Comment The Kahn Collection? (Score 1) 34

by Arrowofdarkness on Sunday November 14, 2010 @12:57PM (#34223104) Attached to: NSA Adds Kahn Collection To Cryptologic Museum

No thanks, I'll stick the the Cryptonomicon! ;)

Comment Re:Best answer (Score 1) 417

by Arrowofdarkness on Sunday July 18, 2010 @10:02PM (#32946728) Attached to: TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, Again

The key can't possibly be that hard to crack the key? Is it stronger than DeCSS? It's a lock, not a magic encantation.

Actually ....... try RSA 1024 bit encryption ..... you're not far from the truth! ;) We are going to try to do boinc computing so people can donate unused CPU/GPU cycles to cracking it if you're interested in being part of the cause! =) You really have to think about ALL of the kids using this without being able to learn programming on their calculators and the joy that comes with MAKING something, instead you'll get .... well basically waht they are now. 7 year olds on MW2 ... PLEASE SAVE US!

TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, Again 417

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 18, 2010 @08:25AM from the p0wning-the-market's-not-enough dept.

Deep Thought writes "Texas Instruments, already infamous thanks to the signing key controversy last year, is trying a new trick to lock down its graphing calculators, this time directed toward its newest TI-Nspire line. The TI-Nspires were already the most controlled of TI's various calculator models, and no third-party development of any kind (except for its very limited form of TI-BASIC) was allowed until the release of the independent tool Ndless. Since its release, TI has been determined to prevent the large calculator programming community from using it. Its latest released operating system for the Nspire family (version 2.1) now prevents the calculators from downgrading to OS 1.1, needed to run Ndless. This is TI's second major attack on Ndless, as the company has already demanded that websites posting the required OS 1.1 remove it from public download [PDF, in French], obviously to prevent use of the tool. Once again, TI is preventing calculator hobbyists from running their own software on calculators they bought and paid for."

Comment Authentication Server (Score 1) 634

by Arrowofdarkness on Monday March 08, 2010 @01:24AM (#31397586) Attached to: Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down

Now I'm not saying we have to go Anonymous on them ... but can anyone (with Microsoft Network Monitor or Wireshark) post the IP Address of their Authentication server. I'm interested in where they're hosting it and what software its running ... dont let it be Windows. Actually if it was running Windows server that might be why its epically failing right now ...

Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down 634

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 07, 2010 @08:23PM from the single-point-of-well-you-know dept.

ZuchinniOne writes "With Ubisoft's fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them. 'At around 8am GMT, people began to complain in the Assassin's Creed 2 forum that they couldn't access the Ubisoft servers and were unable to play their games.' One can only hope that this utter failure will help to stem the tide of bad DRM."

TI-Nspire Hack Enables User Programming 88

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 28, 2010 @01:59PM from the done-and-done dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Texas Instruments' most recent, ARM-based series of graphing calculators, the TI-Nspire line, has long resisted users' efforts to run their own software. (Unlike other TI calculator models, which can be programmed either in BASIC, C, or assembly language, the Nspire only supports an extremely limited form of BASIC.) A bug in the Nspire's OS was recently discovered, however, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary machine code. Now the first version of a tool called Ndless has been released, enabling users, for the first time, to write and run their own C and assembly programs on the device. This opens up exciting new possibilities for these devices, which are extremely powerful compared to TI's other calculator offerings, but (thanks to the built-in software's limitations) have hitherto been largely ignored by the calculator programming community."