"Design Patterns" by Booch is the hottest CS book out now. "Design Patterns" is an excellent book, but it wasn't written by Booch (see the first half of this sentence, the sentence would be self-contradicting otherwise). "Design Patterns" was well written by the gang of four (Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides). Booch just wrote a foreword for it which is about as much of Booch's writing as I can take.
As to the new commercial web sites, it seems like MS is dominating the market. Then again, that's just based upon the open jobs and the books sold. Maybe it's just that MS's stuff is harder to use, breaks more often, and doesn't work as well, so they need more programmers and more references just to get their site working.
This bill would be nothing short of terrific for criminals with a clue.
This would give criminals advanced notice that the government is actively trying to take them down, and is able to get warrants against them. All they have to do is setup some passable security on the computer with tripwires, and they'll be set. When the computer's alarm goes off, they can just read some logs, see that it's very very un-kosher, fire off a script to re-encrypt everything on the hard drive, and pack their bags.. the encryption should slow their computer, and the hacking on it, to a crawl. The criminals will be able to walk out the front door while the government tries to hack into their computer's backdoor.
Let's say you wanted to take down a warez group. Do you think they'll have a better chance at taking them down by attacking their computers, or breaking into their homes? The attacked group member would be able to fire off a warning email to every member and every affiliate in the world within seconds of the start of the attack. The whole operation would be shutdown within a day, and most of it would have shutdown within an hour.
I know they're going after the mob and druglords and whatnot, but I assume those guys can hire net security guys as well as the next group. They don't even need the best anyway.. I mean, I haven't done active sys-admin'ing in years, and I'm certain that I could determine if my system was being attacked. I figure if they bothered to use PGP already, they'll figure out how to use this to their advantage as well.
The only problem for the criminals that I see is determining if it's some script kiddie working on their own or if it's some script kiddie working for the man.. I'm sure if I sold drugs, I'd be pissed that I'd shutdown shop just for some punk trying to be 3l33+.
Anyway, my basic point is that this bill would do way more harm than good for the government.
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"Design Patterns" is an excellent book, but it wasn't written by Booch (see the first half of this sentence, the sentence would be self-contradicting otherwise). "Design Patterns" was well written by the gang of four (Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides). Booch just wrote a foreword for it which is about as much of Booch's writing as I can take.
As to the new commercial web sites, it seems like MS is dominating the market. Then again, that's just based upon the open jobs and the books sold. Maybe it's just that MS's stuff is harder to use, breaks more often, and doesn't work as well, so they need more programmers and more references just to get their site working.
This bill would be nothing short of terrific for criminals with a clue.
This would give criminals advanced notice that the government is actively trying to take them down, and is able to get warrants against them. All they have to do is setup some passable security on the computer with tripwires, and they'll be set. When the computer's alarm goes off, they can just read some logs, see that it's very very un-kosher, fire off a script to re-encrypt everything on the hard drive, and pack their bags.. the encryption should slow their computer, and the hacking on it, to a crawl. The criminals will be able to walk out the front door while the government tries to hack into their computer's backdoor.
Let's say you wanted to take down a warez group. Do you think they'll have a better chance at taking them down by attacking their computers, or breaking into their homes? The attacked group member would be able to fire off a warning email to every member and every affiliate in the world within seconds of the start of the attack. The whole operation would be shutdown within a day, and most of it would have shutdown within an hour.
I know they're going after the mob and druglords and whatnot, but I assume those guys can hire net security guys as well as the next group. They don't even need the best anyway.. I mean, I haven't done active sys-admin'ing in years, and I'm certain that I could determine if my system was being attacked. I figure if they bothered to use PGP already, they'll figure out how to use this to their advantage as well.
The only problem for the criminals that I see is determining if it's some script kiddie working on their own or if it's some script kiddie working for the man.. I'm sure if I sold drugs, I'd be pissed that I'd shutdown shop just for some punk trying to be 3l33+.
Anyway, my basic point is that this bill would do way more harm than good for the government.
- George Gruschow