If you have a shit pseudo entropy generator, the keys you generate will be easy to factor because they will share one common prime factor (recall that key security depends on the computational intractability of factoring large numbers). This is called a related-key attack and has (so far) been responsible only for the demise of WEP.
As it turns out, OpenSSH/SSL has a shit PRNG which makes private keys generated with it recoverable using only the public keys, in some implementations and usage scenarios. Together, these amount to 0.4% of ALL public keys currently available on the open 'Net.
It was real risk, the design was flawed, the fuel tank was prone to catching fire upon the car being struck from the rear (just backing into a wall at more than walking speed was enough, really). But what inflamed the public was the unveiling of a rather cold-hearted financial risk calculation (a recall would cost X dollars, lawsuits from deaths and damage incurred will cost Y dollars over the model's lifetime, Y no recall).
Interestingly enough, the company was forced to do a recall and the ultimate cost to them (including fines) turned out to be (iirc) almost exactly X+Y. Yay for accurate accounting and superb risk analysis, I guess.
No there isn't. You cunt. Free speech is free speech, my (and your) right to a megaphone trumps anyone's wish to not be inconvenienced by our speaking freely.
Well, that should give you a clue which you seem to be lacking. The anti-piracy measures are about milking the honest/technically-inept customers, not about stopping piracy.
Stand by for the outlawing of cash. Any fraudulent cash transactions could then be reversed at will. Moving product stolen with funnymoney is much harder
Get out of jail free cards for everyone, guys! Just claim the HUD malfunctioned and gave you a seizure (or simply obscured your view) if you happen to run over some pedestrian.
Well, the downside is that if some Russian does something illegal in Russia and flees, there are very many places where he can go and be immediately safe from (Russian) prosecution.
The Russian gov't, being authoritarian in nature, sees this as a small price to pay for the right to treat their own citizens and residents as they damn well please. Other governments, not so much.
I think extradition is good, personally, as long as the principle of reciprocity is observed and sovereignty is not disregarded.
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If you have a shit pseudo entropy generator, the keys you generate will be easy to factor because they will share one common prime factor (recall that key security depends on the computational intractability of factoring large numbers). This is called a related-key attack and has (so far) been responsible only for the demise of WEP.
As it turns out, OpenSSH/SSL has a shit PRNG which makes private keys generated with it recoverable using only the public keys, in some implementations and usage scenarios. Together, these amount to 0.4% of ALL public keys currently available on the open 'Net.
slashcode ate part of my post. I meant to write that X was larger than Y in the risk calculation so they decided to not do a recall.
It was real risk, the design was flawed, the fuel tank was prone to catching fire upon the car being struck from the rear (just backing into a wall at more than walking speed was enough, really). But what inflamed the public was the unveiling of a rather cold-hearted financial risk calculation (a recall would cost X dollars, lawsuits from deaths and damage incurred will cost Y dollars over the model's lifetime, Y no recall).
Interestingly enough, the company was forced to do a recall and the ultimate cost to them (including fines) turned out to be (iirc) almost exactly X+Y. Yay for accurate accounting and superb risk analysis, I guess.
You remind me of a certain Japanese mayor.
Cue a second Dust Bowl decade and another generation of disenfranchised red-necks whining "oh Lordy Lord why have you forsaken us".
The free market is more insidious, being an exercise in logic based on unsound premises.
Paranoiac delirium, it's called.
Far less than 2/1000 Ford Pintos failed catastrophically.
Maybe it's a chinese backdoor they found.
Key management is more of a bitch than it needs be, for sure.
Frankly, I'd rather rely on OpenID providers to authenticate sent e-mails somehow. Nonces, probably.
Oh, I claim prior art on this idea, by the way...
that is all
Oh, I am pretty sure I remember a 0-day being bandied about in certain circles, 2005-ish. I just assumed it was patched at some point.
this has nothing to do with the leaked source code. Right?
Ok. Let's make that "World's most powerful standing army, backed by enough nukes to kill most everyone"
Feeling better now?
Things tend to happen to governments which ignore such demands. Just ask the Spaniards.
What the actual fuck
So why is the police involved, again?
No there isn't. You cunt. Free speech is free speech, my (and your) right to a megaphone trumps anyone's wish to not be inconvenienced by our speaking freely.
Well, that should give you a clue which you seem to be lacking. The anti-piracy measures are about milking the honest/technically-inept customers, not about stopping piracy.
Stand by for the outlawing of cash. Any fraudulent cash transactions could then be reversed at will. Moving product stolen with funnymoney is much harder
Hmm. Banned from driving as opposed to jailed for vehicular manslaughter. What to chose?
Tbh, I'd rather the fraudster to do a year in India's hellish prisons than to get six months (or possibly a suspended sentence) here.
YMMV, of course.
Oh, right. No time to waste time actually reading stuff! Must get to politicking! Busy, busy!
I did my own fucking googling and fwiw, it's not as cut and dried as all that. So, sources, please.
Get out of jail free cards for everyone, guys! Just claim the HUD malfunctioned and gave you a seizure (or simply obscured your view) if you happen to run over some pedestrian.
Who's to say it ain't so?
Well, the downside is that if some Russian does something illegal in Russia and flees, there are very many places where he can go and be immediately safe from (Russian) prosecution.
The Russian gov't, being authoritarian in nature, sees this as a small price to pay for the right to treat their own citizens and residents as they damn well please. Other governments, not so much.
I think extradition is good, personally, as long as the principle of reciprocity is observed and sovereignty is not disregarded.