I would be very happy if the bank would open up the algorithm for scrutiny by people that might be able to tell them something about it / give them hints on how to improve it. It would also make my banking a lot easier to do.
My current bank uses a number of long codes that are eventually condensed to a 6-digit code (20-bit security, about) that depends on the input code (27-ish bits), your card and your PIN. So that effectively combines something temporary, something physical you have and something you know. The 20 bits make it somewhat secure enough, given that the temporary is used only once (you don't get to brute force it).
Even if you managed to luck yourself in at a chance of 1 against a million, you can't do anything except for viewing without repeating the process.
Not every use of a woman is fair. Viagra is just as useful for rapists.
Why is viagra not illegal and why is BackupHDDVD illegal? Especially when one affects your morals and your feeling of justice where the other explicitly hinders something you should get according to some part of another law?
The only choice the authors of music now should make is "Do I want somebody to listen to my music?". If the answer is yes, then I can record / copy / duplicate / steal it all I want, even if you DRM it. If the answer is no, just **** off then.
Wii has the incredible advantage that it's a thing that you can understand - but that you don't have to understand to use. You just plug it in and stop caring about what's in it entirely. There's not even the "why this clunky interface" paradigm that has been fixed with all consoles the past 10-20 years. You used to use a device that the machine was handy with. Now you use a stick and you pretty much do with it what you want.
It's not a device you put in your living room like a normal "console". It's a game machine that you can ignore all technical details of, you just use it.
Compare that to the 8-core Blu-Ray PS3 and the 1080p Xbox360 with HD-DVD external drive.
They've been lagging about 20 years behind the whole industry for a very long time now. You can't expect them to catch up all of a sudden.
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Efficiency and effectiveness of passwords is linearly related to your brain's capacity to learn new passwords once in a while and also strongly related to your intelligence in choosing a proper password. If you have a proper password that's not too old, you're safe.
Too old is related to the strength of the password. In general, you should choose a password for a period of a month or possibly a few months. You then decide how complex it should be to be safe during at least that period, then you choose a password that's within an fair distribution of that class, preferably by explicitly not choosing from another subclass of the passwords that is known to be weaker. If you also calculate in the advances in password cracking you should be able to work out a decent set to choose from.
Specifically, most system administrators reduce the theory to this: at least 8 characters of which at least one number and at least one special character.
This doesn't work in more than one way. First of all, the user doesn't know about any generic-spread he or she should be doing and will just pick some word with numbers or characters behind it. That's quite a small subset of the intended target. Users choose such weak passwords because they don't really care about the password or the protection, they just want to get their work done and the password thing including the change-your-password thing is an annoyance you have to live with (in their perspective). If/When their account is hacked (because of the not too bright password) they claim somebody hacked it and that they couldn't have helped the secrets in it leaking out. People don't use passwords for security, people use passwords because somebody tells them to use passwords.
News headline: God has changed the human being structure to not be susceptible to disease anymore. Antibiotic firms complain, consider it unfair competition.
(the point: if you're a parasite company that's living off anothers companies flaws, bugs and holes, don't complain about the cure)
> The only people I know of who use paper in any amount are people who are 40+, the type of people who like to print off any website longer than a page because "it is easier to read". How is reading paper easier on the eyes than reading a TFT LCD? Answer? it isn't - it's all psycological.
Hello, I'm a 23 year old embedded software engineer and I print. I print out a whole lot - so much in fact that I bought a laser printer just for the amount I print. I tend to use a bunch of advantages I can't get from my 17" TFT at work or my 19" TFT at home. Advantages such as stress relief - I can take a piece of paper, mangle it into a ball and throw it away. I can rip it up into small pieces and carry two of them along to anywhere leaving the rest behind. I can use them to write on without booting up a system. Most of all - I can print out stuff for reference so I have my entire screen free and I can write and mark on them without damaging something and looking really stupid.
I still have to find an LCD screen that can expand to 5x its own size for referencing stuff at a competing price.
The movie industry can say what they want and try what they want. There are only two possible ways you can make this happen without prior secret knowledge, namely you can watch it or you cannot watch it. The secret information is all that's keeping you from it. Now, you can't really embed secret information in a DVD (since it'd be public by definition). You can't embed it in the DVD player anymore, since you'd lose all compatibility.
There is no way you can post-delivery secure a system.
HD-DVD is going a nice cryptograpically somewhat sensible way of using secret keys for encrypting, but they're fundamentally flawed as well. As people have pointed out (in more reputable journals than I usually publish in - I usually publish here) it's a linear combination of 20 values out of a set of 40 values. Given 40 of such sets with selection keys that are linearly independant, you can determine a key set belonging to a given selection key.
The net result is that - probably - either 40 of such keys get stolen, hijacked, taken from some product that was designed by an idiot or something similar. In the worst case, you can buy yourself a set of keys (costs a lot but hey - if we all act together it'll be like 10p for 10000 keys) and just connect using them.
You either want me to see it or you don't. If it's the first, stop messing with copy protections and stuff that can't possibly work. If the second, just f*** off.
One: I didn't equate IRC to mIRC even once. I implied that Microsoft would most likely have seen it, if they had seen it from IRC, from using the mIRC client. BitchX seems to be less popular on Windows, can't explain why. Two: Wouldn't have guessed, not even after working on an irc daemon for over a year (note, this was cynicism - if you happen to miss it again) Three: Why can't you save even a small tad of respect for somebody else? You could've told me nicely, but no, next time I do something I never did in the first place I die. Painfully even.
Without that, people will feel a social need to keep the door open for the next person, so you'll lose quite a lot of security. I've seen both with and without where the companies that were with were clearly a lot more secure. Also, if you can afford it, have somebody present at all times for checking who or what uses the door. Try to make a building with one front door, or at least a strongly limited amount (not more than 2 or maybe 3 for a huge company).
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I would be very happy if the bank would open up the algorithm for scrutiny by people that might be able to tell them something about it / give them hints on how to improve it. It would also make my banking a lot easier to do.
My current bank uses a number of long codes that are eventually condensed to a 6-digit code (20-bit security, about) that depends on the input code (27-ish bits), your card and your PIN. So that effectively combines something temporary, something physical you have and something you know. The 20 bits make it somewhat secure enough, given that the temporary is used only once (you don't get to brute force it).
Even if you managed to luck yourself in at a chance of 1 against a million, you can't do anything except for viewing without repeating the process.
I'm offended. Halo only runs on XBoxes and I'm averse to Microsoft.
Not every use of a woman is fair. Viagra is just as useful for rapists.
Why is viagra not illegal and why is BackupHDDVD illegal? Especially when one affects your morals and your feeling of justice where the other explicitly hinders something you should get according to some part of another law?
Very true.
The only choice the authors of music now should make is "Do I want somebody to listen to my music?". If the answer is yes, then I can record / copy / duplicate / steal it all I want, even if you DRM it. If the answer is no, just **** off then.
A US governor was heard oversaying: "It's unfair! They're miles ahead! We're just inching toward the goal." over a pint of lager.
If you can make a software interface that doesn't annoy the hell out of me, you don't even have to replace the license to make it loads better.
Mark that message as a dupe from long ago. The wheel has been patented since 2003 something in Australia.
Wii has the incredible advantage that it's a thing that you can understand - but that you don't have to understand to use. You just plug it in and stop caring about what's in it entirely. There's not even the "why this clunky interface" paradigm that has been fixed with all consoles the past 10-20 years. You used to use a device that the machine was handy with. Now you use a stick and you pretty much do with it what you want.
It's not a device you put in your living room like a normal "console". It's a game machine that you can ignore all technical details of, you just use it.
Compare that to the 8-core Blu-Ray PS3 and the 1080p Xbox360 with HD-DVD external drive.
How about calling these guys Plug&Play-ians or such?
I remember the time when you had to manually configure DMA channels, IRQ lines and ports... Those were the days!
They've been lagging about 20 years behind the whole industry for a very long time now. You can't expect them to catch up all of a sudden.
Efficiency and effectiveness of passwords is linearly related to your brain's capacity to learn new passwords once in a while and also strongly related to your intelligence in choosing a proper password. If you have a proper password that's not too old, you're safe.
Too old is related to the strength of the password. In general, you should choose a password for a period of a month or possibly a few months. You then decide how complex it should be to be safe during at least that period, then you choose a password that's within an fair distribution of that class, preferably by explicitly not choosing from another subclass of the passwords that is known to be weaker. If you also calculate in the advances in password cracking you should be able to work out a decent set to choose from.
Specifically, most system administrators reduce the theory to this: at least 8 characters of which at least one number and at least one special character.
This doesn't work in more than one way. First of all, the user doesn't know about any generic-spread he or she should be doing and will just pick some word with numbers or characters behind it. That's quite a small subset of the intended target. Users choose such weak passwords because they don't really care about the password or the protection, they just want to get their work done and the password thing including the change-your-password thing is an annoyance you have to live with (in their perspective). If/When their account is hacked (because of the not too bright password) they claim somebody hacked it and that they couldn't have helped the secrets in it leaking out. People don't use passwords for security, people use passwords because somebody tells them to use passwords.
News headline: God has changed the human being structure to not be susceptible to disease anymore. Antibiotic firms complain, consider it unfair competition.
(the point: if you're a parasite company that's living off anothers companies flaws, bugs and holes, don't complain about the cure)
You just cost me my whole evening. (I'm in Europe)
Choices for the world far exceed Redmond, Seattle and the Bay area. Just so you know.
Would you like an XBox 720p or an XBox 1080i?
> The only people I know of who use paper in any amount are people who are 40+, the type of people who like to print off any website longer than a page because "it is easier to read". How is reading paper easier on the eyes than reading a TFT LCD? Answer? it isn't - it's all psycological.
Hello, I'm a 23 year old embedded software engineer and I print. I print out a whole lot - so much in fact that I bought a laser printer just for the amount I print. I tend to use a bunch of advantages I can't get from my 17" TFT at work or my 19" TFT at home. Advantages such as stress relief - I can take a piece of paper, mangle it into a ball and throw it away. I can rip it up into small pieces and carry two of them along to anywhere leaving the rest behind. I can use them to write on without booting up a system. Most of all - I can print out stuff for reference so I have my entire screen free and I can write and mark on them without damaging something and looking really stupid.
I still have to find an LCD screen that can expand to 5x its own size for referencing stuff at a competing price.
The watchman would be Fritz and you can't get him out of your processor without a pretty good toolset. Read up on TCPA.
The movie industry can say what they want and try what they want. There are only two possible ways you can make this happen without prior secret knowledge, namely you can watch it or you cannot watch it. The secret information is all that's keeping you from it. Now, you can't really embed secret information in a DVD (since it'd be public by definition). You can't embed it in the DVD player anymore, since you'd lose all compatibility.
There is no way you can post-delivery secure a system.
HD-DVD is going a nice cryptograpically somewhat sensible way of using secret keys for encrypting, but they're fundamentally flawed as well. As people have pointed out (in more reputable journals than I usually publish in - I usually publish here) it's a linear combination of 20 values out of a set of 40 values. Given 40 of such sets with selection keys that are linearly independant, you can determine a key set belonging to a given selection key.
The net result is that - probably - either 40 of such keys get stolen, hijacked, taken from some product that was designed by an idiot or something similar. In the worst case, you can buy yourself a set of keys (costs a lot but hey - if we all act together it'll be like 10p for 10000 keys) and just connect using them.
You either want me to see it or you don't. If it's the first, stop messing with copy protections and stuff that can't possibly work. If the second, just f*** off.
That's so last month...
Why not support the whole range between 8 and 9 bit with an arithmetic coder?
Wait... did I say arithmetic coder? I meant range coder.
I think I think therefore I think I exist?
One: I didn't equate IRC to mIRC even once. I implied that Microsoft would most likely have seen it, if they had seen it from IRC, from using the mIRC client. BitchX seems to be less popular on Windows, can't explain why.
Two: Wouldn't have guessed, not even after working on an irc daemon for over a year (note, this was cynicism - if you happen to miss it again)
Three: Why can't you save even a small tad of respect for somebody else? You could've told me nicely, but no, next time I do something I never did in the first place I die. Painfully even.
I'm guessing they got the name from the messages passed out by mIRC... Let's just hope they have more directed traffic on their site.
Fromdos, grep, sed and awk. Possibly some normal pretty printer too.
Without that, people will feel a social need to keep the door open for the next person, so you'll lose quite a lot of security. I've seen both with and without where the companies that were with were clearly a lot more secure. Also, if you can afford it, have somebody present at all times for checking who or what uses the door. Try to make a building with one front door, or at least a strongly limited amount (not more than 2 or maybe 3 for a huge company).