how two arbitrary endpoints who have never met can know they are talking to each other and not a man in the middle.
My take on this is that the messenger apps should permanently show a fingerprint of the encryption key on screen (eg. at the bottom of the window).
If the key is easily visible then people would be able to compare keys when they meet in real life. Any mass tampering by the NSA would then be obvious and provable. You can also compare keys in other ways, eg. in a voice call.
It doesn't prevent man in the middle attacks but it makes it impossible to do in secret.
Hmm, TOR is a nice project and all, but it has its benefits and drawbacks. I think IETF need to give quite a bit of thought before adopting some technology as a standard. --Coder
Even if they do, the NSA will make sure it never gets built into a major OS or anything that people can download/use simply.
I've always suspected the reason why Outlook (or whatever) doesn't have encryption enabled by default was because of visits from the men in black SUVs.
After the last couple of months I'm 99.999999% sure it's true.
If you can tap into/analyze the internet backbones (as the NSA can) then Tor isn't very anonymous. They can track packets and figure out who's really connected to who even though the packets are relayed.
I don't know if this can easily be fixed, but now would be the time to do it.
No, BitCoins are not backed by valuable goods (there's no guarantee from anyone that you'll get this or that amount of this or that valuable good for it).
The argument is that Bitcoin is one of the 'valuable goods', not a fiat.
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How long is a piece of string?
I can tell you've never been in a recording studio, therefore have no idea what you're talking about.
This is just a free-publicity stunt, timed for Xmas to get the word "Amazon" on all the news channels.
Any decent recording studio will be pretty close to this.
Me too. It was no big deal.
...Iron Maiden had established a strong reputation and fan base before Internet piracy became a problem.
So... how come most of the people I saw at the concert last year were youngsters? University student age.
Yep. They played here last summer and people started queuing outside the venue the day before the concert.
Young people. Not old farts from the 1980s.
Whatever it is they're doing, they're doing it right.
If you quietly burn CPU cycles then you may never get a bitcoin.
To get a bitcoin these days you need supercomuting power.
"Glasshole" needs to go into the urban dictionary. They could use his photo.
"Seeing a therapist to deal with the conflicts" seemed like a better option to him than taking off his Google Glass?
I think we found the real problem.
I installed Windows 7 on my Eee 901 back in the day; it ran fine.
You must have put in a bigger storage device. Mine is only 16Gb.
Sure, Windows 7 fits on my EeePC. Not.
I'm not even sure it would fit on my old HP laptop - that's only got a 30Gb hard disk in it. Windows 7 would overflow that in no time.
(Yes, they're both used used almost every day...)
Or I can upgrade all my perfectly-good hardware, right? Do they even make pocketable little 9" PCs any more?
really?? I mean sure it is proper but who uses the term maize any longer??
Oh dear, you just opened a can of whoop-ass on yourself....
how two arbitrary endpoints who have never met can know they are talking to each other and not a man in the middle.
My take on this is that the messenger apps should permanently show a fingerprint of the encryption key on screen (eg. at the bottom of the window).
If the key is easily visible then people would be able to compare keys when they meet in real life. Any mass tampering by the NSA would then be obvious and provable. You can also compare keys in other ways, eg. in a voice call.
It doesn't prevent man in the middle attacks but it makes it impossible to do in secret.
Hmm, TOR is a nice project and all, but it has its benefits and drawbacks. I think IETF need to give quite a bit of thought before adopting some technology as a standard.
--Coder
Even if they do, the NSA will make sure it never gets built into a major OS or anything that people can download/use simply.
I've always suspected the reason why Outlook (or whatever) doesn't have encryption enabled by default was because of visits from the men in black SUVs.
After the last couple of months I'm 99.999999% sure it's true.
Yes. One of the best defenses is to make it expensive for them to do.
...and if you're the NSA you'll also up your own Tor nodes, which helps considerably.
If you can tap into/analyze the internet backbones (as the NSA can) then Tor isn't very anonymous. They can track packets and figure out who's really connected to who even though the packets are relayed.
I don't know if this can easily be fixed, but now would be the time to do it.
And in other news: "Depression" is a reason for denying entry to the USA for a holiday.
No, BitCoins are not backed by valuable goods (there's no guarantee from anyone that you'll get this or that amount of this or that valuable good for it).
The argument is that Bitcoin is one of the 'valuable goods', not a fiat.
Damn those Pesky Facts!
Then again, Intel's 330 is notorious for not getting along with T60/T61 Thinkpads.
That seems more like a problem with the Thinkpad, not the SSD.
We were discussing reliability of SSDs.
Mine wasn't completely DOA, it was "it failed Windows RAM diagnostic". I have a habit of running it on all my machines.
The controller chip and firmware.
Most of the controllers/firmware put out by OCZ seemed like beta.
"Anything for a good benchmark score" was their motto. If it was fast, it shipped. Reliability be damned.
Yep.