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Comment Re:What surpassed PGP? (Score 3, Informative) 60

Surpassed by encryption that "just works", such as that used in Signal. I can add my friend and text them and I _know_ that only they and I can read it.
It's frictionless, the install of Signal aside. No pissing about with keys, passphrases etc.

GPG is you send me your public key, I send you mine, I mark it as trusted blah blah blah, I copy the secret key around where I need it each time.

I agree, there's no perfect replacement for it in email. But DKIM achieves pretty much the same thing. It doesn't prove the _person_ who sent it, but it proves the domain. That's 99% good enough for almost all commercial/business transactions on the Internet. And it's frictionless, I send the email and it's signed in the background without me having to know what a secret key passphrase is etc etc. It just works. If I get an email from Paypal and it's DKIM/SPF passed, then I'm happy it's really from them, I can trust that.

If that isn't a surpassing of GPG I don't know what is?

Comment Re:Their new policy is the DNS should be correct? (Score 2) 60

DKIM is a form of message signing. Also I love you call PGP simple. Why do you think secure messaging apps have taken off so well, yet PGP is still the realm of, well these days, almost no one? Only a few die hard nerds use it. PGP is terrible, clunky and a giant joke. Sure it was great 30 years when it was invented, but it's been long surpassed.

Suggesting it as a solution to anything in 2025 shows how out of touch you are with reality. The world has _long_ since moved on.

First Person Shooters (Games)

Modern Warfare 2 Surpasses $1 Billion Mark; Dedicated Servers What? 258

The Opposable Thumbs blog is running an interesting article contrasting everything Activision did "wrong" in creating and marketing Modern Warfare 2 with the game's unqualified success. Despite price hikes, somewhat shady review practices, exploit frustrations, and the dedicated server fiasco, the game has raked in over a billion dollars in sales. "There was only one way to review Modern Warfare 2: on the Xbox 360, in Santa Barbara, under the watchful eye of Activision. Accepting the paid trip, along with room and board, was the only way you were going to get a review before launch. Joystiq noted that this broke their ethics policy, but they went anyway. Who can say no to a review destined to bring in traffic? Shacknews refused to call their coverage a 'review' because of the ethical issues inherent in the situation, but that stance was unique. The vast majority of news outlets didn't disclose how the review was conducted, or added a disclaimer after the nature of the review was made public. This proved to Activision that if you're big enough, you can dictate the exact terms of any review, and no ethics policy will make news outlets turn you down."
The Courts

Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted 846

doomsdaywire writes "A University of Tennessee student who is the son of a Memphis legislator has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of hacking Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal e-mail. [...] If convicted, [David C.] Kernell faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release. A trial date has not been set."

Comment I Already Do This (Score 1) 432

I have a Netscreen 5GT-Wireless which lets me setup more than one SSID, plus rate limit and control services.

I have our home ESSID which is WPA2 protected and has no limits on it.

I have another SSID called "Free Web And Email" which is limited to 256kb/s and only allows DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, POP3, SMTP, Secure SMTP, IMAP and IMAPs.

Lots of people connect to it and use it for exactly it's name. It's rate limited so that they can't take all our BW and it's port limited so they don't ruin it for the others connected to the Free AP by running Bittorrent etc. Though its limitations obviously wouldn't stop clever people.

I'm amazed at how many people connect to it on a regular basis. There's a few people that obviously use it for all their Internet requirements, while I get a lot of random connects to it as well.

It's also handy for my PSP, which doesn't understand WPA2.

I think handing our Free Wifi is a great idea, though I'd be loath to do it without being able to have good control over it as I do. I wouldn't do it with a simple AP that gave me no control.

U.S. Investigating Sale of Snort as Security Risk 327

msmoriarty writes "The Associated Press is reporting today that the same U.S. committee that approved the Dubai ports deal is 'strongly objecting' to Israeli-based Check Point's acquisition of Snort's parent company, Sourcefire, because it doesn't want a foreign company to own Snort's underlying technology. According to the article, the broader 45-day review process rejected for the ports deal is already underway regarding this transaction, and 'secret' meetings between the FBI, DoD and Check Point have been held."

Digital Signals Spark Static From AM Radio 176

Carl Bialik writes "Digital radio is touted as broadcast radio's golden ticket, but the transition to digital broadcasts is creating static and interference for many smaller AM stations that are still analog-only, the Wall Street Journal reports: 'The AM stations most affected are those whose neighboring stations -- nearby on the dial -- add a digital signal.' The WSJ adds, 'For some small AM operators, it adds insult to injury that the only company licensing the digital broadcast technology is one backed by the small stations' deep-pocketed competitors.' Critics question why the FCC only approved the technology from that big radio-backed company, Ibiquity."

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