Me and my co-workers have RFID-enabled badges to access our workplace and PCs, and it leaves logging trails for sure. No-one around here seems to be in an uproar about it.
Of course, here they have proprietary company property to protect.
90% will click "Express" which will include DNT on. This is probably how it really will be implemented. If you clicked "Custom" you could configure DNT by hand.
I can second this, and I should also add that the functionality is built-in to Windows 8 as Windows Defender. Same functionality as MSE, just relabeled. The old Windows Defender is dead.
Plus you have to test from a cold boot for every iteration. The OS may cache the file in memory for a bit after you close it and will gladly serve it again from memory should you reopen it again.
My 100+ game library isn't going anywhere. If Steam dies, I am sure the Internet would be more than happy to help me remove the Steam DRM using "patches".
As the article states, individually encrypted files using EFS would normally be secure even with the method you mention since that method does not obtain the Windows password, You can only access machine unencrypted files, or reset a password. Windows itself is as secure as you could expect. As you said the same can be done to Linux.
Still I can imagine some people think Windows machines are "secure" somehow if they just have a password on their account. These people would likely assume their system would be more secure with the UPEK reader.
Also it sounds like this UPEK software has more features, probably browser passwords and such, so there may be more problems using the UPEK software. This article doesn't state it though.
Interestingly the manufacturer is claiming passwords are stored using AES. It would be interesting to see someone else follow up and see who is telling the truth.
For a bonus, it would be possible to track individuals using this data. The carpet would be able to differentiate between the ways different people walk, and in fact would have to in order to cut down on false positives.
I am sure you will find that comforting when despite your perfect driving some OTHER driver crashes into you. My dad got rear ended once when he was at a FULL STOP, waiting to safely turn. Just because you drive safe doesn't mean everyone else will.
Chrome uses data uris internally for inline background-images in CSS.
Webpages can use them for similar purposes. One less resource to query for.
They can also be used to easily construct files for the user to download, then you can stick them in a data uri and present them to the user as a link, or navigate to a data uri to force a download or display the resource to the user.
They haven't completed it yet but still plan to. They are releasing up to the Lambda Core, so Xen and Multiplayer support will come later. That's still most of the game right there.
IE has done something similar for a while now with every program you download. MS is just moving it from IE to Windows so that users of ALL browsers get the same technology. To be fair I don't know if IE sends the same data that Windows does.
Regardless you can turn this off along with the other privacy-imparing features in Windows during the first run setup.
Rumor has it Valve might be developing their own Steam-based game console. In this case, having their own Linux distro would seem to be a good option for software.
Guess what, your computers boots right into 16-color text mode (used by the BIOS and sometimes by Windows as part of the boot sequence) using EGA colors. Not sure if that's relevant but it might be. Linux might also use something similar for its boot process and for Ctrl+Alt+Fn terminals.
Speculation has it that one of the reasons Valve is bringing Steam to Linux is that they are developing a "Steambox" PC-based game console that would run Linux and Steam. Valve has also been confirmed to be working on a version of Steam that plays well with TV screens and gamepad controllers so Steambox would be a natural extension of that. Though I forget whether there were any rumors on Steambox itself though or whether people just saw the rumors of Linux support and gamepad/TV support and put two and two together...
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Me and my co-workers have RFID-enabled badges to access our workplace and PCs, and it leaves logging trails for sure. No-one around here seems to be in an uproar about it.
Of course, here they have proprietary company property to protect.
Don't forget they were paying for a lot of servers that were just idling because they overestimated demand.
90% will click "Express" which will include DNT on. This is probably how it really will be implemented. If you clicked "Custom" you could configure DNT by hand.
I can second this, and I should also add that the functionality is built-in to Windows 8 as Windows Defender. Same functionality as MSE, just relabeled. The old Windows Defender is dead.
At high-school, someone set a network share as IE's homepage and when I logged in and launched IE I got in trouble for it.
Oh, and permissions weren't even properly configured on the share, but they could read logs apparently.
Plus you have to test from a cold boot for every iteration. The OS may cache the file in memory for a bit after you close it and will gladly serve it again from memory should you reopen it again.
My 100+ game library isn't going anywhere. If Steam dies, I am sure the Internet would be more than happy to help me remove the Steam DRM using "patches".
As the article states, individually encrypted files using EFS would normally be secure even with the method you mention since that method does not obtain the Windows password, You can only access machine unencrypted files, or reset a password. Windows itself is as secure as you could expect. As you said the same can be done to Linux.
Still I can imagine some people think Windows machines are "secure" somehow if they just have a password on their account. These people would likely assume their system would be more secure with the UPEK reader.
Also it sounds like this UPEK software has more features, probably browser passwords and such, so there may be more problems using the UPEK software. This article doesn't state it though.
Interestingly the manufacturer is claiming passwords are stored using AES. It would be interesting to see someone else follow up and see who is telling the truth.
For a bonus, it would be possible to track individuals using this data. The carpet would be able to differentiate between the ways different people walk, and in fact would have to in order to cut down on false positives.
I am sure you will find that comforting when despite your perfect driving some OTHER driver crashes into you. My dad got rear ended once when he was at a FULL STOP, waiting to safely turn. Just because you drive safe doesn't mean everyone else will.
Chrome uses data uris internally for inline background-images in CSS.
Webpages can use them for similar purposes. One less resource to query for.
They can also be used to easily construct files for the user to download, then you can stick them in a data uri and present them to the user as a link, or navigate to a data uri to force a download or display the resource to the user.
If your webserver supports GZIP compression in HTTP responses the difference might not be too bad.
They haven't completed it yet but still plan to. They are releasing up to the Lambda Core, so Xen and Multiplayer support will come later. That's still most of the game right there.
No really, it will.
You forgot the cost of data recovery after they forget their password.
Your post confused me until I saw your username. Well played.
For me that just meant I accidentally took the floppy out while it was still using it. Stuck it back in and hit retry and you were good.
I don't recall having nearly as many problems with floppies as others seem to have had. I guess I just took good care of mine.
IE has done something similar for a while now with every program you download. MS is just moving it from IE to Windows so that users of ALL browsers get the same technology. To be fair I don't know if IE sends the same data that Windows does.
Regardless you can turn this off along with the other privacy-imparing features in Windows during the first run setup.
Yes, when you configure your privacy settings on first run you can turn it off.
(To be clear, I didn't RTFA yet so I dunno if it is or not.)
Not very useful if it's encrypted unless you have the private key or can crack it.
This might be useful.
Rumor has it Valve might be developing their own Steam-based game console. In this case, having their own Linux distro would seem to be a good option for software.
Guess what, your computers boots right into 16-color text mode (used by the BIOS and sometimes by Windows as part of the boot sequence) using EGA colors. Not sure if that's relevant but it might be. Linux might also use something similar for its boot process and for Ctrl+Alt+Fn terminals.
Speculation has it that one of the reasons Valve is bringing Steam to Linux is that they are developing a "Steambox" PC-based game console that would run Linux and Steam. Valve has also been confirmed to be working on a version of Steam that plays well with TV screens and gamepad controllers so Steambox would be a natural extension of that. Though I forget whether there were any rumors on Steambox itself though or whether people just saw the rumors of Linux support and gamepad/TV support and put two and two together...