Thaidog

Well - looks like I found the answer to this: "Decrypted messages are displayed in a separate modal popup. Encryption Mode Two different modes are available to compose a secure message: 1) In a separate editor window The mail is composed in a separate popup window and only transferred in encrypted form back to the webmail provider's editor. In this variant the clear text of the message will never leave Mailvelope. 2) In the compose editor of the webmail provider You compose your email in the editor of the webmail provider. That means before you encrypt the email, the provider potentially has access to what you type. This comes often as a feature with the auto-save drafts function: the incomplete (and unencrypted) mail is stored every few seconds on the server. This variant might make sense for your special use case, but be aware that this violates the concept of client-side encryption as the unencrypted message or parts of it can leave your browser. Remember Password Mailvelope can cache passwords for private keys in local memory. You can activate the cache in the security settings or with the password dialog. Passwords have a lifetime which can be adjusted in the settings and are always deleted when you close the browser window. Limitations Mailvelope currently does not support digital signing of messages. This feature is under development"

After reading up on how Mailvelope works there *appears* to be (at least) one fatal flaw - if you use it with gmail, google automatically saves a draft of your email before you send it.... and I'm guessing that mailvelope does not take this in to account... ie, before you encrypt your message a draft of your unencrypted message is forever saved on google's servers and you're back to square one. Obviously in transit the message is ok but what if you don't want Google sniffing your personal emails for sales opportunities? Maybe Mailvelope does take this in to account and I am uninformed - can anyone talk intelligently regarding this?

Do even get me started...

I wanted to let everybody know at Hak5 that LinuxDNA now has a new 64bit patch for the 2.6.32.7 kernel and up (works with 2.6.33 as well) This time around we've made it much easier to compile. After ICC is installed you simply apply the patch, then configure and make your kernel like normal (but don't forget to source the icc compiler first) We done some benchmarks with LMbench which show our patch faster than the same type GCC kernel. Context Switch performance is especially accelerated which should make for great multitasking. Tests were run on an Intel Atom 330 64bit cpu: www.linuxdna.com/benchmarks.pdf Here is the patch: wget http://www.linuxdna.com/dna-2.6.32.7-intel64-3.patch Here is the vanilla source off kernel.org for 2.6.32.7: wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.....6.32.7.tar.bz2 #################### 2.6.33 just went stable today... here are the latest patches with bug fixes for flash sshfs among other various improvements: wget http://www.linuxdna.com/dna-2.6.33-intel64.patch wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2....-2.6.33.tar.bz2 works with icc v. 11.1.54 - .69: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/n...re-development/

Well my printer was having trouble also until I changed the SSID. I have two wireless routers, one g and one b that have the same SSID when up... both unencrypted. Vista and the printer (HP) could connect to neither. I changed the SSID on the g router and now they can both connect. Those are the only things I connect to wireless.

Yes, yes, yes (that works no problems) and no (no security enabled).

Don't you just love Vista? For some reason after testing Jasager on my Vista laptop (aka my lab rat) Vista will not connect to my wireless router when it has it's old SSID running... the one I tested with. Any ideas what it causing it?

You got it! (we're working on the site and forums now)

We have not given out any code as of yet.. but we are considering it. We want a *free* alternative for the masses that we make easy to set up. That, as you point out, is the main problem people face when trying out wine based solutions. We are working hard to make it easy to use as a PS3. You boot the system and insert a disk and the game menu pops up. That is the simplicity we are after for the system. We want to make it easy, so that people only have to reboot and, boom, they have a stupid fast gaming rig... or even no dual boot. To me it seems that the world would have been on Linux a long time ago had they only been able to play the games they wanted easily. That is really what has kept Micosoft alive... and now they've slapt all those loyal gamers in the face with Vista... no hardware audio without a hack, only OS to have DX10 because they want your money... and now the econmy is crashing and people can't spend that kind of money. So Vista flopped. If we can get a system to the masses that plays games faster, on wine, that's free I think it's something to consider. Q3, btw is only for testing, The system plays any Linux game or anything that Wine will run. Q3 is a cpu bound game that shows best how our kernel code is preforming. That is the only reason we mention it.

Right now we're really not worried about the DirectX/wine side of things. Since there are companies that handle just that and we are not trying to compete with them. What we are trying to do is make a gaming kernel that will work on any AMD or Intel system and is faster than anything else out there for gaming, workstation and supercomputer applications. FYI we did some more tests this morning on graphics only. We are getting ~499fps on Linux while about 290fps on Vista Ultimate.

That is the idea. Obviously some variable have to be somewhat frozen in order to control things off the bat. For instance we are looking to support Intel and nVidia as the major hardware in the system, but since it's Gentoo you can customize all you want! Supporting these guys first means we do things right with all the low level stuff. We also are running tests with the Killer Nic beta driver for Linux and PhysX drivers also. (PhysX drivers will soon be out for the Cuda chips) So really we are interested in supporting the gaming hardware first because we want the fastest systems possible. somebody like TransGaming may end up working well, but that is pay for play software. The base system will come with a wrapper to install closed source drivers once the system is up... can't really do it any other way in the US or we'd do it exactly like Sabayon does it.

The homepage will be www.gentellinux.com. I have not had time for any real marketing yet. But that is the domain I have and I will have it up in a few weeks or so. I need to finish getting some brand names copyrighted and whatnot. I prefer to spend my time developing instead of marketing. The kernel build that is specifically for gaming is being called "GameOS" right now. I have a white-paper on the development platform also, but I am reluctant to publish it off the bat because I don't want the Secret Sauce stolen yet ;) But if you are an interested developer or want to contribute in any way we can certainly let you in on it! As for the Windows market, yes... I think now is a good time to push the idea that you can move to Linux and loose nothing. Obviously games that are ported to Linux will run faster but game on wine so far are performing extremely well.

I am posting here because I want to find out how many people would be interested in a open platform for gaming that supported the freedom to build your own system, mod it for your purposes (think MythTV) and run your games on a system that is faster than anything else on the same hardware? Basically I have project that I am working on based on Gentoo Linux with a specialized kernel that will run games faster than any Windows system on the exact same hardware. To give you an idea the system will run Q3 at close to 400 fps with beta drivers where Vista Ultimate is running around 300fps. In fact, the system will run Q3 Windows version on Wine faster than Vista or XP can. We are testing on single core hardware to get a better idea of how good our kernel is scaling. The advantages are also monetary. You don't have to buy an expensive console or a closed source OS to get a really fast system to play your games on. I already have some pretty big developers interested and pitching in on the project, but I want to know what the hardcore gamers think :) Obviously the code has other applications, but I see the gaming market as a prime candidate for a new type of gaming model.. let's face it, Microsoft let everybody down with Vista and the economy is bad and getting worse... why wait for something years off from MS when you can get something better free? Anybody interested?

That would be amazing!

Cool! Thanks for the clarification!

Ok so to clear thing's up for me please tell me if this makes sense: I start the fon up and then I start up my laptop > the laptop boots up and automatically looks for my old AP > the fon is closer and it says "that's me" > my laptop connects to the fon but it thinks it on the old AP SSID > this is verified by the jasager list showing my old AP's SSID is now connected > The MAC address shown is the MAC address of my laptop's wireless card Is that correct to say?

Ok that makes sense... but how does the fon supersede the actual network? For instance if my network is up and running and so is the fon what gives the fon the connect over my actual wireless network?

what is the difference between listening for probe rquests and broadcasting SSIDs? In 412 they start up the fon and there is an SSID available from work. They connect to that SSID. If the fon does not broadcast the SSID where is it coming from? How does it show up?

On Episode 412 you guys were hooking up the man in the middle attack and you noticed that there were SSIDs from places that were too far away to be actual SSIDs. How did those SSIDs get on the list? Are they recorded inside the fon or are they something the Fon sniffed from the SSIDs that your connected Windows laptop had a cache of? Further, is there any way to clear those SSIDs? I do some traveling and I would not want those to broadcast if I was in an area where it would be strange to see them.

Strange... it looked like it was keeping the listed ssid's I was entering - even after rebooting... maybe not.... it's been somewhat unstable. It get's hot pretty quick.

No, no! I don't want to reinstall the Fon... I want to wipe all the info ift has about any networks it sniffed. No I like the Fon the way it is now ;)

I see that my Fon has sniffed so SSID's and other things from my old XP laptop. I was wondering if there is a way to completely or partially reset the Fon so it's back to brand spanking new?

Well my real rig is running Gentoo and I'm really not very worried about that... I'm more worried about the rest of my network that was to run XP or Vista for work. Plus it's a great way to help keep your Windows boxes ready for anything.... since they are the target for everything!!!! But I'm still at a miss as to what the plan is to place a battery powered fon in the middle of startbucks central if it can't redirect traffic... I'm guessing that's something on the way?

Could be a worm.... could be many things. This way I can quarantine them and see what they do. Not to mention find out where the viruses are coming from... what websites... etc.

Ok so since I don't want to infect my network I could blacklist it and let everybody else connect to the fon which could be hooked up to a linux box via the rj45 and an Internet connection could be passed through the linux box and I could use the linux box to scan for viruses... etc... correct?