Encryption is great for many things but, protecting your data against national intelligence agencies is not among them. The agencies have spent a lot of time and money to make sure that common encryption tools are too weak to stop them. Encryption has only stopped them a handful of times (9 in all of 2013 and that was the first report of encryption ever working against them). Now, it will slow them down and possibly make them pass over you if you're a small fish so, definitely use it. Just don't rely on it to save your ass if they have your hard drive in their possession.
The problem I have with sending a drive to these services is that I have no way of knowing that the drive was destroyed properly. If you're up against intelligence agencies, it's far easier for them to give a piece of paper (or an envelope full of cash) to someone to have the drive handed over intact than to recover the drive after it's been destroyed. So, if you're up against them, destroying the drive personally is the only option. Thankfully, most of us don't have to worry about this level of paranoia.
For clarification, it's not unrecoverable. It's just so cost prohibitive and time consuming to recover it that recovery is unreasonable. A subtle difference but, important if they want you bad enough that they're willing to throw years and millions of dollars away to get you.
All of it. A full format re-writes the file tables and the sectors but, the data is still there and can be pieced back together. It's really hard to reassemble files if they are badly fragmented but, you can capture the majority of data, especially for common file types. Images are really easy to pull. Videos are hard to get intact due to fragmentation but, you will get, at least, some of it. In order to clear the drive, you have to, at minimum, write 0s to every bit on the drive. That requires either a tool like DBAN or some of the linux commands suggested in these threads. That'll keep the standard wannabe data thief on ebay or the pervy guy at Best Buy away from your data. If you're up against anyone more serious than that, destroy the drive.
Yea, it sad that they were bought. But, use the free tool. If it's important enough that you would need the professional product, just destroy the drive and be sure.
It all comes down to your potential data thief. If it's just some wannabe hacker who buys your drive off ebay, then a tool such a DBAN or the dd commands in linux should do the trick, even for SSDs. If you're up against professional data thieves, you'll want to smash and then have the drive shredded (don't send it to the shredders intact as there have been cases of the drives being resold intact instead; probably by unscrupulous employees). If you're up against the CIA, FSB or the Mossad, dissolve it in acid or personally grind it to dust. I could see taking an orbital sander to a SSD being a great stress reliever. There are people who are or should be, on the upper paranoia list that try to use DoD style erasure tools to make the data unreadable but, keep the drive usable but, I've never been able to support that. If it's important enough to go through that much trouble, destroy the drive; no exceptions.
You don't have to buy a secure hard drive erasure tool, DBAN does a reliable job for most drives and is free. SSDs are a new kink in the mix that means that some really advanced tools could retrieve data from the drives, even after a complete wipe but, if you're going up against people that dedicated, I recommend a sledgehammer instead.
Actually, the law, at the time, was a 'first to invent' system where you don't have to have a filed patent for protection, just proof that you created it first. Since then, patent law has been changed to a 'first to file' system where the first one to the patent office normally gets the protection. There are exceptions but, that's another story. Since the law of the time was under the 'first to invent' system, that is what would apply in this case. If he could prove that he invented it first, he would have a case. He most likely doesn't even with the old law but, he's welcome to try his luck with Apple's lawyers and get squashed. It is a bit of irony for Apple to get slapped with this and I'll enjoy my schadenfreude.
Not unless the public venue in which you play licenses the right to perform the songs publicly from ASCAP or BMI (or applicable foreign counterparts).
And, it's even worse. Since, as an independant, you are not a member of ASCAP or BMI, you do not get your portion of the fees they collect on *ahem* your behalf *bullshit!*. Note that they still collect them but, unless you belong to one of the big labels that is a member, you will never see them.
It's currently loaded in the firehose. This is a news aggregation site, it takes time. If you want to know what is happening right now you want sources such as twitter though I wouldn't count on the reliability.
No but, I get the impression from reading all of this that the decryption sequence can somehow be isolated from all of the other high frequency noise the CPU puts out while doing other tasks. Don't ask me how; that's out of my pay grade.
The volume doesn't matter if you hit the right frequencies. With the wrong ones, they're usually still trivial to separate out on sophisticated equipment, though it might drown out a cell phone microphone. But, creating the audio files and playing them is fairly simple for anyone who knows what frequency range to hit. But, the simple act, much less the creation and implementation of these counter-measures puts it outside 90%+ of the worlds userbase. As usual, the biggest threat to IT security is the idiot between the keyboard and the chair.
That most likely won't work as they can simply discard all noise not part of the frequency range they are looking for which is trivial if the other sounds don't emit that range. As these are ultra-high frequency sounds, no MP3s or even FLAC files will have them as these ranges are discarded to keep the file size down. You'd have to be running the ultra quality studio files to even have a chance of having these ranges play but, as these are ranges that humans can't hear, they are only going to be there by accident, not intent and you won't be able to tell if they do or don't. Now, it would be possible to create audio tracks with these ranges for the express purpose of fouling these sort of attacks but, there would need to be many of them so there can be some form of randomness to prevent prediction attacks. Updating encryption systems to add junk processes at random would be an easier method of thwarting these however, it will take some time for everyone to update.
Actually, the UK is a theocratic feudal dictatorship that allows a secular Parliament to run the government. The Queen has the right to veto laws and dissolve Parliament. It's really strange but, seems to work for them.
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Encryption is great for many things but, protecting your data against national intelligence agencies is not among them. The agencies have spent a lot of time and money to make sure that common encryption tools are too weak to stop them. Encryption has only stopped them a handful of times (9 in all of 2013 and that was the first report of encryption ever working against them). Now, it will slow them down and possibly make them pass over you if you're a small fish so, definitely use it. Just don't rely on it to save your ass if they have your hard drive in their possession.
The problem I have with sending a drive to these services is that I have no way of knowing that the drive was destroyed properly. If you're up against intelligence agencies, it's far easier for them to give a piece of paper (or an envelope full of cash) to someone to have the drive handed over intact than to recover the drive after it's been destroyed. So, if you're up against them, destroying the drive personally is the only option. Thankfully, most of us don't have to worry about this level of paranoia.
You sir, have a single-minded dedication to evil... I salute you!
For clarification, it's not unrecoverable. It's just so cost prohibitive and time consuming to recover it that recovery is unreasonable. A subtle difference but, important if they want you bad enough that they're willing to throw years and millions of dollars away to get you.
All of it. A full format re-writes the file tables and the sectors but, the data is still there and can be pieced back together. It's really hard to reassemble files if they are badly fragmented but, you can capture the majority of data, especially for common file types. Images are really easy to pull. Videos are hard to get intact due to fragmentation but, you will get, at least, some of it. In order to clear the drive, you have to, at minimum, write 0s to every bit on the drive. That requires either a tool like DBAN or some of the linux commands suggested in these threads. That'll keep the standard wannabe data thief on ebay or the pervy guy at Best Buy away from your data. If you're up against anyone more serious than that, destroy the drive.
Yea, it sad that they were bought. But, use the free tool. If it's important enough that you would need the professional product, just destroy the drive and be sure.
It all comes down to your potential data thief. If it's just some wannabe hacker who buys your drive off ebay, then a tool such a DBAN or the dd commands in linux should do the trick, even for SSDs. If you're up against professional data thieves, you'll want to smash and then have the drive shredded (don't send it to the shredders intact as there have been cases of the drives being resold intact instead; probably by unscrupulous employees). If you're up against the CIA, FSB or the Mossad, dissolve it in acid or personally grind it to dust. I could see taking an orbital sander to a SSD being a great stress reliever. There are people who are or should be, on the upper paranoia list that try to use DoD style erasure tools to make the data unreadable but, keep the drive usable but, I've never been able to support that. If it's important enough to go through that much trouble, destroy the drive; no exceptions.
You don't have to buy a secure hard drive erasure tool, DBAN does a reliable job for most drives and is free. SSDs are a new kink in the mix that means that some really advanced tools could retrieve data from the drives, even after a complete wipe but, if you're going up against people that dedicated, I recommend a sledgehammer instead.
Actually, the law, at the time, was a 'first to invent' system where you don't have to have a filed patent for protection, just proof that you created it first. Since then, patent law has been changed to a 'first to file' system where the first one to the patent office normally gets the protection. There are exceptions but, that's another story. Since the law of the time was under the 'first to invent' system, that is what would apply in this case. If he could prove that he invented it first, he would have a case. He most likely doesn't even with the old law but, he's welcome to try his luck with Apple's lawyers and get squashed. It is a bit of irony for Apple to get slapped with this and I'll enjoy my schadenfreude.
10,000 lashes with a wet noodle for you!
If they had any idea what Diaspora was, they'd Gitmo your ass immediately.
You're wrong... we're all just numbers here. Even the zeros that are ACs.
Shit! The bots are becoming self-aware! The end times are nigh!
The Queen could intervene and block this as well but, that is extremely unlikely.
Not unless the public venue in which you play licenses the right to perform the songs publicly from ASCAP or BMI (or applicable foreign counterparts).
And, it's even worse. Since, as an independant, you are not a member of ASCAP or BMI, you do not get your portion of the fees they collect on *ahem* your behalf *bullshit!*. Note that they still collect them but, unless you belong to one of the big labels that is a member, you will never see them.
It's currently loaded in the firehose. This is a news aggregation site, it takes time. If you want to know what is happening right now you want sources such as twitter though I wouldn't count on the reliability.
Batshit crazy with a side of evil?
I think the real truth here is the one(s) responsible for setting the policies of the President is not the President.
Anybody who takes enough colloidal silver to turn blue really fucked up. Consider it their "stupid sign."
Neither did the property owners.
No but, I get the impression from reading all of this that the decryption sequence can somehow be isolated from all of the other high frequency noise the CPU puts out while doing other tasks. Don't ask me how; that's out of my pay grade.
The volume doesn't matter if you hit the right frequencies. With the wrong ones, they're usually still trivial to separate out on sophisticated equipment, though it might drown out a cell phone microphone. But, creating the audio files and playing them is fairly simple for anyone who knows what frequency range to hit. But, the simple act, much less the creation and implementation of these counter-measures puts it outside 90%+ of the worlds userbase. As usual, the biggest threat to IT security is the idiot between the keyboard and the chair.
That most likely won't work as they can simply discard all noise not part of the frequency range they are looking for which is trivial if the other sounds don't emit that range. As these are ultra-high frequency sounds, no MP3s or even FLAC files will have them as these ranges are discarded to keep the file size down. You'd have to be running the ultra quality studio files to even have a chance of having these ranges play but, as these are ranges that humans can't hear, they are only going to be there by accident, not intent and you won't be able to tell if they do or don't. Now, it would be possible to create audio tracks with these ranges for the express purpose of fouling these sort of attacks but, there would need to be many of them so there can be some form of randomness to prevent prediction attacks. Updating encryption systems to add junk processes at random would be an easier method of thwarting these however, it will take some time for everyone to update.
Actually, the UK is a theocratic feudal dictatorship that allows a secular Parliament to run the government. The Queen has the right to veto laws and dissolve Parliament. It's really strange but, seems to work for them.
This is probably the most insightful comment in this whole thread.