An RFID based attack makes for very good press, Turning the Great Satan Much Vaunted Technology against them etc etc you don't have to do it often just show it can be done and you get a perminant change in the US Forces SOP's
This would be useful to prove that code is under the GPL, but this could be simply gotten around by just looking at the code, then rewriting it yourself. But, of course this will take time and money, something the big business hate to spend.. But the technology is useful.
Assuming that it does what is says on the box (ie it can be found in the compiled executable. etc etc)
The watermarking be easy to get round, however if one is caught it is quite clear that the violation was completely intentional. Distastful as it is one could even sue under DMCA as the copy protection has been circumvented
Um, just curious: exactly how is the mine going to know that ID #3141592345 is say, Cartridges, 50 cal and not Boots, size 10?
At the most basic level stick a RFID detector next to the road and read the numbers when an ammo lorry goes by, finding an ammo box and pointing an RFID detector at it, stealing an inventory list are other options. Once the numbers are know its going to be problematic (though not impossible) to change the numbers to a new permutation.
Better yet: Don't use mines. There are still dozens of countries where civilians still step on mines from past wars.Many countries have already banned these things (guess which nation didn't).
Just say no to mines.
Hmmmm
America is currently engaged in a War on Terror
The US Military are to use RFID chips
With these two points in mind consider who is going to be using the mines and on whom. For bonus points, consider how likely the aggressor is to give up any class of weapons (gas, guns, mines, microbes, 747's etc etc)
RFID wouldn't be put on items that would be taken into the field. Those items, as the article stated, would be at least embeded at the "level of cases or pallets."
In some ways that is worse. An RFID detecting boobytrap/mine that specifically attacks the logistics chain. With a bit of intellegence work it could target specific equipment.... say fuel and explosives. No need to blow up the first truck that rolls over the mine, blow up the ammotruck thats third in line.
Thinking about it a little more, an RIFD mine would be expensive and its natural mission would be to target high value items. You would not need many to cause distuption way out of proportion to the expenditure
Babylon 5, all flamewars aside, stands out from other series of its kind mainly because the entire 5-season storyline was written ahead of time.
Speaking from the hip this sounds like a fantastic idea.... But I can see it being a like a train, Its easy to get on at the start but when its moving its really hard for new passengers to join. I think it would be hard to create regular stations for the new users.
but you won't get those 'company confidential, for group A only' emails anymore if you are not in group A.
You won't get thoes 'company confidential, for group A only' emails so often It may prevent a mailing list of PHB's from leaking. But its no more than a 'do not forward this email' with mild
enforcement. I'd be willing to bet that its the PHB's who demand the crack so they can 'just send the document home' etc.
Actually they thought of that. Cut/paste/print screen are disabled. Of course you can take a digital camera to it or write your own screen capture app but the intent is to prevent casual forwarding.
casual forwarding is not a problem, its malicious forwarding it needs to hinder
Several people have suggested simple riddles as a turing test. Is it possible
to (automatically) create enough idiot proof riddles to prevent a 'cheat sheet' attack?
If I could coat my house with this stuff, and be sure that it would never go down in flames, why would I still need fire insurance?
Your house may never burn down, but your furnature, books, clothes, curtains, electricals etc do burn and then there is smoke damage, water damage from the guys putting it out (and washing off the fire paste;-) house fires are still no fun!
10+ years ago I recall hearing about a guy who created a very similar sounding stuff I think he called it 'Starlight'. I recall a demo where he had an starlight coated egg resisting a blowtorch
I think he was a hairdresser and had made it out of common hairdressing equipment/chemicals
I recall he refused to patent it (cos big buisness would steal it) and apparently refused some very lucrative deals.
Hmm google is my friend I have some references they guy was called Maurice Ward it was called starlight here are some references:- ref1ref2
Should Microsoft's software be treated any differently than, say, automobiles?"
Flaws in Microsoft software are common knowledge, if any fault needs to be passed out
it would be against companys that used Microsoft software in life critical appliactinos without
lots and lots of testing.
I was just watching the Passage to Middle-earth:SCI-FI Channel Special' feature on
disk 2 of Fellowship of the Ring. we were suprised to see just about anything that
could be considered product placement was blurred out I the first noticable one was Orlando blooms
tshirt
We have a formula for waves that relates frequency, wavelength and wave speed. It is empirically tested; try it yourself if you like.
OK I'll try it out, but, oops! when I'm measuring the wavelength I get my centimeters
and meters all mixed up and make the distance between the melted spots 5m. This makes the wavelength 10m.. Now the speed of light is 99,792,458 m/s thus the frequency must be
299792458 m/s / 10.4m = 2.99792458 *10^7 Hz
Now we have the Frequency we can calculate the speed of light which is Goodness me!
2.99792458*10^7 * 10 = 299792458 m/s !
I have calculated the speed of light to 9 decimal places using a totally made up
observation, what is wrong with this picture?
Actually, the easiest way to measure the speed of light is to measure the interval between the lights turning green and the first cab horn sounding during the morning rush hour in Manhattan, then measure the distance from the lights to the cab.
No you would end up measuring the planck time instead.
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An RFID based attack makes for very good press, Turning the Great Satan Much Vaunted Technology against them etc etc you don't have to do it often just show it can be done and you get a perminant change in the US Forces SOP's
Assuming that it does what is says on the box (ie it can be found in the compiled executable. etc etc)
The watermarking be easy to get round, however if one is caught it is quite clear that the violation was completely intentional. Distastful as it is one could even sue under DMCA as the copy protection has been circumvented
At the most basic level stick a RFID detector next to the road and read the numbers when an ammo lorry goes by, finding an ammo box and pointing an RFID detector at it, stealing an inventory list are other options. Once the numbers are know its going to be problematic (though not impossible) to change the numbers to a new permutation.
Just say no to mines.
Hmmmm
With these two points in mind consider who is going to be using the mines and on whom. For bonus points, consider how likely the aggressor is to give up any class of weapons (gas, guns, mines, microbes, 747's etc etc)
Erm my suggestion is to put the RFID detector in the mine, if it detects (any/a specific) RFID code, the mine goes bang
In some ways that is worse. An RFID detecting boobytrap/mine that specifically attacks the logistics chain. With a bit of intellegence work it could target specific equipment.... say fuel and explosives. No need to blow up the first truck that rolls over the mine, blow up the ammotruck thats third in line.
Thinking about it a little more, an RIFD mine would be expensive and its natural mission would be to target high value items. You would not need many to cause distuption way out of proportion to the expenditure
Build a RFID detector into a mines, boobytraps etc. If your in RFID range your in the killzone
The odd thing is that it comes from Czechoslovakia and tastes much better than the American stuff
Speaking from the hip this sounds like a fantastic idea.... But I can see it being a like a train, Its easy to get on at the start but when its moving its really hard for new passengers to join. I think it would be hard to create regular stations for the new users.
I think UniLever may have beaten youto one of thoes
You won't get thoes 'company confidential, for group A only' emails so often It may prevent a mailing list of PHB's from leaking. But its no more than a 'do not forward this email' with mild enforcement. I'd be willing to bet that its the PHB's who demand the crack so they can 'just send the document home' etc.
Now I'm really confused, I don't smoke!!
Would a gay homosexual be straight? Its a good job you put in that faggot or I would have been confused
casual forwarding is not a problem, its malicious forwarding it needs to hinder
Interesting.... I'm not calling you out or anything, but do you have a reference for that?
What has it got in its pocketsss?
HissSSSssSSS Fish, String or nothing!
Several people have suggested simple riddles as a turing test. Is it possible to (automatically) create enough idiot proof riddles to prevent a 'cheat sheet' attack?
Your house may never burn down, but your furnature, books, clothes, curtains, electricals etc do burn and then there is smoke damage, water damage from the guys putting it out (and washing off the fire paste;-) house fires are still no fun!
10+ years ago I recall hearing about a guy who created a very similar sounding stuff I think he called it 'Starlight'. I recall a demo where he had an starlight coated egg resisting a blowtorch I think he was a hairdresser and had made it out of common hairdressing equipment/chemicals
I recall he refused to patent it (cos big buisness would steal it) and apparently refused some very lucrative deals.
Hmm google is my friend I have some references they guy was called Maurice Ward it was called starlight here are some references:- ref1 ref2
VHS tapes were also 2 hours long vs betamax 1 hour that helped
unless your Disney, in which case the copyright duration magically extends every time the question comes up
Flaws in Microsoft software are common knowledge, if any fault needs to be passed out it would be against companys that used Microsoft software in life critical appliactinos without lots and lots of testing.
I was just watching the Passage to Middle-earth:SCI-FI Channel Special' feature on disk 2 of Fellowship of the Ring. we were suprised to see just about anything that could be considered product placement was blurred out I the first noticable one was Orlando blooms tshirt
OK I'll try it out, but, oops! when I'm measuring the wavelength I get my centimeters and meters all mixed up and make the distance between the melted spots 5m. This makes the wavelength 10m.. Now the speed of light is 99,792,458 m/s thus the frequency must be
299792458 m/s / 10.4m = 2.99792458 *10^7 Hz
Now we have the Frequency we can calculate the speed of light which is Goodness me!
2.99792458*10^7 * 10 = 299792458 m/s !
I have calculated the speed of light to 9 decimal places using a totally made up observation, what is wrong with this picture?
No you would end up measuring the planck time instead.