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Comment Re:Think so? (Score 2, Insightful) 479

by ncryptd on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @08:29PM (#24490189) Attached to: Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws

what happens if ISPs are ordered to block all encrypted packets for which the DHS doesn't hold the keys in escrow?

Not gonna happen. This would be insanely computationally expensive. Real-time DPI hardware for an OC-192 link costs about $10K (IIRC), and that's just for unencrypted packets. Checking against a list of RSA, AES, etc. keys for each connection would require an astronomical amount of computing power, and that's just for one backbone.

Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software 559

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 28, 2008 @09:17PM from the hand-in-the-cookie-jar dept.

spikedLemur writes "Vladimir Vukicevic of the Firefox team stumbled upon some questionable practices from Apple while trying to improve the performance of Firefox. Apparently, Apple is using some undocumented APIs that give Safari a significant performance advantage over other browsers. Of course, "undocumented" means that non-Apple developers have to try and reverse-engineer these interfaces to get the same level of performance. You really have to wonder what Apple is thinking, considering the kind of retaliation Microsoft has gotten for similar practices.

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