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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 10 2012 @ 11:43 AM EDT |
USE engineer Vojtěch Pavlík has detailed the company's plans to
implement EFI Secure Boot. The company is looking to adopt a similar approach to
the one that the Fedora project wants to include in Fedora 18. According to an
earlier blog post by Pavlík's colleague Olaf Kirch, the company is also planning
to recommend their approach to the openSUSE project. While similar, SUSE's plans
differ in key points from Fedora's and several Fedora developers have already
hinted that their project might modify their approach and incorporate some
changes from the SUSE plan.
The plan detailed by Pavlík sees the SUSE
distribution make use of the shim bootloader developed by Fedora. SUSE plans to
offer two separate versions of shim, one signed with a key provided by Microsoft
(similar to Fedora's approach) and one signed with SUSE's own
key.
[...]
Red Hat developer Matthew Garrett, who is leading the
development on Fedora's Secure Boot plans, has called SUSE's implementation of
the MOK file and its protection via an UEFI Boot Services Only variable "a
wonderfully elegant solution."
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 10 2012 @ 12:02 PM EDT |
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120807/11591019956/former-mpaa-cto-tells-whit
e-house-why-sopa-is-wrong-approach-ip-enforcement.shtml
The
Internet – a network of networks – is based on an open and distributed
architecture. This model should be preserved and should surpass any enforcement
efforts.
[...]
There are significant concerns from using the DNS as a
channel for intellectual property enforcement and various contributions have
been made on this issue by both the Internet Society and the technical
community. It needs to be highlighted that from a security perspective, in
particular, DNS filtering is incompatible with an important security technology
called Domain Name Security Extensions or DNSSEC. In fact, there is great
potential for DNSSEC to be weakened by proposals that seek to filter domain
names.
[...]
In this regard, enforcement provisions – both within and
outside the context of intellectual property – should respect the fundamental
human rights and civil liberties of individuals and, subsequently, those of
Internet users. They should not seek to impose unbearable constitutional
constraints and should not prohibit users from exercising their constitutional
rights of free speech, freedom of association and freedom of
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| Authored by: complex_number on Friday, August 10 2012 @ 12:08 PM EDT |
Having just had a load of production issues due to a Verisign Key expiring I got
to thinking that there is another explanation as to why MS was this in Wind 8
and all future versions.
They say it is to defeat an atack vector. This is IMHO being economical with the
truth.
Verisign keys (well all the one I've ever) seen have expiry dates. So MS
releases Windows 8 with a key that lasts until (for arguments sake) 01-01-2015.
Beyond that Windows 8 won't boot in a secure boot environment. In June 2014 the
release Windows 9 which contains a key valid until 01-01-2016.
bingo at one stroke they have forced all their users to upgrade to their latest
shiny toy and possibly with a very short timeframe.
This will improve their bottom line no end.
As the TV ad goes.
SIMPLES
I hope I'm wrong here and that the key will have at least a 10 year lifespan but
as I trust MS about as far as I could throw Mr Balmer I somehow doubt it.
Business users may get a key with a longer life but for normal private use, they
could make the key as short as 1 year if they so chose.
Nasty. Nasty, very nasty.
Please someone prove me wrong.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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| Authored by: JamesK on Friday, August 10 2012 @ 01:32 PM EDT |
| Picture doing a remote software
upgrade. Now picture doing it when the machine you're upgrading is a robotic
rover sitting 350 million miles away, on the surface of Mars. ---
The
following program contains immature subject matter. Viewer discretion is
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| Authored by: SeismoGuy on Friday, August 10 2012 @ 03:28 PM EDT |
| Follow
Mars Rover Curiosity in 3D,
but only if you have Windows or Mac OSX. It's
too bad they
didn't create this using something like WebGL or even created
a
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 10 2012 @ 05:45 PM EDT |
I want some of what they were smoking...
NZ Herald
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 10 2012 @ 06:17 PM EDT |
[you're welcome to play John William's Imperial March here]
As the unseen battles rage for Freedom, from the tyranny imposed by those on the
Dark Side of the Evil Empire
(Intel/Apple/Microsoft). With their H.264 Proprietary Codec
embedded hardware decoder/encoders. They're now set to meet
the strongest FORCES for Freedom & Openness yet.
In the Jedi Knight Samsung Exynos 5250 Dual Light Sabers, w/
it's first embedded hardware Open Standards VP8
decoder/encoder. Along with Khronos Group's latest OpenGL ES
3.0 embedded to defeat those on the Dark Side of Openness,
including Apple's Garden Walled Proprietary Fortress in iOS
devices.
As the Jedi move to embrace Open Standards, has been set by
members of the Rebel Alliance (Star Wars Theme plays), are
now being led by the All ARM Designed Exynos ARM/SAMSUNG Chip
Fabricator's Partnership, set to Dominate our Mobile Device
Universe.
Of course the strategic partnership includes IBM as the technological leader w/
their latest Gate First HKMG
fabrication process. With these Future Force Advanced Open
Standards embedded in the metal of their chips. Their
partnerships with Samsung to ARM this Anti-Thermonuclear
(anti-H.264) Weapon with Google's VP8 (WebM) Decoder/Encoder,
demonstrates their "Don't Be Evil" gift to the Free and Open
Standards Community for us all. Away from the proprietary
madness of the Apple, Microsoft, Intel H.264 Evil Empire in
power now.
AMD has joined the Rebel Alliance as well. With them being
led by IBM/AMD Jedi Knight Mark Papermaster (IBM). Who as a
sleeper cell, had been eliminated from the Dark Side by Steve
Jobs. For criticizing his External AntennaGate design choice,
purely for aesthetic reasons. Only now even Jim Keller the
creative force behind the customized Samsung Apple A Series
SoC's in iOS Devices, has abandoned the Dark Side to rejoin
the AMD Jedi VP8 Forces with him.
Leaving Apple to once again depend on Samsung's Hardware
expertise to bail them out supplying Exynos 4 to be used in
iPhone 5. In spite of Apple's father having been the Evil
leader of the Dark side H.264 Empire. With AMD now being
restored to their former Intel beating forces by the
Engineer, that shook the Evil Intel Empire to it's core in
the last decade w/ their AMD x86 64bit Opteron processors.
The Jedi Knights are poised to join the fight against the
Evil Microsoft Apple Intel H.264 Proprietary Empire. With
Samsung and ARM of the Rebel POWERED Alliance leading the
charge.
Now with the Rebel Alliance's Samsung ARM Powered Exynos 5250
ready to lead the charge w/ partners AMD, Broadcom, Texas
Instruments, Qualcomm, ZiiLabs, Rockchip and many other
Freely Licensed hardware implementations of Google VP8 Apache
Licensed Codec!
"""WebM Project licenses VP8 hardware accelerators (RTL IP)
to semiconductor companies for 1080p encoding and decoding at
zero cost.[33] AMD, ARM and Broadcom have announced support
for hardware acceleration of the WebM format."""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM
Once the Evil Proprietary Empire (Microsoft, Apple, Intel)
falls victim to the overwhelming Hardware support of WebM,
even they will be forced to abandon their proprietary Evil
H.264 Codec. In favor of Google's Open Standards VP8 hardware
supported Free Open WebM Codec!
Note: Latest intel on Intel says once H.264 is defeated, that
they have no alternative but to face the Freedom Fighter's
Forces and support WebM encoding/decoding, in their Atom
chips, at least.
Introducing the Applewellian Empire Beating Samsung Exynos
5250. Ready to command the forces of the Rebel Alliance in
their Battle against the forces of Darkness:
http://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-exynos-5-dual-specs-
features-106609/
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