So there is no benefit from that method of defense. FWIW, it was an off the shelf program, nothing elaborate or difficult to find. Why not? The "keys" part is missing; sure, you can figure out the user did something, and that the desired information is in [Word, Document1], but this still doesn't give them the key.
Also, there is another method which is a bit similar, and also interesting: how to defeat a keylogger.
Why have encryption at the hardware level when you can use e.g. Linux's crypto device-mapper tool? That also allows you to keep certain partition encrypted for privacy and other partitions unencrypted for performance.
Unlike conventional methods, this one is immune to "cold reboot" attacks (when one extracts the keys directly from RAM), which were discussed earlier here on Slashdot.
This works, but the problem is that you still have to check the voice mail or read the SMS in order to find out whether the "SOS bit" is set. Thus you are interrupted anyway.
Hmm, this is pretty interesting; I never thought about the way things worked there - did they just "patch" the software (so that the function returns TRUE, or whatever the environment expects it to return) or did they actually learn those abilities?
At the same time, you say that the knowledge stays, therefore they can do kung fu in reality, but can they? A lot of knowledge relies on hardware features (ex: moving fast enough). What happens when a matrician wants to do an uber-kick in reality, but realizes they don't have the horse-power for it? "Feature not supported by hardware" is shown on the screen?
Simple relationship mathematics (generally, you seem to be over it without an ireversible psychological trauma, and it is likely that the advices there are already known to you; nevertheless, maybe it will have a +eps positive impact, so it's still worth it)
Sounds like a great opportunity for self-fulfilling prophecies to emerge.
- Warning: do NOT try to disassemble the device and put the blue modules in your mouth
- disassemble? blue module? I didn't know I could do that, let me see... ... delta_t
- oh no!
In the other case you have connections to multiple destinations
Many download managers are able to find mirrors for the downloaded file, thus multiple connections to other sites are open.
Traffic during a download will be in one direction only.
Can't say anything for this one; except the fact that sometimes I happen to be the only leecher, so traffic is also one-way only (if we discard the overhead transfers).
Likewise, engineers come from a background where things are provably correct (mathematics) or experimentally verifiable (most of the rest of science and engineering) and take that sense of certainty and apply it in areas where it isn't applicable -- sociology, politics, art, places where it really does come down to opinion, where there isn't actually a right and wrong, just preference.
One of my favourite mental exercises is to take one such "unquantifiable" concept and find a way to "measure" it. This can be done by dividing something into small components that can be measured, then coming up with a way to compute the final "score". Often this implies that the studied object must be defined, expressed in terms other than those that we normally use.
If you go to my site, you'll see one of the recent stories about "measuring friendship"; one of my next goals is to explain that love is rational and it can be defined in a formal way.
"Engineer syndrome" is an interesting concept; I often deal with cases in which some friends disagree with certain ideas, while friends who studied in the same university (technical background) get the point easily, and say "indeed, things are so simple, it's just that no one tried to put it into formal terms until now".
My guess is that you are in the USA. In other geographical areas (ex: Europe) you can tell which operator the number 'belongs' to, by looking at the first digits. Number ranges are assigned to operators in a way that makes them easy to recognize.
The best you can get when switching operators, is the same number, but a different prefix, ex: xxNNNNNNNN -> yyNNNNNNNN
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I too thought of mentioning "Helvetica", it is a great movie indeed.
You might also want to check out the music of the band "El Ten Eleven", many of their songs were used in that movie.
So, how does the computer know you fell asleep?
Check out the kiki-effect; the concept is pretty much the same.
How did they find out there were unsent emails in his "outbox" folder?
Did he send them a letter to warn them an email is going to be on its way?
I disagree.
Not good at all.
The on-screen keyboard is designed for accessibility, not security. It can be easily defeated not only by a screenshot-taking keylogger, but by any keylogger; the article explains why.
False sense of security can be dangerous.
This article explains why the on-screen keyboard is not secure, it also explains why typing stuff inside a virtual machine isn't secure either.
Because one who watches WM_KEY* messages can see everything.
What if they attach to a process and get the data from it before they are passed to the encryption function?
Check out oSpy.
If you're ok with clipboard hooks or hooks on WM_KEYDOWN, you must just as well use the on-screen keyboard.
Run "osk".
Also, there is another method which is a bit similar, and also interesting: how to defeat a keylogger.
The GHz in Toshiba's project refer to wavelength.
The GHz in IBM's project refer to the frequency of the CPU clock.
These are different things.
This works, but the problem is that you still have to check the voice mail or read the SMS in order to find out whether the "SOS bit" is set. Thus you are interrupted anyway.
Hmm, this is pretty interesting; I never thought about the way things worked there - did they just "patch" the software (so that the function returns TRUE, or whatever the environment expects it to return) or did they actually learn those abilities?
At the same time, you say that the knowledge stays, therefore they can do kung fu in reality, but can they? A lot of knowledge relies on hardware features (ex: moving fast enough). What happens when a matrician wants to do an uber-kick in reality, but realizes they don't have the horse-power for it? "Feature not supported by hardware" is shown on the screen?
You could be interested in taking a look at this: http://railean.net/index.php/2008/02/15/absolute_truth_does_exist, an attempt to figure out whether maths' universality can be expressed in human words.
Can't say anything for this one; except the fact that sometimes I happen to be the only leecher, so traffic is also one-way only (if we discard the overhead transfers).
As these CAPTCHAs get more complicated, it becomes more difficult for non-speakers of the language to interpret them.
If you go to my site, you'll see one of the recent stories about "measuring friendship"; one of my next goals is to explain that love is rational and it can be defined in a formal way.
"Engineer syndrome" is an interesting concept; I often deal with cases in which some friends disagree with certain ideas, while friends who studied in the same university (technical background) get the point easily, and say "indeed, things are so simple, it's just that no one tried to put it into formal terms until now".
My guess is that you are in the USA. In other geographical areas (ex: Europe) you can tell which operator the number 'belongs' to, by looking at the first digits. Number ranges are assigned to operators in a way that makes them easy to recognize.
The best you can get when switching operators, is the same number, but a different prefix, ex: xxNNNNNNNN -> yyNNNNNNNN
Writing was not discovered, it was invented.