Backed on sight. Don't even care who wins, I just want to see the fight. And thanks for the heads-up - try as I might, I can't monitor all categories on KS...
"...basically everyone agrees that TV is better now than in the past..." No idea who all those everybody else are, but I definitely disagree (and that's a serious understatement). So I guess it's not "everyone" after all.
Okay, look: I'm pretty sure AES256 itself is as uncrackable as ever, while TrueCrypt may or may not have some fatal vulnerability signaled by the (unknown) developer's almost-warrant-canary recommendation to move on to something else (even though the independent code review of TrueCrypt found no obvious weaknesses).
That said, there might be any number of factors facilitating access to the encrypted content here, including but not limited to some sort of plea bargain or the fact that the guy tried to get a (stupidly left mounted) remote drive pulled off-line through a phone call once in custody.
By all means, stop using TrueCrypt if you feel think it's somehow compromised, but there's no reason to herald the end of encrypted drives altogether - if anything, this is but a reminder that real security is hard, and not something you can just deploy and forget...
And to think I was actually thinking fairly highly of mr. Woods as an actor... tsk, tsk, tsk. Certainly not so much now. Oh well - James, meet Barbra...
Wait - you mean you actually _keep_ your navigation history on your GPS?!? Oh, okay, I can see that might be a problem... but WHY on earth are you doing that?!?!?
...because, of course quoting the practically identical "great power involves great responsibility" line from a person who actually existed - a president, no less (FDR, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=16602) - would just not cut it these days. After all, who's a president compared to frikkin' SPIDER MAN...?!?
Hardly surprising - I'm a white guy but I could watch cops getting tarred and feathered with a smile on my face all day. That's how much "respect" they managed to earn with what they do and how...
Well, the highly honorable wigs involved are welcome to dine on kitty litter for the rest of their lives. In the mean time, who's up for coding a browser plugin that pushes out and pulls in comments from a distributed P2P blockchain simply based on the website's URL...? C'mon, you know it's the right thing to do...
The thing is that as far as I know, the Kickstarter TOS explicitly forbids _any_ sort of raffle - OWOW is certainly not the first to come up with that idea, but whether or not anyone will actually bother to enforce the rule is, shall we say, rather uncertain.
Ah, but this does not include recent data from _after_ Ulbrich't conviction, which was bound to scare off _all_ potential followers and handily reduce the drug market to zero overnight. You'll see, it's basically all gone...! All of it...! ...just a bit of patience... ...surely as we speak... ...any minute now... ...almost there...
I'll agree with his sentence when and only when every single banker no matter how remotely connected to the financial meltdown they caused gets hanged, drawn and quartered. Then the full Gitmo personnel. Then their bosses, all the way up. THEN we can talk. MAYBE.
If even now, when people are more aware of and more riled up against surveillance than they've ever been, if even now there's jack-all they can do against it, then why exactly are we calling this a democracy?!? When the sum of your choices are either the Left Shark or the Right Shark, how exactly is this a "rule" of the people, pray tell? "Democracy" was never more than a pipe dream, so please stop waving it around like it's a thing that means anything at all.
Eminently laudable - in the mean time, can I please get a ticket, one way only, to some place where copyright is NOT a fundamental right and is absofuckinglutely NOT on equal footing with freedom of speech...?
...aaaaand that is why I stay as far away from Steam as I realistically can, and stick with GOG. Incidentally, that's my problem with the Humble Bundle too - way too often the games offered can only be "redeemed" on Steam and that's when I go "no thanks".
Not sure what age group that problem was meant for, but even I could solve it with a bit of logical thinking - and frankly I'm absolutely, completely rubbish at math in general and strict logic in particular. The steps to solve it are effectively laid out right in front of everyone, in the wording of the puzzle itself.
The thing to consider is that even back in school when I was slightly better at this sort of thing, I remember finding math olympiad stuff staggeringly hard indeed (never got anywhere with that, told you it's not my thing). In contrast, if this was considered mind-boggling around the world, I have to take a rather dim view indeed of our ability as a species to use our brain... :(
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Hell yeah
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Huh?!?
No idea who all those everybody else are, but I definitely disagree (and that's a serious understatement). So I guess it's not "everyone" after all.
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Not sure about this...
That said, there might be any number of factors facilitating access to the encrypted content here, including but not limited to some sort of plea bargain or the fact that the guy tried to get a (stupidly left mounted) remote drive pulled off-line through a phone call once in custody.
By all means, stop using TrueCrypt if you feel think it's somehow compromised, but there's no reason to herald the end of encrypted drives altogether - if anything, this is but a reminder that real security is hard, and not something you can just deploy and forget...
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And the moral of the story is...
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Re: How do you say...
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High five!
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How about this instead:
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Careful there
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...just a bit of patience...
...surely as we speak...
...any minute now...
...almost there...
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Hypocrite bastards, the lot
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"Police are also civilians"
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No.
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Re:
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Hard, you say?
The thing to consider is that even back in school when I was slightly better at this sort of thing, I remember finding math olympiad stuff staggeringly hard indeed (never got anywhere with that, told you it's not my thing). In contrast, if this was considered mind-boggling around the world, I have to take a rather dim view indeed of our ability as a species to use our brain... :(
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