Long Night of Research in Innsbruck Nov 11th
... Lange Nacht der Forschung in Innsbruck
At November 11th at 16:27 CET there is again the event Long Night of Research organized by universities and research institutes of Innsbruck.
The program is available as PDF.
The program is available as PDF.
Do you trust A-Trust?
... trustfulness or cartel ;-)
It will have been a year ago that I've visited the Austrian government portal for citizen services.
With the social card (e-card) each Austrian has the possibility to use this card as digital signature card. With the card and a card reader for your computer (something I don't have) you could use online services to communicate with governmental authorities.
The alternative is to visit offices in person or mail via postal carrier.
So it would be quite a nice, comfortable way.
Yes, but for the SSL certificates used on the secured websites it is difficult for the citizen to trust...
With the social card (e-card) each Austrian has the possibility to use this card as digital signature card. With the card and a card reader for your computer (something I don't have) you could use online services to communicate with governmental authorities.
The alternative is to visit offices in person or mail via postal carrier.
So it would be quite a nice, comfortable way.
Yes, but for the SSL certificates used on the secured websites it is difficult for the citizen to trust...
Snow allures me to skiing
... would be the earliest swings in year ever
Just listened to local radio station and the report about the ski opening at the Kaunertal glacier.
Afterwards I've needed to update my knowings about the snow depths and current possibilities to go skiing...
Afterwards I've needed to update my knowings about the snow depths and current possibilities to go skiing...
Use Gson to convert between JSON and Java objects
It is really a simple and fast solution to use google-gson to convert Java objects with primitives to JSON and back.
A call to new Gson().toJson(primitiveObj) is all you need.
There's also a Maven repository for easy integration in your project.
Try it out before you fiddle around with your own object converter!
A call to new Gson().toJson(primitiveObj) is all you need.
There's also a Maven repository for easy integration in your project.
Try it out before you fiddle around with your own object converter!
ubuntu open week 2. - 6. November
There are really interesting sessions at the next ubuntu open week:
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/10/13/next-ubuntu-open-week-announced/
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/10/13/next-ubuntu-open-week-announced/
Encrypted harddisks are not safe
... at least not as safe as assumed
The harddisk encryption is only defense against simple theft.
A spy can install a tool on Alice's unattended computer and get to know the password for her encrypted disk.
Afterwards the spy Bob knows the password and can boot Alice's computer with its encrypted harddisk or can copy all the unencrypted disk data.
The so called "Evil Maid Attack" by Joanna Rutkowska replaces the boot code on disk to sniff Alice's password and continues with boot afterwards.
If the boot is protected by BIOS, Bob has to connect the encrypted disk to an own computer to install the tool.
If the encryption is hardware based there might be possibilities to hack the BIOS for a password sniffer. But this kind of encryption is much safer because Bob has to know a lot specifics about Alice's computer. Bob might run out of time doing his work without getting nabbed by Alice.
Mmh. I've to check the laptop of our team. I'm interested in how safe its encryption is ;-)
A spy can install a tool on Alice's unattended computer and get to know the password for her encrypted disk.
Afterwards the spy Bob knows the password and can boot Alice's computer with its encrypted harddisk or can copy all the unencrypted disk data.
The so called "Evil Maid Attack" by Joanna Rutkowska replaces the boot code on disk to sniff Alice's password and continues with boot afterwards.
If the boot is protected by BIOS, Bob has to connect the encrypted disk to an own computer to install the tool.
If the encryption is hardware based there might be possibilities to hack the BIOS for a password sniffer. But this kind of encryption is much safer because Bob has to know a lot specifics about Alice's computer. Bob might run out of time doing his work without getting nabbed by Alice.
Mmh. I've to check the laptop of our team. I'm interested in how safe its encryption is ;-)