There are two possibilities: He lost his tenure because there was an anonymous, incorrect peer review negative towards him. His work was actually good. In that case he should sue the university to make decisions based on anonymous, incorrect peer reviews.
Or he lost his tenure because there was an anonymous, but correct peer review negative towards him. His work wasn't up to scratch. In that case, his loss is deserved. If faults in his work were not detected in a normal review but only in further review by an anonymous person, these faults are still there and due to him. Suing would be like a criminal who got caught due to an anonymous tip suing the tipster.
After reading the headline, the answer is obviously "yes". What other headlines do we expect? "Is Google run by criminals"? "Does Microsoft Office kill productivity"? "Are Facebook users rapists"?
The pictures that you are linking to are carefully staged photos taken from exactly the right angle to fake a similarity that doesn't exist. The Braun clock radio for example, sits on your table, six inch wide, three inch high, three inch deep. So it has been set to sit on its side in a way nobody would position it because it falls over. It has been photographed exactly from the front so that you don't see that it's actually three inch deep. It doesn't have a screen, it has a speaker with little holes. It doesn't have a wheel, it has a round frequency dial.
The "radio" shows a tiny corner of the case of the radio. Nobody seeing a complete radio would ever figure out that it is supposed to have any similarity with a PowerMac.
With the Braun LE1 speaker, something strange happened: The site doesn't show the usual image depecting the LE1 speakers exactly from the side, where you can't see that the feet are totally different from the iMac stand. There is actually no similarity! (What the picture doesn't show is that these are very expensive high end speakers (the first electrostatic speakers ever sold) that are about 1.5 m high - so nobody could ever confuse them with an iMac. The only thing they have in common is a roughly rectangular shape of the main component.
I seem to recall, back in the original People's Court series, some defendant using that same line, and the judge was both incredulous and unimpressed (in the legal sense).
With registered mail, some post office employee would write down that they tried to deliver the mail, went to the right address, and the person there refused to sign. The court doesn't care that the person didn't receive the mail, as long as they could have received it if they hadn't acted like a dumbs.
The judge may have said it can be used in this one case, but unless struck down by another court, it sets up a precedent for other judges to do the same.
In the same circumstances. If a person disappears without leaving a forwarding address, but is actively using their facebook account.
Anonymous coward, you have never in your life knowingly talked to a gay person. I think you have three problems in your life: No man wants you, no woman wants you, and your parents are ashamed of you.
Best selling means that most actual consumers think that 16 GB is enough. That means that while _you_ want more storage in a smartphone, most people don't. That doesn't make them wrong.:-)
Up to now, you had to pay a lot of money to upgrade from 16GB to 32GB. Now you get 64GB for the same money. I'd think the percentage of 64GB purchasers will go up.
Great -- now the hackers that got my credit / debit card numbers could, instead, get my PayPal info! We all know how nice PayPal is to customers when their accounts are compromised!
Excuse me - Apple Pay. Not PayPal. Unless you lived under a stone for the last two weeks I would have expected that you've heard of Apple Pay.
Once Amazon started selling MP3s, I jumped ship from iTunes and never looked back. I imagine even if there was no court order mandating they remove DRM they would have for competitive reasons anyway.
That's what you call rewriting history. The only reason why there was ever DRM on the iTunes store was because the record labels demanded it. The only reason why Amazon was allowed to sell DRM-free music in mp3 format was because they record labels wanted a strong alternative to the iTunes store - I wonder how happy they are with this nowadays and when Amazon will turn on them like they are turning on the book publishers. At the same time Apple was still not allowed to sell DRM free; only after Apple agreed to raise all the prices.
Just a reminder: The two A's in AAC stand for "Advanced Audio" and have nothing to do with Apple. And AAC = mp4.
Any encryption can be broken with enough processor power and time.
As explained elsewhere, there is encryption for which "enough processor power and time" doesn't exist in the universe. The limit is (total energy in the universe) divided by (smallest possible amount of energy to make any change, as dictated by quantum physics). That limit isn't anywhere close to 2^256.
Won't last. Someone will forget his passcode about 8 seconds after the iOS 8 goes public. Then comes the flood of unhappy customers locked out of their unbreakably encrypted phones. "Sorry, we can't help you" won't be accepted as an answer.
That's the answer they already had to accept. The guy in the Apple Store _never_ could get your passcode. Apple in Cupertino _could_ get your passcode by brute forcing at a rate of one passcode every 80 milliseconds. They would do that if the police hands over a phone together with a search warrant, but not because a customer is too stupid.
(MacOS X uses a clever trick to reduce the number of cases: You turn on full disk encryption. At some point you will have to enter your password for the very first time, proving that you remembered it at least that far. At that point nothing is encrypted yet! Only when you demonstrate that you have actually remembered your password does the encryption start.
Encryption is ALWAYS breakable by brute force. Question is how long does it take? Seconds? Hours? Months? Years? Decades? This is usually determined by key sizes. The longer the key, the longer it takes to brute force. (generally)
256 bit = physically impossible, unless some hugely unexpected mathematical breakthrough happens. Plus each file in the file system has its own 256 bit key and needs to be decrypted individually.
So that's the kind of situation where an honest statement says "almost impossible" although it is of course possible that the first of about 100,000 billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion possible guesses might be right. And that's the situation where idiots say "it's almost possible, therefore the NSA can crack it".
I think the GP has a point. Of Apple defied the order what would happen? Tim Cook in handcuffs? There would be hipster riots up and down the country, not to mention investors and friends of the government getting very upset as their stock price crashed.
Tim Cook in handcuffs? Maybe. You as an unknown Slashdot poster can of course easily demand heroics on his part. It's a lot harder if your name is Tim Cook. Complaints about the stock price crashing? Well, that would be directly due to Cook's actions, so he'd probably lose his job about it.
But more importantly, it is easy for you to ask him to act illegally. I suppose he doesn't want to do anything illegal. For example, unlike a Samsung CEO who gets convicted and pardoned, I wouldn't expect any conviction of Tim Cook for breaking the law would go away. Would governement agencies be allowed to buy from a company whose CEO is a convicted criminal?
What Apple _does_ is exactly what they should do: They make information about the horrible laws public as much as they can. They do whatever they can to get the laws changed.
well cook already made a public canary announcement or a lie, about them not being able to read your mail while at the same time it's obvious for anyone that they can change your apple credentials with or without your consent(giving access to your mail).
Except the only source for the "not being able to read your mail" is the summary of a slashdot article, which managed to incorrectly quote the article that it summarized. And the source of the statement is openly available (a 1 hour interview with Tim Cook) and he clearly doesn't say anything like what you claim.
Dignity is the only thing, that suffers, when a cop violates an innocent man's privacy. If dignity has nothing to do with it, than "innocent man going to prison" does not either â" yet you brought up the latter yourself earlier...
Respect for the police suffers. Respect for the law and the state in general suffers.
The presence of a security question on any service indicates immediately that they almost certainly have access if served with a warrant.
Only an idiot would implement it in such a way that the password could be produced by Apple. They take your information, then encrypt it with the answers to three security questions. Without the exact answers nobody can extract the information.
And remember that you can enter anything you like as the answer to the security questions. It doesn't have to be thre truth.
There are not different keys for every file, or if there are they are tied to a master key. The only way you can view an encrypted device with a single passphrase is because that single passphrase is tied to a single master key somewhere.
iOS uses a different encryption key for every file. One component of the encryption key is stored in the directory, one part comes from the device encryption key.
I presume you wouldn't say it was "wrong" of the United States to crack the German and Japanese codes in WWII...
Aren't you rewriting history a little bit there? The USA didn't crack German codes. That was a bunch of Polish mathematicians, followed by British mathematicians and engineers. And when Americans make movies, three British sailors of whom two died getting secret materials out of a sinking German U-Boot suddenly become Americans!
If you damage your iDevice and forget your password, can they recover your data?
If you forget your password, and you lost the backup key that Apple tells you to put in a save place when encryption is turned on, and you forget the answer to your security question, then yes, your data is gone. Forever.
i'm sure the cops can image your encrypted phone and try to break the encryption offline without risking loss of data. if they can't break it now, they will simply store the data for the next 10 years until they can and go back to it then. sort of like fingerprints, DNA or any other crime scene evidence
For that they would not need to crack a password, but create 256 bit encryption. With different encryption keys for every single file in the file system. I think brute forcing 256 bit encryption unless severely flawed is at the "physically impossible" level.
In the EU you do not need to have the majority of a market to run afoul with the Commision. If you have a dominant market position and use it to unduly lock out competitors you'll get in trouble. As you should.
On the other hand, I can't see Apple doing anything to prevent other phone manufacturers from doing something similar.
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There are two possibilities: He lost his tenure because there was an anonymous, incorrect peer review negative towards him. His work was actually good. In that case he should sue the university to make decisions based on anonymous, incorrect peer reviews.
Or he lost his tenure because there was an anonymous, but correct peer review negative towards him. His work wasn't up to scratch. In that case, his loss is deserved. If faults in his work were not detected in a normal review but only in further review by an anonymous person, these faults are still there and due to him. Suing would be like a criminal who got caught due to an anonymous tip suing the tipster.
After reading the headline, the answer is obviously "yes". What other headlines do we expect? "Is Google run by criminals"? "Does Microsoft Office kill productivity"? "Are Facebook users rapists"?
Except when they are copying Braun and others?
You are one fucking idiot.
The pictures that you are linking to are carefully staged photos taken from exactly the right angle to fake a similarity that doesn't exist. The Braun clock radio for example, sits on your table, six inch wide, three inch high, three inch deep. So it has been set to sit on its side in a way nobody would position it because it falls over. It has been photographed exactly from the front so that you don't see that it's actually three inch deep. It doesn't have a screen, it has a speaker with little holes. It doesn't have a wheel, it has a round frequency dial.
The "radio" shows a tiny corner of the case of the radio. Nobody seeing a complete radio would ever figure out that it is supposed to have any similarity with a PowerMac.
With the Braun LE1 speaker, something strange happened: The site doesn't show the usual image depecting the LE1 speakers exactly from the side, where you can't see that the feet are totally different from the iMac stand. There is actually no similarity! (What the picture doesn't show is that these are very expensive high end speakers (the first electrostatic speakers ever sold) that are about 1.5 m high - so nobody could ever confuse them with an iMac. The only thing they have in common is a roughly rectangular shape of the main component.
I seem to recall, back in the original People's Court series, some defendant using that same line, and the judge was both incredulous and unimpressed (in the legal sense).
With registered mail, some post office employee would write down that they tried to deliver the mail, went to the right address, and the person there refused to sign. The court doesn't care that the person didn't receive the mail, as long as they could have received it if they hadn't acted like a dumbs.
The judge may have said it can be used in this one case, but unless struck down by another court, it sets up a precedent for other judges to do the same.
In the same circumstances. If a person disappears without leaving a forwarding address, but is actively using their facebook account.
Anonymous coward, you have never in your life knowingly talked to a gay person. I think you have three problems in your life: No man wants you, no woman wants you, and your parents are ashamed of you.
Best selling means that most actual consumers think that 16 GB is enough. That means that while _you_ want more storage in a smartphone, most people don't. That doesn't make them wrong. :-)
Up to now, you had to pay a lot of money to upgrade from 16GB to 32GB. Now you get 64GB for the same money. I'd think the percentage of 64GB purchasers will go up.
Great -- now the hackers that got my credit / debit card numbers could, instead, get my PayPal info! We all know how nice PayPal is to customers when their accounts are compromised!
Excuse me - Apple Pay. Not PayPal. Unless you lived under a stone for the last two weeks I would have expected that you've heard of Apple Pay.
40TB hard drive space isn't that much. About £1,300 or so with the latest offer I received in some spam email.
40TB reliable data storage, that would be a bit more expensive.
The merchant doesn't see the credit card number with modern POS systems, either.
Unless they are hacked, like in Home Depot :-( Point is that the POS system doesn't see the credit card number either.
Once Amazon started selling MP3s, I jumped ship from iTunes and never looked back. I imagine even if there was no court order mandating they remove DRM they would have for competitive reasons anyway.
That's what you call rewriting history. The only reason why there was ever DRM on the iTunes store was because the record labels demanded it. The only reason why Amazon was allowed to sell DRM-free music in mp3 format was because they record labels wanted a strong alternative to the iTunes store - I wonder how happy they are with this nowadays and when Amazon will turn on them like they are turning on the book publishers. At the same time Apple was still not allowed to sell DRM free; only after Apple agreed to raise all the prices.
Just a reminder: The two A's in AAC stand for "Advanced Audio" and have nothing to do with Apple. And AAC = mp4.
So what would have happened to someone who didn't use their card, but an iPhone 6 with Apple Pay? I take it they would be completely unaffected?
Any encryption can be broken with enough processor power and time.
As explained elsewhere, there is encryption for which "enough processor power and time" doesn't exist in the universe. The limit is (total energy in the universe) divided by (smallest possible amount of energy to make any change, as dictated by quantum physics). That limit isn't anywhere close to 2^256.
Fair enough, but is it a problem? Any company could get secret requests for 0-250 accounts.
I'm not a company, and I'm not even in the USA, and I tell you, I also got secret requests for 0 to 250 accounts.
Won't last. Someone will forget his passcode about 8 seconds after the iOS 8 goes public. Then comes the flood of unhappy customers locked out of their unbreakably encrypted phones. "Sorry, we can't help you" won't be accepted as an answer.
That's the answer they already had to accept. The guy in the Apple Store _never_ could get your passcode. Apple in Cupertino _could_ get your passcode by brute forcing at a rate of one passcode every 80 milliseconds. They would do that if the police hands over a phone together with a search warrant, but not because a customer is too stupid.
(MacOS X uses a clever trick to reduce the number of cases: You turn on full disk encryption. At some point you will have to enter your password for the very first time, proving that you remembered it at least that far. At that point nothing is encrypted yet! Only when you demonstrate that you have actually remembered your password does the encryption start.
Encryption is ALWAYS breakable by brute force. Question is how long does it take? Seconds? Hours? Months? Years? Decades? This is usually determined by key sizes. The longer the key, the longer it takes to brute force. (generally)
256 bit = physically impossible, unless some hugely unexpected mathematical breakthrough happens. Plus each file in the file system has its own 256 bit key and needs to be decrypted individually.
So that's the kind of situation where an honest statement says "almost impossible" although it is of course possible that the first of about 100,000 billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion possible guesses might be right. And that's the situation where idiots say "it's almost possible, therefore the NSA can crack it".
I think the GP has a point. Of Apple defied the order what would happen? Tim Cook in handcuffs? There would be hipster riots up and down the country, not to mention investors and friends of the government getting very upset as their stock price crashed.
Tim Cook in handcuffs? Maybe. You as an unknown Slashdot poster can of course easily demand heroics on his part. It's a lot harder if your name is Tim Cook. Complaints about the stock price crashing? Well, that would be directly due to Cook's actions, so he'd probably lose his job about it.
But more importantly, it is easy for you to ask him to act illegally. I suppose he doesn't want to do anything illegal. For example, unlike a Samsung CEO who gets convicted and pardoned, I wouldn't expect any conviction of Tim Cook for breaking the law would go away. Would governement agencies be allowed to buy from a company whose CEO is a convicted criminal?
What Apple _does_ is exactly what they should do: They make information about the horrible laws public as much as they can. They do whatever they can to get the laws changed.
well cook already made a public canary announcement or a lie, about them not being able to read your mail while at the same time it's obvious for anyone that they can change your apple credentials with or without your consent(giving access to your mail).
Except the only source for the "not being able to read your mail" is the summary of a slashdot article, which managed to incorrectly quote the article that it summarized. And the source of the statement is openly available (a 1 hour interview with Tim Cook) and he clearly doesn't say anything like what you claim.
Dignity is the only thing, that suffers, when a cop violates an innocent man's privacy. If dignity has nothing to do with it, than "innocent man going to prison" does not either â" yet you brought up the latter yourself earlier...
Respect for the police suffers. Respect for the law and the state in general suffers.
The presence of a security question on any service indicates immediately that they almost certainly have access if served with a warrant.
Only an idiot would implement it in such a way that the password could be produced by Apple. They take your information, then encrypt it with the answers to three security questions. Without the exact answers nobody can extract the information.
And remember that you can enter anything you like as the answer to the security questions. It doesn't have to be thre truth.
There are not different keys for every file, or if there are they are tied to a master key. The only way you can view an encrypted device with a single passphrase is because that single passphrase is tied to a single master key somewhere.
iOS uses a different encryption key for every file. One component of the encryption key is stored in the directory, one part comes from the device encryption key.
I presume you wouldn't say it was "wrong" of the United States to crack the German and Japanese codes in WWII...
Aren't you rewriting history a little bit there? The USA didn't crack German codes. That was a bunch of Polish mathematicians, followed by British mathematicians and engineers. And when Americans make movies, three British sailors of whom two died getting secret materials out of a sinking German U-Boot suddenly become Americans!
If you damage your iDevice and forget your password, can they recover your data?
If you forget your password, and you lost the backup key that Apple tells you to put in a save place when encryption is turned on, and you forget the answer to your security question, then yes, your data is gone. Forever.
i'm sure the cops can image your encrypted phone and try to break the encryption offline without risking loss of data. if they can't break it now, they will simply store the data for the next 10 years until they can and go back to it then. sort of like fingerprints, DNA or any other crime scene evidence
For that they would not need to crack a password, but create 256 bit encryption. With different encryption keys for every single file in the file system. I think brute forcing 256 bit encryption unless severely flawed is at the "physically impossible" level.
In the EU you do not need to have the majority of a market to run afoul with the Commision. If you have a dominant market position and use it to unduly lock out competitors you'll get in trouble. As you should.
On the other hand, I can't see Apple doing anything to prevent other phone manufacturers from doing something similar.