2 hours ago: We moved from visiting relatives (who we physically touched--hugs, kisses) to merely going to see people to hours on the telephone listening to people to now...merely texting people. The effect of our losing our humanity by degrees means experiences can now break relationships (instead of the relationship embracing the experience)...authoritarian voices are now merely opinions ( including Scripture) and the past has no meaning in the midst of our obsession for the present and future. Bill Joy got it right that we will be followed by a new species, one that we are in the process of making, not Nature.
9 hours ago: What Marc has forgotten to add is that we can now physically destroy the Internet servers...from a distance. At Los Alamos National Lab, it was shown that chips and hard drives can be manipulated to the point if physical failure by writing code and launching it at these elements from anywhere. This means the future war is not nation state...it is the system (supported by nations, banks, agencies, corporations, etc.) vs. the user. And if the backbones go down, you will not be able to trace nor interested in doing it as local chaos everywhere makes replacement of backup equipment impossible unless already on location. We are in the "nuclear war" age of cyberwar: system vs. user.
9 hours ago: Years ago the theoretical physicist David Bohm took me seriously about a large object being in two places at once...I worked for the late Padre Pio (1887- 1968) and Bill Martin witnessed the man going into himself. I questioned him about it and he said, "like a hand going into a glove." If the reader was to deeply check out Padre Pio they would discover it happened to him many times. Thus, Aaron O'Connell should look into it.
Dec 2 2012: Lesley: How do we make a password too hard for a hacker but easy for the nervous user? The password must be an immense number that can only be factored by 2 primes ( that are huge also)...only two numbers will work and no algorithm helps the hacker solve it in weeks let alone minutes. But how is this going to be easy for the user? The two primes represent two small phrases only the user knows. Each letter represents a variable digit that gets locked and the number of letters generates the iterations and the number of words further complicates it internally so that the small phrase might generate a 40 digit prime (Fermat formula). Even if the hacker were to know all of these algorithms he still doesn't know the original English phrase so...he is lost. This password revolution means no longer does it unlock; instead the password now has to be unlocked.
Thanks for the conversation...to Kitty: see the latest "Wired" on the death of the password. I must admit I don't know what you mean "password not logged" because what you type in has to be compared to some data in your PC or it doesn't constitute THE password, even if it is not in a file of .pwd...it is somewhere or what you type is as wrong as anything else. So is my password, but being a trapdoor min e won't unlock---knowing it.
Jean-Charles....again, thanks. I couldn't imagine I had something original but just haven't heard of anything like my trapdoor password. But no... it is not merely harder, not merely long that counts. What counts is you can't factor the composite. Brute force and dictionary stuff may help due to hash, but my trapdoor means only two numbers will break the composite and finding them without a known algorithm....only different primes are in my proposal...and only two for a huge number. There is no known mathematical rule that can reverse my process....trapdoor.
That is why 70% effective. If your machine is clean, not being watched, then the hacker attacking looking in later may get the 256 bit password but not worth trying to unlock it but if you are typing and a key logger is inside, well that is the 30% time my idea doesn't help. The phrase Alice uses doesn't get logged so my idea is good most of the time. Unlocking, factoring because you know the phrase, is never logged.
Nov 22 2012: If you want key elements of our lives not to be broken, then make passwords a composite generated by two primes. The Two primes would be represented by two small English phrases that the user writes down and the PC does not store but gives a prime number equivalent to generate a huge composite that a hacker---even if he gets it later---can't break. Every time the user turns on his computer, he types in the two small phrases and the PC recognizes them as factors of the composite (the password) and the PC unlocks. Why aren't we doing this?
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Thanks for the conversation...to Kitty: see the latest "Wired" on the death of the password. I must admit I don't know what you mean "password not logged" because what you type in has to be compared to some data in your PC or it doesn't constitute THE password, even if it is not in a file of .pwd...it is somewhere or what you type is as wrong as anything else. So is my password, but being a trapdoor min e won't unlock---knowing it.
Jean-Charles....again, thanks. I couldn't imagine I had something original but just haven't heard of anything like my trapdoor password. But no... it is not merely harder, not merely long that counts. What counts is you can't factor the composite. Brute force and dictionary stuff may help due to hash, but my trapdoor means only two numbers will break the composite and finding them without a known algorithm....only different primes are in my proposal...and only two for a huge number. There is no known mathematical rule that can reverse my process....trapdoor.
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That is why 70% effective. If your machine is clean, not being watched, then the hacker attacking looking in later may get the 256 bit password but not worth trying to unlock it but if you are typing and a key logger is inside, well that is the 30% time my idea doesn't help. The phrase Alice uses doesn't get logged so my idea is good most of the time. Unlocking, factoring because you know the phrase, is never logged.
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