I for one, am using it. I'm not loving it, but at the same time, I haven't loved any version of Windows. Not truly, anyway. HOWEVER, I am not hating it either. I have, so far, not actually experienced any problems.
simply make it illegal to withhold your keys from government agents It's worse than that. You can be arrested for not just withholding keys, but by simply being unable to provide a key. A brief hypothetical to illustrate my point; I build an uber-warez-downloading rig. My TrueCrypt key is set on install to be the contents of/dev/random. My PC is on the world's greatest UPS with a backup generator etc. etc. As long as the PC is enver powered down, it works like a regular PC. However, kill the power and the encryption key is lost and by data is effectively worthless.
My PC is taken in (and unplugged) as evidence. The fuzz demands to know my key. Which is impossible to be told as it is now gone and nobody knew what it was in the first place. Even if they have no definite proof that there was anything illegal on my PC, as I cannot decrypt the contents of the HDD for them, I am arrested.
You can limit your max upload speed/available upload slots to 0. It's kinda being a bit of a greedy bastard but if you're so worried about getting caught...
she has zero evidence of what happens if she had let them all watch porn all day and play games to their fill because there is only 1 chance to do it and you will never know the alternative's results Don't worry, I turned out fine!
If I had mod points, I would have modded you up, instead of posting this.
If this is true, it means the keyspace is only 2,901,650,853,888. Assuming passwords are hashed as MD5, using only one PC, it would only take about 5 days to brute-force a password. That's bad.
That was a very simple, very quick example. The Wikipedia article explains it in more detail, but essentially it's possible to create a phishing email which will be very convincing (it's pointing to the bank's own site after all).
For example, if an attacker hosts a malicious website, which contains a link to a vulnerable page on a client's local system, a script could be injected and would run with privileges of that user's browser on their system
1. Alice often visits a particular website, which is hosted by Bob. Bob's website allows Alice to log in with a username/password pair and store sensitive information, such as billing information.
2. Mallory observes that Bob's website contains a reflected XSS vulnerability.
3. Mallory crafts a URL to exploit the vulnerability, and sends Alice an email, making it look as if it came from Bob (ie. the email is spoofed).
4. Alice visits the URL provided by Mallory while logged into Bob's website.
5. The malicious script embedded in the URL executes in Alice's browser, as if it came directly from Bob's server. The script steals sensitive information (authentication credentials, billing info, etc) and sends this to Mallory's web server without Alice's knowledge.
A simple example of x-site scripting would be where a black-hat cunningly crafts a URL that points to a location on the bank's site. A user of the bank visits this location, and an interesting piece of JavaScript that's been injected into the URL causes the user's details (cookies, login details etc.) to be sent to another site, so the cracker can get them.
That could enables the movie studios to make movies securely available to viewers on the day of release Bullshit! Ever tried getting a torrent of anything popular (S.T.A.L.K.E.R, C&C3, 300, etc.) the day it's released? Good luck with your HD movie with 1 seeder and 3000 leechers.
Oh and "securely"? Maybe for the first two days after the service is released.
I don't have a rotation, instead I have RSS feeds on my Google personalized homepage. Apart from that, I just have a bookmark that opens all my current favorite comics in new tabs.
Yeah, I've just bought an 8800GTX, in the UK. £350 is about $690; that's a lot of cash for a 16-year-old to be spending at once. Seeing that in your morning RSS feeds before thinking about the date is damn scary.
Honestly, I was expecting something more to do with ponies and such, rather than cheap scare tactics.
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I for one, am using it.
I'm not loving it, but at the same time, I haven't loved any version of Windows. Not truly, anyway. HOWEVER, I am not hating it either. I have, so far, not actually experienced any problems.
My PC is taken in (and unplugged) as evidence. The fuzz demands to know my key. Which is impossible to be told as it is now gone and nobody knew what it was in the first place. Even if they have no definite proof that there was anything illegal on my PC, as I cannot decrypt the contents of the HDD for them, I am arrested.
But this is purely hypothetical, remember.
Your wish is granted!
It was shit though...
You can limit your max upload speed/available upload slots to 0.
It's kinda being a bit of a greedy bastard but if you're so worried about getting caught...
Hammer time.
Thanks for breaking my browser's form autocompletion and password manager functions.
Insensitive clod...
Nope. Everyone knows that when you donate money to open source projects like this, the developers spend the money on beer and porn.
$100K is gonna fund a hell of a lot of time wasting.
....F0or someone to port Quake III Team Arena!
I won't believe it until NetCraft confirms it!
You don't have to buy Halo, but you're pretty much forced into buying their OS. It's best for them to keep people happy about Halo.
I have an Athlon64 X2 4200+ runnign at 3GHz. With Windows Vista Ultimate, sitting at the desktop takes just 00-02% CPU usage.
I wouldn't call that very demanding.
If I had mod points, I would have modded you up, instead of posting this.
They should have talked to the guys behind the Command & Conquer cut-scenes. They were (and still are in C&C3) absolutely amazing.
Although, I don't think the whole live action thing would work too well with Halo.
If this is true, it means the keyspace is only 2,901,650,853,888. Assuming passwords are hashed as MD5, using only one PC, it would only take about 5 days to brute-force a password. That's bad.
2. Mallory observes that Bob's website contains a reflected XSS vulnerability.
3. Mallory crafts a URL to exploit the vulnerability, and sends Alice an email, making it look as if it came from Bob (ie. the email is spoofed).
4. Alice visits the URL provided by Mallory while logged into Bob's website.
5. The malicious script embedded in the URL executes in Alice's browser, as if it came directly from Bob's server. The script steals sensitive information (authentication credentials, billing info, etc) and sends this to Mallory's web server without Alice's knowledge.
A simple example of x-site scripting would be where a black-hat cunningly crafts a URL that points to a location on the bank's site. A user of the bank visits this location, and an interesting piece of JavaScript that's been injected into the URL causes the user's details (cookies, login details etc.) to be sent to another site, so the cracker can get them.
Oh and "securely"? Maybe for the first two days after the service is released.
For inspiration, see what Ben Heck's done. He's a console modding god. If you want aftermarket, and are skilled with tools, make it portable!
Oh, and I have to mention his Xbox 360 laptop. Because it rocks.
Who says I copied? Who says I didn't write the Wikipedia article?
I don't have a rotation, instead I have RSS feeds on my Google personalized homepage. Apart from that, I just have a bookmark that opens all my current favorite comics in new tabs.
Yeah, I've just bought an 8800GTX, in the UK. £350 is about $690; that's a lot of cash for a 16-year-old to be spending at once. Seeing that in your morning RSS feeds before thinking about the date is damn scary.
Honestly, I was expecting something more to do with ponies and such, rather than cheap scare tactics.
Fine by me, I'll just copy the file first.
So why does it cost $4.99 for a feature which tas taken very little work to implement?
OK, so it's fair that they're charging for it - if you believe their excuse, but why not $0.99 or $1?
> It would also seem to mean that installers will have to create special cases for Vista, which seems pointless to me
Installed Halo, now a fairly old game, onto a Vista machine and BAM, straight into the games menu thingy.
OK, so it's published by Microsoft Game Studios, but still, it proves that a special installer may not be required.