Dear Mr. Taco,
I'd like to suggest that the article summary is not very useful because you fail to even mention who Bram Cohen is. Luckily, I googled and found him on Hot or Not.
What keeps them from holding on to your passphrase for 'analysis'?
In fact this merchant/processor stored the CCV/CCV2 codes which are NEVER to be stored beyond the transaction authorization. What some people seem to be missing is that the entire site was compromised with all 40 million credit cards. The spin on the story is that since they found a separate 'text file' with only 68,000 numbers in it, the data thieves must have only gotton away with 68,000 numbers. I'm not willing to accept that leap of logic.
Read and enjoy. Deadline is the 30th of this month.
Really? How come that page says its been mandated since June 2001? Sounds to me that the companies don't really care about their customers identity and only because of the California laws which has raised awareness of data loss that VISA is threatening those who don't comply. I do see that a 'Self Assessment' is now due 6/30/05. Wow, I feel protected! I guess if they miss any issues while assessing themselves, the quartly network scan will protect me. What a self-regulated joke.
While its true that minute to minute trading is speculation, there are many legitimate reasons that people dont want outstanding trades overnight. We are still talking trader/speculators, not investors. If something bad had happened overnight it could have been a disaster to the economy.
I'm not a day trader, but some (most?) day traders follow the rule that you close out all positions at the end of the day and don't leave yourself vunerable overnight.
By your logic it would be best to only open the market once a month. But that would make the market much less liquid and that does materially affect the fundamentals of the stock market system. Even if you are a day trader and accept a much higher risk, the risk of the market not working at all is still outside the norm.
I'm finding it tough to find anything to agree with in your post - my gut tells me even the statement of
"large fund managers-- don't speculate on minute-to-minute fluctations" is wrong. People with huge risk try to minimize that risk by hedging short term (even minute-minute) flucations in stocks, options, and currency.
From what I read we are talking about tracking them during the supply chain. However it appears to me that is the design goal. There doesn't seem to be a problem with putting a 'reader device' elseware. And with the technology based on Internet standards, as long as there is a CAT5 jack nearby you could store the info.
Here are some excerpts from the security section of the white paper:
" When EPC tags pass through EPC readers throughout the supply chain, the only
information collected is the EPC identification and the time, date, and location of the
read. (If advanced functionality like a temperature sensor is also on the tag, this
information can also be collected.)"
" Thus, the EPC tag, in and of itself, does not communicate meaningful information.
All information associated with EPC number is found in the EPCglobal Network and
is only accessible to authorized users behind firewalls, encoding and other security
measures. (Security regarding access to network information is discussed below.)"
" The majority of consumers today and for the foreseeable future will only come in
direct contact with EPC tags if they are buying cases of goods at a retailer who is
pilot testing the EPCglobal Network. It will take some time before item level tagging
is implemented on a large scale and thus consumer contact with EPC tags will
remain limited until that point. This provides the necessary time to properly analyze
any perceived privacy risks associated with EPC tagged objects in the consumer's
possession and develop the appropriate strategies for addressing those concerns.
With interest in RFID and EPC technology growing across industry, this timeframe
could change rapidly."
I was under the impression shredded paper is not as useful for recycling. The ability to recycle paper depends on the strength and length of the paper fibers. Shredded paper has lost a lot of strength and has short fibers due to being cut. That means that whereas regular paper can be recycled into some lesser form of paper, shredded paper must be used for something like a cheap cardboard/egg crates.
Regardless, privacy is more important to me than the landfill.
I'm sorry, but what qualification does CNET have to bestow open source software awards? I imagine this is just a way to put OSS marketing hype on closed source products so the lastest version of MS Office (because it uses XML) can put a CNET OSS Most Innovative Award 2006.
This would be like Microsoft awarding a Freedom to Innovate award each year.
This it has to do with being compelled by gov't regulation and trying to get ahead of the curve. More and more states are starting to pass 'e-cycling' bills which require computer manufacturers to provide a way to direct waste from the landfills.
U.S. consumers retire or replace roughly 133,000 personal computers per day, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
Excerpting one section that makes my point: "Despite having emergency generators, four of 76 hospitals in the city were temporarily without electricity during the blackout. The longest interruption was two hours and 45 minutes. "
If you read more you'll see there was concern about vaccine spoilage, their were many desktop computers that had been deemed non-critical yet turned out to be critical during the blackout.
I just dont think people realize how critical power is and when it is gone lives are at stake. I would hazard to say the impact on non metropolitan areas and rural areas would be much worse than in NYC.
The conclusion from the following NIH report http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd= Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15640685&dopt=Abstrac t/ states "The blackout dramatically increased EMS and hospital activity, with unexpected increases resulting from respiratory device failures in community-based patients. Our findings suggest that current capacity to respond to public health emergencies could be easily overwhelmed by widespread/prolonged power failure(s)."
Yes, I know it's popular around these parts to bash telco companies like Verizon, and many of you may see me as a "save the poor starving conglomerate" sympathizer.
But what gives the government the right to squash any private business just because they believe they can do the job better?
Why do you think that Verizon is a regular 'private business'? Verizon's entire existance is because of special privileges government gave it to provide service with no competition. Verizon couldn't innovate itself out of a paper bag. Verizons most recent innovations are $1 ring-tones. Our telecom system is an infrastructure like roads/bridges. Verizon does not see it that way, they just want to be profitable. If that business model was used in the beginning a large portion of the country would not have telephones today. I think enough years have passed to realize the failures of DSL rollout. Verizon wouldn't make ISDN affordable in many states. They fought the digital revolution. Then with DSL they fought to only have to serve 'easy to service' customers (lobbied hard to make DSL an optional service). They haven't made DSL accessible to all or in areas with SLC (subscriber loop carrier) service where it will cost them more. They don't feel compelled to care about those folks. Meanwhile all the equipment they are using to exploit their customers were paid for many time over by the rate increases they fought for. The subscribers paid many times over for the digital switches and SS7 networks, but rather than benefit from those new services, they were turned around and used to extract $4 a month for Caller ID (flipping a bit in the software we paid for many times over).
If the same profit only business model is taken with Wireless we will continue to see only markets served that are the most profitable. The restof the markets will be left out.
It scares me that you think a cyber attack against the infrastructure of the country such as the power grid or financial system is only an annoyance. Someone on slashdot with this mentality and we wonder why cyber security is not taken seriously.
Total loss of power for a sustained time can cause loss of life, not to mention huge financial consequences. That 'non-critical' care you say might be inconvienienced might be someones organ transplant or chem therapy.
At first I did straight DOS but then with WFWG 3.11 I could run the bbs in a dos window and do other things.
I remember running something called DeskView. It allowed multitasking without the Windows junk. You could hot-key to different programs, each running in their own protected mode.
Not only that but he packaged and shiped the 3 DVD set himself. If you are talking high volume, $50 might be a bit much, but not for the effort and volume this guy put into it. Just placed my order.
A newly released study claims office workers are exposed to more germs from their phones and keyboards than would be found crawling on a toilet seat. A lot more.
According to the study, from researchers at the University of Arizona, phones have up to 25,127 germs per square inch, keyboards 3,295 per square inch and computer mice 1,676 per square inch.
The average toilet seat? Just 49 germs per square inch.
"Desks are really bacteria cafeterias," microbiologist Charles Gerba, who researched the study, told BBC News.
Alright RIAA, Lets Roll! Time to take over those pesky northerners who harbor p2p fugitives and play fast and loose with copyrights. Bring it on! You are either with us or against us -- Hee-haa!
Firefox will do this too. I'll visit a site that says the security certificate is invalid, so I click 'deny'. The another certificate request pops up, ad-infinitum is seems. Since its a modal dialog you can't even close the web browser or close the 'tab' I'm browsing in. I end up either answering yes after examining the cert or kill via the task manager which closes not only that one site, but all all my open tabs.
Over the long term I fear this country will be less educated, more fearful of 'those unlike us', less employed due to outsourcing, and less wealthy due to globalization and unsustainable goverment spending.
My opinion being marked as flaimbait only illustrates the point!
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http://www.hotornot.com/r/?eid=GLBQN8G&key=VLS&sid =GL
For those like me who never heard the name before he is author of Bittorrent.
So the rule must be that Senators cannot offer admendments once the appropriations bill is on the floor for a vote but are free to do so in committee.
I didn't think you could legislate on an appropriation bill? Is this for real? Its against the rules of the Senate (rule XVI) http://rules.senate.gov/senaterules/rule16.htm
In fact this merchant/processor stored the CCV/CCV2 codes which are NEVER to be stored beyond the transaction authorization. What some people seem to be missing is that the entire site was compromised with all 40 million credit cards. The spin on the story is that since they found a separate 'text file' with only 68,000 numbers in it, the data thieves must have only gotton away with 68,000 numbers. I'm not willing to accept that leap of logic.
Corrupt cops.
Really? How come that page says its been mandated since June 2001? Sounds to me that the companies don't really care about their customers identity and only because of the California laws which has raised awareness of data loss that VISA is threatening those who don't comply. I do see that a 'Self Assessment' is now due 6/30/05. Wow, I feel protected! I guess if they miss any issues while assessing themselves, the quartly network scan will protect me. What a self-regulated joke.
I'm not a day trader, but some (most?) day traders follow the rule that you close out all positions at the end of the day and don't leave yourself vunerable overnight.
By your logic it would be best to only open the market once a month. But that would make the market much less liquid and that does materially affect the fundamentals of the stock market system. Even if you are a day trader and accept a much higher risk, the risk of the market not working at all is still outside the norm.
I'm finding it tough to find anything to agree with in your post - my gut tells me even the statement of "large fund managers-- don't speculate on minute-to-minute fluctations" is wrong. People with huge risk try to minimize that risk by hedging short term (even minute-minute) flucations in stocks, options, and currency.
Oops, remove trailing slash from link: http://www.epcglobalinc.org/news/EPCglobal_Network _Overview_10072004.pdf
From what I read we are talking about tracking them during the supply chain. However it appears to me that is the design goal. There doesn't seem to be a problem with putting a 'reader device' elseware. And with the technology based on Internet standards, as long as there is a CAT5 jack nearby you could store the info.
Here are some excerpts from the security section of the white paper:
" When EPC tags pass through EPC readers throughout the supply chain, the only information collected is the EPC identification and the time, date, and location of the read. (If advanced functionality like a temperature sensor is also on the tag, this information can also be collected.)"
" Thus, the EPC tag, in and of itself, does not communicate meaningful information. All information associated with EPC number is found in the EPCglobal Network and is only accessible to authorized users behind firewalls, encoding and other security measures. (Security regarding access to network information is discussed below.)"
" The majority of consumers today and for the foreseeable future will only come in direct contact with EPC tags if they are buying cases of goods at a retailer who is pilot testing the EPCglobal Network. It will take some time before item level tagging is implemented on a large scale and thus consumer contact with EPC tags will remain limited until that point. This provides the necessary time to properly analyze any perceived privacy risks associated with EPC tagged objects in the consumer's possession and develop the appropriate strategies for addressing those concerns. With interest in RFID and EPC technology growing across industry, this timeframe could change rapidly."
Regardless, privacy is more important to me than the landfill.
This would be like Microsoft awarding a Freedom to Innovate award each year.
U.S. consumers retire or replace roughly 133,000 personal computers per day, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
See for example http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2005/05/31/AR2005053101502.html/ (registration required)
http://bt.naccho.org/E-newsletter-archive/NYC-Blac kout-Article.htm/
Excerpting one section that makes my point:
"Despite having emergency generators, four of 76 hospitals in the city were temporarily without electricity during the blackout. The longest interruption was two hours and 45 minutes. "
If you read more you'll see there was concern about vaccine spoilage, their were many desktop computers that had been deemed non-critical yet turned out to be critical during the blackout.
I just dont think people realize how critical power is and when it is gone lives are at stake. I would hazard to say the impact on non metropolitan areas and rural areas would be much worse than in NYC.
The conclusion from the following NIH report http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd= Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15640685&dopt=Abstrac t/ states "The blackout dramatically increased EMS and hospital activity, with unexpected increases resulting from respiratory device failures in community-based patients. Our findings suggest that current capacity to respond to public health emergencies could be easily overwhelmed by widespread/prolonged power failure(s)."
"I have never worn pantyhose but it sounds very dangerous."
--Joseph, The Princess Diaries
But what gives the government the right to squash any private business just because they believe they can do the job better?
Why do you think that Verizon is a regular 'private business'? Verizon's entire existance is because of special privileges government gave it to provide service with no competition. Verizon couldn't innovate itself out of a paper bag. Verizons most recent innovations are $1 ring-tones. Our telecom system is an infrastructure like roads/bridges. Verizon does not see it that way, they just want to be profitable. If that business model was used in the beginning a large portion of the country would not have telephones today. I think enough years have passed to realize the failures of DSL rollout. Verizon wouldn't make ISDN affordable in many states. They fought the digital revolution. Then with DSL they fought to only have to serve 'easy to service' customers (lobbied hard to make DSL an optional service). They haven't made DSL accessible to all or in areas with SLC (subscriber loop carrier) service where it will cost them more. They don't feel compelled to care about those folks. Meanwhile all the equipment they are using to exploit their customers were paid for many time over by the rate increases they fought for. The subscribers paid many times over for the digital switches and SS7 networks, but rather than benefit from those new services, they were turned around and used to extract $4 a month for Caller ID (flipping a bit in the software we paid for many times over).
If the same profit only business model is taken with Wireless we will continue to see only markets served that are the most profitable. The restof the markets will be left out.
Total loss of power for a sustained time can cause loss of life, not to mention huge financial consequences. That 'non-critical' care you say might be inconvienienced might be someones organ transplant or chem therapy.
I remember running something called DeskView. It allowed multitasking without the Windows junk. You could hot-key to different programs, each running in their own protected mode.
Not only that but he packaged and shiped the 3 DVD set himself. If you are talking high volume, $50 might be a bit much, but not for the effort and volume this guy put into it. Just placed my order.
From an article last year http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/10/tem_te m1germ.html/:
A newly released study claims office workers are exposed to more germs from their phones and keyboards than would be found crawling on a toilet seat. A lot more.
According to the study, from researchers at the University of Arizona, phones have up to 25,127 germs per square inch, keyboards 3,295 per square inch and computer mice 1,676 per square inch.
The average toilet seat? Just 49 germs per square inch.
"Desks are really bacteria cafeterias," microbiologist Charles Gerba, who researched the study, told BBC News.
Alright RIAA, Lets Roll! Time to take over those pesky northerners who harbor p2p fugitives and play fast and loose with copyrights. Bring it on! You are either with us or against us -- Hee-haa!
My guess is the SEC noticed they are reporting 'goodwill'. Someone realized something was fishy because there is no goodwill towards SCO.
The sky is falling! The sky is falli
Firefox will do this too. I'll visit a site that says the security certificate is invalid, so I click 'deny'. The another certificate request pops up, ad-infinitum is seems. Since its a modal dialog you can't even close the web browser or close the 'tab' I'm browsing in. I end up either answering yes after examining the cert or kill via the task manager which closes not only that one site, but all all my open tabs.
My opinion being marked as flaimbait only illustrates the point!
There go those Activist Judges(tm) again! I'm sure Congress will step in to fix this technicality.