It would be bad if I lost my Gmail account but I do have a DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan) for that. I download everything each month via IMAP to have a local backup and for all registrations instead of just using my Gmail address I use an e-mail address in my own domain which redirects to my Gmail address. It would be bad if I lost my Gmail account but I do have a DRP for that.
I tried the demo at http://myfavoritebeer.org/ and the result was:
"Error encountered while attempting to confirm your address. please try again. (error message: unknown)"
I am familiar with TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 (I still have an account on a DEC-20) and it's not exactly either which makes me think it could be TENEX http://tenex.opost.com/tenex72.txt
that owns the Ile de Sein and it feels good when some of our people do a difficult job so well, again, I'm in a totally different division, can't claim any credit.
The host_id seems to be base64 representation of 32 hex digits. I hope it's just random but if it's an MD5 hash of something related to the host PC then the real security problem will be when someone figures out what the something is.
I suspect the OP did not verify the exact wording. The law requires retention of (among other things) "mot de passe ou données permettant de le vérifier ou de le modifie" (password *or* data to verify it *or* change it) so it seems that it would be enough to store the password hash and/or do a password reset when demanded by the law enforcement guys.
Could people with better French than me please verify my understanding of what it says:
What the West should do is support the aid being given from Egypt and other Arab countries. We should not be so arrogant as to assume we know but rather we should ask them what they need to help Libya.
"It uses system functions to access the keychain entries, which made
it not necessary to reverse engineer the encryption mechanism of the keychain
items."
I first encountered the "wheel" group on the PDP-10 (mid 70s) where the command to become superuser was "pivot".
Wikipedia says the "wheel" name is from slang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_(Unix_term)
The issue is that many IP stacks do not handle ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) and only know when the link is saturated by packet loss. Huge buffers hide the problem. A solution is to use ECN, that's what it's for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_Congestion_Notification
I gave my last working 8" floppy drive to the Galway computer museum but I still have the data (from the late 70s), transferred to newer media as they were invented.
The oldest "files" that I can restore from the original media are IBM1800 FORTRAN programs stored on 80 column punched cards and PDP-11 code on paper tape. They date from 1974.
I would have some older punched card archives but my mom found them and (thinking they were waste) used them to write shopping lists on (after I had moved out but before I had a permanent place of my own to store my stuff in).
"... assuming that the radiation in a backscatter X-ray is about a hundredth the dose of a dental X-ray, we find that a backscatter X-ray increases the odds of dying from cancer by about 16 ten millionths of one percent. That suggests that for every billion passengers screened with backscatter radiation, about 16 will die from cancer as a result."
"Given that there will be 600 million airplane passengers per year, that makes the machines deadlier than the terrorists."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/tsa_backscatter.html
Yes Michael O'Leary regularly publishes stupid ideas and the media regularly give him and Ryanair loads of free publicity. There is a pattern there, I wish there was some way to mod him "-1 TROLL" on TV.
The worst timed logic bomb I have had to deal with was by an intern who was looking for more pay. He had written a statistical analysis program that would have started to introduce subtle errors several weeks after he had left. If I had not found it then our stats would have become useless after a few months of that mangling. I assume he was hoping we would notice data errors, panic and re-hire him to fix it without realizing that he had caused the errors. I became suspicious when the timestamp on the Java source was newer than the class file so I did some reverse engineering. He had edited the logic bomb out of the source after compiling.
Isaac Azimov wrote a short sci-fi story about an explorer, who had just come back from visiting the newly contacted planet "Earth", adding humans to the "Register Of Intelligent Life". Some minutes later, after the explorer explained how humans tested atomic bombs "on their own planet" the registrar erased the entry as being unqualified for inclusion under "Intelligent".
The island of Diego Garcia used to be a favourite for such phone scams. Phone companies have international agreements to tranfer money, a portion of what they bill for international calls. In the case of the scam calls to Diego Garcia the money could be siphoned off by middlemen because Diego Garcia did not have agreements with all phone companies (bad credit rating?) and the money was routed indrectly. Something similar is happening here.
The Irish Communications Regulator blocked direct dial calls to a list of countries to cut down on such fraud http://news.cnet.com/Ireland-launches-phone-fraud-crackdown/2100-1036_3-5377387.html
Slashdot Mirror
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1618206/Open-Source-Alternative-To-Dropbox
It would be bad if I lost my Gmail account but I do have a DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan) for that. I download everything each month via IMAP to have a local backup and for all registrations instead of just using my Gmail address I use an e-mail address in my own domain which redirects to my Gmail address. It would be bad if I lost my Gmail account but I do have a DRP for that.
I tried the demo at http://myfavoritebeer.org/ and the result was:
"Error encountered while attempting to confirm your address. please try again. (error message: unknown)"
Spartans! Prepare for glory!
I am familiar with TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 (I still have an account on a DEC-20) and it's not exactly either which makes me think it could be TENEX http://tenex.opost.com/tenex72.txt
I'm in a totally different division, can't claim any credit.
http://nauticallog.blogspot.com/2011/04/ile-de-sein.html
The host_id seems to be base64 representation of 32 hex digits. I hope it's just random but if it's an MD5 hash of something related to the host PC then the real security problem will be when someone figures out what the something is.
The password AND data to verify it or change it.
Could people with better French than me please verify my understanding of what it says:
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000023646852&dateTexte=&oldAction=rechJO&categorieLien=id
What the West should do is support the aid being given from Egypt and other Arab countries. We should not be so arrogant as to assume we know but rather we should ask them what they need to help Libya.
"It uses system functions to access the keychain entries, which made it not necessary to reverse engineer the encryption mechanism of the keychain items."
I first encountered the "wheel" group on the PDP-10 (mid 70s) where the command to become superuser was "pivot". Wikipedia says the "wheel" name is from slang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_(Unix_term)
The issue is that many IP stacks do not handle ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) and only know when the link is saturated by packet loss. Huge buffers hide the problem. A solution is to use ECN, that's what it's for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_Congestion_Notification
The oldest "files" that I can restore from the original media are IBM1800 FORTRAN programs stored on 80 column punched cards and PDP-11 code on paper tape. They date from 1974.
I would have some older punched card archives but my mom found them and (thinking they were waste) used them to write shopping lists on (after I had moved out but before I had a permanent place of my own to store my stuff in).
http://www.clevescene.com/64-and-counting/archives/2010/12/22/absolutely-epic-1974-letter-from-cleveland-browns-to-a-fan
"... assuming that the radiation in a backscatter X-ray is about a hundredth the dose of a dental X-ray, we find that a backscatter X-ray increases the odds of dying from cancer by about 16 ten millionths of one percent. That suggests that for every billion passengers screened with backscatter radiation, about 16 will die from cancer as a result." "Given that there will be 600 million airplane passengers per year, that makes the machines deadlier than the terrorists." http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/tsa_backscatter.html
Slashdot says that UPI.com said that physorg.com said that Tech Radar said that MIT said that there is an interesting paper at http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/58402/656284100.pdf?sequence=1 and the BBC went to learn more, conduct an interview and take photos http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11544037
Yes Michael O'Leary regularly publishes stupid ideas and the media regularly give him and Ryanair loads of free publicity. There is a pattern there, I wish there was some way to mod him "-1 TROLL" on TV.
Reflections on Trusting Trust http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
The worst timed logic bomb I have had to deal with was by an intern who was looking for more pay. He had written a statistical analysis program that would have started to introduce subtle errors several weeks after he had left. If I had not found it then our stats would have become useless after a few months of that mangling. I assume he was hoping we would notice data errors, panic and re-hire him to fix it without realizing that he had caused the errors. I became suspicious when the timestamp on the Java source was newer than the class file so I did some reverse engineering. He had edited the logic bomb out of the source after compiling.
Those data centers in the article sound huge, some may even have up to ten servers!
Isaac Azimov wrote a short sci-fi story about an explorer, who had just come back from visiting the newly contacted planet "Earth", adding humans to the "Register Of Intelligent Life". Some minutes later, after the explorer explained how humans tested atomic bombs "on their own planet" the registrar erased the entry as being unqualified for inclusion under "Intelligent".
The island of Diego Garcia used to be a favourite for such phone scams. Phone companies have international agreements to tranfer money, a portion of what they bill for international calls. In the case of the scam calls to Diego Garcia the money could be siphoned off by middlemen because Diego Garcia did not have agreements with all phone companies (bad credit rating?) and the money was routed indrectly. Something similar is happening here. The Irish Communications Regulator blocked direct dial calls to a list of countries to cut down on such fraud http://news.cnet.com/Ireland-launches-phone-fraud-crackdown/2100-1036_3-5377387.html
Let me Google that for you http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sap+on+linux
The Irish Data Privacy Commissioner told Google to delete the data it had collected here and move along. http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/google-plays-down-privacy-fears-2185516.html