There was some talk a while ago about identifying users by their typing characteristics - examining the pauses between their keystrokes. Perhaps the force they typically use to press keys could be part of their password, helping to prevent shoulder surfing.
I wonder if stochastic passwords would be possible using this keyboard. In other words, passwords which are dependent on typing exactly the right letters, but with approximately the right force.
The parallels with synthesiser keyboard technology are quite interesting. The video in the article talks about using the force the key's hit with to determine whether a key was pressed in error. Soft key hits are likely to be unintentional 'glancing blows'. This is also the classic problem with non-touch sensitive synth keyboards - they suddenly make adept pianists appear to be clumsy morons because every glancing key hit produces a 'wrong note'.
However, in synth terminology, keyboards are distinguished as 'velocity sensitive' (how fast the key is initially hit, like a piano) and 'pressure sensitive' (how hard the key is pressed after the initial strike, like a clavichord pitch-bending a note, sometimes called 'polyphonic aftertouch'). The microsoft keyboard is both velocity and pressure sensitive, with multiple simultaneous channels of pressure sensitivity. The pressure aftertouch has some interesting applications in creative software, where artists have to input several layers or dimensions of data simultaneously. (My field is film post-production so I'm specifically thinking about 3-D). This is currently implemented in most software using a messy combination of simultaneously mouse and modifier keys. But using pressure sensitive keys would accommodate several other simultaneous continuously-variable 'dimensions' of data input.
If Government signs Citizen's information with Goverment's private key and Plod's ID card reader has Goverment's public key, Citizen's information can be verified by Plod, no? And although Eve the eavesdropper could extract Citizen's plaintext information from the card, she wouldn't be able to write altered information to the card that would still be verified by Plod's card reader?
Surely this is encryption 101? How can a 5 billion pound scheme not implement this?
Mr Marlinspike gives a more comprehensible breakdown of why this works in an interview he gave with Jeff Moss at Blackhat 09 that looks at SSL vulnerabilities in a broader light.
According to data protection laws anyone has right to ask what data about them is stored in said database, how it's stored and to correct, or remove it. Free of charge.
The LM initially overshot because the crew were distracted by alarms caused by the computer being unable to process all its tasks simultaneously. These alarms, in turn, had been triggered because ground simulations hadn't taken account of hardware powering up in a random order which generated data from two radars instead of one, which overloaded the computer.
Armstrong's boulder avoidance flying was undertaken after the crew realised they'd overshot the target site by 4 seconds.
(Unfortunately I find this subject insanely fascinating)
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, in an interview on the 'America: World Police' DVD said they don't use voice actors, and do all the voices themselves, because, essentially, 'voice actors for the most part are total dicks'.
The entire America: World Police story centers around just how totally dickish actors are.
Don't know about Australia, but here in the UK there are many, many free, unpassworded wifi zones (run by small coffee bars etc) that would allow the same nefarious online activities as a home user's unlocked wifi connection.
It's the person who connects to someone's wifi, not the wifi provider who can be prosecuted because it's an offence to use other people's wifi connections without their permission under the Communications Act 2003.
Note the word permission. Once the coffee bar sticks a sign up granting permission for all and sundry to use their connection, they're free and clear. IANAL, but if you want to allow other people to use your home wifi without legal ramifications, it sounds like some boilerplate granting permission on a splash page ahead of a person obtaining full wifi access would be all that's needed.
Except the traffic shaping is also behavioral shaping, in the social engineering sense.
Most of these arguments assume demand for large files is static, rather than demand increasing when a big pipe is made available. If we put more lanes in the roads do people buy more cars and make more journeys to fill them, bringing traffic to a standstill again.
It sounds almost naively simple, but when enough people start screaming 'WTF!?!' at their paltry download speeds, they'll start reconsidering how essential the colossal files they're downloading actually are.
we don't see any point in replacing the existing OS considering the time and costs involved.
The summary implies 59.3% not using Win7 by end 2010. But if 40.7% are using it by then, that would be a spectacular takeup.
The time and cost to replace existing installations with Win7 decrease over time. When total cost of deployment is less than the savings resulting from the use of Win7, a company will switch. The article is simply quantifying the date at which 40% estimate this will happen.
According to Aldrin and others, the general concensus was the first landing's chances were 50:50.
Re-reading the recent influx of 40th annivesary articles about the Appollo program, on every level the success of the moon landings seems absolutely incredible. The more I read, the more my mind boggles at how touch-and-go the whole escapade was. Just watching the LLRV test flights makes me wonder what the hell was going through their minds at a time when they didn't even know what the surface of the moon was made of.
The more you investigate this subject, the more you realise that modern technology doesn't contribute that much to this gargantuan task. It's just brains, ideas and some sort of test-pilot 6th sense.
The online gambling industry analyzes the games made on their system against games played by known gambling software to identify players cheating.
Perhaps GS haven't immediately stopped real-time trading using their existing system because they're able to analyze trades made by other brokerages to identify patterns that would indicate whether their own trading system is being used by others.
bike riders are fucking douches who need to stay the fuck off the goddamn street. Most of them are baby boomer scum and their douchebag offspring who've bankrupted the country and are now living out their mid-life crises and only-child entitlements in their obnoxious bike shorts and neon spandex and their stupid-looking dickhead helmets which are a slap in the face because they're playing chicken with multi-ton armored shells while swerving into busy streets at 3mph.
The conservatives have said they'll scrap the database as well as the cards themselves. Hopefully they'll be able to communicate to the populace that the database is just as dangerous.
The 'index' is the important point. The National Insurance Number used to be the method of linking information, but it's now flawed. The government want a 'cradle to grave' index that they can relate to all other databases.
It's what New Labour have called 'joined up government', which translates as join up the relational databases of our subjects.
If you don't keep your address and personal information up to date you have committed a criminal offence and you can be fined GBP1,000.
80% of the UK population own passports. In essence, anyone who wants to leave the UK must register with the ID database.
The ID database is primarily a scheme that enables the government to identify you, and that is made clear in a dubious little paper called Safeguarding Identity, produced by the Home Office last week, which describes how the ID database and the transformational government scheme mesh together in one glorious structure where data about the individual passes between departments. That is the prize and why they will use any argument and spend any amount to achieve it.
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There was some talk a while ago about identifying users by their typing characteristics - examining the pauses between their keystrokes. Perhaps the force they typically use to press keys could be part of their password, helping to prevent shoulder surfing.
I wonder if stochastic passwords would be possible using this keyboard. In other words, passwords which are dependent on typing exactly the right letters, but with approximately the right force.
The parallels with synthesiser keyboard technology are quite interesting. The video in the article talks about using the force the key's hit with to determine whether a key was pressed in error. Soft key hits are likely to be unintentional 'glancing blows'. This is also the classic problem with non-touch sensitive synth keyboards - they suddenly make adept pianists appear to be clumsy morons because every glancing key hit produces a 'wrong note'.
However, in synth terminology, keyboards are distinguished as 'velocity sensitive' (how fast the key is initially hit, like a piano) and 'pressure sensitive' (how hard the key is pressed after the initial strike, like a clavichord pitch-bending a note, sometimes called 'polyphonic aftertouch'). The microsoft keyboard is both velocity and pressure sensitive, with multiple simultaneous channels of pressure sensitivity. The pressure aftertouch has some interesting applications in creative software, where artists have to input several layers or dimensions of data simultaneously. (My field is film post-production so I'm specifically thinking about 3-D). This is currently implemented in most software using a messy combination of simultaneously mouse and modifier keys. But using pressure sensitive keys would accommodate several other simultaneous continuously-variable 'dimensions' of data input.
If Government signs Citizen's information with Goverment's private key and Plod's ID card reader has Goverment's public key, Citizen's information can be verified by Plod, no? And although Eve the eavesdropper could extract Citizen's plaintext information from the card, she wouldn't be able to write altered information to the card that would still be verified by Plod's card reader?
Surely this is encryption 101? How can a 5 billion pound scheme not implement this?
Mr Marlinspike gives a more comprehensible breakdown of why this works in an interview he gave with Jeff Moss at Blackhat 09 that looks at SSL vulnerabilities in a broader light.
According to data protection laws anyone has right to ask what data about them is stored in said database, how it's stored and to correct, or remove it. Free of charge.
Under The Data Protection (Subject Access) (Fees and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2000, a data controller can charge a data subject £10.00 for access to their data, or £2.00 for access to information held on their financial standing.
The LM initially overshot because the crew were distracted by alarms caused by the computer being unable to process all its tasks simultaneously. These alarms, in turn, had been triggered because ground simulations hadn't taken account of hardware powering up in a random order which generated data from two radars instead of one, which overloaded the computer.
Armstrong's boulder avoidance flying was undertaken after the crew realised they'd overshot the target site by 4 seconds.
(Unfortunately I find this subject insanely fascinating)
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, in an interview on the 'America: World Police' DVD said they don't use voice actors, and do all the voices themselves, because, essentially, 'voice actors for the most part are total dicks'.
The entire America: World Police story centers around just how totally dickish actors are.
This language is called Pedantry. A pedant pedantically peddles english into pedanticism.
Don't know about Australia, but here in the UK there are many, many free, unpassworded wifi zones (run by small coffee bars etc) that would allow the same nefarious online activities as a home user's unlocked wifi connection.
It's the person who connects to someone's wifi, not the wifi provider who can be prosecuted because it's an offence to use other people's wifi connections without their permission under the Communications Act 2003.
Note the word permission. Once the coffee bar sticks a sign up granting permission for all and sundry to use their connection, they're free and clear. IANAL, but if you want to allow other people to use your home wifi without legal ramifications, it sounds like some boilerplate granting permission on a splash page ahead of a person obtaining full wifi access would be all that's needed.
Except the traffic shaping is also behavioral shaping, in the social engineering sense.
Most of these arguments assume demand for large files is static, rather than demand increasing when a big pipe is made available. If we put more lanes in the roads do people buy more cars and make more journeys to fill them, bringing traffic to a standstill again.
It sounds almost naively simple, but when enough people start screaming 'WTF!?!' at their paltry download speeds, they'll start reconsidering how essential the colossal files they're downloading actually are.
we don't see any point in replacing the existing OS considering the time and costs involved.
The summary implies 59.3% not using Win7 by end 2010. But if 40.7% are using it by then, that would be a spectacular takeup.
The time and cost to replace existing installations with Win7 decrease over time. When total cost of deployment is less than the savings resulting from the use of Win7, a company will switch. The article is simply quantifying the date at which 40% estimate this will happen.
Or phone their sons.
...and where's clippy?
According to Aldrin and others, the general concensus was the first landing's chances were 50:50.
Re-reading the recent influx of 40th annivesary articles about the Appollo program, on every level the success of the moon landings seems absolutely incredible. The more I read, the more my mind boggles at how touch-and-go the whole escapade was. Just watching the LLRV test flights makes me wonder what the hell was going through their minds at a time when they didn't even know what the surface of the moon was made of.
The more you investigate this subject, the more you realise that modern technology doesn't contribute that much to this gargantuan task. It's just brains, ideas and some sort of test-pilot 6th sense.
The online gambling industry analyzes the games made on their system against games played by known gambling software to identify players cheating.
Perhaps GS haven't immediately stopped real-time trading using their existing system because they're able to analyze trades made by other brokerages to identify patterns that would indicate whether their own trading system is being used by others.
obviously it is suffering an agonizing demise since it doesn't have a pressure suit, O2 supply, or thermal protection.
Won't somebody please think of the MoonRabbits
bike riders are fucking douches who need to stay the fuck off the goddamn street. Most of them are baby boomer scum and their douchebag offspring who've bankrupted the country and are now living out their mid-life crises and only-child entitlements in their obnoxious bike shorts and neon spandex and their stupid-looking dickhead helmets which are a slap in the face because they're playing chicken with multi-ton armored shells while swerving into busy streets at 3mph.
why is this modded 'troll'?
you mean frickin'
British Telecom would be the next target. Compulsory, identifiable internet registration has been high on the government's agenda for a long time.
The conservatives have said they'll scrap the database as well as the cards themselves. Hopefully they'll be able to communicate to the populace that the database is just as dangerous.
The 'index' is the important point. The National Insurance Number used to be the method of linking information, but it's now flawed. The government want a 'cradle to grave' index that they can relate to all other databases.
It's what New Labour have called 'joined up government', which translates as join up the relational databases of our subjects.
Anyone applying for a UK passport from 2011 onwards will have their information stored on the National ID database.
If you don't keep your address and personal information up to date you have committed a criminal offence and you can be fined GBP1,000.
80% of the UK population own passports. In essence, anyone who wants to leave the UK must register with the ID database.
The ID database is primarily a scheme that enables the government to identify you, and that is made clear in a dubious little paper called Safeguarding Identity, produced by the Home Office last week, which describes how the ID database and the transformational government scheme mesh together in one glorious structure where data about the individual passes between departments. That is the prize and why they will use any argument and spend any amount to achieve it.
ebay could be your distribution model
Gold Bar 32.15oz $33,999.00 = $1057.51/oz
Electronic money is the index that relates you to your data shadow. That 30% is your privacy tax.
Presumably CIA employees know about things like watermarking
That would be waterboarding