Somewhere there's a bunch of annoyed bricklayers fuming about how the nerds are using the word all wrong.
Or... there's a bunch of bricklayers who aren't annoyed or fuming, who are constucting structurally unsound buildings out of manufacturer-disabled laptops, smartphones and, now, drones.
it's neither malice nor stupidity, it's hyperbole.
TRUMP: We're gonna have the biggest math errors! Way better and bigger errors than the democrats!! Nobody makes math errors better than me, believe me. No one's every had more than a trillion dollar math error. They said it couldn't be done. I'm really smart - I went to the Wharton School of Finance. We're gonna have errors more than, more, er, than TWO TRILLION DOLLARS!
if I am going to be buying a chipset then who do I buy it from if I want to talk with my wallet? Aren't Intel and AMD pretty much the only games in town?
Regrettably the alternative is quite expensive. IBM's Power8 chip is the open-source hardware alternative.
The Talos would be an example of a libre computer using this hardware.
As long as the DRM does not spy on me or cause other harm, there's nothing wrong with it.
The Intel ME that is required to use DRM on Intel CPUs is the part that can spy on you.
I've seen this sentiment lately and I just don't understand it.
Since the ME has full control over the boot-process, firmware, CPU, RAM, peripherals, screen buffer, network card, and can operate without the knowledge of the firmware or operating system, it can spy on you.
Any agency that can persuade Intel to sign their modified code can replace the ME with their own malicious version.
The issue is not with the Intel ME or DRM, it's that it the ME cannot be removed in modern (post 2008) Intel CPUs. Even if the user does not care whether DRM content can be decrypted.
There is no issue with Intel ME, or DRM, or the fact that both are closed source BLOBS. Provided the ME can be removed.
It's entirely possible for Intel to design CPUs in a way that ME removal will prevent the CPU from decrypting DRM content. In that situation, a free-software boot process can proceed without DRM enabled, and the computer can be fully under the control of the user.
They stick out so far they're visible in your peripheral vision, and provide a sizeable visual deterrant that says 'stay away'. -37dB of noise reduction, comfortable enough to wear all day.
Apparently they're also used in gun ranges and Formula One.
On slashdot that would work. But meanwhile in the real world of UK policing:
Police spotters identify the individuals with facepaint/hoods/etc.
Police approach them and ask them for name & ID (eg debit card) to weed out the 'ordinary people'.
If anyone resists, claims their rights not to give name, are belligerent etc, police wave a drug dog somewhere near them which barks on cue (signal from handler)
Police now have 'reasonable suspicion' and demand name, address, DoB etc. If they think the person might be of interest, they'll run an on-the-spot fingerprint scan against the Police National Computer.
Am not saying this is right, but have seen this happen many times at festivals, protests, demonstrations, rallys etc.
BT Wifi with FON has been around for years.
From that 2012 article:
Using a feature called Fon, BT is able to siphon off a portion of bandwidth from the wireless connections it provides to homes and offices in order to give the public as a pay as you surf Wi-Fi hotspot.
BT told us Fon was automatically enabled for new broadband customers, meaning many users may be having their connections accessed by the public without any knowledge. However, BT protested that customers were informed of the service within its welcome emails and within the Home Hub guidebook.
Chromebooks (specifically the Asus c201) can be safer if the firmware has been replaced with Libreboot. The rest of the c201 hardware has open source drivers for Chrome OS. So, in theory, that would be the most up-to-date hardware capable of entirely running FOSS, including the firmware, without BLOBS.
It's important to state that if the hidden volume within an encrypted container has been created correctly and is used correctly (see below) on a machine that does not have compromised OS or firmware, the presence of a hidden volume cannot be proven. The encrypted free space remaining after the main volume's data ends is as random as any other encrypted data (including hidden volume data).
Care must be taken with backups. If two copies of the same volume exist (main plus backup) and the hidden partition of one has been altered while the other has not, then this can reveal the existence of a hidden volume.
Sometimes hidden volumes are called 'inception volumes' because they don't have to stop at the second level. There is an argument that if there's free space on the drive, or no incriminating files, that is somehow suspicious.
But in my view, free space can be explained as not inherently incriminating in the same way that free space on a regular hard drive is not incriminating ('I created a big encrypted container because I wasn't sure how big it needed to be'), and important personal files that would be useful to an identity thief (bank records, accounting records, passport scan etc) can be placed in the higher decoy volume.
Source code audit and formal cryptanalysis led by Matthew Green showed no catastrophic weaknesses. Bruce Schneier claims he's still using it.
The various security services revelations indicate the weakness is a compromised operating system or firmware not the encryption itself. Peronally I favour TAILS and LUKS, running on a computer with Libreboot, although that can also read TrueCrypt containers.
But google's CAPTCHAs are not only used for signups. If you search google using the TOR browser you're also presented with CAPTCHAs for every search. Which gets quite annoying.
(Google say they don't target TOR but experience says otherwise.)
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Chill, bro, it's just a game, dude!
Somewhere there's a bunch of annoyed bricklayers fuming about how the nerds are using the word all wrong.
Or... there's a bunch of bricklayers who aren't annoyed or fuming, who are constucting structurally unsound buildings out of manufacturer-disabled laptops, smartphones and, now, drones.
Always ensure your drone's software was released under the GPL.
TRUMP: We're gonna have the biggest math errors! Way better and bigger errors than the democrats!! Nobody makes math errors better than me, believe me. No one's every had more than a trillion dollar math error. They said it couldn't be done. I'm really smart - I went to the Wharton School of Finance. We're gonna have errors more than, more, er, than TWO TRILLION DOLLARS!
News for typography nerds:
The P doesn't 'lack a hole', it has a 'filled counter'.
Isn't this how RMS 'does his computing'?
Never send a human to do a machine's job.
Although The Animatrix was actually pretty good.
If we're talking about open libre hardware, then the BeagleBone Black would be a better option.
if I am going to be buying a chipset then who do I buy it from if I want to talk with my wallet? Aren't Intel and AMD pretty much the only games in town?
Regrettably the alternative is quite expensive. IBM's Power8 chip is the open-source hardware alternative.
The Talos would be an example of a libre computer using this hardware.
As long as the DRM does not spy on me or cause other harm, there's nothing wrong with it.
The Intel ME that is required to use DRM on Intel CPUs is the part that can spy on you.
I've seen this sentiment lately and I just don't understand it.
Since the ME has full control over the boot-process, firmware, CPU, RAM, peripherals, screen buffer, network card, and can operate without the knowledge of the firmware or operating system, it can spy on you.
Any agency that can persuade Intel to sign their modified code can replace the ME with their own malicious version.
The issue is not with the Intel ME or DRM, it's that it the ME cannot be removed in modern (post 2008) Intel CPUs. Even if the user does not care whether DRM content can be decrypted.
There is no issue with Intel ME, or DRM, or the fact that both are closed source BLOBS. Provided the ME can be removed.
It's entirely possible for Intel to design CPUs in a way that ME removal will prevent the CPU from decrypting DRM content. In that situation, a free-software boot process can proceed without DRM enabled, and the computer can be fully under the control of the user.
I can very much recommend the "3M Peltor X5A ear defenders" for this purpose.
They stick out so far they're visible in your peripheral vision, and provide a sizeable visual deterrant that says 'stay away'. -37dB of noise reduction, comfortable enough to wear all day.
Apparently they're also used in gun ranges and Formula One.
If developers do start leveraging the Windows Store, the Windows 10 S experiment could take off,
So if 4.5G is really more like 3.5G, then 5G will be more like 3.75G?
They really do need to decide whether the arbitrary unit of 'G' is an integer or floating-point value.
I thought they were called kicks?
Am not saying this is right, but have seen this happen many times at festivals, protests, demonstrations, rallys etc.
Which will result in 'tainted domains' that may not be being used for criminal purposes, but are tainted by association with such a registrar.
I also wonder when search rankings and suchlike will start to take registrar reputation into account.
BT Wifi with FON has been around for years. From that 2012 article:
Using a feature called Fon, BT is able to siphon off a portion of bandwidth from the wireless connections it provides to homes and offices in order to give the public as a pay as you surf Wi-Fi hotspot. BT told us Fon was automatically enabled for new broadband customers, meaning many users may be having their connections accessed by the public without any knowledge. However, BT protested that customers were informed of the service within its welcome emails and within the Home Hub guidebook.
Chromebooks (specifically the Asus c201) can be safer if the firmware has been replaced with Libreboot. The rest of the c201 hardware has open source drivers for Chrome OS. So, in theory, that would be the most up-to-date hardware capable of entirely running FOSS, including the firmware, without BLOBS.
(no tails support though, argh)
Perhaps there is some scenario that involves bringing together multiple electronic devices to increase the effect
like a LAN party?
The US gov can detect the use of hidden volumes
It's important to state that if the hidden volume within an encrypted container has been created correctly and is used correctly (see below) on a machine that does not have compromised OS or firmware, the presence of a hidden volume cannot be proven. The encrypted free space remaining after the main volume's data ends is as random as any other encrypted data (including hidden volume data).
Care must be taken with backups. If two copies of the same volume exist (main plus backup) and the hidden partition of one has been altered while the other has not, then this can reveal the existence of a hidden volume.
Sometimes hidden volumes are called 'inception volumes' because they don't have to stop at the second level. There is an argument that if there's free space on the drive, or no incriminating files, that is somehow suspicious.
But in my view, free space can be explained as not inherently incriminating in the same way that free space on a regular hard drive is not incriminating ('I created a big encrypted container because I wasn't sure how big it needed to be'), and important personal files that would be useful to an identity thief (bank records, accounting records, passport scan etc) can be placed in the higher decoy volume.
7.1a:
Source code audit and formal cryptanalysis led by Matthew Green showed no catastrophic weaknesses. Bruce Schneier claims he's still using it.
The various security services revelations indicate the weakness is a compromised operating system or firmware not the encryption itself. Peronally I favour TAILS and LUKS, running on a computer with Libreboot, although that can also read TrueCrypt containers.
But google's CAPTCHAs are not only used for signups. If you search google using the TOR browser you're also presented with CAPTCHAs for every search. Which gets quite annoying.
(Google say they don't target TOR but experience says otherwise.)