Iran is not some backwater and it's not north korea. When politicians sing about "bomb Iran" these are the innocent people they are talking about killing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v6kF8i-mbw http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/01/a-view-inside-ira... Before 1970 you would not be able to identify pictures of iran from parts of the usa http://www.pagef30.com/2009/04/iran-in-1970s-before-islamic-... Currently…
So it's not OK to bomb Iran but North Korea and you have no problem - are you under the impression that everyone in North Korea is evil?
Drone captured by Iran may mean military GPS RSA "red key" has been compromised
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Re: Drone captured by Iran may mean military GPS RSA "red key" has been compromised
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Um...he was actually supporting your point.
Yeah, but he also adds: "Currently Iran is just the result of what happens if conservative fundamentals got ahold of the government of a country." Well, not all can be explained by "conservative fundamentals getting ahold of the government". This amounts to "their people are really like us, it's their government that's bad". There EXIST people/populations/countries that are conservative/unlike Americans in general, a…
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#33The article confuses me: it seems to be conflating the RSA algorithm (which I could easily believe might be used to encrypt military GPS) with the RSA company (a division of EMC which was hacked and had its SecurID product compromised recently). Am I missing something, or is the author just confused? Why would having "broken into EMC's RSA servers" be at all related to being "in pursuit of a cryptanalytic attack agai…
1) Attack on RSA to attempt to see if RSA has some attack on the RSA algorithm hidden. 2) Using an attack on SecurID to attempt to get more information from a Lockheed Martin or other breach.
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#34First the info:
Phil Zimmermann has a company working on Secure VOIP. I was contacted past 18 months ago to build the android mobile client. Project never lifted off due to some large distraction and the excuses I was given never matched up to reality.
I submit because of Phil's connections to other RSA inventors and break-ins that occurred in the past 24 months that the distraction was a major hole was found in RSA or the process to secure it. The RSA inventors are consultants/board members of the the secure VOIP firm(Phil Zimmermann's firm).
At this time its only conjecture and there are no concrete facts out in the open to fully confirm it. However, there are some analysis out there such as the authors that point to a major breach of RSA in the last 24 months that highlights new RSA holes in either the RSA itself or the process in securing RSA keys.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, but he also adds: "Currently Iran is just the result of what happens if conservative fundamentals got ahold of the government of a country." Well, not all can be explained by "conservative fundamentals getting ahold of the government". This amounts to "their people are really like us, it's their government that's bad". There EXIST people/populations/countries that are conservative/unlike Americans in general, a…
When people talk about Iran it's more about the things that are, by any definition, wrong, than their traditional or religious choice. You simply cannot, in any modern society, discriminate against someone because it happens to be a woman, or throw stone at someone until they die because you didn't like his opinion. You can defend ideals, you cannot defend barbarism. Some of the things these people do (and others in…
Why? It's not by the definition of wrong of those Iranians. Where does that objective standard come from?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all of helping (in not very intrusive ways) the westernized Iranians steer their country in their direction, but that's just because I like those ideals and notion of right and wrong, not because they're somehow objectively right.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Um...he was actually supporting your point.
Yeah, but he also adds: "Currently Iran is just the result of what happens if conservative fundamentals got ahold of the government of a country." Well, not all can be explained by "conservative fundamentals getting ahold of the government". This amounts to "their people are really like us, it's their government that's bad". There EXIST people/populations/countries that are conservative/unlike Americans in general, a…
ANYWHERE there is conservative fundamentalism it means people's freedom is being restricted.
Gitmo, Patriot Act, SOPA - none of these came out of progressive thinking - they are throwbacks to conservative desires regardless who votes for them.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
So it's not OK to bomb Iran but North Korea and you have no problem - are you under the impression that everyone in North Korea is evil?
I think the author's point was that Iran is a sophisticated industrial society ("not a backwater") and the people have a wide range of views ("not North Korea").
Hence no surprise they could dissect a drone.
By no means was I implying it would be acceptable to bomb north korea!
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Um...he was actually supporting your point.
Yeah, but he also adds: "Currently Iran is just the result of what happens if conservative fundamentals got ahold of the government of a country." Well, not all can be explained by "conservative fundamentals getting ahold of the government". This amounts to "their people are really like us, it's their government that's bad". There EXIST people/populations/countries that are conservative/unlike Americans in general, a…
Did you notice that Libya, Tunisia and Egypt already had a popular revolution, and that Syria is still having one? Would you have said, 12 months ago, that the majority of Tunisians, Egyptians and Libyans WANT to live like they do, and RESPECT their country's ideals?
If not, why not? and why is Iran different?
If so -- then, 12 months later, when you have proof positive that it wasn't the case 12 months earlier -- why do you think Iran is different (except in the sense that the popular green revolution has not succeeded)
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, but he also adds: "Currently Iran is just the result of what happens if conservative fundamentals got ahold of the government of a country." Well, not all can be explained by "conservative fundamentals getting ahold of the government". This amounts to "their people are really like us, it's their government that's bad". There EXIST people/populations/countries that are conservative/unlike Americans in general, a…
> What exactly is specifically bad about the Iranian government that other countries have not already did, including the US? Did you notice that Libya, Tunisia and Egypt already had a popular revolution, and that Syria is still having one? Would you have said, 12 months ago, that the majority of Tunisians, Egyptians and Libyans WANT to live like they do, and RESPECT their country's ideals? If not, why not? and why is…
Not only I noticed, but I live near those parts of the world, have friends there, and know that what you seem to believe about those countries has nothing to do with the reality.
The popular revolutions did not happen because they wanted to be more like americans, or because they rejected islam or whatever.
The western media just overplayed some guys on twitter and similar figures that have little to do with the actual struggle, as if they represent the will of the people. The western governments also overplay their people there, like politicians with 10% of the vote and such. Students, another group that was also overplayed, was a tiny minority in those revolting.
And yet, people draw conclusions and pretend to know all about the politics and tensions of those areas from news articles spoon fed to them. This is similar to some foreign news source showing, say, Glenn Beck and assuring his audience that "all americans think like that".
There have been power struggles and political antagonisms for thousands of years, in all parts of the world. When one happens to happen to a country that the us doesn't like, it doesn't mean that the people doing it suddenly decided to adopt a different way of living. It just means that they don't like dictators (or even that they just don't like their current dictator), period.
Also, while the revolts in Egypt and Tunisia where genuine, the revolts in Libya where mostly BS, as the population could care less about Khadaffi's rule. Unlike the other revolts, this only succeeded because of heavy backing, military and otherwise, from the west, interested in the oil.
And it's not like things are going to turn for the better there (or even in Egypt and Tunisia, if the interested foreign powers are going to have their way), most probaly they will turn into something like Iraq, substituting a dictatorship with livable conditions and stability to a nightmare of civil war, ethnic cleansing, foreign exploitation, and EVEN MORE islamic fundamendalism etc...