Allow me to commend you on your decision to switch to another American company that does large amounts of business with the US government and which is growing more involved with robotics and autonomous navigation of interest to the US Defense Department. Did you know that there are rumors that Google has ties in with the CIA and NSA?
The Streisand Effect has barely started yet. Many people that have never heard of DropBox to begin with will be hearing about it for the first time. We'll see how it turns out.
There are some things that shouldn't be tolerated. War mongering is one of them. Thousands of American families lost a son, brother, or husband in a pointless counter-productive war because of this woman's lies and incompetence. The number of Iraqi families affected is a hundred times higher.
But you do tolerate warmongers. You seem completely predisposed to tolerate Saddam's warmongering, crimes against humanity, support for terrorism, and many other crimes.
The Iraq war wasn't pointless or counter-productive. Saddam is gone. His psychopathic sons that would have been even worse, and who stood to inherit power from him, are gone. Iraq is now a democracy, albeit a troubled one, and they are rebuilding the country from the ruin of Saddam's mismanagement. Iraqi oil money is no longer being spent to build huge palaces for Saddam and build illegal weapons but is instead helping to build Iraq's future. Iraq is no longer a threat to peace and stability of the entire region.
The price for that was by historical standards very low for the US, and below Saddam's long term average of death and destruction for Iraq.
If you oppose warmongering you are on the wrong side of this. You should oppose Saddam, not the US, and not blame Rice.
Dropbox has the right to have her on their board. I have the right to speak my mind, and take my business elsewhere.
You certainly do have the right to be wrong on the facts and wrong on the politics.
You should probably prepare yourself for disappointment on multiple fronts. Both Bush's reputation and popularity have been improving. His presidency is likely to end up being judged rather favorably in the future.
And you will assign zero blame to Saddam. This is why aggressors have such a free hand in the world. When Saddam invaded and annexed Kuwait: silence in the streets. When the US, UK, France, and other allies prepared for military action to remove Saddam's forces from Kuwait: streets full of people protesting war, aggression, and Western imperialism.
If you want health care, vote for it. It is nonsense to claim that money spent for something else would have gone there if nobody voted for it.
People move on with their lives, maybe you should? The bills from the Obama administration will dwarf the minor fraction of debt that was from the Iraq war.
A great move on the part of DropBox, they'll get plenty of free advertising. The protesters should brace themselves for the Streisand Effect.
And no, DropBox should not give in. Ankle biting crazy comments posted on-line aren't a scientifically valid sample that would be genuine proof of a problem in the general public. A couple of posts on Leftist bitter clinger message boards would easily generate this sort of thing. It's what they do.
The Bulletin of WHO noted that “it has also been common practice in several countries (e.g. Belgium, France, Spain) to register as live births only those infants who survived for a specified period beyond birth”; those who did not survive were “completely ignored for registration purposes.” Since the U.S. counts as live births all babies who show “any evidence of life,” even the most premature and the smallest — the very babies who account for the majority of neonatal deaths — it necessarily has a higher neonatal-mortality rate than countries that do not.
I'm pretty sure that US hospital systems don't struggle with the nonsense you see in some of those "efficient" systems. There is no shortage of issues like that, and you seldom see that discussed as part of the package.
Your objections about Rice are nonsense. She was the Secretary of State and would have had essentially nothing to do with domestic surveillance and First Amendment issues. She has no power to affect your civil liberties now, or probably in the past. He prior job has no implications for Drop Box, and it doesn't imply anything about their operating principles. You're just kind of free styling there.
Other methods were tried with Iraq. They didn't work. Saddam was on the path to buying his way out of sanctions with enormous bribes from the Oil for Food scandal money. Diverting that money was what was doing enormous damage to Iraq. He also took money intended for food and medicine and used it to build large numbers of huge expensive palaces and buy weapons.
I think it is unfortunate, but the question is will it pass? Iraq's legislature works like others, any member can introduce a bill. The difficult part is getting enough support to pass. There are religious party members that are likely to be on both sides of this. The secular parties are likely to oppose it. We'll see what the vote is, and even if it passes if it survives both the courts and future legislatures.
Analysts have, however, dismissed the bill as politicking, and say it is highly unlikely to make it through Iraq’s Council of Representatives....
The fierce debate may, however, turn out to be moot, with analysts predicting that the bill is unlikely to be passed before legislative elections next month, if at all....
“Submitting this bill — at this moment — is for political and electoral reasons.”
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It has also faced opposition from religious leaders, with Bashir Najafi, one of Shiite Islam’s most senior clerics, issuing a fatwa this month saying the bill has several “legal and doctrinal” problems which “no scholar can agree with.” -- Draconian Iraq bill sparks fury
" Making the entire grid literally bullet proof" is a straw man. Nobody is thinking of that, and it isn't really possible. What is possible and reasonable is hardening critical infrastructure, improving redundancy, and making it easier to repair. If all you are prepared to do is cut cables and shoot a high power rifle that isn't going to get you very far very quickly against some elementary precautions for various parts of the infrastructure.
If you don't design security in when you build critical infrastructure, and take proper security measures along the way, you open the door to bad things happening more easily.
. Meanwhile, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Thursday was brought before the Senate Energy Committee to explain why the FERC disseminated via insecure media a sensitive document describing where all the nation's power grids are particularly sensitive to a physical attack.
Because nobody will take security seriously until something bad happens? And once that something bad happens there will be plenty of people screaming, "False flag!"
"Efficient" isn't necessarily better for you, and "efficiency" is irrelevant if they don't have the resources.
Declaring "exceptional circumstances" doesn't help if you run afoul of other rules. I've seen how French labor rules can turn out in practice and you assume too much if you think this is a given.
What he has shown is what was already known, that it is possible to generate a backdoor with the technology, not that an actual backdoor exists in the specification. It is like showing that anti-lock brakes can fail in a particular way, but not that the brakes of a particular model have that flaw. I understand the concern. I understand the suspicion. But the actual proof isn't there.
Although this isn't a direct comparison, if you want to liken it to DES, people generated various alternates and random S-boxes for that to test too. They tended to not work as well as the S-boxes that NSA generated. Did that mean that the DES specification was bad? No.
What Shumow and Ferguson showed is that these numbers have a relationship with a second, secret set of numbers that can act as a kind of skeleton key. If you know the secret numbers, you can predict the output of the random-number generator after collecting just 32 bytes of its output. To put that in real terms, you only need to monitor one TLS internet encryption connection in order to crack the security of that protocol. If you know the secret numbers, you can completely break any instantiation of Dual_EC_DRBG.
The researchers don't know what the secret numbers are. But because of the way the algorithm works, the person who produced the constants might know; he had the mathematical opportunity to produce the constants and the secret numbers in tandem.
Of course, we have no way of knowing whether the NSA knows the secret numbers that break Dual_EC-DRBG. We have no way of knowing whether an NSA employee working on his own came up with the constants -- and has the secret numbers. We don't know if someone from NIST, or someone in the ANSI working group, has them. Maybe nobody does.
A backdoor is possible, but we have no way of knowing if one exists. You can generate the curve numbers without there being a backdoor, and that is simpler.
Either way it won't matter in the long run. Most of Europe is so far below birth replacement rate that it is heading for a demographic crisis. Things won't continue as they are. If things don't start changing soon Europeans will become minorities in their own countries, and it is likely that the new majorities won't hold European values let alone Western values.
Actually no, it isn't a public/private key system. You can create the curve values without a secret key although it may also be possible to create a second set of values that aren't quite a key but a crib.
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Allow me to commend you on your decision to switch to another American company that does large amounts of business with the US government and which is growing more involved with robotics and autonomous navigation of interest to the US Defense Department. Did you know that there are rumors that Google has ties in with the CIA and NSA?
Have a great day!
The Streisand Effect has barely started yet. Many people that have never heard of DropBox to begin with will be hearing about it for the first time. We'll see how it turns out.
There are some things that shouldn't be tolerated. War mongering is one of them. Thousands of American families lost a son, brother, or husband in a pointless counter-productive war because of this woman's lies and incompetence. The number of Iraqi families affected is a hundred times higher.
But you do tolerate warmongers. You seem completely predisposed to tolerate Saddam's warmongering, crimes against humanity, support for terrorism, and many other crimes.
The Iraq war wasn't pointless or counter-productive. Saddam is gone. His psychopathic sons that would have been even worse, and who stood to inherit power from him, are gone. Iraq is now a democracy, albeit a troubled one, and they are rebuilding the country from the ruin of Saddam's mismanagement. Iraqi oil money is no longer being spent to build huge palaces for Saddam and build illegal weapons but is instead helping to build Iraq's future. Iraq is no longer a threat to peace and stability of the entire region.
The price for that was by historical standards very low for the US, and below Saddam's long term average of death and destruction for Iraq.
If you oppose warmongering you are on the wrong side of this. You should oppose Saddam, not the US, and not blame Rice.
Dropbox has the right to have her on their board. I have the right to speak my mind, and take my business elsewhere.
You certainly do have the right to be wrong on the facts and wrong on the politics.
You should probably prepare yourself for disappointment on multiple fronts. Both Bush's reputation and popularity have been improving. His presidency is likely to end up being judged rather favorably in the future.
And you will assign zero blame to Saddam. This is why aggressors have such a free hand in the world. When Saddam invaded and annexed Kuwait: silence in the streets. When the US, UK, France, and other allies prepared for military action to remove Saddam's forces from Kuwait: streets full of people protesting war, aggression, and Western imperialism.
If you want health care, vote for it. It is nonsense to claim that money spent for something else would have gone there if nobody voted for it.
Personal heroes of yours?
By the way, I hope that you are doing some traveling while you're in Sweden. If you haven't you should really take in Malmö.
People move on with their lives, maybe you should? The bills from the Obama administration will dwarf the minor fraction of debt that was from the Iraq war.
A great move on the part of DropBox, they'll get plenty of free advertising. The protesters should brace themselves for the Streisand Effect.
And no, DropBox should not give in. Ankle biting crazy comments posted on-line aren't a scientifically valid sample that would be genuine proof of a problem in the general public. A couple of posts on Leftist bitter clinger message boards would easily generate this sort of thing. It's what they do.
Infant Mortality: A Deceptive Statistic
The Bulletin of WHO noted that “it has also been common practice in several countries (e.g. Belgium, France, Spain) to register as live births only those infants who survived for a specified period beyond birth”; those who did not survive were “completely ignored for registration purposes.” Since the U.S. counts as live births all babies who show “any evidence of life,” even the most premature and the smallest — the very babies who account for the majority of neonatal deaths — it necessarily has a higher neonatal-mortality rate than countries that do not.
So is there some reason that is on your mind at the moment? Or did I miss that this was a "Best of Slashdot" from November 1968?
Probably just as well. I'm sure there are plenty of facts you have no interest in discussing about those "superior" systems.
I'm pretty sure that US hospital systems don't struggle with the nonsense you see in some of those "efficient" systems. There is no shortage of issues like that, and you seldom see that discussed as part of the package.
Don't leave patients in ambulances to hit A&E targets, hospitals told
NHS starves 1,165 to death
Your objections about Rice are nonsense. She was the Secretary of State and would have had essentially nothing to do with domestic surveillance and First Amendment issues. She has no power to affect your civil liberties now, or probably in the past. He prior job has no implications for Drop Box, and it doesn't imply anything about their operating principles. You're just kind of free styling there.
Other methods were tried with Iraq. They didn't work. Saddam was on the path to buying his way out of sanctions with enormous bribes from the Oil for Food scandal money. Diverting that money was what was doing enormous damage to Iraq. He also took money intended for food and medicine and used it to build large numbers of huge expensive palaces and buy weapons.
I think it is unfortunate, but the question is will it pass? Iraq's legislature works like others, any member can introduce a bill. The difficult part is getting enough support to pass. There are religious party members that are likely to be on both sides of this. The secular parties are likely to oppose it. We'll see what the vote is, and even if it passes if it survives both the courts and future legislatures.
Iraq bill sparks fury over child marriage claims
Analysts have, however, dismissed the bill as politicking, and say it is highly unlikely to make it through Iraq’s Council of Representatives. ...
The fierce debate may, however, turn out to be moot, with analysts predicting that the bill is unlikely to be passed before legislative elections next month, if at all. ...
“Submitting this bill — at this moment — is for political and electoral reasons.”
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It has also faced opposition from religious leaders, with Bashir Najafi, one of Shiite Islam’s most senior clerics, issuing a fatwa this month saying the bill has several “legal and doctrinal” problems which “no scholar can agree with.” -- Draconian Iraq bill sparks fury
" Making the entire grid literally bullet proof" is a straw man. Nobody is thinking of that, and it isn't really possible. What is possible and reasonable is hardening critical infrastructure, improving redundancy, and making it easier to repair. If all you are prepared to do is cut cables and shoot a high power rifle that isn't going to get you very far very quickly against some elementary precautions for various parts of the infrastructure.
That doesn't provide an opened ended unlimited right to sue. I very much doubt you'd have an allowable claim for injury on this.
Security is a design principle not a fashion statement, and good practice in dealing with critical infrastructure.
If you don't design security in when you build critical infrastructure, and take proper security measures along the way, you open the door to bad things happening more easily.
. Meanwhile, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Thursday was brought before the Senate Energy Committee to explain why the FERC disseminated via insecure media a sensitive document describing where all the nation's power grids are particularly sensitive to a physical attack.
Because nobody will take security seriously until something bad happens? And once that something bad happens there will be plenty of people screaming, "False flag!"
"Efficient" isn't necessarily better for you, and "efficiency" is irrelevant if they don't have the resources.
Declaring "exceptional circumstances" doesn't help if you run afoul of other rules. I've seen how French labor rules can turn out in practice and you assume too much if you think this is a given.
Not so much, no.
Saddam managed to kill several million people.
They have found hundreds of mass graves in Iraq, and that doesn't count the mass slaughter of the Kurds.
The 650,000 figure is discredited. It was a politicized study bought and paid for by George Soros.
What he has shown is what was already known, that it is possible to generate a backdoor with the technology, not that an actual backdoor exists in the specification. It is like showing that anti-lock brakes can fail in a particular way, but not that the brakes of a particular model have that flaw. I understand the concern. I understand the suspicion. But the actual proof isn't there.
Although this isn't a direct comparison, if you want to liken it to DES, people generated various alternates and random S-boxes for that to test too. They tended to not work as well as the S-boxes that NSA generated. Did that mean that the DES specification was bad? No.
Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?
What Shumow and Ferguson showed is that these numbers have a relationship with a second, secret set of numbers that can act as a kind of skeleton key. If you know the secret numbers, you can predict the output of the random-number generator after collecting just 32 bytes of its output. To put that in real terms, you only need to monitor one TLS internet encryption connection in order to crack the security of that protocol. If you know the secret numbers, you can completely break any instantiation of Dual_EC_DRBG.
The researchers don't know what the secret numbers are. But because of the way the algorithm works, the person who produced the constants might know; he had the mathematical opportunity to produce the constants and the secret numbers in tandem.
Of course, we have no way of knowing whether the NSA knows the secret numbers that break Dual_EC-DRBG. We have no way of knowing whether an NSA employee working on his own came up with the constants -- and has the secret numbers. We don't know if someone from NIST, or someone in the ANSI working group, has them. Maybe nobody does.
A backdoor is possible, but we have no way of knowing if one exists. You can generate the curve numbers without there being a backdoor, and that is simpler.
Either way it won't matter in the long run. Most of Europe is so far below birth replacement rate that it is heading for a demographic crisis. Things won't continue as they are. If things don't start changing soon Europeans will become minorities in their own countries, and it is likely that the new majorities won't hold European values let alone Western values.
Actually no, it isn't a public/private key system. You can create the curve values without a secret key although it may also be possible to create a second set of values that aren't quite a key but a crib.