Hey, you got me an idea! how about shaping your buildings like a giant insect? People will think it's a scanning error. ^^ But more realistically, I would recommend a house like that of Frodo.;)
It's what 4chan calls "lulz" and what we in Germany call "Schadenfreude (ist die schönste Freude)".
Although I must say, that flashing images thing is way beyond the funny/evil border. Sometimes I wish natural selection would not run in the inverse direction of how it is supposed to work.
Well, I find government and company drones much worse. You know: That kind that could be replaced by a very small shell script, because all they do is follow rules. As exact as possible. And with no flexibility at all. Even if this means doing the exact opposite of the original intent of the rule.
Also when you state a free question, you only get a blank stare and you can basically see the internal "command or pattern not found" error message. Then you have to re-state your question, until they detect some pattern of meaning, that hey have an association for. Which means they run the interrupt handler routine, and then wait for the next input. I have seen this exact behavior so many times, with post office, phone company, supermarket security, and most dangerously local government employees, it's not even funny anymore.
But I gave up opening their minds again. I instead switched to taking them over, so that they at least work for the good side. (Me of course.:)
But then some stupid tabloid reporter's friends will go land there with their stupid Volkswagen T1, kidnap innocent aliens in their sleep, and destroy all our precious work!
Maybe we should raise the volume of our 60 Hz "hum"...
Bonus points when you can either A) kill an attacker because it also is a nerve gas B) use it as an antidote against a truth serum C) kill yourself when in risk of being captured D) all of the above.
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Sadly, in reality, a good attack would mean, that you did not even notice that your system is compromised, and never would.
So you think that will make the evil ones stop torturing the password out of you? They'll use that same crowbar to make you remember it! ^^
(Interlude: WTF. I have my adblocker disabled for the first time in months, and the first thing I see, is an Ironkey banner. Truly a slashvertisement.)
The point is, that the keyfile on your USB key is encrypted with your password. So if you destroy the keyfile, which would open your encrypted safe, your password gets useless. You could scream it to the whole world. It wouldn't matter. Nobody could open that thing now. Not even you.
And that is why you never let someone know that you want access to his system. ^^ Just use a keylogger, or a trojan horse, and be good. Become a cleaning person in that place. Or gain some trust otherwise. If you need it: There are some internal CIA agent training manuals on the net, that can teach you this. Or if you can speak Russias, I recommend some Russian forums. ^^
One of them does not fit in there. Can you guess which one?
In other words: Those who do not understand Haskell (which admittedly is hard if your brain is limited to OOP and procedural coding), will re-implement it, badly (new Python functional programming features, now also seen in many other languages).:)
What was great about Windows Mobile before? That you could get cracked more easily? That it ate all the power and your battery died after 2 hours? Or that it was more expensive and buggy? ^^
We know. We make money on it. But even better is J2ME. Pretty much everything got it. Phones, PDAs, handheld consoles, in-car-systems, you name it. Sure "write once, run everywhere" is just true in theory, because the devices are different. But when you got your JSR-XXX APIs, it gets very close to it. You just have to be very flexible about the hardware caps, including keys, screen, memory, cpu power, sound mixer, etc.
Sorry, but me as a game designer am not going to invest development time into Android, because it is locked down. The same is even more true for the iPhone, that has not even got a JVM.
The Symbian API may be crappy, but it still is the best we got. And from what I heard, we will soon have a new Qtopia stack and most importantly:
They want to make it open-source, so that they can use the benefits of all other open source projects, and integrate as much of them into Symbian, until it pretty much is a Linux-Symbian-Qt hybrid. And I think that is a great idea. So I wish them luck with it.
But why is this even on/.? Who cares about that personal story?
Or can I do an "article" tomorrow, about the 127 $5 mice I connected to my pc,and how I got it to display 127 cursors and do coreographies with it on a beamer? Actually I think this would be more interesting than TFA. ^^
Easy solution: Make them follow a pattern that makes sense only to you! Sure you lose some security because of the potential predictability. But it's way better than tacking it on the cubical wall for everyone to see.
An example would be using visual patterns. Like drawing a bunny on the keys of the keyboard, because your intern of the month is a playboy bunny.;) Every time you see her, you remember it. And not much later, you will have your password pop up in your head every time you jack off.:P
But this is just one example of an infinite set of possibilities.
Exactly. I remember that this modularity was called "the Unix philosophy".
But now many people use Unix-like OSes (even if only indirectly), and do not understand this, because they are crippled by their tiny Windows world of big monolithic desktop apps.
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Yeah! That's why I replaced all my employees by very small shell scripts.:P
I actually only let people on my server, that I trust to have shell access, and to be able to properly use it in the first place. This gives them many advantages too.
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Hey, you got me an idea! how about shaping your buildings like a giant insect? People will think it's a scanning error. ^^ ;)
But more realistically, I would recommend a house like that of Frodo.
You're wrong. It's already built for a long time. You forgot the time component in your decoy analysis. ^^
It's what 4chan calls "lulz" and what we in Germany call "Schadenfreude (ist die schönste Freude)".
Although I must say, that flashing images thing is way beyond the funny/evil border. Sometimes I wish natural selection would not run in the inverse direction of how it is supposed to work.
Hmm, I found development for Symbian pretty easy. So I really must have a different understanding of "easy". :)
But I prefer "efficient" over "easy" anyway.
Sir, here's your response:
"You clearly never have seen or understood Haskell. :) One word: Monads."
Want a basket of parentheses with that?
Well, I find government and company drones much worse. You know: That kind that could be replaced by a very small shell script, because all they do is follow rules. As exact as possible. And with no flexibility at all. Even if this means doing the exact opposite of the original intent of the rule.
Also when you state a free question, you only get a blank stare and you can basically see the internal "command or pattern not found" error message. Then you have to re-state your question, until they detect some pattern of meaning, that hey have an association for. Which means they run the interrupt handler routine, and then wait for the next input.
I have seen this exact behavior so many times, with post office, phone company, supermarket security, and most dangerously local government employees, it's not even funny anymore.
But I gave up opening their minds again. I instead switched to taking them over, so that they at least work for the good side. (Me of course. :)
Finally my own army of zombies, to take over the world!
Now all I need is a white cat and an iron glove. *MUHAHAHAHAAAA*
Now even this great movie of fiction gets a remake? Or will it just be a weak director's cut, to prepare for the lauch of the sequel "Mars mission"?
I hope it will have better props this time. They were pretty unrealistic, and clearly retouched (or 'shopped in 2009 speak) in that old movie.
But then some stupid tabloid reporter's friends will go land there with their stupid Volkswagen T1, kidnap innocent aliens in their sleep, and destroy all our precious work!
Maybe we should raise the volume of our 60 Hz "hum"...
Bonus points when you can either
A) kill an attacker because it also is a nerve gas
B) use it as an antidote against a truth serum
C) kill yourself when in risk of being captured
D) all of the above.
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Sadly, in reality, a good attack would mean, that you did not even notice that your system is compromised, and never would.
So you think that will make the evil ones stop torturing the password out of you? They'll use that same crowbar to make you remember it! ^^
(Interlude: WTF. I have my adblocker disabled for the first time in months, and the first thing I see, is an Ironkey banner. Truly a slashvertisement.)
The point is, that the keyfile on your USB key is encrypted with your password. So if you destroy the keyfile, which would open your encrypted safe, your password gets useless. You could scream it to the whole world. It wouldn't matter. Nobody could open that thing now. Not even you.
And that is why you never let someone know that you want access to his system. ^^
Just use a keylogger, or a trojan horse, and be good. Become a cleaning person in that place. Or gain some trust otherwise.
If you need it: There are some internal CIA agent training manuals on the net, that can teach you this. Or if you can speak Russias, I recommend some Russian forums. ^^
Haskell, Visual Basic, and Perl
One of them does not fit in there. Can you guess which one?
In other words: Those who do not understand Haskell (which admittedly is hard if your brain is limited to OOP and procedural coding), will re-implement it, badly (new Python functional programming features, now also seen in many other languages). :)
In fact it is quite possible that they never did.
What was great about Windows Mobile before? That you could get cracked more easily? That it ate all the power and your battery died after 2 hours? Or that it was more expensive and buggy? ^^
We know. We make money on it. But even better is J2ME. Pretty much everything got it. Phones, PDAs, handheld consoles, in-car-systems, you name it. Sure "write once, run everywhere" is just true in theory, because the devices are different. But when you got your JSR-XXX APIs, it gets very close to it. You just have to be very flexible about the hardware caps, including keys, screen, memory, cpu power, sound mixer, etc.
Sorry, but me as a game designer am not going to invest development time into Android, because it is locked down. The same is even more true for the iPhone, that has not even got a JVM.
The Symbian API may be crappy, but it still is the best we got.
And from what I heard, we will soon have a new Qtopia stack and most importantly:
They want to make it open-source, so that they can use the benefits of all other open source projects, and integrate as much of them into Symbian, until it pretty much is a Linux-Symbian-Qt hybrid.
And I think that is a great idea. So I wish them luck with it.
Provided you have the controller to cope with it.
But why is this even on /.? Who cares about that personal story?
Or can I do an "article" tomorrow, about the 127 $5 mice I connected to my pc,and how I got it to display 127 cursors and do coreographies with it on a beamer?
Actually I think this would be more interesting than TFA. ^^
If it were an OS, I'd agree. But that is like calling a Playmobil farm a "agricultural business". ^^
Or comparing your hardware store electric drill to a professional Hilti power drill.
What's an **AA provider? The parents who "provided" the people for those Associations of America? ^^
Ah, I know. The "war" that you need to make up, to sell your "news".
Well, here is some other "news" for you.
"Cringley makes up news! Could it be that he got an alcohol problem? Or does he just rape his daughter on a regular basis?"
And, Mr. Cringley? How does it feel? Bad, doesn't it?
See...
Easy solution: Make them follow a pattern that makes sense only to you! Sure you lose some security because of the potential predictability. But it's way better than tacking it on the cubical wall for everyone to see.
An example would be using visual patterns. Like drawing a bunny on the keys of the keyboard, because your intern of the month is a playboy bunny. ;) :P
Every time you see her, you remember it. And not much later, you will have your password pop up in your head every time you jack off.
But this is just one example of an infinite set of possibilities.
Exactly. I remember that this modularity was called "the Unix philosophy".
But now many people use Unix-like OSes (even if only indirectly), and do not understand this, because they are crippled by their tiny Windows world of big monolithic desktop apps.
Yeah! That's why I replaced all my employees by very small shell scripts. :P
I actually only let people on my server, that I trust to have shell access, and to be able to properly use it in the first place. This gives them many advantages too.
Ok, I run SELinux on the box anyway. ^^
Frankly, in my opinion, WebDAV is a slow and unreliable p.o.s.
I prefer properly configured/secured sshfs/sftp over webdav in all cases.
And with FUSE it is really comfortable. I run the following on login:
sshfs -o follow_symlinks,nonempty,idmap=user,allow_root $USER@$SERVER:. /home/$USER/server.$SERVER
Which gives me complete transparency. :)
(For Windows I recommend WebDrive, which can do the same.)