In the real world, not everyone is all touchy feely with each other all the time. You are the one that needs to do some maturing if you can't even handle a (rather mellow) harshly worded response directed at someone else.
Hell, it was even a rather insightful post, without any profanity to boot!
That's not how you break RSA at all. You break RSA with integer factorization, generally with a general number field sieve. It is thought that factoring 1024 bit RSA keys will become practical with a few dozen thousand dollars of equipment in a few years.
Private companies will not undertake the large-scale, visionary projects like sending people to Mars, building permanent bases on Mars and Moon, reaching Europa and exploring her oceans.
Whoa whoa whoa, but we are to attempt no landing there!
The problem with that is to confirm the checksum your cracker may have to decrypt a much larger portion of the message each time, slowing down the process.
I know you are joking, but I think it should be pointed out that there is no reason this technique can't look for something other than ASCII chars. Most binary files have predictable sequences of bits in them, often some sort of header.
People should not allow the government to have such a monopoly on printing of the cash
It is perfectly legal for you to go buy a printing press, make up your own money, print off as much as you want, then try to convince people to use it. Hell, you can even skip the printing press step. What is illegal is duplicating somebody else's currency.
Has the government not intervened and setup this ponzy scheme
You do not know what a ponzi scheme is. You are just throwing that term out there because you heard on the news that it is some "big bad, fraudulant thing that rich people sometimes do that hurts poor people".
the money would have been created by private enterprise, that could compete with other private enterprise on the value of its cash.
This has been done numerous times in history, and every time it is a clusterfuck. Nevertheless, there is nothing preventing this system from being implemented today, and to a limited extent, it already is. You want more competition in currency? Invest in foriegn currecies. Plenty of people do it.
Listen, if you fancy yourself an anarchist, or if you think we should go back to a bartering system, or if you think we should put money back on a gold standard, then just say so. Any of those opinions are far more rational and respectable then "it should be legal to counterfiet money". You are not doing yourself any favors with this schpiel.
The more times you state it, the more correct your statement will become, is that the idea?
That was the first time I said that, but if you want to hear it again, go find yourself an economist.
If I have a 6th grade reading level, I shudder to think what yours may be. Did you even make it to my second paragraph? You know, the one where I actually explained how you are wrong. Breaking the law and printing your own money is one thing, legalizing that act is an entirely different animal.
I expect such subtly is lost on you...
Also, let me be the first to inform you that you have absolutely no fucking idea what you are talking about when you start ranting about how the government prints and distributes cash.
When people print money out illegally, it slightly decreases the value of all money by artificially introducing more money into the system without actually introducing more value.
If everyone was allowed to legally print out money, then money would become worthless, even before anyone did anything. This is because everyone would lose faith in the currency entirely.
There is a good reason everyone doesn't just use grass clippings as currency. Honestly your comprehension of economics reminds me a lot of myself... when I was in 6th grade.
Well, I don't think this particular issue is so cut and dry. Throwing yourself off a building, or otherwise committing suicide in a way puts stress on the system by forcing people to clean up the mess, or attempt to save you, certainly seems like it should be illegal to me. Particularly true if there is some sort of public healthcare system in place I think.
Now clinical, assisted suicide type scenerios, probably not.
Anyways, I wasn't attempting to be particularly insightful, so don't look into it too much;)
Anyone can get your WEP key with just a handful of minutes and a tiny bit of know-how. If someone knows enought to try changing its settings to make it better suit their needs, you can be sure they can crack your WEP key. Cracking WEP networks is particularly easy, and useful if you live next to the network in question.
Seriously people, stop using WEP unless you actually understand the consequences and can make an informed decision to ignore them.
Also, ethernet and wifi are significantly different beasts (though DVD quality probably shouldn't be an issue.)
You should still use WPA, it is significantly more secure than WEP. WEP any kid with wifi card can crack in a few minutes but the only effective way to crack WPA is to bruteforce the password. Orders of magnitude more security.
When I got verizon dsl, I told them to just send me a regular router, not an AP/router combo. I just use my own that I bought.
Tip: Verizon also defaults their routers to using WEP. I would really consider not paying for internet if I were you... Think of it this way, it will be one less AP being used which makes it more pleasant for everyone involved.
I think a lot of it has to do with how we percieve numbers and time. I still often catch myself thinking of "one decade ago" as "1990". Anything more than a year or two from now seems a long time away.
And only a dumbass AC would be unable to tell that I was responding to the same person Vanderhoth was responding to, and that my post as well was tongue in cheek.
Presumably getting the keys and pirating games is not the only thing someone might want to do with a PS3.
Unless the keys are somehow related to allowing linux to use the GPU, which I have not seen indicated anywhere, then anyone bitching about how this hack is worthless because he still can't get the keys seems terribly singleminded.
With no linux on the slim, I think it is a pretty safe assumption that Sony has not been planning on allowing linux on the PS4. I highly doubt that Sony can effectively retroactively remove linux support from older PS3's, and if this hack really means nothing, then I really doubt Sony would go out of their way to punish PS3 users in general.
Either this hack is worth something, and will positively aid the PS3 hacking comunity, or it is worthless and nothing will change.
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In the real world, not everyone is all touchy feely with each other all the time. You are the one that needs to do some maturing if you can't even handle a (rather mellow) harshly worded response directed at someone else.
Hell, it was even a rather insightful post, without any profanity to boot!
That's not how you break RSA at all. You break RSA with integer factorization, generally with a general number field sieve. It is thought that factoring 1024 bit RSA keys will become practical with a few dozen thousand dollars of equipment in a few years.
Whoa whoa whoa, but we are to attempt no landing there!
The problem with that is to confirm the checksum your cracker may have to decrypt a much larger portion of the message each time, slowing down the process.
I know you are joking, but I think it should be pointed out that there is no reason this technique can't look for something other than ASCII chars. Most binary files have predictable sequences of bits in them, often some sort of header.
News at 11: Not everyone finds the same things funny.
Up next: Do different people prefer different colors?
Humor does not always make sense, and trying to apply logic to it is a fool's errand.
Why is iPad funny while notpad.exe and thinkpad are not? Because it is.
correction, the linked page should be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Second_Life
It is perfectly legal for you to go buy a printing press, make up your own money, print off as much as you want, then try to convince people to use it. Hell, you can even skip the printing press step. What is illegal is duplicating somebody else's currency.
You do not know what a ponzi scheme is. You are just throwing that term out there because you heard on the news that it is some "big bad, fraudulant thing that rich people sometimes do that hurts poor people".
This has been done numerous times in history, and every time it is a clusterfuck. Nevertheless, there is nothing preventing this system from being implemented today, and to a limited extent, it already is. You want more competition in currency? Invest in foriegn currecies. Plenty of people do it.
Listen, if you fancy yourself an anarchist, or if you think we should go back to a bartering system, or if you think we should put money back on a gold standard, then just say so. Any of those opinions are far more rational and respectable then "it should be legal to counterfiet money". You are not doing yourself any favors with this schpiel.
That was the first time I said that, but if you want to hear it again, go find yourself an economist.
If I have a 6th grade reading level, I shudder to think what yours may be. Did you even make it to my second paragraph? You know, the one where I actually explained how you are wrong. Breaking the law and printing your own money is one thing, legalizing that act is an entirely different animal.
I expect such subtly is lost on you...
Also, let me be the first to inform you that you have absolutely no fucking idea what you are talking about when you start ranting about how the government prints and distributes cash.
When people print money out illegally, it slightly decreases the value of all money by artificially introducing more money into the system without actually introducing more value.
If everyone was allowed to legally print out money, then money would become worthless, even before anyone did anything. This is because everyone would lose faith in the currency entirely.
There is a good reason everyone doesn't just use grass clippings as currency. Honestly your comprehension of economics reminds me a lot of myself... when I was in 6th grade.
Well, I don't think this particular issue is so cut and dry. Throwing yourself off a building, or otherwise committing suicide in a way puts stress on the system by forcing people to clean up the mess, or attempt to save you, certainly seems like it should be illegal to me. Particularly true if there is some sort of public healthcare system in place I think.
Now clinical, assisted suicide type scenerios, probably not.
Anyways, I wasn't attempting to be particularly insightful, so don't look into it too much ;)
You could impale yourself on the pen. Attempted suicide is illegal in some places.
I'd argue that "good WEP router" is an oxymoron ;), but that's an interesting observation, I'll have to look into it more.
Anyone can get your WEP key with just a handful of minutes and a tiny bit of know-how. If someone knows enought to try changing its settings to make it better suit their needs, you can be sure they can crack your WEP key. Cracking WEP networks is particularly easy, and useful if you live next to the network in question.
Seriously people, stop using WEP unless you actually understand the consequences and can make an informed decision to ignore them.
Also, ethernet and wifi are significantly different beasts (though DVD quality probably shouldn't be an issue.)
Negative five!
You should still use WPA, it is significantly more secure than WEP. WEP any kid with wifi card can crack in a few minutes but the only effective way to crack WPA is to bruteforce the password. Orders of magnitude more security.
When I got verizon dsl, I told them to just send me a regular router, not an AP/router combo. I just use my own that I bought.
And if you wanted to be honest about it, you could probably work out a deal with one of your neighbors.
Tip: Verizon also defaults their routers to using WEP. I would really consider not paying for internet if I were you... Think of it this way, it will be one less AP being used which makes it more pleasant for everyone involved.
Go wooosh yourself.
I think a lot of it has to do with how we percieve numbers and time. I still often catch myself thinking of "one decade ago" as "1990". Anything more than a year or two from now seems a long time away.
By any chance, where they reverse-engineered from a saturn v that came from the future to kill John Connor?
And only a dumbass AC would be unable to tell that I was responding to the same person Vanderhoth was responding to, and that my post as well was tongue in cheek.
Presumably getting the keys and pirating games is not the only thing someone might want to do with a PS3.
Unless the keys are somehow related to allowing linux to use the GPU, which I have not seen indicated anywhere, then anyone bitching about how this hack is worthless because he still can't get the keys seems terribly singleminded.
With no linux on the slim, I think it is a pretty safe assumption that Sony has not been planning on allowing linux on the PS4. I highly doubt that Sony can effectively retroactively remove linux support from older PS3's, and if this hack really means nothing, then I really doubt Sony would go out of their way to punish PS3 users in general.
Either this hack is worth something, and will positively aid the PS3 hacking comunity, or it is worthless and nothing will change.