You are incorrect. Intel is creating a chipset for encryption on monitor cables not to guard against Big Brother picking up TEMPEST emissions, but in order to encrypt video all the way to the screen-- the same thing the USB people want to do for USB Audio.
The question is, how will we ever keep Joe Sixpack from buying the crippleware speakers?
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that a machine called "www.ntsecurity.net" buckled quickly under the/. effect. 100% packet loss from where I'm sitting.
>The best way I have found to do it is to take a >trip to Vegas, get $xxK in chips, gamble a >little, then cash in, thereby getting new bills.
Hmm, have you tried this?
I can't find the post, but I distinctly remember a past comment on/. where the poster was pretty definite that the second or third time you tried this, there were FBI and/or Treasury agents around Vegas who would call you in for a nice chat about why you weren't gambling.
I have no knowledge either way, but that caution sounds pretty plausible to me.
I'm never gonna get excited about electronic books wrapped up in encumbering encryption and nasty licenses, especially when draconian copyright laws have dealt such a mortal blow to the open-source alternative.
The downside to systems like this is specifically addressed starting around #48 in the above, but it's worth reading the whole page (and possibly rms's illustrative sci-fi piece) if you have time.
Hmm... this just re-emphasizes the point I've seen on other/. posts... that what we need is a big, fat pipe to a server in a foreign country without these silly monopolies and regulations.
Then we need ubiquitous e-cash so we can publish there anonymously and tell the ASCAP, crypto-export, and other thought police to go chase themselves.
I don't think the NSA not already being interested in you is going to keep you from popping up on their radar screens. I bet their topic ID can spot subjects of interest and distinguish it from "fribble drug deal bomb" gobbledygook.
The NSA was selling topic identification in 1994 that sounds better than today's state of the art. See Bruce Schneier's note inside this linked article.
And I'm not willing to bet my life they haven't maintained their light-years-ahead headstart in breaking crypto (don't forget, these guys' predecessor had COLOSSUS with 56k I/O during WWII), and can read all our PGP messages.
If I ever really have to hide something as I send it over the 'net, I'm gonna use steganography (layer 1) to hide the image of a handwritten note (layer 2, make 'em use OCR) that's in a dead non-Latin-alphabet language (layer 3) written in a mirror (layer 4) inside a PGP-encrypted (layer 5) Pamela Anderson pic.
Well, maybe not. But I at least feel very confident that would be safe. I trust and use PGP, but I'm always uncomfortably aware that NSA has some very very smart people.
Open-source compilers are great because even a dummy like me could've fixed this bug in the DEC compiler, if I'd had source.
With _INTRINSICS defined, the DEC compiler has a special case for sprintf() with only two arguments, and replaces it with a call to memcpy(). This must have seemed like a good idea at the time, but when the second (source) string contains "%%", it is not replaced by a single "%".
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Actually, that's stretching the definition of Pascal's Wager and making it sound really mundane.
Pascal was a smart guy and his Wager is one of the most interesting questions in the philosophy of religion.
See what the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has to say about it.
You are incorrect. Intel is creating a chipset
for encryption on monitor cables not to guard
against Big Brother picking up TEMPEST emissions,
but in order to encrypt video all the way to
the screen-- the same thing the USB people want
to do for USB Audio.
The question is, how will we ever keep Joe Sixpack
from buying the crippleware speakers?
100% packet loss from where I'm sitting.
Anyone have a copy of the article?
>The best way I have found to do it is to take a
/.
>trip to Vegas, get $xxK in chips, gamble a
>little, then cash in, thereby getting new bills.
Hmm, have you tried this?
I can't find the post, but I distinctly remember a past comment on
where the poster was pretty definite that the second or third time you tried this,
there were FBI and/or Treasury agents around Vegas who would call you in for a nice chat
about why you weren't gambling.
I have no knowledge either way, but that caution sounds pretty plausible to me.
If it will run under LinuxPPC on one of these boxes, I am there.
This wonderful pseudo-FAQ explains why and how better than I can.
The downside to systems like this is specifically addressed starting around #48 in the above, but it's worth reading the whole page (and possibly rms's illustrative sci-fi piece) if you have time.
Then we need ubiquitous e-cash so we can publish there anonymously and tell the ASCAP, crypto-export, and other thought police to go chase themselves.
The NSA was selling topic identification in 1994 that sounds better than today's state of the art. See Bruce Schneier's note inside this linked article.
And I'm not willing to bet my life they haven't maintained their light-years-ahead headstart in breaking crypto (don't forget, these guys' predecessor had COLOSSUS with 56k I/O during WWII), and can read all our PGP messages.
If I ever really have to hide something as I send it over the 'net, I'm gonna use steganography (layer 1) to hide the image of a handwritten note (layer 2, make 'em use OCR) that's in a dead non-Latin-alphabet language (layer 3) written in a mirror (layer 4) inside a PGP-encrypted (layer 5) Pamela Anderson pic.
Well, maybe not. But I at least feel very confident that would be safe. I trust and use PGP, but I'm always uncomfortably aware that NSA has some very very smart people.
With _INTRINSICS defined, the DEC compiler has a special case for sprintf() with only two arguments, and replaces it with a call to memcpy(). This must have seemed like a good idea at the time, but when the second (source) string contains "%%", it is not replaced by a single "%".
Though I dunno if this is still true.