All these arguements about how this is illegal because he defrauded some one out of their property is moot because if you read the EULA the person who was scamed never owned the "property" he was scamed out of. In most mmorpgs the players have no claims outside of the game to the items they own in game. Why do you think game companies can stop you from selling gold on ebay? If you really owned the gold then property law would protect your right to ebay the gold.
The state of public key cryptology today uses mathmatical constructs which can be attacked using math. You do not want to use mathmatical constructs when designing a cryptosystem unless it is the only way. Public/asymetric cryptosystems (RSA/Diffie-Hellman) uses number theory. To public knowledge factorization of large primes or the discrete log problem are thought to be hard. Think of it this way triple des which does not use mathmatical constructs is very secure with a effective key space of 2^112, by comparison RSA needs a key space of 2^1024 bits because it can me attacked with math. If they can get quantem cryptology to work large distances we will see the end of RSA/diffie-hellman.
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All these arguements about how this is illegal because he defrauded some one out of their property is moot because if you read the EULA the person who was scamed never owned the "property" he was scamed out of. In most mmorpgs the players have no claims outside of the game to the items they own in game. Why do you think game companies can stop you from selling gold on ebay? If you really owned the gold then property law would protect your right to ebay the gold.
The guy works for blizzard now... He's the one responsible for blizzards new way to distribute games throught bittorrent.
The state of public key cryptology today uses mathmatical constructs which can be attacked using math. You do not want to use mathmatical constructs when designing a cryptosystem unless it is the only way. Public/asymetric cryptosystems (RSA/Diffie-Hellman) uses number theory. To public knowledge factorization of large primes or the discrete log problem are thought to be hard. Think of it this way triple des which does not use mathmatical constructs is very secure with a effective key space of 2^112, by comparison RSA needs a key space of 2^1024 bits because it can me attacked with math. If they can get quantem cryptology to work large distances we will see the end of RSA/diffie-hellman.
why your wrong? try not using ad hominem attacks.
Damit I should've been a psychology major instead of CS, no job prospects for both but at lest I get to look at pretty girls during class.