- Steve Jobs being sick rumor re-emerges.
- Digital certificates cracked by hackers.
- Windows 7 Beta downloaded to an extreme.
- LG coins new Trumotion moniker. Uses scanning backlight.
- Negative wordage aimed at Microsoft analyzed.
- Home server coming from Apple.
- Self-parking car comes from Lincoln.
- Top 9 skills for 09.
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The word “scheme” is not loaded in British and Australian English. In American English, it implies something bad. When I moved to Australia I could not help but snicker every time the government rolled out a new “scheme” of one or another. I had to learn to ignore my natural reaction to the word.
Not sure where the Canadians land in regards to this word. Their English contains a lot more British idioms that American English. The do use words like “Zed”, “Naught”, and other terms you don’t hear in the US.
So back to your point John. Perhaps the writer is not an American and didn’t consider how the word is perceived in the US?
Again Dvorak shows how lazy a columnist he is. Had he actually read the article and bothered to do any investigation he would have found all they did was close the loop on the MD5 hash collision vulnerability discovered back in 2005.
Then a little more investigation would have shown that at least Mozilla, and I’m assuming the other browsers, no longer use MD5 to verify certificates. Also THAWTE, Verisign and who ever Microsoft uses do not create certificates with only MD5 signatures for verification.
Sir, I understand the math is a bit above your head, but before you tell people it is the end of the world, you should actually undertand whether it is or isn’t.
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The UK blog spam used the word boondoggle. The Computerworld blog spam used the term scheme, they are an American fosstard outfit, for what its worth.
I didn’t bother reading theregister.co.uk freetard article, but the computerworld.com click bait is filled with inaccuracies from information available elsewhere(from microsoft press releases going back 3 years for example).
Which is sort of funny, because freetards have been panning this technology in spite of the successes it has enjoyed where it has been deployed since 2006. Neither computerworld nor theregister.co.uk did even minimal amount of research on this (or slashdot for that matter).
Their articles are so far off base it has to be deliberate or it demonstrates the utter incompetence of FOSS enthusiasts. In either case any person interested in tech news should disregard both these publications if no correction is ever published.
I thought SHA-2 was being widely used.
A few (lazy?) companies including RapidSSL were still using MD5. Verisign had vowed to close off the last of them by January 2009.
Uh, that’s tomorrow. I guess our heroic hackers had to hurry up and get their freak show on camera before the last loophole closed.
# 5 moss said, “A few (lazy?) companies including RapidSSL were still using MD5. Verisign had vowed to close off the last of them by January 2009.”
Thanks Moss. I knew that in ’04 when the 1st big cracks were appearing in MD5 that companies started moving away from it.