Do you have reference on that? I mean, the injection part, no the MD4 is broken part.

Since preimage attacks on MD4 are far from practical, you cannot inject bogus packet to infect a given file. You need to create a special file that exists in two versions: a legitimate one and a bogus one. Then you would have to get people to download you file, and now you can inject the bogus version. But I would be really surprised if someone was actually doing this: it's much easier and just as efficient to infect some file with a trojan and distibute it.

You need a really badly broken hash in order to be able to inject packets in a random file.

The efficiency of a radiant heater is essentially one, just like a convective heater. If you want something more efficient you have to use a heat pump.

In France, we have many flats with electric heaters (mostly convective), and in this situation incandescent light do not use more energy that energy-saving bulbs in winter. The extra energy creates heat, and that translates to less energy used by the heater.

I think you're being affected by the same kind of syndrome as those Russians...

Here in Europe we don't really consider America to be the Land of the Free anymore. To begin with, it's a pain in the ass to enter that country, and they take your fingerprints when they let you enter. Then you loose all your rights as soon as someone claims you might be a terrorist. It's a country were Freedom of Speech has been replaced with Political Correctness. Regarding elections, their campaigns are so expensive that you have to befriend someone with deep pockets if you want to stand a chance (and that comes with some strings attached). Consequently, their foreign policy is more accurately described as "we need oil" than as "let's give those people freedom".

Sure it's not as bad a a proper dictatorship, but maybe you should be worried about those issues, and not just blindly support your country. The original ideals were great, but they have been kind of subverted along the way...

If they try to force everybody to use buy a new TV, a new player, and a set of new discs, most people will just download a pirated copy...

The LSBs of a bitmap file do not usually have full entropy, so if you hide encrypted data in it, it's still possible to detect it.

The problem is not the new model in itself. If you consider price discrimination to be a good thing, then the new model is indeed a win-win. (Actually, if you account for the fact that Intel has to put some extra silicon in the chip to support this new model, it's not going to be a definite win-win, but let's forget about that)

The problem is that in order for this new model to work, you have to resign you property rights on the piece of harware that you buy. You will no longer be allowed to do whatever you want with it. You will only have a license to use it in some restricted way. The software industry and the entertainment industry went down that road some time ago, and many of us feel it as a bad thing. We don't want the same to happen with our hardware.

Actually, thanks to the DMCA, you no longer have the right to break it.

You can replace the DMCA by the EUCD or similar legislation depending on where you leave, and the ACTA is going to solve this issue in a consistent way.

I think their plan is to release a standard protocol as well as one implementation of the protocol, and I certainly hope that the protocol will be implemented by other people.

But a standardized protocol is not everything. We've had a standardized protocol for instant messaging for some time (Jabber aka XMPP), but there are still many incompatible proprietary protocols out there (MSN, AIM, Skype, ...). Jabber is gaining some momentum because Google is using it for Google Talk, and the same thing might happen with Diaspora, but I don't think Facebook will switch to an open social networking protocol anytime soon. (However, they did move to Jabber for IM -- but their server is not connected to the rest of the Jabebr world.)