The back-to-back zero-day attacks closely resemble each other and suggest that well-organized criminals are conducting corporate espionage using critical flaws purchased from underground hackers.
Yes, because there is no way that the attacker could have come up with the attack him/her-self. It's completely out of the question that this person could have done it alone. Even though we know absolutely nothing about [him/her, them]. etc It certainly makes far more sense to introduce a conspiracy theory. One involving vast crime rings.
Well, there's no conclusive evidence for Quantum Mechanics being real, but it's generally accepted.
Basically, I find that these jackasses are taking a fundamental truth of science (namely that we can know nothing for absolute certainty), and exploiting it for there own purposes.
On my personal site, I embed because it's easier and I'm not planning on changing my stuff any time soon. Not to mention that the code is quite simple in nature as well. For work, we have templates and do a regex search/replace for the content.
Partially because customers are quite fickle, I'd recommend _not_ embedding the HTML. As what will you do *when* the customer comes to you and says that they've redone the look and feel of the site.
If you used templates, then the change would pretty much be replacing the old templates with there new counterparts. If you embedded, then you got some long, monotonous work ahead of you.
I don't think you're aware of just how long it can take to get something published in a journal. Things just don't get sent and replied to in days. It can take months to get back even the first response. Even then, referee will typically require changes/clarifications/etc before publication.
And there is the case the the referee just doesn't like the person and denies publication under some facade. Then the author would have to either make an appeal to the editor and/or find another journal to try to publish in.
All of this takes a lot of time.
There is also the problem that poeple don't really read eachothers work anymore.
There is also the problem that people don't have the time to read through all of the journals that exist because one of them might have one paper with one good idea in them.
These are pretty much the reasons why a good number of pre-print servers are out there and why this wiki is a decent idea. I just hope that the people who don't have a clue (whether they realize it or not) don't ruin it for everyone else.
So then, which army are you going to attack? What country?
How do you defeat an idea if it isn't attached to something?
I'd also hate to tell you this, but terrorism has always been marginalized. That is until the media got a hold of it and blew the whole thing wildlly out of proportion.
If you don't believe me, just look at the numbers. Since 9/11 there's been what, about 3000 (not including 9/11) people die upto 3/4 years after 9/11 because of terrorism. So, that's about 2-3 people per day that died from terrorist attacks.
Yah, major epidemic. Gotta nip that in the bud straight away. It certainly threatens to overthrow society as we know it. Let's take extreme measures like suspending civil rights to a large degree to keep this thing that is wildly out of control in check.
If playing violent video games made people violent, with the sheer amount of video games being sold around the world. wouldn't there are *a lot* more violent crime?
Essentially, the state of the world is a rather large counter-example to this so-called conclusion.
Now then if we look at restrictions put on people in the United States, United Kingdom, or Canada during the American Civil War, First and Second World Wars and compare those restrictions to what is happening during this Global War on Terror, you'll see that the reaction now is much less invasive than it was during those conflicts.
You seem to be missing a point. That point being that the first 3 wars that you mentioned actually had goals that were achievable. The latter does have achievable goals. Or are you so naive to think that a "war on terrorism" can actually be won?
You also seem to be justifying an erosion of freedoms as ok and something that'll be returned after the conflict ends. Well since this war cannot be won, those freedoms will never return.
For that matter, what justifies this increase in surveillance? Are there operatives about everywhere? Must we fear everyone?
If we all remember the Simpsons episode (paraphrase):
Lisa: I have a rock. It keeps bears away.
Homer: How do I know this rock works.
Lisa: Do you see any bears around?
Momer: I'll give you $10 for it.
Lise: Dad, it doesn't really work.
Homer: $20!
Thus the administration is keeping everyone safe from the terrorists. Because do you see any of them around. Let's just keep letting them do whatever they want.
Not saying what you said isn't true. Certainly it is. People do make promises that they don't have the chance to keep to get votes. But, in the context of this article, I find what this canidate is implying, is quite dishonest. That was pretty much my point.
And I don't really think that it is appropriate to compare what goes on in the UK parliament to what goes on at some university. If only because of the scale and importance, differences.
Considering that a student has zero power to dictate the technologies on campus, I'd say that this is nothing but an attempt to get the votes of the Comp. Sci. students.
Here's how the converstaion might go:
Student: We should only use open tech.
Administration: But M$ promised us...
Student: But, there tech. is broken; it doesn't work as advertised.
Administration: Well, who are we going to believe. You a scruffy Arts student or the knowledgeble M$ salesman that we relate to?
How would a sequel affect your perception of the first movie?
Um, it wouldn't. But, the second movie still could make a mockery of the the whole thing. Doesn't mean that I'm gonna look down on the first movie, just means the second...
Where did you get that?
Point of fact, I still like Firefly the series even after watch the peice of go-se movie.
I agree 100%. This movie is part of many peoples childhoods. Maybe the sequal will be part of the next generations. But, if there is anything that I've learned, it's you can't go back.
... our waters are now 70% shark free! We are now the safest planetary water park in the galaxy for your children! Come now and get 20% off your water slide pass!
... because the fact of the matter is that this stuff/is/ open to debate.
Yes, there are magnetic fields around us all day. But, why would be willingly put more around us, when the could be harmful?
There is a simple solution to this. Just don't. Lay down the wire and just don't use wireless.
I've made a conscience decision to not have any wireless in my home and no cell phone because of the above.
I'm being bombarded all the time by stuff that I can't control. Well, I can control my home, so that is what I'm gonna do.
I'm really starting to think that people will just make fun of what they don't want to consider, because it might be true.
When I was studying physics, I started an argument with the department when I was in third year. They were exposing us to radiation in the labs without having a good educational reason for it. There only argument was that they were within safty limits. Well, everyone knows that there is no safty limit. Not to mention the fact that the department wasn't using the safty protocols required of them.
I switched to math.
But, all the time when I was fighting the other students made fun of me. Now why would that be...
As for the definition of encryption, Schneier says "The process of disguising a message in such a way as to hide its substance is encryption." (p1 Applied Cryptography 2nd ed) So, although mathematics is not a necassary component (explicitly), since mostly everything can be modeled with mathematics, it might be there, just not really considered. Hell, even Solitaire (described in the back of Cryptonomicon) uses modular arithmatic.
Also, quantum crypto was said to be secure because of (basically) the no clone theorem. But, this stuff is based off of things prior to multipartite entanglement. Since multipartite entanglement is a recent development, and not necessarily well defined yet, we'll just have to see what comes of all this. There may be a mistake in the calculations.
Further pushes of buttons by other groups of experimentalists will verify or deny this development. Time will tell.
I am not surprised that once again claims of perfectness by ethically challenged researchers and businesspeople have turned out to be wrong.
Perhaps you are not aware of a phrase that states "within current theory" that is implied everytime a theorist speaks. Or weren't you aware of that?
Or how about all those classical encryption schemes that were thought to be secure for long periods of time, but them turned out to be [near] trivial to break.
New attacks are created all the time. It doesn't mean the the researcher is ethically challenged. It just means that he thought he was right at the time, given the information at hand.
This is cutting edge research. Get a clue. Or at least your head out of your ass.
it is theoretically possible for them to block out competitor websites and only allow users to access websites that have paid Google to be shown to their users.
Not that I'm old (~30). But, I was one of those that got sac'd in the dot bomb. So, I went back to school in Physics and ended up in Math.
One of my buddies that was ~30 at the time of the layoff went back to school and is graduating in a week or two as a plumber. Lifetime of work for him indeed.
I imagine others went back to school as well.
Another buddy is doing some contract work (around my age). But not full time.
I'd imagine though, if the people are actually good by the time they get to ~40, they would have accumulated enough experience to get steady contract work. They'd earn a tonne more money that way and that's a good incentive right there.
So, consultant/contractor is where they'd be... maybe.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, because there is no way that the attacker could have come up with the attack him/her-self. It's completely out of the question that this person could have done it alone. Even though we know absolutely nothing about [him/her, them]. etc It certainly makes far more sense to introduce a conspiracy theory. One involving vast crime rings.
Sure.
Well, there's no conclusive evidence for Quantum Mechanics being real, but it's generally accepted.
Basically, I find that these jackasses are taking a fundamental truth of science (namely that we can know nothing for absolute certainty), and exploiting it for there own purposes.
Colour me surprised.
On my personal site, I embed because it's easier and I'm not planning on changing my stuff any time soon. Not to mention that the code is quite simple in nature as well. For work, we have templates and do a regex search/replace for the content.
Partially because customers are quite fickle, I'd recommend _not_ embedding the HTML. As what will you do *when* the customer comes to you and says that they've redone the look and feel of the site.
If you used templates, then the change would pretty much be replacing the old templates with there new counterparts. If you embedded, then you got some long, monotonous work ahead of you.
Jobs's bet: You'll start spending more and more time in OS X, until you--too--become one of the pod people.
Yes, of course! Because all the stability is just so very evil that we must fight the temptation to use OSX!
Just wondering how your reply is related to mine. Why did you reply to me again?
Mr. Gonzales also said that he is investigating ways to ensure that ISPs retain records of a user's web activities to track down offenders.
Wholly 1984 Batman!
I don't think you're aware of just how long it can take to get something published in a journal. Things just don't get sent and replied to in days. It can take months to get back even the first response. Even then, referee will typically require changes/clarifications/etc before publication.
And there is the case the the referee just doesn't like the person and denies publication under some facade. Then the author would have to either make an appeal to the editor and/or find another journal to try to publish in.
All of this takes a lot of time.
There is also the problem that poeple don't really read eachothers work anymore.
There is also the problem that people don't have the time to read through all of the journals that exist because one of them might have one paper with one good idea in them.
These are pretty much the reasons why a good number of pre-print servers are out there and why this wiki is a decent idea. I just hope that the people who don't have a clue (whether they realize it or not) don't ruin it for everyone else.
So then, which army are you going to attack? What country?
How do you defeat an idea if it isn't attached to something?
I'd also hate to tell you this, but terrorism has always been marginalized. That is until the media got a hold of it and blew the whole thing wildlly out of proportion.
If you don't believe me, just look at the numbers. Since 9/11 there's been what, about 3000 (not including 9/11) people die upto 3/4 years after 9/11 because of terrorism. So, that's about 2-3 people per day that died from terrorist attacks.
Yah, major epidemic. Gotta nip that in the bud straight away. It certainly threatens to overthrow society as we know it. Let's take extreme measures like suspending civil rights to a large degree to keep this thing that is wildly out of control in check.
If playing violent video games made people violent, with the sheer amount of video games being sold around the world. wouldn't there are *a lot* more violent crime?
Essentially, the state of the world is a rather large counter-example to this so-called conclusion.
You seem to be missing a point. That point being that the first 3 wars that you mentioned actually had goals that were achievable. The latter does have achievable goals. Or are you so naive to think that a "war on terrorism" can actually be won?
You also seem to be justifying an erosion of freedoms as ok and something that'll be returned after the conflict ends. Well since this war cannot be won, those freedoms will never return.
For that matter, what justifies this increase in surveillance? Are there operatives about everywhere? Must we fear everyone?
If we all remember the Simpsons episode (paraphrase):
Lisa: I have a rock. It keeps bears away.
Homer: How do I know this rock works.
Lisa: Do you see any bears around?
Momer: I'll give you $10 for it.
Lise: Dad, it doesn't really work.
Homer: $20!
Thus the administration is keeping everyone safe from the terrorists. Because do you see any of them around. Let's just keep letting them do whatever they want.
And if there is no Windows option?
Not saying what you said isn't true. Certainly it is. People do make promises that they don't have the chance to keep to get votes. But, in the context of this article, I find what this canidate is implying, is quite dishonest. That was pretty much my point.
And I don't really think that it is appropriate to compare what goes on in the UK parliament to what goes on at some university. If only because of the scale and importance, differences.
Considering that a student has zero power to dictate the technologies on campus, I'd say that this is nothing but an attempt to get the votes of the Comp. Sci. students.
...
Here's how the converstaion might go:
Student: We should only use open tech.
Administration: But M$ promised us
Student: But, there tech. is broken; it doesn't work as advertised.
Administration: Well, who are we going to believe. You a scruffy Arts student or the knowledgeble M$ salesman that we relate to?
Student: But...
Administration: Sit down!
Um, it wouldn't. But, the second movie still could make a mockery of the the whole thing. Doesn't mean that I'm gonna look down on the first movie, just means the second...
Where did you get that?
Point of fact, I still like Firefly the series even after watch the peice of go-se movie.
I agree 100%. This movie is part of many peoples childhoods. Maybe the sequal will be part of the next generations. But, if there is anything that I've learned, it's you can't go back.
I fear that for us, this movie will be a mockery.
... our waters are now 70% shark free! We are now the safest planetary water park in the galaxy for your children! Come now and get 20% off your water slide pass!
Offer only valid in the next 10 minutes.
... because the fact of the matter is that this stuff /is/ open to debate.
Yes, there are magnetic fields around us all day. But, why would be willingly put more around us, when the could be harmful?
There is a simple solution to this. Just don't. Lay down the wire and just don't use wireless.
I've made a conscience decision to not have any wireless in my home and no cell phone because of the above.
I'm being bombarded all the time by stuff that I can't control. Well, I can control my home, so that is what I'm gonna do.
I'm really starting to think that people will just make fun of what they don't want to consider, because it might be true.
When I was studying physics, I started an argument with the department when I was in third year. They were exposing us to radiation in the labs without having a good educational reason for it. There only argument was that they were within safty limits. Well, everyone knows that there is no safty limit. Not to mention the fact that the department wasn't using the safty protocols required of them.
I switched to math.
But, all the time when I was fighting the other students made fun of me. Now why would that be...
I'm thinking that you meant to reply not to me, but to the one who I replied to.
At any rate, quantum crypto has been used before:2 1/1822222&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=172&tid=93&tid=9
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/
As for the definition of encryption, Schneier says "The process of disguising a message in such a way as to hide its substance is encryption." (p1 Applied Cryptography 2nd ed) So, although mathematics is not a necassary component (explicitly), since mostly everything can be modeled with mathematics, it might be there, just not really considered. Hell, even Solitaire (described in the back of Cryptonomicon) uses modular arithmatic.
Also, quantum crypto was said to be secure because of (basically) the no clone theorem. But, this stuff is based off of things prior to multipartite entanglement. Since multipartite entanglement is a recent development, and not necessarily well defined yet, we'll just have to see what comes of all this. There may be a mistake in the calculations.
Further pushes of buttons by other groups of experimentalists will verify or deny this development. Time will tell.
Ah, but with the implication of "within current theory" any statments are not statements of fact, but just, this is what we know right now.
Point of fact, these guys have an experiment, that can be tests, that is a paper that will be published in a peer reviewed journal.
Before hand, not so much.
Does more need to be said?
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521635039/
Or how about all those classical encryption schemes that were thought to be secure for long periods of time, but them turned out to be [near] trivial to break.
New attacks are created all the time. It doesn't mean the the researcher is ethically challenged. It just means that he thought he was right at the time, given the information at hand.
This is cutting edge research. Get a clue. Or at least your head out of your ass.
Not to mention the fact that the CRTC is government run, whereas the UofT is rather not.
So, how is the CRTC's actions relevant to this discussion again?
exactly?!?!?
How much lead water have you been drinking?
... into Math.
Not that I'm old (~30). But, I was one of those that got sac'd in the dot bomb. So, I went back to school in Physics and ended up in Math.
One of my buddies that was ~30 at the time of the layoff went back to school and is graduating in a week or two as a plumber. Lifetime of work for him indeed.
I imagine others went back to school as well.
Another buddy is doing some contract work (around my age). But not full time.
I'd imagine though, if the people are actually good by the time they get to ~40, they would have accumulated enough experience to get steady contract work. They'd earn a tonne more money that way and that's a good incentive right there.
So, consultant/contractor is where they'd be... maybe.