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Comment: Re:My question about Convergence (Score 1) 127

by goddidit (#37972390) Attached to: SSL Certificate Authorities vs. Convergence, Perspectives

Convergence seems to solve the problem of a government (Iran) placing fake certs in front of their users and decrypting their GMail and FB SSL connections, and what have you. But what if the fake cert is placed much closer to the target website which is being spoofed?

That could be mitigated by having at least one notary running DNSSEC, but then you can't have a consensus, you have to have all notaries agree, and require the DNSSEC one to agree. This would work, but in that case, just use DNSSEC (Which I do /not/ like the idea of on its face).

...Or some notaries could use the current CA system. The point is _trust agility_ and that you if you employ these certificate checks as an extra measure, you can not be in a worse situation than with the current CA system. In a nutshell: You don't have to trust CAs, you don't have to trust DNSSEC and you don't have to trust notaries that just compare certificates. But you can choose to trust them if they agree (and even if they don't).

Comment: Re:OS design fail (Score 1) 150

by goddidit (#37945782) Attached to: Godfather of Xen On Why Virtualization Means Everything

But to use for security? That's as lame as installing anti-virus software because you know your OS can't handle security.

I've said for some time that anti-virus is not security. It is damage control, at best.

Damage control is security at its finest. We do not aim for the theoretically secure and perfect locked-down-restricted-with-airgap situation if implementing that security would be more costly than the damages in case of a compromise.

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Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes 1654

Posted by samzenpus
from the learning-is-hard dept.
stonedcat writes "A Wisconsin woman has claimed that Dell computers and Ubuntu have kept her from going back to school via online classes. She says she has called Dell to request Windows instead however was talked out of it. Her current claim is that she was unaware that she couldn't install her Verizon online disk to access the Internet, nor could she use Microsoft Word to type up her papers."
Government

Linux As a Model For a New Government? 509

Posted by Soulskill
from the i'm-X,-and-i-release-this-message-under-the-GPL dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The hedge fund investor who prided himself on achieving 1000% returns, Andrew Lahde, wrote a goodbye letter to mark his departure from the financial world. In it, he suggests people think about building a new government model, and his suggestion is to have someone like George Soros fund a new government that brings together the best and brightest minds in a manner where they're not tempted by bribery. In doing so, he refers to how Linux grows and competes with Microsoft. An open source government. How would such a system work, and could it succeed? How long before it became corrupt? Would it need a benevolent dictator (Linus vs. Soros)?"
It's funny. Laugh.

Another year, same old vapor->

Submitted by Braedley
Braedley writes "Wired has their annual vaporware list up, and everyones favorite non-game has been crowned once again. "Another December, another list, another crowning achievement by the Emperor of the Ethereal, the Head Honcho of Hype, Duke Nukem Forever. We were going to disqualify him out of pity, but Sir Duke is back for 2007 thanks to a few leaked screenshots and an overwhelming number of votes. DNF creators 3D Realms even chose this week to debut a well-publicized video trailer for Duke's long-awaited return. Alas, a trailer is not a game, so — long live the king!""
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Sony silently drops PS3 linux support.-> 4

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t0qer writes "Up until this week, hackers at the PS2dev.org forums have been hot on the trail of writing a hardware accellerated driver for the PS3 RSX chip until Sony released thier new firmware. Now it seems that updating to the new 2.10 version of PS3 firmware not only blocks RSX access completely, but breaks linux installs as well. This is a harsh blow to the PS3 linux community."
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Darwin 9.0 Code Released->

Submitted by mr100percent
mr100percent writes "MacNN reports that Apple has released the source code to Darwin 9.0, the backbone of OS X 10.5 Leopard. x86 and PPC versions are available. According to Apple's developer mailing list, some key drivers are missing however."
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Networking

A new & cheap way to future proof a home netwo->

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tburton writes "In the cavernous halls of the Georgia World Congress Center at last weeks TelcoTV trade show there was a small stand getting a lot of buzz and corridor talk. Irish photonics company Firecomms was drawing a lot of attention with their working display of polymer optical fiber (commonly known as POF) for home networking.The fiber is made by Mitsubishi and is already widely deployed in cars and aircraft where its immunity to any electrical noise makes it the cable of choice. The plastic fiber can be bent whichever ways, is very durable and its string like diameter makes it ideal for apartments where it can be neatly tucked under carpet or along the baseboard"
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You're definitely on their list. The question to ask next is what list it is.