it's too bad that this is just a hoax, I say let M$ make their little distro. I would love to take a look at the source code (required - GPL) and laugh my ass off at the way the M$ boys are coding these days (silly billy, kernels are for hackers)
yeah it's possible that MAYBE the NSA has this key and blah blah blah. but think about this - you can remove it. so basically a new key can be loaded into your computer to allow non-authorized CryptAPI calls to be made. Does anyone else find this very disturbing? I don't know if i'm catching the doc right or not, but couldn't a trojan progam be loaded overwriting the NSAKAY variable to a new key, which could then authenticate a certificate for some no-name site that could then, when you visit it, install apps on your computer at it's choosing? again - to busy to go into the details of the doc - so i appologize if i'm completely mistaken. well back to work now
StarOffice rules, i love it. I definately don't agree that just because it's not M$Office compliant that it's unusable, in fact i think that's what makes it so great - it's by time we started a new standard for word processing. No more storage of massive binary data, use something editable by an ASCII editer, like LaTeX, sure it takes up more space, but that isn't as much an issue as it once was. Don't know if StarOffice uses binary data that bad or not, but i know that M$Office uses it like it's going out of style. I read an interview in Boot i think, last issue before they went to MaximumPC or whatever, where they interviewed Linus, and i distinctly remember a remark he made on people sending him docs in word format, he said something simple to the effect of "i send it back". don't have a link, don't know if it's archived somewhere, if someone knows, please post it. well that's my $.02
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it's too bad that this is just a hoax, I say let M$ make their little distro. I would love to take a look at the source code (required - GPL) and laugh my ass off at the way the M$ boys are coding these days (silly billy, kernels are for hackers)
yeah it's possible that MAYBE the NSA has this key and blah blah blah.
but think about this - you can remove it.
so basically a new key can be loaded into your computer to allow non-authorized CryptAPI calls to be made.
Does anyone else find this very disturbing?
I don't know if i'm catching the doc right or not, but couldn't a trojan progam be loaded overwriting the NSAKAY variable to a new key, which could then authenticate a certificate for some no-name site that could then, when you visit it, install apps on your computer at it's choosing?
again - to busy to go into the details of the doc - so i appologize if i'm completely mistaken.
well back to work now
StarOffice rules, i love it.
I definately don't agree that just because it's not M$Office compliant that it's unusable, in fact i think that's what makes it so great - it's by time we started a new standard for word processing. No more storage of massive binary data, use something editable by an ASCII editer, like LaTeX, sure it takes up more space, but that isn't as much an issue as it once was.
Don't know if StarOffice uses binary data that bad or not, but i know that M$Office uses it like it's going out of style.
I read an interview in Boot i think, last issue before they went to MaximumPC or whatever, where they interviewed Linus, and i distinctly remember a remark he made on people sending him docs in word format, he said something simple to the effect of "i send it back". don't have a link, don't know if it's archived somewhere, if someone knows, please post it.
well that's my $.02
smarter mice - great, i'd like to have that operation during finals week though
i hate to contribute to the poison of the news threads but, am i first?