oh get off it....Didn't you hear, Conspiracy theories give you dementia.
I'll afford you the respect you deserve as a decade long slashdot reader and not call you names. Sometimes there are very simples reasons behind the things we don't want to hear.
all the items you mentioned are nowhere close to the strategic importance of Bitlocker. Bitlocker was designed to very specific encryption scenarios that address major legal liability areas in health, finance, insurance market, and PII data. If Bitlocker could be hacked after following best practices, a large cap company would unquestionably sue if the data was compromised in an attack. Like I implied before, the issue not about individual use, but business use.
yeah I don't agree with storing recovery keys on the cloud, but it should be stated that this is more to protect against theft by private parties than to counter government intrusion. If you have any fear of government intrusion pertaining to the encrypted data, you should not allow keys to be stored online ever.
So you trust the anonymous Devs of TC even though the software does not really use a proper open source license? Btw have you seen the website lately? It still has the supposed "defacement." With anonymous Devs, how do you know that TC was developed by the NSA? Personally I do not believe this, but it is a legitimate question.
I'm calling bullshit on your points. My point on #1 wasn't a hypothetical, this was the bitlocker lead product manager making the statement behind closed doors and then repeating it again in numerous public forums. I was there, and I trust his word, and not blindly. As for point three, you realize that the TC team is largely anonymous right? So what you're saying is that you trust the "code reviews" conducted by a faceless team and are willing to stake reputation and legal liability on it simply because it's open source? Whether you agree or not about bitlocker's security, the point is that with a named organization backing the product, the customer or class of customers have legal recourse to extract damages for material defects in the software. There is not legal recourse with TC, plus they have no money.
You want to use TC as an individual, fine no argument, but if you're looking for best in class FDE for business, I don't think TC is there yet.
As a former softie, all I can say is that i would trust bitlocker over pretty much any solution on the market and here are the reasons why:
1. Microsoft would not knowingly backdoor bitlocker. The NSA pressured the team leads, but management was adamantly opposed and declined to acquiesce.
2. Suppose bitlocker was knowingly backdoored, the amount of reputational harm that Microsoft would endure would literally be crippling. Crippling not with the OSS crowd, but enterprise customers. The only loser would be Microsoft and they would not recover.
3. There simply not enough people involved in the Truecrypt project at the moment to make it a truly secure solution. This isn't the Linux Kernel. For FDE, I wouldn't trust an FOSS until more audits and testing has been done. The reason is not because of technicalities, but because of legal liability reasons. For an FDE solution I either would want a private company to back the product or I would want a strong and active community truly backing the continuing development of the FOSS.
That said, I'm really hoping the audits come back positive and that development continues.
If I'm getting you correctly you seem to be implying that mono should be used as a compatibility framework to enable windows.net apps onto other platforms. This is absolutely not the use case for mono. The Point of mono is that if you start with it, it will work everywhere, even on windows because it's basically a subset of.Net
FileMaker Pro...charity license...done. That'll be $800 of consulting time please:) open source access alternative just isn't worth the man hours to use. Unless you set up a MySQL database and maintain it, Base is not useful as a front end, and definitely not a stand alone alternative to Access.
The fact that you believe that federal government spending comes from tax revenue makes you uninformed....but that's okay because you're in the majority.
Federal Taxes for revenue has been an obsolete concept since 1946. The economic theory that has so influence all of 20th century society is actually wrong in reality. Federal spending is not spending taxpayer money. In fact "the funds used to pay taxes and purchase government securities COMES from [federal] government spending."
In Econ you learn that Y = C+I+G. Furthermore they teach you that if G goes up, I must go do almost always but especially in the long-run. This is only true in a gold-standard economy. The problem is the economics profession never updated their textbooks. It is only if you take a "money and banking" Econ course at the graduate level that you are introduced to this, and that is if you're lucky.
It's their job to spy on enemies of the state. Foreigners is a broad brush that is a slippery slope to domestic monitoring. Actually we are already there.
Look down...that that little dick or clit between your legs? That's the total global sum of research grants. Now go to an elementary school and compare your clit-dick with the school bus (not the retarded one). The school bus is the fossil fuel industry and energy industry marketing and R&D budgets.
The reason you don't hear about the the rich benefitting from environmental distruction is because they are billionaires. Normal people have no idea how different billionaires are in their interactions with society. They are so rich that in fact they are invisible. To be rich today is to be the invisible puppet master. Normal folk are the puppets. Wasn't always this way though.
The national debt is a misnomer unlike climate change. Climate change involves real consequences. The national debt is a financial residual value that has no economic meaning in real terms. It's not the national debt that is important, it's inflation that we should be monitoring. As it stands we actually need more inflation today as well as more government spending.
Budget surplus and budget deficits have NOTHING to do with the US national debt. The national debt is the total value in USD of the sum of outstanding treasury securities.
Just because there is a budget surplus (excess unspent reserves sitting with the US treasury) doesn't mean it automatically reduces the US Debt figure. The budget deals with reserve assets, and the National debt deals with securities assets. It's apples and oranges.
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oh get off it....Didn't you hear, Conspiracy theories give you dementia.
I'll afford you the respect you deserve as a decade long slashdot reader and not call you names. Sometimes there are very simples reasons behind the things we don't want to hear.
all the items you mentioned are nowhere close to the strategic importance of Bitlocker. Bitlocker was designed to very specific encryption scenarios that address major legal liability areas in health, finance, insurance market, and PII data. If Bitlocker could be hacked after following best practices, a large cap company would unquestionably sue if the data was compromised in an attack. Like I implied before, the issue not about individual use, but business use.
I did a double take while reading this....then i realized it was sarcasm. nice :)
yeah I don't agree with storing recovery keys on the cloud, but it should be stated that this is more to protect against theft by private parties than to counter government intrusion. If you have any fear of government intrusion pertaining to the encrypted data, you should not allow keys to be stored online ever.
OpenSSL much?
So you trust the anonymous Devs of TC even though the software does not really use a proper open source license? Btw have you seen the website lately? It still has the supposed "defacement." With anonymous Devs, how do you know that TC was developed by the NSA? Personally I do not believe this, but it is a legitimate question.
I'm calling bullshit on your points. My point on #1 wasn't a hypothetical, this was the bitlocker lead product manager making the statement behind closed doors and then repeating it again in numerous public forums. I was there, and I trust his word, and not blindly. As for point three, you realize that the TC team is largely anonymous right? So what you're saying is that you trust the "code reviews" conducted by a faceless team and are willing to stake reputation and legal liability on it simply because it's open source? Whether you agree or not about bitlocker's security, the point is that with a named organization backing the product, the customer or class of customers have legal recourse to extract damages for material defects in the software. There is not legal recourse with TC, plus they have no money.
You want to use TC as an individual, fine no argument, but if you're looking for best in class FDE for business, I don't think TC is there yet.
Your last point is exactly why I want truecrypt to survive. Also i love the TC hidden volumes implementation.
As a former softie, all I can say is that i would trust bitlocker over pretty much any solution on the market and here are the reasons why:
1. Microsoft would not knowingly backdoor bitlocker. The NSA pressured the team leads, but management was adamantly opposed and declined to acquiesce.
2. Suppose bitlocker was knowingly backdoored, the amount of reputational harm that Microsoft would endure would literally be crippling. Crippling not with the OSS crowd, but enterprise customers. The only loser would be Microsoft and they would not recover.
3. There simply not enough people involved in the Truecrypt project at the moment to make it a truly secure solution. This isn't the Linux Kernel. For FDE, I wouldn't trust an FOSS until more audits and testing has been done. The reason is not because of technicalities, but because of legal liability reasons. For an FDE solution I either would want a private company to back the product or I would want a strong and active community truly backing the continuing development of the FOSS.
That said, I'm really hoping the audits come back positive and that development continues.
What's the difference between this and Microsoft RemoteFX? I'm pretty sure Citrix also supports hardware 3D virtualization.
Professors of Maths don't have time to understand silly applied topics such as Geography which limited to the R2 or R3 space.
Oh...thanks for saving me trip to the attic lol
Holy shit my HDHomeRun Prime is just sitting in a box cause I don't have cable. I never thought to use it for just OTA. I'm an idiot.
With Papermaster running the show, I expect nothing short of excellence...on paper.
If I'm getting you correctly you seem to be implying that mono should be used as a compatibility framework to enable windows .net apps onto other platforms. This is absolutely not the use case for mono. The Point of mono is that if you start with it, it will work everywhere, even on windows because it's basically a subset of .Net
FileMaker Pro...charity license...done. That'll be $800 of consulting time please :) open source access alternative just isn't worth the man hours to use. Unless you set up a MySQL database and maintain it, Base is not useful as a front end, and definitely not a stand alone alternative to Access.
The fact that you believe that federal government spending comes from tax revenue makes you uninformed....but that's okay because you're in the majority.
Federal Taxes for revenue has been an obsolete concept since 1946. The economic theory that has so influence all of 20th century society is actually wrong in reality. Federal spending is not spending taxpayer money. In fact "the funds used to pay taxes and purchase government securities COMES from [federal] government spending."
In Econ you learn that Y = C+I+G. Furthermore they teach you that if G goes up, I must go do almost always but especially in the long-run. This is only true in a gold-standard economy. The problem is the economics profession never updated their textbooks. It is only if you take a "money and banking" Econ course at the graduate level that you are introduced to this, and that is if you're lucky.
It's their job to spy on enemies of the state. Foreigners is a broad brush that is a slippery slope to domestic monitoring. Actually we are already there.
It wasn't name calling. It's an accurate analogy (margin of error is Shaquille O'Neil's dick).
Look down...that that little dick or clit between your legs? That's the total global sum of research grants. Now go to an elementary school and compare your clit-dick with the school bus (not the retarded one). The school bus is the fossil fuel industry and energy industry marketing and R&D budgets.
It's cute that you think millionaires = rich.
The reason you don't hear about the the rich benefitting from environmental distruction is because they are billionaires. Normal people have no idea how different billionaires are in their interactions with society. They are so rich that in fact they are invisible. To be rich today is to be the invisible puppet master. Normal folk are the puppets. Wasn't always this way though.
Good lord...*picard facepalm*
The national debt is a misnomer unlike climate change. Climate change involves real consequences. The national debt is a financial residual value that has no economic meaning in real terms. It's not the national debt that is important, it's inflation that we should be monitoring. As it stands we actually need more inflation today as well as more government spending.
Budget surplus and budget deficits have NOTHING to do with the US national debt. The national debt is the total value in USD of the sum of outstanding treasury securities.
Just because there is a budget surplus (excess unspent reserves sitting with the US treasury) doesn't mean it automatically reduces the US Debt figure. The budget deals with reserve assets, and the National debt deals with securities assets. It's apples and oranges.
Read Susan Crawford's book. It's one of the most authoritative works on the magnitude of the issue.