Posts by Tim Herklots

Cryptome restored after Microsoft change of heart

MS didn't want the court case

Mr Young refuted the DMCA under the grounds that the document was public interest and therefore publishable depsite copyright issues. MS would not want to lose that court case. I expect that was the real reason they pulled out.

Microscope-wielding boffins crack cordless phone crypto

You made two classic mistakes...

1. It didn't take the researcher 20 years to do the analysis

2. This is white hat study. How d'ya know a black hat study hasn't discovered this on release of the first handset, following the same standard procedure as the white hat study?

Note for those trying to leglislate that investigating encryption systems is unlawful: if the white hats aren't allowed to show that an encryption scheme is flawed (or publish the shortcomings), then the black hats can take advantage with no-one the wiser. Also, the institutions using the flawed systems lose a major incentive to get it right and can chill anyone suggesting otherwise.

Backdoor in top iPhone games stole user data, suit claims

Wait until plaintiff discovery...

..demands to know if the pnum data was sold/shared/swapped.

May be some interesting answers there.

Dallas cops fine drivers for 'not speaking English'

Tourists?

It looks like Dallas really doesn't have a tourism industry... at least, not from foreign countries.

Engineers are troublesome 'expert loners', says prof

An experienced engineer...

...is either a team player, or innovative. Rarely both. And never in a big, credit stealing organisation.