If only it was able to be used as login info, except you would need something else for security since the public key is public, and the private key should not be transfered to a 3rd party.
So then, how exactly does SSH with public key encryption work? The bank/govt/consumer electronics store/ has the gpg key on file, and only you can prove ownership by signing something with the private key.
I'd rather have the federal government managing it directly. Large corporations are just as cooperative with the cops as your average branch of government, and at least the federal government doesn't have a profit motive
Once you control enough money, and enough land, there's only one thing worth enough to control, and it's people. Things like this need to be done with as much protections from a central controlling power as possible.
There may be countries where the government is trustworthy enough to allow this. But the United States isn't one of them.
In fact, the government was set up to not trust itself. The framers of the constitution didn't trust the government they were creating, so they crafted it to be full of gridlock.
'We are not talking about a national ID card,' says Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, whose department will be in charge of the program. 'We are not talking about a government-controlled system'
I've read his resume. He works at Nokia, not for Free Software Foundation. He's not a philosopher or a lawyer either. It's pretty easy to say that he's acting in the interest of the company that feeds his face and lines his wallet Remi went out on his own to try to pull the app and succeeded.
But people's well founded fear is that this trend does not stop at iDevice. If it spreads to Macs, expect Windows 9 to do the same thing. Linux Users will have to build beige boxes, and depending on how many congress critters are purchased, may find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
My wife saw a ghost hunters where they were in the woods when something flashed across the screen (black and white night vision). They replayed it a couple of times. My wife showed it to me, it was obvious to me on first viewing that the silhouette was a deer that finally decided the idiots where too close and sprinted out of there. The freeze frame left no doubt it was a deer, but the ghost hunters could only say 'something' was out there.
Just because they were hunting ghosts doesn't mean they couldn't find a unicorn.
According to this study, people reacted instinctively (arousal) to what would happen (porn photo) mere seconds before hand. There's nothing to indicate that anyone could use that information to change the future. Imagine that the random picture game was a choice game: they will choose only one or the other photo, and the arousal/non-arousal will let them know which they'll receive, but not which they'll choose.
They'd have to find someone who is aroused by watching a specific someone else win, and place side-bets mere moments before they win.
My virtual keyboard is translucent, allowing the reading of the bright green text underneath. More than enough to edit a config file and restart a service. Nothing beyond an emergency warrants me using my phone like that.
I have a 2007 MBP that supports WOL. Go to System Preferences... Energy Saver... and click "wake for Ethernet network access"
Now try turning it off and send the magic packet. Doesn't work does it? Then it's not Wake On Lan. And don't start double speaking about Start on Lan because nobody calls it that except Apple marketing.
I've been using WoL with my Macs since i got an iMac in 2000 (my first Mac with integrated Ethernet). They don't have Start on LAN support, but I've never had any problems waking a sleeping Mac... even over WAN.
Spoken just like the Apple shills on the forums. Everyone else in the entire computer industry refers to waking a computer from an OFF state via magic packet as Wake On Lan. Only Apple redefines WOL as (only from sleep) because they're too myopic to see that people actually have to deal with computers that have been turned off instead of fallen asleep.
As one perceptive WoW player said, logging on for the first time after watching the South Park 'Sword of Truth' episode: "They're all bores. Some are bigger, or look different, or have different abilities, but they're all bores."
"hackers could hijack machines by convincing users to view a rigged thumbnail... in an online WebDAV file-sharing folder."
redirects to webdav sites are something hard for users to look out for on the web
if you can hold off from running every exe you get in your email until next tuesday, you'll be fine.
honestly, it's not like every zero-day is a new botnet.
From FTA:
"Attackers could feed users malicious PowerPoint or Word documents containing a malformed thumbnail, then exploit their PCs if the document was opened or even previewed, said Microsoft. Alternately, hackers could hijack machines by convincing users to view a rigged thumbnail on a network shared folder or drive, or in an online WebDAV file-sharing folder."
Apple has discovered that they don't like selling hardware. iTunes gets them more profit margin. They kill the Xserve line, and make a virtual product that any computer can use, and which probably requires iTunes microtransactions to run/install software.
My current mobile device, an iPhone, has a terrible native email client. There is no way to use text-only, view headers, or use pgp. I won't be surprised when a new email worm turns up that takes advantage of an image library that the iPhone mail.app uses. At least if I could view in text-only mode I wouldn't have to wait to click on suspected SPAM until I get to a real computer (Hey, you never know, "1 long 4u" might be an old girlfriend, not viagra SPAM).
This part of your comment reminded me of this article; NASA actually had to post a rather lengthy FAQ about 2012 because of the sheer volume of grief that movie was causing them.
That's nothing. Pluto Nash was causing so much trouble that astronomers downgraded it to a dwarf planet.
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If only it was able to be used as login info, except you would need something else for security since the public key is public, and the private key should not be transfered to a 3rd party.
So then, how exactly does SSH with public key encryption work? The bank/govt/consumer electronics store/ has the gpg key on file, and only you can prove ownership by signing something with the private key.
I'd rather have the federal government managing it directly. Large corporations are just as cooperative with the cops as your average branch of government, and at least the federal government doesn't have a profit motive
Once you control enough money, and enough land, there's only one thing worth enough to control, and it's people. Things like this need to be done with as much protections from a central controlling power as possible.
I see, so you live in Russia?
No, Soviet Russia lives in him.
There may be countries where the government is trustworthy enough to allow this. But the United States isn't one of them.
In fact, the government was set up to not trust itself. The framers of the constitution didn't trust the government they were creating, so they crafted it to be full of gridlock.
'We are not talking about a national ID card,' says Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, whose department will be in charge of the program. 'We are not talking about a government-controlled system'
You Lie.
I've read his resume. He works at Nokia, not for Free Software Foundation. He's not a philosopher or a lawyer either. It's pretty easy to say that he's acting in the interest of the company that feeds his face and lines his wallet Remi went out on his own to try to pull the app and succeeded.
This post makes me want to buy an n900.
But people's well founded fear is that this trend does not stop at iDevice. If it spreads to Macs, expect Windows 9 to do the same thing. Linux Users will have to build beige boxes, and depending on how many congress critters are purchased, may find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
Yeah but that movie sucked. I'd prefer to reference The Thing.
"It's clobberin time!"?
Ghost investigations? Nothing else in the queue for the front page today?
Dear Slashdot, I have family and friends that believe the Earth is 6,600 years old, what tools do I need to prove them right?
A video camera and a time machine. If you're trying to disprove it, bring a spacesuit too.
My wife saw a ghost hunters where they were in the woods when something flashed across the screen (black and white night vision). They replayed it a couple of times. My wife showed it to me, it was obvious to me on first viewing that the silhouette was a deer that finally decided the idiots where too close and sprinted out of there. The freeze frame left no doubt it was a deer, but the ghost hunters could only say 'something' was out there.
Just because they were hunting ghosts doesn't mean they couldn't find a unicorn.
According to this study, people reacted instinctively (arousal) to what would happen (porn photo) mere seconds before hand. There's nothing to indicate that anyone could use that information to change the future. Imagine that the random picture game was a choice game: they will choose only one or the other photo, and the arousal/non-arousal will let them know which they'll receive, but not which they'll choose.
They'd have to find someone who is aroused by watching a specific someone else win, and place side-bets mere moments before they win.
Not just prior art, but why in the hell isn't this obvious to?
Because nothing magic is obvious. This is inside a computer, so it's done by the magical wizard in the box.
My virtual keyboard is translucent, allowing the reading of the bright green text underneath. More than enough to edit a config file and restart a service. Nothing beyond an emergency warrants me using my phone like that.
I have a 2007 MBP that supports WOL. Go to System Preferences... Energy Saver... and click "wake for Ethernet network access"
Now try turning it off and send the magic packet. Doesn't work does it? Then it's not Wake On Lan. And don't start double speaking about Start on Lan because nobody calls it that except Apple marketing.
I've been using WoL with my Macs since i got an iMac in 2000 (my first Mac with integrated Ethernet). They don't have Start on LAN support, but I've never had any problems waking a sleeping Mac... even over WAN.
Spoken just like the Apple shills on the forums. Everyone else in the entire computer industry refers to waking a computer from an OFF state via magic packet as Wake On Lan. Only Apple redefines WOL as (only from sleep) because they're too myopic to see that people actually have to deal with computers that have been turned off instead of fallen asleep.
Don't they mean the same DNA, but a duplicate X chromosome?
As one perceptive WoW player said, logging on for the first time after watching the South Park 'Sword of Truth' episode: "They're all bores. Some are bigger, or look different, or have different abilities, but they're all bores."
FTFY
So does it look like a real flute, or is it more like a recorder or ocarina?
"hackers could hijack machines by convincing users to view a rigged thumbnail ... in an online WebDAV file-sharing folder."
redirects to webdav sites are something hard for users to look out for on the web
if you can hold off from running every exe you get in your email until next tuesday, you'll be fine.
honestly, it's not like every zero-day is a new botnet.
From FTA:
"Attackers could feed users malicious PowerPoint or Word documents containing a malformed thumbnail, then exploit their PCs if the document was opened or even previewed, said Microsoft. Alternately, hackers could hijack machines by convincing users to view a rigged thumbnail on a network shared folder or drive, or in an online WebDAV file-sharing folder."
Apple has discovered that they don't like selling hardware. iTunes gets them more profit margin. They kill the Xserve line, and make a virtual product that any computer can use, and which probably requires iTunes microtransactions to run/install software.
My current mobile device, an iPhone, has a terrible native email client. There is no way to use text-only, view headers, or use pgp. I won't be surprised when a new email worm turns up that takes advantage of an image library that the iPhone mail.app uses. At least if I could view in text-only mode I wouldn't have to wait to click on suspected SPAM until I get to a real computer (Hey, you never know, "1 long 4u" might be an old girlfriend, not viagra SPAM).
This part of your comment reminded me of this article; NASA actually had to post a rather lengthy FAQ about 2012 because of the sheer volume of grief that movie was causing them.
That's nothing. Pluto Nash was causing so much trouble that astronomers downgraded it to a dwarf planet.
Even when I saw the name here, I was like: "wow, is that another 2001, like 2010? I should see that" Then I looked it up on IMDB. :(
Glad I use an iPhone and it's really a computer.