Hmm, ok, now it makes sense. But wouold it be possible to corrupt the message in the side-channel without invalidating the ssl-connection? That would mean there is a way to block the transfer after all...
This would imply that there is a secret shared between a "good" telex router and the client, but not the regime. How would one organize the distribution of such secrets to the clients without the regime being able to either block the distribution or sniff out the secrets?
This is just shifting the problem from the communication link level to the secret distribution level...
What is hindering the oppressive regime to install its own telex-routers at the boundaries and filter out all telex-requests? Or, to use the analogy: why shouldn't the regime just block all coloured envelopes?
When I read "How To Ruin Your PC's Game Port", I thought "Easy! Just apply an overvoltage!" and immediately thought about all the wonderful hacks that we did, driving stepper motors via the parallel port and reading ultrasound proximity sensors via the game port...
The initial reason why Mr. Alm started the whole thing was a brochure issued by the Austrian DMV that stated that headgear on the photo was only allowed for religious reasons. Now would you doubt the legality of an oficially-issued prochure?
Yes, it only took about one year due to the DMV requesting the mental examination. Yes, Mr. Alm did not pick up the driving license, but the DMV did not send him notification that he may pick up his drivers license as they usually do when a driving license isn't picked up.
He didn't waste 3 years. He invested nearly nothing that would exceed the costs of a "normal" driving license, he even only borrowed the colander. And it cost him lets say one hour or two extra due to the medical examination and the paperwork.
And he did not waste tax-payers money, the DMV did it by not recognizing his religious rights in the first place...
There was a brochure issued by the DMV that said that you only may wear headgear for religious reasons on the photo. That was the initial trigger why @NikoAlm started the whole thing. The law regarding driving licenses says nothing about religion, only that the head must be "fully visible", but that came up only recently.
The clerk at the DMV initially refused to issue the driving license, asking for a photo without headgear. When Mr. Alm asked to get that in writing, the DMV issued a (kind of) subpoena instead and had Mr. Alm examined by a medical officer regarding his mental health. Luckily the examination only took 5 minutes and Mr. Alm now has it in writing that he is mentally sane and fit to drive a vehicle.
The DMV then issued the driving license after about a year but did not contact Mr. Alm so that he could pick it up, that's where the long delay came from.
Yes, it is only a moral victory. For a real victory, somebody would have to do that with a passport photo where headgear really is only allowed for religious reasons. But hey, given the even international publicity, somebody might...:-)
I didn't give them permission. Unless they moved the important, but unusual parts of the EULA upfront and showed them in bold, they don't become part of the contract. Monitoring every step is unusual enough that one doesn't think it's a normal part of any EULA, so they need to point it out explicitely. Well, that is the law at least in my juristdiction...:-)
Greenpeace estimates that the Chernobyl death toll throughout the past 25 years sums up to 300.000 casualties. During the last 25 years there were about 300.000 victims of traffic accidents in Belarus and Ukraine.
A breached hydo power dam in China caused 30.000 immediate deaths and 120.000 deaths through plagues and famine.
The highest estimate given in a study of total Chernobyl victims is 900.000 worldwide. There are 1.2 million deaths due to traffic accidents worldwide each year.
Ash from coal plants is investigated as a source for uranium, as the concentration of uranium in the coal ash is higher than in several uranium ore deposits.
The background radiation in the town of Chernobyl is now twice as high as the background radiation in Kiev.
The Chernobyl exclusion zone has become a wildlife reservate for wolfes, which were nearly extinct before the desaster.
Damage to the Ukrainian economy due to Chernobyl is estimated at 6% of its BIP. A new sarcophagus will cost more than 500 M€.
Risk coverage in Germany and Switzerland for nuclear accidents: 1%.
It is OK to keep a log of the devices whereabouts... on the device. It is not OK to transfer that data to another entity without explicit permission of the devices owner... and better ask one time too often for that permission...
I second that. Twitter is in principle spam-proof... if people would stop using auto-re-follow- and auto-retweet-apps. To get followers on twitter you have to provide some kind of interesting content, even if it is only retweets of news messages. Advertisers really have to invest some time and keep the spam-to-content ratio low or people just cut the link and unfollow them.
ok, so that's why inhaling with salvia tea works...
luckily herbs is something that parma industry will have a hard time getting complete control of... though they might if they manage to get patents on common plants, like monsanto already does...
But everyone knows about True Crypt by now, so the judge will ask you for both passwords. Back to square 1.
No, because you now have plausable deniability. Which you don't have if you have a system with only one passowrd. There is a disk or file with just random-looking data on it and encryption software installed on your computer. That is overwhelming evidence that there are encrypted files around. So the defense "I forgot the password" is weak.
But if you have two encrypted partitions like TrueCrypt, you can just give them the key to the harmless one. And if they ask now for a second password you just can say "but I set it up only with one partition" and they have NO evidence to indicate that this is not the truth. And if they hold you in contempt or something you have a very strong case of "inquisitional practices". You already confessed the password but now they are not satisfied with that confession and want ANOTHER confession, putting thumb-screws on you? WITHOUT EVIDENCE? I can already see the headlines about "dark ages"...
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... Automated trading would be called botting and would be verboten.
You must not forget, trading is a zero-sum-game, so whatever someone wins, somewbody else has to lose...
OK, but is it possible to corrupt the side-channel message by changing a few bits that are normally not used?
Hmm, ok, now it makes sense. But wouold it be possible to corrupt the message in the side-channel without invalidating the ssl-connection? That would mean there is a way to block the transfer after all...
OK, this finally makes sense. So it is steganography as well as encryption. Now I get it! :-)
And there is no way to corrupt the side-channel-information?
This would imply that there is a secret shared between a "good" telex router and the client, but not the regime. How would one organize the distribution of such secrets to the clients without the regime being able to either block the distribution or sniff out the secrets?
This is just shifting the problem from the communication link level to the secret distribution level...
Exactly my point. Without a secret that is known only to the client and the "good" router but not the regime the whole scheme falls apart...
What is hindering the oppressive regime to install its own telex-routers at the boundaries and filter out all telex-requests? Or, to use the analogy: why shouldn't the regime just block all coloured envelopes?
When I read "How To Ruin Your PC's Game Port", I thought "Easy! Just apply an overvoltage!" and immediately thought about all the wonderful hacks that we did, driving stepper motors via the parallel port and reading ultrasound proximity sensors via the game port...
*sigh*
Those were the days...
The initial reason why Mr. Alm started the whole thing was a brochure issued by the Austrian DMV that stated that headgear on the photo was only allowed for religious reasons. Now would you doubt the legality of an oficially-issued prochure?
Yes, it only took about one year due to the DMV requesting the mental examination. Yes, Mr. Alm did not pick up the driving license, but the DMV did not send him notification that he may pick up his drivers license as they usually do when a driving license isn't picked up.
Right, on his website Mr. Alm says that he is prepared to get the full treatment by officers whenever he is pulled over:
"Show me your spare tire, your Warndreieck and your first-aid-kit, now blow into the breathalyzer..."
Why should a judge be confronted with that? It was only the clerks at the DVM that had to do with this...
He didn't waste 3 years. He invested nearly nothing that would exceed the costs of a "normal" driving license, he even only borrowed the colander. And it cost him lets say one hour or two extra due to the medical examination and the paperwork.
And he did not waste tax-payers money, the DMV did it by not recognizing his religious rights in the first place...
There was a brochure issued by the DMV that said that you only may wear headgear for religious reasons on the photo. That was the initial trigger why @NikoAlm started the whole thing. The law regarding driving licenses says nothing about religion, only that the head must be "fully visible", but that came up only recently.
The clerk at the DMV initially refused to issue the driving license, asking for a photo without headgear. When Mr. Alm asked to get that in writing, the DMV issued a (kind of) subpoena instead and had Mr. Alm examined by a medical officer regarding his mental health. Luckily the examination only took 5 minutes and Mr. Alm now has it in writing that he is mentally sane and fit to drive a vehicle.
The DMV then issued the driving license after about a year but did not contact Mr. Alm so that he could pick it up, that's where the long delay came from.
That's the whole story as told at http://blog.alm.at/2011/07/12/hl-fuhrerschein-episode-6-das-finale/ (translation: http://goo.gl/MOsG1)
Yes, it is only a moral victory. For a real victory, somebody would have to do that with a passport photo where headgear really is only allowed for religious reasons. But hey, given the even international publicity, somebody might... :-)
I didn't give them permission. Unless they moved the important, but unusual parts of the EULA upfront and showed them in bold, they don't become part of the contract. Monitoring every step is unusual enough that one doesn't think it's a normal part of any EULA, so they need to point it out explicitely. Well, that is the law at least in my juristdiction... :-)
Greenpeace estimates that the Chernobyl death toll throughout the past 25 years sums up to 300.000 casualties. During the last 25 years there were about 300.000 victims of traffic accidents in Belarus and Ukraine.
A breached hydo power dam in China caused 30.000 immediate deaths and 120.000 deaths through plagues and famine.
The highest estimate given in a study of total Chernobyl victims is 900.000 worldwide. There are 1.2 million deaths due to traffic accidents worldwide each year.
Ash from coal plants is investigated as a source for uranium, as the concentration of uranium in the coal ash is higher than in several uranium ore deposits.
The background radiation in the town of Chernobyl is now twice as high as the background radiation in Kiev.
The Chernobyl exclusion zone has become a wildlife reservate for wolfes, which were nearly extinct before the desaster.
Damage to the Ukrainian economy due to Chernobyl is estimated at 6% of its BIP. A new sarcophagus will cost more than 500 M€.
Risk coverage in Germany and Switzerland for nuclear accidents: 1%.
Only the whole truth can make you free...
Let's hope the robot is hardened against ionizing radiation. Otherwise instead of "Hasta la vista, baby" it's more like "Dave, my mind is going..."
It is OK to keep a log of the devices whereabouts... on the device. It is not OK to transfer that data to another entity without explicit permission of the devices owner... and better ask one time too often for that permission...
I second that. Twitter is in principle spam-proof... if people would stop using auto-re-follow- and auto-retweet-apps. To get followers on twitter you have to provide some kind of interesting content, even if it is only retweets of news messages. Advertisers really have to invest some time and keep the spam-to-content ratio low or people just cut the link and unfollow them.
... especially Swype on a non-qwerty key layout. Come on, we already know that it is better to spread out those often-used chars...
And maybe someone can figure out a way to make my fingers transparent so I can finally see where that next key is I want to swype to... :-)
I wonder if you have heard about sudo and similar concepts...
ugh, and what if I only paid about 16$ for a year of simple hosting? :-)
ok, so that's why inhaling with salvia tea works...
luckily herbs is something that parma industry will have a hard time getting complete control of... though they might if they manage to get patents on common plants, like monsanto already does...
If the satellite is attached to a 5000km sail, which is spread so as to catch the solar wind, what's to stop it from blowing away?
That's simple. Gravity. You just put the satellite deeper into the gravity well, so it will pull down the sail.
But everyone knows about True Crypt by now, so the judge will ask you for both passwords. Back to square 1.
No, because you now have plausable deniability. Which you don't have if you have a system with only one passowrd. There is a disk or file with just random-looking data on it and encryption software installed on your computer. That is overwhelming evidence that there are encrypted files around. So the defense "I forgot the password" is weak.
But if you have two encrypted partitions like TrueCrypt, you can just give them the key to the harmless one. And if they ask now for a second password you just can say "but I set it up only with one partition" and they have NO evidence to indicate that this is not the truth. And if they hold you in contempt or something you have a very strong case of "inquisitional practices". You already confessed the password but now they are not satisfied with that confession and want ANOTHER confession, putting thumb-screws on you? WITHOUT EVIDENCE? I can already see the headlines about "dark ages"...
Mod parent up!!
And add this citation to the article text!!! *eyeroll*