I tried the Spoofing test page on Mozilla Firebird 0.7.
The status bar says "www.microsoft.com[]" the last character isn't actually braces, but one of those double-byte boxes with the numbers 00,01 in it. So Firebird *sorta* fails the test in that regard, because it doesn't display the true address. The weird character at least alerts you that *something* isn't right, though.
The address appears correctly in the address bar after you click the link.
Garden of the Gods doesn't look like mars. There are manmade rock formations *everywhere*. Rocks of all sizes arranged in patterns, stacked on top of each other, etc. Now if they had just been left as is, maybe it would have looked like mars. Although i think the latest mars pics remind me of pics of Antarctica (places where there's no snow anyway).
Um, I don't know what definition of average you are using, but according to the rest of the world's definition, what you just said is wrong.
If you have ten users, and their bandwidth usage is
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,100
Then the average is 10. 9 out of 10 users are "below average", which is nowhere near half.
Now, i grant you that in this particular situation, i don't doubt that roughly half the users are "above average" in bandwidth. But it's not "by definition".
My take on this is that the feds cannot most encryption - there's no way they are breaking 1024bit PGP and the like, not with brute force or mere analytical technique. No, more likely, then get a search warrant for your house, take your computer, and find the plain text password and secret key on it. That doesn't count, it my mind.
This announcement is just a bluff - "don't you criminals use encryption, because we can break it!" I think they are lying. I think they are doing anything they can to discourage encryption because they can't break it.
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That would work for a while, until people started scanning ports out of order.
Hahaha. You've never used java before, and it sounds like you've never even heard of it, otherwise you'd know it's platform independent.
I tried the Spoofing test page on Mozilla Firebird 0.7. The status bar says "www.microsoft.com[]" the last character isn't actually braces, but one of those double-byte boxes with the numbers 00,01 in it. So Firebird *sorta* fails the test in that regard, because it doesn't display the true address. The weird character at least alerts you that *something* isn't right, though. The address appears correctly in the address bar after you click the link.
Garden of the Gods doesn't look like mars. There are manmade rock formations *everywhere*. Rocks of all sizes arranged in patterns, stacked on top of each other, etc. Now if they had just been left as is, maybe it would have looked like mars. Although i think the latest mars pics remind me of pics of Antarctica (places where there's no snow anyway).
Um, I don't know what definition of average you are using, but according to the rest of the world's definition, what you just said is wrong. If you have ten users, and their bandwidth usage is 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,100 Then the average is 10. 9 out of 10 users are "below average", which is nowhere near half. Now, i grant you that in this particular situation, i don't doubt that roughly half the users are "above average" in bandwidth. But it's not "by definition".
My take on this is that the feds cannot most encryption - there's no way they are breaking 1024bit PGP and the like, not with brute force or mere analytical technique. No, more likely, then get a search warrant for your house, take your computer, and find the plain text password and secret key on it. That doesn't count, it my mind. This announcement is just a bluff - "don't you criminals use encryption, because we can break it!" I think they are lying. I think they are doing anything they can to discourage encryption because they can't break it.