Note to world: Not all of us are brainwashed by our own propaganda. Some of us actually still think for themselves. Unfortunately, those of us who do are getting increasingly apathetic because those who don't think for themselves still seem to be running things around here.:-/
McCain previously mentioned keeping troops in Iraq for a 100 years. He has since changed and shifted his stance, saying pretty much the same thing Obama has been saying: a responsible withdrawal of troops over the next few years, with a continued peace-keeping force. And then, at rallies and speeches saying things like "We need to stay in Iraq until we win." Which is it, John?
It has limited access - until a larger drive needs to be installed, and the the old one ends up in the spare parts bin and eventually gets sold as surplus, and somebody gets it home and finds your medical records on it.
Standard policy almost everywhere I've worked has been "old disks that aren't being re-used internally get destroyed." And those that ARE getting re-used, don't get to be re-used until they are wiped clean with something like DBAN. Places that do sell off old equipment have also had the same requirement -- old disks get wiped.
Offtopic? Offtopic? No, it's not offtopic. At least mod it correctly: It's either A) Funny or B) Troll. And damn, why do the mods have no sense of humor today?
That phrase right there might shut out the people Pennsylvania who are of the opinion that we have never lost a war nor stood down to a conflict.
There must be something in the water in Pennsylvania. Either that, or the standards of education in regards to social sciences have slipped. Badly. Perhaps Pennsylvanians haven't heard of something commonly referred to as 'the Vietnam War' aka 'the Vietnam Conflict' -- you know that lil' ol 'Police Action' that John McCain served in. No matter how you put it, no matter how you look it, there is no denying the fact that we either lost or at least did not win. And, more importantly, this wouldn't at all be the first time in American history.
"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."
-- George Santayana
That's what I meant by 'as soon as humanly possible'. You're being a bit literal. Yes, we have to be responsible in removing troops in Iraq, and yes, we do have to leave a small peace-keeping force in Iraq to support the Iraqi troops -- and this is all completely in accord with the wishes of the elected Iraqi leaders.
Staying in Iraq until we 'win the war' would be the irresponsible thing to do.
Well, there's only been one candidate who has been consistent in his stance about the Iraq war for the entire time -- Barack Obama. And it's a stance I agree with -- the Iraq War is a farce. It is a war on false pretense. We need to leave as soon as humanly possible. Really.
The submitter is in a research institute. Some labs in that institute have patient data, and therefore require significant security like disk encryption.
Repeat after me: "The first line of security is physical."
If the servers are locked in a room with limited access (like, oh, say, 95+% of servers in the corporate world), then the probably not.
Data security is about securing the data using reasonable compensating controls. If no one can get to the disks, and those who can comprise a limited list of, say, trusted sysadmins, then it doesn't matter whether they're encrypted or not.
Requirements, if properly written, never specify implementation details -- the means. They only specify what is needed. How that is achieved is irrelevant so long as it the requirement is achieved completely.
So other than for devices that are not in access-controlled environment (like laptops or, in some cases, workstations), the need for whole disk encryption at most places is nil.
I have not experienced PGP so maybe it has a much more efficient system, but I have my doubts.
You're right. No matter how you slice it, whole disk encryption will slow things down -- considerably. There's no getting around the CPU overhead that will exist on every disk block access -- reads and writes. Think about how many times a second the system accesses the disk. It's a lot. Even if you cache a bunch of stuff in an intelligent way (in which case you're trading system security for performance) you're still slowing things down because unless you have a hardware encryption board, encrypting and decrypting those streams must go to the CPU, unlike with unencrypted disk, where most of the reading is offloaded to the ATA/SCSI and DMA controllers.
"Marketing is not a science even if its an Open Source project"
Run some tests on a drive. Run TrueCrypt, re-run the tests, look the difference in CPU load and performance and then try and work out where the 1% number comes from.
Personally I think its based on averaging time across when you aren't using the machine.
No. It will teach you how to reverse engineer stuff using the IDA Pro interactive disassembler.
Cracking DRM/copy protection/etc., is an art and a skill that may involve using reverse engineering techniques, but definitely requires a certain unique perspective.
Look, the Microsoft crowd accuses the OSS of lacking innovation, but instead copying the best from Microsoft. I'm just trying to show that this isn't exactly a one-way street here.
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Ummm....Most authors only get paid if their books actually sell...(Hence the reason JonKatz lives in abject poverty.)
Note to world: Not all of us are brainwashed by our own propaganda. Some of us actually still think for themselves. Unfortunately, those of us who do are getting increasingly apathetic because those who don't think for themselves still seem to be running things around here. :-/
You are correct. I didn't say that outright, and maybe I should have, but I did imply that.
McCain previously mentioned keeping troops in Iraq for a 100 years. He has since changed and shifted his stance, saying pretty much the same thing Obama has been saying: a responsible withdrawal of troops over the next few years, with a continued peace-keeping force. And then, at rallies and speeches saying things like "We need to stay in Iraq until we win." Which is it, John?
Try this:
sudo apt-get install openchangeclient
sudo apt-get install openchangeserver
or just:
sudo apt-get install libmapi
Either way, according to the OpenChange site, it's in Intrepid.
It has limited access - until a larger drive needs to be installed, and the the old one ends up in the spare parts bin and eventually gets sold as surplus, and somebody gets it home and finds your medical records on it.
Standard policy almost everywhere I've worked has been "old disks that aren't being re-used internally get destroyed." And those that ARE getting re-used, don't get to be re-used until they are wiped clean with something like DBAN. Places that do sell off old equipment have also had the same requirement -- old disks get wiped.
Offtopic? Offtopic? No, it's not offtopic. At least mod it correctly: It's either A) Funny or B) Troll. And damn, why do the mods have no sense of humor today?
That phrase right there might shut out the people Pennsylvania who are of the opinion that we have never lost a war nor stood down to a conflict.
There must be something in the water in Pennsylvania. Either that, or the standards of education in regards to social sciences have slipped. Badly. Perhaps Pennsylvanians haven't heard of something commonly referred to as 'the Vietnam War' aka 'the Vietnam Conflict' -- you know that lil' ol 'Police Action' that John McCain served in. No matter how you put it, no matter how you look it, there is no denying the fact that we either lost or at least did not win. And, more importantly, this wouldn't at all be the first time in American history.
"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."
-- George Santayana
That's what I meant by 'as soon as humanly possible'. You're being a bit literal. Yes, we have to be responsible in removing troops in Iraq, and yes, we do have to leave a small peace-keeping force in Iraq to support the Iraqi troops -- and this is all completely in accord with the wishes of the elected Iraqi leaders.
Staying in Iraq until we 'win the war' would be the irresponsible thing to do.
War is "a strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?" -- Joshua
Well, there's only been one candidate who has been consistent in his stance about the Iraq war for the entire time -- Barack Obama. And it's a stance I agree with -- the Iraq War is a farce. It is a war on false pretense. We need to leave as soon as humanly possible. Really.
The submitter is in a research institute. Some labs in that institute have patient data, and therefore require significant security like disk encryption.
Repeat after me: "The first line of security is physical."
If the servers are locked in a room with limited access (like, oh, say, 95+% of servers in the corporate world), then the probably not.
Data security is about securing the data using reasonable compensating controls. If no one can get to the disks, and those who can comprise a limited list of, say, trusted sysadmins, then it doesn't matter whether they're encrypted or not.
Requirements, if properly written, never specify implementation details -- the means. They only specify what is needed. How that is achieved is irrelevant so long as it the requirement is achieved completely.
So other than for devices that are not in access-controlled environment (like laptops or, in some cases, workstations), the need for whole disk encryption at most places is nil.
Yes.
I have not experienced PGP so maybe it has a much more efficient system, but I have my doubts.
You're right. No matter how you slice it, whole disk encryption will slow things down -- considerably. There's no getting around the CPU overhead that will exist on every disk block access -- reads and writes. Think about how many times a second the system accesses the disk. It's a lot. Even if you cache a bunch of stuff in an intelligent way (in which case you're trading system security for performance) you're still slowing things down because unless you have a hardware encryption board, encrypting and decrypting those streams must go to the CPU, unlike with unencrypted disk, where most of the reading is offloaded to the ATA/SCSI and DMA controllers.
"Marketing is not a science even if its an Open Source project"
Run some tests on a drive. Run TrueCrypt, re-run the tests, look the difference in CPU load and performance and then try and work out where the 1% number comes from.
Personally I think its based on averaging time across when you aren't using the machine.
Pffft. Screw that. goatse.x!!!
big DUH google search for alternative DNS! [google.com]
That was hard.
It was, actually. I only know how to use MSN Live Search because that's what was installed on my computer.
Sorry, but your post just doesn't sound Tolkeinesque enough ...
Errmmmm...and where, exactly, do you think Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, etc., all make their phones?
Well, that's okay, because I don't actually have a sense of humor.
It worked for MS-DOS. Just ask Microsoft. ;)
No. It will teach you how to reverse engineer stuff using the IDA Pro interactive disassembler.
Cracking DRM/copy protection/etc., is an art and a skill that may involve using reverse engineering techniques, but definitely requires a certain unique perspective.
Look, the Microsoft crowd accuses the OSS of lacking innovation, but instead copying the best from Microsoft. I'm just trying to show that this isn't exactly a one-way street here.
Hmmm...let's see where they've stolen their UI improvements so far:
the GNOME developers
the KDE developers
Apple and the OS X developers
Well, I guess if you've got to steal from somewhere, you may as well steal from the best, huh?
No. It means that instead, this time they stole the Linux network stack.