Unauthorized people... Won't they just use this to prevent "the enemy" to fire gun and/or bullets? A fingerprint scanner on the rifle and you can drop weapons in the war zone and prevent the enemy from using it against you.
(This doesn't work if the enemy destroys the weapons...)
My sister got one as her first ID, and now they systematically replacing all the regular ID's. Do you really use it though? Is there linux/*bsd/... support for the cardreaders?
In Belgium, this basically comes down to a "cheap" computer (think dell-like with flat screens) with windows xp on, and I believe a one year subscription to broadband internet with some anti-virus plan.
I wish they had thought this over better because a simple computer with ubuntu on it would be much better in terms of userfriendlyness and security. Now they know that in a few months these computers will be filled with spyware because granny didn't buy a firewall.
Further more, these will miss the point completely I think, these computers will be bought by people who need an extra computer for the kids or so. These will not close the gap between poor and rich.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on any of the points above.
Precisely, like Theo de Raadt said : it must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.
They feel the software had to be written, be it either one time by them or countless of times by companies.
Category 5 - Very Severe Highly dangerous threat type, very difficult to contain. All machines should download the latest virus definitions immediately and execute a scan. Email servers may need to come down. All three threat metrics must be High.
* Wild: High
* Damage: High
* Distribution: High
Category 4 - Severe Dangerous threat type, difficult to contain. The latest virus definitions should be downloaded immediately and deployed.
* Wild: High
* Damage or Distribution: High
Category 3 - Moderate Threat type characterized either as highly wild (but reasonably harmless and containable) or potentially dangerous (and uncontainable) if released into the wild.
* Wild: High
or
* Damage: High and Distribution: High
Category 2 - Low Threat type characterized either as low or moderate wild threat (but reasonably harmless and containable) or non-wild threat characterized by an unusual damage or spread routine, or perhaps by some feature of the virus that makes headlines in the news.
* Damage: High
or
* Distribution: High
or
* Wild: Low or Moderate
Category 1 - Very Low Poses little threat to users. Rarely even makes headlines. No reports in the wild.
In Belgium, my ISP allready limits the combined upload/download volume to 10GB, if you cross that, there are 2 choices:
a) you buy an additional 5GB for 5 euro
b) you sit the rest of the month out at speeds that remind you of good ol' dial-up
Is this also the case in other countries?
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Maybe they should start writing Universal Shellcode ;)
Unauthorized people...
Won't they just use this to prevent "the enemy" to fire gun and/or bullets?
A fingerprint scanner on the rifle and you can drop weapons in the war zone and prevent the enemy from using it against you.
(This doesn't work if the enemy destroys the weapons...)
My sister got one as her first ID, and now they systematically replacing all the regular ID's.
Do you really use it though? Is there linux/*bsd/... support for the cardreaders?
In Belgium, this basically comes down to a "cheap" computer (think dell-like with flat screens) with windows xp on, and I believe a one year subscription to broadband internet with some anti-virus plan.
I wish they had thought this over better because a simple computer with ubuntu on it would be much better in terms of userfriendlyness and security. Now they know that in a few months these computers will be filled with spyware because granny didn't buy a firewall.
Further more, these will miss the point completely I think, these computers will be bought by people who need an extra computer for the kids or so. These will not close the gap between poor and rich.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on any of the points above.
Precisely, like Theo de Raadt said : it must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.
They feel the software had to be written, be it either one time by them or countless of times by companies.
Just copy-pasted this off symantec:
Category 5 - Very Severe
Highly dangerous threat type, very difficult to contain. All machines should download the latest virus definitions immediately and execute a scan. Email servers may need to come down. All three threat metrics must be High.
* Wild: High
* Damage: High
* Distribution: High
Category 4 - Severe
Dangerous threat type, difficult to contain. The latest virus definitions should be downloaded immediately and deployed.
* Wild: High
* Damage or Distribution: High
Category 3 - Moderate
Threat type characterized either as highly wild (but reasonably harmless and containable) or potentially dangerous (and uncontainable) if released into the wild.
* Wild: High
or
* Damage: High and Distribution: High
Category 2 - Low
Threat type characterized either as low or moderate wild threat (but reasonably harmless and containable) or non-wild threat characterized by an unusual damage or spread routine, or perhaps by some feature of the virus that makes headlines in the news.
* Damage: High
or
* Distribution: High
or
* Wild: Low or Moderate
Category 1 - Very Low
Poses little threat to users. Rarely even makes headlines. No reports in the wild.
* Wild: Low
* Damage or Distribution: Low
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In Belgium, my ISP allready limits the combined upload/download volume to 10GB, if you cross that, there are 2 choices: a) you buy an additional 5GB for 5 euro b) you sit the rest of the month out at speeds that remind you of good ol' dial-up Is this also the case in other countries?