Sorry, but that's a bit too strong. The algorithms have not been standardized yet, and one of the finalists got broken (using 1 hour on a general purpose PC, not a quantum computer). After that the OID's and whatnot need to be assigned, the generic cryptographic libraries need to support them, and finally the protocols that use the algorithms need to be updated. When that is done we can start to phase out cryptographic implementations that may be vulnerable. And that will take a lot of time as well, if just to replace the entire current PKIX infrastructure.

Well, to be fair, this is common to software development. If you change something then you may have problems down the line. It is not clear if this was a dormant bug or that it was just the system misbehaving because the parameters were changed in a way incompatible with the system. And yes, they caught it by testing.

If it was a dormant bug it would be somewhat of a problem as it indicates that everything may not have been tested as well as should be expected. So in that case it could be an indication of the software quality / design. It would be interesting to know that. I've once commented on a platform where such a bug triggered that the design and coding practices were so substandard that I could not endorse it. That platform went the way of the dodo. However, I may hope that this is not the case for these kind of systems and that sensible review is in place.

All in all, I cannot really fault them for it as described. And by now I'm not really a well wisher for Boeing in any way. I still have strong doubts about the MAX, but if they iron this particular bug out then sure, fine. Thanks for letting us know. I just hope the programmers don't get sweaty hands from all the pressure, because that cannot help quality either..

It is very common for devices to have debugging ports, and it is unlikely to be useful for anything else because you cannot hook it up to ethernet *and* use the lightning connector.

And Apple is well known for doing this as well, it seems. From the article: "Apple has a history of hiding ports on its products designed purely for service, diagnostics, and support."

"If you live in the US, poverty is not unavoidable. It is usually a consequence of your own actions."

Ah, yes, the American dream. You already said it yourself: "But I'm very blessed.". Not all people are.

Saying that everybody can get out of the trap is non-sense. It may be very invigorating for you to think so, but in the end you're turning it around.

That you made it doesn't mean that everybody else can. Do you really think the *because they want to be*, because they are lazy, because they are quitters?

Just for fun, draw up a list of all the things that could have stopped you achieving what you did. You might find life is even better than you expected. You'll hopefully also see that your life cannot be lived by everybody else.

Yeah, that kinda took the fun out of it. I blame the /. editing tools. It *was* perfectly aligned.

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We're moving into a situation where the climate changes will force people from coastal areas, both poor and rich alike. We're still polluting and depleting the Earth at an alarming rate. Furthermore, the income gap between the rich and poor is widening. There seems to very little control, and where it does exist it's often more evil than where it doesn't exist. Besides all that we're still living in between nukes and nuclear power plants and those *are* going to blowup once in a while, if history has thought us anything. All these facts will lead almost certainly to renewed war and social instability.

Sure it feels cozy living at the current time (I say when 30% in NL, one of the richest countries in the world, has problems balancing their checkbooks). But I don't assume that's universal, and I surely don't think it will last.

One of the more likely scenarios for never having had any contact with a alien civilization is that they blew themselves up just a few thousand years after the first big scientific breakthroughs. One of the issues with globalization is that extinction will be global as well.

Then again, I'm going to ponder this over further behind a freshly made capucino.

I was looking in vain for my ethernet port for my Lenovo Yoga 3 laptop lately. Very nice price for a good IPS touch display, WiFi AC, backlit keyboard, Samsung SSD, i7 and 8.6 GB of RAM. But when my cable internet provider asked me to test the connection I was searching in vain for my ethernet port. I never even imagined that such a machine comes without ethernet support. Fortunately the USB 3 ethernet connector of Lenovo is pretty cheap and works amazingly well. As you still need the ethernet cable I'm not sure that USB-3 has replaced it, but it certainly replaced the port on the laptop.

...the swoosh you're hearing is the joke becoming airborne.

Hash is crypto. Its not encryption although with a bit of effort it can be turned into a stream cipher.

In this case I agree. It's: 1) install raspbian 2) install [dionaea](http://dionaea.carnivore.it/), the honeypot software. And...that's about it. Some general download and configuration options are present. It's easy to follow and read and therefore probably a good blog entry, but not exactly news.

So where is the heartbleed bug report that was ignored?

Yes, but that's not what this seems to be about:

For something that includes experimental patches, *boring* would be an extremely stupid part of the name.

RSA is a purposefully weak cipher? Citation needed!

You don't need to eat them all. Just turn them into jam and distribute. I'll happily eat the jam.