Hm, i'm sure MS knows all this. They're not that stupid.
Do i sound really paranoid if i would point out that it could be for a whole different purpose than to stop piracy? What about the privacy of their customers?
occured at the same time when i converted my Parent's and sister's computer to gentoo. They love it:). There is no need for me to look back as noone plays games on computers from us.
Time to break out of the vendor lock-in i suppose.
They decided that it's better to be in-line with the laws of physics.
There is no way to stop
Digital bits from being copied
Analog signal to be converted to a digital form
Sometimes, it is feasible to "invent" a DRM solution as if not all, but MOST users will obey it, and sometimes (in this case) it is not. What should be right or wrong, is a totally different question though.
Dark matter indicates that there is a whole field of physics out there and that we're in the state of peaking through the keyhole atm, before opening the door. BTW, this is what the article states, just worded differently when it says something about starting to understand things.
It's the same with black holes. Invisibility doesn't mean it doesn't affect it's surroundings.
If looking for an analogy, imagine the invisible ghost/person/whatever made visible after throwing flour on him/her. Of course it's simplified and not entirely accurate, but this is the general idea.
I'm well aware of the recent UN bashing by the United State's administration, but to be honest, does anyone take it seriously apart from them? I don't get you people.
Probably it's a better idea to trust a huge international body, which already manages a lot of aspects of various fields than the current quasi corporate owned system.
To clarify: i ment the government's income not the average income of a person. Population numbers don't always follow landmass numbers, but roughly it's true.
1. I'm not bashing MS personally, i'm just not using it.
2. It will exactly end at the same time when the "pointing-out-that-slashdot-bashes-ms" threads stop sucking up karma. When will people understand that these are two sides of the coin, where rationality is somewhere between, although it occurs exactly as often as you see a coin on it's edge.
I think my point needs a bit of clarification. My point was that by saying postponing i mean that there is a higher possibility that the current research can be applied to SHA-256 soon aswell, for example breaking it in a year or a half.
Scneier mentioned that he thought in last september SHA-1 will be broken, just not that it will be broken this soon.
Well, it all depends. Catastrophe didn't happen with DES because there was an early warning and noone used it for serious stuff by that time. With SHA-1 however, the warning came a little later and the shift will be a bit more painful as a lot of things are using it, although not impossible and not a catastrophe neither.
Yes. That is the standard procedure with linux rootkits too as you cannot be sure that there are any left or compromised code left without a complete wipe. LKM rootkits pose that threat that they are almost impossible to detect and reinstalling is the safest option.
If these "rootkits" appear on windows, well, the OS is kind of fscked. Linux has them only because it is not possible to write traditional win32 viruses on them.
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..unless someone owns a legal copy of Windows of course.
Hm, i'm sure MS knows all this. They're not that stupid.
Do i sound really paranoid if i would point out that it could be for a whole different purpose than to stop piracy? What about the privacy of their customers?
occured at the same time when i converted my Parent's and sister's computer to gentoo. They love it :). There is no need for me to look back as noone plays games on computers from us.
Time to break out of the vendor lock-in i suppose.
Of course we know this from Stargate. Remember the part, NERDS.
There is no way to stop
Sometimes, it is feasible to "invent" a DRM solution as if not all, but MOST users will obey it, and sometimes (in this case) it is not. What should be right or wrong, is a totally different question though.
It may come as a complete shock to you, but companies don't have a God-given right for profit.
You can't.
Good old Douglas Adams wrote it correctly.
Bush is some kind of Zaphod Beetlebox without goodwill and humour.
Not really.
Serious scientist DO say when they have no idea.
Dark matter indicates that there is a whole field of physics out there and that we're in the state of peaking through the keyhole atm, before opening the door. BTW, this is what the article states, just worded differently when it says something about starting to understand things.
It's the same with black holes. Invisibility doesn't mean it doesn't affect it's surroundings.
If looking for an analogy, imagine the invisible ghost/person/whatever made visible after throwing flour on him/her. Of course it's simplified and not entirely accurate, but this is the general idea.
I'm well aware of the recent UN bashing by the United State's administration, but to be honest, does anyone take it seriously apart from them? I don't get you people.
Probably it's a better idea to trust a huge international body, which already manages a lot of aspects of various fields than the current quasi corporate owned system.
Yeah well obviously i was talking about it in the context of broadband internet connection...
Hm, my bad. I should have previewed it before submitting, i ment the goverment's budget, not people's average income.
To clarify: i ment the government's income not the average income of a person. Population numbers don't always follow landmass numbers, but roughly it's true.
Obvious counter-example: Sweden.
There is a saying, when there is a will, there is a way.
Look at Sweden. Huge, cold, northren-european country, with 10/10mbit - 100/100mbit for home users for the price i'm paying for 1.5mbit/160kbit.
Also, if the country is smaller, their incomes are smaller too.
1. I'm not bashing MS personally, i'm just not using it.
2. It will exactly end at the same time when the "pointing-out-that-slashdot-bashes-ms" threads stop sucking up karma. When will people understand that these are two sides of the coin, where rationality is somewhere between, although it occurs exactly as often as you see a coin on it's edge.
Let's see if they can break my unfirewalled VMS or Twenex (TOPS-20) system ;))
I would like to believe that any intelligent system shouldn't need firewalls.
Instead of redirecting it to 127.0.0.1 just nullroute it ( 0.0.0.0 ). Saves you from the hassle if you're running any webservice on localhost.
I think my point needs a bit of clarification. My point was that by saying postponing i mean that there is a higher possibility that the current research can be applied to SHA-256 soon aswell, for example breaking it in a year or a half.
Scneier mentioned that he thought in last september SHA-1 will be broken, just not that it will be broken this soon.
Well, it all depends. Catastrophe didn't happen with DES because there was an early warning and noone used it for serious stuff by that time. With SHA-1 however, the warning came a little later and the shift will be a bit more painful as a lot of things are using it, although not impossible and not a catastrophe neither.
I think whirlpool is getting submitted into the linux kernel within the latest or in the next few releases.
We need to develop algorithms aside of SHA. SHA-256 only postpones the problem...
Yes. That is the standard procedure with linux rootkits too as you cannot be sure that there are any left or compromised code left without a complete wipe. LKM rootkits pose that threat that they are almost impossible to detect and reinstalling is the safest option.
If these "rootkits" appear on windows, well, the OS is kind of fscked. Linux has them only because it is not possible to write traditional win32 viruses on them.