Curious. Considering that MRI's involve intense magnetic fields, how can you safely ( as in the headphones not being torn off your head ) wear them?
Plus how can the speakers work with out significant distortion?
I like the recommendation put forth in the summary:
They also suggest Android devices should be required to document all pre-installed apps, plus their purpose, and name the entity responsible for each piece of software -- and do so in a manner that is "accessible and understandable to users."
In the early 2000s, there was a GNU project to build a secure online voting system.
The article has nothing to do with online voting. It is talking about more secure and verifiable systems than are currently used at polling stations.
To cite one example from the article:
In a voting system, this means the hardware would prevent, for example, someone entering a voting booth and slipping a malicious memory card into the system and tricking the system into recording 20 votes for one vote cast, as researchers have shown could be done with some voting systems.
I ordered a pair of prescription glasses from clearly.ca for $40 CAD. They were delivered to my door the next day. Checking on their site right now, I see glasses for as low as $25 CAD.
I'm curious whether any improvements made to the open source code would be back-ported into Windows?
I often use the date calculation feature in calc.exe. Sometimes I inadvertently click on the "Calculate" button instead of "=" when doing an arithmetic calculation, however, and once clicked, I can't go back to using the numeric functions without closing and reopening the program.
Yes, there will be good guys who will use this to reverse-engineer malware to design patches. There will also be bad guys who will use it to reverse-engineer patches to design malware.
Here's a scenario: A security researcher discovers a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. Remotely executable. Root-level access. Being a responsible researcher, the information is provided quietly to Microsoft before being announced publicly, so they are given a chance to develop a patch. Somewhere down the road, Microsoft releases a patch.
What happens immediately is that people start reverse-engineering the patch. What modules is it touching? Let's look very closely at those modules, maybe do some fuzzing, see if we can figure out what's exploitable. I once saw Halvar Flake give a talk on this that was both impressive and frightening. A person with his level of skill could potentially develop an exploit by reverse-engineering a patch in a matter of hours. Much faster than many people would be deploying the patch.
Sure, growing numbers of users fueled commercialization, but it's the numbers that matter, not whether or not the users are "technical". My point is that blaming the current state of the Internet on "non-technical" users is both erroneous and elitist.
I've been in IT for over 35 years, and frankly it's the elitist part that bugs me the most. I'm tired of "technical" people who believe they're superior because they understand the technical underpinnings of the Internet. It's like a mechanic thinking they're a better driver than everyone else because they know what a camshaft does.
Who knew this would turn the Internet to a shithole where cheap tricks for data collection and crap dominate in such a short time.
That happened because dumb people flooded onto the internet and their choices overwhelmed the choices of the more technical crowd on the net in the 80's who would never have tolerated the shitfest that the non-techie crowd went all-in for.
No. There certainly was a flood of non-technical users, but this is not what ruined the Internet. What ruined it was commercialization, beginning with the its use as a advertising platform, and culminating with its transformation into a surveillance & data mining platform.
Why doesn't Apple revoke the certificates and then provide new ones to the legitimate enterprises? Isn't that the reason Certificate Revocation Lists were invented - to stop the use of compromised certificates?
Why not keep all that digital cash in one or several wallets that you control?
Perhaps he was in a situation similar to one I was in a while back. I purchased a small amount of bitcoin on a whim, and decided I would stick it in an offline wallet. That's when I discovered that the exchange would have charged a significant fee to transfer it out. From what I understand, these transactions fees are variable, and can get quite high depending on circumstances. You basically have to pay someone to perform the blockchain calculations for your transaction.
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EverCrypt is the first library to be provably secure against known hacking attacks.
Known hacking attacks.
Things like allowing Google to have more fingers in your email pie.
Gmail already has an entire fist up that pie.
The promise of AMP for Email is that it'll turn basic messages into a surface for actually getting things done.
Things like increasing the attack surface of your e-mail client.
Curious. Considering that MRI's involve intense magnetic fields, how can you safely ( as in the headphones not being torn off your head ) wear them? Plus how can the speakers work with out significant distortion?
There are special (non-metallic) pneumatic headphones.
No Guns & Ammo?
That's a different kind of magazine.
I like the recommendation put forth in the summary:
They also suggest Android devices should be required to document all pre-installed apps, plus their purpose, and name the entity responsible for each piece of software -- and do so in a manner that is "accessible and understandable to users."
In the early 2000s, there was a GNU project to build a secure online voting system.
The article has nothing to do with online voting. It is talking about more secure and verifiable systems than are currently used at polling stations.
To cite one example from the article:
In a voting system, this means the hardware would prevent, for example, someone entering a voting booth and slipping a malicious memory card into the system and tricking the system into recording 20 votes for one vote cast, as researchers have shown could be done with some voting systems.
You never heard of a sundial?
I ordered a pair of prescription glasses from clearly.ca for $40 CAD. They were delivered to my door the next day. Checking on their site right now, I see glasses for as low as $25 CAD.
that reward went unclaimed? How long was it our there before someone noticed?
I'm curious whether any improvements made to the open source code would be back-ported into Windows?
I often use the date calculation feature in calc.exe. Sometimes I inadvertently click on the "Calculate" button instead of "=" when doing an arithmetic calculation, however, and once clicked, I can't go back to using the numeric functions without closing and reopening the program.
The tool is ideal for software engineers...
Yes, there will be good guys who will use this to reverse-engineer malware to design patches. There will also be bad guys who will use it to reverse-engineer patches to design malware.
Here's a scenario: A security researcher discovers a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. Remotely executable. Root-level access. Being a responsible researcher, the information is provided quietly to Microsoft before being announced publicly, so they are given a chance to develop a patch. Somewhere down the road, Microsoft releases a patch.
What happens immediately is that people start reverse-engineering the patch. What modules is it touching? Let's look very closely at those modules, maybe do some fuzzing, see if we can figure out what's exploitable. I once saw Halvar Flake give a talk on this that was both impressive and frightening. A person with his level of skill could potentially develop an exploit by reverse-engineering a patch in a matter of hours. Much faster than many people would be deploying the patch.
You just lost the debate.
ought to be enough for anybody.
Sure, growing numbers of users fueled commercialization, but it's the numbers that matter, not whether or not the users are "technical". My point is that blaming the current state of the Internet on "non-technical" users is both erroneous and elitist.
I've been in IT for over 35 years, and frankly it's the elitist part that bugs me the most. I'm tired of "technical" people who believe they're superior because they understand the technical underpinnings of the Internet. It's like a mechanic thinking they're a better driver than everyone else because they know what a camshaft does.
Who knew this would turn the Internet to a shithole where cheap tricks for data collection and crap dominate in such a short time.
That happened because dumb people flooded onto the internet and their choices overwhelmed the choices of the more technical crowd on the net in the 80's who would never have tolerated the shitfest that the non-techie crowd went all-in for.
No. There certainly was a flood of non-technical users, but this is not what ruined the Internet. What ruined it was commercialization, beginning with the its use as a advertising platform, and culminating with its transformation into a surveillance & data mining platform.
... the merchant pays the fee, and is banned from passing the fee onto the customer.
Of course they pass on the fee, as with any other expenses incurred in selling a product. They're encapsulated in what's known as a "price tag".
trying to copyright the head bob.
Are you sure? If the certificates have been revoked, why would an iPhone allow the app to be installed?
Why doesn't Apple revoke the certificates and then provide new ones to the legitimate enterprises? Isn't that the reason Certificate Revocation Lists were invented - to stop the use of compromised certificates?
for the those with power and influence.
I have an app called Safari on my iPhone. There is quite a bit of porn accessible with it.
Why not keep all that digital cash in one or several wallets that you control?
Perhaps he was in a situation similar to one I was in a while back. I purchased a small amount of bitcoin on a whim, and decided I would stick it in an offline wallet. That's when I discovered that the exchange would have charged a significant fee to transfer it out. From what I understand, these transactions fees are variable, and can get quite high depending on circumstances. You basically have to pay someone to perform the blockchain calculations for your transaction.
Don't call yourself a "whitehat" if you refuse to behave honorably unless paid a "bounty".
Some experts say the tech is potentially decades away from being viable.
Better get started then.