Comment Re:An entire generation will be thinking (Score 0, Troll) 150
Die, Dora, die!
Comment Re:A nice piece of work (Score 1) 300
Yeah, parent comment is correct. MD5 roots are not important *yet*, though they may be an issue in the future when MD5 collisions can be created arbitrarily (versus using birthday attacks).
MD5 certs anywhere in the chain (with the exception of the trusted root) mean that the certificate is suspicious *today*.
Comment Re:A nice piece of work (Score 1) 300
If you blacklist all CA's that use MD5 hashes in the root, you are likely safe (unless there's an unsafe intermediate somewhere).
IMHO, this needs a browser fix to mark any certificate with MD5 in its chain as potentially untrusted.
Comment Re:Not the end of the Internet... (Score 1) 300
It's a problem for all websites. All you need to do is forge a certificate from Amazon that uses MD5 and redirect someone's browser via Wifi hacking or DNS redirection.
The browser doesn't know that Amazon didn't use Verisign's busted MD5 cert root.
Comment Re:Tough choice (Score 1) 259
Zing!
Comment Re:Tough choice (Score 1, Insightful) 259
But nature has a lot longer than us to retaliate. It's like that creepy guy in the office you pissed off a few years ago - he's just waiting for the right time to get you back.
EMA Suggests Point-Of-Sale Game Activation To Fight Piracy 244
Gamasutra reports on a set of standards (PDF) published by the Entertainment Merchants Association to promote the use of technology that would "disable" games and DVDs until they are activated when purchased. "The effort is codenamed 'Project Lazarus,' and the EMA says it's assembled a consortium of retailers, home video companies and video game publishers to see how easily such 'benefit denial technology' could be implemented, and to evaluate possible cost-benefit analyses. The initiative is similar to security tags used in clothing retail that spill ink on garments if they're forcibly removed, thereby destroying the item. In such a situation, shoplifting is discouraged by implementing a solution that only the retailer can remove at the point of sale."
Comment Re:Immortality is scary (Score 1) 359
Like I always said: "It's always a tough choice between cure and death squad."
Comment Re:Immortality is scary (Score 4, Funny) 359
The answer is simple: anti-arthritis death sqauds. If you end up with arthritis, we kill you and your whole family.
It's obvious- why hasn't anyone implemented it yet?
Comment Re:Put blame where blame is due (Score 1) 154
These days, cross-browser issues fall into two camps:
- IE and everyone else
- Minor intepretations of the spec that are easy to fix
The first ones are pretty insidious - you end up tweaking things so far for IE that it breaks the standard browsers. Examples: hasLayout, iframe contentDocument, etc.
The second ones are easy to fix. Usually it's a corner case anyways.
Comment Re:So how many .. (Score 2, Funny) 138
One point four jiggapixels? One point four jiggapixels?? Great scott!
