Don't think you can evade by simply not listening. After all, you could buy the stuff and not listen it anyway, therefore if you don't buy the stuff you're not listening to, it's clearly piracy, because after all, if you bought the stuff you don't listen to, they would make money from it, so if you don't buy the stuff you're not listening to, it's clearly theft.
Ah, and don't miss the new flat subscription model: At a fixed daily rate of just $10 per song, you're allowed to not listen to them as often as you want!
The set of people who can receive email are the identical set to those who are "on the internet".
That's not true. They may be in an intranet without internet access, and yet they may receive emails (from others on the intranet). Granted, today this is probably quite rare, but I'd be quite surprised if that didn't exist at all in the whole world! Not to mention that I tend to get mail locally on my own Linux computer, sent by Yast Online Update.
Hell, the sun's been doing it for a few billion years using a working fusion reactor.
Sure, and that fusion reactor should be switched off ASAP! It constantly sends radioactivity to earth, and moreover we already know that some time in the future it will blow up and destroy all life on earth!
As it turns out, I've just now heared on TV how it really works (OK, in this case it was about trojans, not phishing, but there the only thing different is how to get the passwords/PIN/TAN of the victing, not how to get at the money afterwards):
Have you ever got a spam mail with a "business opportunity" where you get involved in financial transactions, and get a share of the money transferred? You get money to your account, which you then send as cash somewhere else, while you keep your share. Well, it turns out that you can really make money this way, at least until the police comes to get you: In that case it's not a trick to get at your money, but a trick to get you unsuspectingly involved in money laundering. The way that cash went cannot easily be followed. Yes, usually the account owner will be punished. But that doesn't really hurt the phishers. Just send out new spam to find new "laundry personnel".
Well, at least on the German Wikipedia, also an article can be locked specifically against non-login and new-user edits, and this measure indeed has already been applied. Since it's a technical feature, I'm quite sure that it's possible in the English Wikipedia as well; I don't know if it's actually done there, however.
Well, probably they open bank accounts under false identities, and close them again immediatly after they got the money. For the next phishing attack they just can open another account under another false identity at another bank. All they need to be good in is in faking (or maybe stealing) identities (and of course in actual phishing). If that bank account is emptied and closed quick enough (i.e. before you note that someone took money from yor account), there's no way to lock it, and probably hardly a chance to find the person who had opened it.
I don't think he meant "encrypted" to be "cryptic looking". Instead I think he was thinking of actal encryption, where the email appears to you in plaintext if your email program supports encryption (and you have the proper key, of course). Especially if you have to get a physical token anyway, it should be no problem to store a personal key on it as well.
Hmmm... if I memorize some text or music, I'm actually making a copy of it inside my head. So is this already copyright infringment? I just hope I won't have to give up the medium where the information is stored:-)
Remember, this is about cleaning up after the war. Unless the encryption key got lost, you don't need to do any triangulation, you just have to decode the sent messages and read out the coordinates. If it takes a day to do so, well, then it takes a day. So what? The war is over, you're not really in a hurry.
Shouldn't assymetric encryption solve this problem? The mines hold the public key, so they can authenticate the message sent by the control center holding the private key. If the enemy analyzes the mine, the worst he can get is the public key, which shouldn't allow him to command the mines.
I rather prefer big fucking nukes, and the willingness to use them. "Attack me, and I will reduce this planet to a slag heap" is a good deterrent to war. That does nothing to stop terrorists though.
Of course landmines are much more useful against terrorists. After all, had all airports been surrounded by mine fields, how would the terrorists have entered the airplanes?
The communication of the mines has to be encrypted anyway. Otherwise the enemy could just tell the mines to go away (or even to cover some other areas which they want to be mine-protected).
But even without that option, I guess those mines are much easier to find by just looking for their radio wave communication. After all, in order to cooperate, they have to transmit their location.
Well, let's see what you can address with 128 bits. If we assume byte-addressing, it's enough for 2^128=3.4*10^38 bytes, or 2.7*10^39 bits.
Now lets assume we want to store every bit in a single carbon atom. Carbon has a specific mass of 12 g/mol, 1 mol about 6.022*10^23 atoms. So 2.7*10^39 bits would translate to 4.5*10^15 mol, or 5.4*10^16 g, which is 54 gigatonnes of carbon.
I doubt hard drives will get larger than that any time soon:-)
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Don't think you can evade by simply not listening. After all, you could buy the stuff and not listen it anyway, therefore if you don't buy the stuff you're not listening to, it's clearly piracy, because after all, if you bought the stuff you don't listen to, they would make money from it, so if you don't buy the stuff you're not listening to, it's clearly theft.
Ah, and don't miss the new flat subscription model: At a fixed daily rate of just $10 per song, you're allowed to not listen to them as often as you want!
But it's not my fault! I was running so fast that time dilation made my clock go out of sync, so I didn't notice that I was late!
That's not true. They may be in an intranet without internet access, and yet they may receive emails (from others on the intranet). Granted, today this is probably quite rare, but I'd be quite surprised if that didn't exist at all in the whole world!
Not to mention that I tend to get mail locally on my own Linux computer, sent by Yast Online Update.
Of course each person on the internet having an email account receives at least 100 SPAM emails per day ...
That's not really true. That person can get a freemail account with web interface and access the mail from an internet cafe.
Sure, and that fusion reactor should be switched off ASAP! It constantly sends radioactivity to earth, and moreover we already know that some time in the future it will blow up and destroy all life on earth!
Ok, so do you know who his or her closest living relatives are, so we can once and for all determine who owns the moon?
In Soviet Russia, SOAP cleans YOU!
As it turns out, I've just now heared on TV how it really works (OK, in this case it was about trojans, not phishing, but there the only thing different is how to get the passwords/PIN/TAN of the victing, not how to get at the money afterwards):
Have you ever got a spam mail with a "business opportunity" where you get involved in financial transactions, and get a share of the money transferred? You get money to your account, which you then send as cash somewhere else, while you keep your share. Well, it turns out that you can really make money this way, at least until the police comes to get you: In that case it's not a trick to get at your money, but a trick to get you unsuspectingly involved in money laundering. The way that cash went cannot easily be followed. Yes, usually the account owner will be punished. But that doesn't really hurt the phishers. Just send out new spam to find new "laundry personnel".
Well, at least on the German Wikipedia, also an article can be locked specifically against non-login and new-user edits, and this measure indeed has already been applied. Since it's a technical feature, I'm quite sure that it's possible in the English Wikipedia as well; I don't know if it's actually done there, however.
Well, probably they open bank accounts under false identities, and close them again immediatly after they got the money. For the next phishing attack they just can open another account under another false identity at another bank. All they need to be good in is in faking (or maybe stealing) identities (and of course in actual phishing). If that bank account is emptied and closed quick enough (i.e. before you note that someone took money from yor account), there's no way to lock it, and probably hardly a chance to find the person who had opened it.
I don't think he meant "encrypted" to be "cryptic looking". Instead I think he was thinking of actal encryption, where the email appears to you in plaintext if your email program supports encryption (and you have the proper key, of course). Especially if you have to get a physical token anyway, it should be no problem to store a personal key on it as well.
I knew that as Eight Megabytes And Continuously Swapping.
Hmmm ... if I memorize some text or music, I'm actually making a copy of it inside my head. So is this already copyright infringment? :-)
I just hope I won't have to give up the medium where the information is stored
Remember, this is about cleaning up after the war. Unless the encryption key got lost, you don't need to do any triangulation, you just have to decode the sent messages and read out the coordinates. If it takes a day to do so, well, then it takes a day. So what? The war is over, you're not really in a hurry.
Shouldn't assymetric encryption solve this problem? The mines hold the public key, so they can authenticate the message sent by the control center holding the private key. If the enemy analyzes the mine, the worst he can get is the public key, which shouldn't allow him to command the mines.
Of course landmines are much more useful against terrorists. After all, had all airports been surrounded by mine fields, how would the terrorists have entered the airplanes?
But they still have to distribute the Linux source code on request, even if they didn't modify it.
One question which arises: Does planting a mine count as distribution?
You could put it into a museum and claim it to be modern art.
The communication of the mines has to be encrypted anyway. Otherwise the enemy could just tell the mines to go away (or even to cover some other areas which they want to be mine-protected).
But even without that option, I guess those mines are much easier to find by just looking for their radio wave communication. After all, in order to cooperate, they have to transmit their location.
I for one welcome our new classic overlords.
In order to maximize your waiting experience, I suggest any of the following options:
Well, let's see what you can address with 128 bits. If we assume byte-addressing, it's enough for 2^128=3.4*10^38 bytes, or 2.7*10^39 bits.
:-)
Now lets assume we want to store every bit in a single carbon atom. Carbon has a specific mass of 12 g/mol, 1 mol about 6.022*10^23 atoms. So 2.7*10^39 bits would translate to 4.5*10^15 mol, or 5.4*10^16 g, which is 54 gigatonnes of carbon.
I doubt hard drives will get larger than that any time soon
They are creating an artificial super-intelligence?
So they become a Central Intelligence Agency?