June 2005 Links (Joe sucks)
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Funny that you should post these links. This came up as a lunch discussion last week. I didn't know that much about scientology other than I wanted to avoid it; there was a scientology "church" near where I was living; and it was where I had to vote. Reading through parts of those links makes me a bit afraid that their "churches" are allowed to be used for voting.Alan wrote:Everything you ever wanted to know about Scientology, a May 1991 Time Magazine special edition:
http://www.xenu.net/archive/media/time910605.html
And a web page from a CMU person:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/index.html
By the way, the CMU person happens to be David Touretzky.
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Microsoft to build a better bitTorrent... I wonder if they'll try to curb piracy as well. I doubt it would be as successful if there wasn't the user draw that piracy tends to bring to the table. Of course, if MS sanctions it, maybe they'll throw a good chunk of their bandwidth towards torrents.
Microsoft to build a better bitTorrent... I wonder if they'll try to curb piracy as well. I doubt it would be as successful if there wasn't the user draw that piracy tends to bring to the table. Of course, if MS sanctions it, maybe they'll throw a good chunk of their bandwidth towards torrents.
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Intel VP gets quoted on blog about Hollywood's war on digital copies.
What I want to know is why aren't any lawmakers asking, "why shouldn’t Congress mandate digital copying freedoms for consumers to protect the technology industry?" What do we pay our lobbyists for, anyway?
Intel VP gets quoted on blog about Hollywood's war on digital copies.
What I want to know is why aren't any lawmakers asking, "why shouldn’t Congress mandate digital copying freedoms for consumers to protect the technology industry?" What do we pay our lobbyists for, anyway?
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Bruce Schneier says write down your password! NOOOOO!!
Really, remembering random passwords is not that hard. I've used randomly generated passwords (with certain constraints like number of caps and punctuation) as my regular everyday password before. It's 90% muscle memory, anyway. It's the rarely used passwords that are tougher to recall. Unfortunately, I guess those are the ones to my stock account.
Bruce Schneier says write down your password! NOOOOO!!
Really, remembering random passwords is not that hard. I've used randomly generated passwords (with certain constraints like number of caps and punctuation) as my regular everyday password before. It's 90% muscle memory, anyway. It's the rarely used passwords that are tougher to recall. Unfortunately, I guess those are the ones to my stock account.
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I use a passphrase myself for my most secure personal password. However, I don't think this a long term solution. Yes, for the time being, users with passphrases will be secure against worms and crackers. However, eventually worms and crackers will take advantage of the inherent lack of entropy in English to produce new rainbow lists that attack passphrases, and we'll be back where we started.
I use a passphrase myself for my most secure personal password. However, I don't think this a long term solution. Yes, for the time being, users with passphrases will be secure against worms and crackers. However, eventually worms and crackers will take advantage of the inherent lack of entropy in English to produce new rainbow lists that attack passphrases, and we'll be back where we started.
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A third option is a program like Password Safe, an encrypted database with all your passwords. I have tried SafeSex in the past as an encrypted password storage system. It was a bit too cumbersome to copy and paste constantly, though.
A third option is a program like Password Safe, an encrypted database with all your passwords. I have tried SafeSex in the past as an encrypted password storage system. It was a bit too cumbersome to copy and paste constantly, though.
Pure passphrases are not a cure all, but if you sprinkle just a little bit of nonsense into a sufficiently long password you've give your opponent a huge headache. So a cracker might attempt a plausible passphrase "MamieLikesPancakes" but there's at least an octillion (10^27) almost-as-easy passphrases that differ from this one by only 1 character.Dwindlehop wrote:http://blogs.technet.com/robert_hensing ... 99610.aspx
I use a passphrase myself for my most secure personal password. However, I don't think this a long term solution. Yes, for the time being, users with passphrases will be secure against worms and crackers. However, eventually worms and crackers will take advantage of the inherent lack of entropy in English to produce new rainbow lists that attack passphrases, and we'll be back where we started.
Passphrases with just a little bit of entropy are even easier to remember than "acceptable" passwords, but exponentially more difficult to crack. I do feel they offer a solution.
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Today, the part of the baseball team will be played by a small acne-pocked nerd. Let's see if anyone notices...
Today, the part of the baseball team will be played by a small acne-pocked nerd. Let's see if anyone notices...
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/a ... 627fa_fact
Then Stacey moved on to Machiavelli’s principle that politics is governed by conspiracies and lies. “Come on, we know politicians lie,” he began. “This is a bit sensitive. How about our beloved George W. Bush? Does he deceive us with what he says in public? Does he lie?”
The students, who had been fully engaged on the subject of Machiavelli and Waco, were silent. Bush has been President since they were teen-agers, and the school newspaper’s editorials never deviate from the White House position. Finally, one student said, “No, I don’t think so.”
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Geez, that's a college set up to brainwash their students. They even mostly admit home schooled kids from rural areas because they are "pure—in their focus, capacity for work, and ideological clarity".skanks wrote:http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/a ... 627fa_fact
Then Stacey moved on to Machiavelli’s principle that politics is governed by conspiracies and lies. “Come on, we know politicians lie,” he began. “This is a bit sensitive. How about our beloved George W. Bush? Does he deceive us with what he says in public? Does he lie?”
The students, who had been fully engaged on the subject of Machiavelli and Waco, were silent. Bush has been President since they were teen-agers, and the school newspaper’s editorials never deviate from the White House position. Finally, one student said, “No, I don’t think so.”
Very interesting statistic...When the Farrises began homeschooling their kids [in 1982], they were one of only a few thousand American families who did so. Now about a million and a half children, as many as two-thirds of whom are thought to be evangelicals, are taught at home.
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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
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Smuggling illegal drugs inside other, different illegal drugs! Awesome.
Smuggling illegal drugs inside other, different illegal drugs! Awesome.
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Dwindlehop wrote:http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/foren ... g0405.html
You could've stayed in Atlanta and done something like this. Heck, with that lab out of the way, maybe it'd be a good career move?INTELLIGENCE BRIEF -
METHAMPHETAMINE “SUPER LAB” SEIZED IN SMYRNA, GEORGIA
[From the NDIC Narcotics Digest Weekly 2005;4(9):2
Unclassified, Reprinted with Permission.]
On February 9, 2005, DEA agents seized a methamphetamine laboratory from a Smyrna residence and arrested three illegal aliens from Mexico. During a search of the residence, agents seized over 10 pounds of crystal methamphetamine, 39 pounds of powdered methamphetamine, and several 30 to 55 gallon containers filled with liquid methamphetamine. In addition, agents discovered 24 garbage bags full of empty pseudoephedrine packages that would have held an estimated 240,000 tablets.
NDIC Comment: Demand for powdered and crystal methamphetamine has been increasing in Atlanta. Law enforcement reporting indicates that Atlanta is becoming a distribution center for methamphetamine destined for drug markets throughout the Southeast. As demand for methamphetamine increases in the Atlanta area and as the city becomes a more prominent distribution center, law enforcement officers may encounter an increasing number of methamphetamine super labs not only in Atlanta but also throughout Georgia.