Then if you really do lose they key, you should securely erase all traces of the encrypted volume, that way the "protected information" no longer exisits. They cannot order you to reveal the key to a volume that does not exist.
49. - (1) A person is guilty of an offence if- (a) he fails to comply, in accordance with any section 46 notice, with any requirement of that notice to disclose a key to protected information; and (b) he is a person who has or has had possession of the key.
Notice section (b). Both (a) and (b) will need to be proved beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law for a person to be convicted. If law enforcement cannot prove that you have or had prossession of the key then they canot convict you. Therefore you cannot be convicted for failing to disclose a key you do not know or that does not exist.
What we need is an encryption scheme where two possible keys yeild two different plaintexts and the existence of the second plaintext is (close to) impossible to prove. Therefore you can give the "innocent" encryption key and all that is revealed is stuff that you might want to hide, but not of interest to the government (credit card records, personal finance detials, things like that) and keep the second key secret (which is the one that reveals your political speaches, government corruption evidence or whatever else they are trying to suppress). Without a way to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the second key exists, you cannot be found guilty under RIP.
Nothing special. I saw a video of the diamondtouch (http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/) system in my HCI lecture today. Diamondtouch has been around since 2001.
If a car company starts selling cars that all use the same key, the person who uses the key to his car to steal someone else's car is at fault. And the car company did absolutely nothing wrong.
I don't know if you realised, but there were cases where car manufactures sold 1000's of cars with only 10's of different keys. All it takes is for two identical or very similar cars to be parked next to each other and it's quite possible that someone could *accidentally* get into the wrong car and drive away. Happened to one of my school teachers.
Likewise the author is completely wrong about Microsoft being likely to take the O/S in that direction. Unix and VMS led the minicomputer revolution. Gates led the microcomputer revolution which was even more against the central processing store model of computing. If you look at all the early microcomputers you will find that they all ran Microsoft Basic. When IBM went to Microsoft while it was building the PC it was the BASIC they wanted. They only demanded a bootstrap loader when Kildal refused to deal with them for CPM.
Sooo many misconceptions...
Microsoft BASIC was one of many. There was no clear leader. Kildall's DRI was the "Microsoft" of the early (8-bit) micros, CP/M was the prevailant OS, mainly because Lotus 123 and many other business apps ran on it. IBM shafted DRI, not the other way around.
The Victorians only invented this because of the British Empire.
It goes like this: -Britian has a large empire, but seeds of decent demand a ligitimate reason for the empire. -British invent the idea that they are 'more civilised' and are bringing 'civilisation' to the countries of the empire. -In order to encourage traits in native peoples, the British concept of 'civilisation' means a society without violence or strong emotion in any form, as these are the traits that lead to rebellion. -Thus begins the strict control of all emotions, especially those that lead to conflict (lust, anger, etc.).
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The Bible is a textual, documentary description of events. Video games are a visual, interactive and immersive medium where the player generally takes part in the virtual violent conduct.
There is a clear difference, like the difference between saying that Anne and Bob had sex and showing a video of it.
Although I disagree with these laws, it's correlation, not causation. A person with violent tenencies may be drawn to violent video games, but a person without violent tendencies will not develop them by playing violent video games.
Copyright infringement is not stealing. I'm going to use UK law examples here as I live in the UK, however US and other laws are sufficiently similar for the same point to apply.
Theft: Dishonestly appropriating property belonging to another with intent to permanently deprive.
If you make a copy of something, then you are not depriving anybody of the original.
There is in fact a case, R v Lloyd, where a cinema projectionist took films to make pirate copies, then returned them. As the cinema had only been deprived of the films for a few hours and they had not been damaged in any way then no crime had been comitted.
The civil offence of Copyright Infringement deals with making copies without permission. It is not theft.
Except that you need the username and password of an administrator to access those. Therefore its not a public share.
I'd me more worried about XP Home users without firwalls (in XP Home you cannot set a password on a user-created share, even Windows 95 could do that!)
Java will ALWAYS be slower than native code. It takes time to translate java bytecode into native machine code. This cannot be optimised away.
Java is certianly no less memory hungry than it origininally was, the only difference is that 10 years ago, the average machine had about 16MB of RAM, so java using 8MB was rediculous. Nowadays we have 512MB-1GB in the average machine, so 8MB is almost unnoticed.
Other reasons why I dont like java: *Encourages taking the OO pradigm to rediculous levels. (I have seen people put all their "utility" methods in seperate classes, just so they don't end up with unused code in their application.) *Non-Free (A fully featured Free implementation is a while off.) *Java applications *never* conform to any OS's standard look, no matter what OS you run them on. (Linux java sort-of uses Gtk, Windows (sun) java uses its own widgets, Mac java uses Aqua, but does not conform to Apples UIG.) *Java applications cannot take advantage of OS-specific features, so often OS-specific "helper" apps are written, reducing the application's portability.
>Britain and the USA - which supplied most of their ships
The ships were almost exclusively British built and/or British designs. 1902, the Royal Navy was the major naval power by far, the US had not even completed the "Great White Fleet".
>British air raid on Taranto in November 1940
In fact, the Toranto raid was witnessed by a Japanese delegation then visiting Italy. A report was sent to Yamamoto and the Pearl Harbour raid was based on it. Thereby making the Toranto raid the most important of the war.
Surrender? Why? The VERY BEST that Japan could have managed in WW2 was to get the US to sign a peace treaty to let them keep their captured Pacific Islands.
In fact this almost happened and probably would have done if the primary targets of the Peal Harbour attack (the aircraft carriers) had been in harbour at the time of the attack.
Also, most, if not all of the territory captured by the Japanese in the Pacific (excluding China) were European colonies. It could well be argued that Japan had at least as much right to them as the Europeans.
Movie editor bundled with XP? Windows Movie Maker (or Windows You-Can-Only-Export-To-WMV-At-The-Resolutions-We-S pecify) Even the version of iMovie included with 10.3 kicks its ass. On my iBook G3 (500Mhz).
Actually, Windows does very little in the way of handling MIME types, so it really does depend on the application. If your image viewer uses the file extension, then a WMF disgused as a GIF or JPEG would just produce an error along the lines of "Bad GIF file." The WMF vulnerability only affected applications that used the Windows GDI built in WMF rendering API. Other WMF renderers (there are a few) were not affected (at least not in the same way.)
And since when did CAD programs use WMF format?! I've never seen it used for anything other than clip-art.
Firstly, most phisers (phishermen?:) wouldn't and couldn't go to those lengths.
Secondly, there is no "standard" (as in supported by ALL clients) method for encrypting emails. I know most OSS clients support PGP, but Microsoft Outlook Express doesn't and thats what many people use if they are not using web-based email.
You don't even need a flat surface if you have a small USB mouse, mine is small enough to be used on the palmrest area even on my 12" iBook... I also prefer it because it has 2 buttons and a scroller...
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Then if you really do lose they key, you should securely erase all traces of the encrypted volume, that way the "protected information" no longer exisits.
They cannot order you to reveal the key to a volume that does not exist.
From the act in question:
49. - (1) A person is guilty of an offence if-
(a) he fails to comply, in accordance with any section 46 notice, with any requirement of that notice to disclose a key to protected information; and
(b) he is a person who has or has had possession of the key.
Notice section (b). Both (a) and (b) will need to be proved beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law for a person to be convicted. If law enforcement cannot prove that you have or had prossession of the key then they canot convict you. Therefore you cannot be convicted for failing to disclose a key you do not know or that does not exist.
What we need is an encryption scheme where two possible keys yeild two different plaintexts and the existence of the second plaintext is (close to) impossible to prove.
Therefore you can give the "innocent" encryption key and all that is revealed is stuff that you might want to hide, but not of interest to the government (credit card records, personal finance detials, things like that) and keep the second key secret (which is the one that reveals your political speaches, government corruption evidence or whatever else they are trying to suppress).
Without a way to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the second key exists, you cannot be found guilty under RIP.
Anybody know of a system that works like that?
Nothing special.
I saw a video of the diamondtouch (http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/) system in my HCI lecture today.
Diamondtouch has been around since 2001.
If a car company starts selling cars that all use the same key, the person who uses the key to his car to steal someone else's car is at fault. And the car company did absolutely nothing wrong.
I don't know if you realised, but there were cases where car manufactures sold 1000's of cars with only 10's of different keys. All it takes is for two identical or very similar cars to be parked next to each other and it's quite possible that someone could *accidentally* get into the wrong car and drive away. Happened to one of my school teachers.
No, the first iteration of UNIX (originally spelt Unics), was a single-tasking command-line based OS. Users, multitasking and games all came later.
See: http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/
Likewise the author is completely wrong about Microsoft being likely to take the O/S in that direction. Unix and VMS led the minicomputer revolution. Gates led the microcomputer revolution which was even more against the central processing store model of computing. If you look at all the early microcomputers you will find that they all ran Microsoft Basic. When IBM went to Microsoft while it was building the PC it was the BASIC they wanted. They only demanded a bootstrap loader when Kildal refused to deal with them for CPM.
Sooo many misconceptions...
Microsoft BASIC was one of many. There was no clear leader.
Kildall's DRI was the "Microsoft" of the early (8-bit) micros, CP/M was the prevailant OS, mainly because Lotus 123 and many other business apps ran on it.
IBM shafted DRI, not the other way around.
$8M is the tax bill.
The "valuation" was $800M.
Is there a private house anywhere worth that much?
The Victorians only invented this because of the British Empire.
It goes like this:
-Britian has a large empire, but seeds of decent demand a ligitimate reason for the empire.
-British invent the idea that they are 'more civilised' and are bringing 'civilisation' to the countries of the empire.
-In order to encourage traits in native peoples, the British concept of 'civilisation' means a society without violence or strong emotion in any form, as these are the traits that lead to rebellion.
-Thus begins the strict control of all emotions, especially those that lead to conflict (lust, anger, etc.).
The Bible is a textual, documentary description of events.
Video games are a visual, interactive and immersive medium where the player generally takes part in the virtual violent conduct.
There is a clear difference, like the difference between saying that Anne and Bob had sex and showing a video of it.
Although I disagree with these laws, it's correlation, not causation. A person with violent tenencies may be drawn to violent video games, but a person without violent tendencies will not develop them by playing violent video games.
I'd hardly call that "realistic" blood and gore, I mean its only a particle effect, we need proper fluid dynamics before we can call it "realistic"...
Copyright infringement is not stealing.
I'm going to use UK law examples here as I live in the UK, however US and other laws are sufficiently similar for the same point to apply.
Theft: Dishonestly appropriating property belonging to another with intent to permanently deprive.
If you make a copy of something, then you are not depriving anybody of the original.
There is in fact a case, R v Lloyd, where a cinema projectionist took films to make pirate copies, then returned them. As the cinema had only been deprived of the films for a few hours and they had not been damaged in any way then no crime had been comitted.
The civil offence of Copyright Infringement deals with making copies without permission. It is not theft.
Except that you need the username and password of an administrator to access those. Therefore its not a public share.
I'd me more worried about XP Home users without firwalls (in XP Home you cannot set a password on a user-created share, even Windows 95 could do that!)
Java will ALWAYS be slower than native code. It takes time to translate java bytecode into native machine code. This cannot be optimised away.
Java is certianly no less memory hungry than it origininally was, the only difference is that 10 years ago, the average machine had about 16MB of RAM, so java using 8MB was rediculous. Nowadays we have 512MB-1GB in the average machine, so 8MB is almost unnoticed.
Other reasons why I dont like java:
*Encourages taking the OO pradigm to rediculous levels. (I have seen people put all their "utility" methods in seperate classes, just so they don't end up with unused code in their application.)
*Non-Free (A fully featured Free implementation is a while off.)
*Java applications *never* conform to any OS's standard look, no matter what OS you run them on. (Linux java sort-of uses Gtk, Windows (sun) java uses its own widgets, Mac java uses Aqua, but does not conform to Apples UIG.)
*Java applications cannot take advantage of OS-specific features, so often OS-specific "helper" apps are written, reducing the application's portability.
Hmm... [Begins eBay search for Apple II job lots...]
>Twenty Committee (20 = XX = double cross) turned every single one of them.
Not quite, those that could not be turned were executed, but you are quite right, there were no Nazi spies in Britian during WW2.
>Britain and the USA - which supplied most of their ships
The ships were almost exclusively British built and/or British designs. 1902, the Royal Navy was the major naval power by far, the US had not even completed the "Great White Fleet".
>British air raid on Taranto in November 1940
In fact, the Toranto raid was witnessed by a Japanese delegation then visiting Italy. A report was sent to Yamamoto and the Pearl Harbour raid was based on it. Thereby making the Toranto raid the most important of the war.
Surrender? Why? The VERY BEST that Japan could have managed in WW2 was to get the US to sign a peace treaty to let them keep their captured Pacific Islands.
In fact this almost happened and probably would have done if the primary targets of the Peal Harbour attack (the aircraft carriers) had been in harbour at the time of the attack.
Also, most, if not all of the territory captured by the Japanese in the Pacific (excluding China) were European colonies. It could well be argued that Japan had at least as much right to them as the Europeans.
Movie editor bundled with XP?S pecify) Even the version of iMovie included with 10.3 kicks its ass. On my iBook G3 (500Mhz).
Windows Movie Maker (or Windows You-Can-Only-Export-To-WMV-At-The-Resolutions-We-
Except that the name "PowerBook" predates the switch to PowerPC...
Actually, Windows does very little in the way of handling MIME types, so it really does depend on the application. If your image viewer uses the file extension, then a WMF disgused as a GIF or JPEG would just produce an error along the lines of "Bad GIF file."
The WMF vulnerability only affected applications that used the Windows GDI built in WMF rendering API. Other WMF renderers (there are a few) were not affected (at least not in the same way.)
And since when did CAD programs use WMF format?! I've never seen it used for anything other than clip-art.
So what does a=b=c mean?
Do we want to set a and b equal to c, or do we want to set a equal to the truth value of (a=b)?
Firstly, most phisers (phishermen? :) wouldn't and couldn't go to those lengths.
Secondly, there is no "standard" (as in supported by ALL clients) method for encrypting emails. I know most OSS clients support PGP, but Microsoft Outlook Express doesn't and thats what many people use if they are not using web-based email.
In fact, Safari is the only stable browser it works in. Opera 9 isn't stable yet either...
You don't even need a flat surface if you have a small USB mouse, mine is small enough to be used on the palmrest area even on my 12" iBook... I also prefer it because it has 2 buttons and a scroller...