I'm reminded of the ProASIC3 FPGA backdoor debacle of a few years ago. Basically, that FPGA uses hardware AES to allow the FPGA user to specify a cryptographic key to protect the loaded IP from tampering and reading.
There was an undocumented JTAG command found by security researchers at the University of Cambridge which allowed reading protected areas of the FPGA configuration including the user secret key and thereby foiled the protection provided by the hardware AES crypto.
According to the FPGA manufacturer, they did not insert the backdoor intentionally but instead it was just a part of the JTAG black-box they licensed and included in their design.
You're thinking of a different movie: A Beautiful Mind, which is based on a true story. The film he is talking about, Life is Beautiful, is a fictional comedy about (as strange as this may sound) a Jewish family in Nazi Germany during WWII.
Wondering if it would work to protect email addresses on websites from harvesting, when you can't obfucate them beyond what any browser can see (due to the client base you need to let contact you not having a technical clue).
While I don't know for certain since I don't know how the email harvester spiders work, I would think it probably wouldn't make a difference. You may try to use a disposable email address service like Sneakemail and generate a new contact address each time the older one gets too much spam.
No. The ones I've seen use this: http://www.myrealbankname.com:whatever@real IPaddre ssindotlessformat/
The "www.myrealbankname.com:whatever" before the @ is not a URL, but a value sent to the real site which is denoted by the "realIPaddressindotlessformat".
For example, cut and paste this into your browser:
http://www.kuro5hin.org:section@1109654166/
The above URL doesn't take you to Kuro5hin, it takes you to the Slashdot main page.
Yes, joining the EFF is extremely important. This is something I've put off for way too long.
Also since 2600 has stated they will be in this fight for the long haul as well, it is obvious they too will need money for legal expenses. Getting yourself a subscription to their magazine would also be prudent. Not only will you be helping the future of electronic free-speech and open source, you'll also get interesting tech/hacker/cracker articles as a bonus. I've always wanted a life-time subscription to 2600 but have put it off. No longer.
I am both extremely shocked and disgusted by this. I'm shocked that a judge who is so obviously woefully ignorant of technology preside over such an important case. According to the Wired article, he mispronounced Linux. With Linux being the most visible "poster boy" of the open source model, this calls into question his familiarity (or lack there of) with the topic as a whole. Judge Kaplan also needed to be briefed on what linking is! This is such a basic, surface concept of web technology. Linking *IS* the web. This is so shocking, I'm at a loss for words for this one. Yet, this is the same judge who, when the defense requested there be more time for all to have a greater understanding of the technology, chided the defense saying, "I think its a mistake for you to assume you're talking to a moron." Is judge Kaplan a moron? No, most definitely not for him to have gotten to where he is in the legal system. Is judge Kaplan falsely self-confident and dangerously ignorant of the topic at hand? That, there can be no doubt of.
There are many legitimate uses for cameras which look like smoke detectors and wall clocks.
It is a fact that some employees steal. Catching employee theft is one use. It is a fact that some children are abused. Monitoring your child's sitter is another.
These cameras and microphones are just tools. If someone uses them illegally, then the person who uses them illegally should be punished, not the maker of the tools.
The manual is extremely well written, and itself is under an open license. It is an invaluable aid to anyone who uses The Gimp. It can be had for free off the web at http://manual.gimp.org/
Open Source does not mean zero cost. They could write an open license which would allow not-for-profit companies/individuals to use their code in zero cost products, but which would require monetary compensation (licensing) from for-profit companies which use their source.
From the pictures at Overlocker Shootout it appears this unit has something all the homebrew coolers have missed: condensation/liquid detection (the funky silver rectangular lined screen wrapped around the CPU unit in the picture). That should solve the condensation problem.
Jam Eschelon day is a really good idea, but using keywords is the wrong way to go about it. Instead, a story generator which generates subversive letters would be better.
IANAL, but this school's action may be in violation of the Privacy Act of 1974. The following was snipped from Fact Sheet # 10: Your Social Security Number: How Secure Is It? at Privacy Rights Clearinghouse:
Schools that receive federal funding must comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act in order to retain their funding (FERPA, also known as the "Buckley Amendment," enacted in 1974, 20 USC 1232g). One of FERPA's provisions requires written consent for the release of educational records or personally identifiable information, with some exceptions. The courts have stated that Social Security numbers fall within this provision.
FERPA applies to state colleges, universities and technical schools that receive federal funding. An argument can be made that if such a school displays students' SSNs on identification cards or distributes class rosters or grades listings containing SSNs, it would be a release of personally identifiable information, violating FERPA. However, many schools and universities have not interpreted the law this way and continue to use SSNs as a student identifier. To succeed in obtaining an alternate number to the SSN, you will probably need to be persistent and cite the law. Social Security numbers may be obtained by colleges and universities for students who have university jobs and/or receive federal financial aid. (The FERPA text can be found at the web, www.cpsr.org/cpsr/privacy/ssn/ferpa.buckley.html.)
Public schools, colleges and universities that ask for your SSN fall within the provisions of another federal law, the Privacy Act of 1974. This act requires such schools to provide a disclosure statement telling students how the Social Security number is used. If you are required to provide your SSN, be sure to look for the school's disclosure statement. If one is not offered, you may want to file a complaint with the school, citing the Privacy Act.
When the school is a private institution, your only recourse is to work with the administration to change the policy or at least to let you use an alternate identification number as your student ID.
Funny you got yourself a tatoo. I've been planning to do the same thing for a couple years now, but have just never done it. Mine was going to be a 3-of-9 coded "techt" on my left wrist.
Since code 3-of-9 is a different encoding scheme than UPC, at least I wouldn't have to worry about myself ringing up at the check out lane.:)
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough in my previous post. There is absolutely nothing wrong with anyone choosing a non-free licenses for one's software if that is what one wants. Free and non-free licensed software can peacfully coexist. The only problem is when free and non-free licenses are mixed in such a way that the free license has its freedoms taken away or other wise restricted by the non-free license. If you are going to do so, then there is no point in using a free license.
One must be careful how one mixes licences, be they free or not.
So, no, it's not "either accept my freedom or you'll get beaten up." Its not that at all.
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I'm reminded of the ProASIC3 FPGA backdoor debacle of a few years ago. Basically, that FPGA uses hardware AES to allow the FPGA user to specify a cryptographic key to protect the loaded IP from tampering and reading.
There was an undocumented JTAG command found by security researchers at the University of Cambridge which allowed reading protected areas of the FPGA configuration including the user secret key and thereby foiled the protection provided by the hardware AES crypto.
According to the FPGA manufacturer, they did not insert the backdoor intentionally but instead it was just a part of the JTAG black-box they licensed and included in their design.
Namecoin decentralized DNS:
https://github.com/namecoin/wiki/blob/master/HowToBrowseBitDomainsAdvanced.mediawiki
The Gargoyle router firmware supports Namecoin DNS resolution:
https://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2120
OpenNIC supports Namecoin DNS resolution:
https://www.opennicproject.org/configure-your-dns/how-to-change-dns-servers-in-dd-wrt/
Four: two different dedicated players, an Android tablet, and an Android tv box that all support vorbis.
NetUSB by the company KCodes is proprietary not open source software.
If you agree with the EFF's decision to stand up to Diebold, then I may suggest making a small donation to the EFF to show your support.
Let me say starting off that I didn't like Life is Beautiful. It didn't keep my interests and I never finished watching it. However...
Life Is Beautiful is a cliche
How was it cliche? I don't remember seeing very many comedies about life in a death camp.
You're thinking of a different movie: A Beautiful Mind, which is based on a true story. The film he is talking about, Life is Beautiful, is a fictional comedy about (as strange as this may sound) a Jewish family in Nazi Germany during WWII.
How do you determine the dotless number?
The dot-less number is a 32-bit unsigned integer.
Slashdot's IP is 66.35.250.150. Each number is an 8-bit unsigned integer. In binary it would be:
01000010.00100011.11111010.10010110
remove the decimals
01000010001000111111101010010110
convert binary to base 10
1109654166 is the answer.
If you need to do it on paper, this way may be easier:
66.35.250.150 =
(66 * (256^3)) + (35 * (256^2)) + (250 * 256) + 150 =
1109654166
Wondering if it would work to protect email addresses on websites from harvesting, when you can't obfucate them beyond what any browser can see (due to the client base you need to let contact you not having a technical clue).
While I don't know for certain since I don't know how the email harvester spiders work, I would think it probably wouldn't make a difference. You may try to use a disposable email address service like Sneakemail and generate a new contact address each time the older one gets too much spam.
As far as I'm aware, Mozilla doesn't do this. It is a good idea, though.
No. The ones I've seen use this:l IPaddre ssindotlessformat/
http://www.myrealbankname.com:whatever@rea
The "www.myrealbankname.com:whatever" before the @ is not a URL, but a value sent to the real site which is denoted by the "realIPaddressindotlessformat".
For example, cut and paste this into your browser:
http://www.kuro5hin.org:section@1109654166/
The above URL doesn't take you to Kuro5hin, it takes you to the Slashdot main page.
That won't work. DeCSS is defined by the prosecution/judge as any software or hardware which defeats CSS. Catch-22.
However, now it seems any DVD player is illegal. Go figure.
Yes, joining the EFF is extremely important. This is something I've put off for way too long.
Also since 2600 has stated they will be in this fight for the long haul as well, it is obvious they too will need money for legal expenses. Getting yourself a subscription to their magazine would also be prudent. Not only will you be helping the future of electronic free-speech and open source, you'll also get interesting tech/hacker/cracker articles as a bonus. I've always wanted a life-time subscription to 2600 but have put it off. No longer.
I am both extremely shocked and disgusted by this. I'm shocked that a judge who is so obviously woefully ignorant of technology preside over such an important case. According to the Wired article, he mispronounced Linux. With Linux being the most visible "poster boy" of the open source
model, this calls into question his familiarity (or lack there of) with the topic as a whole. Judge Kaplan also needed to be briefed on what linking is! This is such a basic, surface concept of web technology. Linking *IS* the web. This is so shocking, I'm at a loss for words for this one. Yet, this is the same judge who, when the defense requested there be more time for all to have a greater understanding of the technology, chided the defense saying, "I think its a mistake for you to assume you're talking to a moron." Is judge Kaplan a moron? No, most definitely not for him to have gotten to where he is in the legal system. Is judge Kaplan falsely self-confident and dangerously ignorant of the topic at hand? That, there can be no doubt of.
There are many legitimate uses for cameras which look like smoke detectors and wall clocks.
It is a fact that some employees steal. Catching employee theft is one use. It is a fact that some children are abused. Monitoring your child's sitter is another.
These cameras and microphones are just tools. If someone uses them illegally, then the person who uses them illegally should be punished, not the maker of the tools.
The manual is extremely well written, and itself is under an open license. It is an invaluable aid to anyone who uses The Gimp. It can be had for free off the web at http://manual.gimp.org/
Film is clearly better at this stage.
... film.
Eventually however, it should be possible to have higher resolution and higher frame rates with digital than with analog film.
If digital storage space is a problem for higher resolution/frame rate digital movies, one could always store the compressed digital data on
When digital storage and transmission technologies catch up, use them in the film's place.
There's no reason one has to go all digital, all the way, right now.
Open Source does not mean zero cost. They could write an open license which would allow not-for-profit companies/individuals to use their code in zero cost products, but which would require monetary compensation (licensing) from for-profit companies which use their source.
i've had MEGA condensation difficulties
From the pictures at Overlocker Shootout it appears this unit has something all the homebrew coolers have missed: condensation/liquid detection (the funky silver rectangular lined screen wrapped around the CPU unit in the picture). That should solve the condensation problem.
Eschelon doesn't use a keyword search, instead it works like this. Eschelon does not use a dictionary search, but instead searches based on a very elegant but simple method which utilizes the frequency of occurances of unique strings of characters. Also check out this link to the NSA on their searching technology.
Jam Eschelon day is a really good idea, but using keywords is the wrong way to go about it. Instead, a story generator which generates subversive letters would be better.
(Thanks to Hacker News Network for the links.)
The spelling of "l0pht" (read:loft) was chosen because it is humourous.
So, Mr. IHaveNoContentButWillPostAnyway, have you actually ever gone to L0pht Heavy Industries' web site and taken a good look at their advisories?
Once you go and take that first look of yours, come back and answer me this: what good have you done for the on-line community lately?
Zip guns are typically one shot only. Which is fine if one intends to shoot one victim then use the gun to club the rest.
Funny you got yourself a tatoo. I've been planning to do the same thing for a couple years now, but have just never done it. Mine was going to be a 3-of-9 coded "techt" on my left wrist.
:)
Since code 3-of-9 is a different encoding scheme than UPC, at least I wouldn't have to worry about myself ringing up at the check out lane.
This will happen eventually. But to get there, we have to go through here.
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough in my previous post. There is absolutely nothing wrong with anyone choosing a non-free licenses for one's software if that is what one wants. Free and non-free licensed software can peacfully coexist. The only problem is when free and non-free licenses are mixed in such a way that the free license has its freedoms taken away or other wise restricted by the non-free license. If you are going to do so, then there is no point in using a free license.
One must be careful how one mixes licences, be they free or not.
So, no, it's not "either accept my freedom or you'll get beaten up." Its not that at all.