The fun thing about those exploits are that Apple patched them pretty darn quickly (for current versions of iOS). How often do carriers/manufacturers put out security patches for Android devices? That's a serious question -- I'm really curious, 'cause that's the biggest single issue with Android security in my opinion and I would *love* to be wrong.
Weird, because every Cisco router that I've worked with allows you to create tunnels without encryption. I'll grant you that they're a bit of an obscure company in the networking arena, so you may have a point...
The problem is that history has shown us that there is room in the market for three players. Further, the Mac is not where the games are. Microsoft entering the market made sense; Xbox is short for DirectX Box. Where are the Mac games? Where are the Mac game developers?
About 50 million angry birds and wave after wave of plant eating zombies disagree with you. There is a market for low-end casual games.
Strictly speaking, every computer in the real world is a finite state machine that's complex enough to simulate a universal Turing machine. It's a subtle difference that really only matters if you're considering the math behind it;)
I'm (genuinely) curious about this. What would be a case where you want to encrypt data that's transmitted and also not care that it may be intercepted, and/or altered by a "man in the middle"? Without proper authentication, how can you ensure that you're communicating with the correct site, and if you don't care, why bother encrypting?
I use file vault. It's not quite as effective as let's say full disk encryption, but if you turn on the encrypted virtual memory option, it's pretty darn good. The caveat with encryption systems is that they can be more susceptible to data loss. A small amount of corruption can lead to large amounts of data loss. That's what backups are for. All in all, I'm much happier knowing that if my Macbook gets stolen, all that I've lost is the hardware.
Mine is set up so that holding two fingers on the track pad makes the mouse button behave as a right mouse button. This was one of my biggest concerns when considering getting a Mac ( really ) and it's turned out to be a total non-issue.
I have a Q too. Try the Opera Mini 4 beta browser; it's so much better than the version of IE that comes with the Q, that it's not even close. I installed it a couple of months ago and haven't looked back. It's a Java midlet, so you'll have to install the IBM MIDP Java emulator ( info about this can be found by searching the forums at qusers.com ), but once you get it working, you'll never look back. I don't understand why all mobile browsers don't work like this.
"Switches and routing are different things, you can't really compare the two. And again, in their router module, if you implement any sort of ACL, are you still avoiding process-switching?"
I'm pretty sure that in their layer 3 switches the first packet for a given session gets routed and checked against the ACLs after which subsequent packets get switched in hardware.
The scenario describes documents, but this can also be applied to binary executable files. A benign program and a malicious trojan can have the same MD5 signature ( but likely different file sizes ).
I think that we're saying the same thing. Properly implemented SSL can provide the authentication protection in the absence of critical client software flaws and provided the end user takes the time to verify that they're connected to the site that they think they're connected to.
Re: Re: WiFi Hotspots:
The point in encrypting the WiFi link is that it's relativly easy to effect a man-in-the-middle type of attack in an unwired environment. While I don't think that most users require encryption for their bulk internet use, at least the logon procedure should be properly protected. The only reason that I mention this is that the grand parent specifically mentioned phishing attacks and encryption is necassary ( but not sufficient ) to mitigate them.
It's not really your excess bandwidth. You're ( likely ) not paying anthing close to what a dedicated internet pipe would cost. The reason that you pay so little is that your provider is counting on your "excess" bandwith being available to its other paying customers.
"I'll let you in on a little tip. Until your 18 in Canada [at least] you're not actually allowed [by law] to skip classes. The school is responsible for your well being during the day and if you go missing it's them who get looked at [at least initially]."
I don't know what part of Canada you're from, but here ( BC ) you can leave school at age 16.
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The fun thing about those exploits are that Apple patched them pretty darn quickly (for current versions of iOS). How often do carriers/manufacturers put out security patches for Android devices? That's a serious question -- I'm really curious, 'cause that's the biggest single issue with Android security in my opinion and I would *love* to be wrong.
Weird, because every Cisco router that I've worked with allows you to create tunnels without encryption. I'll grant you that they're a bit of an obscure company in the networking arena, so you may have a point...
The problem is that history has shown us that there is room in the market for three players. Further, the Mac is not where the games are. Microsoft entering the market made sense; Xbox is short for DirectX Box. Where are the Mac games? Where are the Mac game developers?
About 50 million angry birds and wave after wave of plant eating zombies disagree with you. There is a market for low-end casual games.
I don't know what the situation is in the US, but in Canada Virgin Mobile is owned by Bell.
Strictly speaking, every computer in the real world is a finite state machine that's complex enough to simulate a universal Turing machine. It's a subtle difference that really only matters if you're considering the math behind it ;)
The iPhone 4's resolution is 960X640, which is actually not too bad.
A two finger drag will scroll inside a text box.
I'm (genuinely) curious about this. What would be a case where you want to encrypt data that's transmitted and also not care that it may be intercepted, and/or altered by a "man in the middle"? Without proper authentication, how can you ensure that you're communicating with the correct site, and if you don't care, why bother encrypting?
Objective-C is easy enough...Cocoa and XCode are less so. (posted from an iPhone, for what it's worth)
I use file vault. It's not quite as effective as let's say full disk encryption, but if you turn on the encrypted virtual memory option, it's pretty darn good. The caveat with encryption systems is that they can be more susceptible to data loss. A small amount of corruption can lead to large amounts of data loss. That's what backups are for. All in all, I'm much happier knowing that if my Macbook gets stolen, all that I've lost is the hardware.
Mine is set up so that holding two fingers on the track pad makes the mouse button behave as a right mouse button. This was one of my biggest concerns when considering getting a Mac ( really ) and it's turned out to be a total non-issue.
We're using it on all three platforms. It works very well on Mac and Linux for us.
I have a Q too. Try the Opera Mini 4 beta browser; it's so much better than the version of IE that comes with the Q, that it's not even close. I installed it a couple of months ago and haven't looked back. It's a Java midlet, so you'll have to install the IBM MIDP Java emulator ( info about this can be found by searching the forums at qusers.com ), but once you get it working, you'll never look back. I don't understand why all mobile browsers don't work like this.
Nooculer, it's pronounced nooculer.
"Switches and routing are different things, you can't really compare the two. And again, in their router module, if you implement any sort of ACL, are you still avoiding process-switching?"
I'm pretty sure that in their layer 3 switches the first packet for a given session gets routed and checked against the ACLs after which subsequent packets get switched in hardware.
I'm not so sure that the loss of Steam is such a bad thing in an FPS game.
The scenario describes documents, but this can also be applied to binary executable files. A benign program and a malicious trojan can have the same MD5 signature ( but likely different file sizes ).
I think that we're saying the same thing. Properly implemented SSL can provide the authentication protection in the absence of critical client software flaws and provided the end user takes the time to verify that they're connected to the site that they think they're connected to.
Re: Re: WiFi Hotspots: The point in encrypting the WiFi link is that it's relativly easy to effect a man-in-the-middle type of attack in an unwired environment. While I don't think that most users require encryption for their bulk internet use, at least the logon procedure should be properly protected. The only reason that I mention this is that the grand parent specifically mentioned phishing attacks and encryption is necassary ( but not sufficient ) to mitigate them.
It's not really your excess bandwidth. You're ( likely ) not paying anthing close to what a dedicated internet pipe would cost. The reason that you pay so little is that your provider is counting on your "excess" bandwith being available to its other paying customers.
"I'll let you in on a little tip. Until your 18 in Canada [at least] you're not actually allowed [by law] to skip classes. The school is responsible for your well being during the day and if you go missing it's them who get looked at [at least initially]."
I don't know what part of Canada you're from, but here ( BC ) you can leave school at age 16.
I just have to know, is Harry going to die?
"Prove or disprove: Fermat's Last Theorem" = yes