Steve Carroll, the dev manager for the Visual Studio diagnostics team, responded directly to these concerns on Reddit. The rest of that whole thread is pretty informative as well.
While the FDA is at it, can they please tackle all the other snake-oil products at the drug stores? All the homeopathic crap, Airborne Head On, magnet bullshit, diet pills, etc. They are all 100% bullshit placebos.
Yes. Categorically symmetric key crypto (the type that is used to secure system drives) is not vulnerable to quantum computer attacks like public key crypto is (the type used in stuff like HTTPS). In the post quantum world, most of the commonly used public-key algorithms will have to be thrown out. The situation is not without hope though. There are many algorithms up to the job.
On the other hand, creating NSA-proof algorithms is a bit trickier. I think this is possible as long as you don't let the NSA on your standards committee and let them dictate curious details like they did with the Dual_EC_DRBG elliptic curve algorithm.
Yea, no kidding. The 2 times I've been to Vegas, I had no trouble getting a taxi and they were all pretty smooth experiences. This poster makes it seem like Vegas cabs are some kind of hellish menace that needs to be eradicated.
...other than the fact that it's one-sided bullshit.
One of the reasons Uber, Lyft and all the other "ride sharing" app companies get so much flack because they are breaking the law. The taxi industry is regulated for very good reasons (one being safety) and all the "ride sharing" app companies blatantly ignore them. This, in turn, infuriates the traditional taxi industry that follows regulations and sees them as unfair competition.
The other reasons for the controversy revolves around some pretty awful labor exploitation but that's a whole nother story.
From the review it looks like real under-the-hood improvements with performance and security are contrasted with a broken mess in the UX department. The new start menu getting amnesia past 500 entries in the menu database coupled with an inconsistent Amazon jungle of differing UI paradigms elsewhere would signal the end of my sanity.
Do not waste your time reading this. The moron who wrote that "article" is full of shit. Quantum computers can only efficiently solve (i.e. <= polynomial time) a specific class of problems called BQP. NP-hard and NP-complete problems would remain totally unfazed by quantum machines.
If I am understanding TFA correctly, this would be more aptly titled "solar powered electrolysis apparatus to feed oxygen to acetate-secreting bacteria on a nano-wire substrate". Bad science journalism. This will not save the world.
The plutocrats are so enamored with these companies because they basically eliminate the concept of traditional employment.
All these "sharing economy" app companies make you fill out a 1099-MISC if you want to work for them so you can be considered a contractor. Classifying workers as contractors is the real reason why these companies are able to drive out traditional competition. It prevents workers from forming unions and frees the companies from having to pay various taxes, workers compensation, unemployment, and health insurance. If the monied interests are able to buy enough congress critters to get this crap fully legalized, then you can bet your ass this style of labor abuse will be coming to a workplace near you.
But that's the thing though. They aren't doing it. All Valve has to show for their lofty efforts is a showcase of vaporware and a bunch of pie-in-the-sky internet articles.
You are being pedantic. Uber is deliberately mis-classifying its drivers as independent contractors to avoid paying them the same as employees with benefits.
Since I printed these labels with the ship date specified as today, it should be more clear if the labels will still be considered valid tomorrow, which is the soonest time that a pickup could be scheduled.
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Holy crap you have been going on about this nonsense for way too long. You are wrong, stfu. Seriously, you are the worst kind of idiot that cannot admit they are wrong when it's fucking obvious.
Take a look at the Facebook comment section of any sports article. The caustic comments are still there, and contrary to what they want you believe, are worse than ever. Now, instead of your typical benign flames and trolls you have truly nasty, personal insults aimed at a poster's wife and kids or something. It's truly disgusting. If these sites thought real identities were going to stop this thing, they were sorely mistaken. The masses have absolutely no dignity.
This is why "Stop and Frisk" was outlawed in New York
Stop-and-Frisk was not outlawed and is still very much alive. The closet fascists in the federal appeals court did not like Judge Shira Scheindlin's decision one bit so they had her removed from the case and blocked her decision. This was all based on some flimsy "impartiality" charge.
The certificate was not acquired; it was derived through a cryptographic attack on MD5 called a chosen-prefix collision attack.
In short, the authors of Flame forged a certificate whose MD5 hash matched a valid Microsoft certificate and then used this to sign the malware. The big fuckup here was that Microsoft was still using MD5 in 2012 when it was known to be broken since 2004. The moral of the story here is to never use MD5 for anything.
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Ah fuck. His comment was already linked in TFA. /faceplam
Steve Carroll, the dev manager for the Visual Studio diagnostics team, responded directly to these concerns on Reddit. The rest of that whole thread is pretty informative as well.
Visual Studio adding telemetry function calls to binary?
While the FDA is at it, can they please tackle all the other snake-oil products at the drug stores? All the homeopathic crap, Airborne Head On, magnet bullshit, diet pills, etc. They are all 100% bullshit placebos.
'Just encrypt everything' you said.
They will just de-prioritize anything they can't read and spy on with DPI until it's throughput is useless.
It's time to take a look at some serious steganography.
Yes. Categorically symmetric key crypto (the type that is used to secure system drives) is not vulnerable to quantum computer attacks like public key crypto is (the type used in stuff like HTTPS). In the post quantum world, most of the commonly used public-key algorithms will have to be thrown out. The situation is not without hope though. There are many algorithms up to the job.
On the other hand, creating NSA-proof algorithms is a bit trickier. I think this is possible as long as you don't let the NSA on your standards committee and let them dictate curious details like they did with the Dual_EC_DRBG elliptic curve algorithm.
Yea, no kidding. The 2 times I've been to Vegas, I had no trouble getting a taxi and they were all pretty smooth experiences. This poster makes it seem like Vegas cabs are some kind of hellish menace that needs to be eradicated.
...other than the fact that it's one-sided bullshit.
One of the reasons Uber, Lyft and all the other "ride sharing" app companies get so much flack because they are breaking the law. The taxi industry is regulated for very good reasons (one being safety) and all the "ride sharing" app companies blatantly ignore them. This, in turn, infuriates the traditional taxi industry that follows regulations and sees them as unfair competition.
The other reasons for the controversy revolves around some pretty awful labor exploitation but that's a whole nother story.
From the review it looks like real under-the-hood improvements with performance and security are contrasted with a broken mess in the UX department. The new start menu getting amnesia past 500 entries in the menu database coupled with an inconsistent Amazon jungle of differing UI paradigms elsewhere would signal the end of my sanity.
No thanks.
Do not waste your time reading this. The moron who wrote that "article" is full of shit. Quantum computers can only efficiently solve (i.e. <= polynomial time) a specific class of problems called BQP. NP-hard and NP-complete problems would remain totally unfazed by quantum machines.
If I am understanding TFA correctly, this would be more aptly titled "solar powered electrolysis apparatus to feed oxygen to acetate-secreting bacteria on a nano-wire substrate". Bad science journalism. This will not save the world.
lol obvious shill is obvious
The plutocrats are so enamored with these companies because they basically eliminate the concept of traditional employment.
All these "sharing economy" app companies make you fill out a 1099-MISC if you want to work for them so you can be considered a contractor. Classifying workers as contractors is the real reason why these companies are able to drive out traditional competition. It prevents workers from forming unions and frees the companies from having to pay various taxes, workers compensation, unemployment, and health insurance. If the monied interests are able to buy enough congress critters to get this crap fully legalized, then you can bet your ass this style of labor abuse will be coming to a workplace near you.
But that's the thing though. They aren't doing it. All Valve has to show for their lofty efforts is a showcase of vaporware and a bunch of pie-in-the-sky internet articles.
This federal judge disagrees with you
The "sharing economy" has a dark side and will be coming to a workplace near you if this crap is allowed to continue.
You are being pedantic. Uber is deliberately mis-classifying its drivers as independent contractors to avoid paying them the same as employees with benefits.
Uber is raking in the millions because they are blatantly side-stepping labor laws, not because of some miracle technological innovation.
Since this is Windows we are talking about, I'll just go ahead and assume you were taking about %DEITY% and %CHORUS_OF_DEITIES%
Greedy, globalist capitalists?
Who modded this down? Parent post is absolutely correct.
Umm, Roosevelt was a Democrat
Holy crap you have been going on about this nonsense for way too long. You are wrong, stfu. Seriously, you are the worst kind of idiot that cannot admit they are wrong when it's fucking obvious.
Take a look at the Facebook comment section of any sports article. The caustic comments are still there, and contrary to what they want you believe, are worse than ever. Now, instead of your typical benign flames and trolls you have truly nasty, personal insults aimed at a poster's wife and kids or something. It's truly disgusting. If these sites thought real identities were going to stop this thing, they were sorely mistaken. The masses have absolutely no dignity.
This is why "Stop and Frisk" was outlawed in New York
Stop-and-Frisk was not outlawed and is still very much alive. The closet fascists in the federal appeals court did not like Judge Shira Scheindlin's decision one bit so they had her removed from the case and blocked her decision. This was all based on some flimsy "impartiality" charge.
The certificate was not acquired; it was derived through a cryptographic attack on MD5 called a chosen-prefix collision attack.
In short, the authors of Flame forged a certificate whose MD5 hash matched a valid Microsoft certificate and then used this to sign the malware. The big fuckup here was that Microsoft was still using MD5 in 2012 when it was known to be broken since 2004. The moral of the story here is to never use MD5 for anything.