You would still have to encrypt the disk in discreet little chunks because you certainly wouldn't want to read and decrpyt the entire contents in one go and decrypt it all just so you can view a track listing. There must be some structure to these discreet blocks, so even if you cannot get the contents within, you can hand these blocks onto a secondary team who can attack the algorythm.
Once you realise this and the fact the key MUST be stored either somewhere on the disk, or on the player itself (else how would it know how to decrypt it..) the decryption comes something like deCSS, ie painless.
I'm quite certain encrypted drives are only a real problem if the key is user set.
Again like roland, the articles are generally interesting. If its a choice between a beatles beatles article and some crap, I know which I would choose.
Submit some decent articles and get him off the homepage:)
Opening realplayer opens the guide.real.com page. I don't know if this occurs whenever a movie is played or if its just in standalone mode. It might also occur again when the messeging centre starts on bootup.
(since I disabled the messaging and never open the standalone I don't know)
lots of places for them to get hits and stats, quite worrying really.
Ahhhhhh but space sports DO exist. Lots of us take part in space sports games every day, the computer is good at rendering them and we have decent control mechanisms.
The movies haven't got really into it, I believe because its so damned difficult to do realistic zero-g scenes. Its one thing to have a couple of actors floating across the camera than to have an entire arena with real actors and lots of 3d action occuring. (side note, harry potter quiditch(???) seems to be closest to the zero-g sporting mark I have seen.)
I never understand the mentality of sharing your downloads folder. At the places (dare I say hubs) that I frequent, sharing incomplete or multiple corrupted files gains you an instant ban. This seems to work, because in all the years I have been around I've only ever had 2 misidentied files (and one of them was just my fault - red eye 2005 korea version).
I like the way they put the minor disclaimer in ther "apparantly". My bet is they actually checked out the principle.
On a slightly similar subject (ahem!) my kids have a hamster, we decided to call him "flump". Lots of people ask us why, we don't usually say but "apparantly" thats the noise a hamster makes after you free them from a toilet roll tube with air pressure.
gmail made me switch to firefox:) Everything else worked fine in old IE until that came along and decided my browser config just wasn't good enough. I haven't looked back since, but the moral of the story is gmail isn't a standard application, and sometimes different configurations baffle it.
This model for killing viruses sounds very much like the code gamers are getting used to seeing.
Its down to trust.
Before you can come on MY website, you have to run MY code. If you run my code and it gives the wrong result, then your fucked.
Problems, OS dependence, other people have mentioned already, but another is security - what kind of permissions do I have to give to allow arbitary code to be run which can access the running list of applications and OS internals, how do I know the code being run is safe?
Would you really feel safe opening up so much of your machine for a general internet site?
We are moving away from internet explorer and the nightmare of activeX, lets not go back to it.
After thought, if the banks implimented this as a standalone application and it did this scan as part of its initial authentication (like the gaming world), I would be less bothered than expecting this kind of code to be run in a browser. strange isn't it.
I was not aware of that, thanks for pointing it out. However I am still left wondering about something.
If nothing can modify your firewall rules, then are you saying you need a reboot to add a new port or permission?
If so, doesn't this get tedious, especially if you are using it in an enterprise "Sorry folks, no internet access for 5minutes while we change permissions.
If this isn't the case and there is infact a way for a standard level 2 application or hook to add new items, then isn't it logical to assume that a malicious piece of software running in level 2 could do the same?
If you run a software firewall in ANY operating system within the same computer, then any administrator/root users on that computer can modify the settings of that firewall at will. A malicious program could automatically insert rules allowing its own access into various firewall programs (for instance in windows there is an API for allowing software through the default builtin firewall, and config files are available for the other vendors)
If you run a seperate hardware firewall then to change the settings you need to connect and login using different credentials than your computer root account which makes things more secure and less prone to problems.
AV software is complimentary to software firewalls in that the AV software should prevent the malicious program from running in the first place no matter which vector it got into the system with (email/cd/memory key, web site etc).
Having a chink in either of these (AV/firewall) in a software only solution is bad.
A Software firewall offers no protection against processing operating under administrator credentials. They can be efficient at deflecting standard threats, but without the other half of the software protection coin (anti-viral) they are lacking.
When recommending a firewall for home users, try to explicitely push for a hardware layer:)
We KNOW home users don't have security. Windows has been brought kicking and screaming from a single user insulated space into the big wide internet world.
Home computing has evolved just like personal motoring has.
Seat belts and safety features in cars used to be an addon luxury that not many people had or used, now every car comes with them and airbags and strengthening supports as standard.
Spyware protection is a new tact, and should really be dealt with in the same malicious software category viruses fall into - it basically uses the same engine, and its only the AV companies themselves who made a distinguisher between installed with vague permission and none whatsoever.
Lawyers for the News and Reportorters Industry of America (NRIA) brought lawsuits against the RIAA officials who released a press article which infringes upon the NRIA copyright. A spokesperson for the RIAA was unable to comment due to the threat of the DMCA suits which may follow for reporting on the contents of the protected NRIA legal documents.
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But presumably all of your UK users would connect using a UK ISP.
If thats the case, the traffic data will be logged on route.
Here ya go One Mirror
Paramount had the police seize his four computers, but nothing was found.
Its right there, the police were wasting time on this case.
its Stupid.
Don't worry, I found some pictures
Its hard to see it without one.
You would still have to encrypt the disk in discreet little chunks because you certainly wouldn't want to read and decrpyt the entire contents in one go and decrypt it all just so you can view a track listing.
There must be some structure to these discreet blocks, so even if you cannot get the contents within, you can hand these blocks onto a secondary team who can attack the algorythm.
Once you realise this and the fact the key MUST be stored either somewhere on the disk, or on the player itself (else how would it know how to decrypt it..) the decryption comes something like deCSS, ie painless.
I'm quite certain encrypted drives are only a real problem if the key is user set.
You can make an open source scanning and detection engine whilst holding the detection data updates on a monthly contract if you like.
This is just the same as I can download and use Open Office, but that doesn't mean I should have access to every document created in it.
Again like roland, the articles are generally interesting.
:)
If its a choice between a beatles beatles article and some crap, I know which I would choose.
Submit some decent articles and get him off the homepage
Opening realplayer opens the guide.real.com page.
I don't know if this occurs whenever a movie is played or if its just in standalone mode. It might also occur again when the messeging centre starts on bootup.
(since I disabled the messaging and never open the standalone I don't know)
lots of places for them to get hits and stats, quite worrying really.
Ahhhhhh but space sports DO exist.
Lots of us take part in space sports games every day, the computer is good at rendering them and we have decent control mechanisms.
The movies haven't got really into it, I believe because its so damned difficult to do realistic zero-g scenes.
Its one thing to have a couple of actors floating across the camera than to have an entire arena with real actors and lots of 3d action occuring.
(side note, harry potter quiditch(???) seems to be closest to the zero-g sporting mark I have seen.)
I currently have an illuminated ball which has flashing LEDs on the top.
The counterweight is the battery itself and it is difficult to invert it.
These cameras cost $2400 each, the ball I own cost £1.00
Even adding full wifi and webcam makes me wonder where the expense comes from.
If the market is willing to bear it though, then so be it.
I never understand the mentality of sharing your downloads folder.
At the places (dare I say hubs) that I frequent, sharing incomplete or multiple corrupted files gains you an instant ban.
This seems to work, because in all the years I have been around I've only ever had 2 misidentied files (and one of them was just my fault - red eye 2005 korea version).
Verify your shares folks.
I like the way they put the minor disclaimer in ther "apparantly".
My bet is they actually checked out the principle.
On a slightly similar subject (ahem!) my kids have a hamster, we decided to call him "flump".
Lots of people ask us why, we don't usually say but "apparantly" thats the noise a hamster makes after you free them from a toilet roll tube with air pressure.
Closely followed by MSN.Fav.orit.es...
You can easily stop viewing the adverts by removing slashdot as a feed :)
gmail made me switch to firefox :)
Everything else worked fine in old IE until that came along and decided my browser config just wasn't good enough.
I haven't looked back since, but the moral of the story is gmail isn't a standard application, and sometimes different configurations baffle it.
lets put this in programming terms:
Musical score != Rating.
Musical score == the actual music source code.
I don't think they do.
As the system grows, so the number of entry points which need covering will grow.
after reading the article, I think they are sneaking in paladium under our noses.
Using the rootkit news as cover.
should we tremble?
This model for killing viruses sounds very much like the code gamers are getting used to seeing.
Its down to trust.
Before you can come on MY website, you have to run MY code. If you run my code and it gives the wrong result, then your fucked.
Problems, OS dependence, other people have mentioned already, but another is security - what kind of permissions do I have to give to allow arbitary code to be run which can access the running list of applications and OS internals, how do I know the code being run is safe?
Would you really feel safe opening up so much of your machine for a general internet site?
We are moving away from internet explorer and the nightmare of activeX, lets not go back to it.
After thought, if the banks implimented this as a standalone application and it did this scan as part of its initial authentication (like the gaming world), I would be less bothered than expecting this kind of code to be run in a browser. strange isn't it.
From the article it looks like they have replaced the preview pane with tabbed email views.
That looks like it would be confusing - especially if the list above doesn't tally with which email is visible.
I cannot quite see how this would help (tabbed browsing is easy to see the benefits), tabs for the sake of tabs seems pointless.
I was not aware of that, thanks for pointing it out. However I am still left wondering about something.
If nothing can modify your firewall rules, then are you saying you need a reboot to add a new port or permission?
If so, doesn't this get tedious, especially if you are using it in an enterprise "Sorry folks, no internet access for 5minutes while we change permissions.
If this isn't the case and there is infact a way for a standard level 2 application or hook to add new items, then isn't it logical to assume that a malicious piece of software running in level 2 could do the same?
If you run a software firewall in ANY operating system within the same computer, then any administrator/root users on that computer can modify the settings of that firewall at will. A malicious program could automatically insert rules allowing its own access into various firewall programs (for instance in windows there is an API for allowing software through the default builtin firewall, and config files are available for the other vendors)
If you run a seperate hardware firewall then to change the settings you need to connect and login using different credentials than your computer root account which makes things more secure and less prone to problems.
AV software is complimentary to software firewalls in that the AV software should prevent the malicious program from running in the first place no matter which vector it got into the system with (email/cd/memory key, web site etc).
Having a chink in either of these (AV/firewall) in a software only solution is bad.
A Software firewall offers no protection against processing operating under administrator credentials.
:)
They can be efficient at deflecting standard threats, but without the other half of the software protection coin (anti-viral) they are lacking.
When recommending a firewall for home users, try to explicitely push for a hardware layer
We KNOW home users don't have security. Windows has been brought kicking and screaming from a single user insulated space into the big wide internet world.
Home computing has evolved just like personal motoring has.
Seat belts and safety features in cars used to be an addon luxury that not many people had or used, now every car comes with them and airbags and strengthening supports as standard.
Spyware protection is a new tact, and should really be dealt with in the same malicious software category viruses fall into - it basically uses the same engine, and its only the AV companies themselves who made a distinguisher between installed with vague permission and none whatsoever.
News just in:
Lawyers for the News and Reportorters Industry of America (NRIA) brought lawsuits against the RIAA officials who released a press article which infringes upon the NRIA copyright.
A spokesperson for the RIAA was unable to comment due to the threat of the DMCA suits which may follow for reporting on the contents of the protected NRIA legal documents.