I dunno... but I know a whole load of pseudo-diet-quacks are sure to be bashing out new books/products as we speak. Said books will take full advantage of the new word.
With a few modifications your moronic plan might work:
They should abolish income taxes (too easy for the rich to dodge) and do it all via sales tax. Rich people buy more stuff so they'll pay more. People who are sensible with their money will pay less than the people who max out their credit cards. It's all good.
Sales tax is a lot harder to cheat than income tax and having a simple tax system will save a lot of money in itself.
You'd think a government would WANT a thing like that patented...get it locked down and lawyers chasing people who used the method./Not entirely sure how you find the people infringing on your patent...
The controller just waits for a special "Illegal" MFM code to appear in the flux stream (ie. a start of sector marker) then starts the DMA-to-RAM process when it sees it, stopping after 512 bytes have passed.
Point is...it's not a "whole-sector-or-nothing-at-all" process and Spinrite isn't voodoo as the Anonymous Coward* is claiming.
Unless I'm very mistaken, SSL doesn't work like that. SSL is designed to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. The session key for the encryption has to be signed using Google's public key - which the attacker can't do.
(Or maybe they can, after all the recent hacks...)
Either you get the whole 512 bytes, or the drive says "sorry senor, no go."
Um, no.
The sector goes into memory via DMA, the drive doesn't know there's an error until 512 bytes have passed by and it's got no way to reverse time and stop them going into the RAM.
Most of those won't work on an SSL connection. I think the only one that would is a compromised server, but if a (eg) Paypal server is compromised then you've got a lot bigger problems to worry about.
He hooked his own analog-to-digital converter up to the read-head and post-processed the heck out of it to recover the data.
You may joke...but back in the day there were real video capture devices which digitized the whole frame of composite video then decoded it in software (to make them cheaper...)
It seeks to the bad sectors from every track on the disk, hoping to get tiny differences in the position of the head relative to the track when it gets there. It does this several times and votes on each byte in the sector.
I'm not sure that seeking from more than three or four tracks away would make much difference on a floppy but the theory is sound. Maybe you could vibrate the head between two tracks for a bit instead of doing long seeks.
The absolute best thing you could do though would be to try a few different drives then merge the results from each. Whether this is worth the cost/effort or not is up to you...
So all they did was give even larger incentive for rich people to start playing games with taxes. Remember that tax planning isn't illegal, nor is forming offshore companies.
This is why they should abolish all income tax and do it all via sales taxes. It's *much* harder to dodge taxes that way and it doesn't penalize people who are doing the right thing, ie. trying to live within their means.
The current system allows rich people to dodge taxes and forces the sensible people to pick up the tab for everybody who goes into massive credit card debt, loan defaults, etc. Let the people who overspend pay for once.
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That's still orders of magnitude higher than ANY terrorist threat, why isn't the country in a massive panic?
Presumably the client could warn the user...
Um, none of those are acronyms, they're initialisms.
See: http://lyberty.com/encyc/articles/abbr.html
The point of the fix is that a whole lot of servers are now invulnerable to this.
(Hopefully the important ones).
So....how long before they update BEAST?
I dunno ... but I know a whole load of pseudo-diet-quacks are sure to be bashing out new books/products as we speak. Said books will take full advantage of the new word.
With a few modifications your moronic plan might work:
They should abolish income taxes (too easy for the rich to dodge) and do it all via sales tax. Rich people buy more stuff so they'll pay more. People who are sensible with their money will pay less than the people who max out their credit cards. It's all good.
Sales tax is a lot harder to cheat than income tax and having a simple tax system will save a lot of money in itself.
You'd think a government would WANT a thing like that patented...get it locked down and lawyers chasing people who used the method. /Not entirely sure how you find the people infringing on your patent...
So it isn't really Microsoft that can lock you out, it's device manufacturer.
Which part of "Windows 8 logo devices will be required to use the secure boot..." did you miss?
If they want the Windows 8 logo on the machine/packaging/adverts (which they do) then you're being locked out.
You think Chrome doesn't have a fast release cycle...? Puh-lease.
Try looking in AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application sometime:
Chrome keeps the last two versions in there. Mine are currently dated 14th and 20th of September - that's two releases in the last week.
The controller is pretty dumb, too.
The controller just waits for a special "Illegal" MFM code to appear in the flux stream (ie. a start of sector marker) then starts the DMA-to-RAM process when it sees it, stopping after 512 bytes have passed.
Point is...it's not a "whole-sector-or-nothing-at-all" process and Spinrite isn't voodoo as the Anonymous Coward* is claiming.
[*] AC? Color me surprised...
This is Man-in-the-Middle attack which injects the JavaScript code in the webpage in the SSL-stream.
SSL prevents that (it would be pretty useless otherwise...)
Unless I'm very mistaken, SSL doesn't work like that. SSL is designed to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. The session key for the encryption has to be signed using Google's public key - which the attacker can't do.
(Or maybe they can, after all the recent hacks...)
Either you get the whole 512 bytes, or the drive says "sorry senor, no go."
Um, no.
The sector goes into memory via DMA, the drive doesn't know there's an error until 512 bytes have passed by and it's got no way to reverse time and stop them going into the RAM.
Most of those won't work on an SSL connection. I think the only one that would is a compromised server, but if a (eg) Paypal server is compromised then you've got a lot bigger problems to worry about.
Javascript injection into an SSL connection is a bit more difficult...
I it possible to coax it into returning the data it thinks is bad?
Only if you don't go via an operating system.
He hooked his own analog-to-digital converter up to the read-head and post-processed the heck out of it to recover the data.
You may joke...but back in the day there were real video capture devices which digitized the whole frame of composite video then decoded it in software (to make them cheaper...)
Since the compression algorithm depends on previous data in the file, once you get to an unreadable sector everything after is lost.
Not true for zip.... Zip compression restarts for every file in the archive, you just need to get past the bad bit.
How exactly do you image a disk that doesn't read correctly?
It's not voodoo at all...
It seeks to the bad sectors from every track on the disk, hoping to get tiny differences in the position of the head relative to the track when it gets there. It does this several times and votes on each byte in the sector.
I'm not sure that seeking from more than three or four tracks away would make much difference on a floppy but the theory is sound. Maybe you could vibrate the head between two tracks for a bit instead of doing long seeks.
The absolute best thing you could do though would be to try a few different drives then merge the results from each. Whether this is worth the cost/effort or not is up to you...
Look on the bright side: At least the Linux users won't be able to act all smug about how much more secure their machines are then Windows machines.
So all they did was give even larger incentive for rich people to start playing games with taxes. Remember that tax planning isn't illegal, nor is forming offshore companies.
This is why they should abolish all income tax and do it all via sales taxes. It's *much* harder to dodge taxes that way and it doesn't penalize people who are doing the right thing, ie. trying to live within their means.
The current system allows rich people to dodge taxes and forces the sensible people to pick up the tab for everybody who goes into massive credit card debt, loan defaults, etc. Let the people who overspend pay for once.
I ended up buying another wrt-54G from Newegg, which still works perfectly, and vowed never to buy another D-Link product again.
Yep. What exactly is the reason for replacing the WRT54g? I suspect it'll work just fine...
plastic non-reusable cable ties are an even cheaper alternative
What's wrong with old-fashioned waxy string? A big roll of that lasts for years... /Mutters something about a lawn...