I hope this gets made. It's not like Braben is going to pull his finger out and make "Elite 4". And even if he did, given his recent attacks on the second-hand market, I don't think I could bring myself to buy it from him. Sorry, not "buy", "license the ability to play" and until such times as Mr. Braben decides he needs more money and changes the DRM codes.
Wow - now that is good!
That's what I was thinking. I am not sure how well TinEye copes with "fuzzy" searches and my crap drawing, but even if TinEye is poor at it, MS's latest wheeze is just an obvious refinement of a pre-existing service.
Still, this is the USA and they will allow patents on anything.
Yeah, like Hotmail does not do mails scanning and MS loves you.
Please.
If you are using any free service, then you are the product. You messages and actions will be catalogued, mined, indexed, profiled and sold for profit. If you do not understand that, then you are an idiot.
If you've not managed your system so that logfiles don't exist, that isn't the problem of the "hidden volume" system
Oh, no argument there at all. Most people will simply say "It's in a hidden volume, I'm safe! ROFL" and ignore the fact that various other things happily log what they've been doing, leading to evidence of said hidden volume.
And never mind logs, if one has a 100mb TrueCrypt file, but the mounted volume only reveals 1k of space...one's going to have some more questions to answer.
Note : I'm reading what your saying as "the files containing visible and hidden TrueCrypt (or something else) volumes AND ONLY THOSE FILES AND NOTHING ELSE WHATSOEVER" have been cracked by the spooks and the results described in public in formal court proceedings".
Yeah, pretty much. The case I was thinking of is rather old now (and I can only find a couple of [dodgy] links to it): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CvUs7ezVExQJ:myreader.co.uk/msg/1303199419.aspx+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk
Was it a "simple" brute force of a short password? Probably, the actual technical details of what went on are unknown to me. I wish I could find a better link that that one.
Which brings us back to earlier points. Simply using TrueCrypt (and others like it) is not enough, they need to be used properly.
That is not the case. If you forget the password to your encryption before you are ordered to decrypt it you have a defence under s. 53(2) RIPA.
I guess the trick is being able to prove when one forgot. I have only heard of people being sent down for not handing keys/passwords over, not of a successful "forgot" defence.
Forgot to add: Or they gain evidence of a hidden volume by digging through log files and "Most recent files" etc.
Then they simply ask for both passwords.
Don't hand them over, or claim there is only one? Off to jail you go. (I don't think plausible deniability has been tested in a UK court yet).
Or the file gets taken to the spooks and cracked (and yes, this has happened).
Then you better get ready to be Big Bubba's new bitch.
This wouldn't fly in the UK (under Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)).
You forgot? Tough.
You used some honey-pot ruse like this? Tough.
Either you give the key/passphrase to decrypt the file when requested or go to jail. End of discussion.
Sounds like the USA is trying to bring in similar measures via precedent.
The last time it happened? Oh, round about the time some dangerous up-start invented the printing press. And look at all the trouble they caused!
It ruined economies and nation were aflame!
Err...or not.
"custom Linux distro" not "customer Linux distro".
They're not moving to Linux though, they are simply moving from a customer Linux distro (called "Linex") to Debian, purely because they were finding maintaining their own distro too much of an overhead.
If you rely on one company to copy your data on to 10 bazillion drives, it counts as 1 back-up.
The company is a single point of failure; it goes down, you lose all 10 bazillion copies.
Keep the master local (on a RAID, if that makes sense).
Dupe the master to a first back-up
Dupe that to tape or something, move it off-site.
3 copies; 2 media; 1 off-site. [minimum]
Simples.
That's what you have with the Pi - a full GNU/Linux system. There's demos of it doing all kinds of crazy stuff, e.g. running Quake.
About the only thing it does not come with is an enclosure.
And if you are confused about price variations - that's because there are two model.
I can't wait to get my hands on one.
UNIX is hot. It's more than hot. It's steaming. It's quicksilver lightning with a laserbeam kicker. -- Michael Jay Tucker
