Re: Paying for drinks with wave of the hand

R. A. Hettinga wrote: WorldNetDaily Wednesday, April 14, 2004 YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE ... Paying for drinks with wave of the hand Club-goers in Spain get implanted chips for ID, payment purposes Posted: April 14, 2004 5:00 p.m. East

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Jerrold Leichter wrote: > different forms. It's been broken repeatedly. The one advantage they have > this time around is that CD readers - and, even more, DVD readers; there is > mention of applying the same trick to DVD's - is, compared to the floppy > readers of yesteryea

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales

Yawn... This is no different than any of the copy protection schemes employed in the 1980's on then popular home computers such as the commodore 64. Hindsight is 20/20 and recalls, all of these were broken within weeks if not months. "Nibbler" copiers and other programs were quickly built tha

Re: Johns Hopkins Physics Lab System Detects Digital Video Tampering

And what stops an attacker from taking that digital video, stripping off the RSA(?) signatures (I'll assume it's just signed), editing it, creating another, random, one time private key, "destroying" that private key after resigning it, and offering it up as unedited?!?!?!?! They've either obviou

Re: An attack on paypal

The problem with these stop crackers and hackers by law is that it allows software developers to get away with leaving huge gaping security holes unfixed. Anecodatal evidence: The classic well known Robin Hood and Friar Tuck "hack". These days, the bug wouldn't get fixed and the guys reporting it

Re: An attack on paypal

The worst trouble I've had with https is that you have no way to use host header names to differentiate between sites that require different SSL certificates. i.e. www.foo.com www.bar.com www.baz.com can't all live on the same IP and have individual ssl certs for https. :( This is because the cer

Re: An attack on paypal --> secure UI for browsers

Yes, >NOW< if you can load yourself into kernel space, you can do anything and everything - Thou Art God to quote Heinlein. This is true of every OS. Except if you add that nice little TCPA bugger which can verify the kernel image you're running is the right and approved one. Q.E.D. Look at the