I have a 3g dongle from Orange that supports Vista, that doesn't work on Windows 8, I believe the issue due to driver signing. Works fine on Kubuntu though.
The regular package management for BSDs, the ports collection, is not like.rpm or.deb at all. The closest Linux equivilent would be Gentoo, since it was based on Ports, and improved upon from there (improved in the opinion of the people doing the improving anyway.) Everything there is compiled from source based on some pretty beefy makefiles.
Not like.deb at all? So how is this not like apt-build again?
Do you think they will eventually be only available to services that exist in places like Somalia or Cuba only?
If so, how long do you think it would take for the governments to decide that these particular sites operated outside of their territory should be null routed?
Unfortunately, this doesn't work. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook etc. won't let me login to my account with my own oauth provider. Yet they claim to support oauth.
As long as the site isn't storing the passwords in a format that can be decrypted (or plain text!), and is adding sufficient salt, you should be able to avoid the rainbow tables and the common password generators (such as Jack the Ripper).
In my opinion, this is not good enough as most common hashes are designed themselves to be quickly generated for signature purposes (md5, sha512 etc), brute-forcing takes little time these days. The use of rainbow tables aren't as necessary with the calculation speed of current processor technologies.
A knowledgeable web developer in my opinion would use an algorithm designed to be slow such as bcrypt or a stretched algorithm such as PBKDF2, this is a far better defense against brute-forcing.
Also, outside of older security professionals, do malicious users even use jack the ripper anymore?
I don't want to put in a long passphrase everytime i unlock my PC, I want to enter in a long passphrase to unlock my phone even less.
I don't, but I do it anyway, I haven't found a better method yet.
We should almost really have a 2ndary "secure" email that we don't use except for managing password changes etc.
Despite running my own mail server, so I didn't have to fear of being unable to recover my account is that the next weak point is the domain. If someone were to steal my domain, it would still screw me over.
Unfortunately, even following best practices, I feel vulnerable to intrusion.
It's just that a lot of other posters have latched onto a meme to this effect
Personally, I think people need to realize that not every single product is intended to target them. The world doesn't revolve around just their perceptions on the matter.
Or did you avoid that for fear of being labeled a shill for Nintendo?
I don't really feel confident in suggesting a product I don't own and know to a great extent to be honest. Also, in some posts, it's assumed that if you're not getting an xbox, you're probably going to use another console or PC.
Unrelated note: I found your hosts file link informative previously.
I'll agree for the sake of argument that this product isn't designed for audiences that aren't Microsoft's target, such as homes with minor children
Well 'officially';)
homes with poor availability of Internet connections, or using a console away from home.
You would think this issue would have been resolved now for most places.
But what comparable product is for these audiences?
A comparable product for a different audience based off what you described... Off the top of my head, a Wii U maybe (Disclaimer: I don't own one or care to get one currently)? It's not always on, has a good chunk of popular titles (CoD, BF, ME and a bunch of exclusives that target minor children too like Mario, Rayman etc). and is officially child friendly too. I understand it also has some sync stuff with certain games that tie into their portable console (the 3DS) for syncing up stuff to play on the move too, but I do not remember what that was called.
Believe it or not, there are other kinds of people that may have a different perspective than you. Some may think this is the best thing since sliced bread instead of bullshit.:)
What I hate so much about "always online" is that EVENTUALLY these companies are going to shut down their servers and people who want to play these games in the future will be screwed. I really do hope hacking solutions come out of this, otherwise you're going to have an entire generation of games that literally cannot be played in the future.
I hope not, they made their bed, they should sleep in it. If you get these 'hacking solutions', then it will only encourage further proliferation of such systems.
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Correction: I wouldn't say that's "barely similar..."
apt-build takes the sources and produces a deb that is then installed.
A parallel then. Ports downloads application sources, compiles and installs.
The only difference is one produces a package file before installing, I wouldn't say that's 'barely' different.
To be honest, I think they're fairly well polished, especially when compared to the Microsoft equivalent "Run Advertised Programs"" .
I have a 3g dongle from Orange that supports Vista, that doesn't work on Windows 8, I believe the issue due to driver signing. Works fine on Kubuntu though.
Not like .deb at all? So how is this not like apt-build again?
Do you think they will eventually be only available to services that exist in places like Somalia or Cuba only?
If so, how long do you think it would take for the governments to decide that these particular sites operated outside of their territory should be null routed?
Unfortunately, this doesn't work. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook etc. won't let me login to my account with my own oauth provider. Yet they claim to support oauth.
In my opinion, this is not good enough as most common hashes are designed themselves to be quickly generated for signature purposes (md5, sha512 etc), brute-forcing takes little time these days. The use of rainbow tables aren't as necessary with the calculation speed of current processor technologies.
A knowledgeable web developer in my opinion would use an algorithm designed to be slow such as bcrypt or a stretched algorithm such as PBKDF2, this is a far better defense against brute-forcing.
Also, outside of older security professionals, do malicious users even use jack the ripper anymore?
I don't, but I do it anyway, I haven't found a better method yet.
Despite running my own mail server, so I didn't have to fear of being unable to recover my account is that the next weak point is the domain. If someone were to steal my domain, it would still screw me over.
Unfortunately, even following best practices, I feel vulnerable to intrusion.
Don't be modest, you're a more specific demographic than that.
May they all be banned!
Personally, I think people need to realize that not every single product is intended to target them. The world doesn't revolve around just their perceptions on the matter.
I don't really feel confident in suggesting a product I don't own and know to a great extent to be honest. Also, in some posts, it's assumed that if you're not getting an xbox, you're probably going to use another console or PC.
Unrelated note: I found your hosts file link informative previously.
Well 'officially' ;)
You would think this issue would have been resolved now for most places.
A comparable product for a different audience based off what you described... Off the top of my head, a Wii U maybe (Disclaimer: I don't own one or care to get one currently)? It's not always on, has a good chunk of popular titles (CoD, BF, ME and a bunch of exclusives that target minor children too like Mario, Rayman etc). and is officially child friendly too. I understand it also has some sync stuff with certain games that tie into their portable console (the 3DS) for syncing up stuff to play on the move too, but I do not remember what that was called.
Never seen the surface or the commercial.
Today I'm in Northern Ireland. :)
Believe it or not, there are other kinds of people that may have a different perspective than you. Some may think this is the best thing since sliced bread instead of bullshit. :)
I personally find the Modern UI featured in Windows 8 to be more of a keyboard oriented interface. Much less requirement to use a mouse, I love it.
I hope not, they made their bed, they should sleep in it. If you get these 'hacking solutions', then it will only encourage further proliferation of such systems.
It's not really forced, their target audience willingly will do this. You're likely not that target audience.
Don't worry about it, you're not the target audience after all. :)
In my country I can, please stop spreading misinformation.
Don't worry about it GoodNewsJimDotCom, you're not the target audience. :)
Don't worry about it, you're not the target audience. :)
You are not the target audience, don't worry about it.
Cool story, spammer.