Apparently being non-exportable is no protection whatsoever, and people are already offering the CA cert for download, which then lets everybody sign for this CA.
It is hard to display more fundamental incompetence with regards to certificate handling.
Interconnect gets smaller if you reduce speed as well when you reduce size. If you keep speed constant, interconnect stays the same size and it will consume the same amount of power. Well, roughly. The problem is that at these speeds you are dealing with RF laws, not ordinary electric ones and RF laws are pretty bizarre.
There are _very_ few workloads that scale close to linear. Most workloads scale massively worse or not at all. Have a look at the relevant research some time. Parallel algorithm and multi-CPU systems are not a new thing. At all.
Chips basically have components (transistors, diodes, capacitors, resistors, and recently inductors) and interconnect ('wires').
Interconnect has been the primary speed-limiter for about 20 years. At 5GHz or so, it starts to become exceptionally difficult to get signals from one component to the next, and in particular distributing clocks becomes a limiting issue as clocks need long wires in order to reach everything. Making transistors smaller helps a bit because the wires get shorter and signal-strength (voltage) can be reduced. But that effect is limited and seems to have mostly reached its end.
The overall effect is that extreme over-clocking for the 15 year old Pentium 4 could reach 8GHz, but current chips do not do much better with both AMD and Intel going up to about 9...10GHz as absolute maximum.
There is a reason 5HGz seems to be a hard "wall" and around 4GHz commercial viability starts to end. It is interconnect. That is unlikely to go away anytime soon, if ever.
That is unlikely to happen. Parallelizing most things is orders of magnitude more complex than writing them single-task, and for quite a few things it is either impossible or gives poor results.
Their terminally stupid UI "improvements" ruined Firefox. I stopped caring a while ago. Obviously they never heard about "if it is not broken, do not fix it". These people must be some of the worst, most self-absorbed and most deaf engineers on the planet.
In actual reality, they have the same goals, but Hitler was both more honest and had more style. But yes, Fascism is on the raise in the west, just like the last few catastrophes in that regard had not happened. People are stupid. And incidentally, Hitler was voted into office (30% votes, but strongest faction), otherwise he may have never been able to take over. A false-flag terrorist act (burning down of the Reichstag) also featured prominently there. Seems to be a pattern that is now being repeated to promote just the same mind-set as back then.
Ha, that would piss them off! Might even turn some into actual terrorists. In actual reality, it would just make the smart ones go somewhere else, accelerating the brain-drain the US is suffering from.
In a state that is currently and openly operating an extra-legal concentration camp and that does condone torture of prisoners? Of course this would be suggested sooner or later.
Those that do not understand history are doomed to repeat it, endlessly.
You know, having some faith or being an atheist is not something you need to disclose or be honest about or which even needs to be constant. On the second-to-last census form, I wrote "Jedi Knight" and on the last one they sensibly allowed you do decline to answer or I would have put in "Pastafarian" (not US though).
Incidentally, while Christianity is an older and hence more sedate religion, it has a pretty bloody history and the argument is BS. It does come down to the individual person, not what their religion is. Fanatics are primarily fanatics, not fanatics for a specific religion or world-view. My guess would be that Trump just wants to track everybody and uses Muslims as a pretext for establishing the system for that. Once it works, add a bit more storage and you can easily keep tabs on everybody. After all, these days citizens are presumed guilty until proven otherwise.
As this is "technology" with "safeguards" and "scientific algorithms", it will strengthen the belief of many people, including judges and juries, that the reports are more accurate. And it will do so without good reason. Just look at the screw-ups with DNA and other evidence, where things that strained credulity were believed to convict people because it was "science".
One of the problems at the moment is that often people don't report sexual assault when it happens,
Yes, and the other problem is that quite a few people report sexual assault when it did not happen. In fact, from some statements from law enforcement people made in private, it is not even clear whether there are more false or true accusations. On number from was that up to 80% of rape complaints to the police are not followed up on as the complaints are not credible. No, I cannot give you a citation. As this is a hugely political and non-rational issue for most people, nobody puts statement like this in a form that can be cited. That would be career-suicide.
You should welcome this, it makes everyone safer from false reports and everyone more likely to be believed and get justice when a real attack takes place.
Not at all. See above. And it does not make anybody one bit safer from false reports, that statement is just due to a failed security analysis of this system. Anybody wanting to game this system needs to invest a bit of thinking, but is rewarded with a much better framing result. If you look at the lengths some "feminists" have gone too to frame men (think for example "mattress girl", who has a story that is very unlikely to be true), this is a very small hurdle.
I do risk analysis and security analysis for a living. This system is too easy to game, it is obvious how to do it, and at the same time it makes claims more believable due to the false _appearance_ of being more accurate. What it will do, hence, is increase abuse and make it harder for those falsely accused to defend themselves.
It is worse: These cretins do not even know basic crypto terminology. "Zero Knowledge" has a fixed, clear meaning in cryptology and it has nothing to do with communication encryption. It refers to proving that you know a secret without revealing the secret itself.
There is no "Zero Knowledge" encryption. The term "Zero Knowledge" stands for something else entirely in cryptography. These people do not even understand basic crypto terminology.
In particular, as "Zero Knowledge" in cryptography does not refer to message encryption at all, but has a fixed, clear and decidedly different meaning. They really have no clue at all what they are talking about.
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According to heise.de, just marked "non-exportable" (sorry, no English link):
http://www.heise.de/newsticker...
Person that reported this initially:
https://www.reddit.com/r/techn...
Apparently being non-exportable is no protection whatsoever, and people are already offering the CA cert for download, which then lets everybody sign for this CA.
It is hard to display more fundamental incompetence with regards to certificate handling.
Interconnect gets smaller if you reduce speed as well when you reduce size. If you keep speed constant, interconnect stays the same size and it will consume the same amount of power. Well, roughly. The problem is that at these speeds you are dealing with RF laws, not ordinary electric ones and RF laws are pretty bizarre.
There are _very_ few workloads that scale close to linear. Most workloads scale massively worse or not at all. Have a look at the relevant research some time. Parallel algorithm and multi-CPU systems are not a new thing. At all.
Why do idiots like you feel they can blatantly ignore some 30 years of CS research into the subject?
Given that most humans today are already terminally stupid, I doubt we would see much effect. Then maybe, this is the effect...
Yes. In Psychology, given the extreme stupidity of those that deny this effect.
Chips basically have components (transistors, diodes, capacitors, resistors, and recently inductors) and interconnect ('wires').
Interconnect has been the primary speed-limiter for about 20 years. At 5GHz or so, it starts to become exceptionally difficult to get signals from one component to the next, and in particular distributing clocks becomes a limiting issue as clocks need long wires in order to reach everything. Making transistors smaller helps a bit because the wires get shorter and signal-strength (voltage) can be reduced. But that effect is limited and seems to have mostly reached its end.
The overall effect is that extreme over-clocking for the 15 year old Pentium 4 could reach 8GHz, but current chips do not do much better with both AMD and Intel going up to about 9...10GHz as absolute maximum.
There is a reason 5HGz seems to be a hard "wall" and around 4GHz commercial viability starts to end. It is interconnect. That is unlikely to go away anytime soon, if ever.
That is unlikely to happen. Parallelizing most things is orders of magnitude more complex than writing them single-task, and for quite a few things it is either impossible or gives poor results.
Their terminally stupid UI "improvements" ruined Firefox. I stopped caring a while ago. Obviously they never heard about "if it is not broken, do not fix it". These people must be some of the worst, most self-absorbed and most deaf engineers on the planet.
Well, there is a certain logic to it: If we destroy our freedoms ourselves, then they cannot take them anymore and we remain free! Oh, wait....
Indeed. Its the "let's establish full fascism if that prevents one terrorist attack" mindset. Exceptionally stupid and exceptionally dangerous.
In actual reality, they have the same goals, but Hitler was both more honest and had more style. But yes, Fascism is on the raise in the west, just like the last few catastrophes in that regard had not happened. People are stupid. And incidentally, Hitler was voted into office (30% votes, but strongest faction), otherwise he may have never been able to take over. A false-flag terrorist act (burning down of the Reichstag) also featured prominently there. Seems to be a pattern that is now being repeated to promote just the same mind-set as back then.
Ha, that would piss them off! Might even turn some into actual terrorists. In actual reality, it would just make the smart ones go somewhere else, accelerating the brain-drain the US is suffering from.
In a state that is currently and openly operating an extra-legal concentration camp and that does condone torture of prisoners? Of course this would be suggested sooner or later.
Those that do not understand history are doomed to repeat it, endlessly.
You know, having some faith or being an atheist is not something you need to disclose or be honest about or which even needs to be constant. On the second-to-last census form, I wrote "Jedi Knight" and on the last one they sensibly allowed you do decline to answer or I would have put in "Pastafarian" (not US though).
Incidentally, while Christianity is an older and hence more sedate religion, it has a pretty bloody history and the argument is BS. It does come down to the individual person, not what their religion is. Fanatics are primarily fanatics, not fanatics for a specific religion or world-view. My guess would be that Trump just wants to track everybody and uses Muslims as a pretext for establishing the system for that. Once it works, add a bit more storage and you can easily keep tabs on everybody. After all, these days citizens are presumed guilty until proven otherwise.
Indeed. They are a force of destruction.
As this is "technology" with "safeguards" and "scientific algorithms", it will strengthen the belief of many people, including judges and juries, that the reports are more accurate. And it will do so without good reason. Just look at the screw-ups with DNA and other evidence, where things that strained credulity were believed to convict people because it was "science".
When people place undeserved faith in what the system does, than this _is_ a good reason not to have it.
One of the problems at the moment is that often people don't report sexual assault when it happens,
Yes, and the other problem is that quite a few people report sexual assault when it did not happen. In fact, from some statements from law enforcement people made in private, it is not even clear whether there are more false or true accusations. On number from was that up to 80% of rape complaints to the police are not followed up on as the complaints are not credible. No, I cannot give you a citation. As this is a hugely political and non-rational issue for most people, nobody puts statement like this in a form that can be cited. That would be career-suicide.
You should welcome this, it makes everyone safer from false reports and everyone more likely to be believed and get justice when a real attack takes place.
Not at all. See above. And it does not make anybody one bit safer from false reports, that statement is just due to a failed security analysis of this system. Anybody wanting to game this system needs to invest a bit of thinking, but is rewarded with a much better framing result. If you look at the lengths some "feminists" have gone too to frame men (think for example "mattress girl", who has a story that is very unlikely to be true), this is a very small hurdle.
I do risk analysis and security analysis for a living. This system is too easy to game, it is obvious how to do it, and at the same time it makes claims more believable due to the false _appearance_ of being more accurate. What it will do, hence, is increase abuse and make it harder for those falsely accused to defend themselves.
In short, this is a problem, not a solution.
It is worse: These cretins do not even know basic crypto terminology. "Zero Knowledge" has a fixed, clear meaning in cryptology and it has nothing to do with communication encryption. It refers to proving that you know a secret without revealing the secret itself.
There is no "Zero Knowledge" encryption. The term "Zero Knowledge" stands for something else entirely in cryptography. These people do not even understand basic crypto terminology.
Obviously stupid posting is stupid.
Simple: Just allow government agencies and their chosen representatives any and all uses of this data.
In particular, as "Zero Knowledge" in cryptography does not refer to message encryption at all, but has a fixed, clear and decidedly different meaning. They really have no clue at all what they are talking about.