People-soft is absolutely horrible. They took over a bunch of stuff at my school for handing checking grades, signing up for classes, etc, and there's been nothing but complaints. Their system is absolutely horrible and has all kinds of annoying restrictions placed on it. There's nothing like 13,000 people trying to sign up for classes or grades at the same time, but only 50 people are allowed to log on at once! Maybe Oracle can fix up such a poor excuse for a company.
Well, all I know is that shutting down the SMTP server here certainly stopped all the mail. Also I checked the headers of all of the virus mail I got from people and it all definitely went through our smtp server...
This virus has been hitting a bunch of people over here at Stanford since sometime yesterday. It takes random messages from your inbox and forwards them to random people in your contact list and spoofs the sender. I've recieved a lot of weird emails lately, but some of my neighbors have seen some pretty personal emails sent or recieved by their friends and acquaintences. People hitting on people, people asking their parents for money, rejection letters from companies... the whole works. Our SMTP server has been completely shut down to stop the spread!
those keys are embedded in hardware that won't reveal them easily.
As soon as they're putting the keys in a chrysalis box, I'll let you know. But until then, it doesn't really matter how hard it is, so long as one single person can crack it. Really, I can't say I've read too much about how it works, but likely it'll have MS/Intel's _public_ key stored so that it can check the certificates of code that you try to run to make sure that it's trusted.
I've take class from both Prof. Boneh and Prof. Rosenblum (2 of the 3 names on the paper), and I can tell you that they're some of the most intelligent people I've met. I'd definitely trust anything those guys have to say.
Unless I'm mistaken it's only slander if it's not true. The judge ruled that he could not post any stories about her regardless of whether or not they were true.
I think the thing that shocked me is that the victim's father wanted the murder to get a lighter sentence! "Gee, it wasn't poor little Dustin who brutally slaughtered my daughter by stabbing her multiple times. It was the video games."
Dude, mega man 2 rocked. It was so well balanced. No lame cheats, no uber-blaster guns. Everybody had their own strategies for what order to take out the bosses in. So much better than more recent mega mans.
Kudos to the BBC for releasing the hitchhiker's guide audio. I still have the whole thing on 6 audio tapes, but I know they're not going to last forever.
If you think all anime has neon pink colors, whiny girl voices and epilepsy inducing flashing scenes, you've been missing a lot. I would recommend any of Miyazaki's works. If you're in for a rather depressing yet amazingly well-made anime, my personal recommendation would be Hotaru no Haka (Grave of Fireflies). Or if you want less artsy-fartsy, you could try Cowboy Beebop or maybe Ghost in the Shell.
It's simply a matter of what you're testing for. MD5 is great as a checksum. Checksums are meant to find errors introduced at random by corrupted packets and the like. SHA-1 is a cryptographic hash, meant to foil malicious attackers purposefully changing the message.
So really, fuck MD5 only if you're trying to make something secure against attackers.
I could be mistaken, but I don't think copyright would apply. They might be able to copyright the font their name is written in or their logo, but they can only trademark their name. Also, copyright does _not_ need to be stated to be enforcable. By creating something, you have immediately copyrighted it, and you gain all rights associated with that unless you explicitly relinquish such rights.
AFAIK he was a genius at using tools, but I don't remember him creating any of them.
Actually, I think the really important point here is the social aspect of his cracking. The tools and the security systems will change, but there will always be a human somewhere who knows the password, and you can ignore all of the technical defenses if you can sweet talk them just right. Or if they do stupid things like pick predictable passwords. Or write the password on a post-it-note on their desk.
I think much more than just doing a port scan, a company would hire Mitnik to examine their _human_ protocols and proceedings for dealing with security.
They have no right to forcibly seize property from non criminals. End of story.
Unfortunately I don't believe this is true. Look up Zurcher v. The Stanford Daily. It was a case that went to the supreme court, where it was determined that police were in the right when they siezed photos of vietnam war protestors from the offices of the Stanford Daily. This case is why most newspapers destroy any pictures they don't publish.
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People-soft is absolutely horrible. They took over a bunch of stuff at my school for handing checking grades, signing up for classes, etc, and there's been nothing but complaints. Their system is absolutely horrible and has all kinds of annoying restrictions placed on it. There's nothing like 13,000 people trying to sign up for classes or grades at the same time, but only 50 people are allowed to log on at once! Maybe Oracle can fix up such a poor excuse for a company.
I'm not sure I'd find her opinions about source code credible.
Unless of course the comments in question were in French...
Well, all I know is that shutting down the SMTP server here certainly stopped all the mail. Also I checked the headers of all of the virus mail I got from people and it all definitely went through our smtp server...
This virus has been hitting a bunch of people over here at Stanford since sometime yesterday. It takes random messages from your inbox and forwards them to random people in your contact list and spoofs the sender. I've recieved a lot of weird emails lately, but some of my neighbors have seen some pretty personal emails sent or recieved by their friends and acquaintences. People hitting on people, people asking their parents for money, rejection letters from companies... the whole works. Our SMTP server has been completely shut down to stop the spread!
Ahh. Thanks for the clarification. Now I get it. =)
As soon as they're putting the keys in a chrysalis box, I'll let you know. But until then, it doesn't really matter how hard it is, so long as one single person can crack it. Really, I can't say I've read too much about how it works, but likely it'll have MS/Intel's _public_ key stored so that it can check the certificates of code that you try to run to make sure that it's trusted.
I've take class from both Prof. Boneh and Prof. Rosenblum (2 of the 3 names on the paper), and I can tell you that they're some of the most intelligent people I've met. I'd definitely trust anything those guys have to say.
yeah, sadly I realized that about 30 sec after I posted, but I was hoping no one would notice. ;)
Unless I'm mistaken it's only slander if it's not true. The judge ruled that he could not post any stories about her regardless of whether or not they were true.
I think the thing that shocked me is that the victim's father wanted the murder to get a lighter sentence! "Gee, it wasn't poor little Dustin who brutally slaughtered my daughter by stabbing her multiple times. It was the video games."
What the hell kind of parent is that?
While it certainly is mute, you probably meant it to be moot as well.
He posted AC. Thus no karma.
I too would think twice if someone assassinated me.
Dude, mega man 2 rocked. It was so well balanced. No lame cheats, no uber-blaster guns. Everybody had their own strategies for what order to take out the bosses in. So much better than more recent mega mans.
Kudos to the BBC for releasing the hitchhiker's guide audio. I still have the whole thing on 6 audio tapes, but I know they're not going to last forever.
Patent. Not trademark. Not copyright. Not domain name. P-A-T-E-N-T. Big difference.
If you think all anime has neon pink colors, whiny girl voices and epilepsy inducing flashing scenes, you've been missing a lot. I would recommend any of Miyazaki's works. If you're in for a rather depressing yet amazingly well-made anime, my personal recommendation would be Hotaru no Haka (Grave of Fireflies). Or if you want less artsy-fartsy, you could try Cowboy Beebop or maybe Ghost in the Shell.
So really, fuck MD5 only if you're trying to make something secure against attackers.
I could be mistaken, but I don't think copyright would apply. They might be able to copyright the font their name is written in or their logo, but they can only trademark their name. Also, copyright does _not_ need to be stated to be enforcable. By creating something, you have immediately copyrighted it, and you gain all rights associated with that unless you explicitly relinquish such rights.
Actually, I think the really important point here is the social aspect of his cracking. The tools and the security systems will change, but there will always be a human somewhere who knows the password, and you can ignore all of the technical defenses if you can sweet talk them just right. Or if they do stupid things like pick predictable passwords. Or write the password on a post-it-note on their desk.
I think much more than just doing a port scan, a company would hire Mitnik to examine their _human_ protocols and proceedings for dealing with security.
They found fault with the way the computer has more control than the user. They didn't find a crytographic fault in any of the protocols.
Unfortunately I don't believe this is true. Look up Zurcher v. The Stanford Daily. It was a case that went to the supreme court, where it was determined that police were in the right when they siezed photos of vietnam war protestors from the offices of the Stanford Daily. This case is why most newspapers destroy any pictures they don't publish.
And an extra $5 for poor taste in music!
Real men write a utility to count the number of lines while ignoring comments, braces, and whitespace!
As always, GPL'd code is free as in speech, not necessarily beer. Nothing to see here.