Incidentally, the NPfIT encryption guidelines were written by GCHQ and surprise, surprise, include key escrow. Why any doctor would want to use a system which can forge his signature on medical records is beyond me.
They *already* do this, not because they're scanning things, but because they index files on their hashes in the first place.
Remember "Dropship"? If you knew the hash of a file on Dropbox, you could "teleport" it into your Dropbox storage by using the API to tell Dropbox that you had a file with that hash locally. Since it got used for file-sharing, that was shut down - but it reveals that for de-duping purposes, Dropbox hashes all your files anyway.
It's a trivial matter to take that file, hash it, do a lookup in the table of files that belong to each user, and produce a list of the accounts. It's probably already been done for copyright-infringement suits.
Truck drivers. There sure are a lot of them in the US.
Just how many will there be when you can slap a sensors and servos package on an existing vehicle and have it drive without pause, without pay, consuming 25% less fuel and requiring less maintenance and tyre changes? How many fewer truck stops, diners, mechanics, etc?
Insurance guys are already just fine with putting a black box in your car that records all your movements and adjusting your premium according to how risky your driving profile is.
Any insurer that doesn't get on board with charging less for auto-cars that have a lower risk of crash is going to be undercut by someone else.
But power is not a problem : people have been making pulse-jet powered UAVs for at least a decade. (no, the video is not a UAV, but the only UAV video I could find had no audio and the best thing about pulse jet videos is the audio).
You can make a pulse jet out of bent steel tubing. And because they're powerful, they can be heavy. Because they can run on liquid fuel, they can have endurance. They worked well enough in WWII - their main drawback was their guidance system was shit. Well, now you can buy a powerful computer designed to be integrated into other systems for $4.
Try fending off a swarm of multiple nap-of-earth flying 200MPH heavy payload cruise missiles powered by a pulse jet and a raspberry pi, launched from pickup trucks on a desert highway.
I think he was deliberately increasing the pain to increase his strength in Dark Side. He was already expressing doubts about his strength in the Dark Side for much of the movie, noting that the Light was pulling strongly on him.
In the end, when he had that confrontation on the bridge, he had to put his own life in jeopardy by convincing the guy he met to kill him in order to have the motivation to kill him. He's a bit conflicted, to say the least.
Not necessarily anything conclusive. Commercial software providers can be somewhat hidebound about version control systems.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were using CVS, and if multiple people didn't have access to the repository storage. In which case it's pretty trivial to insert the code in a way where it's impossible to tell the origin.
Git with signed commits would be resistant to hiding the identity of the commit author, but a lot of corporations are paranoid about using it because of a perceived lack of control over it because the repository isn't on a single centrally controlled computer. (Which is silly, because anyone with read-access to the repository can siphon all the history off and copy it elsewhere anyway).
I don't care about room-scale VR, mostly because my office is so small that from where I'm sitting I can touch both walls on either side simultaneously.
What I do care about is image quality. I'd really love to see one of these VRDs with a better FOV and a better per-eye resolution, the whole getup looks lighter than the competing headsets because it doesn't need a screen.
But what I'd really like is for actual product to be available to try out at my local computronics retailer, because no way am I buying one sight unseen.
Nope, I use Thunderbird for email - Outlook is just intolerable. Since the Exchange calendar plugin got taken over by Eriksson, even that is pretty good.
There are no "providers of secure email", by definition, if it's running on someone else's hardware, it's not secure.
There's already an easy encrypted mail plugin for Thunderbird - Enigmail - for all three platforms that uses GPG. The only hard part is key management, and with public key servers available, even that's not as hard as it was - exchange keys, verify the signatures on a phone call, and get mailing.
Sadly mines aren't designed to gib you into chunks, which would be merciful. They're designed to maim you, because a dead soldier just needs a bodybag, but an injured soldier consumes medical resources and food, occupies personnel, and reduces morale by sitting around being all maimed.
Oh, believe me, I was deeply uncomfortable about the whole thing. I think I even reported it to the IT department as a security problem (the certs they were using were self-signed and not even remotely plausible as belonging to our organization at face value - I thought it was a rootkit). I made a point of telling everyone I liked not to do anything even remotely compromising on their work machine.
I've since left that workplace and control my own infrastructure.
I think it was the routine analysis of all our VoIP calls in a voice-processing SIGINT program that really creeped me out though. I only twigged to that one because we used to get the IT dept changelogs for operational reasons) and they were talking about moving it's storage folder to a different SAN.
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Incidentally, the NPfIT encryption guidelines were written by GCHQ and surprise, surprise, include key escrow. Why any doctor would want to use a system which can forge his signature on medical records is beyond me.
They *already* do this, not because they're scanning things, but because they index files on their hashes in the first place.
Remember "Dropship"? If you knew the hash of a file on Dropbox, you could "teleport" it into your Dropbox storage by using the API to tell Dropbox that you had a file with that hash locally. Since it got used for file-sharing, that was shut down - but it reveals that for de-duping purposes, Dropbox hashes all your files anyway.
It's a trivial matter to take that file, hash it, do a lookup in the table of files that belong to each user, and produce a list of the accounts. It's probably already been done for copyright-infringement suits.
No bulk scanning required. Just a lookup.
Truck drivers. There sure are a lot of them in the US.
Just how many will there be when you can slap a sensors and servos package on an existing vehicle and have it drive without pause, without pay, consuming 25% less fuel and requiring less maintenance and tyre changes? How many fewer truck stops, diners, mechanics, etc?
Insurance guys are already just fine with putting a black box in your car that records all your movements and adjusting your premium according to how risky your driving profile is.
Any insurer that doesn't get on board with charging less for auto-cars that have a lower risk of crash is going to be undercut by someone else.
Not so many people actually think about the information they are giving away by using Facebook or a smartphone or any other online service though.
Muffed up the video link :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - Pulse jet UAV from 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - 200MPH Radio controlled pulse jet plane
That's a power consideration.
But power is not a problem : people have been making pulse-jet powered UAVs for at least a decade. (no, the video is not a UAV, but the only UAV video I could find had no audio and the best thing about pulse jet videos is the audio).
You can make a pulse jet out of bent steel tubing. And because they're powerful, they can be heavy. Because they can run on liquid fuel, they can have endurance. They worked well enough in WWII - their main drawback was their guidance system was shit. Well, now you can buy a powerful computer designed to be integrated into other systems for $4.
Try fending off a swarm of multiple nap-of-earth flying 200MPH heavy payload cruise missiles powered by a pulse jet and a raspberry pi, launched from pickup trucks on a desert highway.
Wait until IPv6 becomes necessary...
I think he was deliberately increasing the pain to increase his strength in Dark Side. He was already expressing doubts about his strength in the Dark Side for much of the movie, noting that the Light was pulling strongly on him.
In the end, when he had that confrontation on the bridge, he had to put his own life in jeopardy by convincing the guy he met to kill him in order to have the motivation to kill him. He's a bit conflicted, to say the least.
Not necessarily anything conclusive. Commercial software providers can be somewhat hidebound about version control systems.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were using CVS, and if multiple people didn't have access to the repository storage. In which case it's pretty trivial to insert the code in a way where it's impossible to tell the origin.
Git with signed commits would be resistant to hiding the identity of the commit author, but a lot of corporations are paranoid about using it because of a perceived lack of control over it because the repository isn't on a single centrally controlled computer. (Which is silly, because anyone with read-access to the repository can siphon all the history off and copy it elsewhere anyway).
They install software that stops you writing to USB drives these days, to prevent corporate secrets being stolen.
I bought an F-91W for my daughter to wear to Disney World. She got pulled over for a "random" bag search. She was 8 at the time.
I don't care about room-scale VR, mostly because my office is so small that from where I'm sitting I can touch both walls on either side simultaneously.
What I do care about is image quality. I'd really love to see one of these VRDs with a better FOV and a better per-eye resolution, the whole getup looks lighter than the competing headsets because it doesn't need a screen.
But what I'd really like is for actual product to be available to try out at my local computronics retailer, because no way am I buying one sight unseen.
Which is why a citizens network of ALPR cameras would be useful.
The main reason they're doing this?
So they can cram even more people in coach. Because if you can swap out the passenger accommodation, everywhere on the plane can be coach.
I'm guessing they're not seeing so much success with their programs like asking people to upgrade to "premium coach" (5cm extra legroom) for $30.
Huawei supply a lot of ISPs with routers in the UK ; TalkTalk, amongst others.
Nope, I use Thunderbird for email - Outlook is just intolerable. Since the Exchange calendar plugin got taken over by Eriksson, even that is pretty good.
There are no "providers of secure email", by definition, if it's running on someone else's hardware, it's not secure.
There's already an easy encrypted mail plugin for Thunderbird - Enigmail - for all three platforms that uses GPG. The only hard part is key management, and with public key servers available, even that's not as hard as it was - exchange keys, verify the signatures on a phone call, and get mailing.
One of these little fellows would probably do the job.
I've heard the "if you use X GPL software, all the things you produce are open source as well!!!!" ie for GIMP, your pictures would be OSS, etc.
Such FUD bullshit but people don't seem to want to check the facts or get a real opinion.
We had an in-house "FOSS Briefing" paper structured like an interview. It was so, so full of errors it wasn't true.
650mm wide is definitely possible : http://www.shcopper.com/en/pro...
Sadly mines aren't designed to gib you into chunks, which would be merciful. They're designed to maim you, because a dead soldier just needs a bodybag, but an injured soldier consumes medical resources and food, occupies personnel, and reduces morale by sitting around being all maimed.
Indeed, I tunnelled all my web traffic through my router at home via SSH.
Enabled by Windows, of course, which provides a mechanism of doing this for OEMs to (ab)use.
Oh, believe me, I was deeply uncomfortable about the whole thing. I think I even reported it to the IT department as a security problem (the certs they were using were self-signed and not even remotely plausible as belonging to our organization at face value - I thought it was a rootkit). I made a point of telling everyone I liked not to do anything even remotely compromising on their work machine.
I've since left that workplace and control my own infrastructure.
I think it was the routine analysis of all our VoIP calls in a voice-processing SIGINT program that really creeped me out though. I only twigged to that one because we used to get the IT dept changelogs for operational reasons) and they were talking about moving it's storage folder to a different SAN.