Posts by NoneSuch

Re: All you conversations

Seriously, the tin foil hat brigade will go nuts over this. And maybe, they're right.

All the info that gets sucked off Win10 plus the other moves MS is making make me think all of this is going straight to the new NSA datacluster in Utah.

During WW2 the best Enigma code was the equivalent of 88 bit and could be broken using mechanical machines in under 24h.

Today, 75 years later, our encryption standard is 256 bit (or less), while our computing power has scaled logarithmically beyond our wildest dreams.

The US gov says AES 256 is all any of us needs and outlaws anything stronger from being circulated. And no one sees the inherent flaw in this.

Re: Not a green laser.

Can't wait until Curiosity finds SUV's half buried in the dust. The real cause of the death of Mars.

Re: What's all this then?

"Not that we should be worried about the CIA snooping, Brennan said. In the past three weeks, the CIA has appointed a privacy and civil liberties officer as a full member of senior staff. The person will review all CIA activities to ensure they are legal, Brennan said."

A den of thieves has hired a thief to make sure they stay honest.

Well, I'm satisfied.

Re: Irresponsible

"So the courts take up valuable time with this shit when they could have been dealing with more important issues."

Yup, let's sue the phone company because someone called in a bomb threat. Obviously the phone company is to blame.

Re: Worth 1,000 Words

The nuclear option is not porn. It's photos of a Wendy's Baconator, Pulled Pork sandwich, Ham with melted cheese sandwich, that sort of thing.

Or a photo of the 75 virgins waiting for them in the afterlife.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sag79qwytew/Tb482J5DQJI/AAAAAAAAAF8/1bzuL0lwgpk/s1600/72_virgins_osama.jpg

Re: Hang on

"Where's the DevOps angle in this?"

It's as fantastical as 100% uptime, so...

Re: Recursion?

Combine this with Quantum Mechanics and you may create a parallel universe where I'm not crap at video shooters.

Re: The Glastonbury Module

Welcome to the ISS Play Room. Game of darts?

PS. I expected "embiggened" in the title. Am somewhat disappointed. :)

Or worse...

It is possible for info to be data mined from the electrical grid.

http://www.jammed.com/~jwa/tempest.html

Bitcoin?

Nawww... Just send your banking password to GCHQ and they'll vet it for strength and complexity.

Silly me, I just realized they already have it.

Reg: Please don't place Assange and Snowden on the same page. Those two diametrically opposed personalities need to be separated in all things.

Re: @codysydney: Because, Dear Commentard.

"Internet security, for the main part, is crap...."

Yes sir, because the NSA / GCHQ wants it to be that way.

Any American created communications security protocols and standards should be considered unusable after the Snowden revelations. They are designed with inherent flaws from day one and cannot be trusted.

Enigma in WW2 had (at best) 88 bit security which was broken by maths and mechanical machines in days. Today, some seventy years later, the best we are allowed to use (by US Commerce legislation) is 256 bit. And no one sees this to be an issue.

Snowden only told us what he knew. I'll bet there is a lot he was never given access too. A universal review of all encryption methods needs to be done with the US barred from the room. Think of it like the metric system. The rest of the world can use it and the Yanks can keep their inches.

"Organisations should keep backups of important data in offline sources and have a response plan in place should ransomware hit their networks."

The IT Response Plan: Sack the meathead responsible for browsing hard core porn sites on their work laptop causing several thousand dollars in IT Dept. time and effort to reverse.

The Executives Response Plan: Cut the VP Of Marketing some slack. It won't happen again.

Absolutely correct. I built my last gaming rig three years ago with hand picked parts and it still out-performs brand new Dells today.

Videos coming up next

The Rolling Stones as the Thunderbirds

Morrissey as Captain Scarlet

Wolf Alice as Space 1999

Sir...

Our mainframe has determined you have an 87% chance of committing theft in the second degree within the next forty-eight hours. This crime carries a sentence of two years in jail. Therefore, you shall receive 87% of that sentence or twenty-one months in jail.

No mention...

...of a little Korean company called Samsung...

It's all China's fault.

Re: Revenues

"At last count, Apple makes 94% of the profits of all mobile phones sold worldwide."

Wow. Considering Apple's iPhone sales outside the United States are single digit percentages, that's one hell of a markup.

Here's a link (from an admittedly biased web site) on the state of sales in 2015.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/01/28/samsung-vs-apple-smartphone-sales-2015/

Five more miles

And he would have been in International waters. Next time run faster.

Goodbye Democracy

It was nice while it lasted.

We're sorry

You have failed to enter a correct password three times and have been denied entry to your vehicle. You will be unable to try again for twenty minutes. The car sensors recognize the parking lot is experiencing high winds and driving rain so the car will play Top 40 hits for you to listen to while the timer counts down.

Thank you for your patience.

Shortage of new product

Never heard of them running out of stuff after release. No wait... They do that all the time, don't they?

It's either a deliberate marketing ploy (which is probable) keeping product out of the hands of their customers to make the demand look much higher than it really is...

Or it's inept management. And honestly, if they can't get it right by this time, people need to be fired.

Re: Your move, FBI

Which encryption?

Which algorithm?

What key length?

Who holds the keys?

Not a lot of detail here to hang my hat on.