The price of safety is too high if we are to reveal all communications to a government body. I am reminded of the arguments to register all firearms and the corresponding cry, "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers!"
Carnivore is one thing, but a backdoor to all crypto is yet another. Financial transactions from private organizations are routinely encrypted for obvious reasons. Are we to trust government employees with all financial transactions merely because we elect them? I think not.
We cannot allow the government a "skeleton key" to all crypto if only for the reason that it can then be compromised by others for whom access was not intended. Urge your congresscritter just to say "no".
I also switched from a f/w to a Linksys router/switch due to noise. My new wife didn't like the power-supply fan running 24/7 in the bedroom:)
I regret the change, though because the Linksys is so much more limited. True, it makes no noise, but now I cannot run IDS.
The solution I have come up with is to open DMZ hosting on a single IP address and make that the external interface on my firewall. Then I can run Snort on the unprotected interface and happily tread through the logs again.
Bin Laden is a sort of rich businessman from Saudi-Arabia. Probably he still owns some company (or companies), drawing his income from it (or them)
This profile on Bin Laden explains that his father's contruction company is the source of his wealth. There is also an explanation of al Qaeda, his terrorist organization.
Re:Try this again, less troll-full, this time.
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I'm going to have to stand up for Katz on this one. As a writer, it is his job to provide perspective on situations such as this. Lots of things can be considered tasteless today, but the personal reference about a friend in the building hits home for too many of us and I for one was sadly interested in that part.
A mile? I don't know if I would want to go that high up. I once ate dinner at Windows on the World -- too bad it's gone now. That was high enough for me. I really can't imagine a 500 story building.
Actually it was my.sig and it was abbreviated by the character limit. It was Twain who said:
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel...And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"--with his mouth.
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What Is Man?
My.sig ended at "exterminate his kind." Back to the old one, I guess. Anyway, the point (to me) is that we should consider the atrocity only humans can inflict. Considering our intellect and self-appointed superiority as a species on this planet, it is ironic that we are capable of such acts.
Be realistic. They - whoever "they" are - have destroyed the WTC and part of the Pentagon. That means war - seriously. Bush said we will "hunt down" those responsible and he meant it, to be sure.
I am somewhat pacifistic in nature, but these are acts of war and will be met accordingly.
Almost - ban everything except formats and other technologies that are developed by "established" and "approved" vendors like, say, Microsoft for example. For them it's OK.
Pronunciation: m&-'nä-p(&-)lE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -lies
Etymology: Latin monopolium, from Greek monopOlion, from mon- + pOlein to sell
Date: 1534
1 : exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action
2 : exclusive possession or control
3 : a commodity controlled by one party
4 : one that has a monopoly
How much of America's opinions are based on what they see on television? How many trust the news media? If they don't believe what they see on CNN where do they go for another opinion, AOL?
With media centralizing aroung AOL/TW and expanding its collective influence with yet another company the size of AT&T it is not the overall size of the company that matters, but the audience it reaches. I consider the effect of a single media entity's influence on the majority of Americans a very big deal indeed.
In Florida it is more like $500 - plus court fees, community service, suspended license, probation and associated fees, counseling (if the b.a.c. was high enough) and associated fees, and on second offense, jail-time. don't ask
Microsoft is what it is because they are smart. They are single minded in their focus
Hold it right there. Single-minded is only a Good Thing if one's actions are good. Microsoft is single-minded allright, but its intentions (world domination?) are not so great.
and generally are by far one of the less frivolous companies around... they do not waste money on, asthetics, misguided saturation marketing, New York penthouses, villa's in England. This in comparison to their competitors who seem to think its good business to waste large portions of their companies resources on stupid things such as clear plastic computer cases... round mouses which look great but are practically unuseable.... millions of dollars in gifts, dinners, lavish over the top accomodation to sway the judgement of individuals signing large contracts.... meaningless TV and radio marketing campaigns.
That is not the issue and is *not* the main reason Microsoft is successful.
Microsoft doesn't need any of this and why ? Because they dont need to. Their products sell themselves, they were delivered to market at the right time, at the right price, they are useful, useable, and have created wealth for a large number of individuals and companies.
O.K. - if Microsoft's products sold themselves, Microsoft would not be in court for antitrust practices. I hope I don't have to list the littany of Microsoft abuses against other IT industry corporations - that would take awhile.
In the persuit of new business the vast bulk of their money is spent on their own personal and resources. Microsoft is not the largest company in the world by a long shot, they're only marginly bigger than Sun and are 1/8th the size of IBM yet their are more millionaires working for Microsoft than any other company.
Microsoft has done extremely well in the market. They are the leader. They still suck, but they are the leader. This has been due in part to timing, strategy, and smart (though possibly evil) business decisions. I can admire their success and still decry how they got there.
So far the only group that has come along that has been close to threatening Microsoft in this persuit of delivering value to the market is the Open Source movement. What the Open source movement lacks that Microsoft has is a well managed professionally co-ordinated structured organisation that has:-
* the ability to do proper market research
* testing and prototyping facilities that allow people to create soultions that are usable by a large percentage of the market
* the infrastructure to deliver these solutions to market in highly accessible and visible ways
Point conceded. You don't hear me talking about the open source movement much because I have not contributed... yet.
I'm sorry but this is the reality of it... if you dont like it... do something a little more constructive than whinging about it.
For the record, I have *never* whinged.
The challenges for Linux and the rest of the open source community are great not for any other reason than the fact that Microsoft is very good at what they do.
I don't necessarily think that the Open Source movement has anything to fear from Microsoft. Open source is like terrorism - too many independent targets to combat effectively. All Microsoft can do is hire away some key people who would then be contractually contrained from contributing to open source. Not roo likely to happen.
As for whining - this is slashdot; what else is there to do here? I would like to contribute more to open source, but I really can only help write documentation at this point - I am still a newbie at C++.
I'd like to believe that, but think about the sales pitch.
We already have social security numbers;
credit card numbers are stolen at a cost of $?,???,???,???.?? each year;
identity theft is a fairly common problem;
we live in a world with too many numbers already - bank accounts, credit cards, utility and entertainment services account numbers, etc.
It is going to be very easy to sell people on the idea that we need to simplify tracking of these things. Simpler is better, less chance for fraud, etc. Personally, I expect it to happen rather too soon.
A whole day? I don't think I can make it that long. Seriously, if I don't check email at least twice a day there are like 50+ from the dozen security-related mailing lists to which I subscribe. Then add personal ones, which I really shouldn't ignore since all my friends know I live on computers.
I like to take long walks on the beach with my wife and get out with friends or to movies and whatnot, but an entire day with no computer!? Unthinkable. Well, maybe once or twice, but certainly not every week.
Glad you asked, cause here we have a grand example.
This is the first time in human history disparate people in diverse places can communicate with one another instantaneously. But are we ready?
I mean, gag me. The top-level poster has a point. This is/. and people here are more than used to email - it is a fact of our lives. This article in this forum strikes me as pedantic and a waste of space. That said, I will have to concede your point about not having a life:)
I'm always amazed by people who will send me a number of emails marked URGENT!, and get upset at me because I don't respond right away, but who won't think to just pick up the phone and dial my number.
Oh, that's just peachy. I love when coworkers try to make me jump on something while establishing a paper-trail that the request was placed. This is why we have established procedures for requesting services. If a request for service is not forwarded to me by the correct person, with a control number for tracking, it gets sent right back with a polite explanation *for the eighth time* that it must go to so-and-so first. Yeesh.
what I understand from this is that everyone who is or has been an employee of ElcomSoft, or anyone who has somehow contributed to the "effort" is subjected to arrest upon entering the USA
I'm not so sure about this. Sklyarov gave a speech in the U.S., but the development was done in Russia, so I don't know if anyone else in the company can be prosecuted unless they too try to market the software in the US.
Well, OK but do you think Dmitri gives a rat's ass about whether the DMCA is overturned as a result of his case? He is [correctly] pleading not guilty to save his ass, if possible. Ass ass ass - there I said it again:P
So he should plead guilty and throw himself on the mercy of the Court? I don't think so. If you plead guilty, you get sentenced. This is an adversarial process - plead your case, man!
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Carnivore is one thing, but a backdoor to all crypto is yet another. Financial transactions from private organizations are routinely encrypted for obvious reasons. Are we to trust government employees with all financial transactions merely because we elect them? I think not.
We cannot allow the government a "skeleton key" to all crypto if only for the reason that it can then be compromised by others for whom access was not intended. Urge your congresscritter just to say "no".
I regret the change, though because the Linksys is so much more limited. True, it makes no noise, but now I cannot run IDS.
The solution I have come up with is to open DMZ hosting on a single IP address and make that the external interface on my firewall. Then I can run Snort on the unprotected interface and happily tread through the logs again.
This profile on Bin Laden explains that his father's contruction company is the source of his wealth. There is also an explanation of al Qaeda, his terrorist organization.
I'm going to have to stand up for Katz on this one. As a writer, it is his job to provide perspective on situations such as this. Lots of things can be considered tasteless today, but the personal reference about a friend in the building hits home for too many of us and I for one was sadly interested in that part.
A mile? I don't know if I would want to go that high up. I once ate dinner at Windows on the World -- too bad it's gone now. That was high enough for me. I really can't imagine a 500 story building.
Let's douse them in jet fuel and light them on fire first. Sorry - bad day.
My .sig ended at "exterminate his kind." Back to the old one, I guess. Anyway, the point (to me) is that we should consider the atrocity only humans can inflict. Considering our intellect and self-appointed superiority as a species on this planet, it is ironic that we are capable of such acts.
I am somewhat pacifistic in nature, but these are acts of war and will be met accordingly.
Hey - it worked!
Almost - ban everything except formats and other technologies that are developed by "established" and "approved" vendors like, say, Microsoft for example. For them it's OK.
EXACTLY!!! Ok, I feel better now.
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -lies
Etymology: Latin monopolium, from Greek monopOlion, from mon- + pOlein to sell
Date: 1534
1 : exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action
2 : exclusive possession or control
3 : a commodity controlled by one party
4 : one that has a monopoly
How much of America's opinions are based on what they see on television? How many trust the news media? If they don't believe what they see on CNN where do they go for another opinion, AOL?
With media centralizing aroung AOL/TW and expanding its collective influence with yet another company the size of AT&T it is not the overall size of the company that matters, but the audience it reaches. I consider the effect of a single media entity's influence on the majority of Americans a very big deal indeed.
Uhh - you might want to *have* that next job lined up before quitting the first one ... just in case.
I think you have that backward - if they are tracking me they will notice that I don't read the TOS.
In Florida it is more like $500 - plus court fees, community service, suspended license, probation and associated fees, counseling (if the b.a.c. was high enough) and associated fees, and on second offense, jail-time. don't ask
Hold it right there. Single-minded is only a Good Thing if one's actions are good. Microsoft is single-minded allright, but its intentions (world domination?) are not so great.
and generally are by far one of the less frivolous companies around... they do not waste money on, asthetics, misguided saturation marketing, New York penthouses, villa's in England. This in comparison to their competitors who seem to think its good business to waste large portions of their companies resources on stupid things such as clear plastic computer cases... round mouses which look great but are practically unuseable.... millions of dollars in gifts, dinners, lavish over the top accomodation to sway the judgement of individuals signing large contracts.... meaningless TV and radio marketing campaigns.
That is not the issue and is *not* the main reason Microsoft is successful.
Microsoft doesn't need any of this and why ? Because they dont need to. Their products sell themselves, they were delivered to market at the right time, at the right price, they are useful, useable, and have created wealth for a large number of individuals and companies.
O.K. - if Microsoft's products sold themselves, Microsoft would not be in court for antitrust practices. I hope I don't have to list the littany of Microsoft abuses against other IT industry corporations - that would take awhile.
In the persuit of new business the vast bulk of their money is spent on their own personal and resources. Microsoft is not the largest company in the world by a long shot, they're only marginly bigger than Sun and are 1/8th the size of IBM yet their are more millionaires working for Microsoft than any other company.
Microsoft has done extremely well in the market. They are the leader. They still suck, but they are the leader. This has been due in part to timing, strategy, and smart (though possibly evil) business decisions. I can admire their success and still decry how they got there.
So far the only group that has come along that has been close to threatening Microsoft in this persuit of delivering value to the market is the Open Source movement. What the Open source movement lacks that Microsoft has is a well managed professionally co-ordinated structured organisation that has:-
* the ability to do proper market research
* testing and prototyping facilities that allow people to create soultions that are usable by a large percentage of the market
* the infrastructure to deliver these solutions to market in highly accessible and visible ways
Point conceded. You don't hear me talking about the open source movement much because I have not contributed ... yet.
I'm sorry but this is the reality of it... if you dont like it... do something a little more constructive than whinging about it.
For the record, I have *never* whinged.
The challenges for Linux and the rest of the open source community are great not for any other reason than the fact that Microsoft is very good at what they do.
I don't necessarily think that the Open Source movement has anything to fear from Microsoft. Open source is like terrorism - too many independent targets to combat effectively. All Microsoft can do is hire away some key people who would then be contractually contrained from contributing to open source. Not roo likely to happen.
As for whining - this is slashdot; what else is there to do here? I would like to contribute more to open source, but I really can only help write documentation at this point - I am still a newbie at C++.
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Some choices - I have a few other suggestions:
Is M$ monopolistic or just greedy?
Does M$ software suck by design or is it coincidence?
Will XP allow the NSA to spy on home users or just allow Microsoft to spy on home users?
When will Microsoft give up the legal battle with DOJ - when Hell freezes over or when pigs fly?
We already have social security numbers;
credit card numbers are stolen at a cost of $?,???,???,???.?? each year;
identity theft is a fairly common problem;
we live in a world with too many numbers already - bank accounts, credit cards, utility and entertainment services account numbers, etc.
It is going to be very easy to sell people on the idea that we need to simplify tracking of these things. Simpler is better, less chance for fraud, etc. Personally, I expect it to happen rather too soon.
I like to take long walks on the beach with my wife and get out with friends or to movies and whatnot, but an entire day with no computer!? Unthinkable. Well, maybe once or twice, but certainly not every week.
Glad you asked, cause here we have a grand example.
This is the first time in human history disparate people in diverse places can communicate with one another instantaneously. But are we ready?
I mean, gag me. The top-level poster has a point. This is /. and people here are more than used to email - it is a fact of our lives. This article in this forum strikes me as pedantic and a waste of space. That said, I will have to concede your point about not having a life :)
Oh, that's just peachy. I love when coworkers try to make me jump on something while establishing a paper-trail that the request was placed. This is why we have established procedures for requesting services. If a request for service is not forwarded to me by the correct person, with a control number for tracking, it gets sent right back with a polite explanation *for the eighth time* that it must go to so-and-so first. Yeesh.
I'm not so sure about this. Sklyarov gave a speech in the U.S., but the development was done in Russia, so I don't know if anyone else in the company can be prosecuted unless they too try to market the software in the US.
Well, OK but do you think Dmitri gives a rat's ass about whether the DMCA is overturned as a result of his case? He is [correctly] pleading not guilty to save his ass, if possible. Ass ass ass - there I said it again :P
So he should plead guilty and throw himself on the mercy of the Court? I don't think so. If you plead guilty, you get sentenced. This is an adversarial process - plead your case, man!