Checking a whole list of passwords adds trivial time to the operation, so it is possible to crack a huge list of passwords in that same amount of time.
Furthermore, if the application is intelligent, password cracking is a highly parallelizable job, so it could easily be split across multiple computers, easily further reducing the time, to the order of hours.
What I don't understand, Is why can't eve find out the approximate resistances of the two resistors, cut the wire, and transmit and record the message simultaneously. This requires eve to know the approximate resistances of the two resistors, instead of a key of indeterminate length as in standard cryptography.
I'd imagine that doing it within the footprint of a credit card would be difficult.
If verisign is the only company that can really do that, then they are bringing something to the table, if there are alternatives, it would probably be best to use one of those.
This is simply untrue. The average technical user is able to install linux, but if you had the average I-can't-burn-a-cd user attempt to install linux it would never work. If you told the average user to re-install windows, or upgrade to vista, they would find it incredibly difficult, possibly moreso than installing linux. Being pre-installed, with all drivers working, and manufacturer pushed updates is a serious advantage for the average user.
If it was really on blocked at the DNS level, wouldn't running your own DNS server work?
If youtube IP blocks were blocked, then obviously something more complicated would be needed.
What about a proxy?
I know people who work at companies like this, and theyre passwords invariably end up in the form password1206. If I had arrived at the password password1106 and it stopped working, I could most definetly guess the next one in the series.
Read any book with a surveleince society taken to the extreme. 1984 by Orwell will do just fine. Think about living like that. Being afraid to write something like you just did, because there is a very good chance that 10 minutes later a squad of people with machine guns will be at your door. Lord Acton once said:
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
If you give the government more power, it is doubtful they will use it well. It is quite probable that it will 'need' more power. Blocking this now is important, because it guarantees, and protects Americans from unreasonable search and seizure in the future.
If you allow a sufficiently motivated and skilled person to play music, the DRM is broken. The DRM is mostly an inconvenience for people who actually pay for the music, and can exclude people who would normally pay for their music, but in their setup, the DRM would not work.
freedb had absolutly nothing to do with filesharing. If you had a cd, and wanted to rip it to mp3, ogg, flac, etc, you would want that file to be properly tagged. Everyone wants information like title, artist, name of album, order of songs on album, and year released, in every song they have stored digitally. Freedb only stored this information, to be used as you were ripping the cd, to automaticlly fill in all applicable information.
Ummmmm.... Since when does only strictly political speech get the protection of the first amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
While that doesn't specifically say that states/local governments/schools must be held to this, the Fourteenth Amendment does:
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
I think it's pretty clear that the Constition specifically says that the government can't force the end of someone saying something bad about them (ie: a website saying bad things about the faculty).
Think of the Pirate Bay as a store that hosts an exchange for people to give guns away. Is the store responsible for what the people do with those guns?
The problem is, it could be convienent, and have absolutely no effect on rights.
That's how it would be if every government official, government employee, and politician were completely honest, reasonable and sought no extra power.
Most./'ers, would disagree with the honest, reasonable, and lacking dreams of power part of that statement.
If National IDs were only used like a combination of a driver's lisence and a passport, there would be little to no problem. The problem arises when something like every time a National ID is scanned(or whatever), the time, person, and place are recorded. That is an incredible invasion of privacy, and would probably follow quite soon after the implementation of National IDs.
Imagine the following:
You enter the U.S. from Canada, and have your card scanned. You proceed to travel to a liquor store at a speed of 70mph. There is no line, and you scan your card (to verify age) after buying a 6-pack of beer. You return home, and about 2 weeks later, you recieve a ticket for speeding, only based on the times from the database.
While that is a fairly innocuos example, it could get worse, with data collected every time you enter, leave a restraunt, airport, office building, cab, or whatever else politicians deem to be important to "National Security."
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Only if he asks the right question.
Checking a whole list of passwords adds trivial time to the operation, so it is possible to crack a huge list of passwords in that same amount of time.
Furthermore, if the application is intelligent, password cracking is a highly parallelizable job, so it could easily be split across multiple computers, easily further reducing the time, to the order of hours.
Latency of 10s of seconds is fine for realtime audio/video?
A good cluster system is always redundant.
I wish I had mod points.
What I don't understand, Is why can't eve find out the approximate resistances of the two resistors, cut the wire, and transmit and record the message simultaneously. This requires eve to know the approximate resistances of the two resistors, instead of a key of indeterminate length as in standard cryptography.
I'd imagine that doing it within the footprint of a credit card would be difficult.
If verisign is the only company that can really do that, then they are bringing something to the table, if there are alternatives, it would probably be best to use one of those.
I'd assume that this number/password changes with a function of time or something similar. Though, I haven't read the article.
This is simply untrue. The average technical user is able to install linux, but if you had the average I-can't-burn-a-cd user attempt to install linux it would never work. If you told the average user to re-install windows, or upgrade to vista, they would find it incredibly difficult, possibly moreso than installing linux. Being pre-installed, with all drivers working, and manufacturer pushed updates is a serious advantage for the average user.
I actually believe there was an extension at one point for firefox to do this exact same thing.
Or break a file into many attachments.
And yet I have a great device that plays ogg files.
If it was really on blocked at the DNS level, wouldn't running your own DNS server work? If youtube IP blocks were blocked, then obviously something more complicated would be needed. What about a proxy?
I know people who work at companies like this, and theyre passwords invariably end up in the form password1206. If I had arrived at the password password1106 and it stopped working, I could most definetly guess the next one in the series.
Great Idea! The solution to any problem is the creation of a government agency!
If you give the government more power, it is doubtful they will use it well. It is quite probable that it will 'need' more power. Blocking this now is important, because it guarantees, and protects Americans from unreasonable search and seizure in the future.
If you allow a sufficiently motivated and skilled person to play music, the DRM is broken. The DRM is mostly an inconvenience for people who actually pay for the music, and can exclude people who would normally pay for their music, but in their setup, the DRM would not work.
You don't actually need any version of office to make the command line utility work.
freedb had absolutly nothing to do with filesharing. If you had a cd, and wanted to rip it to mp3, ogg, flac, etc, you would want that file to be properly tagged. Everyone wants information like title, artist, name of album, order of songs on album, and year released, in every song they have stored digitally. Freedb only stored this information, to be used as you were ripping the cd, to automaticlly fill in all applicable information.
There's another difference, Firefox is equal in price with Internet Explorer, but OpenOffice has a big price advantage.
While that doesn't specifically say that states/local governments/schools must be held to this, the Fourteenth Amendment does:
I think it's pretty clear that the Constition specifically says that the government can't force the end of someone saying something bad about them (ie: a website saying bad things about the faculty).
You made a mistake in your post - you just said enlightened and law-makers in the same sentence.
Think of the Pirate Bay as a store that hosts an exchange for people to give guns away. Is the store responsible for what the people do with those guns?
Real Sneaky.
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The problem is, it could be convienent, and have absolutely no effect on rights.
./'ers, would disagree with the honest, reasonable, and lacking dreams of power part of that statement.
That's how it would be if every government official, government employee, and politician were completely honest, reasonable and sought no extra power.
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If National IDs were only used like a combination of a driver's lisence and a passport, there would be little to no problem. The problem arises when something like every time a National ID is scanned(or whatever), the time, person, and place are recorded. That is an incredible invasion of privacy, and would probably follow quite soon after the implementation of National IDs.
Imagine the following:
You enter the U.S. from Canada, and have your card scanned. You proceed to travel to a liquor store at a speed of 70mph. There is no line, and you scan your card (to verify age) after buying a 6-pack of beer. You return home, and about 2 weeks later, you recieve a ticket for speeding, only based on the times from the database.
While that is a fairly innocuos example, it could get worse, with data collected every time you enter, leave a restraunt, airport, office building, cab, or whatever else politicians deem to be important to "National Security."