I don't see how this is different from other major arenas. For example, Ohio Stadium (home of the Buckeyes) has sponsored ads throughout (including on the scoreboard), no food or drink is allowed in, nor is video/audio/photographic equipment. Also, airplane banners (there are a few of the on gamedays) must stay a certain distance away from the stadium. There are no billboards nearby (though OSU owns all of the land around the stadium).
I do admit the "no logo clothing" regulation is a bit weird.
Even if you use a broadband or other high-speed connection, I wonder how much bandwidth you could get through the overseas connection that would be required to view a European stream.
Bandwidth may certainly be getting cheaper, but with a ping to an overseas IP takes over 100 ms, you'd better hope that everything arrives in order or else you'll suffer from too many dropped frames as packets get lost (especially as more people from the US try to get into the same relays online).
Besides, are the Olympics going to get better ratings this year then they did in Salt Lake City?
It just goes to show that no system is perfect, and that no system can work at all without some outside intervention (in cases like the ones you mentioned).
Biometrics is good, but you could still get past it (for some reason, I start thinking about Minority Report at this point).
IIRC, the best system consists of "something you know" (a password), "something you have" (a USB token or access card), and "something you are" (biometrics). I don't know how many systems have all three.
Depending on the type of connection, this could also make it easier for system admins to tell when someone is trying such an attack.
For example, if someone has had a connection open for a minute or two and they haven't managed to enter a proper password then it would be worth checking out. Of course this is true now, but with the quick hashing algorithms you can run through many more hashes then you could with a slower algorithm (or even a fast algorithm with a delay built-in).
If these solar panels work well as projection screens, then how long would it be until building owners use them to display advertising?
This could also being a whole new meaning to the term "war driving". Instead of driving around with a wireless laptop, you'd be driving around with a video projector!
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I don't see how this is different from other major arenas. For example, Ohio Stadium (home of the Buckeyes) has sponsored ads throughout (including on the scoreboard), no food or drink is allowed in, nor is video/audio/photographic equipment. Also, airplane banners (there are a few of the on gamedays) must stay a certain distance away from the stadium. There are no billboards nearby (though OSU owns all of the land around the stadium).
I do admit the "no logo clothing" regulation is a bit weird.
With the publicized loss of Democratic congressional data from a few months ago, I hope some encryption technology is included in this.
PGP was pretty grass-roots when it came out; I wouldn't be surprised if it would be discussed at least once?
Even if you use a broadband or other high-speed connection, I wonder how much bandwidth you could get through the overseas connection that would be required to view a European stream.
Bandwidth may certainly be getting cheaper, but with a ping to an overseas IP takes over 100 ms, you'd better hope that everything arrives in order or else you'll suffer from too many dropped frames as packets get lost (especially as more people from the US try to get into the same relays online).
Besides, are the Olympics going to get better ratings this year then they did in Salt Lake City?
It just goes to show that no system is perfect, and that no system can work at all without some outside intervention (in cases like the ones you mentioned).
Biometrics is good, but you could still get past it (for some reason, I start thinking about Minority Report at this point).
IIRC, the best system consists of "something you know" (a password), "something you have" (a USB token or access card), and "something you are" (biometrics). I don't know how many systems have all three.
Depending on the type of connection, this could also make it easier for system admins to tell when someone is trying such an attack.
For example, if someone has had a connection open for a minute or two and they haven't managed to enter a proper password then it would be worth checking out. Of course this is true now, but with the quick hashing algorithms you can run through many more hashes then you could with a slower algorithm (or even a fast algorithm with a delay built-in).
If these solar panels work well as projection screens, then how long would it be until building owners use them to display advertising?
This could also being a whole new meaning to the term "war driving". Instead of driving around with a wireless laptop, you'd be driving around with a video projector!