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Comment Re:TPM, please? (Score 1) 123

by df5ea on Thursday June 16, 2011 @06:59PM (#36469218) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Tools For Linux Disk Encryption and Integrity?

Yeah, using the TPM would be great. Using a pin instead of a passphrase at most startups would be much less cumbersome.

Obviously you would still need a backup passphrase when you change your motherboard or exhaust the maximum numer of pin tries.

Comment What about Xcode? (Score 2) 251

by df5ea on Saturday March 12, 2011 @09:43PM (#35468064) Attached to: Open Source Licensing and the App Store Model

Apple's Xcode is included in the Mac App Store. It includes GPLed stuff like GCC. Can this be a problem like VLC?

Or are the rules for the Mac App Store different from those of the iOS App Store?

Comment com, net & org where a mistake (Score 1) 177

by df5ea on Thursday February 10, 2011 @07:01PM (#35168230) Attached to: Can World Governments Veto Your Domain Name?

Why do we have generic domain names at all? Wouldn't it be simpler to only have ccTLD's. We could then be spared all this so called "internet governance".

You could say that countries don't belong in the virtual world. But countries are mostly sociological stuctures created by humans. So they should have a place in the virtual world just as in the material world.

Vast Electronic Spying Operation Discovered 303

Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 28, 2009 @03:45PM from the whaling-for-political-advantage dept.

homesalad writes "Researchers in Toronto have discovered a huge international electronic spying operation that they are calling 'GhostNet.' So far it has infiltrated government and corporate offices in 103 countries, including the office of the Dalai Lama (who originally went to the researchers for help analyzing a suspected infiltration). The operation appears to be based in China, and the information gained has been used to interfere with the actions of the Dalai Lama and to thwart individuals seeking to help Tibetan exiles. The researchers found no evidence of infiltration of US government computers, although machines at the Indian embassy were compromised. Here is the researchers' summary; a full report, 'Tracking "GhostNet": Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network' will be issued this weekend." A separate academic group in the UK that helped with the research is issuing its own report, expected to be available on March 29. Here is the abstract. They seem to be putting more stress on the "social malware" nature of the attack and ways to mitigate such techniques.

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