I would not call it inconsequential, they have been systematically blocking all the major providers and cloud providers. While you can easily get around it, many users are finding they are continually having to get around it. If you are going to go to that effort you may as well save $10 a month and just torrent the content.
perhaps you aren't familiar with how limited content is on Netflix in some countries? I and many people I know have cancelled their Netflix membership in Australia, without access to content in the US or one of the other major regions the service is worse than shit, it has a tiny fraction of the content a US user sees. I am sure he is right that people like myself won't affect their bottom line much, but at least I can now have a guilt free conscience as I go back to torrenting as I am not going to play the whack-a-mole game of constantly finding a new proxy.
A significant chunk of those Netflix subscribers are probably international and not US. I am US subscriber living in Aus, early last year Australia alone had over 300k subscribers going through the US (probably a lot lower now that they have released here, but many like myself did not move to Australian subscription), I suspect a lot of other countries have similar situations.
Wouldn't it be great if you could read a novel in an hour or two?
I read fiction for relaxation and to enjoy, become mentally immersed in the story, not just to acquire the text in my memory.
To be honest, for me at least, the same often applies to technical material.
Could not agree more. I learnt to speed read back in my university days and while it was useful for absorbing vast quantities of material quickly I never speed read anything I am doing for relaxation, I like to meander through the story at a leisurely pace.
like smoking areas in bars and restaurants? SO you agree it should be banned (they certainly are here, even in many outdoor areas as you aren't allowed to smoke near food serving areas).
Why would anyone want to promote anti social behaviour. I am sure their is a market for a theatre that allows you to rape kiddies, spit on random people and swear at them, not everything should or needs to be catered for.
I remember getting given my first computer from Tandy back in the 80's I was inquisitive and was testing what everything did. sadly one of the first commands I found on my DOS 3 1/4 inch floppy was format, tested and failed said it required a drive parameter so I typed Format a:
The actual crime was a defacement, credentials were just the vehicle. The 1984 law itself does not see the distinction between a prank and actual serious intrusions.
NO it wasn't. The crime was transmitting the credentials to a 3rd party to allow them into the system. The effect was defacement (a separate crime by those that did that).
While I agree his crime was relatively minor in its consequences this time it most definitely isn't just like graffiti on a wall, high profile publications have the ability to affect stock markets, companies, cause panic with various fake news and various other really bad situations just from misplaced words. Imagine they published an article that said google execs have been arrested for security fraud as they have been misrepresenting the companies financial position for the last 4 years where they have actually been making a loss instead of a profit, you would see a rapid dumping of shares. While that is more an extreme example more subtle articles can have major market impacts.
The whole problem is they are not creating wealth, at least not in the countries they are siphoning money away from, they are doing the opposite. This isn't about punishing them, it is about creating a level playing field where just because you are a multinational that can move HQ into a tax haven that you can't gain a competitive advantage on local companies that have to pay their taxes.
I am not sure this is about the EU simply getting more money. The general population has had a gutful of large corporations avoiding tax that they themselves can't avoid paying, this in turn is allowing minor parties that speak out against this to bleed support from major political parties, they know if they don't do something soon it isn't the money they have to worry about, it is there jobs.
Those want to be some fucking monumentally huge property tax rates to justify building up over out and the cost of floorspace is exponentially higher to build up.
Nothing wrong with trying something new, but you need to understand why current designs are the way they are and what are the core requirements of what you are using it for. This design looks cool but doesn't seem to actually take into account what a datacentre needs to actually do or how servers work.
Not a dick, just generally not very computer literate. OS's blue screen, kernel panic etc to protect the system from bad hardware, bad drivers etc. A system that didn't have such a mechanism is an OS to avoid. General consumer hardware is often at best average quality manufactured for price rather than quality. The most common failures are things like dodgy memory or the most common one of SHIT graphics drivers from NVidia or AMD.
seriously you understand so little about hashing and encryption that you don't understand how an encrypted blob can be computer unique but a hash cannot be? A hash is algorithm specific with fixed lengths and when dealing with a key a fixed input length, hence you can precalculate known possibilities prior to a machine being infected. An encrypted blob of random data must be attacked on a case by case basis as you have no way to precalculate anything with rainbow tables. I am calling BS on you working in Security!
and at no point did I actually say small fixed sized chunk of data, that is entirely you trying your invention to try and make hashing look like a better option.
Remember the suggestion was to encrypt a small, fixed-sized block.
You can create a rainbow table for encrypting a 16-byte block MORE easily than a hash rainbow of the same 16 bytes, because it's precisely the same operation, except the hash version does the operation 64 times.
If you stored a million bytes of encrypted data, that would be (probably) more difficult than 16 bytes of hash, but not harder than a million byte hash.
incorrect. the fixed size block can easily be computer specific unlike the hash key, hell it doesn't even have to be fixed size, just a random chunk of data.
interesting and incredibly dumb on the part of the malware authors. All they really needed to do was have a known unencrypted blob that they could compare against after decrypting and completely avoid storing any hash, once you have a hash there are all sorts of attack vectors from brute force to rainbow tables that make this far easier
your living in a dream land. You did NOT outline a reasonable method to make it secure at all, unfortunately you obviously have very little background in the way of security and it is tainting your view of reasonable. Five years from now neither Google nor Apple will have anyway whatsoever to access your phone, if they don't go this way then they will be replaced by foreign companies who don't have to contend with such insanely insecure ideas.
How many emails do I receive that are signed and encrypted securely lol you targeted the wrong person dude, the majority of my company mail is securely signed and encrypted, it is mandatory for us and no one outside our company has those keys. You need to learn more about enterprises and proper security.
You don't seem to get it. It doesn't matter whether it is the FBI, CIA, Manufacturers or joe blogs in his basement that have part of the key. Eventually security is breached, eventually each of the parts of the keys will leak, each leak progressively makes the security weaker. You cannot eliminate the risk as the key risk is incompetent management of the keys and all parties from manufacturers to government have shown they are not competent at Security. The most likely security disaster is NOT that the keys are lost, it is that the keys are stolen or leaked.
So your proposing the government keep databases of billions of keys spread across multiple agencies and you someone think this won't turn into a huge fucking security disaster?
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I would not call it inconsequential, they have been systematically blocking all the major providers and cloud providers. While you can easily get around it, many users are finding they are continually having to get around it. If you are going to go to that effort you may as well save $10 a month and just torrent the content.
perhaps you aren't familiar with how limited content is on Netflix in some countries? I and many people I know have cancelled their Netflix membership in Australia, without access to content in the US or one of the other major regions the service is worse than shit, it has a tiny fraction of the content a US user sees. I am sure he is right that people like myself won't affect their bottom line much, but at least I can now have a guilt free conscience as I go back to torrenting as I am not going to play the whack-a-mole game of constantly finding a new proxy.
A significant chunk of those Netflix subscribers are probably international and not US. I am US subscriber living in Aus, early last year Australia alone had over 300k subscribers going through the US (probably a lot lower now that they have released here, but many like myself did not move to Australian subscription), I suspect a lot of other countries have similar situations.
Actually that is a gimmick I have frequently gone for in movies!
Actually the days after a major earthquake is the highest likelihood of another major or minor quake occurring.
So does he have another gimmick effect to carry the movies like the first turd?
Wouldn't it be great if you could read a novel in an hour or two?
I read fiction for relaxation and to enjoy, become mentally immersed in the story, not just to acquire the text in my memory.
To be honest, for me at least, the same often applies to technical material.
Could not agree more. I learnt to speed read back in my university days and while it was useful for absorbing vast quantities of material quickly I never speed read anything I am doing for relaxation, I like to meander through the story at a leisurely pace.
like smoking areas in bars and restaurants? SO you agree it should be banned (they certainly are here, even in many outdoor areas as you aren't allowed to smoke near food serving areas). Why would anyone want to promote anti social behaviour. I am sure their is a market for a theatre that allows you to rape kiddies, spit on random people and swear at them, not everything should or needs to be catered for.
I remember getting given my first computer from Tandy back in the 80's I was inquisitive and was testing what everything did. sadly one of the first commands I found on my DOS 3 1/4 inch floppy was format, tested and failed said it required a drive parameter so I typed Format a:
The actual crime was a defacement, credentials were just the vehicle. The 1984 law itself does not see the distinction between a prank and actual serious intrusions.
NO it wasn't. The crime was transmitting the credentials to a 3rd party to allow them into the system. The effect was defacement (a separate crime by those that did that).
His trial and punishment did fit the crime. He provided unauthorised access to computer infrastructure that he wasn't entitled to provide
While I agree his crime was relatively minor in its consequences this time it most definitely isn't just like graffiti on a wall, high profile publications have the ability to affect stock markets, companies, cause panic with various fake news and various other really bad situations just from misplaced words. Imagine they published an article that said google execs have been arrested for security fraud as they have been misrepresenting the companies financial position for the last 4 years where they have actually been making a loss instead of a profit, you would see a rapid dumping of shares. While that is more an extreme example more subtle articles can have major market impacts.
The whole problem is they are not creating wealth, at least not in the countries they are siphoning money away from, they are doing the opposite. This isn't about punishing them, it is about creating a level playing field where just because you are a multinational that can move HQ into a tax haven that you can't gain a competitive advantage on local companies that have to pay their taxes.
I am not sure this is about the EU simply getting more money. The general population has had a gutful of large corporations avoiding tax that they themselves can't avoid paying, this in turn is allowing minor parties that speak out against this to bleed support from major political parties, they know if they don't do something soon it isn't the money they have to worry about, it is there jobs.
Those want to be some fucking monumentally huge property tax rates to justify building up over out and the cost of floorspace is exponentially higher to build up.
Nothing wrong with trying something new, but you need to understand why current designs are the way they are and what are the core requirements of what you are using it for. This design looks cool but doesn't seem to actually take into account what a datacentre needs to actually do or how servers work.
Not a dick, just generally not very computer literate. OS's blue screen, kernel panic etc to protect the system from bad hardware, bad drivers etc. A system that didn't have such a mechanism is an OS to avoid. General consumer hardware is often at best average quality manufactured for price rather than quality. The most common failures are things like dodgy memory or the most common one of SHIT graphics drivers from NVidia or AMD.
There is absolutely nothing stopping them embedding the error code in the URL of the QR code.
seriously you understand so little about hashing and encryption that you don't understand how an encrypted blob can be computer unique but a hash cannot be? A hash is algorithm specific with fixed lengths and when dealing with a key a fixed input length, hence you can precalculate known possibilities prior to a machine being infected. An encrypted blob of random data must be attacked on a case by case basis as you have no way to precalculate anything with rainbow tables. I am calling BS on you working in Security!
and at no point did I actually say small fixed sized chunk of data, that is entirely you trying your invention to try and make hashing look like a better option.
Remember the suggestion was to encrypt a small, fixed-sized block.
You can create a rainbow table for encrypting a 16-byte block MORE easily than a hash rainbow of the same 16 bytes, because it's precisely the same operation, except the hash version does the operation 64 times.
If you stored a million bytes of encrypted data, that would be (probably) more difficult than 16 bytes of hash, but not harder than a million byte hash.
incorrect. the fixed size block can easily be computer specific unlike the hash key, hell it doesn't even have to be fixed size, just a random chunk of data.
interesting and incredibly dumb on the part of the malware authors. All they really needed to do was have a known unencrypted blob that they could compare against after decrypting and completely avoid storing any hash, once you have a hash there are all sorts of attack vectors from brute force to rainbow tables that make this far easier
your living in a dream land. You did NOT outline a reasonable method to make it secure at all, unfortunately you obviously have very little background in the way of security and it is tainting your view of reasonable. Five years from now neither Google nor Apple will have anyway whatsoever to access your phone, if they don't go this way then they will be replaced by foreign companies who don't have to contend with such insanely insecure ideas. How many emails do I receive that are signed and encrypted securely lol you targeted the wrong person dude, the majority of my company mail is securely signed and encrypted, it is mandatory for us and no one outside our company has those keys. You need to learn more about enterprises and proper security.
You don't seem to get it. It doesn't matter whether it is the FBI, CIA, Manufacturers or joe blogs in his basement that have part of the key. Eventually security is breached, eventually each of the parts of the keys will leak, each leak progressively makes the security weaker. You cannot eliminate the risk as the key risk is incompetent management of the keys and all parties from manufacturers to government have shown they are not competent at Security. The most likely security disaster is NOT that the keys are lost, it is that the keys are stolen or leaked.
So your proposing the government keep databases of billions of keys spread across multiple agencies and you someone think this won't turn into a huge fucking security disaster?