypted filesystem on? Perhaps he doesn't have any other machines, and it's pretty tricky to hook up a second drive to a laptop.
I mean, I have no problem with it - boot with rescue CD/roll back to working kernel ver, copy drive to another drive, upgrade kernel, start new encryption system, copy data back from second drive. Yes, it's fairly simple. But if you don't have the knowledge/spare system resources to do it, it's not so easy.
See the problem there?
Only thing I've ever needed to read to learn PHP is fr.php.net. (Because the UK mirror is slower.)
And yet people are going to shell out loads for lots of new gimmicks they won't really use.
I seem to remember a stat that in the first Gulf War, more British troops were killed by US friendly fire, than by the "enemy". Too many trigger happy American troops, just wanting to shoot something.
Recently on UK TV as well, there was a report on Channel 4 news about the difference between the US and the UK in how they police a town.
The UK guys wear soft caps, walk around, talk to the locals, try and befriend the kids, and generally act like people you can get on with. Then towards the end of the report, the US came past. Speeding through in their Hummers which were bristling with guns, without stopping. Quite a difference.
If it's true, it can only be good news. The more big companies that use Linux for their products, the more defen[c|s]e there will be for any legal challenges that affect it - hurrah!
cat /dev/dsp | openssl -magic -command -line -stuff | nc remotemachine 2500 to send.
Something similar to reverse. I did it via piping it through gpg. Trouble is, it was unbuffered. You'd need to make sure that the soundcard bitrate was set to something slow enough for the network. I'm sure sox can do it.
Now, it would have been interesting if it was: Discover How to Impact Craters with Google Earth
But you can make your own version of the film though.
I have access to one of these systems, and I've been tracking myself on a website of mine for years now. Just for fun, really. (And to see if it would be a way police could monitor speeding - better to know if it's possible before they do it. :) It's not - there are too many errors - the cell sizes near motorways are too large and vague). The first thing anyone asks when I tell them is - can you track anyone? And I tell them, yes, on this network. The second thing they ask: Can you tell me where my girlfriend/boyfriend is right now? To which I tell them: I could, but I'm not going to.
It's scary. I think a lot of people would abuse it given half a chance.
You can sign up for developer accounts with most phone networks in the UK - but the queries are expensive. 10p each with a minimum of 5000 per month - that sort of thing.
First, nice to see them using nyud.net. Secondly, does anyone know of a good writeup about how a human cryptographer would go about breaking an Enigma code? After reading http://www.bytereef.org.nyud.net:8080/m4-project-f irst-break.html, it's left me wondering how the humans did it.
What? How does that work? The IS Manager for the town council, maybe.
....and we all know what can happen when you build nuclear power plants in Sim City, eh?
Perhaps you need to Google for what the G in GNU stands for... Wait, error, looping....
I bought an iRiver IFP 899 purely because it said it supported Ogg Vorbis. However, I'm at a loss to get most of my files to play on it. Apparently, things have to be encoded at a minimum of 96k/s and a max of 224. But even supplying oggenc with those parameters, it still can't play them.
/me shakes fist at iRiver.
You know what I find scary about USENET?
alt.anonymous.messages
I don't even want to start to guess what goes on in there.
An ICMP packet with a particular payload that would be read by the firewall before it was passed/dropped?
Or would it rely on the computer itself initiating a connection to a server on the net to check if it should bind cmd.exe to a connection?
Or are we talking about purely physical access backdoors? I.e. a second public key that all files are encrypted to as well as the owners key?
If there are any governments/embassies/corporations that don't want Mr UK/US Gov to be able to read their data, they should well start looking at other systems. Preferably ones that are "Open".
Trouble is, if it looks like unformatted (I assume you mean unallocated) disk space to the police, it will look like unallocated disk space to the OS. And when something decides it needs it, it will be allocated.
The UK has quite a clue about cryptography. Read up about Bletchley House, Enigma, and public key encryption, which was developed in GCHQ quite a few years before Messrs Diffie and Hellman did.
True, but seperate wires and switches means that if a traffic flood does something strange to the switch, the important network can still function.
http://www.thecoronationtap.com/ -- Eeees werry good cider.