[funsec] Need to boost your counter-terrorism budget?

2009-01-14 Thread Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
Pick a group!  Any group!

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/01/08/f-rfa-macdonald.html

(This seems old, but we appear to have missed it ...)

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Re: [funsec] Death by code release

2009-01-14 Thread Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
Date sent:  Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:51:11 +1100
From:   Jubei Trippataka 

> I think it'd just be that people are looking for anything to get themselves 
> away
> from Vista. 

http://xkcd.com/528/

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Re: [funsec] UK Censorship: Brit Porn Filter Censors 13 Years of Net History

2009-01-14 Thread Rob Thompson
Paul Ferguson wrote:
> Completely whacked.
> 
> Via El Reg.
> 
> [snip]
> One Demon customer tells us he was unable to visit archived versions of
> websites run by the BBC, Parliament, the United Nations, the Internet Watch
> Foundation, Demon Internet, and Thus. In other words, this customer points
> out, Thus is blocking its own web history. "It is nuts," he says.

Isn't this why god invented proxy?  It is horribly sad that it has come
to this point.

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Re: [funsec] Death by code release

2009-01-14 Thread Rob Thompson
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:07:54 +0900, Peter Evans said:
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:19:25PM -0800, Rob Thompson wrote:
>>> Peter Evans wrote:
Well, I wonder if it is as anal as vista (which I have, but
to be quite honest, can't be arsed to install) about HDCP and
content encraption.
>>  
>>> It would be a safe assumption that it will be worse.  Remember,
>>> Micro$oft was the fine group that force Palladium down our throats.  But
>>> to be fair, we all know what can be said about assumptions.
>>  Ah, but Palladium stops spam!
>>
>>  All I can find though, is FUD though. Does it really exist?
> 
> Many systems now include a TPM chipset.  That's about all that's *really*
> happened. Most of the rest evaporated when it became clear that consumers
> really prefer their media without insane DRM attached to it (except for
> all the Vista DRM stuff that still ended up in there anyhow).
> 

I guess I should have read up one more message before my other response.

What Valdis said...  ;p

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Re: [funsec] Death by code release

2009-01-14 Thread Rob Thompson
Peter Evans wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:19:25PM -0800, Rob Thompson wrote:
>> Peter Evans wrote:
>>> Well, I wonder if it is as anal as vista (which I have, but
>>> to be quite honest, can't be arsed to install) about HDCP and
>>> content encraption.
>  
>> It would be a safe assumption that it will be worse.  Remember,
>> Micro$oft was the fine group that force Palladium down our throats.  But
>> to be fair, we all know what can be said about assumptions.
> 
>   Ah, but Palladium stops spam!
> 
>   All I can find though, is FUD though. Does it really exist?

That was the name of the project before people were put off by what it
really was.

Now it is TPM.

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