It's not supposed to lead to better cracks. It's supposed to lead to a more accurate mathematical representation of how difficult cracks are to achieve.
It's not that it never happened, certainly. But it was understood to be forbidden, and people were very careful with small-scale stuff not to get caught.
This was way too big to keep secret for long and everyone involved had to have known that.
"That was possibly in the days when US wasn't spying on its allies?"
I would not be so sure of that. I know at least one of our allies spied on us repeatedly through the last century... I wouldnt be too shocked if our government was already off the rails at the time too. But the actors back then acted very carefully, fearing the consequences if secrets got out.
It's well understood that small operations, run professionally, can work. But as your scale of operations grows it becomes more difficult to keep an op secret. We know some of the scandals from those times - and there are likely many more that were small enough to stay secret.
The new programs are fundamentally different in scale though. They are so large that everyone competent had to have been warning against them from day one. They are so large that there is no way they could have remained secret much longer, Snowden or no Snowden. Nor does there appear to be a need for even a single official to take the fall and leave office when fundamental violations are exposed anymore.
I was myself thinking of old LaserJets, if the procurement could be done. Great old workhorses. Toner is better than ink in every way here, lasts longer in storage, much cheaper per copy. Any old LJ should match several of their requirements. HOWEVER... low power consumption is NOT one of them. Requirement number 4 is likely to rule out any old-tech printer, and one or more of the other requirements will rule out any newer stuff I am aware of as well. So it may be an unsolvable problem.
It may be that in this case, paper records should continue in use for the time being.
And the rest of this is horribly confused. They talk about 'orbit' when they mean 'rotation' (as in around the poles, not around the sun) and they keep talking about an ice age when they are referring to an individual glaciation.
Any correlation between plain and cipher. For instance if you can deduce that a particular string will occur at a particular point in the plaintext, then you can isolate the cipher equivelant and use that as a lever to break the rest of the ciphertext. You dont have to deduce it with certainty for this to be important, even if you have to try and discard a number of possible correlations before you find one that holds up.
This is a pretty basic old-school cryptographic method, kind of fun to think that fancy-pants mathematicians have been missing it all these years.
"So as long as the government doesn't actively admit what's going on, we can keep bribing people over there."
The notion that office holders can simply avoid admitting what everyone knows, without even denying it, and thereby entitle themselves to break the law with impunity, is really astonishing.
Eh, I listen to NPR a bit, and I havent heard anything positive out of them, and several very negative references. They are pretty solidly establishment. There might well be a bright ray that gets through here and there, but it doesnt characterise the institution as a whole I am afraid.
The real scandal here is that as bad as RT is, it's still markedly better than what is put out domestically, just in terms of reporting news. Yes, they have a slant, everyone does. But our domestic sources will not only spin everything, even more troubling is their willingness to simply ignore news they do not like.
I do not object to advertising qua advertising. Not at all.
I DO object to just about every aspect of how it's being done currently. They are whining about third party cookies? Firefox SHOULD kill their third party javascript! Ads that require your browser to run around the net begging a dozen different servers for Reveton every so many seconds, interrupting your ability to read a simple column in the process, should not be tolerated.
If "modern look&feel" means what I fear it does, then no way. Windowmaker is perfect the way it is. It just needs the associated system apps finished and polished properly.
I do not care for OSX software and cant think of any that I would want ported off the top of my head. (I am sure there must be some that would be useful, possibly even to me if I thought about it, just saying it isnt something I worry about.) But I loved GNUStep and mourned the way that the developers years back all seem to have switched over to bloated nasty frameworks from GNOME and KDE instead of fleshing it out and finishing it.
The only concern I have is they do seem to be looking at it more as a framework for porting, which is the least important use from my perspective. This is the tool to build the better desktop on linux everyone claims to want.
Correlation isnt causation, and even if your incidences stack up perfectly that still does not translate into the color of your skin amounting to individual probable cause to search you, and in America we do not permit searches without such individual cause for suspicion.
Furthermore, the 'crimes' they are catching here are simple possession of controlled substances or second amendment implements. So the poor black/hispanic guy that is stuck living here and has to walk on these streets where his chances of getting shot are relatively high to begin with, and he either arms himself or gets high, depending on which type he is. And now he gets randomly stopped and caught and boom! another poor person converted into a criminal.
Much easier and more lucrative for the imprisonment-industrial complex to deal with than trying to figure out who is actually committing murders and arrest THEM and convict them. Those cases might get complicated, and require police work.
Most people are not prepared to give up their home country so easily. And that would be what you would have to do. Not simply move the server - also move yourself, all business offices, property, etc. And make sure you do not cross the border (even into allied states in all likelihood) until this is a free country again. Are you ready to do that, to keep your secure email service open?
You're both right, a little at least. It's perfectly safe to connect to whatever random wifi you run across and use it in the sense it's intended, in the case that you are absolutely certain anything important is actually being encrypted at the application layer where it should be.
For most people, in the real world, they have no idea. Application programmers seem to do a really lousy job of it (as in usually dont even try) so it's certainly not safe to assume. Probably smarter in many cases simply to set your phone to only connect to networks you program it specifically to connect to. And encrypt them, so they cannot be trivially spoofed.
IF they are actually broadcasting their MAC when NOT attempting to connect to a network, that would be a bug to stomp. But I am pretty sure that part was just GPs ignorance.
And, btw, you SHOULD use encryption to browse wikipedia. You should, in fact, use HTTPS Everywhere and attempt to encrypt every single piece of data that is sent out, redundantly. This is because if you only encrypt things that you are worried about being seen, the encryption is suspicious in and of itself, and anyone investigating you for any reason (even just 'because your traffic passed our sniffer') is going to at least see exactly the data they are looking for, they will see the endpoints even if they cannot break the encryption. That 'meta data' may be more valuable than the encrypted message itself.
So if you want digital privacy, dont just encrypt important documents. Encrypt every single thing you can, and encourage others to do the same. An internet where only super-sekrit documents are sent encrypted is a fertile environment for snoops. One where the amount of traffic that is encrypted at the application level already nears 100% may be the only way to regain the privacy that we have lost in the digital era - and it certainly cannot hurt.
You are also "protected" by the US Constitution to the same degree. The Constitution talks about the rights of people, not of citizens. Unfortunately both documents are simply being treated as toilet paper by the people entrusted with their enforcement.
Your first sentence pretends to contradict my point, but virtually the entirety of the rest of your post does nothing but reinforce what I said. A handful of third parties, within restrictions of what is allowed by microsoft, have some partial access to the source code and some narrow and limited abilities to issue patches to it. Which certainly means that third parties in general have neither ability nor legal right to issue patches.
"The problem with some of these devices is that making them hack-proof is equivalent to locking a fire extinguisher in a secure cabinet. Sure it's secured against misuse, but it's also no longer easily available when it's needed in an emergency.
You can "hack" any pacemaker with a strong enough magnet, for example. It's the standard method for putting the things in their emergency mode. "Securing" this mode would make it more complicated to activate in case of a real emergency and kill people this way."
I think it's more general than that - the same thing is true of security across the board. Every security feature also makes it harder for people that are entitle to access to do their work. When you have someone that isnt specially tuned to security issues designing a system, they quite naturally tend to do the opposite of the secure choice at every instance. Like leaving a root account with a blank password open - to an honest person that isnt specifically tuned to security issues, this seems like a very good idea, likely to save a lot of time and effort the first time the password gets lost. To the security-tuned, however, this is a very bad idea, a hole big enough to drive trains through just begging to be hit.
If you are careful to put the right things on SSD it can give you a massive speedup on reboot, which ram caching cannot do.
That said, reboot time generally isnt that important. And a good OS managed RAM cache should do a much better job with the cache after boot than you would get out of the builtin system.
But assuming you have a good OS managed cache may be a problem. Linux is pretty good at this, Windows has always been awful at it however.
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"You can loose something which you own and not something which you "may" get"
Actually, you can only loose something which you have leashed.
You might have been thinking of "lose" instead.
It's not supposed to lead to better cracks. It's supposed to lead to a more accurate mathematical representation of how difficult cracks are to achieve.
It's not that it never happened, certainly. But it was understood to be forbidden, and people were very careful with small-scale stuff not to get caught.
This was way too big to keep secret for long and everyone involved had to have known that.
"That was possibly in the days when US wasn't spying on its allies?"
I would not be so sure of that. I know at least one of our allies spied on us repeatedly through the last century... I wouldnt be too shocked if our government was already off the rails at the time too. But the actors back then acted very carefully, fearing the consequences if secrets got out.
It's well understood that small operations, run professionally, can work. But as your scale of operations grows it becomes more difficult to keep an op secret. We know some of the scandals from those times - and there are likely many more that were small enough to stay secret.
The new programs are fundamentally different in scale though. They are so large that everyone competent had to have been warning against them from day one. They are so large that there is no way they could have remained secret much longer, Snowden or no Snowden. Nor does there appear to be a need for even a single official to take the fall and leave office when fundamental violations are exposed anymore.
I was myself thinking of old LaserJets, if the procurement could be done. Great old workhorses. Toner is better than ink in every way here, lasts longer in storage, much cheaper per copy. Any old LJ should match several of their requirements. HOWEVER... low power consumption is NOT one of them. Requirement number 4 is likely to rule out any old-tech printer, and one or more of the other requirements will rule out any newer stuff I am aware of as well. So it may be an unsolvable problem.
It may be that in this case, paper records should continue in use for the time being.
I remember when you did not need a special, explicit agreement to refrain from spying on your own allies. Kids these days just have no manners at all.
Ah yes, the requisite recitation of faith.
And the rest of this is horribly confused. They talk about 'orbit' when they mean 'rotation' (as in around the poles, not around the sun) and they keep talking about an ice age when they are referring to an individual glaciation.
Any correlation between plain and cipher. For instance if you can deduce that a particular string will occur at a particular point in the plaintext, then you can isolate the cipher equivelant and use that as a lever to break the rest of the ciphertext. You dont have to deduce it with certainty for this to be important, even if you have to try and discard a number of possible correlations before you find one that holds up.
This is a pretty basic old-school cryptographic method, kind of fun to think that fancy-pants mathematicians have been missing it all these years.
"So as long as the government doesn't actively admit what's going on, we can keep bribing people over there."
The notion that office holders can simply avoid admitting what everyone knows, without even denying it, and thereby entitle themselves to break the law with impunity, is really astonishing.
Eh, I listen to NPR a bit, and I havent heard anything positive out of them, and several very negative references. They are pretty solidly establishment. There might well be a bright ray that gets through here and there, but it doesnt characterise the institution as a whole I am afraid.
Exactly!
The real scandal here is that as bad as RT is, it's still markedly better than what is put out domestically, just in terms of reporting news. Yes, they have a slant, everyone does. But our domestic sources will not only spin everything, even more troubling is their willingness to simply ignore news they do not like.
I do not object to advertising qua advertising. Not at all.
I DO object to just about every aspect of how it's being done currently. They are whining about third party cookies? Firefox SHOULD kill their third party javascript! Ads that require your browser to run around the net begging a dozen different servers for Reveton every so many seconds, interrupting your ability to read a simple column in the process, should not be tolerated.
Windowmaker yes!
If "modern look&feel" means what I fear it does, then no way. Windowmaker is perfect the way it is. It just needs the associated system apps finished and polished properly.
I do not care for OSX software and cant think of any that I would want ported off the top of my head. (I am sure there must be some that would be useful, possibly even to me if I thought about it, just saying it isnt something I worry about.) But I loved GNUStep and mourned the way that the developers years back all seem to have switched over to bloated nasty frameworks from GNOME and KDE instead of fleshing it out and finishing it.
The only concern I have is they do seem to be looking at it more as a framework for porting, which is the least important use from my perspective. This is the tool to build the better desktop on linux everyone claims to want.
Correlation isnt causation, and even if your incidences stack up perfectly that still does not translate into the color of your skin amounting to individual probable cause to search you, and in America we do not permit searches without such individual cause for suspicion.
Furthermore, the 'crimes' they are catching here are simple possession of controlled substances or second amendment implements. So the poor black/hispanic guy that is stuck living here and has to walk on these streets where his chances of getting shot are relatively high to begin with, and he either arms himself or gets high, depending on which type he is. And now he gets randomly stopped and caught and boom! another poor person converted into a criminal.
Much easier and more lucrative for the imprisonment-industrial complex to deal with than trying to figure out who is actually committing murders and arrest THEM and convict them. Those cases might get complicated, and require police work.
... where incompetence will serve as well.
And in this case, that may even be a bit harsh. Filming these things perfectly is not exactly easy.
Most people are not prepared to give up their home country so easily. And that would be what you would have to do. Not simply move the server - also move yourself, all business offices, property, etc. And make sure you do not cross the border (even into allied states in all likelihood) until this is a free country again. Are you ready to do that, to keep your secure email service open?
You're both right, a little at least. It's perfectly safe to connect to whatever random wifi you run across and use it in the sense it's intended, in the case that you are absolutely certain anything important is actually being encrypted at the application layer where it should be.
For most people, in the real world, they have no idea. Application programmers seem to do a really lousy job of it (as in usually dont even try) so it's certainly not safe to assume. Probably smarter in many cases simply to set your phone to only connect to networks you program it specifically to connect to. And encrypt them, so they cannot be trivially spoofed.
IF they are actually broadcasting their MAC when NOT attempting to connect to a network, that would be a bug to stomp. But I am pretty sure that part was just GPs ignorance.
And, btw, you SHOULD use encryption to browse wikipedia. You should, in fact, use HTTPS Everywhere and attempt to encrypt every single piece of data that is sent out, redundantly. This is because if you only encrypt things that you are worried about being seen, the encryption is suspicious in and of itself, and anyone investigating you for any reason (even just 'because your traffic passed our sniffer') is going to at least see exactly the data they are looking for, they will see the endpoints even if they cannot break the encryption. That 'meta data' may be more valuable than the encrypted message itself.
So if you want digital privacy, dont just encrypt important documents. Encrypt every single thing you can, and encourage others to do the same. An internet where only super-sekrit documents are sent encrypted is a fertile environment for snoops. One where the amount of traffic that is encrypted at the application level already nears 100% may be the only way to regain the privacy that we have lost in the digital era - and it certainly cannot hurt.
You are also "protected" by the US Constitution to the same degree. The Constitution talks about the rights of people, not of citizens. Unfortunately both documents are simply being treated as toilet paper by the people entrusted with their enforcement.
All email clients suck. Mutt just sucks less.
"Anti-american?" No, read your link. Anti-current-us-foreign-policy. So if you parse that out, it's a double-negative, anti-anti-american.
Your first sentence pretends to contradict my point, but virtually the entirety of the rest of your post does nothing but reinforce what I said. A handful of third parties, within restrictions of what is allowed by microsoft, have some partial access to the source code and some narrow and limited abilities to issue patches to it. Which certainly means that third parties in general have neither ability nor legal right to issue patches.
"The problem with some of these devices is that making them hack-proof is equivalent to locking a fire extinguisher in a secure cabinet. Sure it's secured against misuse, but it's also no longer easily available when it's needed in an emergency.
You can "hack" any pacemaker with a strong enough magnet, for example. It's the standard method for putting the things in their emergency mode. "Securing" this mode would make it more complicated to activate in case of a real emergency and kill people this way."
I think it's more general than that - the same thing is true of security across the board. Every security feature also makes it harder for people that are entitle to access to do their work. When you have someone that isnt specially tuned to security issues designing a system, they quite naturally tend to do the opposite of the secure choice at every instance. Like leaving a root account with a blank password open - to an honest person that isnt specifically tuned to security issues, this seems like a very good idea, likely to save a lot of time and effort the first time the password gets lost. To the security-tuned, however, this is a very bad idea, a hole big enough to drive trains through just begging to be hit.
The damnation of it is, they are both right.
If you are careful to put the right things on SSD it can give you a massive speedup on reboot, which ram caching cannot do. That said, reboot time generally isnt that important. And a good OS managed RAM cache should do a much better job with the cache after boot than you would get out of the builtin system. But assuming you have a good OS managed cache may be a problem. Linux is pretty good at this, Windows has always been awful at it however.
My first computer had 4kb of ram. Get off my lawn ;)