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Comment Re:One-time pad (Score 0) 307

Not really hard. Buy two 2 TB drives, fill them with the same, cryptographically strong random data. Travel with both drives to one secure endpoint, deposit one drive there. Return to the other secure endpoint, deposit the other drive there. The drives are never out of your possession until they are in the hands of the other trusted party. Depending on what kind of crap you are encrypting, 2 TB is plenty of pad to last for quite some time.

If physically traveling to the endpoints with the pads is cost-prohibitive, then the data you are protecting probably isn't important enough for OTP anyway.

Comment Re:Crack when there is no DRM? (Score 1) 372

Might have a serial number or something similar you need to enter, with a checksum to verify it's valid. Lots of shareware titles do this. The demo is actually the full game, with just a simple check to see whether or not you're allowed to access all content, or play for longer than 30 minutes at a time, or level up your character past level 10, etc. Not every form of copy-protection is DRM, but if you don't have a legitimate copy you'd still need to bypass it in order to play the full game.

Even bypassing something as simple as a dialog that prompts you to "Type the magic word" to continue, with "the magic word" being what you have to type would qualify as a "crack".

Comment Re:I'm not Australian but... (Score 1) 352

Stop it, STOP IT NOW! political ads and contributions only work because people are unwilling to look into the facts. You are hurting democracy even more than that ruling you refer to. Tell people THEY are responsible for who they vote for and if they don't vote well what the hell do they expect? Even a marginally informed public would look at your Concerned Citizens org. and ask who are they. They would form their opinion only on facts that they knew to be true, were reasonable and coherent not some scandal or decision of the moment. "If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty." Thomas Jefferson. Place the blame where it is due, bans on campaign contributions are only a simplistic band-aid of a solution.

Comment Re:Home schooling vs. school duty (Score 1) 1324

"Nazism is not an opinion, but a crime." I tend to agree.

Right. It's a crime to hold a certain opinion. Wonder where that idea comes from.

Reading comprehension isn't your forte, is it now? As I've already told you it was your government along with its UK, French and Soviet friends.

You also fail to grasp the particulars of the German ban on Nazi symbols. It's not against the law to think and say that Hitler was a great guy. You can tweet all day long about it! What you can't do is use a (black) swastika (in a white circle on red ground) as your Twitter buddy icon.

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Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones 220

Trio writes "What will cellphones look like in in future? silicon.com explores five future characteristics that could shape tomorrow's phones — from a wearable prototype such as MIT's SixthSense device which projects mobile data into the user's world, to a mobile that mixes the real and the virtual by using holographic telepresence. So far, so futuristic, but one question remains: will there be enough spectrum to support all this wireless communication?"

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 402

Sorry about the phrasing -- the "you'd" there is the general/rhetorical you, not addressed to you as a person. Or in other words, that was meant as agreement that the designers and folks in Newport News would be planning ahead or capable of handling this with what we expect today.

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