English being a de facto international language, as has been thoroughly pointed out, might be something to start with. Simplified Technical English, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S..., is used by various government agencies to remove some of the ambiguity of English. While it and similar efforts may or may not be sufficient as an everyday language, it is an idea to consider.
I have been with GoDaddy for over 10 years now. I have quite a few domains registered with them and a CentOS 6 Linux VM, which I ssh into and do pretty much whatever I want. I haven't had any problems with them at all. Not to say that problems don't exist, just that it is possible to have a good experience with GoDaddy--I have also only called their support a couple times in the last 10 years, so that might be part of the reason for the lack of bad experiences.
I also agree about having hosting services with a separate provider for all of the reasons given here. Yea, I am breaking that rule, but the VM hosting was an afterthought and just something to play with.
The IRS told Congress Friday it cannot locate many of Lois Lerner's emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed during the summer of that year.
Wow! I didn't know the IRS had personal email servers on every individuals personal computer, where all copies of a persons email sent and retrieved is kept and deleted from everywhere else.
The rest of us just use shared central email servers where multiple copies of everyone's email is kept, backed up daily. Boy, are we out of touch with reality!
"Since the opposing side is so badly misinformed, those of us who want the internet to remain open to innovation and freedom of expression have to help educate them before the debate can really be held."
Well, it's not under the skin, but this USB Watch from ThinkGeek, http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/9771/, is the next best thing. 2G encrypted with TrueCrypt on your wrist with you all the time. And it even tells you what time it is! What more could you want?
"Having" Flash player has nothing to do with the "something you have" authentication factor. "Something you have" means something in your possession that should only be in your possession and can be used to (partially) identify you.
Yea, it may not satisfy "something you have" technically in detail, but it does satisfy the feds as an alternative to cookies, which is why some banks are using it--they use a flash program to store the "cookie" instead of in the browser itself. Now if we geeks would just quit deleting our cookies, they wouldn't have to resort to using such tactics!;-)
I may be a little lost here, but if you're going to authenticate a client, why not use a client-side certificate? Is it too difficult to understand? Is the support in browsers/servers not there?
It's not difficult for us to understand. But have you tried asking the average bank customer (or bank teller for that matter), what a client-side certificate is?! "...uh, is that a virus or something?"
And yes, the technology is already there and a standard, however, getting hundreds of thousands of customers to install a client-side certificate in their browser that don't know the difference between IE and EIEIO is another matter. I know. The bank I work at just tried it. And the cursing still hasn't stopped (and I'm not talking about the cursing done by the customers either...)!!!
Banks have no choice in the matter. It's all part of the gov's new regulations in requiring financial institutions to implement multifactor authentication, which rules out the customer just knowing something (name and password). In addition to knowing something, you now also have to 1) have something, in this particulare case flash on the computer... while not great it is a tiny bit better than just cookies, or 2) be something, and I don't think requiring customers to go and install their own iris scanners at their computers is going to fly very far.
If the feds hadn't threatened the banks that they better be in compliance by 1/1/2007, they wouldn't have done it. That costs money to implement, and without any measurable amount of return, there's no way they would have done it willingly!
Start with the American Cryptogram Association , a non-profit organization of cryptographers that has been around for decades, dedicated to promoting the hobby and art of cryptanalysis. Alghough they concentrate on simple stuff (you have to start somewhere) the group is full of members that have "been around" and know their stuff!
Their resources page has links to everything you'll need to get started, from stuff covering cryptographic history to online lessons teaching you how analyze ciphers, and not just simple substitution ciphers either, but some pretty complicated ones (still a far cry from PGP though).
or how about a Wife! Someone who actually understands that grranimals color coordination stuff...
Soon after getting married many years ago, my wife one morning asked me, "Your wearing THAT!?!" I said, "sure, what's wrong with it?!" I haven't had to pick out what I wear to work ever since.
Wireless client access can be disabled in linksys wireless routers used in bridging mode, so they will only talk to another linksys wireless router configured in like manner. I'm just wondering if this "feature" can also be easily spoofed/hacked into like MAC address spoofing, and so forth, or does it change the way it sends information to the other linksys router adding another complication for a would be hacker. (Ignoreing the fact that whatever is broadcasted can still be read, just want to do anything and everything I can to prevent someone from hopping onto the network)
Some linksys models also support wireless bridging.
Is using a couple linksys wireless bridges together, claiming that they won't talk to anything else but another linksys bridge, any good at security, or is that just as usefull/less as WEP?
Several years ago, when my son came to me as asked me why kartoonnetwork.com had a bunch of naked women on it, I switched from "blacklists" in squid/squidGuard to "whitelists". My son had found a new hobby of trying any 'ol domain name he could think of and seeing what came up. While amusing at first, of the domains names my 7 year old would think up, when it got the the point that the majority of domains resolved to porn sites, I put a stop to it. Now if my kids want to go to a site that isn't on the "whitelist" they just tell me and I add it. This method has been working great for the last several years.
Here, an engineer uses the tool that the PHB management selects for him...
Unless you do what I have managed to do, *so far*, which is to use your favorite non-MS language for client side development regardless of them claiming they're an MS shop. And when they do find out, you say it was the best tool for the job and ask them if it is worth it to convert the perfectly functional program over to the "other" language--and go glassy eyed when they start talking about future support issues, company standards, finding other developers to replace me when I "get hit by a bus" who also happen to know my "obscure language", blah blah blah...
Just talked to my trucker friend. He wasn't aware of the law, nor does he care (Doesn't go to CA much anyway). Being so high up in the cab, it's not like a cop is going to see him using it, and if he is pulled over for something, he just has to turn it off--the few cops that have seen it thought his setup was "pretty cool". He also said he's met quite a few fellow truckers that have similar setups, either a PC mounted, or a laptop sitting on the seat.
>>I'm currious how the new california law would affect this setup. Is the Mapping/GPS software running on a physically mounted computer enough?
>I'm not sure what your are refering to.
What I'm refereing to is how the CA law bans computer use in the front seat, with apparent exceptions for GPS/Navigation units. Does a physically mounted PC running GPS/Navigation software qualify for the exception, ignoreing the fact it's an alt-tab away from anything else?
My friends truck also has a company installed GPS tracking unit. But the one he installed is his, and also has been _extreamly_ helpful in helping him find his destinations.
Voltage inverters... yea, I knew it was something like that. He also put on a custom made antena for his WiFi card that gives him quite a boost on the distance he can be from the wifi Station. You would be supprised on the number of open wifi ports he finds... then again, maybe in this crowd, maybe not.
I'm currious how the new california law would affect this setup. Is the Mapping/GPS software running on a physically mounted computer enough?
I personally know a truck driver who took a full size PC and mounted it in his cab. Took a 17" LCD monitor, rewired it to the 12 volt supply and mounted it on brackets attached to the dash. The PC itself sits on the passenger side floor hooked up to a 12v-120v regulator. He has GPS hooked up to it so he can see his position and destination on his mapping software. And since it's a regular PC, _with_ a WiFi card, whenever he want's to check his email, he just looks for an open WiFi port (apartment buildings...) and surfs the net--and does whetever else he want's to when he's parked.
I think it's a great idea as long as you are going from Cell phone to Cell phone, or land line to land line (which I've done). But to go land line to cell phone I think is nuts! Why would I transfer all the unwnated calls on my land line to my cell phone? The cell phone is great because only those whom I want to know the number to will call it. And besides, I can't hook up my fax machine to my cell.
What I would really like is cell phone portability, so I can do something with that box of old cell phones I have.
So would the FBI have cared if it had been your laptop?
No. They only cared about this case because it was stolen from a bank. Anytime there is any kind of crime against a bank, the FBI almost always gets involved, regardless of what kind of information was contained on the laptop.
Not that stealing is a bright thing to do anyway, but stealing from a bank is espicially a not-bright-thing-to-do, because of the number of feds that are going to get involved in tracking you down.
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English being a de facto international language, as has been thoroughly pointed out, might be something to start with. Simplified Technical English, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S..., is used by various government agencies to remove some of the ambiguity of English. While it and similar efforts may or may not be sufficient as an everyday language, it is an idea to consider.
You should also include these sites as a source of ideas and to see some of what has already been done, http://conlang.org/, http://omniglot.com/
I have been with GoDaddy for over 10 years now. I have quite a few domains registered with them and a CentOS 6 Linux VM, which I ssh into and do pretty much whatever I want. I haven't had any problems with them at all. Not to say that problems don't exist, just that it is possible to have a good experience with GoDaddy--I have also only called their support a couple times in the last 10 years, so that might be part of the reason for the lack of bad experiences.
I also agree about having hosting services with a separate provider for all of the reasons given here. Yea, I am breaking that rule, but the VM hosting was an afterthought and just something to play with.
I haven't gone through them myself, but does anyone know how Khan's videos are on Physics and Astronomy?
The IRS told Congress Friday it cannot locate many of Lois Lerner's emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed during the summer of that year.
Wow! I didn't know the IRS had personal email servers on every individuals personal computer, where all copies of a persons email sent and retrieved is kept and deleted from everywhere else.
The rest of us just use shared central email servers where multiple copies of everyone's email is kept, backed up daily. Boy, are we out of touch with reality!
"Since the opposing side is so badly misinformed, those of us who want the internet to remain open to innovation and freedom of expression have to help educate them before the debate can really be held."
HA! That will never happen.
Well, it's not under the skin, but this USB Watch from ThinkGeek, http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/9771/, is the next best thing. 2G encrypted with TrueCrypt on your wrist with you all the time. And it even tells you what time it is! What more could you want?
The technique is called Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP). It's been around for decades, but has never really caught on. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Serial_Visual_P resentation for a good starting point for information on RSVP.
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Yea, it may not satisfy "something you have" technically in detail, but it does satisfy the feds as an alternative to cookies, which is why some banks are using it--they use a flash program to store the "cookie" instead of in the browser itself. Now if we geeks would just quit deleting our cookies, they wouldn't have to resort to using such tactics!
It's not difficult for us to understand. But have you tried asking the average bank customer (or bank teller for that matter), what a client-side certificate is?! "...uh, is that a virus or something?"
And yes, the technology is already there and a standard, however, getting hundreds of thousands of customers to install a client-side certificate in their browser that don't know the difference between IE and EIEIO is another matter. I know. The bank I work at just tried it. And the cursing still hasn't stopped (and I'm not talking about the cursing done by the customers either...)!!!
Banks have no choice in the matter. It's all part of the gov's new regulations in requiring financial institutions to implement multifactor authentication, which rules out the customer just knowing something (name and password). In addition to knowing something, you now also have to 1) have something, in this particulare case flash on the computer... while not great it is a tiny bit better than just cookies, or 2) be something, and I don't think requiring customers to go and install their own iris scanners at their computers is going to fly very far.
If the feds hadn't threatened the banks that they better be in compliance by 1/1/2007, they wouldn't have done it. That costs money to implement, and without any measurable amount of return, there's no way they would have done it willingly!
One of the previous record holders, Tyson Mao, can be seen on WB's Beauty and the Geek 2.
Start with the American Cryptogram Association , a non-profit organization of cryptographers that has been around for decades, dedicated to promoting the hobby and art of cryptanalysis. Alghough they concentrate on simple stuff (you have to start somewhere) the group is full of members that have "been around" and know their stuff!
Their resources page has links to everything you'll need to get started, from stuff covering cryptographic history to online lessons teaching you how analyze ciphers, and not just simple substitution ciphers either, but some pretty complicated ones (still a far cry from PGP though).
or how about a Wife! Someone who actually understands that grranimals color coordination stuff...
Soon after getting married many years ago, my wife one morning asked me, "Your wearing THAT!?!" I said, "sure, what's wrong with it?!" I haven't had to pick out what I wear to work ever since.
Wireless client access can be disabled in linksys wireless routers used in bridging mode, so they will only talk to another linksys wireless router configured in like manner. I'm just wondering if this "feature" can also be easily spoofed/hacked into like MAC address spoofing, and so forth, or does it change the way it sends information to the other linksys router adding another complication for a would be hacker. (Ignoreing the fact that whatever is broadcasted can still be read, just want to do anything and everything I can to prevent someone from hopping onto the network)
Some linksys models also support wireless bridging.
Is using a couple linksys wireless bridges together, claiming that they won't talk to anything else but another linksys bridge, any good at security, or is that just as usefull/less as WEP?
Or, you could try Logitech's Digital Writing System here:
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I don't have one, but a co-worker of mine does and he uses it all the time.
Several years ago, when my son came to me as asked me why kartoonnetwork.com had a bunch of naked women on it, I switched from "blacklists" in squid/squidGuard to "whitelists". My son had found a new hobby of trying any 'ol domain name he could think of and seeing what came up. While amusing at first, of the domains names my 7 year old would think up, when it got the the point that the majority of domains resolved to porn sites, I put a stop to it. Now if my kids want to go to a site that isn't on the "whitelist" they just tell me and I add it. This method has been working great for the last several years.
Unless you do what I have managed to do, *so far*, which is to use your favorite non-MS language for client side development regardless of them claiming they're an MS shop. And when they do find out, you say it was the best tool for the job and ask them if it is worth it to convert the perfectly functional program over to the "other" language--and go glassy eyed when they start talking about future support issues, company standards, finding other developers to replace me when I "get hit by a bus" who also happen to know my "obscure language", blah blah blah...
Just talked to my trucker friend. He wasn't aware of the law, nor does he care (Doesn't go to CA much anyway). Being so high up in the cab, it's not like a cop is going to see him using it, and if he is pulled over for something, he just has to turn it off--the few cops that have seen it thought his setup was "pretty cool". He also said he's met quite a few fellow truckers that have similar setups, either a PC mounted, or a laptop sitting on the seat.
>>I'm currious how the new california law would affect this setup. Is the Mapping/GPS software running on a physically mounted computer enough?
>I'm not sure what your are refering to.
What I'm refereing to is how the CA law bans computer use in the front seat, with apparent exceptions for GPS/Navigation units. Does a physically mounted PC running GPS/Navigation software qualify for the exception, ignoreing the fact it's an alt-tab away from anything else?
My friends truck also has a company installed GPS tracking unit. But the one he installed is his, and also has been _extreamly_ helpful in helping him find his destinations.
Voltage inverters... yea, I knew it was something like that. He also put on a custom made antena for his WiFi card that gives him quite a boost on the distance he can be from the wifi Station. You would be supprised on the number of open wifi ports he finds... then again, maybe in this crowd, maybe not.
I'm currious how the new california law would affect this setup. Is the Mapping/GPS software running on a physically mounted computer enough?
I personally know a truck driver who took a full size PC and mounted it in his cab. Took a 17" LCD monitor, rewired it to the 12 volt supply and mounted it on brackets attached to the dash. The PC itself sits on the passenger side floor hooked up to a 12v-120v regulator. He has GPS hooked up to it so he can see his position and destination on his mapping software. And since it's a regular PC, _with_ a WiFi card, whenever he want's to check his email, he just looks for an open WiFi port (apartment buildings...) and surfs the net--and does whetever else he want's to when he's parked.
I think it's a great idea as long as you are going from Cell phone to Cell phone, or land line to land line (which I've done). But to go land line to cell phone I think is nuts! Why would I transfer all the unwnated calls on my land line to my cell phone? The cell phone is great because only those whom I want to know the number to will call it. And besides, I can't hook up my fax machine to my cell.
What I would really like is cell phone portability, so I can do something with that box of old cell phones I have.