Addendum: Never mind, sorry - unlike the summary implies by "all users" the attack was targeted at capturing passwords from users who logged in while the site was compromised.
Naturally, simple hashing is no protection against that.
In spite of the sarcasm, it should be added that going abroad to have sex with someone who would be underage where you live opens you up to prosecution in your own country. Sex tourism and all that.
Yeah I feel sooo dumb for wondering why the physical universe could not have just popped into place from thin air for no reason.
I pity you - you have been brainwashed into feeling stupid when wondering about these things. The smartest people on the planet wonder about the origin of the universe, and have discovered many wondrous things, yet you idly dismiss them.
Your overconfident arrogance would be annoying if the tortured remains of your natural curiosity were not pitiful.
You're right - strong encryption, however, tends to go for so many random bits that even a large distributed network would need thousands of years - easy to do when the complexity grows exponentially, and the amount of computing time grows linearly with the number of participants.
"Mid-range" encryption is used rarely - there's the very weak encryption you use if you don't know or need any better, and the very strong encryption that can be safe even against governments.
So assuming that Wikileaks did crack an encryption, it seems more likely that the encryption was weak but took longer to crack for some reason (or was overstated), than that it was a strong encryption they miraculously cracked early.
(As an aside, the military has said they don't strongly encrypt drone transmissions for convenience, latency and bandwidth. But they probably don't transmit live streams from manned aircraft so this is almost sure to be a recorded version, not an intercept.)
In which case, do they mean they can deliver 4 megawatts for eight hours on a fully charged battery, which would make the usable capacity roughly 115 gigajoules - or did they mess up the units completely somehow?
The German computer magazine c't held a contest (German link) for the best Asteroids-playing artificial intelligence - it wasn't mechanical, but merely transmitted virtual keystrokes to a server that was running the game.
I suppose adding a robotic element would add additional complications such as the reaction time of the limbs, and recognizing the playing field via optical sensors.
Back on XP, Songbird seemed like a stop-gap measure to avoid having to deal with the atrocity named iTunes, without having to ditch Windows. Songbird had a neat layout and nice features, but it was very apparent that it was still an early development version.
On Linux, there are many good media players and no reason to continue to use it. I switched to Rhythmbox on the day I installed Ubuntu.
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Addendum: Never mind, sorry - unlike the summary implies by "all users" the attack was targeted at capturing passwords from users who logged in while the site was compromised.
Naturally, simple hashing is no protection against that.
The passwords were stored as hashes (message-digest or otherwise) with randomized salt, right? I mean, they have a clue about security, surely.
Right?
That's a stupid limitation - grown-ups are not more immune (in many cases less, because nobody tells them what to do) to game addiction.
If they wanted an effective measure, they should enforce that for everyone, but in practice they probably can't.
It was random chance for me, too. :P
In spite of the sarcasm, it should be added that going abroad to have sex with someone who would be underage where you live opens you up to prosecution in your own country. Sex tourism and all that.
Just doing his civic duty, yessir.
The Flemish artist Jan van Eyck is often (exaggeratedly) credited with "inventing" oil paint. He did greatly pioneer its use in the fifteenth century.
The mafia has a strict code of honor, too.
It's one reason why "MAFIAA" is kind of a misnomer for the music industry.
I pity you - you have been brainwashed into feeling stupid when wondering about these things. The smartest people on the planet wonder about the origin of the universe, and have discovered many wondrous things, yet you idly dismiss them.
Your overconfident arrogance would be annoying if the tortured remains of your natural curiosity were not pitiful.
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"Once is an Accident, twice is a Coincidence, and three times is" ...enemy action, I think it was. Appropriately.
By what set of criteria do you judge software to be less valuable than hardware?
Maybe he can license some filtering technology from China.
Elderly firewalls?
Like, Norton 1.0?
It'd feel odd to teach a group of old people how to access information about killing themselves.
But that's the point of the freedom of information - anyone should have the right to seek it out and access it.
But hey, your points of data will make a beautiful line.
You're right - strong encryption, however, tends to go for so many random bits that even a large distributed network would need thousands of years - easy to do when the complexity grows exponentially, and the amount of computing time grows linearly with the number of participants.
"Mid-range" encryption is used rarely - there's the very weak encryption you use if you don't know or need any better, and the very strong encryption that can be safe even against governments.
So assuming that Wikileaks did crack an encryption, it seems more likely that the encryption was weak but took longer to crack for some reason (or was overstated), than that it was a strong encryption they miraculously cracked early.
(As an aside, the military has said they don't strongly encrypt drone transmissions for convenience, latency and bandwidth. But they probably don't transmit live streams from manned aircraft so this is almost sure to be a recorded version, not an intercept.)
Wikileaks made a public request for computer time to help decrypt it, and announced they had succeeded some six weeks later.
This is odd because it seems slow for a very weak encryption and far, far too fast for strong encryption.
Likewise, why would a whistleblower leak an encrypted video without the key?
I'm not doubting Wikileaks' claims about the origin, but it is odd.
Because the headline is more scary that way.
In which case, do they mean they can deliver 4 megawatts for eight hours on a fully charged battery, which would make the usable capacity roughly 115 gigajoules - or did they mess up the units completely somehow?
The German computer magazine c't held a contest (German link) for the best Asteroids-playing artificial intelligence - it wasn't mechanical, but merely transmitted virtual keystrokes to a server that was running the game.
I suppose adding a robotic element would add additional complications such as the reaction time of the limbs, and recognizing the playing field via optical sensors.
Maybe in 2039, someone can score 41,339,486.
I have a whole new appreciation for the awesome, interesting things I do with my life.
Thanks.
... to think they want you to think that is what they want you think.
I agree.
Back on XP, Songbird seemed like a stop-gap measure to avoid having to deal with the atrocity named iTunes, without having to ditch Windows. Songbird had a neat layout and nice features, but it was very apparent that it was still an early development version.
On Linux, there are many good media players and no reason to continue to use it. I switched to Rhythmbox on the day I installed Ubuntu.