I often wonder if this is an accurate comment - surely they have a big database full of keys they 'know' they've printed little green or blue stickers for right?
I know xpkey comes included on a lot of pirated XP cd's here in the Philippines, or if not, the guy or girl selling the CD advises you to download it.
Original XP Professional costs roughly 8000 peso (US $160) XP Home about 5000 (US $100)
I've got a book, Unix A practical Guide - first published in 1994 with a map of the US, on it are interconnecting points indicating USENET sites - is that not a similar concept? Prior art? (Chapter 1, page 9)
Ok, so it doesn't mention IP addresses explicitly, but I'm sure that was a component in its design. (Without using google to find more specific details)
The same could theoretically be said of most gaming consoles (in my tiny little opinion) As a consumer, which do I choose? There are far too many! Which is good, which is crap?
I end up sticking with the PC simply because I can't answer the above question - besides that, the games are stupidly overpriced where I live - Piracy is rampant, PC games are priced not too far above their illegal counterparts. 1000 peso (About 15 us Dollars) will get pretty much most originals (minus the oversized empty box and manuals) - though they are original.
I'm not sure if it's ice age or just hotter, though for the past 7 years or so I've been living in the tropics, at this time of year (where I am now) it's meant to be the 'dry' season - what seems unusual to me is that there has been pretty much constant cloud cover for the past two years (Taiwan / philippine area)
Overall the temperature has been a little lower than usual - I have no idea what that means, if anything. I recall people saying the used to be able to set their watches by the monsoonal rains - not anymore.
If it's harder to exploit, then it must be better. If it breaks backward compatibility, well, that's the price of encryption. It's not meant to be easy, people that bitch about passwords being too complicated, are the very people that are the easiest targets.
They might think they have nothing to hide, but who are they to judge the value of their perceived insignificance.
Phrack used to be 'mirrored' internally by the CSE in Canada (Communications Security establishment) - I remember reading about forth - how one could use it at boot up to gain root on a sparc 5 - well I tried it, it worked, I got my arse kicked after showing my boss...
I'm glad you're gone Phrack, damn you, damn you to hell! You made me get myself in trouble. Not for getting root, no, that got me promoted, but for wasting DSD's resources to find it on an obscure unlisted server overseas. (Don't worry Mike, it was stand alone!)
How does radar jamming work - you make your signal more attractive than the faint echo. It gets more complicated with pulse modulation and frequency hopping, but same deal really.
How do you break an encryption stream? You spike either side of the link so that they have to re-negotiate their details, record the result - it's called active sigint.
wifi uses just the same modulation methods as the vast majority of satellite transmissions - QPSK/CDMA etc. It's not really as difficult as one might think.
Just need a spec-an, modem, bit capture card, some software, a linux box, or Sun powered whatever.
It's not cheap, but for those serious enough - remember joe-dumbarse-billionair with his apple laptop has no clue about security, he pays someone to handle that. Thus the well off a good target for a lot of fraud.
In the Philippines all DVD players (that I've seen) have no region coding - many of the pirated DVD's are literally identical to the originals - complete with holograms, and full colour covers. Some even have duplicates of the books. (That look original as well)
They sell here for about 80 peso (about $1.50 US) - the originals sell from at about the 300 to 400 peso mark. When you can't tell the difference between the pirated version and the originals - which do you pick?
With the 'very limited' exception of Germany, no european country exists within 'Echelon' - Besides, that's a PHB word that is 'never' used by the troops. "Echelon" It's just a penis slinging managerial term that was tossed about 10 years ago.
Because existing intercept systems were in place long before this crud known as carnivore surfaced. Why go to the ISP's when you can sit back and 'dictate' to the telco's that they 'WILL' run a cable from all their major exchanges, straight on in to the 'spy' agencies.
Either that, or their license to do whatever is revoked on 'technical' grounds.
Governments have no 'Obligation' beyond the will of the masses.
The reality (at least in my tiny little world) is that the desires of the masses (The Public) are lost amongst the back petting, self congratulation, and little old boys club attitudes of Management through to Ministers (Politicians) - I've seen this first hand.
Laws pushed through government that allow the DSD to monitor 'Domestic Non Communications Signals' - this allows DSD to monitor a limited set of transmissions originating 'in country' - What exactly is a 'Non Communications Signal' then?...
Think spinny parabolic mesh thingy - you've probably seen them at your local airport.
The laws are all public domain - anyone can read them on the internet, I'm sure we have our fair share of crap laws as well.
My personal opinion, I position all people as equal. The government is 'people' too.
I know working for DSD all of the laws relating to 'intercept of communications' are also valid for joe public - meaning what I do in the lab, the public can also do without repercussion from law enforcement.
It seems odd that a library should be alowed to do something, yet the German public can not. Was it to affect me, I'd lobby against the law. Write politicians and such. I'm not one for conspiracy theories, though such exemptions are usually a good start for more stupid laws.
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I often wonder if this is an accurate comment - surely they have a big database full of keys they 'know' they've printed little green or blue stickers for right?
I know xpkey comes included on a lot of pirated XP cd's here in the Philippines, or if not, the guy or girl selling the CD advises you to download it.
Original
XP Professional costs roughly 8000 peso (US $160) XP Home about 5000 (US $100)
Pirated
XP Pro 100 peso.
XP Home 100 peso.
Is 'well' better than 'good'?
I use tightvnc (www.tightvnc.com) - works good over a modem connection.
I've got a book, Unix A practical Guide - first published in 1994 with a map of the US, on it are interconnecting points indicating USENET sites - is that not a similar concept? Prior art? (Chapter 1, page 9)
Ok, so it doesn't mention IP addresses explicitly, but I'm sure that was a component in its design. (Without using google to find more specific details)
Free also in the Philippines. Local in Metro Manila is up to about 50 kilometers, but it's all geographic and a little sporadic.
No. I can not. Do I need to? I just think it would be 'nice'
Does everything have to be for 'money' can humans not be nice just for the hell of it?
I was kind of hoping they would release the API's to the 'public' rather than just those willing to pay the extortion fee.
Nice to see they are doing something, it's better than dragging it through the courts for years on end.
The same could theoretically be said of most gaming consoles (in my tiny little opinion) As a consumer, which do I choose? There are far too many! Which is good, which is crap?
I end up sticking with the PC simply because I can't answer the above question - besides that, the games are stupidly overpriced where I live - Piracy is rampant, PC games are priced not too far above their illegal counterparts. 1000 peso (About 15 us Dollars) will get pretty much most originals (minus the oversized empty box and manuals) - though they are original.
I'm not sure if it's ice age or just hotter, though for the past 7 years or so I've been living in the tropics, at this time of year (where I am now) it's meant to be the 'dry' season - what seems unusual to me is that there has been pretty much constant cloud cover for the past two years (Taiwan / philippine area)
Overall the temperature has been a little lower than usual - I have no idea what that means, if anything. I recall people saying the used to be able to set their watches by the monsoonal rains - not anymore.
'shurug the shoulders' - who really knows.
er, you could try windows media player :-)
Why should encryption schemes follow a standard?
If it's harder to exploit, then it must be better. If it breaks backward compatibility, well, that's the price of encryption. It's not meant to be easy, people that bitch about passwords being too complicated, are the very people that are the easiest targets.
They might think they have nothing to hide, but who are they to judge the value of their perceived insignificance.
Absoulutely nothing. Ciphire might be 'the good guys' but how can you tell? Sure, they are 'going' to release their code, but what's in it right now?
Phrack used to be 'mirrored' internally by the CSE in Canada (Communications Security establishment) - I remember reading about forth - how one could use it at boot up to gain root on a sparc 5 - well I tried it, it worked, I got my arse kicked after showing my boss...
I'm glad you're gone Phrack, damn you, damn you to hell! You made me get myself in trouble. Not for getting root, no, that got me promoted, but for wasting DSD's resources to find it on an obscure unlisted server overseas. (Don't worry Mike, it was stand alone!)
The old phrack was good, new, not so good.
A biologist friend of mine studying ross-river-virus explained that it was related to our emission of carbon dioxide. They 'smell' it.
At least, that's what I think was said - I was pretty drunk at the time...
Was there meant to be an earth shattering kaboom?
How does radar jamming work - you make your signal more attractive than the faint echo. It gets more complicated with pulse modulation and frequency hopping, but same deal really.
How do you break an encryption stream? You spike either side of the link so that they have to re-negotiate their details, record the result - it's called active sigint.
wifi uses just the same modulation methods as the vast majority of satellite transmissions - QPSK/CDMA etc. It's not really as difficult as one might think.
Just need a spec-an, modem, bit capture card, some software, a linux box, or Sun powered whatever.
It's not cheap, but for those serious enough - remember joe-dumbarse-billionair with his apple laptop has no clue about security, he pays someone to handle that. Thus the well off a good target for a lot of fraud.
It takes money to make money I guess.
In the Philippines all DVD players (that I've seen) have no region coding - many of the pirated DVD's are literally identical to the originals - complete with holograms, and full colour covers. Some even have duplicates of the books. (That look original as well)
They sell here for about 80 peso (about $1.50 US) - the originals sell from at about the 300 to 400 peso mark. When you can't tell the difference between the pirated version and the originals - which do you pick?
With the 'very limited' exception of Germany, no european country exists within 'Echelon' - Besides, that's a PHB word that is 'never' used by the troops. "Echelon" It's just a penis slinging managerial term that was tossed about 10 years ago.
:-)
Call it 5 eyes
Because existing intercept systems were in place long before this crud known as carnivore surfaced. Why go to the ISP's when you can sit back and 'dictate' to the telco's that they 'WILL' run a cable from all their major exchanges, straight on in to the 'spy' agencies.
;-)
Either that, or their license to do whatever is revoked on 'technical' grounds.
The old boys club in action
I do agree with you - the method just moves on to baseball bats and such. My bad. I never thought about it that way till your comment.
I'm a little stunned 16 thousand gun deaths per year, that is HUGE. I've just googled about for some Australian stats - about 100 per state, per year!
We seem to be way better off even per capita!
Amazing.
Governments have no 'Obligation' beyond the will of the masses.
The reality (at least in my tiny little world) is that the desires of the masses (The Public) are lost amongst the back petting, self congratulation, and little old boys club attitudes of Management through to Ministers (Politicians) - I've seen this first hand.
Laws pushed through government that allow the DSD to monitor 'Domestic Non Communications Signals' - this allows DSD to monitor a limited set of transmissions originating 'in country' - What exactly is a 'Non Communications Signal' then?...
Think spinny parabolic mesh thingy - you've probably seen them at your local airport.
The laws are all public domain - anyone can read them on the internet, I'm sure we have our fair share of crap laws as well.
My personal opinion, I position all people as equal. The government is 'people' too.
I know working for DSD all of the laws relating to 'intercept of communications' are also valid for joe public - meaning what I do in the lab, the public can also do without repercussion from law enforcement.
It seems odd that a library should be alowed to do something, yet the German public can not. Was it to affect me, I'd lobby against the law. Write politicians and such. I'm not one for conspiracy theories, though such exemptions are usually a good start for more stupid laws.