Posts by Charles 9

Re: Well, it's clear infringement

Compaq beat IBM by rolling their own BIOS through Clean-Room Engineering.

Re: RaspberryPi 4?

That's due to MPEG-LA who hold MPEG-related patents.

Re: Maybe it's time for a kickstarter campain...

Not to mention power efficiency, which is a make-or-break issue with portable applications.

Re: Has she been under a rock?

But that's a real problem in today's world: trying to keep a system secure against the Stupid User, who vastly outnumber and outpay the knowledgeable. The IoT problem traces to this, so there are serious real-world repercussions.

Re: Where has she been living?

But like you said, users hate hoop-jumping, which is why they already chafe at deadbolts.

Re: Has she been under a rock?

But then, how do you mesh this with demands from people over your head? How do you mesh security with ease of use, especially when necessary security clashes with necessary ease of use and your superiors demand the latter over the former?

Re: And then of course there is the PoS that is the Intel Management Engine

"People know how to do this. They've known for decades. But they won't accept the performance hit it will impose despite the techniques being around since the late 60'x/early 70's and processors being about 1000x faster."

There's also the simple issue that what man can MAKE, man can BREAK. At SOME point, you have to trust SOMETHING, and that's where a determined adversary can get you.

Re: What is the biggest example of undue trust by security professionals at Black Hat?

But that's the problem behind the problem. You have to trust SOMETHING at SOME point, or nothing gets done. And that trust can always be betrayed.

Re: Where has she been living?

But the problem is that paranoia can result in Turtles All the Way Down. Verify apps? Who verifies the verifier? Signatures? Forged by someone who co-opt ed the keys. You can't operate on complete distrust because you eventually end up in DTA Mode and nothing gets done. You ultimately have to trust SOMETHING, and ANY trust can be betrayed.

Re: ...existing drivers pushed to unemployment

Forget the Middle East. Try China, where patriarchal traditions mean almost everyone insists on sons to the point the population there HEAVILY skews male. AND China has nukes AND that Eastern mentality of Death Before Dishonor.

Re: You can already buy one

Does it have to be an actual physical on-board 1080p screen? Most of these will drive a 1080p monitor via the HDMI port.

Re: Most people don't need a powerful computer...

So what happens when amateurs want to edit their home movies? Or want to play halfway-decent games from the likes of Steam?

Re: Linux?

I own an Intel-based version of this (mostly as a media device, so lack of power isn't an issue, the onboard GPU does the lifting--sucks at 3D but plenty of oomph for 1080p). He's right, it'll likely uses eMMC (and it CAN be a bit skimpy, mine only has 32GB), so they'll likely have an SD or MicroSD slot to use for data storage. There's just about no way you can get 20 hours of battery life with spinning rust.

Re: Emulation ?

So a combination of recompilation and native libraries. Since it's not on the fly after the first invocation, and since it's software-based, Intel would probably lose in a lawsuit given existing prior art.

Re: TPS anyone?

But don't be surprised if in future you're just given fake details so as to put the blame on another company while the actual nagger is safely covered by hostile powers.

No good. They'll just call back, and odds are the calls bounce through hostile nations to block tracing and the number ID is fake. In which case you're talking to a nagger who knows he can't be stopped short of a whitelist, which most phones won't use because they'd block out customers and those who order privatization services.

Re: Faraday+?

"Is one counter measure to feed random radio noise into (or just outside) your Faraday cage walls? Possibly around the frequencies the scanner uses?"

That's an active jammer and illegal under US federal law. This is true of the LEOs, too, though. AFAIK, only the military can use jammers and only while in active operations.

Don't think that's going to help you. Those frequencies mean a very narrow bandwidth, meaning they're likely to get through the case. Plus they can probably use enough local power to overwhelm it in any event.

"Gordon, my parent's house is on the side of a hill and the nearest tower is on the other side of the hill."

Sounds like you might want to invest in a passive reflector hoisted above your house so the signal has a chance to bounce around the hill.

Re: meh

Not that great, though. I recall the physical limits of an underwater fiber optic bundle beat the physical limit of wireless transmission by several orders of magnitude, and as much as wireless efficiency is improving, so is fiber-optic efficiency.

Re: old news

They wouldn't be that stupid. They'd either figure it out anyway or (here's the rub) just blast everything to be sure. Making them search can increase potential for collateral damage and innocent casualties.

Re: meh

The problem is physics. You simply cannot transmit as much over open air than you can through the confines of a cable.

Re: Easy answer

Wouldn't they just counter with trained attack dolphins? And lasers don't operate well underwater.

Re: Preferred solution to electronic voting >

But without politicians, how do you get things done short of war? If you and another state/district have a trade dispute or whatever, how does it get settled without bloodshed?

In the US in the 60's a lot of the student protests over Vietnam were because they were old enough to be sent to die but not old enough to vote for the people sending them to their deaths. Without politicians, how would such wrongs get corrected given there could be true injustices that are actually endorsed by the majority?

IOW, how do you get around the phrase "Necessary Evil"?

Re: Anonymous - why?

No, because you now get stupid or random votes which are just as bad, especially in close contests where Unintended Consequences. Some would say recent elections resulted in Unintended Consequences due to stupid votes.

Re: I smell BS

Because we realize computers can't predict what it doesn't know. Heck, WE can't handle a defense system properly without all the parameters. We can't expect man-made computers to be any better.

Re: Commonsense isn't common

For example, never assume everyone writes or types left-to-right (Hebrew and Arabic are both right-to-left, as are other Middle East languages).

Re: We've been here before...

Or put simply, measurements are always taken as a singular since the unit (plural or not) is describing a single continuous thing: not the thing itself but an aspect of that thing, and that thing usually only has ONE of each aspect. You don't normally drive a kilometer 1,000 discrete meters at a time, nor do you hold a meter of ribbon in 100 separate 1cm pieces. Don't go by the unit; go by what the unit is describing.

Re: Complete Bullshit

Wanna bet? Remember what the American phone world was like BEFORE the iPhone?

Re: The fundamental problem

Which is why I like to refer to raw capitalism as "winner economics" or as "life's big poker tournament."

Re: The System of Legal Fraud

Technically, that's more tax evasion than anything else. Think the days of Charles Dickens.