If you read the whole whitepaper, the authors say (p15) that an attacker could use the vulnerability to turn on the "search across computers" feature.
The whitepaper is well written and worth the read. It's a pretty scary vulnerability.
It should be the other way around. A group of average people can tell a geek how to shower. They can teach him that long greasy hair in a ponytail is not a fashion statement. They could even take him shopping to buy clothes that aren't just t-shirts with nerdy slogans or anime characters on them.
In the case where Microsoft Word is being used as the HTML e-mail editor for Microsoft Outlook, this document could be an e-mail, however the user would need to reply to, or forward the mail message in order for the vulnerability to be exploited.
From reading the security bulletin, if you use Word as your email editor and you reply/forward a message with this bug in the html, you could get infected. How long before someone silently embeds this in every outgoing email message? If someone exploits this, it could be REALLY bad.
Exxon's speedpass and the automatic toll payment systems use RFID. Both are very convenient. They do require you to give credit card info, but it is a conscious decision and you can always opt not to do it.
What about high-res images of the largest mountain in the solar system (which also happens to be an extinct volcano). It is almost 3 times as high as Mt. Everest (over 16 miles high), and MUCH bigger in area. After the ice caps, Olympus Mons is clearly the most interesting surface feature of Mars.
I know it's outside US juristiction for the sportsbooks, but is it illegal for someone within the US to bet on one of these sites? I've done it before and I always just assumed that it was legal.
The military is not going to deploy something that will disrupt its own ability to communicate on the battlefield.
from the article: without hindering US forces' own communications systems. Clearly the DoD thought this through a little more than most people here give them credit for.
IMO this is a really cool project. All the people complaining about the gamma ray "nuke" should be happy about this method of disrupting communications without bombing things.
I don't understand how this system can be abused. From the post: WhittleBit will use your feedback to determine which keywords should be added or removed from your search, then you can search again to get more accurate results.
People are not changing how the search engine ranks the results for other people, it is just slightly modifying your query to produce more precise results. How can that be abused to make trash sites show up with rank 1?
Tracking ability would be really nice (or horrible) for verifying that something was actually sent. Privacy concerns aside, it is a lot more difficult for your mortgage payment to get "lost in the mail" if you have a tracking number for it.
IMO the loss of privacy is minimal, but the gain in convenience is huge.
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Didn't Larry Summers get run out of Harvard for saying very similar things?
If you read the whole whitepaper, the authors say (p15) that an attacker could use the vulnerability to turn on the "search across computers" feature.
The whitepaper is well written and worth the read. It's a pretty scary vulnerability.
It should be the other way around. A group of average people can tell a geek how to shower. They can teach him that long greasy hair in a ponytail is not a fashion statement. They could even take him shopping to buy clothes that aren't just t-shirts with nerdy slogans or anime characters on them.
but if someone can change your password, the account is no longer very useful. you can't even reply to confirmation emails then.
yeah, i have no sense of humor *blush*
not all that secure http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2003/May/100 6728.html
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,21490,00 .html
people have met back up with cargo
(hubble repair mission)
In the case where Microsoft Word is being used as the HTML e-mail editor for Microsoft Outlook, this document could be an e-mail, however the user would need to reply to, or forward the mail message in order for the vulnerability to be exploited.
From reading the security bulletin, if you use Word as your email editor and you reply/forward a message with this bug in the html, you could get infected. How long before someone silently embeds this in every outgoing email message? If someone exploits this, it could be REALLY bad.
Not if De Beers has anything to say about it!
Oooops! :)
Exxon's speedpass and the automatic toll payment systems use RFID. Both are very convenient. They do require you to give credit card info, but it is a conscious decision and you can always opt not to do it.
What about high-res images of the largest mountain in the solar system (which also happens to be an extinct volcano). It is almost 3 times as high as Mt. Everest (over 16 miles high), and MUCH bigger in area. After the ice caps, Olympus Mons is clearly the most interesting surface feature of Mars.
I know it's outside US juristiction for the sportsbooks, but is it illegal for someone within the US to bet on one of these sites? I've done it before and I always just assumed that it was legal.
from the article: without hindering US forces' own communications systems. Clearly the DoD thought this through a little more than most people here give them credit for.
IMO this is a really cool project. All the people complaining about the gamma ray "nuke" should be happy about this method of disrupting communications without bombing things.
People are not changing how the search engine ranks the results for other people, it is just slightly modifying your query to produce more precise results. How can that be abused to make trash sites show up with rank 1?
Tracking ability would be really nice (or horrible) for verifying that something was actually sent. Privacy concerns aside, it is a lot more difficult for your mortgage payment to get "lost in the mail" if you have a tracking number for it. IMO the loss of privacy is minimal, but the gain in convenience is huge.