* Posts by Mark Fawcett

4 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Aug 2009

GCHQ loses Top Secret laptops

Mark Fawcett
FAIL

Fail

"Remove the HDD and use a standard cloning process. Put the disk back and no-one would know any different."

And you would defeat the high-security tamper-evident seals how exactly?

"Can't read the data - not a big problem, there are various tools that can work their way through many forms of encryption. It may take a while but it can be done if you have the patience."

Yes, and do you really think a GCHQ system rated to hold TS material would really use one of those forms of encryption? Yep, you'd be able to break it, probably after 30+ years or so, assuming you had access to government levels of crypt-analysis processing grunt...

Cheers

Mark

Agincourt: The sensational truth

Mark Fawcett

Where is...

Où est Optimus Prime?

Shome mishtake, shurely?

Cheers

Mark.

Bloggers howl after conference snoops on 'secure' network

Mark Fawcett
FAIL

@AC: Why should#

" people asume that a respected group is going to brake the law? This is one step away from saying there is secure parking and then braking in to peoples cars and saying "lolz. All that meens is that there is a gate".

The whole thing has gone to far."

I'm not normally a grammar Nazi but enough is enough (I realise that the chances of a mistake occurring in my posting has now gone up substantially). Try "assume", "break", "people's", "means" and "too".

Cheers

Mark

Linux: More contributors, more code

Mark Fawcett
FAIL

@"Is it me?"

Ok, I'll bite...

For one thing, it's "kernel", not "kernal", ffs.

Your definition is something that most of us would class as a microkernel. The Linux wee beasty contains all the source code for all the open-source device drivers, for all the devices supported - which is an awful lot. It also contains all the source code for all the file systems that Linux supports - again an awful lot.

It also contains all the source code to support all the architectures that the kernel runs on.

I could go on...

Cheers

Mark