There is not going to be a Pearl. It's a gradual process where things gradually gets more and more broken. It's not going to be a single big event. You wont be that lucky;-)
The only way to make people aware of the problem is for somebody to fly a beowolf cluster of zombies into the statue of liberty... on tv. Fat chance for that to happen.
So I guess we have to deal with the alternative. Users are lame. It's their priviledge. So we have to create an environment where it's safe for them to be lame.
Get a new company and say "we want XYZ, nothing more nothing less" "for your trouble you can charge what ever you want for people to register domain names".
Nice one. 1 Create monopoly. 2. Let them set their own prices. 3. Profit...
Enigma was the name of the German cryptographic machine. But there were differences in the versions the different services used and how they used them. The u-boat service was really bright about how they used it and therefore were by far the hardest version. It was this version that Turing worked on.
Turings universal machine was implemented in the Colossus machine (the worlds first general purpose programmable computer). It was dismanteled and the whole thing classified after the war.
After the war the british sold captured Enigma machines to their colonies but kept it secret that they had broken Enigma. Nice touch.
The initial breaks into Enigma was done by the polish before the german invasion and the british work build upon their work.
In Denmark we've now gone for a compromise between the US (ie. copying bad) and tax on recordable media. Something is really rotten in the state of Denmark.
Until about a year ago it was the same deal as in the Netherlands. And there is RIAA hit squad on a legal rampage against p2p. Nice.
You don't know what debugging is until you've tried debugging a program with arithmetic goto's:
50 goto x*100+1000
And of course x is a float not an integer. Ahh those were the days...
This technique of course requires very carefull line numbering of different parts of the code but it's wicked fast and defies any attempt at reverse engineering.
Interesting to see how few slashdot'ers been around long enough to remmeber this. Let alone slashdot'ers with mod since you didn't get a +5 (get a fucking memory)
Well I've spent some time playing this field professionaly. Hydro electric power can come from two types of energy kinetic (ie. high speed flow) and kinetic (ie. hight difference).
The conventional wisdom is that unless you harness a shitload of water (big construction here) and get houndreds of cubic meters per second then the kinetic energy is essentially worthless.
Commercial powerplants use the potential energy and since you live between to powerplant then smart money says they squezed all the juice out where you live. Lots of flow, zero energy.
Try playing with solar power instead...
How will we compete in the next decades ?
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This is plain horrible. How will we compete in the international marketplace in the decades to come ?
It's obvious that manufactoring is not the way. Labour is so much cheaper in the developing world. We have to be ahead of the curve and do the development and research to stay in the front.
I see a terrible future ahead where research and production take place outside the western world. We will be left as consumers and hairdressers.
Whenever you make a call with a GSM phone BOTH the simcard information (MSISDN/IMSI etc) and the phone serial number is transmitted to the operator. Add diskspace and you can do all sorts off interesting things.
Some co-workers and I once caught another co-worker that had stolen a GSM phone by raiding the cdr database. He was stupid enough to use his own Simcard in the phone.
Now guess where I work;-)
I people want to play these games they should have change phone (or at least change it's id) whenever they change simcad.
> IBM still has a policy of never smearing a competitor as far as I am aware...;)
A bit short memory there...
Back when OS/2 was (somewhat) alive and M$ launched NT there was an OS/2 ad in Byte. It basicly consisted of the two words "Nice Try". With the letters N & T enlarged.
IBM also pioneered FUD. The target was Amdahl. M$ has not even developed FUD on their own...
The Guys at IBM did in fact discover differential cryptoanalysis when they developed DES. They called it the T-attack and made quite a stir with the NSA. IBM agreed to keep the information under their hat and therefore it took another 20 years for it to come out.
Read the story in Steven Levi's Crypto.
Re:The C++ Programming Language
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The Bjarne book is good. No doubt about that. It's a bit steep for someone with no previous exposure to OOP but it covers a lot of good stuff.
If you want the design rationale and evolution then I can recommend "The Design and Evolution of C++", also written by Bjarne. It's very helpfull not only to know how the language works but also why it was put together that way.
I have a seven year old daughter and therefore I've had to learn about this stuff.
Lego have made two lines of girly legos: Belville and Scala.
Judging from the girls (in that age range) we know, Belville is a big hit. But Scala sucks bigtime.
Scala is way to expensive, to elaborate and the figures might be cute but they don't look like Barbie. The only exception is the Scala horses. Monster Hit. Scala has been discontinued so you can pick up Scala stuff on the cheap at the moment.
Yes Belville is packed with strange special pieces but the girls seems to build new stuff with them anyway.
The big difference between boys and most girls is that the girls put more time into playing (playing house etc) than building stuff. YMMW.
I find it really hard to understand why anybody would go through the hassle of intercepting the call at the airwaves. Encryption, cell-handover and frequency-hopping makes it a royal pain.
The operators are required by law (at least in Europe) to put infrastructure in place to support call intercepting. Basicly every call to/from the monitored subscriber is monitored and sent on a special trunk to whatever agency handles that kind of thing.
On a related note: Nokia provides an optional module that generates real 64 bit keys for a5/1 encryption and not the fake (ten bits blank) version. Check if your operator uses that technology before you select an operator.
Most under graduates clearly understands that the race between Achilleus and the turtle has nothing to do with racing and everything to do with math concerning singularities (dt-> zero).
This is a case of "who bother answer because the question is wrong"
Now shared memory might be an incredible neat solutions, in theory. In a multi-cpu box with a shared databus the system holds water but not in a hetrogene, lose coupled system.
The amount of book-keeping required to keep this thing going makes it a non-starter. And as for scale'ing. Forget it.
The sad truth is that it's common knowledge that this is the least efficient principle for distributed systems. This technique is usually the fall-back position if nothing else works.
The only difference is with regard to billing. It's a good old ISDN that's always on. And charged via the router instead of based on call-detail records (CDRs). Somebody just discovered that they could get a sweet deal on old isdn gear and at the same time had switch (as in telephone exchange) capacity to spare. No revolition here, move along
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If walk like a dog and balk like a dog, it is a dog.
After checking out the whitepaper it's plain to see that this is ISDN.
For the telecom impaired: With ISDN you get three channels: two 64 Kbit/s voice/data pipes and a d-channel for signalling.
This boils down to the fact that when no phone calls are taking place you get 128kbit/s. Then a call comes in and tells your isdn modem-thing via the d-channel. The modem-thing drops one of the two 64kbit/s tupes and the call is set up while data traffic continues at 64kbit/s.
Any plain old ISDN router can play that game.
Anyway this is so 80's...
These days few telco's even bother with anything else but ADSL.
Just to clarify my point. The network can poll the phone whenever it likes.
What can also be done is that the distance but not the direction between the fixed antenna and the mobile can be measured (resolution about 600m). But you can also force the mobile to switch cell and thereby you can get the position down to a few hundred meters.
The phone can also be forced to broadcast continual and using special equipment, the police can figure out what room you are in (requires they are very close to the building you are in).
With regard to uploading firmware over the air-interface then I can't confirm it. There is a technology to change the contents of the sim-card (Named OTA for "Over-the-Air"). This requires a sim that supports SIM-toolkit programming. But this doesn't help you much since the sim can't turn on the mobile.
That is a bit to paranoid and wrong at least with regard to GSM.
What we can do is start and maintain a dialog with any phone that is turned on. This in turn enables the triangulation. The phone does not indicate this to the user in any way unless you put it next to your speaker/tv/etc that picks up the transmission.
In fact this is done every two to eight hours (operator specific) in order to determine roughly where the phone is so the network can route incomming calls to the phone.
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The only way to make people aware of the problem is for somebody to fly a beowolf cluster of zombies into the statue of liberty ... on tv. Fat chance for that to happen.
So I guess we have to deal with the alternative. Users are lame. It's their priviledge. So we have to create an environment where it's safe for them to be lame.
Now there is a challenge...
CREATE VIEW name AS SELECT * FROM test;
Then you select from "name" just like you'd select from any other table. Oracle works exactly the same way BTW.
The Design of the Unix Operating System by Maurice J. Bach. 1 edition (May 27, 1986)
The book has the at&t "deathstar" logo on the title-page so it's not exactly a banned book.
Try fixing the sound recorder app. in core 2. Segfault is sloppy coding.
Nice one. 1 Create monopoly. 2. Let them set their own prices. 3. Profit...
Turings universal machine was implemented in the Colossus machine (the worlds first general purpose programmable computer). It was dismanteled and the whole thing classified after the war.
After the war the british sold captured Enigma machines to their colonies but kept it secret that they had broken Enigma. Nice touch.
The initial breaks into Enigma was done by the polish before the german invasion and the british work build upon their work.
Until about a year ago it was the same deal as in the Netherlands. And there is RIAA hit squad on a legal rampage against p2p. Nice.
50 goto x*100+1000
And of course x is a float not an integer. Ahh those were the days...
This technique of course requires very carefull line numbering of different parts of the code but it's wicked fast and defies any attempt at reverse engineering.
The conventional wisdom is that unless you harness a shitload of water (big construction here) and get houndreds of cubic meters per second then the kinetic energy is essentially worthless.
Commercial powerplants use the potential energy and since you live between to powerplant then smart money says they squezed all the juice out where you live. Lots of flow, zero energy.
Try playing with solar power instead...
It's obvious that manufactoring is not the way. Labour is so much cheaper in the developing world. We have to be ahead of the curve and do the development and research to stay in the front.
I see a terrible future ahead where research and production take place outside the western world. We will be left as consumers and hairdressers.
Some co-workers and I once caught another co-worker that had stolen a GSM phone by raiding the cdr database. He was stupid enough to use his own Simcard in the phone.
Now guess where I work ;-)
I people want to play these games they should have change phone (or at least change it's id) whenever they change simcad.
A bit short memory there...
Back when OS/2 was (somewhat) alive and M$ launched NT there was an OS/2 ad in Byte. It basicly consisted of the two words "Nice Try". With the letters N & T enlarged.
IBM also pioneered FUD. The target was Amdahl. M$ has not even developed FUD on their own...
Read the story in Steven Levi's Crypto.
If you want the design rationale and evolution then I can recommend "The Design and Evolution of C++", also written by Bjarne. It's very helpfull not only to know how the language works but also why it was put together that way.
Now I could understand it if he had to sign a NDA if the technique in question was unpatented and a 'business secret'.
So much for a european strategy...
Lego have made two lines of girly legos: Belville and Scala.
Judging from the girls (in that age range) we know, Belville is a big hit. But Scala sucks bigtime.
Scala is way to expensive, to elaborate and the figures might be cute but they don't look like Barbie. The only exception is the Scala horses. Monster Hit. Scala has been discontinued so you can pick up Scala stuff on the cheap at the moment.
Yes Belville is packed with strange special pieces but the girls seems to build new stuff with them anyway.
The big difference between boys and most girls is that the girls put more time into playing (playing house etc) than building stuff. YMMW.
The operators are required by law (at least in Europe) to put infrastructure in place to support call intercepting. Basicly every call to/from the monitored subscriber is monitored and sent on a special trunk to whatever agency handles that kind of thing.
On a related note: Nokia provides an optional module that generates real 64 bit keys for a5/1 encryption and not the fake (ten bits blank) version. Check if your operator uses that technology before you select an operator.
This is a case of "who bother answer because the question is wrong"
The amount of book-keeping required to keep this thing going makes it a non-starter. And as for scale'ing. Forget it.
The sad truth is that it's common knowledge that this is the least efficient principle for distributed systems. This technique is usually the fall-back position if nothing else works.
. If walk like a dog and balk like a dog, it is a dog.
For the telecom impaired: With ISDN you get three channels: two 64 Kbit/s voice/data pipes and a d-channel for signalling.
This boils down to the fact that when no phone calls are taking place you get 128kbit/s. Then a call comes in and tells your isdn modem-thing via the d-channel. The modem-thing drops one of the two 64kbit/s tupes and the call is set up while data traffic continues at 64kbit/s.
Any plain old ISDN router can play that game.
Anyway this is so 80's...
These days few telco's even bother with anything else but ADSL.
What can also be done is that the distance but not the direction between the fixed antenna and the mobile can be measured (resolution about 600m). But you can also force the mobile to switch cell and thereby you can get the position down to a few hundred meters.
The phone can also be forced to broadcast continual and using special equipment, the police can figure out what room you are in (requires they are very close to the building you are in).
With regard to uploading firmware over the air-interface then I can't confirm it. There is a technology to change the contents of the sim-card (Named OTA for "Over-the-Air"). This requires a sim that supports SIM-toolkit programming. But this doesn't help you much since the sim can't turn on the mobile.
TCAP-Abort
What we can do is start and maintain a dialog with any phone that is turned on. This in turn enables the triangulation. The phone does not indicate this to the user in any way unless you put it next to your speaker/tv/etc that picks up the transmission.
In fact this is done every two to eight hours (operator specific) in order to determine roughly where the phone is so the network can route incomming calls to the phone.
TCAP-Abort