Boot the laptop from a Linux CD. Encrypt the entire/dev/hda with a suitable key. Travel. Reach the destination. Boot from the CD again, decrypt/dev/hda. Optionally set and later unset the ATA password on the disk. Same approach can be used for sending data by mail or courier service.
...people used microwave ovens during the last Balkan war to create decoys and jam GPS...
The magnetrons in microwave ovens radiate at 2.45 GHz. They won't be of much (if any) help against GPS. However they still could serve as decent baits for HARM missiles; for their electronics they may look quite similar to continuous-wave radars. A $100 microwave oven for a $250,000 (or whatever) missile, now that I call a fair trade.
A fan with metal (or tinfoil-wrapped) blades then can be used as an optional beam modulator if the missiles would start ignoring unmodulated sources. The thing then can look substantially similar, EM-wise, to a missile guidance radar.
Good RADAR sends out a directional beam that rapidly hops frequency in unpredictable ways.
Frequency-agile is soooo 80's. Ultrawideband is the buzzword of the day.
That said, with modern DSP electronics and multiple receiver antennas, it should not be impossible to identify source of the radar pulses regardless of their shape and frequency. Think identifications of waveforms that hit the antennas, and phase comparison between them. Even a single pulse could be detected that way.
So, put the rail on bolts and make a series of holes in the rail so it can be mounted in different positions and hence the range of the movement can be shifted back and forth as the user wants. You won't have an immediately available easy shift between the extreme positions, but it should be good for vast majority of use scenarios, not even mentioning the possibility of mounting something different than a seat on the bolts and satisfy somebody's obscure special requirement, whether it is a wheelchair holder or an anti-aircraft gun. That will also buy you time to improve the design for the 2.0 version while not pissing off too many of 1.x users.
Many difficult-looking problems have easy almost-solutions.
...and it may be quite attractive to become a criminal. With Asterisk, it is not that difficult to build a VoIP/PSTN gateway; there are even solutions for gatewaying Asterisk to Skype. Such solution can be made cheaply, and even if its capacity is limited to one or at most few PSTN lines, it still may be enough for a small group of friends or a family with friends or family members in foreign countries.
A law banning unrestricted interoperability between communication systems deserves being ignored and its enforceability hindered by all available means.
...to implement a system where providing the key is impossible.
From a log of TLS handshake: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
OpenSSL already supports that. Just generate the suitable DH prime and add it to your.pem file. (Plus some optional configuration dependent on the software used.)
Make it a default setting in well-established software distros, and sit back and watch its use proliferate.
So if he can't afford a nice leather jacket, he should just go steal one from the store and it's okay.
When a friend couldn't've afforded a big-name-designer blouse, she bought couple cheap large silk scarves and sewn a visually identical design from them. She bought the raw material, but effectively stole the appearance of the result. Anything wrong with that?
A biological machine with a subjective desire to live has better chance for survival than a biological machine without such desire, eg. by putting more effort to survival in an equivalent situation. Add couple generations of selection, and you have a species with a desire to live.
Any sufficiently complex system will evolve subsystems with desire to live.
I believe I am alive, and that life isn't just an illusion created by a dance of many nonliving things.
Perhaps because that sort of illusion gave you, and the generations of your ancestors, some sort of survival or competitive advantage.
People were more concerned about whether it could be done than whether it should be done.
There is the issue of the changing demographics. With increasing number of elderly and decreasing number of work-capable population, finding a quality caregiver will become increasingly difficult and expensive. The question therefore stays not if it should be done, but if we can afford it to NOT be done.
Caregiving is a difficult job, and burn-out is easier to handle when it happens to a robot than to a nurse. Besides, there's the issue of emotional attachment to robots, which was already demonstrated in the case of elderly getting their own Aibo robodogs in some experiment I don't exactly remember (but I think it was in Japan).
If you still care about comments looking bad, you didn't write enough code yet. Form over function. I personally prefer to be told straight in one line that some BIOSes are fucked and do not set all MTRRs the same over having to eat through pages of niceties telling effectively the same. A profanity, when not overused, is good for illustration of the magnitude of the (usually third-party's, eg. hardware designer's) fuckup; 42 instances of "fuck" in 2.4.21 kernel is not that much. Code comments are written for other coders, not for Sunday school teachers.
Do ties interfere with using APIs or something?
Ties appear to be intended for artificially limiting blood flow to the brain. Which neatly explains the behavior of so many otherwise smart people while wearing them.
Pine is useless for the mouseheads who never needed to access their email on the go and didn't want the constraints of the often inferior mail clients on portable devices, which often lack support of proper link encryption.
When you have pine on a server, you can use anything that can run a SSH client to connect there. Which, due to the wonders of MidpSSH, can be any device that supports J2ME, which means most of cellphones.
Which also means no need to lug a laptop for mere mail, which is a good theft prevention/damage mitigation (a cellphone is cheaper than a laptop, easier to replace, and easier to take care of - try to put a laptop in your shirt pocket, not mentioning longer battery life), and important security improvement especially in the age of nosy customs (see other articles here). Also, when stationed somewhere where a computer is available, a Knoppix CD will provide a relatively secure terminal free of software keyloggers, with comfortable big screen and qwerty keyboard as an alternative to a cramped eyestraining cellphone screen.
We should keep in mind that the Internet would likely not be here, or much later, if it won't be for the Sputnik Crisis and the programs it spawned, which includes establishing ARPA. Therefore we can indirectly thank Russians for the Net.
Airports? No. What we saw that day was a spectacular failure of security, or more accurately the threat response, on board of the affected airplanes. Predictably, a highly visible and even more annoying farce was deployed under the pretense of being a "solution" instead of some more effective but lower-profile measures (eg. combat training for the flight crew, armored cockpit doors, or even Hollywood making movies showing effective overpowering of hijackers by passengers as sub-plots).
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Boot the laptop from a Linux CD. Encrypt the entire /dev/hda with a suitable key. Travel. Reach the destination. Boot from the CD again, decrypt /dev/hda. Optionally set and later unset the ATA password on the disk. Same approach can be used for sending data by mail or courier service.
Let's sentence the author to a week or two of correctional tier-1 duty at the AOL helpdesk. Let's see for how long will his ethics crap last there.
Another use for the fake boarding pass generator?
How difficult it can be to forge a plane ticket to pass this level of scrutiny?
The magnetrons in microwave ovens radiate at 2.45 GHz. They won't be of much (if any) help against GPS. However they still could serve as decent baits for HARM missiles; for their electronics they may look quite similar to continuous-wave radars. A $100 microwave oven for a $250,000 (or whatever) missile, now that I call a fair trade.
A fan with metal (or tinfoil-wrapped) blades then can be used as an optional beam modulator if the missiles would start ignoring unmodulated sources. The thing then can look substantially similar, EM-wise, to a missile guidance radar.
Frequency-agile is soooo 80's. Ultrawideband is the buzzword of the day.
That said, with modern DSP electronics and multiple receiver antennas, it should not be impossible to identify source of the radar pulses regardless of their shape and frequency. Think identifications of waveforms that hit the antennas, and phase comparison between them. Even a single pulse could be detected that way.
Many difficult-looking problems have easy almost-solutions.
configure --cupholder-color=blue
RTFM, n00b.
A law banning unrestricted interoperability between communication systems deserves being ignored and its enforceability hindered by all available means.
From a log of TLS handshake: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
OpenSSL already supports that. Just generate the suitable DH prime and add it to your .pem file. (Plus some optional configuration dependent on the software used.)
Make it a default setting in well-established software distros, and sit back and watch its use proliferate.
Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.
This said, I am happy this technology is leaving the dark basements of university labs and, even if painfully slowly, heading into the mainstream use.
Is God the imaginary part?
Isn't this one of the possible definitions for whistleblowing?
If they refuse, toss them in jail in a 6x8 solitary confinement cell, forever until they do.
What if the helpful person is located outside of the US jurisdiction (which is entirely the point of this approach)?
Sounds like a superior alternative to the in-flight movies.
When you have to go out, go out with a bang.
When a friend couldn't've afforded a big-name-designer blouse, she bought couple cheap large silk scarves and sewn a visually identical design from them. She bought the raw material, but effectively stole the appearance of the result. Anything wrong with that?
A biological machine with a subjective desire to live has better chance for survival than a biological machine without such desire, eg. by putting more effort to survival in an equivalent situation. Add couple generations of selection, and you have a species with a desire to live.
Any sufficiently complex system will evolve subsystems with desire to live.
I believe I am alive, and that life isn't just an illusion created by a dance of many nonliving things.
Perhaps because that sort of illusion gave you, and the generations of your ancestors, some sort of survival or competitive advantage.
There is the issue of the changing demographics. With increasing number of elderly and decreasing number of work-capable population, finding a quality caregiver will become increasingly difficult and expensive. The question therefore stays not if it should be done, but if we can afford it to NOT be done.
Caregiving is a difficult job, and burn-out is easier to handle when it happens to a robot than to a nurse. Besides, there's the issue of emotional attachment to robots, which was already demonstrated in the case of elderly getting their own Aibo robodogs in some experiment I don't exactly remember (but I think it was in Japan).
If you still care about comments looking bad, you didn't write enough code yet. Form over function. I personally prefer to be told straight in one line that some BIOSes are fucked and do not set all MTRRs the same over having to eat through pages of niceties telling effectively the same. A profanity, when not overused, is good for illustration of the magnitude of the (usually third-party's, eg. hardware designer's) fuckup; 42 instances of "fuck" in 2.4.21 kernel is not that much. Code comments are written for other coders, not for Sunday school teachers.
Do ties interfere with using APIs or something?
Ties appear to be intended for artificially limiting blood flow to the brain. Which neatly explains the behavior of so many otherwise smart people while wearing them.
When you have pine on a server, you can use anything that can run a SSH client to connect there. Which, due to the wonders of MidpSSH, can be any device that supports J2ME, which means most of cellphones.
Which also means no need to lug a laptop for mere mail, which is a good theft prevention/damage mitigation (a cellphone is cheaper than a laptop, easier to replace, and easier to take care of - try to put a laptop in your shirt pocket, not mentioning longer battery life), and important security improvement especially in the age of nosy customs (see other articles here). Also, when stationed somewhere where a computer is available, a Knoppix CD will provide a relatively secure terminal free of software keyloggers, with comfortable big screen and qwerty keyboard as an alternative to a cramped eyestraining cellphone screen.
Nuclear pumped laser. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzap!
We should keep in mind that the Internet would likely not be here, or much later, if it won't be for the Sputnik Crisis and the programs it spawned, which includes establishing ARPA. Therefore we can indirectly thank Russians for the Net.
Airports? No. What we saw that day was a spectacular failure of security, or more accurately the threat response, on board of the affected airplanes. Predictably, a highly visible and even more annoying farce was deployed under the pretense of being a "solution" instead of some more effective but lower-profile measures (eg. combat training for the flight crew, armored cockpit doors, or even Hollywood making movies showing effective overpowering of hijackers by passengers as sub-plots).
That it is a common civilian stuff does not mean it can not be used as a weapon.
That presumes that the military itself will not split to factions, one loyal to the government, and one loyal to the country itself and the citizens.