Okay, how does it work if you send an email to somebody not using exchange, not using outlook, not using hotmail, and without a passport account. Like for example, your customers, clients, suppliers, email newsgroups, friends at other companies, people you're emailing for support, etc.?
Do you just end up sending out encrypted emails that nobody can read?
"Yes, there is encription. I don't know how secure it is or what algorithm is used, but there is a secure mode. You are shown a 16-digit code on the screen, you type it on the keyboard, press OK and it uses this key to encrypt all transmissions."
Any evidence that this isn't the equivalent of "XOR with 'logitech-rules'" encryption? I'd be surprised if the keyboard had enough computing power to implement key-exchange protocols and public-key encryption.
After all, people advise you not to use WEP encryption, and that's fantastically more powerful than anything you're likely to find on a keyboard.
"WIth SVG maturing, I wonder when we're going to get maps that aren't these stupid images. I want a vector map that I can pan and zoom... but it should be smart enough to only download the data that it needs for any given display."
I'm working on it. just waiting to check it doesn't interfere with the employment contract and similar stuff at work. oliver@gnu-darwin if you want to help, or to know when something's available.
"Personally I use wireless keyboard and mouse and find it really useful"
Heh. Mind if I park outside your house with a modified wireless-keyboard receiver unit and a large aerial? You don't type passwords on that thing do you?
Seriously, actually. We're looking at the wireless keyboards for work, and my initial reaction was "we'll never pass a security audit if we have those".
Do they have any redeeming features? 4-inch range? directional aerial? encryption? (yeah right!) Is there anything to stop your keyboard becoming a transmitting keylogger for anyone in the neighbourhood to receive?
"But hold on - turns out you can use this iPod thing with digital camera and upload the pictures to the iPod, and from there to the computer. Oh, but you need a Mac for that."
And it looks like quite a cool application: what's the deal with it? Why would it not work on Windows (or on Linux for that matter, with the iPod tools)... is the camera-to-iPod data transfer somehow affected by the computer you have at home?
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Okay, how does it work if you send an email to somebody not using exchange, not using outlook, not using hotmail, and without a passport account. Like for example, your customers, clients, suppliers, email newsgroups, friends at other companies, people you're emailing for support, etc.?
Do you just end up sending out encrypted emails that nobody can read?
getmapping.co.uk offers comprehensive aerial photos of the UK. They have 25cm resolution if you pay them, but lower resolution on the web.
"Yes, there is encription. I don't know how secure it is or what algorithm is used, but there is a secure mode. You are shown a 16-digit code on the screen, you type it on the keyboard, press OK and it uses this key to encrypt all transmissions."
Any evidence that this isn't the equivalent of "XOR with 'logitech-rules'" encryption? I'd be surprised if the keyboard had enough computing power to implement key-exchange protocols and public-key encryption.
After all, people advise you not to use WEP encryption, and that's fantastically more powerful than anything you're likely to find on a keyboard.
Yes, and they reproduced it from Australian Personal Computer Magazine, January 1998... of which I have copy.
And not nearly so funny as Dan's version
"WIth SVG maturing, I wonder when we're going to get maps that aren't these stupid images. I want a vector map that I can pan and zoom... but it should be smart enough to only download the data that it needs for any given display."
I'm working on it. just waiting to check it doesn't interfere with the employment contract and similar stuff at work. oliver@gnu-darwin if you want to help, or to know when something's available.
"Speaking of dying technologies"... do we even dare mention BSD?
"Personally I use wireless keyboard and mouse and find it really useful"
Heh. Mind if I park outside your house with a modified wireless-keyboard receiver unit and a large aerial? You don't type passwords on that thing do you?
Seriously, actually. We're looking at the wireless keyboards for work, and my initial reaction was "we'll never pass a security audit if we have those".
Do they have any redeeming features? 4-inch range? directional aerial? encryption? (yeah right!) Is there anything to stop your keyboard becoming a transmitting keylogger for anyone in the neighbourhood to receive?
I just noticed the comment:
"But hold on - turns out you can use this iPod thing with digital camera and upload the pictures to the iPod, and from there to the computer. Oh, but you need a Mac for that."
And it looks like quite a cool application: what's the deal with it? Why would it not work on Windows (or on Linux for that matter, with the iPod tools)... is the camera-to-iPod data transfer somehow affected by the computer you have at home?
Doesn't it just store the files then?