I think you made a great post. As Bruce notes in that piece, nobody knows. You also can't overlook the possibility that they hold back on vulnerabilities until an exploit for them is in reach of the public or some other adversary. It is also worth noting that working on this year's NIST standard isn't all they do. There are about 200 countries out there, and plenty of different encryption schemes to keep them busy cracking. They also have their own US government codes design, test, and vet. There is also the fact that having a head start only gets you to the mountain quicker, climbing it is still slow work. And as I noted in my other post, anyone can have a brilliant idea.
while supporting people who actively try to thwart the setting up of said website
If I may summarize what "actively try to thwart the setting up of said website" amounted to: several votes in the House of Representatives that had no effect whatsoever.
The failing rollout of Obamacare and the many lies associated with it are 100% owned and operated by the Democratic party.
Well chosen words, since it seems to me you are well into conspiracy fiction there. It starts with wild speculation which is unproven, moves to invented statistics, uses that as "proof," and then asserts that as a cause for action while ignoring or assuming away other problems. I think the best part is suggesting that knock off hardware which would no doubt run copied software would somehow leave you better off since it overlooks the question of support. Other solutions may not be much better since you still end up with national intelligence agencies possibly involved, and they may either have an alliances or weaknesses that invalidate your assumptions.
Feel free to act on that yourself, I certainly wouldn't. It almost seems to be heading into troll land.
Managing 1,000 entangled particles would require the universe to keep track of a staggering amount of information. Does the underlying machinery have information-space this big? No one knows.
Your sig has very little to do with it in multiple respects, not the least of which is that Russia was formerly considered part of the 2nd world, and is still a major world power today.
Russia is fighting al Qaida as well as the US, and the US and Russia often trade intelligence on them. If you join al Qaida the Russians are as likely to capture or kill you if they can as the US is. And the Russians are expanding their use of drones. In fact they have a very large, long range missile firing drone in development that they hope to deploy in 2-3 years. I doubt "your ass" is any better off with them.
If your criteria for doing business with a company is whether their country defends themselves against terrorists you better keep looking for a new company. I'll give you a crib: you can cross off sources in the US, UK, France, China, Russia, Israel, and plenty of others. I doubt you'll find much comfort in being killed by a missile launched from a helicopter or plane as opposed to a drone.
At least in the case of Cisco there doesn't appear to actually be a problem since they don't use the RNG for which people speculate, that is wildly guess, there might be a problem. Saying otherwise is inseparable from FUD without proof. If you want to go that route you end up just as bad or worse with other brands. So, go ahead and build the competition on brand X hardware. You might very well get both worse hardware and the spies from the country from brand X. In the case of China that would also mean your IP will probably be stolen and put to use to compete against you. Pick your poison.
If you read those carefully it is mainly speculation and future projections, not a certainty. The Snowden revelations have been going on for some time and the last report that I saw indicated no real change for the overall market. I think I even submitted a story on it. Maybe it was what Cisco said it was, and maybe not. As to your last point, if they can't trust anybody, then why change? Just to go with another untrusted vendor with inferior technology or less reliable equipment? That could very possibly create a long term US advantage even if in the near term it means some lost sales from part of the economy.
Although I do complement China on a number of fronts, such as their recent announcement to move away from labor camps, you should look more closely at them. They have some very large weaknesses that are in danger of bubbling to the surface and could result in economic collapse, or at least severe retrenchment. The new national leadership is also posing a danger of returning to the old ways, which could be even worse. That is before you get to their growing aggression against their neighbors and their lands.
The Obamacare fiasco could in fact be what the country needs to create conditions for a rebound. I wouldn't count the US out yet.
Hard to say. Anyone can come up with a new idea, but only the spooks get to see everything they have plus what academia produces. As the biggest employer of mathematicians they have the potential to take a new idea and explore or develop it quickly. But it is also the case that math breakthroughs can hinge on the breakthrough insights of a single gifted (or gifted and dogged) individual. It is also the case that the details of a particular technology matter. If you compare the gross scheme of the Enigma to the US SIGABA systems, they are in many ways comparable. But the SIGABA was a much more secure system than Enigma. The Germans never made a dent in it, and it was good enough to be used for years after WW2.
I would guess 15-20, more or less, depending on the specific application. The history of the NSA's involvement with the DES encryption algorithm is instructive.
I would also highlight the last sentence in the section: " Bruce Schneier observed that "It took the academic community two decades to figure out that the NSA 'tweaks' actually improved the security of DES."[12] "
Likewise, Russia won't do it, as they've got crime syndicates taking advantage. It's up to countries like Brazil and India to speak out about these things..
there is also no way to put this genie back into the bottle. once your cred is gone, its gone. and the US has lost ALL cred when it comes to safeguarding your privacy.
sad but true. as a US citizen, I am sorry for how badly we have botched the world's trust.
Well then, why don't you base your next project on equipment and software from a country that doesn't engage in any spying?
Before you do, why don't you check to see if the city you live is in the orange zone on this map. Can you guess what that map is, or do you need help? That is from the state controlled Chinese media, by the way. You might also want to read up on a few of the "implementation errors" they made in arriving at the current society. If you think the US is bad, you clearly don't appreciate the finer points of the alternatives that are out there. There used to be a lot more countries just like them, and nothing says there won't be again. And they are just one band of the rainbow.
The troll username of " cold fjord NSA shill" wasn't a give away?
When we found out that the FBI is recruiting most "terrorists", assisting them with plans, and providing them fake materials,...
The proper description is "sting." You seem to be trying to build the case for a description of "entrapment." There are relatively few terrorists actively engaged in violence in the US despite the fact that there are thousands of members of various terrorist groups, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, that are engaged in fund raising, recruitment, and reconnaissance. There is no shortage outside the US.
Their "belief" is no different than the person who believes that these agencies are required to keep them safe from non-existent threats. It does not make the threat exist.
By the same token, your disbelief or lack of knowledge of their existence doesn't cause them to cease to be.
I really don't get your obsession with the Law. Are you Judge Dredd or something? It doesn't matter if some hack says it's legal from a bench or legislating chamber, it's still massively unethical.
Do you want to live in a nation of laws, or not? You can always argue about the ethics of an action.
There might actually have to be enforcement of the law for it to have an affect*, and from what I hear, forged "papers" aren't exactly unknown. That is assuming the business or organization is actually making an effort to comply.
* Not much of a priority for the Obama administration. Before anyone complains, the Obama administration is cooking the books to make it look better.
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I think you made a great post. As Bruce notes in that piece, nobody knows. You also can't overlook the possibility that they hold back on vulnerabilities until an exploit for them is in reach of the public or some other adversary. It is also worth noting that working on this year's NIST standard isn't all they do. There are about 200 countries out there, and plenty of different encryption schemes to keep them busy cracking. They also have their own US government codes design, test, and vet. There is also the fact that having a head start only gets you to the mountain quicker, climbing it is still slow work. And as I noted in my other post, anyone can have a brilliant idea.
I suggest you check the voting history of the Affordable Care Act. There is a distinct lack of Republican votes.
while supporting people who actively try to thwart the setting up of said website
If I may summarize what "actively try to thwart the setting up of said website" amounted to: several votes in the House of Representatives that had no effect whatsoever.
The failing rollout of Obamacare and the many lies associated with it are 100% owned and operated by the Democratic party.
Here you are starting to lose the plot.
Well chosen words, since it seems to me you are well into conspiracy fiction there. It starts with wild speculation which is unproven, moves to invented statistics, uses that as "proof," and then asserts that as a cause for action while ignoring or assuming away other problems. I think the best part is suggesting that knock off hardware which would no doubt run copied software would somehow leave you better off since it overlooks the question of support. Other solutions may not be much better since you still end up with national intelligence agencies possibly involved, and they may either have an alliances or weaknesses that invalidate your assumptions.
Feel free to act on that yourself, I certainly wouldn't. It almost seems to be heading into troll land.
Managing 1,000 entangled particles would require the universe to keep track of a staggering amount of information. Does the underlying machinery have information-space this big? No one knows.
Quantum entanglement appears to be a key element of photosynthesis, and systems of more than a hundred million entangled photons have been achieved.
Your sig has very little to do with it in multiple respects, not the least of which is that Russia was formerly considered part of the 2nd world, and is still a major world power today.
Russia is fighting al Qaida as well as the US, and the US and Russia often trade intelligence on them. If you join al Qaida the Russians are as likely to capture or kill you if they can as the US is. And the Russians are expanding their use of drones. In fact they have a very large, long range missile firing drone in development that they hope to deploy in 2-3 years. I doubt "your ass" is any better off with them.
If your criteria for doing business with a company is whether their country defends themselves against terrorists you better keep looking for a new company. I'll give you a crib: you can cross off sources in the US, UK, France, China, Russia, Israel, and plenty of others. I doubt you'll find much comfort in being killed by a missile launched from a helicopter or plane as opposed to a drone.
At least in the case of Cisco there doesn't appear to actually be a problem since they don't use the RNG for which people speculate, that is wildly guess, there might be a problem. Saying otherwise is inseparable from FUD without proof. If you want to go that route you end up just as bad or worse with other brands. So, go ahead and build the competition on brand X hardware. You might very well get both worse hardware and the spies from the country from brand X. In the case of China that would also mean your IP will probably be stolen and put to use to compete against you. Pick your poison.
If you read those carefully it is mainly speculation and future projections, not a certainty. The Snowden revelations have been going on for some time and the last report that I saw indicated no real change for the overall market. I think I even submitted a story on it. Maybe it was what Cisco said it was, and maybe not. As to your last point, if they can't trust anybody, then why change? Just to go with another untrusted vendor with inferior technology or less reliable equipment? That could very possibly create a long term US advantage even if in the near term it means some lost sales from part of the economy.
Although I do complement China on a number of fronts, such as their recent announcement to move away from labor camps, you should look more closely at them. They have some very large weaknesses that are in danger of bubbling to the surface and could result in economic collapse, or at least severe retrenchment. The new national leadership is also posing a danger of returning to the old ways, which could be even worse. That is before you get to their growing aggression against their neighbors and their lands.
The Obamacare fiasco could in fact be what the country needs to create conditions for a rebound. I wouldn't count the US out yet.
Allow me to break it to you: The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy Too
I expect most companies to continue to trust the lowest bidder, perhaps with a modification for quality, or fit with existing infrastructure.
And technology people wonder why business people and others in society think they can be clueless. "It was only hacking! C'mon!"
The "asses" that get drone strikes are those that have taken up arms against the US as part of al Qaida. Does that include you?
Russia has had a considerably lower standard for killing people. If you are worrying about the US you are probably worrying about the wrong thing.
It won't even shake up the english linux publishing industry....if there is such a thing.
There certainly is such a thing, but they generally prefer to be known as the British or UK Linux publishing industry. England is only part of the UK.
I think my three favorite articles were on the "tea," "curry," and "bitters" commands.
Hard to say. Anyone can come up with a new idea, but only the spooks get to see everything they have plus what academia produces. As the biggest employer of mathematicians they have the potential to take a new idea and explore or develop it quickly. But it is also the case that math breakthroughs can hinge on the breakthrough insights of a single gifted (or gifted and dogged) individual. It is also the case that the details of a particular technology matter. If you compare the gross scheme of the Enigma to the US SIGABA systems, they are in many ways comparable. But the SIGABA was a much more secure system than Enigma. The Germans never made a dent in it, and it was good enough to be used for years after WW2.
I think another chain beat them to it. Isn't there an Arby-Qbit sandwich?
I would guess 15-20, more or less, depending on the specific application. The history of the NSA's involvement with the DES encryption algorithm is instructive.
NSA's involvement in the design (of DES)
I would also highlight the last sentence in the section: " Bruce Schneier observed that "It took the academic community two decades to figure out that the NSA 'tweaks' actually improved the security of DES."[12] "
Likewise, Russia won't do it, as they've got crime syndicates taking advantage. It's up to countries like Brazil and India to speak out about these things..
Because Brazil is crime free and doesn't spy? I expect that India is similarly virtuous.
there is also no way to put this genie back into the bottle. once your cred is gone, its gone. and the US has lost ALL cred when it comes to safeguarding your privacy.
sad but true. as a US citizen, I am sorry for how badly we have botched the world's trust.
Well then, why don't you base your next project on equipment and software from a country that doesn't engage in any spying?
Before you do, why don't you check to see if the city you live is in the orange zone on this map. Can you guess what that map is, or do you need help? That is from the state controlled Chinese media, by the way. You might also want to read up on a few of the "implementation errors" they made in arriving at the current society. If you think the US is bad, you clearly don't appreciate the finer points of the alternatives that are out there. There used to be a lot more countries just like them, and nothing says there won't be again. And they are just one band of the rainbow.
Seems like sarcasm, but just in case.
The troll username of " cold fjord NSA shill" wasn't a give away?
When we found out that the FBI is recruiting most "terrorists", assisting them with plans, and providing them fake materials,...
The proper description is "sting." You seem to be trying to build the case for a description of "entrapment." There are relatively few terrorists actively engaged in violence in the US despite the fact that there are thousands of members of various terrorist groups, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, that are engaged in fund raising, recruitment, and reconnaissance. There is no shortage outside the US.
Their "belief" is no different than the person who believes that these agencies are required to keep them safe from non-existent threats. It does not make the threat exist.
By the same token, your disbelief or lack of knowledge of their existence doesn't cause them to cease to be.
It's a "C" thing. Try Pascal or other Wirth family languages instead if you want to start at 1.
. I'm just not confident enough will be awake in time to prevent some very very bad things from happening in a very short time.
Too late, and it wasn't symmetric.. Just label it excerpts from the road towards a one party state.
I really don't get your obsession with the Law. Are you Judge Dredd or something? It doesn't matter if some hack says it's legal from a bench or legislating chamber, it's still massively unethical.
Do you want to live in a nation of laws, or not? You can always argue about the ethics of an action.
You have my pity. Nobody should have to read an opinion different than their own, especially on Slashdot.
There might actually have to be enforcement of the law for it to have an affect*, and from what I hear, forged "papers" aren't exactly unknown. That is assuming the business or organization is actually making an effort to comply.
* Not much of a priority for the Obama administration. Before anyone complains, the Obama administration is cooking the books to make it look better.