Interestingly, I seem to have a "works here aura" or something too. I've been mistaken for everything from a convenience store manager, to a police detective (by cops -- wtf?), to a doctor, depending on where I go. I don't wear fancy clothes or anything.
I don't see why they didn't just burn it (cryptographically signed) onto a business card sized CD inserted into a pocket of the passport folder. If they used a standardised format (XML+TIFF+GPG signed) then any country could read it without fancy equipment, and noone could make a counterfit.
If it requires non-Free java, the requirements to install it cannot be distributed with it. This adds a step to the install process, and prevents it from being included with distributions that don't have sun-jre distribution agreements with sun microsystems.
I think Canada should ammend the criminal code such that a search warrant that specifies seizing data is effectively a subpoena for the passphrase as well. But there should be no way to subpoena a passphrase for a key that is only used for signing.
Other countries should have similar provisions, but I was thinking of Canada because that's where I am, and the government has the "Lawful Access" consultation process right now. It would lead to much less abuse than banning encryption or requireing backdoors, which is what the council of chiefs of police want.
Unlike other distributed networking programs, such as the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project -- which graphically display their number-crunching progress when a host computer's screen saver is activated -- DNA works silently in the background, completely hidden from the user. Lewis said the Secret Service chose not to call attention to the program, concerned that employees might remove it.
"Computer users often experience system lockups that are often inexplicable, and many users will uninstall programs they don't understand," Lewis said. "As the user base becomes more educated with the program and how it functions, we certainly retain the ability to make it more visible."
Wait... Secret Service employees have administrator rights? This is just wrong. Their IS department should know better.
They won't figgure out my personal passphrase unless their brute forcer mixes english, japanese, aztec, and leet-speak dictionaries, and throws in punctuation in strange places.
But again, I have no data legitimate law enforcement would be even vaguely intrested in. I have had in the past political campaign plans though.
They tried to build a fixed arrangement of mirrors (with a fixed focal length)... and then aim it at a point not at the focal point. A much better test would be to make several hundred flat mirrors with a hole in the middle (signal mirrors... but bigger, to make aiming at the same point easier). Then teach several hundred volunteers how to aim a signal mirror, and tell them all to aim at the same point on a boat.
The magnifying glass would have to be the same area as the sum of the areas of the facets.
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No, it was a laser... very intense highly colimated (parallel) light. This site is about a parabolic reflector, which makes the light converge on a small area. Lasers can target any point in line with the beam. With a parabolic reflector, the light gets weaker (less concentrated) as you move past the focus. Beyond the distance between the reflector and the focal point the light is weaker than the origional light. Of course this is a faceted reflector, so the light isn't really weaker, it's just less and less likely that any point on a plane parallel to the relector will be illuminated the further away from the focal point you are.
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It's just you crashing. Firefox is fine.
Reminds me of AstroBoy.
On this issue, they'd have to relocate somewhere outside of Canada. New Zeland might be OK.
Not only that, but it's the most informative and insightful story today.
I hate it when there's fish in my shoes. Soleless shoes are a great idea.
LCDs use less electricity, and don't flicker.
The local paper here had a front page story (below the fold) about the pope recovering. I thought it was the april fools joke.
Wasn't this a movie plot about that time?
I just did the survey while everyone else was trying to get "frist psot".
Interestingly, I seem to have a "works here aura" or something too. I've been mistaken for everything from a convenience store manager, to a police detective (by cops -- wtf?), to a doctor, depending on where I go. I don't wear fancy clothes or anything.
I thought you were going to say the presidential inquiry had determined that flying a kite in a storm is bad for your health.
A portrait is a biometric measurement.
Encryption devices, not cryptographically signed messages.
Text books.
I don't see why they didn't just burn it (cryptographically signed) onto a business card sized CD inserted into a pocket of the passport folder. If they used a standardised format (XML+TIFF+GPG signed) then any country could read it without fancy equipment, and noone could make a counterfit.
Or lock the pages. UID 0 processes can do this in Linux; I assume it works in windows too (with a different API).
It's easy enough to not flash the disk light... don't access the filesystem except to load the program when it starts.
If it requires non-Free java, the requirements to install it cannot be distributed with it. This adds a step to the install process, and prevents it from being included with distributions that don't have sun-jre distribution agreements with sun microsystems.
I think Canada should ammend the criminal code such that a search warrant that specifies seizing data is effectively a subpoena for the passphrase as well. But there should be no way to subpoena a passphrase for a key that is only used for signing.
Other countries should have similar provisions, but I was thinking of Canada because that's where I am, and the government has the "Lawful Access" consultation process right now. It would lead to much less abuse than banning encryption or requireing backdoors, which is what the council of chiefs of police want.
Wait... Secret Service employees have administrator rights? This is just wrong. Their IS department should know better.
They won't figgure out my personal passphrase unless their brute forcer mixes english, japanese, aztec, and leet-speak dictionaries, and throws in punctuation in strange places.
But again, I have no data legitimate law enforcement would be even vaguely intrested in. I have had in the past political campaign plans though.
Or just less rant.
They tried to build a fixed arrangement of mirrors (with a fixed focal length) ... and then aim it at a point not at the focal point. A much better test would be to make several hundred flat mirrors with a hole in the middle (signal mirrors... but bigger, to make aiming at the same point easier). Then teach several hundred volunteers how to aim a signal mirror, and tell them all to aim at the same point on a boat.
The magnifying glass would have to be the same area as the sum of the areas of the facets.
No, it was a laser... very intense highly colimated (parallel) light. This site is about a parabolic reflector, which makes the light converge on a small area. Lasers can target any point in line with the beam. With a parabolic reflector, the light gets weaker (less concentrated) as you move past the focus. Beyond the distance between the reflector and the focal point the light is weaker than the origional light. Of course this is a faceted reflector, so the light isn't really weaker, it's just less and less likely that any point on a plane parallel to the relector will be illuminated the further away from the focal point you are.