Working for a small IT security company: Our requirements are exactly the same, because a) we want it and (more important) b) our customers begin to insist on it so their data does not get spied on. If nothing else helps, we will go with Office jailed in a no-network VM and the rest on Linux.
Well, yes and no. Religion (and quasi-religious ideologies) act as concentrator, amplifier and direction-giver for people that have not mastered these urges. A single homicidal maniac is not so much of a problem and more of an annoyance on a macroscopic scale. A few million of them all going into one direction are a massive problem. Or to put it differently, while Jack the Ripper is/was just about as vile as ISIS, he was very limited in what he could do, which unfortunately does not apply to ISIS.
Or maybe the difference is that Christians kill and torture out of love, while all the others, including atheists, do it out of hate. Give the way these people "argument", that would make perfect "sense" too me: "We had to torture the people and kill them to prevent them from going to hell! We only did it because we love them!". I do not think it gets more vile than this.
I see. This means this attack only applies on an already unlocked BitLocker instance while doing upgrades that includes reboots. That is indeed not a backdoor, and more like a non-issue, as any sane person should know that an unlocked crypto-container is not secure. Thanks for the info.
Any good cause is an excuse for a tyrant, but Christianity is a hard one.
I recommend some study of the Middle Ages and some study of modern Christian fanatics. Even investing only a bit of time immediately shows that the Christian religion is just as suitable as a pretext for violence and oppression than any other one.
The only thing the Christian faith has going for it is that it is old and stagnant and hence fewer and fewer people really care about it and more and more people dare to admit this.
You are making a fundamental mistake here: The ideology you are talking about is a quasi-religion in this form. A bit different in its "theory", but basically the same thing. And no, they are not representing atheism and neither is atheism an important characteristic. That was just something they adopted to fight competition for authority from theism.
Oddly enough you have that wrong. First, they are not the worst by far (they just were up at a time when technology allowed killing to be industrialized). But I take a relatively quick death-by-gas or firing-squad over a typical medieval torture-interrogation by Christian fanatics every time. And second, both 3rd Reich Fascism and Stalinist Socialism are quasi-religions, where a person takes the place of "God". Just look at North Korea for a current example of that.
You may also notice (if you are not completely indoctrinated), that "atheism" is not a defining criterion of these both. In fact, the NAZIs did collaborate with the church and the only problem Stalin had with the church was that it claimed to much authority for his tastes.
As this applies to the majority of people, maybe that would be a bit risky. Sure, it is an obvious fact for anybody halfway smart and free of this mental plague, but like all groups of authoritarian followers, religious people are willing to kill, maim and slaughter to protect their fantasy, and their authoritarian leaders tell them to whenever there is a credible threat to that fantasy.
You have it backwards. The whole "war on drugs" is an attempt by religion to kill competition from a better product. Organized religion is behind this.
And what is worse, religion is massively destructive to others. Medical-grade heroin, used competently, apparently only has very limited detrimental effect on the user and basically none on others. Not counting effects from criminalization, of course. Which is the thing that made it a big criminal business, as it is rather cheap to produce in medical grade when it is legal.
Indeed. As love is an unauthorized surrogate for a religious experience, it must immediately be outlawed and punished harshly. Life in jail seems too good for these criminal elements.
Religious people have a problem with separating fantasy from reality. What else is new?
If these people were not willing to kill, maim (circumcision of people unable to give informed consent very much counts) and slaughter to support their fantasy, it would not be much of a problem.
Because the article does not say and that would be the one critical piece of information. Seems to be more people that report without any understanding because otherwise that piece of information would have been in there. Now, getting SYSTEM, but BitLocker protected data is inaccessible is no big deal: Just boot a recovery CD to get the same. If, on the other hand, this allows really bypassing BitLocker (which protects data, _not_ the boot process) meaning access to encrypted data without the password, then BitLocker would have a big bad obvious backdoor. I somehow doubt that is the case.
My money is on shoddy, sensationalist and utterly worthless reporting which has become so common these days.
Only if you assume a randomized distribution between good and bad. That is not an accurate model. It is also quite untrue that producing texts is "cheap" when you go for quality, you just need a model that values the writer's time on the same level as other work is valued.
Indeed. One of the games I enjoyed most in recent times was Pillars of Eternity. Pillars could have done tech-wise 20 years ago without losing much. Another one was Grimrock. While they use some modern features, the Dungeon-Master engine by FTL from 30 years ago could have done most or all of that game.
I am not surprised. Considering that even > 1000 years old technology (books) can create good immersion if the story is good, it is no surprise at all that even advanced technology cannot fix a bad story. Immersion is something that happens in your head, not before you eyes.
What does cause a renaissance of gaming at this time is crowd-funding. VR is a hype that will die soon (again), because neither the interface technology, nor the content is ready. My guess is that we will see 3-5 more iterations of this before VR is really there to stay. Say 20-40 years.
But with the current state of robotics, primarily on the software side, that is not going to happen in the next few decades. Software still mostly sucks at elementary tasks, complex planning tasks like running a farm on both the microscopic and the macroscopic level are wayyyy out of reach at this time. Eventually, all these tasks will be within reach though, and then automation will become cheaper and, more importantly, far more effective than human beings. I think we might see working demonstrations (typically 20-50 before mainstream adoption) in as little as 30-50 years.
Our times are unique. Know what happens to a bacterial colony if you let it grow in a petri-dish? It grows to the edges, but then its starts to die off from it own pollution. We have reached that stage, and it never happened before.
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Working for a small IT security company: Our requirements are exactly the same, because a) we want it and (more important) b) our customers begin to insist on it so their data does not get spied on. If nothing else helps, we will go with Office jailed in a no-network VM and the rest on Linux.
Well, yes and no. Religion (and quasi-religious ideologies) act as concentrator, amplifier and direction-giver for people that have not mastered these urges. A single homicidal maniac is not so much of a problem and more of an annoyance on a macroscopic scale. A few million of them all going into one direction are a massive problem. Or to put it differently, while Jack the Ripper is/was just about as vile as ISIS, he was very limited in what he could do, which unfortunately does not apply to ISIS.
Or maybe the difference is that Christians kill and torture out of love, while all the others, including atheists, do it out of hate. Give the way these people "argument", that would make perfect "sense" too me: "We had to torture the people and kill them to prevent them from going to hell! We only did it because we love them!". I do not think it gets more vile than this.
I see. This means this attack only applies on an already unlocked BitLocker instance while doing upgrades that includes reboots. That is indeed not a backdoor, and more like a non-issue, as any sane person should know that an unlocked crypto-container is not secure. Thanks for the info.
Any good cause is an excuse for a tyrant, but Christianity is a hard one.
I recommend some study of the Middle Ages and some study of modern Christian fanatics. Even investing only a bit of time immediately shows that the Christian religion is just as suitable as a pretext for violence and oppression than any other one.
The only thing the Christian faith has going for it is that it is old and stagnant and hence fewer and fewer people really care about it and more and more people dare to admit this.
A "chkdsk" is anything but "mundane". But I see your point. So that would mean BitLocker is backdoored?
You are making a fundamental mistake here: The ideology you are talking about is a quasi-religion in this form. A bit different in its "theory", but basically the same thing. And no, they are not representing atheism and neither is atheism an important characteristic. That was just something they adopted to fight competition for authority from theism.
Oddly enough you have that wrong. First, they are not the worst by far (they just were up at a time when technology allowed killing to be industrialized). But I take a relatively quick death-by-gas or firing-squad over a typical medieval torture-interrogation by Christian fanatics every time. And second, both 3rd Reich Fascism and Stalinist Socialism are quasi-religions, where a person takes the place of "God". Just look at North Korea for a current example of that.
You may also notice (if you are not completely indoctrinated), that "atheism" is not a defining criterion of these both. In fact, the NAZIs did collaborate with the church and the only problem Stalin had with the church was that it claimed to much authority for his tastes.
As this applies to the majority of people, maybe that would be a bit risky. Sure, it is an obvious fact for anybody halfway smart and free of this mental plague, but like all groups of authoritarian followers, religious people are willing to kill, maim and slaughter to protect their fantasy, and their authoritarian leaders tell them to whenever there is a credible threat to that fantasy.
You have it backwards. The whole "war on drugs" is an attempt by religion to kill competition from a better product. Organized religion is behind this.
And what is worse, religion is massively destructive to others. Medical-grade heroin, used competently, apparently only has very limited detrimental effect on the user and basically none on others. Not counting effects from criminalization, of course. Which is the thing that made it a big criminal business, as it is rather cheap to produce in medical grade when it is legal.
Indeed. As love is an unauthorized surrogate for a religious experience, it must immediately be outlawed and punished harshly. Life in jail seems too good for these criminal elements.
Religious people have a problem with separating fantasy from reality. What else is new?
If these people were not willing to kill, maim (circumcision of people unable to give informed consent very much counts) and slaughter to support their fantasy, it would not be much of a problem.
You know, that is probably the whole real justification for the "war on drugs": Getting rid of competition that has a better product. Tragic.
Because the article does not say and that would be the one critical piece of information. Seems to be more people that report without any understanding because otherwise that piece of information would have been in there. Now, getting SYSTEM, but BitLocker protected data is inaccessible is no big deal: Just boot a recovery CD to get the same. If, on the other hand, this allows really bypassing BitLocker (which protects data, _not_ the boot process) meaning access to encrypted data without the password, then BitLocker would have a big bad obvious backdoor. I somehow doubt that is the case.
My money is on shoddy, sensationalist and utterly worthless reporting which has become so common these days.
Only if you assume a randomized distribution between good and bad. That is not an accurate model. It is also quite untrue that producing texts is "cheap" when you go for quality, you just need a model that values the writer's time on the same level as other work is valued.
Seriously? You cannot distinguish a sterile lab-setting scaled-up from an open-field one? That is pathetic.
Indeed. One of the games I enjoyed most in recent times was Pillars of Eternity. Pillars could have done tech-wise 20 years ago without losing much. Another one was Grimrock. While they use some modern features, the Dungeon-Master engine by FTL from 30 years ago could have done most or all of that game.
I am not surprised. Considering that even > 1000 years old technology (books) can create good immersion if the story is good, it is no surprise at all that even advanced technology cannot fix a bad story. Immersion is something that happens in your head, not before you eyes.
What does cause a renaissance of gaming at this time is crowd-funding. VR is a hype that will die soon (again), because neither the interface technology, nor the content is ready. My guess is that we will see 3-5 more iterations of this before VR is really there to stay. Say 20-40 years.
And if you had any clue what you are talking about, you would know that farming lettuce in a clean-room is not "farming".
But with the current state of robotics, primarily on the software side, that is not going to happen in the next few decades. Software still mostly sucks at elementary tasks, complex planning tasks like running a farm on both the microscopic and the macroscopic level are wayyyy out of reach at this time. Eventually, all these tasks will be within reach though, and then automation will become cheaper and, more importantly, far more effective than human beings. I think we might see working demonstrations (typically 20-50 before mainstream adoption) in as little as 30-50 years.
Works as well, just needs a lot of DSP after to correct.
Our times are unique. Know what happens to a bacterial colony if you let it grow in a petri-dish? It grows to the edges, but then its starts to die off from it own pollution. We have reached that stage, and it never happened before.
Slight other problem: You cannot request specific data, i.e. no web, email or really anything else. Are you drunk?