In the context where hackers/criminals have access to all the information Sony knows about its clients, there is no information that Sony can use to validate the identity of its clients. I wonder how this comes as a surprise now.
The only safe way to check is through physical verification. For example, through PS or other registered device serial numbers. If you log in with the PS3 that has the same serial number has the one that was used to create the account (assuming they have that info), you can relatively safely assume that it is the right person. There are other way. If your postal address is in your PSN account, they could send a letter with a unique validation code. Similar could also be done with SMS to registered cell phone or automated callback on landlines. I can see a lot of possible solutions... none that are cheap or easy to implement.
It doesn't happen that often, but each and every time I read a story about a laptop being lost that held critical information, I'm asking myself the same question: How do you lose a laptop?! I've never personally heard of anyone losing a laptop. Not even misplacing one. One got stolen, but I wouldn't count this as "lost", although it is a loss.
I'll try as much as possible to stay neutral in this debate, assuming there is something to debate about.
But I find it quite amusing how one day I read "Apple is insignificant. Apple has no market share. No one care about Apple in the world. 's products are much more accepted / popular / better." and the next day I read from the same people "Apple is evil. Apple will ruin everything and make our life miserable."
So. Which one is it? Either they're insignificant or they are so significant we have to worry about their every doing, but it can't be both.
I understand the desire to use movies to advertise products via product placement, but the MacBook Air sitting on the desk in The King's Speech was going a bit far.
Wait... what? Didn't catch that, but I would certainly agree with you there. It's not just going a bit far.
I'm a physicist and engineer working not in liberal arts but in *gasp* aerospace engineering. I now worked on two continents and this proportion seems about right in both place, especially since many people switched over to mac laptops in the last 24 months (maybe product placement made is wonders, who knows).
But as I said, I am aware there is not one unique trend in the world and what I leave by no means is or should be representative of what everyone lives. The product acceptance is very uneven geographically. It may just be "luck" that I know so many people who owns mac product.
In the end, my point was that you can't go on saying that what is shown in movies does not represent the real world (ref to the post to which I replied) based on your own personal point of view of that world. What if most people working on films sets, scripting them and writing them are mostly liberal art majors? With 90% of their colleagues using macs? Just a thought.
I don't know in which world you live, but in the world here, I see Apple products quite often (especially ipods and iphones, but lots of laptops as well). I'd have almost go as far as to say the "product placement" rate of Apple products in movies and TV-series is not that far of of reality. In my world, about half the people I know that have laptops, have Apple Laptops... in films, about half the laptops are Dell and the other half Apple. Sounds right (at least for the Apple part).
Of course, my world is probably different than yours because of the type of work we do, because our social circles are different, because, because, because... But most importantly, in my world, no one cares enough about this to be distracted of a good (or bad) movie or TV-series because someone is using a mac instead of a PC or is drinking Pepsi instead of water.
Especially if the thing in question is mostly used as a prop... who care. Some times, they really rub it in and put totally awkward angles in just to place a product. There, I would agree that the placement is killing the art. But most of the time, it flows in... so why care?
OK... what? When was iOS last developed as a military grade secure system?
Does it have to be? In the military (or in general one should say), security is a relative thing. Although the device may not be suited for some security level and/or requirements, it may be fine for others. There's no such thing as a "military grade security". But there are many military security grades, for some of which off the shelf devices are totally adequate.
But I also remember having conversation near the computer and from time to time hearing the speech recognition beep... followed by the trash sound. That was always a bit unsettling. I didn't take long for me to stop using this feature.
I don't think it's worth the energy to debate... your mind is clearly set. But I will at least answer your question. By "alternative", I meant "alternative to the use of DNS" (understand, local host override). By "initial generation" I mean the generation of the host file (regardless if it's done by you or, worse, by someone else). You can't deny that domain name poisoning is really critical at this stage. You only need to have someone malicious having access to your host housekeeping scripts or to one of your "trusted" host file source and you opened him the door to a goldmine.
I don't know how many readers Slashdot has these days, but I bet many of them have one elbow on their desk and the palm of their hand on their forehead reading this. I really don't get your agenda either (assuming you are not the AC or in league with the AC that opened this particular topic...). You are simply stating the obvious, but also something utterly impractical in incompatible with the architecture of the Internet. And I'm not even getting started on the basic flaw of your suggested "alternative", which reside in the initial generation of the host file.
Am I aware of those things? Seriously?
If you do work in IT and are dealing with systems to sensitive to the point where doing DNS request is too risky, I would ask myself serious questions if I were you. Those systems should probably not be linked on the Internet in the first place.
Now I really wonder... are you someone totally incompetent trying to post as a windows admin or just an elaborate troll Because I really don't see the point to try to push the usage of host files in this community (or any community, for that matter - especially as an alternative to DNS).
Never say never... because that's what they said when they used two char for the year field in old banking databases and programs. And so many database that overflowed because they got to the point that should never be encountered.
It doesn't excuse anything with regards to this issue in the Android OS, but if you, as an engineer, use SMS to iron out critical details on project, you have even bigger issues.
SMS was never advertised as a reliable communication medium, nor was it ever recognized as such. Using it for official communications, especially communications that should probably be traceable and leave an history is really not that bright. Emails are so easy to use on mobiles now, they offer a much better alternative.
If you are using SMS for anything other than "I'll be 10 minutes late to the meeting, please start without me", you are doing something seriously wrong.
If you don't have enrichment capabilities, whether you start at 3% or at 0.1% is pretty much irrelevant. And assuming you could have those enrichment capabilities, using enough 3% enriched material to reach the 70-90% you state for a usable amount of weapon-grate material will required a huge quantity of low-grade fuel. This fuel quantity, most likely way above the consumption of your power plants, will raise red flags before you can do anything with it. Also, I bet someone will notice that not spent fuel rods come out of your reactors...
The risk of someone in a 3rd world county of using this fuel in an enrichment process is ridiculously low. I would be more worried about the possibility to see this fuel disappear due to corruption or lack of proper security and see it end up in dirty bombs.
Enrichment for weapon grade fuel production is way overrated and is more a modern political lever than a real threat.
I think he is referring to the submarine incident. The HMCS Chicoutimi (the ship formally known as HMS Upholder) was bought by Canada in 2004 and suffered a major fire during its transfer! To my knowledge, the ship is still commissioned but in dry-dock since the incident, awaiting repair.
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In the context where hackers/criminals have access to all the information Sony knows about its clients, there is no information that Sony can use to validate the identity of its clients. I wonder how this comes as a surprise now.
The only safe way to check is through physical verification. For example, through PS or other registered device serial numbers. If you log in with the PS3 that has the same serial number has the one that was used to create the account (assuming they have that info), you can relatively safely assume that it is the right person. There are other way. If your postal address is in your PSN account, they could send a letter with a unique validation code. Similar could also be done with SMS to registered cell phone or automated callback on landlines. I can see a lot of possible solutions... none that are cheap or easy to implement.
It doesn't happen that often, but each and every time I read a story about a laptop being lost that held critical information, I'm asking myself the same question: How do you lose a laptop?! I've never personally heard of anyone losing a laptop. Not even misplacing one. One got stolen, but I wouldn't count this as "lost", although it is a loss.
I'll try as much as possible to stay neutral in this debate, assuming there is something to debate about.
But I find it quite amusing how one day I read "Apple is insignificant. Apple has no market share. No one care about Apple in the world. 's products are much more accepted / popular / better." and the next day I read from the same people "Apple is evil. Apple will ruin everything and make our life miserable."
So. Which one is it? Either they're insignificant or they are so significant we have to worry about their every doing, but it can't be both.
Some people apparently think 3D solves everything... ... this is not the movie depth you are looking for.
I understand the desire to use movies to advertise products via product placement, but the MacBook Air sitting on the desk in The King's Speech was going a bit far.
Wait... what? Didn't catch that, but I would certainly agree with you there. It's not just going a bit far.
I'm a physicist and engineer working not in liberal arts but in *gasp* aerospace engineering. I now worked on two continents and this proportion seems about right in both place, especially since many people switched over to mac laptops in the last 24 months (maybe product placement made is wonders, who knows).
But as I said, I am aware there is not one unique trend in the world and what I leave by no means is or should be representative of what everyone lives. The product acceptance is very uneven geographically. It may just be "luck" that I know so many people who owns mac product.
In the end, my point was that you can't go on saying that what is shown in movies does not represent the real world (ref to the post to which I replied) based on your own personal point of view of that world. What if most people working on films sets, scripting them and writing them are mostly liberal art majors? With 90% of their colleagues using macs? Just a thought.
Hope my point was easier to catch this time...
I don't know in which world you live, but in the world here, I see Apple products quite often (especially ipods and iphones, but lots of laptops as well). I'd have almost go as far as to say the "product placement" rate of Apple products in movies and TV-series is not that far of of reality. In my world, about half the people I know that have laptops, have Apple Laptops... in films, about half the laptops are Dell and the other half Apple. Sounds right (at least for the Apple part).
Of course, my world is probably different than yours because of the type of work we do, because our social circles are different, because, because, because...
But most importantly, in my world, no one cares enough about this to be distracted of a good (or bad) movie or TV-series because someone is using a mac instead of a PC or is drinking Pepsi instead of water.
Especially if the thing in question is mostly used as a prop... who care. Some times, they really rub it in and put totally awkward angles in just to place a product. There, I would agree that the placement is killing the art. But most of the time, it flows in... so why care?
to use iOS products in a secure manner
OK... what? When was iOS last developed as a military grade secure system?
Does it have to be? In the military (or in general one should say), security is a relative thing. Although the device may not be suited for some security level and/or requirements, it may be fine for others. There's no such thing as a "military grade security". But there are many military security grades, for some of which off the shelf devices are totally adequate.
More like two decades ago...
But I also remember having conversation near the computer and from time to time hearing the speech recognition beep... followed by the trash sound. That was always a bit unsettling. I didn't take long for me to stop using this feature.
I don't think it's worth the energy to debate... your mind is clearly set. But I will at least answer your question. By "alternative", I meant "alternative to the use of DNS" (understand, local host override). By "initial generation" I mean the generation of the host file (regardless if it's done by you or, worse, by someone else). You can't deny that domain name poisoning is really critical at this stage. You only need to have someone malicious having access to your host housekeeping scripts or to one of your "trusted" host file source and you opened him the door to a goldmine.
I don't know how many readers Slashdot has these days, but I bet many of them have one elbow on their desk and the palm of their hand on their forehead reading this. I really don't get your agenda either (assuming you are not the AC or in league with the AC that opened this particular topic...). You are simply stating the obvious, but also something utterly impractical in incompatible with the architecture of the Internet. And I'm not even getting started on the basic flaw of your suggested "alternative", which reside in the initial generation of the host file.
Am I aware of those things? Seriously?
If you do work in IT and are dealing with systems to sensitive to the point where doing DNS request is too risky, I would ask myself serious questions if I were you. Those systems should probably not be linked on the Internet in the first place.
Now I really wonder... are you someone totally incompetent trying to post as a windows admin or just an elaborate troll
Because I really don't see the point to try to push the usage of host files in this community (or any community, for that matter - especially as an alternative to DNS).
Never say never... because that's what they said when they used two char for the year field in old banking databases and programs. And so many database that overflowed because they got to the point that should never be encountered.
I would even go as far as to say that no body likes his artwork.
If anyone believes for a minute that the big ISP providers in Canada are going to back down, you are sadly mistaken.
Hence we someday invented something called judicial and legislative power. I hear it's a great counterweight to economical power.
I don't mind my bandwidth to be metered, but charge me the true price for it and do it from 0 and not after a specific threshold was reached.
The problem is not so much that they charge for bandwidth, but rather the way they do it and the reasons why they do it.
Exactly. Look at those concept pictures again.
... and actually looking at the preview before posting is so 1976, apparently -_-
Being able to see behind you, that is so 1992. Should be fun when police cars try to pull over these beauties for lack of proper safety equipment.
But... I was told that 2 was enough?!
It doesn't excuse anything with regards to this issue in the Android OS, but if you, as an engineer, use SMS to iron out critical details on project, you have even bigger issues.
SMS was never advertised as a reliable communication medium, nor was it ever recognized as such. Using it for official communications, especially communications that should probably be traceable and leave an history is really not that bright. Emails are so easy to use on mobiles now, they offer a much better alternative.
If you are using SMS for anything other than "I'll be 10 minutes late to the meeting, please start without me", you are doing something seriously wrong.
In the case of Apple inc., it's only partly fruitless...
I thought that stuff wrecks only buildings made out of wood...
If you don't have enrichment capabilities, whether you start at 3% or at 0.1% is pretty much irrelevant. And assuming you could have those enrichment capabilities, using enough 3% enriched material to reach the 70-90% you state for a usable amount of weapon-grate material will required a huge quantity of low-grade fuel. This fuel quantity, most likely way above the consumption of your power plants, will raise red flags before you can do anything with it. Also, I bet someone will notice that not spent fuel rods come out of your reactors...
The risk of someone in a 3rd world county of using this fuel in an enrichment process is ridiculously low. I would be more worried about the possibility to see this fuel disappear due to corruption or lack of proper security and see it end up in dirty bombs.
Enrichment for weapon grade fuel production is way overrated and is more a modern political lever than a real threat.
I think he is referring to the submarine incident. The HMCS Chicoutimi (the ship formally known as HMS Upholder) was bought by Canada in 2004 and suffered a major fire during its transfer! To my knowledge, the ship is still commissioned but in dry-dock since the incident, awaiting repair.