The point of the SteamBox and keeping things open is that Valve sees where Microsoft is heading with Windows 8 and beyond. They're heading for Apple/console model for Windows where they get full approval of all software and a significant cut of all sales. It's not good for consumers and it's not good for Valve. I'm a little surprised more software companies are not joining them in launching non-game software for them, but they may be more focused on the tablet market.
Exactly. This also covers the case where your ISP or Microsoft or Google does something that you can't abide by. It decouples you from your provider. You can move to a different email hosting service or even run your own without much inconvenience. It also looks a little more professional than having a HotMail account.
If you care about your work and level of performance, the aggravation caused by hardware that bad will get to you. Look for a job somewhere else even if it doesn't pay quite as much. They quite obviously don't care about you where you are.
Agile is hardly 'undisciplined'. There's also a lot to be said for 'fail early' when dealing with a project like this. That said, I would have thought they would have had a fairly defined and static set of requirements for a project like this, making waterfall a possibility.
In case you haven't been reading teh news for the last year, the world has changed. Also, if the security either of these projects is using fails, we have much larger problems than people reading our messages.
There's a funded KickStarter in progress called Trsst that has very similar goals, but uses a different approach. It's not quite as distributed as this, but avoids the monster blockchain problem.
There are 'papers please' sty;e checkpoints a hundred or more miles inland from your borders, in zones which the fourth amendment does not apply. Warrantless search and seizure has just been confirmed as 'legal' again last week. There are 'free speech zones'. The NSA ans possibly other agencies spy oin the people of the country and have threatened to blackmail 'extremists' with the information they find. Call it what you want, but I'm calling it a police state.
I think the big problem with it is that it would tend to be inconsistent in its complexity and might dip to a very low complexity on occasion making it easy to compromise. The algorithm wouldn't have any real idea of when something was easily guessable. Still, probably better in almost all cases than most people's passwords, but not as good as people who use them well.
From what the summary says, these people saw someone using the name for a US service and claimed the trademark in Europe before the US company could. This seems to me to be an exceptional example of abuse of the system.
I just had a look at it. It doesn't look awful, but continues the same mistake made with other attempts, in that it has *way* the hell too much white space.
Java as a language is pretty much as secure as any other. Allowing it to run arbitrary code as 'applets' by default is a huge problem as the sandboxing seems quite poor.
I've used DNSSEC for the last couple of years and haven't had any problems at all. It's also quite easy to set up, under Linux at least. I would assume other OS's are similar.
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The point of the SteamBox and keeping things open is that Valve sees where Microsoft is heading with Windows 8 and beyond. They're heading for Apple/console model for Windows where they get full approval of all software and a significant cut of all sales. It's not good for consumers and it's not good for Valve. I'm a little surprised more software companies are not joining them in launching non-game software for them, but they may be more focused on the tablet market.
Exactly. This also covers the case where your ISP or Microsoft or Google does something that you can't abide by. It decouples you from your provider. You can move to a different email hosting service or even run your own without much inconvenience. It also looks a little more professional than having a HotMail account.
If you care about your work and level of performance, the aggravation caused by hardware that bad will get to you. Look for a job somewhere else even if it doesn't pay quite as much. They quite obviously don't care about you where you are.
If you run Windows or OSX you already have been pwden by the NSA. There is even a small possibility this is the case if your run Linux.
Something like this? The price is a bit much, but it certainly solves the problem quickly.
A very rich child, with the government in their pocket. Why would they discontinue their behaviour?
In other countries they must actually do 'spying' though, as opposed to just forcing companies to hand over data under threat.
Agile is hardly 'undisciplined'. There's also a lot to be said for 'fail early' when dealing with a project like this. That said, I would have thought they would have had a fairly defined and static set of requirements for a project like this, making waterfall a possibility.
Yet I would guess they'll hand it over to law enforcement agencies without a warrant, same as most companies these days.
In case you haven't been reading teh news for the last year, the world has changed. Also, if the security either of these projects is using fails, we have much larger problems than people reading our messages.
Awesome, thanks!
I think the APK is just a client that gives an Android interface to your server.
There's a funded KickStarter in progress called Trsst that has very similar goals, but uses a different approach. It's not quite as distributed as this, but avoids the monster blockchain problem.
There are 'papers please' sty;e checkpoints a hundred or more miles inland from your borders, in zones which the fourth amendment does not apply. Warrantless search and seizure has just been confirmed as 'legal' again last week. There are 'free speech zones'. The NSA ans possibly other agencies spy oin the people of the country and have threatened to blackmail 'extremists' with the information they find. Call it what you want, but I'm calling it a police state.
I used to be like that as well (although never liked the BlackBerry keyboards). Swype on Android changed my mind in a big way.
I think the big problem with it is that it would tend to be inconsistent in its complexity and might dip to a very low complexity on occasion making it easy to compromise. The algorithm wouldn't have any real idea of when something was easily guessable. Still, probably better in almost all cases than most people's passwords, but not as good as people who use them well.
From what the summary says, these people saw someone using the name for a US service and claimed the trademark in Europe before the US company could. This seems to me to be an exceptional example of abuse of the system.
I just had a look at it. It doesn't look awful, but continues the same mistake made with other attempts, in that it has *way* the hell too much white space.
RequestPolicy for FireFox is great as well.
Any other language deployed the same way would offer a very similar attack surface. Simply put, it's the new ActiveX.
Java as a language is pretty much as secure as any other. Allowing it to run arbitrary code as 'applets' by default is a huge problem as the sandboxing seems quite poor.
In large corporations, a large function of managers is to be a "Bullshit Barrier", and when it's not done well you notice right away.
You may want to have a rant against the people spreading the FUD rather than the people creating the technology.
Sorry, looks like I was incorrect. OpenDNS does not seem to support DNSSEC. It does support DNSCrypt.
I've used DNSSEC for the last couple of years and haven't had any problems at all. It's also quite easy to set up, under Linux at least. I would assume other OS's are similar.