carvell - Slashdot User

Comment Re:usb keyboard? (Score 1) 208

by carvell on Sunday July 12, 2009 @05:42AM (#28666231) Attached to: Stealing Data Via Electrical Outlet

Very, very often, the individual cables (0v, 5v, D+, D-) within the cable aren't shielded from each other, there's just a shield round the whole lot.

This attack talks about data getting from the data lines to the ground line, which would still happen with most USB cables, certainly the vast majority of keyboards I'd reckon.

More likley to knock the noise out is the fact that the data is transmitted as D+ and D- in USB. If the D+ leaks onto the 0v wire, the D- can also leak, which just cancels the D+ out, so nothing is seen.

Comment They claimed they made little money from it... (Score 1, Insightful) 1870

by carvell on Friday April 17, 2009 @07:21AM (#27609373) Attached to: Pirate Bay Trial Ends In Jail Sentences

From Torrentfreak: "Neither has it been shown that Fredrik made any money from the site argued Nilsson. There was some advertising revenue generated by the site, he said, but this went to cover the site's operating costs."

The court doesn't hand out fines that can't be paid back - it's not in the court's interest.

Considering the $3.5m fine, were the founders perhaps not telling the whole truth about how much money they made from the site?

Submission + - Pirate Bay founders found guilty

Submitted by carvell on Friday April 17, 2009 @05:56AM

carvell writes: A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail. They were also ordered to pay 30m kronor (£2.4m) in damages. In a Twitter posting, Mr Sunde said: "Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theatre for the media." Mr Sunde went on to say that he "got the news last night that we lost". "It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release."

Comment Re:Encryption (Score 1) 217

by carvell on Thursday May 08, 2008 @04:31PM (#23342632) Attached to: China to Deploy Secure GPS by 2010

This is correct. ledow says that the US have turned off encryption, which they haven't, they have only turned off SA. The two are completely different and the more precise encrypted signals still exist.

Submission + - Major blow for OLPC (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by carvell on Friday January 04, 2008 @07:42AM

carvell writes: According to reports, it looks like Intel have pulled out of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, citing "philosophical" differences as the reason. Back in May 2007 the OLPC founder, Nicholas Negroponte said that Intel should be ashamed of themselves, as they had planned a "rival" "classmate" laptop, intended to drive out the OLPC competition. Could this latest development be related to the classmate at all? Although OLPC appear to be using AMD processors, surely the loss of a major company backing the project will have repercussions for the OLPC project as a whole.

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