Everyone knows what mutually assured destruction is.
You are assuming that the enemy has ballistic missile submarines that are not tracked by friendly forces.
Yes, nuclear war probably won't happen.
The threat exists, and could be more effectively countered with a supersonic, long-range interceptor platform.
F-22 fills this fine right now, but there are scenarios where a YF-12 would be more desirable in terms of mission performance.
The Russians' latest advancements and threats to modernize their ICBM systems have little to do with defense contractor "pork" and much more to do with geopolitics.
The recent SS-26 use against Georgia, needless overkill, is concrete evidence of this.
Looking for a problem? How about the Backfire-B and Blackjack bombers: the supersonic intercontinental heavy bombers the Russians maintain, capable of delivering nuclear cruise missiles anywhere in the mainland United States.
The interceptor role is a type of fighter role.
ICBM's in a non-FOB launch profile give a larger warning time than high-speed bombers. A Soviet first-strike would have attempted to sneak bombers close to critical C4I targets such that detection times would be similar for land and air assets. ICBM's don't make bombers obsolete whatsoever. A bomber has many features that are desirable to the targeting planner and the command chain during the execution of the first 24 hours of a strategic war. The bomber can be retasked in flight, recalled, you have a lot more options. A limited number of bombers could potentially evade surveillance systems and deliver a surprise attack on a small number of targets. Advanced IR national systems preclude any ICBM surprise attack. Some countries utilize mobile TEL's, and as additional intelligence became available regarding TEL location, the bombers could be retasked realtime and deliver precision strikes, which would be necessary to neutralize dismounted TEL's operating in rough terrain, where the terrain could provide shielding from blast/thermal.
They are not liable because you waive the right to hold them responsible for damages when you agree to the EULA or TOS.
Security hasn't significantly improved during the history of personal computing because the average users wants features, not security. Did you choose your operating system based solely on security, compatibility with applications, or compatibility with the hardware you desired to purchase?
Centripetal force. For a constant linear velocity, the force exerted on each point of the platter is inversely proportional to the radius, or distance from the axis of rotation. Across the platter, the centripetal force increases linearly as the radius is increased. Stress in the platter does not follow as simple a relationship.
It's not binary. The army held nearly all the power in that state before the uprising. Now a secret army council is in charge of the entire country. Am I jaded because I have no faith that a secret martial council is hard at work to sow the seeds of democracy? Wake up.
I would figure someone with such a tin-foil link in their sig would agree that faceless martial law is hardly a more desirable place for an oppressed nation to find itself in. What has happened in Egypt follows the classic template of actions by realpolitik dictatorships: slowly appease the people while continuing to more deeply institutionalize the powerlessness of the people.
Everybody plays their part in any communal enterprise. This is one reason that terrorists do not wire up the bomb-maker or forger with a suicide vest. Those with specialized skills are most valuable in the execution of those roles which no one else can fill. How are you going to get the internet back up after rioting if all the network techs are recovering from concussions and burns?
It is a straw man, 100 people does not make a difference to a million-man riot, but those 100 people can make a difference in maintaining internet connectivity. I am not saying that everyone should just tweet. I am saying that people with specialized network maintenance skills should not be in the street chucking stones.
Networked information is powerful because it rallies support from much greater numbers than would otherwise be possible, and at a higher rate than is possible through word of mouth.
Of course it is implicit that information is powerful because it causes action.
A razor:
1) They complied with orders to shut down the routers because AK-74's were pointed at them.
2) They complied with orders to shut down the routers because they believed that would in fact aid the rebellion.
You decide.
The right to privacy is not explicitly granted in the constitution, it has been produced by American jurisprudence as implicit under various amendments.
If you had a right to privacy, then why can the police read your email when it is 182 days old?
One million tweets is more powerful than a brick. The best thing that the telco personnel could have done for Egypt is do their job, not head to the streets with a bat. That's what I said, if you disagree with that statement, then your comment should respond to what I said and not the straw man of "information is useless without the threat of force."
The problem is that the data on your hard disk is organized in magnetic domains that slightly vary in size and location on each write. What appears as a discrete array to the driver and operating system is a fuzzier set of measurements that the disk logic interprets into a well-behaved array.
The way this is exploited to recover deleted data is with a high resolution scanning electron microscope. Nation-state actors possess the technology to reimage a drive platter on microscopic scale and rebuild probable data structures whether they have been erased or overwritten or whatever.
To what extent this is practiced is classified
There are plans you can find through google to build your own microscope for hard disk recovery for less than 10^3 USD.
"Due to security reasons"
And you say Truecrypt doesn't talk about a lack of security on SSD's?
Truecrypt suggests you not use devices with wear levelling to prevent cryptanalysis from leveraging correlations between related data blocks encrypted with the same keying information. This directly concerns the capability of Truecrypt to secure your data against cryptanalysis on SSD's.
This is a Reagan quote, and Reagan himself understood that it was self-contradictory. It is derived from a Russian saying and they are equally aware of the self-contradictory nature of the statement. That is, in fact, the point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
Yes, some people do use long passwords and memorize them. Random passwords.
Most use keyfiles. Much more than 128 bits of entropy.
You have benchmarks that demonstrate that full-disk encryption brings everything to a crawl? That's not the experience of others. It depends on the application, surely, but the blanket statement that performance with full disk encryption will bring a desktop system to a crawl is just nonsense.
The main fear with anything entering the mainstream is that the mainstream is vulnerable to such sophisticated attacks as email spearphishing, and you can't fix stupid.
All classified media generated by the military is destined for burn. Regardless of what you read on some amateur "secure-wipe" program you downloaded as share-ware, DOD does not ever downgrade the classification of media. The people who write those standards keep up on media technology, and as soon as it became impossible to securely wipe a COTS hard disk, they removed the ability to downgrade them.
Incineration is what the pro's do. Rending to powder will work fine for those of us without access to high-temperature furnaces, plasma cutters, or welding torches.
I think I see the disconnect here. You are conflating rhetoric and logic, as does the poorly-sourced wikipedia article you are linking to.
You are correct that it is a fallacy of definition, but it is not a fallacy of logic or rhetoric so without qualifying the use of that word as such, it makes little sense when attempting to argue with other people.
Why did I disagree with someone with a youtube channel?
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Everyone knows what mutually assured destruction is.
You are assuming that the enemy has ballistic missile submarines that are not tracked by friendly forces.
Yes, nuclear war probably won't happen.
The threat exists, and could be more effectively countered with a supersonic, long-range interceptor platform.
F-22 fills this fine right now, but there are scenarios where a YF-12 would be more desirable in terms of mission performance.
The Russians' latest advancements and threats to modernize their ICBM systems have little to do with defense contractor "pork" and much more to do with geopolitics.
The recent SS-26 use against Georgia, needless overkill, is concrete evidence of this.
Looking for a problem? How about the Backfire-B and Blackjack bombers: the supersonic intercontinental heavy bombers the Russians maintain, capable of delivering nuclear cruise missiles anywhere in the mainland United States.
The interceptor role is a type of fighter role. ICBM's in a non-FOB launch profile give a larger warning time than high-speed bombers. A Soviet first-strike would have attempted to sneak bombers close to critical C4I targets such that detection times would be similar for land and air assets. ICBM's don't make bombers obsolete whatsoever. A bomber has many features that are desirable to the targeting planner and the command chain during the execution of the first 24 hours of a strategic war. The bomber can be retasked in flight, recalled, you have a lot more options. A limited number of bombers could potentially evade surveillance systems and deliver a surprise attack on a small number of targets. Advanced IR national systems preclude any ICBM surprise attack. Some countries utilize mobile TEL's, and as additional intelligence became available regarding TEL location, the bombers could be retasked realtime and deliver precision strikes, which would be necessary to neutralize dismounted TEL's operating in rough terrain, where the terrain could provide shielding from blast/thermal.
They are not liable because you waive the right to hold them responsible for damages when you agree to the EULA or TOS.
Security hasn't significantly improved during the history of personal computing because the average users wants features, not security. Did you choose your operating system based solely on security, compatibility with applications, or compatibility with the hardware you desired to purchase?
Centripetal force. For a constant linear velocity, the force exerted on each point of the platter is inversely proportional to the radius, or distance from the axis of rotation. Across the platter, the centripetal force increases linearly as the radius is increased. Stress in the platter does not follow as simple a relationship.
It's not binary. The army held nearly all the power in that state before the uprising. Now a secret army council is in charge of the entire country. Am I jaded because I have no faith that a secret martial council is hard at work to sow the seeds of democracy? Wake up.
I would figure someone with such a tin-foil link in their sig would agree that faceless martial law is hardly a more desirable place for an oppressed nation to find itself in. What has happened in Egypt follows the classic template of actions by realpolitik dictatorships: slowly appease the people while continuing to more deeply institutionalize the powerlessness of the people.
Encryption does not protect against water torture.
The torturers still run Egypt.
:tf: there is no long-term solution to Egypt's problem.
Amen.
All the torturers and spies still have their jobs. The army was in control before, and they are in control now.
The Egyptian people won nothing. The same regime is in charge.
Everybody plays their part in any communal enterprise. This is one reason that terrorists do not wire up the bomb-maker or forger with a suicide vest. Those with specialized skills are most valuable in the execution of those roles which no one else can fill. How are you going to get the internet back up after rioting if all the network techs are recovering from concussions and burns?
It is a straw man, 100 people does not make a difference to a million-man riot, but those 100 people can make a difference in maintaining internet connectivity. I am not saying that everyone should just tweet. I am saying that people with specialized network maintenance skills should not be in the street chucking stones.
Networked information is powerful because it rallies support from much greater numbers than would otherwise be possible, and at a higher rate than is possible through word of mouth.
Of course it is implicit that information is powerful because it causes action.
A razor:
1) They complied with orders to shut down the routers because AK-74's were pointed at them.
2) They complied with orders to shut down the routers because they believed that would in fact aid the rebellion.
You decide.
The right to privacy is not explicitly granted in the constitution, it has been produced by American jurisprudence as implicit under various amendments.
If you had a right to privacy, then why can the police read your email when it is 182 days old?
One million tweets is more powerful than a brick. The best thing that the telco personnel could have done for Egypt is do their job, not head to the streets with a bat. That's what I said, if you disagree with that statement, then your comment should respond to what I said and not the straw man of "information is useless without the threat of force."
Perhaps there are personnel working at those telco's that understand that information is more powerful than a brick thrown at a police officer.
What right to privacy?
That which is not in the constitution can be removed without amendment.
I think you need to reread my comment.
The problem is that the data on your hard disk is organized in magnetic domains that slightly vary in size and location on each write. What appears as a discrete array to the driver and operating system is a fuzzier set of measurements that the disk logic interprets into a well-behaved array.
The way this is exploited to recover deleted data is with a high resolution scanning electron microscope. Nation-state actors possess the technology to reimage a drive platter on microscopic scale and rebuild probable data structures whether they have been erased or overwritten or whatever.
To what extent this is practiced is classified
There are plans you can find through google to build your own microscope for hard disk recovery for less than 10^3 USD.
"Due to security reasons"
And you say Truecrypt doesn't talk about a lack of security on SSD's?
Truecrypt suggests you not use devices with wear levelling to prevent cryptanalysis from leveraging correlations between related data blocks encrypted with the same keying information. This directly concerns the capability of Truecrypt to secure your data against cryptanalysis on SSD's.
This is a Reagan quote, and Reagan himself understood that it was self-contradictory. It is derived from a Russian saying and they are equally aware of the self-contradictory nature of the statement. That is, in fact, the point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
Yes, some people do use long passwords and memorize them. Random passwords.
Most use keyfiles. Much more than 128 bits of entropy.
You have benchmarks that demonstrate that full-disk encryption brings everything to a crawl? That's not the experience of others. It depends on the application, surely, but the blanket statement that performance with full disk encryption will bring a desktop system to a crawl is just nonsense.
The main fear with anything entering the mainstream is that the mainstream is vulnerable to such sophisticated attacks as email spearphishing, and you can't fix stupid.
All classified media generated by the military is destined for burn. Regardless of what you read on some amateur "secure-wipe" program you downloaded as share-ware, DOD does not ever downgrade the classification of media. The people who write those standards keep up on media technology, and as soon as it became impossible to securely wipe a COTS hard disk, they removed the ability to downgrade them. Incineration is what the pro's do. Rending to powder will work fine for those of us without access to high-temperature furnaces, plasma cutters, or welding torches.
I think I see the disconnect here. You are conflating rhetoric and logic, as does the poorly-sourced wikipedia article you are linking to.
You are correct that it is a fallacy of definition, but it is not a fallacy of logic or rhetoric so without qualifying the use of that word as such, it makes little sense when attempting to argue with other people.
Why did I disagree with someone with a youtube channel?