Since the last major public study on movie piracy in 2003 [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03-tr.pdf], concluded that 77 percent of pirated movies actually come from industry insiders and movie reviewers, "camcording" is not something the Motion Picture Association of America should really be concerned with.
I suspect we'll see
an act making any copying of a DVD
an indictable (criminal) offence rather than somthing
one deals with in a lawsuit.
And, since German companies will still need their services, they'll
get to pay a higher price to the same people, now relocated to
Austria, Holland and Kitchener/Waterloo...
Prohibition of computer safety tools opens Bundestrojaner door and gate
May 25, 2007 (46halbe) The Bundestag has today the prohibition of computer safety tools invariably durchgewunken (criminal law law of change for the fight of the computer criminality, more again 202 StGB). To be punished is in particular a manufacturing, a programming, a leaving, a spreading or providing software, which is urgently necessary for the daily work of network administrators and safety experts.
The Bundestag has today the prohibition of computer safety tools invariably durchgewunken (criminal law law of change for the fight of the computer criminality, more again 202 StGB). To be punished is in particular a manufacturing, a programming, a leaving, a spreading or providing software, which is urgently necessary for the daily work of network administrators and safety experts.
With it the delegates acted against the express advice of the experts belonged in the committees with the consultation of the law out of science and practice. Also on the part of the InterNet economy and from the Upper House of Parliament the law change had been criticized sharply. With exception of the Party of Democratic Socialism and a lonely SPD delegate now the completely large coalition that votierte notion lots to make Germany the professional disqualification zone for computer safety experts.
By expressed far version law becomes possession, which production and the spreading of preventive tools, with which security can be examined by computers, in Germany punishable. These tools are however essential, in order to ensure the security from computer systems to. The general prohibition of this software is to be forbidden about as helpfully as the production and the sales of hammers, because sometimes thereby also damages are accomplished.
Andy Mueller Maguhn, speaker of the chaos computer club, commentated: "the prohibition of the possession of computer safety tools opens also for the employment of the Bundestrojaners door and gate industry and citizen systematically the possibility is taken of examining their systems adequately for security. This prohibition endangers the security of the IT location Germany."
As the automobile industry, is examined in the computer industry the system security makes its vehicles with Crashtests safer by the controlled employment by attack programs. It will be legally no longer free of doubts possible in the future for sensitive computer systems will test whether they are safe or not.
On the yearly congress of the federal office for security in the information technology (BSI) Minister of the Interior Schaeuble announced planned certifying "more trustworthily" to Sicherheitsdienstleister. With this step obviously the abilities and the knowledge, which are necessary for effective safety examinations of computer systems, are into which hands by yard suppliers handread out by the government are monopolized, while the independent computer safety research can be kriminalisiert as desired selectively.
CCC speaker Mueller Maguhn in addition: "the explanations of the Minister of the Interior for computer security are pure lip-service. Here systematically the legal and organizational framework is created, in order to make citizens and enterprises defenseless opposite computer attacks, restaurant economics and also the Bundestrojaner. Safety research can take place only in an unacceptable legal gray area."
Ask them their company, and then tell them that if they wish, you will be happy to
fporward their name to HR to be put on the list... of vendors who were banned from
ever dealing with your company again.
At a certain large veteran's hospital, telephone solicitors used to
call every phone in the building, one after another, trying to
sell stuff to the patients.
As it happens, the local sysadmin looked after quite a number of machines which
updated each other via uucp, so he added an
aggressive contact schedule for
the number the telephone solicitors were calling from.
After a few hours of autodialing by a pool of uupcds, he commented out the
new number and called them by voice, to see if they would now agree
not to call the patients.
In the Tom Clancy novel Debt of Honor, written
seven years before 9/11, "an embittered Japanese airline pilot crashing his Boeing 747 into the U.S. Capitol building during a joint session of Congress with the President attending. He does this to avenge the deaths of his brother and son during the war. This paves the way for Ryan, who has just been appointed Vice President, to become President in the next book, Executive Orders." [source: Wikipedia article referenced above]
Just look through the popular press for suitable man-made disasters that they
already know how to implement, and you have El Queda's to-do list.
CastrTroy wrote:If you're worried about how much data Google and doubleclick are collecting,...
You'd be surprised what "innocuous" information can be used to your disadvantage.
A notable example, from right after the birth-control pill was introduced, was the
DBA who did a query on a drugstore system for customers with a birth-control prescriptions,
but was blocked from getting the customers' addresses. So he took the set of names from that query and did a soundex lookup for matching names on a library system, where the home addresses were not protected.
You can imagine the furor that caused at the time!
With the exception of a very few high-priced services, no ISP
has as much back-end bandwidth as they have customers. Instead,
they have enough to guarantee a certain level of service
on average, plus some extra for bursts of load.
This has been true since the days of the 300-baud acoustic coupler,
and isn't going to change. Unless, of course, everyone hits the lottery jackpot
at once and decides to give a million or two to their favorite ISP.
What one does to deal with finite bandwidth is to prioritize
interactive traffic over file transfer, which is a variant of what we're
seeing here. The problem is that the mechanisms used to tell interactive
from batch gets the wrong answer right now.
So we (::= the IETF) improve the technology and prioritize
video streams tagged "real-time" over streams tagged "on my way to Dave's PVR"
The claim in the article was trivially possible
back in the days of CP/M, minis and mainframes:
Pascal was compiled to
p-code and interpreted on eveything from na 8-bit
Z-80 to a 80-bit CDC.
I daresay we've improved on that since, with
perl as one obvious example.
I've lived on systems more stringent thn the parent poster dscribes, and
didn't even notice. Multics with Access Isolation Mechanism, and (Real,
Military) Trusted Solaris.
Almost all of that could be provided by a dedicated machine running
the NSA's Linux and sold as a firewall, with negligable setup involved for ordinary users.
In Canada, the "Hate Speech" prohibition exists, but is modeled
on "inciting a riot", so that the crown has to demonstrate that
a crime such as assault, murder or destruction of property will
follow, to substantial degree of probability.
I tend to think of it as an "accessory before the fact"
charge, with appropriate hurdles for the prosecutor to
get over, soas to ensure it isn't used to lable everyone
who criticises my religion as a criminal.
Greg Koenig wrote: I do not believe that Solaris 10 is supported on notebook computers, so I do not believe that wireless cards are typical hardware for Solaris.
Well, I'm typing this from a Sun SPARC laptop, and the wireless drivers are there, as well
as a gui from Tadpole for configuring/diagnosing them. They were available somewhere in the Solaris 9
lifetime.
For cards where there are only or primarily proprietary drivers, Solaris is actually
a pretty good bet, as Sun made the effort to go out and buy them and make them available
on both SPARC and x86. Breifly, there were more Solaris wireless drivers than Linux, but
Linux and the BSDs have since mostly caught up (;-))
The real effort here is to back up an announced
lobbying effort to get the current government to
pass a law making "camcording" an indictable offense
under the federal Criminal Code.
A spokesman for the Canadian equivalent of the MPAA
was interviewed about that yesterday on the national
radio network, CBC, saying just that, and
pointing to the Warner Brothers action as justification
Of course, the copying is an inside job, as orclevegam
noted, so I predict that in the hearings on the law, "camcording"
will b replaced with "copying", thus making any copying
of DVDs a federal crime.
This is an old religious debate coming back to haunt
us once more... When the ARPAnet was up, running
and mature, the ISO proposed a reference model for
networking which lad seven layers, unlike the ARPAnet's
three (network, host-to-host and application).
Some non-practitioners believed far too much
in the reference model, and went so far as to claim
that layering should never be adjusted for actual cases.
The people recommending the ISO Reference Model (ISORM)
were referred to as the "ISORMists" by the ARPAnauts, and
were good, critical colleagues: they started some intelligent
discussions.
The people claiming that other layerings were improper and/or
infeasible were less than useful, and eventually were
named the ISORmites, pronounced eye-sore-mites.
Mike Padlipsky has a good description of the
religious wars in his booklet "The Elements of Networking Style"
Englewood Cliffs, NJ (Prentice-Hall) 1985. I recommend
it if you can get your hands on a copy.
Over ten years ago a colleage and I were asked to propose just
such an encrypted phone, using what was then a new
technique, public/private key pairs for the key exchange.
The phones were to be "seeded" with an intial public-key
repository's key.
While Linux isn't quite there yet, my old
Tadpole SPARC laptop yields sparkling performance despite having
exactly the same unimpressive small-format disk as the departmental
XP loaner.
The XP box spends all it's time with the disk
queue full, while the Unix box sorts and coalesces its
requsts and hardly shows any disk wait at all, as
well as loading and starting the same release of Open
Office in about 1/3 the time (by wristwatch).
Good algorythms yeild orders of magnitude improvements:
good hardware yields small-integer-number improvement. Guess
which is the most cost-effective!
In one of the
best papers from the CMG2004 conference, Michael Maddox
wrote:
4.2 Excitement Level
At level 1 [firefighting], the system's performance behavior is uncertain, producing downtime, instability, and poor user productivity. Management and their teams' stress levels remain high, even between crises. One never knows which system will fail next, and in which location. Crises bring out heroism in individual workers searching for ways to stand out from the crowd. Workers are rewarded for outstanding efforts, yet there may be only a limited effort to prevent the circumstances that led to heroic efforts.
The net results is that people who have been praised for firefighting are going to want to do more of it, and they will
act to undercut any effort to raise the maturity level of the organization. Preventing problems would starve them of recognition, and might, in their view, lead to their being laid off. Instead, they prefer to have problems, the more the better.
One of my customers suffered from this very problem,
but failed to even see it as a problem, and so continues to this day to publically praise and reward the firefighters.
It's needless to say that unless management intervenes, such companies will quietly turn into Wally, and Asok and Dilbert will leave...
Slashdot Mirror
Alas, some people who ought to know better, including the Globe and Mail, have accepted this story as if it were the truth.
Disappointing, really.
--dave
It's ok, the clean copy from a screener DVD or a quality film scanner will be along in a second (;-))
--dave
Since the last major public study on movie piracy in 2003 [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03-tr.pdf], concluded that 77 percent of pirated movies actually come from industry insiders and movie reviewers, "camcording" is not something the Motion Picture Association of America should really be concerned with. I suspect we'll see an act making any copying of a DVD an indictable (criminal) offence rather than somthing one deals with in a lawsuit.
And, since German companies will still need their services, they'll get to pay a higher price to the same people, now relocated to Austria, Holland and Kitchener/Waterloo ...
--dave
Prohibition of computer safety tools opens Bundestrojaner door and gate
May 25, 2007 (46halbe)
The Bundestag has today the prohibition of computer safety tools invariably durchgewunken (criminal law law of change for the fight of the computer criminality, more again 202 StGB). To be punished is in particular a manufacturing, a programming, a leaving, a spreading or providing software, which is urgently necessary for the daily work of network administrators and safety experts.
The Bundestag has today the prohibition of computer safety tools invariably durchgewunken (criminal law law of change for the fight of the computer criminality, more again 202 StGB). To be punished is in particular a manufacturing, a programming, a leaving, a spreading or providing software, which is urgently necessary for the daily work of network administrators and safety experts.
With it the delegates acted against the express advice of the experts belonged in the committees with the consultation of the law out of science and practice. Also on the part of the InterNet economy and from the Upper House of Parliament the law change had been criticized sharply. With exception of the Party of Democratic Socialism and a lonely SPD delegate now the completely large coalition that votierte notion lots to make Germany the professional disqualification zone for computer safety experts.
By expressed far version law becomes possession, which production and the spreading of preventive tools, with which security can be examined by computers, in Germany punishable. These tools are however essential, in order to ensure the security from computer systems to. The general prohibition of this software is to be forbidden about as helpfully as the production and the sales of hammers, because sometimes thereby also damages are accomplished.
Andy Mueller Maguhn, speaker of the chaos computer club, commentated: "the prohibition of the possession of computer safety tools opens also for the employment of the Bundestrojaners door and gate industry and citizen systematically the possibility is taken of examining their systems adequately for security. This prohibition endangers the security of the IT location Germany."
As the automobile industry, is examined in the computer industry the system security makes its vehicles with Crashtests safer by the controlled employment by attack programs. It will be legally no longer free of doubts possible in the future for sensitive computer systems will test whether they are safe or not.
On the yearly congress of the federal office for security in the information technology (BSI) Minister of the Interior Schaeuble announced planned certifying "more trustworthily" to Sicherheitsdienstleister. With this step obviously the abilities and the knowledge, which are necessary for effective safety examinations of computer systems, are into which hands by yard suppliers handread out by the government are monopolized, while the independent computer safety research can be kriminalisiert as desired selectively.
CCC speaker Mueller Maguhn in addition: "the explanations of the Minister of the Interior for computer security are pure lip-service. Here systematically the legal and organizational framework is created, in order to make citizens and enterprises defenseless opposite computer attacks, restaurant economics and also the Bundestrojaner. Safety research can take place only in an unacceptable legal gray area."
Ask them their company, and then tell them that if they wish, you will be happy to fporward their name to HR to be put on the list... of vendors who were banned from ever dealing with your company again.
--dave
At a certain large veteran's hospital, telephone solicitors used to call every phone in the building, one after another, trying to sell stuff to the patients.
As it happens, the local sysadmin looked after quite a number of machines which updated each other via uucp, so he added an aggressive contact schedule for the number the telephone solicitors were calling from.
After a few hours of autodialing by a pool of uupcds, he commented out the new number and called them by voice, to see if they would now agree not to call the patients.
--dave
In the Tom Clancy novel Debt of Honor, written seven years before 9/11, "an embittered Japanese airline pilot crashing his Boeing 747 into the U.S. Capitol building during a joint session of Congress with the President attending. He does this to avenge the deaths of his brother and son during the war. This paves the way for Ryan, who has just been appointed Vice President, to become President in the next book, Executive Orders." [source: Wikipedia article referenced above]
Just look through the popular press for suitable man-made disasters that they already know how to implement, and you have El Queda's to-do list.
--dave
If so, absolutely, but then where does it get
the "write once" claim???
--dave
CastrTroy wrote:If you're worried about how much data Google and doubleclick are collecting, ...
You'd be surprised what "innocuous" information can be used to your disadvantage. A notable example, from right after the birth-control pill was introduced, was the DBA who did a query on a drugstore system for customers with a birth-control prescriptions, but was blocked from getting the customers' addresses. So he took the set of names from that query and did a soundex lookup for matching names on a library system, where the home addresses were not protected.
You can imagine the furor that caused at the time!
--dave
With the exception of a very few high-priced services, no ISP has as much back-end bandwidth as they have customers. Instead, they have enough to guarantee a certain level of service on average, plus some extra for bursts of load.
This has been true since the days of the 300-baud acoustic coupler, and isn't going to change. Unless, of course, everyone hits the lottery jackpot at once and decides to give a million or two to their favorite ISP.
What one does to deal with finite bandwidth is to prioritize interactive traffic over file transfer, which is a variant of what we're seeing here. The problem is that the mechanisms used to tell interactive from batch gets the wrong answer right now.
So we (::= the IETF) improve the technology and prioritize video streams tagged "real-time" over streams tagged "on my way to Dave's PVR"
--dave
I daresay we've improved on that since, with perl as one obvious example.
--dave
Vista will only contact Active Directory DC over IPv6, and although Samba3 works over IPv6, it won't work as a DC [Dan Shearer]
David Holder has a more detailed presentation of this at http://www.ipv6consultancy.com/ipv6blog/wp-content /uploads/2007/05/samba-and-vista-with-ipv6v2.pdf
but to oversimplify, MS tried to prevent Samba from being an
AD Domain Controller by making IPV6 a prerequisite, with
strictly limited and temporary success (;-))
--dave
--dave
I've lived on systems more stringent thn the parent poster dscribes, and didn't even notice. Multics with Access Isolation Mechanism, and (Real, Military) Trusted Solaris.
Almost all of that could be provided by a dedicated machine running the NSA's Linux and sold as a firewall, with negligable setup involved for ordinary users.
The family wouldn't even notice.
--dave
Sun bought drivers for both: the SPARC ones probably cost more (:-))
--dave
In Canada, the "Hate Speech" prohibition exists, but is modeled on "inciting a riot", so that the crown has to demonstrate that a crime such as assault, murder or destruction of property will follow, to substantial degree of probability.
I tend to think of it as an "accessory before the fact" charge, with appropriate hurdles for the prosecutor to get over, soas to ensure it isn't used to lable everyone who criticises my religion as a criminal.
--dave
Well, I'm typing this from a Sun SPARC laptop, and the wireless drivers are there, as well as a gui from Tadpole for configuring/diagnosing them. They were available somewhere in the Solaris 9 lifetime.
For cards where there are only or primarily proprietary drivers, Solaris is actually a pretty good bet, as Sun made the effort to go out and buy them and make them available on both SPARC and x86. Breifly, there were more Solaris wireless drivers than Linux, but Linux and the BSDs have since mostly caught up (;-))
--dave
About half-way down the page ate
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/when_not_wher
And it's a platform for apps on handheld hardware, so
it's arguably pretty much just a JVM and some support
libs.
--dave
The real effort here is to back up an announced lobbying effort to get the current government to pass a law making "camcording" an indictable offense under the federal Criminal Code.
A spokesman for the Canadian equivalent of the MPAA was interviewed about that yesterday on the national radio network, CBC, saying just that, and pointing to the Warner Brothers action as justification
Of course, the copying is an inside job, as orclevegam noted, so I predict that in the hearings on the law, "camcording" will b replaced with "copying", thus making any copying of DVDs a federal crime.
Much better than that wimpy U.S. law (:-))
--dave
This is an old religious debate coming back to haunt us once more... When the ARPAnet was up, running and mature, the ISO proposed a reference model for networking which lad seven layers, unlike the ARPAnet's three (network, host-to-host and application).
Some non-practitioners believed far too much in the reference model, and went so far as to claim that layering should never be adjusted for actual cases.
The people recommending the ISO Reference Model (ISORM) were referred to as the "ISORMists" by the ARPAnauts, and were good, critical colleagues: they started some intelligent discussions. The people claiming that other layerings were improper and/or infeasible were less than useful, and eventually were named the ISORmites, pronounced eye-sore-mites.
Mike Padlipsky has a good description of the religious wars in his booklet "The Elements of Networking Style" Englewood Cliffs, NJ (Prentice-Hall) 1985. I recommend it if you can get your hands on a copy.
--dave
Over ten years ago a colleage and I were asked to propose just such an encrypted phone, using what was then a new technique, public/private key pairs for the key exchange. The phones were to be "seeded" with an intial public-key repository's key.
--dave
Unless, of course, one is running windows (;-))
While Linux isn't quite there yet, my old Tadpole SPARC laptop yields sparkling performance despite having exactly the same unimpressive small-format disk as the departmental XP loaner.
The XP box spends all it's time with the disk queue full, while the Unix box sorts and coalesces its requsts and hardly shows any disk wait at all, as well as loading and starting the same release of Open Office in about 1/3 the time (by wristwatch).
Good algorythms yeild orders of magnitude improvements: good hardware yields small-integer-number improvement. Guess which is the most cost-effective!
--dave
It's not a similar implementation, but it's very much an elegant instance of a very similar idea.
--dave
In one of the best papers from the CMG2004 conference, Michael Maddox wrote:
The net results is that people who have been praised for firefighting are going to want to do more of it, and they will act to undercut any effort to raise the maturity level of the organization. Preventing problems would starve them of recognition, and might, in their view, lead to their being laid off. Instead, they prefer to have problems, the more the better.
One of my customers suffered from this very problem, but failed to even see it as a problem, and so continues to this day to publically praise and reward the firefighters.
It's needless to say that unless management intervenes, such companies will quietly turn into Wally, and Asok and Dilbert will leave...
--dave