> Wouldn't getting hold of THOSE codes be interesting? They'd amount to the capability for any terrorist with the codes and a radio to launch a nuclear strike on the West.

This is different from the American looking glass radio-controlled launch authorization how ?

The interesting thing about micropayments is the micro-part, I've consulted for website that sells subscriptions and ala carte access to articles, but these cost 8EUR minimum (they're also well researched articles on international politics by known and respected analysts and thus well worth the money to those who buy them...), micropayments by definition are very small.

The problem is that there is a limit where transaction costs make the exercise worthless to the publisher and that means it's simply not possible to pay say 10eurocents for an X (let alone single cents or fractions of cents). thus either X must be ad-funded, free, or much higher value for the user.

Also note that du reports the *size on disk*, which means it's just about always slightly larger than the "real" size of the file because you can't put parts of two files on the same block.

Available here in Finland in just about any supermarket, yay! My gripe is that only available dubbed, I would really liked to see them (once upon a time ... X) it in the original french with subtitles (either finnish or english).

Also I have a bunch of boxed sets of anime that I haven't gotten around to watching yet due to time constraints so will not be buying more untill the to-watch -buffer is empty.

Yeah and in US too, can't recall the details but 5-7 years (or so) ago there was a big stink where CIA had spied on Airbus to provide Boeing with data that gave them unfair advantage in a bidding for some major contract.

I really don't think any goverment that has this kind of industries to protect is above a little industrial espionage, they do the traditional kind anyways...

Rubberhose has been mentioned many times, it has support for N keys and has all the same basic requirements, ie: they cannot prove you have additional keys and you cannot prove that you don't have.

>ie it possible in 60 second to crack all the gsm phone keys regardless of the encrption
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This is because the GSM encryption is crap, which is due to design constraints from the time way back when the standard was written. The main reason to have encryption there at all is to keep honest people honest (the call routers have wiretap capability anyway) and to appease peoples privacy concerns (remember those unencrypted & analog cordless phones...)

The real joke is that in many places the LOS microwave links between the basestations are not encrypted...

Anyways proper cryptosystems are for all practical purposes uncrackable if the keys are lost. They will also often use multiple "session" of "file" keys encrypted with the master key, so cracking for example via a known plaintext (probably easy to find these on computer systems) the key for single file does not yield the master key for all files.

The master key is of course encrypted with your passphrase (since the key is just random bits it's a lot of work to verify if an attempt at the passphrase was correct or not [need to try to decrypt some files too])

Now the best approach is to have a way to destroy the master key (as outlined in the magic usb-fob) so there is not passphrase to attack and successfull attack against a single file will not help with the other files.

Just a few notes:

1. F-Secures Orion engine is fully heuristics based (file analysis), it uses signatures only fix false positives, consistently getting great scores from VB.
2. They also now have an engine (called ExploitShield) that uses heuristics (and signatures) to prevent programs (that in themselves might be good) from doing bad things, see for example http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001727.html (using heuristics to block the FF 3.5 JS exploit)

Full disclosure: I used to work for F-Secure (partner, ie 3rd tier, support for AV and crypto; we escalated to R&D) until 2001.

And control the satellite descrambler how (yes there are ways but they just suck in more way than one) ? How to get program info out of the box in case some broadcast time changes ?

Also the analog signal quality you get out is likely to be way below broadcast.

There is no need to outlaw breaking the encryption to make snooping illegal, AFAIK it's invasion of privacy even in the US to use a telescope or binoculars to spy on your neighbour. OTOH it's more than a bit stupid using weak crypto for private data: I treat my wireless network as untrusted and it's firewalled accordingly even though it has encryption to keep bandwidth leeches out.

Netflix example is breaking and entering with copyright infringiment, it should have nothing to do with DMCA but breaking the DVD "encryption" of course has...

Any default install that is, you can of course install services yourself and open yourself up to all kinds of surprises.

That said I used to run OpenBSD on firewalls before I decided minimal Linux install is good enough and I don't have to remind me of the BSD:isms when I need to adjust the rules.

It's not to say that the BSD way is somehow inferior but I have enough flavours of *nix to remember as it is.

A simple PWM circuit (http://www.solorb.com/elect/solarcirc/pwm1/) can handle the dimming, right now too tired to think of a better way to change the duty cycle than use digitally controlled potentiometers (I made a circuit for my bikes handlebar heaters that has toggle switch for up/down, which drives the input on the digital pot).

Maybe I used the wrong word, not my native language...

The cell phone likely has some places where air can get in and out, earpiece and mic at the very least. I meant that the whole circuit and all the ICs would be completely inside the plastic (though I had totally forgotten about them fancy comformal coatings), same idea as dipping the whole thing in expoxy.

It does become a problem if the heat can't get away, at the very least component lifetime would significantly shortened (though who cares whether the thingamagick dies in 10 vs 3 years if expected usable lifetime is 3 years anyways because the field moves so fast).

See my point above about heat dissipation, encasing everything in plastic that is very poor conductor of heat is not an option.

How will they achieve this without encasing all the components in the plastic, even if the board conductors were all encased (it's not like the anti-solder screen [green stuff on the board] could not be made waterproof and I think it already is) at least some of the components simply cannot be (due to heat dissipation problems). I have made completely waterproof circuit boards (simple PWM stuff, they don't generate enough heat for it to be an issue), the only connectors are rated for underwater and the board encased with epoxy, not really repairable though...
 

So anyways, since some of the components must be exposed they will have exposed connectors ergo water getting in will short-circuit it.
 

I don't know if it would work to use only such active components that have connector-bar on the underside and then just encase it up to the sides but this would add significant cost (connectors themselves, size of components -> board size...) and repair would still be out of the question.