This article makes very little sense to me. They don't mention what the crypto algorithm was or who was pushing it as the "next gen standard". I don't know of any proposed cryptographic standard with 923 bit anything.

Taking a quick look at the JavaScript they use there doesn't appear to be anything particularly unusual going on such as browser fingerprinting, or even as encompassing as evercookie which can be easily defeated using built in browser options. The only thing that seems different about it is that it attempts to use more storage techniques than other tracking services, browser local storage , e-tag tracking, and ie userdata storage in addition to the common browser and flash cookies. To say that it "can't be dodged", while possibly true for the average user, doesn't hold for anyone who knows how to configure their browser for greater privacy.

Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool? Microsoft Security Essentials?

With no flash or javascript you get a gif version, just by taking the first frame and putting it into even a free ocr application it was able to get the letters for the captcha. This is nothing more than more advertising hocus pocus, as a captcha its pretty much worthless. http://imgur.com/5GfsU.jpg http://www.free-ocr.com/

Does the "liveness" test work as well as those for fingerprint scanners?

I just took a look at their site, which I thought must be amazing for that kind of money, and I found this: <meta name="ICBM" content="52.48002, -1.902805"> What exactly Birmingham City Council up to!? Perhaps the money is going someplace a bit more nefarious.

I have the same name as a Canadian hockey player, though unintentionally, and virtually every result for my name on Google is for him. If your name is common enough and you practice information control over yourself you can almost completely avoid being in Google's system. The real problem is that youths are willing to give out vast amounts of personal information, partially because they don't realize the value of such information and partially because they are stupid kids.

Are you sure you aren't confusing symmetric and asymmetric crypto keys? I don't think 128 bit has ever been considered unbreakable for asymmetric keys, 1024-2048 has been the standard for asymmetric since I have known about it. For symmetric, 128 bit is still considered secure and is still the standard for AES, although many applications are moving to 256 bit.

Pfft, that's only pseudo random data, why settle when you can get true random data.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/secure_generate.html
https://www.random.org/passwords/

I for one am glad they aren't policing internet interactions in gaming, the last thing I want is game companies being forced to attempt to censor every bad word to kowtow to the ESRB for an M rating. As for all the companies that already attempt to do it, good luck with your stupid useless endeavor.

Fu(K!ng n0o85!!1

The link goes to on nimp, don't click it.

Wouldn't the malware have to already be running on the computer to do that?

I still buy CD's as well, but it's mainly due to a lack of quality online downloads. When you buy a game at a store or on Steam you get exactly the same game, but buying a lossy mp3 isn't the same as ripping a CD to FLAC. If there were some decent online retailers of lossless audio I would probably buy from there.

I mean any malware author. Code execution vulnerabilities in non-executable file formats like images or documents can get through email and intrusion detection systems much more easily than exe's.

I still very much doubt it, for the simple reason that if this was indeed a publicly known vulnerability that required no javascript and could be executed by opening an image file every hacker and their grandma would be using it right now. Those sorts of exploits are very valuable to malware authors.