Should the headline read "Hacker allegedly claims to have 1.7TB of data that could possibly be something". ?
I mean really. I can upload 1.7TB of cat pictures encrypted and claim it's CIA secrets. Right now he has nothing that one should describe as a "treasure trove"
Is there any reason to doubt that he really claims it? Because that's the meaning of "allegedly claims".
So all those who download the file actually download kiddy porn, and when the encryption key gets released, they get into much bigger trouble than the gaming companies could ever cause them? Well, that would be an interesting twist.;-)
Just for reference, if you look at the summary you'll see that what he's released is that trove... encrypted. The idea is that if he gets arrested, he yells out the passphrase, but until then this might as well be 1.7TiB of/dev/random
For all we know, it might indeed just be 1.7TB of/dev/random.
BTW, was there any hint that the file size is closer to 1.7*2^40 bytes than to 1.7*10^12 bytes, or do you just blindly add the "i" to "TB" whether it makes sense or not?
Then why are they calling for the abolition of copyright and IP?
From my impression, those who want to completely remove copyright are in the minority these days ("IP" is a term which covers very diverse things, and therefore should best be avoided completely). And I guess many of those either never have written anything themselves, or don't recognize that copyright, despite its name, covers more than the right to copy.
No. They will not send black helicopters because everyone would expect them, and therefore would be prepared. But nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
What exactly does it help if the world does know his name?
I guess the NSA already knew his name, and he figured that he'd be safer if the public knows it, too. If a person with a name nobody has ever heard of disappears somewhere in Hong Kong, nobody will care too much. If the person who is known to have leaked the NSA documents disappears, it might make the media notice.
I don't know about American law, but I'm pretty sure that according to German law while they are certainly allowed to change the code however they like, they are not allowed to lie about who wrote it. Note that, according to the submission the copyright header named the maintenance developer. Things would be different if it just named the company.
Indeed, the company might be very interested to learn about this case, because as the submitter wrote it, it sounds as if the maintenance programmer actually defrauded the company by effectively claiming he owns the copyright.
I cannot remember anyone claiming that artist should not be credited. There have been arguments that you should be allowed to copy their stuff for free, but I've never ever seen anyone claiming that you should be allowed to claim you had written that stuff if you haven't.
Or in short: There's a difference between copying and plagiarism.
What the submitter complains about is plagiarism, not copying. From his submission, there's no indication about how he thinks about copying.
I don't think German is considered one of the most important languages in the world to learn. Imagine you're e.g. an Indian deciding to learn languages. Your first choice of course would be English. Now imagine you're thinking about what to learn as second language. You'll probably consider Chinese (given that China gets quite important economically, also, it's a neighbour country to India), or Spanish (given that it's spoken in many parts of the world, too). You also might consider French (the language of diplomacy). But unless you're planning to go to Germany or have another specific interest in German, you'll probably not choose German.
Of course, for you in the Netherlands, it makes much more sense to learn German. Germany is just across the border, and you're likely to make good use of your German skill, and be it just by watching German TV broadcasts. Moreover your language is already somewhat similar to German, so it's probably much easier to learn for you. So yes, in the Netherlands, it makes sense to learn German. But somewhere across the world? There German is just one of many languages. There's no more reason to learn German than there is to learn Russian, Japanese or Italian.
Even the most sophisticated programming language doesn't protect you against manipulation of the generated machine code in memory during execution. The only thing that can provide protection is the operating system together with the processor's memory access permission system (by denying access to the in-memory image of the process).
If in fact the rootkit is located on the hard drive, how did it get there?
A virus might have installed it. Or a worm. Or a trojan. Or some automated process remotely looking for vulnerabilities and exploiting them. Or a hacker, manually. In none of the cases it was the rootkit itself.
In addition, X was originally written when networks and client systems were slow(er).
So if Wayland only works on a fast network, it will not win me. Heck, many X11 applications are far too slow over DSL (I guess those are the applications which do not use the X core, but all those "better" alternatives). I prefer a less pretty window I can interact with to a pretty one which I is too slow to use.
Actually they are fourth in the small selection of a few countries. I've for pure interest added Germany, and it happened that in the last data point it overtook the U.S. (although only slightly), making the U.S. at best fifth. Given that there's a large number of other countries you might add, I have no idea where the U.S. really are.
The users of Java are the developers of Java programs. The end users use Java in the same sense as someone taking a taxi uses a car. You don't care where the gas pedal is in the taxi you're taking, as long as the taxi driver is able to correctly use it. But the taxi driver certainly cares.
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MBA = Master of Buy-and-Abolish?
And they certainly knew their history:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/year-2000/leap.html :-)
HP needs to release it under an open source license since they're discontinuing it.
If they open source OpenVMS, will it then become OpenOpenVMS?
Hmmm ... HAL ultimately killed all people who relied on it. What does it tell us about WNT? ;-)
Should the headline read "Hacker allegedly claims to have 1.7TB of data that could possibly be something". ?
I mean really. I can upload 1.7TB of cat pictures encrypted and claim it's CIA secrets. Right now he has nothing that one should describe as a "treasure trove"
Is there any reason to doubt that he really claims it? Because that's the meaning of "allegedly claims".
So all those who download the file actually download kiddy porn, and when the encryption key gets released, they get into much bigger trouble than the gaming companies could ever cause them? Well, that would be an interesting twist. ;-)
Just for reference, if you look at the summary you'll see that what he's released is that trove... encrypted. The idea is that if he gets arrested, he yells out the passphrase, but until then this might as well be 1.7TiB of /dev/random
For all we know, it might indeed just be 1.7TB of /dev/random.
BTW, was there any hint that the file size is closer to 1.7*2^40 bytes than to 1.7*10^12 bytes, or do you just blindly add the "i" to "TB" whether it makes sense or not?
From my impression, those who want to completely remove copyright are in the minority these days ("IP" is a term which covers very diverse things, and therefore should best be avoided completely). And I guess many of those either never have written anything themselves, or don't recognize that copyright, despite its name, covers more than the right to copy.
But will he also manage the resurrection part?
Given that the NSA has a lot to hide, they must have done a lot wrong. ;-)
No. They will not send black helicopters because everyone would expect them, and therefore would be prepared. But nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
I guess the NSA already knew his name, and he figured that he'd be safer if the public knows it, too. If a person with a name nobody has ever heard of disappears somewhere in Hong Kong, nobody will care too much. If the person who is known to have leaked the NSA documents disappears, it might make the media notice.
I don't know about American law, but I'm pretty sure that according to German law while they are certainly allowed to change the code however they like, they are not allowed to lie about who wrote it. Note that, according to the submission the copyright header named the maintenance developer. Things would be different if it just named the company.
Indeed, the company might be very interested to learn about this case, because as the submitter wrote it, it sounds as if the maintenance programmer actually defrauded the company by effectively claiming he owns the copyright.
I cannot remember anyone claiming that artist should not be credited. There have been arguments that you should be allowed to copy their stuff for free, but I've never ever seen anyone claiming that you should be allowed to claim you had written that stuff if you haven't.
Or in short: There's a difference between copying and plagiarism.
What the submitter complains about is plagiarism, not copying. From his submission, there's no indication about how he thinks about copying.
There were some power units failing. I can imagine that this happened with sparks, which are sort of small lightning.
I don't think German is considered one of the most important languages in the world to learn. Imagine you're e.g. an Indian deciding to learn languages. Your first choice of course would be English. Now imagine you're thinking about what to learn as second language. You'll probably consider Chinese (given that China gets quite important economically, also, it's a neighbour country to India), or Spanish (given that it's spoken in many parts of the world, too). You also might consider French (the language of diplomacy). But unless you're planning to go to Germany or have another specific interest in German, you'll probably not choose German.
Of course, for you in the Netherlands, it makes much more sense to learn German. Germany is just across the border, and you're likely to make good use of your German skill, and be it just by watching German TV broadcasts. Moreover your language is already somewhat similar to German, so it's probably much easier to learn for you. So yes, in the Netherlands, it makes sense to learn German. But somewhere across the world? There German is just one of many languages. There's no more reason to learn German than there is to learn Russian, Japanese or Italian.
And I say this as a German.
Even the most sophisticated programming language doesn't protect you against manipulation of the generated machine code in memory during execution. The only thing that can provide protection is the operating system together with the processor's memory access permission system (by denying access to the in-memory image of the process).
A virus might have installed it. Or a worm. Or a trojan. Or some automated process remotely looking for vulnerabilities and exploiting them. Or a hacker, manually. In none of the cases it was the rootkit itself.
So if Wayland only works on a fast network, it will not win me. Heck, many X11 applications are far too slow over DSL (I guess those are the applications which do not use the X core, but all those "better" alternatives). I prefer a less pretty window I can interact with to a pretty one which I is too slow to use.
Actually they are fourth in the small selection of a few countries. I've for pure interest added Germany, and it happened that in the last data point it overtook the U.S. (although only slightly), making the U.S. at best fifth. Given that there's a large number of other countries you might add, I have no idea where the U.S. really are.
Of course you can. The additional detection events are known as noise.
The users of Java are the developers of Java programs. The end users use Java in the same sense as someone taking a taxi uses a car. You don't care where the gas pedal is in the taxi you're taking, as long as the taxi driver is able to correctly use it. But the taxi driver certainly cares.
And end software patents. And a pony.
Why should we end a pony?
But if we have no link, how are we to know which server we shall melt away?
No, it isn't. Unless it's a fortune pudding for mathematicians.