You control your server, so if you're paranoid take some precautions. Set up an account (or better yet, an accout on a new VM) specifically for this with limited permissions and access. If you're really paranoid, you obviously won't be doing this at all.
Wait, let me get this straight. A non-paranoid server admin would allow someone else access to an existing account? Wow.
And here I was, thinking least-possible-privileges was supposed to be rule #1 for a non-insane server admin!
What if Black Unicorn was to post a public key on a place people trust (say, the website where BU first became known) and then use the corresponding private key to sign posts and make them identifiable?
There's no way to tie this key to an actual person, but us readers can verify with certainty that this or that post came from BU herself.
With any trusted PKI (like Black Uincorn's website in this case) in place, the problem you describe has already been solved.
Most likely the grandparent poster meant that if I send you a song, you should not be held accountable for whatever I did to aquire that song. Likewise, it should not be your responsibility to ensure that I have the proper rights to distribute.
These are supposedly using "legitimate" HDCP keys to get access to the protected data (the input to your stripper). It is my understanding that these keys could be revoked, making that stripper (and probably all the others of the same model which use the same key) useless.
This new "crack" allows you to generate new and perfectly valid keys, making the device's "authorization" irrevocable.
1) capture the stream
2) dump it to disc
3) re encode with a good multi pass encoder to any format, size, resolution, and bitrate you want.
Actually, the stream you're capturing is uncompressed and raw video at a ridiculous resolution.
You can't just "dump it to disc" all that easily (it certainly won't fit on another Blu-Ray disc and
I'm not sure a full-length movie would fit on a 2TB hard drive either. That's not even considering
the insane data rates we're talking about. Oh, and then there's the surround sound.
I find it interesting that so many of the comments on this story are actually constructive and objective.
The headline basically asks "Hey, how come so many of you guys are terrorists?". In spite of that,
you don't see anyone on slashdot refuting the idea or questioning the body odors of the author or whatever. What we do post is thoughts about the study, ideas about why the numbers are this way, ways the study may be flawed
and/or improved, etc.
No nerd rage. No flaming. Not even the usual "Correlation is not causation".
Kudos, slashdot. You've shown why geeks rule!
No, but at least in Sweden you can be damn certain that said police officer would be exposed by the press as a nigger-burning, jew-hating, baby eater. (These days, the same thing applies to terrorists and paedophiles and whatever other great evil is in fashion)
Swedbank (Sweden) offers customers an unlimited number of virtual Visa cards with a given maximum amount and expiration date. They are debit cards tied to the same account as your real plastic card.
Seems like a good way to ruin that special place would be to come on slashdot and shout "Hey, come over here and prove you're smarter than the slashdot scum!"
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Personally, I like a bad ending more than the pathetic drudging that some writers do just to keep a popular show alive.
They write an absolute masterpiece, with a decent ending. Then comes season two, and can you guess what? The same guys are in a different prison. Gee, whatever will they do after masterfully escaping the first?
I stopped watching Lost after they got off the island, because it became apparent that the writers were going to keep milking it as far as they could. Dexter found the ice truck killer and got away from the police. The Scofield brothers got out of Fox river. The Galactica exodus settled a planet, lived through hell and then got back off of it.
In my mind, these are good examples of shows which should have ended after one or two seasons but were kept on life-support for ad revenue and franchise milking. At least BSG DID have a decent ending, it just came a couple of seasons too late for my taste.
Japanese anime are typically better in this respect. Often it's a matter of 12 episodes laid out before-hand and then a nice ending. That's it. A few get sequels in a similar format. OK. A few follow the american TV model of 320 episodes and counting, I avoid them like the plague.
$24.95/month is "cheap"? It only gets you a "scabby" connection plan? 100 gigs/month is a lot?
You guys really need to get some new ISPs. Go check if Finland, South Korea or Hong Kong feels like exporting some to you!
I think you are confusing the First World War with the Second World War. There were no Nazis involved in the first war (I really shouldn't have to explain this).
I think you are confusing Germans with Nazis. The First World War was fought between Allied (Russian, French, British, American, Italian, and several others) forces and the European central powers (Among which Germany played a key role).
While the GP referred to "Germans" (as in "people living in the German Empire at the time"), you are referring to "Nazis" as in "National Socialists" (I really shouldn't have to explain this.)
I only just realized that you can go into the slashdot preferences and select which sections of the site you wish to see.
You'll notice that all the iStuff is conveniently collected under the "Apple" section.
Hiding it sure removes a lot of cruft from the front page.
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You control your server, so if you're paranoid take some precautions. Set up an account (or better yet, an accout on a new VM) specifically for this with limited permissions and access. If you're really paranoid, you obviously won't be doing this at all.
Wait, let me get this straight. A non-paranoid server admin would allow someone else access to an existing account? Wow.
And here I was, thinking least-possible-privileges was supposed to be rule #1 for a non-insane server admin!
What if Black Unicorn was to post a public key on a place people trust (say, the website where BU first became known) and then use the corresponding private key to sign posts and make them identifiable?
There's no way to tie this key to an actual person, but us readers can verify with certainty that this or that post came from BU herself.
With any trusted PKI (like Black Uincorn's website in this case) in place, the problem you describe has already been solved.
Most likely the grandparent poster meant that if I send you a song, you should not be held accountable for whatever I did to aquire that song. Likewise, it should not be your responsibility to ensure that I have the proper rights to distribute.
On most *nix systems, use a Tiling Window Manager.
In later (Vista and up, I believe) versions of Windows, try Win+Left or Win+Right to Do a half-maximize of your window (full-height, partial width).
Last time I checked, OSX doesn't maximize windows. What's up with that?
Supply and demand.
These are supposedly using "legitimate" HDCP keys to get access to the protected data (the input to your stripper). It is my understanding that these keys could be revoked, making that stripper (and probably all the others of the same model which use the same key) useless.
This new "crack" allows you to generate new and perfectly valid keys, making the device's "authorization" irrevocable.
1) capture the stream
2) dump it to disc
3) re encode with a good multi pass encoder to any format, size, resolution, and bitrate you want.
Actually, the stream you're capturing is uncompressed and raw video at a ridiculous resolution.
You can't just "dump it to disc" all that easily (it certainly won't fit on another Blu-Ray disc and
I'm not sure a full-length movie would fit on a 2TB hard drive either. That's not even considering
the insane data rates we're talking about. Oh, and then there's the surround sound.
Posting to undo an accidental "Redundant" mod. Really meant +1 (Sad but true).
I find it interesting that so many of the comments on this story are actually constructive and objective.
The headline basically asks "Hey, how come so many of you guys are terrorists?". In spite of that,
you don't see anyone on slashdot refuting the idea or questioning the body odors of the author or whatever. What we
do post is thoughts about the study, ideas about why the numbers are this way, ways the study may be flawed
and/or improved, etc.
No nerd rage. No flaming. Not even the usual "Correlation is not causation".
Kudos, slashdot. You've shown why geeks rule!
I believe the prices set by these chinese (post-)shanzai shops show what's practically possible...
What would you say to a 7" touchscreen android with wifi & 2GB RAM for under $100 delivered to your door.
I don't see any reason that price can't be halved for a large enough order & then you're only looking at a $15/unit subsidy.
No, it's got 2GB of NAND flash, only 128MB of RAM. Whoever modded you insightful apparently didn't bother clicking that link.
The $35 tablet described in TFS supposedly comes with 2GB of RAM.
My e-mail address is allways your name @ my domain.com (or my domain#2.com
Oh, so to avoid spam you use my name instead of your own? Clever!
But everytime you try to cash in, you're a grammar nazi and you have to pay him... Oh, nevermind.
No, but at least in Sweden you can be damn certain that said police officer would be exposed by the press as a nigger-burning, jew-hating, baby eater. (These days, the same thing applies to terrorists and paedophiles and whatever other great evil is in fashion)
Swedbank (Sweden) offers customers an unlimited number of virtual Visa cards with a given maximum amount and expiration date. They are debit cards tied to the same account as your real plastic card.
Seems like a good way to ruin that special place would be to come on slashdot and shout "Hey, come over here and prove you're smarter than the slashdot scum!"
And no, I wasn't invited either.
Nothing to see here, move along!
Personally, I like a bad ending more than the pathetic drudging that some writers do just to keep a popular show alive.
They write an absolute masterpiece, with a decent ending. Then comes season two, and can you guess what? The same guys are in a different prison. Gee, whatever will they do after masterfully escaping the first?
I stopped watching Lost after they got off the island, because it became apparent that the writers were going to keep milking it as far as they could. Dexter found the ice truck killer and got away from the police. The Scofield brothers got out of Fox river. The Galactica exodus settled a planet, lived through hell and then got back off of it.
In my mind, these are good examples of shows which should have ended after one or two seasons but were kept on life-support for ad revenue and franchise milking. At least BSG DID have a decent ending, it just came a couple of seasons too late for my taste.
Japanese anime are typically better in this respect. Often it's a matter of 12 episodes laid out before-hand and then a nice ending. That's it. A few get sequels in a similar format. OK. A few follow the american TV model of 320 episodes and counting, I avoid them like the plague.
$24.95/month is "cheap"? It only gets you a "scabby" connection plan? 100 gigs/month is a lot?
You guys really need to get some new ISPs. Go check if Finland, South Korea or Hong Kong feels like exporting some to you!
Jason Levine lives each day as if it were his last.
Pet your own damned goldfish.
Burma shave!
Surely, that is and/or should be illegal even disregarding whatever copyright you might have on your likeness?
If we are to err, I'd rather we err.... If you... errrr... Fool me once, you can't get fooled again!
Real men don't have all the original digits attached to their hands.
I think you are confusing the First World War with the Second World War. There were no Nazis involved in the first war (I really shouldn't have to explain this).
I think you are confusing Germans with Nazis. The First World War was fought between Allied (Russian, French, British, American, Italian, and several others) forces and the European central powers (Among which Germany played a key role).
While the GP referred to "Germans" (as in "people living in the German Empire at the time"), you are referring to "Nazis" as in "National Socialists" (I really shouldn't have to explain this.)
I only just realized that you can go into the slashdot preferences and select which sections of the site you wish to see.
You'll notice that all the iStuff is conveniently collected under the "Apple" section.
Hiding it sure removes a lot of cruft from the front page.
Try moving to the former eastern bloc? Just a hunch.
So the project is a "Cluster fuzz" ?