Why aren't we attacking the organizations that use this filtering software instead of attacking the program itself? Wouldn't finding ONE site that shouldn't be filtered be good enough to prove that illegal censorship is in effect?
They way I see it there are only two ways about it. Either the organization can filter whatever they want because it's their own service and they aren't bound by law to make that service public, or they can only filter what's legal to filter... find one thing that's not, and you've got a pretty strong argument to force the organization to abandon the filter.
This could be correctable via a web site (or database) that p2p programs could validate against. Think of Audio Galaxy but without actually having any content or linking to any content. Simply store Artist, Title, multi-part checksum data, and the username of the poster. I suppose users could even vote on the validity of the post, but once you trust a poster's input, you'll trust the md5.
What do I mean by multi-part checksum data? Multiple md5's for one file. Say one md5 for each 10% of the file. This would solve two problems: One is you'd be able to validate the file as you download it, and two, download parts of the same file from multiple people.
As a product marketing director at Critical Path, Renae Perry pulled in more than $100,000 per year. After losing her job last year at the San Francisco communication technology company, she started working for Accerra Corp.
Since when has the description "techie" included marketing directors?
Who cares about listening to mp3's and seeing pictures on yet ANOTHER device... And what does any of that have to do with recording, pausing, skipping which is what the tivo is supposed to be all about! Hell, my 65 dollar dvd player can do all that now. How many pictures can you stick on one vcd? a thousand?
Why not make a feature that we can really use... like high definition support!
Has has anyone put any thought into what that turbine wheel would do when it's in "land mode"? All the air being sucked through it at 200 mph would cause the thing to whip around in circles!
What worries me about the future of tivo is their technical choices for the new "series 2" tivo system. Now that larger screens are a lot cheaper (especially projection setups), and now that digital over the air is becoming more prevalent:
(http://www.hdtvpub.com/local/index.cfm),
I was hoping for at least something that had High Definition or 16:9 format support. Instead, the only new features I could derive from all of their ads is that the new tivo had usb ports... Who needs that?!
PS2 and xbox now have linux ports. Both have keyboard and mice availiable. Both have networking ability. So the difference between a pc and today's console is exactly what? A pretty box?
I don't know about the rest of you people, but what the heck does the government have online that's all that important to begin with? Tax forms?
It would seen to me that if someone wanted to attack us, they'd try to hit Microsoft. The majority of the computers out there have their os loaded... so it would make sense to try something that could affect as many systems as possible.
I also take offense to the fact that us "little people" are still left out the the open while the government saves its' own ass. If the whois info is so revealing, then they should just block it completely.
Being able to bypass the region code stuff has been avail for a while now. http://www.elby.ch/download/SetupRegKill.exe
Also, this still won't help with the dvd drives that have the region checking stuff built into the hardware.
Remember what he did? Disassembly was one important thing... reverse engineering being a more appropriate name for it.
Face it... if it was assembled, it can be disassembled. Once disassembled, the secrets implanted by a compiler or programmer are revealed. DeCSS is a good example of disassembly finding something hidden.
Worried about your login program being trojaned? Open it up in a disassembler and check near the login part of the code. Hell, open the program up in a debugger and just step through the code. That would trivially show you any "if password = backdoorpassword" statements. In many ways this is even faster than looking at the source itself. For those paranoid about the OS itself, there is even hardware you can buy that'll debug the os itself.
What really worries me isn't this kinda security issue... what worries me is not being able to legally look for these kind of security issues at all. (read: DMCA)
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Why aren't we attacking the organizations that use this filtering software instead of attacking the program itself? Wouldn't finding ONE site that shouldn't be filtered be good enough to prove that illegal censorship is in effect?
They way I see it there are only two ways about it. Either the organization can filter whatever they want because it's their own service and they aren't bound by law to make that service public, or they can only filter what's legal to filter... find one thing that's not, and you've got a pretty strong argument to force the organization to abandon the filter.
Maybe we're just so used to the bugs, we just reboot after the blue screen or hard lock.
Or how about:
We search for the fix and apply it ourselves. (http://aumha.org)
Just because Microsoft receives only 1% of calls that are bug related doesn't mean that Microsoft's products are only 1% buggy.
Perhaps Gates needs to visit (http://www.securityfocus.com/microsoft) to get a better perspective on things.
What do I mean by multi-part checksum data? Multiple md5's for one file. Say one md5 for each 10% of the file. This would solve two problems: One is you'd be able to validate the file as you download it, and two, download parts of the same file from multiple people.
Since when has the description "techie" included marketing directors?
Why not make a feature that we can really use... like high definition support!
Has has anyone put any thought into what that turbine wheel would do when it's in "land mode"? All the air being sucked through it at 200 mph would cause the thing to whip around in circles!
Has anyone tried AbiWord's password?
(http://www.hdtvpub.com/local/index.cfm),
I was hoping for at least something that had High Definition or 16:9 format support. Instead, the only new features I could derive from all of their ads is that the new tivo had usb ports... Who needs that?!
PS2 and xbox now have linux ports. Both have keyboard and mice availiable. Both have networking ability. So the difference between a pc and today's console is exactly what? A pretty box?
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It would seen to me that if someone wanted to attack us, they'd try to hit Microsoft. The majority of the computers out there have their os loaded... so it would make sense to try something that could affect as many systems as possible.
I also take offense to the fact that us "little people" are still left out the the open while the government saves its' own ass. If the whois info is so revealing, then they should just block it completely.
Being able to bypass the region code stuff has been avail for a while now. http://www.elby.ch/download/SetupRegKill.exe Also, this still won't help with the dvd drives that have the region checking stuff built into the hardware.
Face it... if it was assembled, it can be disassembled. Once disassembled, the secrets implanted by a compiler or programmer are revealed. DeCSS is a good example of disassembly finding something hidden.
Worried about your login program being trojaned? Open it up in a disassembler and check near the login part of the code. Hell, open the program up in a debugger and just step through the code. That would trivially show you any "if password = backdoorpassword" statements. In many ways this is even faster than looking at the source itself. For those paranoid about the OS itself, there is even hardware you can buy that'll debug the os itself.
What really worries me isn't this kinda security issue... what worries me is not being able to legally look for these kind of security issues at all. (read: DMCA)