AFAIK, the keyfile is only useful to avoid brute-force attacks against your passphrase - it is still derived down to the same encryption/decryption key length as would have been derived from your passphrase. If you've got encrypted partitions loaded, the key is in memory, and the keyfile is utterly irrelevant.

If you've got a firewire port in the machine, you're game over.

Otherwise, it depends on whether there's any direct remote exploits on the version of Windows you're running - I haven't heard of any of those for a long time.

Auto-locating the decryption keys (for multiple products) rather than manually digging through a 16gig ram dump is easily worth $300 :) - I'd kinda expect law enforcement companies to have already come up with tools, though (or, perhaps more likely, be paying (lots more) for already-existing products).

What's not to believe?

So, we encode the bitstreams as "viagra" for 1, "penis!" for 0? (same length strings, obviously, to make the processing more efficient).

Not as long as you accept MITM SSL certificates, no :-)

True - I just assumed he meant "reader", most "normal people" I've heard refer to the program either calls it "Adobe PDF" or perhaps "Adobe Acrobat" :)

I'd kinda assume somebody using the (indeed pretty darn expensive!) Acrobat to know what the program is called... or at least not having an issue typing "Adobe" and then picking acrobat from the result list. Then again, marketing drones... :)

Who actually starts their PDF reader in any other way than through clicking on a .pdf, or selecting "open" as the action in their web browser? (Heck, "normal" people would most likely have the crappy and insecure in-browser AdobePDF, or would be using Chrome).

In DOS, you had to navigate to the directory your application was installed in, or type the full path - and if you hadn't actively installed something like 4DOS, you had to type out everything in full. With the Start Screen (and the new-style Start Menu of Vista and Win7 too), you type a few words (heck, often only a few characters) from the application name. Sure, it takes a bit getting used to the she start-screen of Win8, but it's IMHO more useful than the start menu since it's full-screen and thus can show more information.

But I guess I'm biased - I've always thought the old start menu and it's nested folders was sucky, and have used a combination of quicklaunch bars (DonationCoder's LaunchBarCommander) and keystroke launchers (Find And Run Robot, Launchy) ever since the XP days. I like my keyboard goodness.

"So, umm... wanna come home and check out my tub? I've got a lot of bathing salts."

That alone isn't enough to call him a Christian, though.

FWIW: my X25-E (Intel's SLC based 'enterprise' SSD - firstgen with large fab size) died after a few years of not-so-intensive use. It's been my experience (two of my own drives, and what has happened to a couple of friends) that when an SSD dies, it doesn't seem to be because you exhaust the P/E cycles.

Linux: IPX protocol null-pointer dereference exploit. Apache: chunked-encoding exploit. Not as long-standing as the NTVDM or GDI exploits in NT, but still pretty darn bad.

I had hoped to see that answered with "I wish I had started git as libgit+git from the get-go, instead of the hacky shell-script semi-architecture it started with" - but that's (obviously) because I value portability and embeddability in other projects.

Also, while I appreciate Linus' outspoken no-bullshit personality, I find that sometimes it devolves into cursing and rudeness - this is one of the occasions where he's entirely mellow, lucid and reasonable, and that's nice to see :-)

You'd get a +1 if I had mod points - although I would assume Blymie takes offense at the word 'automagic' moreso than the process being... automagic ;-)

I guess it wouldn't be a half bad way to manage Gentoo's portage or FreeBSD's ports, but it doesn't seem like a smart idea for binaries - and I wonder if the bulk source (rather than the makefiles, patches and descriptors of a portage/ports system) would be manageable, assuming that most people would want to only download the source for the parts they need. How'd one do that with Git - huge amount of submodules?