This looks like an interesting program. Unfortunately it is only available for Win32.
Does anyone know of a FOSS equivalent of this program for GNU/Linux?
According the Gentoo Wiki, you are even more susceptible to data loss in the event of a power failure when using an encrypted file system. I have to admit that I can't think of the reason why this would be so, because as I explained, after a power failure, everything that is written to disk is garbage anyway, whether it passes through some encryption pipeline or not. But, it's something you want to keep in mind.
Can anyone please exlpain why encrypted file systems should be more susceptible to data loss?
(if it is true, of course. If not, please confirm that it isn't)
This reminds me of the movie Zodiac.
It was based on the true story of a serial killer in US that sent code letters (similar to this one) to the press.
Actually I just noticed that tomorrow Zodiac the movie was released precisely one year ago. The sender of this letter could be inspired by the movie.
Especially swap trashing or scheduled virus scans can slow down the entire system with barely visible symptoms in cpu utilization in taskmgr or top. Actually, in top you can just look at the I/O wait. If that is high, and your mem and swap usage is also high, your system is probably busy swapping.
Frivolous lawsuits are not happening here. There was a brief time where we had (in Denmark) something like RIAA trying to extort people, but quickly people decided to fight back and I haven't heard of any new tries at this (one case made it all the way to court and the defendant won that afair). I also live in Denmark, and I have not noticed this fighting back that you mention.
Could you please provide some references?
I have also never heard of anyone who actually took APG (Danish version of RIAA/IFPI) to court and won.
There are 2^32 potential IP addresses, thats 4294967296... And you can decrease that number considerably by removing addresses that will never appear in internet-facing logs (127.x 10.x 192.168.x, plus all the blocks currently unallocated or reserved)...
Unless the hash algorithm was ridiculously complex, it wouldn't take all that long to brute force, and a database of every possible hash wouldn't be all that big either, not relative to the rainbow tables used for common password hashing techniques. Then you seed each hash with a random seed?
If up however... you have three strikes at getting in and all future packets from your IP are silently dropped for several days. How did you implement this?
Time for ISPs to stop being so nicey-nice about this....
Bam problem solved.... Nope.
Many ISPs are not so nice. Most ISPs in my country simply blocks all outgoing TCP traffic on port 25.
If customers want to send e-mail they can use the ISPs smtp server; use webmail; or use some custom smtp-server with SSL (different port).
ISPs in my country do this because they do not want to get blacklisted on spamhaus or lists like that.
Hmm... But then the problem should be solved, right? Nope. Because my country is not the problem. My country has a well developed IT business. The IT business in my country makes a lot of money. Also they loose a lot of money on spam. Thus it is in their interest (and our government's interest) to stop spam. So not much spam is coming from my country.
The problem is other contries. Countries who do not have an established IT business -- and thus a government that does not care much about the problem. This is where most spam is coming from.
Maybe governments can give ISPs a little financial help for doing this? Hmm... Nope. The government in the countries the spam is coming from does not have benefits from stopping spam. Thus, they do not want to pay companies for doing this.
In the more IT-focused contries the government does not need to help the ISPs financially. The ISPs are already loosing too much money on spam; so they are trying to stop it.
What does the Internet2 consortium actually do? From http://www.internet2.edu/about/:
What We Do:
Internet2 members leverage our high-performance network infrastructure and extensive worldwide partnerships to support and enhance their educational and research missions. Beyond just providing network capacity, Internet2 actively engages our community in the development of important new technology including middleware, security, network research and performance measurement capabilities which are critical to the progress of the Internet.
Why is it that every time Dvorak writes something someone at Slashdot thinks we need to know about it? There are a lot of idiots out there. Dvorak is one of them. The only reason to why his articles are submitted to Slashdot all the time is, as I see it, because he has the same name as a keyboard layout. But please. Though this maybe is kinda cool but not an excuse to link to his articles all the time. Please stop submitting Dvorak-crap.
but I'd love to be able to edit my calendar and have my secretary edit my calendar. Maybe there is something that lets that happen right now and if so, I'd love to hear about it.Google Calendar will let you do that:
http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/overview.html
At least the stoners have the nerve to stand right in front of the cops in a crowd of thousands and say "go ahead, arrest us all." I've yet to see a single person say "yes, I'm illegally filesharing and I'm willing to take the legal consequences as a symbol protest." Instead all I hear is "b-b-but it's not stealing, it's sharing! Everybody does it! Your business model is outdated and you're *mean*! Lower your prices! Britney sucks!"
Maybe that is because if you are a stoner and you get arrested nothing is probably going to happen to you anyway. Maybe you are brought to the station and held there for a couple of hours but then they will probably let you go. If you make a protest like the one you suggest to the *AA's they'll sue you for all your money. They will not let you go after a few hours.
Also I think it is a lot easier to get people to protest if a bunch of people are together. Maybe it also helps to be stoned?:)
Contribute to free open source software. There is lots of projects out there. I bet you can find something that interests you. If you are happy with your current salery, then why do you need to get payed for doing it? Be happy that you help making the world a better place when developing free open source software.
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AFAIK there are no known vulnerabilities or attacks for these two yet
I am no cryptography expert so I can not read and understand those algorithms. But the fact that there are no known vilnerabilities for an algorithm doesn't make it secure.
Maybe they are just not used as much as other well known algorithms. And therefore nobody has found vulnerabilities for them yet?
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This looks like an interesting program. Unfortunately it is only available for Win32. Does anyone know of a FOSS equivalent of this program for GNU/Linux?
sends a very strong signal that the legislation works.
Or it might be an indicator that the legislation has a chilling effect on free speech and fair use.
I think, unfortunately, that means exactly that the legislation works...
According the Gentoo Wiki, you are even more susceptible to data loss in the event of a power failure when using an encrypted file system. I have to admit that I can't think of the reason why this would be so, because as I explained, after a power failure, everything that is written to disk is garbage anyway, whether it passes through some encryption pipeline or not. But, it's something you want to keep in mind.
Can anyone please exlpain why encrypted file systems should be more susceptible to data loss? (if it is true, of course. If not, please confirm that it isn't)
This reminds me of the movie Zodiac. It was based on the true story of a serial killer in US that sent code letters (similar to this one) to the press. Actually I just noticed that tomorrow Zodiac the movie was released precisely one year ago. The sender of this letter could be inspired by the movie.
Recently, I have seen quite a few "news" that were actually Ask Slashdot questions posted as news. Why is this not on Ask Slashdot?
How is this "a blistering flame-mail"?
Ping of Death (http://insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html) entertained me quite a while :)
Internet2 members leverage our high-performance network infrastructure and extensive worldwide partnerships to support and enhance their educational and research missions. Beyond just providing network capacity, Internet2 actively engages our community in the development of important new technology including middleware, security, network research and performance measurement capabilities which are critical to the progress of the Internet.
Why is it that every time Dvorak writes something someone at Slashdot thinks we need to know about it? There are a lot of idiots out there. Dvorak is one of them. The only reason to why his articles are submitted to Slashdot all the time is, as I see it, because he has the same name as a keyboard layout. But please. Though this maybe is kinda cool but not an excuse to link to his articles all the time. Please stop submitting Dvorak-crap.
but I'd love to be able to edit my calendar and have my secretary edit my calendar. Maybe there is something that lets that happen right now and if so, I'd love to hear about it.Google Calendar will let you do that: http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/overview.html
Maybe that is because if you are a stoner and you get arrested nothing is probably going to happen to you anyway. Maybe you are brought to the station and held there for a couple of hours but then they will probably let you go. If you make a protest like the one you suggest to the *AA's they'll sue you for all your money. They will not let you go after a few hours.
Also I think it is a lot easier to get people to protest if a bunch of people are together. Maybe it also helps to be stoned? :)
``..to reveal a simple core truth. E=MC*2 is wonderfully...''
Actually it is E=MC^2.
I think the heading is wrong. It says that .mobi websites are available to register. Shouldn't that have been .mobi domains?
Contribute to free open source software. There is lots of projects out there. I bet you can find something that interests you. If you are happy with your current salery, then why do you need to get payed for doing it? Be happy that you help making the world a better place when developing free open source software.
Some time ago I wrote a little guide on SSH tunnels with PuTTY.
This guide also describes how to setup an SSH tunnel in Linux.
Use Firefox with https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?id=722&application=firefoxnoscript extension.
Noscript will block alle javascript, flash, and media files.
You can then choose which ones to enable.
Try it.
How do you find out how much calories you burn during a day?
AFAIK there are no known vulnerabilities or attacks for these two yet
I am no cryptography expert so I can not read and understand those algorithms. But the fact that there are no known vilnerabilities for an algorithm doesn't make it secure.
Maybe they are just not used as much as other well known algorithms. And therefore nobody has found vulnerabilities for them yet?
Yes.
Until now, scientists could not explain why ice cubes in your drink melt.
Scientists does not explain why things happen. Only how.