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by kjs3 13y ago
You mean SSL/TLS key renegotiation: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5746 ?
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by kjs3 13y ago
I don't think there's an answer in that there is no answer to backdoored hardware. Someone recently demonstrated how to reprogram the controller on hard disks (they're ARM based SoCs) to monitor/modify the data. No one
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by kjs3 13y ago
Yes, what we know is that the NSA has compromised many vendors, including it seems some of the CA vendors. So it's possible that a CA could issue the NSA a certificate that could fool you into thinking an NSA surveillance node was a
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by kjs3 13y ago
The ignorant often confuse direct honesty and factual statements with rudeness, often to their detriment.
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by kjs3 13y ago
The first thing to understand is that the NSA hasn't (or hasn't proved to have) undermined fundamental security technology. There is no indication of a magic attack that breaks AES, just like no magic attack existed for DES befor
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by kjs3 13y ago
Let's be clear...there is precisely nothing that has been revealed that indicates that the NSA has some ahead of the curve ability to compromise underlying cryptographic technology (see: http://www.schneier.com/blog&#x2
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by kjs3 13y ago
If you're bootstrapping an environment you created, checksum the download and verify the checksum before feeding it to the "unpacker". Another thought would be to mutually authenticate the SSL session. The curl man page has
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by kjs3 13y ago
Might want to send your story to Ken White, et. al., at http://www.popehat.com . If they get sufficiently interested/outraged, they can help set you find an appropriate lawyer in your area and can publicize your case. I&#x
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by kjs3 13y ago
To your first point, that depends on your target architecture. On a Symbolics (and TI Explorer, LMI, Xerox D-machine, etc), there is no Unix-ish "asm layer" communicating that last inch to the bare metal. The "assembly lang
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by kjs3 13y ago
No, it really isn't. A Lisp OS (like Genera) is about extensibility down toward bare metal, not up towards applications. As you point out, if all you want to do is live your whole computing life inside of Emacs and hacking about with
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by kjs3 13y ago
I'm waaaay ahead of you here, but thanks for putting the links up for those who aren't in the know. And before someone cranks one of these up and nit-picks some functionality GNU Emacs has that this doesn't, do try and rememb
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by kjs3 13y ago
Those of us who actually used Genera on a Symbolics Lisp Machine really, really hope that anyone who contemplates this sets their sights a helluva lot higher than GNU Emacs. All of this mythologizing GNU Emacs as something more than a pale
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by kjs3 13y ago
<i>I think the new gTLDs could be useful for most people around startups.</i> Especially if your business plan involves sending spam, distributing malware and other deceptions. But your site is pretty cool.
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by kjs3 13y ago
Extortion is a crime, for one thing. And it's a pretty hypocritical threat considering Microsoft has been more than willing to put hooks in it's products to enable law enforcement/intelligence surveillance.
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by kjs3 13y ago
Yeah...it's a pretty awesome place to have gone to school.
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by kjs3 13y ago
I disagree. Exceptions are not some obscure, theoretical language construct and Java exceptions aren't an arcane, experts-only part of the language. If I'm hiring for a "Jr. Java Developer", I expect them to know Java.
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by kjs3 13y ago
Same as it is now. They would communicate and legislate in a vernacular only they understand, adhear to an insular moral code unrecognizable to an outsider, and if you didn't like it, they'd call you a st00pid n00b, persecute you
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by kjs3 13y ago
It is entirely likely that you wouldn't know. Such requests usually come through your legal department, are handled by a very small subset of folks in the IT dept, and don't necessarily look any different than other requests for
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by kjs3 13y ago
That's not how what you wrote read. You may have meant that a BSD license existed in '82, but you implied the BSD modified Unix operating system was generally open source long before it really was. The fact that many manufacture
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by kjs3 13y ago
There is always room for a product start up. Force10, Fire-eye, etc., prove that. And products are monumentally cool. My brother-in-law is the product start up guy, and we always marvel at the low barrier to entry I have (as a services s
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by kjs3 13y ago
See: CALEA See: Cisco "Lawful Intercept" feature
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by kjs3 13y ago
The GNU development toolchain (GCC, etc). Without a solid, free, complete, self hosting development environment, literally nothing else you mention would exist.
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by kjs3 13y ago
I'll get behind the toolchain (GCC, as, gdb, etc) as a game changer, but "everyhing"? Please...other than GNU rewrites of BSD 4.3 userland programs (not hard), most of the projects on gnu.org happened after Linux became ascendant if not
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by kjs3 13y ago
BSD was encumbered by AT&T code & licenses and most definitely not open source until something like 1992 and BSD4.4-Lite (which really begat the open source *BSD releases) didn't come out until 1994.