Could you clarify? Who is Alyssa Rowan to TrueCrypt? Sorry for my ignorance, I tried Googling a bit and just got links to this article.
It's someone who has been active in the crypto/security community for awhile now. Personal details are pretty scarce (i.e. it could be a front for the NSA for all anyone knows), but the persona has been active in crypto. If you want something to Google on try "alyssa rowan cryptography".
"Alyssa Rowan @AlyssaRowan
@munin @0xabad1dea @puellavulnerata I can confirm presence of TrueCrypt duress canary as per 2004 conversation"
Sorry, who the fuck are you?
If it's the real Alyssa Rowan tweeting that then it's a pretty reliable source.
An Argentinian chef is more likely to make great sushi than a Japanese automotive engineer.
There's an even closer-to-food analogy for this: If you want a good Italian pizza, get a Greek to make it. I have no idea why this works, but the best Italian pizzas always tend to be made by someone called Nikos or Costas.
*Note: Worked in several restaurants during and after high school.
Saying "would you like fries with that" doesn't really count as working in a restaurant though...
The Indian truck manufactuer Tata has been using wood as a construction material for quite some time now.
Other materials used include chewing gum, rubber bands, old newspapers, and spit.
meh and even it it really was from the crops:
Interesting to see that the supposed origin is northeastern China, which is where the Japanese special unit 731 carried out biological warfare experiments during WWII, polluting large areas with bioweapons products. Perhaps this is a case of the chickens coming home to roost?
I know several admins that mitigated the hole but couldn't replace their certificates either because the signer charges a ridiculous revocation fee (I'm looking at you, StartSSL),
Yup, twenty-five whole dollars. That's the price of several Big Macs, with fries!. Shameless what some CAs will charge.
(Not defending the CA racket here, but $25 isn't really that much when they give the certs out for free. In any case why revoke them, just replace them with a new, free cert. Yes, I know someone can spoof the server using the old cert, but if you want to save the $25...).
I've updated your password to the answer to a new riddle:
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Good luck spelling it correctly!
My mother was eaten by Cthulhu you insensitive clod!
As someone with a phd who works around people with phd degrees, the phrase "just not half as smart as he thinks he is" has very wide applicability.
"OK, so you have a PhD. Just don't touch anything".
Is it because of her advanced medical degree? Her first hand knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry?
That was my immediate reaction as well. I saw some snippet of her on TV once and she seemed to be the canonical blond airhead. What next, people clustering to Professor Pamela Anderson to hear about global warming being a scam?
EPOC could do lots more than surf the web; it had apps for all the obvious personal-assistant functions (calendar, notes, to-do, contacts) and had a decent ecosystem of third-party apps.
There may have been a small number of third-party apps, but nothing like what made the iPad and later Android successful. What's worse, there never would be too many more either. I've programmed for EPOC, alongside a large number of other embedded OSes, and it is by far the most alien, difficult-to-work-with OS I've ever used. I've found it easier to move code to MVS (IBM 1960's mainframe OS) than EPOC. Unless they'd completely rewritten the OS in something useful (Linux was mentioned), the market would have been severely restricted no matter how cool the hardware was.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones
