With Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, David
Prager, Roger Chang, Yoshi

 
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TWIT Blogs

Intro.

 
ITEM #1 GOOGLE

  ITEM #2 David
Prager on 3G

3G system on CDMA back bone
EDVO to do Webserver

 ITEM #3 YAHOO
Music

 David Prager – Ratings up on Attack of the Show

ITEM #4 ROGER
CHANG on E3

 TWIT Console Picks
(Xbox 360 or PS3):

DVD Wars
Blu Ray in PS3
What will studios put their media content on?

 ITEM #5 QUESTION
Brendan, MD Will PS3 have iTunes (will it be a media Coverence device), will this be a
threat to Rental services such as Netflix and BlockBuster?

ITEM #6 QUESTION Carrey N.C.
Early online release of Revenge of the Sith and resulting success undercut the
MPAA position on online movies?

 ITEM #7 QUESTION Dorthy [TWIT icon designer] 10-20 year
vision of technology impacting everyday life (positive and negative)? 

Negative:
Patrick – Terminator
Roger – Mad Max
   Rich will get Richer and Poor will get Poorer

Positive:
Robert – Huge TV’s at great prices (Max Headroom?)
   Nano tech very bad or very good
Leo – Biotech will be bigger than

 ITEM #8 TWIT PLUGS

Patrick Norton
        Extremetech.com
        Extremeipod.com
        [cut the TWIT cast to 8-track and vinyl]

Leo Laporte
        Leo World Tour in Athens,
Ohio [South East     
        Ohio Macromedia
User’s Group]

 Roger Chang
        Still on GameSpot

 ITEM #9 KEVIV ROSE’s
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

Leo and Kevin Rose covered in Bear grease

 ITEM #10 THE MAN
TRYING TO KEEP US DOWN!

 ITEM #11 IT’S A
BOY! MINI YOSH

The future is here. 
Its just not evenly distributed yet.—William Gibson

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Is the KitKat Club a Canadian strip club?  Enquiring TWITS want to know.

Get this podcast at http://www.leoville.tv/bt/

Featuring: Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, Yoshi Herrerra

Intro.

Drinking Caffeine

How many TWIT Torrents are being downloaded?

Contribute to the TWIT.  Donation will go toward the new equipment for the next show

Roger Chang & David Prager with E3 Update on Episode 6.

Patrick Norton on Security Updates

Firefox – big updates

Itunes – has buffer overflow

Mozilla 1.4 – mozilla.org/security

Firefox has more exploits than I.E.?  What do the TWITS use? 

Xbox 360

20 Gig hard drive, 3 Powerpc processors + 500MHZ ATI processor

Xbox 360 coverage on Mtv

The TWIT comment on the future gaming systems

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ITEM # 1 – QUESTION: Aaron, Maine Hardware Hacking Resources:

Kevin’s overclocked toothbrush

Aaron asks for TWITS recommendation on Resources

 

Yoshi gives advice

Google “how to soder”

And other resources will be posted on his blog  

ITEM #2 – BATTLESTAR GALACTICA – BITorrent vs. Traditional Broadcasting

Early release of BSG online actually 

         increases fan base!

SourceForce Project – Broadcast

         Machine  (Beta)

Bittorrent to create a “Television

        Station” with your computer

        Participatoryculture.org

Motion Picture of

       Association of America

       (MPAA) Taking action against

       Bitorrents

Robert Heron on projector technology and digital delivery systems (1080P)

       Star Wars Revenge of the Sith

 

ITEM #3 – QUESTION Johnathan, NY –Who will the win in the DVD format wars?  Will the Standard unify into one?

            Remember to turn off your TV

                 before you ask questions, you

                 TWITS

            Sony vs. Toshiba (HDDVD vs. Blu

                 Ray)

            Multi format drives

ITEM #4 – Leo does best impression of BILL GATES Comments on IPOD

            MP3 player battle (Sony vs. Nokia

                vs. Apple)

            Video IPOD??!!

            Leo played volley ball with Steve

                 Job’s

            Apple and Sony flirting

ITEM #5 – QUESTIONS [TWIT Soldier] Philip, AUS – What do I encode with?

            Getting the right bit rates, right

                 resolution and quality

            Nero Divx, XVid and others

Some one needs to hack the PSP

Quicktime Pro (recommended)

ITEM #6 – QUESTION [TWIT Soldier] Ashley, UK – What components do you recommend for building a PC for gaming and high res. Graphics editing?

            Kevin’s picks

            Yoshi’s picks

AMD Mobile

Robert Heron’s builds

Patrick gives advice on purchasing

video card for graphics editing

Magic Bullet plug-in and faster

   rendering

Awaiting the Direct X upgrade

ITEM #7 – QUESTION [TWIT Soldier] Tristen, ILL – What kind of processor will the computers of the future use?

            Intel’s optical chip proto-type

            Leo on the Play Station 3’s Cell

            Processor, Distributed Processing

                
and next generation processing

ITEM #8 — QUESTION [TWIT Soldier] Mike, Fl – What is everyone looking forward to at the E3?      

            Roger will give a report on E3 next

              week

ITEM #9 — Release of the Systm – 23^rd May Release date

ITEM #10 – QUESTION [TWIT Soldier] Is the PSP worth buying?

            Portable gaming device that is

            highly hackableRead feeds 

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I saw episode 2 of the ROTSS which is now called TWIT or This Week in Tech.  I think it is a great show.  It is like the Screen Savers to the 2nd power because you've got Leo Laporte, KRose, Patrick Norton, and Robert Heron (even Dovorak show up, kind of). 

I listened to the podcast right after seeing Systm.  Systm is great but it doesn't give me the feel of being the Screen Savers.  TWIT definitely delivered.  They talked about Hitch Hiker's Guide the the Galaxy, they talked about the trailer for Serinity.  They went tech and discussed Long Horn and OS X and some old formats that didn't work.  They talked about Digg.com and boxedthoughts.com.  They even took a couple of audio emails.  I am impressed.  I will be surprised if no one picks these guys up to do another Screen Savers like show.  Unfortunately, the best candidate would be G4TV. 

You know I don't have anything bad to say about any of the tech show (Broken, Systm or TWIT).  I guess it would be like a starving man complaining about a cracker.  There is such a void on TV when it comes to actual tech.  Yet its the Information Age and our reliance on computers and the Internet continue to grow exponentially at scary proportions.  It will always amaze me that G4 did not take advantage of the existing market that was held by TechTv.  It has pushed us all completely on line to get the content we crave.  The original crew have really formed a bond with their viewers that is begining to approach Trekie level… o.k. maybe not that crazy.

p.s. thebroken kicks TWITS ASSSS!! They just need to get Leo Laporte on there.  Get Leo in some fly Pimp Gear, put a hoe on each arm and them let him school us on Mac hacking.  That would be the SHIZNIT!

I'm a huge fan of the old Screen Savers show.  I had recorded
all the last (and in my oppinion) the best Screen Savers shows that
featured the HILARIOUS Alex Albrech and Tech Talented Kevin Rose. 
The show was out of control.  I laughed out loud on every single
show.  I thought they'd finally established a groove and you could
feel it in the voice and reaction of the fans that were screamed in the
audience and callers. 

And then my wife erased all the files from my DVR which I planned on downloading and keeping forever… Why… Why, honey.

I eventually got over it.  But then out of the
blue G4, fired half the original crew and hired geek gamers
and gear whores from like three other shows.  WTF.  That
asian chick is kinda tasty [some kinda of freaky asian fetish I have]

but those other pukes
make me want to turn off the TV.  Kevin Pereira has become
the face of all things unholy.  For me he represents the end of
the Screen Savers.  I know its not his fault, but someone must
suffer for this atrocity.

What followed was scandalous.  They changed the whole format of the show and nuked Screen Savers. 
Attack of the Show was born.  It was like seeing Anakin Skywalker
get sedused by the darkside.  I felt betrayed.

But now there is a New Hope.  The first Systm show is pure, unforgiving, hardcore tech.  Kevin Rose and Dan Huard host the show in a smooth, effective rythm that leaves you hungry for more. 

In there first show they talk about WarSpying, something they
covered briefly on the Screen Savers.  These geeks actually tell
you how to create a hand held WarSpying device that you plug into
your car to drive around and pick up unencrypted Video feeds from CCTVs
in peoples homes and commercial establishments.  I will admit I
thought is was Geeked OUT!  But whenever people start breaking out
the soder sucker and microchips my eyes start glazing over. 
Electronics is TOTAL magic to me.  But the message is clear.. get
CCTV, home and commercial security cameras with built in
encryption.

It was a good show.  Kevin once again shows his amazing skills
in producing quality, quality content leaning toward my one of my
favorite subjects, security.  If you are a fan of the old Screen
Savers and you're a TRUE geek you will love Systm. 

p.s. theBroken kicks Systms ASS, but I ain't one to gossip.. so you ain't heard that from me.

Authentication and Crypto are two of the hardest subject for me.  So I've tried to break each one down in terms I can understand.  I've only gotten up the Certificates.  I'll finish the others soon.

1.2 Recognize and be able to differentiate and explain the following methods of authentication · Kerberos
· CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)
· Certificates
· Username / Password
· Tokens
· Multi-factor
· Mutual
· Biometrics

The following definitions are necessary to understand the different methods of

Authentication:

Authentication: Verification of person who created or sent the data and the integrity of the data.

Data Integrity:  Assurance (confidence) that the data created or sent by an authenticated person has not been corrupted and/or tampered with, data is in original form.

Principal: Authenticated person.

Peer: client or user trying to get authenticated

Verifier : server or application approving the principal.  CHAP term is “authenticator.”  These terms are used interchangeably.

Hackers tools make it very easy to “sniff” out passwords and logins over a network or computers and allow unauthorized programs or users to impersonate authorized users.  That is why authentication is so important to computer security.

Kerberos

Kerberos was created in the ’80 by MIT’s Athena Project.  Kerberos is a distributed application that works over a network.  A Kerberos client acts on behalf of the principal to authenticate with a verifier without exposing the users data to hacker tools.

The Kerberos client sends encrypted messages to the verifier.  These messages are time stamped and sent using Kerberos protocol.  Kerberos protocol is based on the Needham and Schroeder authentication protocol.  The current implementation of Kerberos uses Data Encryption Standard (DES).

CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)

The CHAP authenticator (a.k.a verifier) randomly sends “challenge” message to the peer (a.k.a client, or user).  The responses with a value that calculated by running the “challenge” message through a one way hash function (using MD5).  The authenticator checks the message against its own calculations. 

CHAP replaces Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) which sends logins and passwords CLEAR TEXT over the network.  Upon initial connection between peer and authentication CHAP is used and maybe used over and over again as the authenticators sends random challenge messages.

The disadvantage is that the challenge message is sent in plain text allowing a hacker to possible capture the data and do a Man in the Middle attack.

Certificates

Certificates are used a lot on web pages with a need for strong security.  Certificates are based on two or more people or groups using a trusted third party to confirm that each of the two parties are who they claim to be.  Certificates provide public-key infrastructure (PKI) solutions.  Certificates are provided by Certificate Authorities such as thawte and VeriSign.  These, and other Certificate Authorities, act as a third party issuing Private keys to organization, groups and/or persons and confirm the identities of by verifying the issued private key with a public key.  Usually Certificate Authorities us a secure method of communication called Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to send and receive messages.  SSL was developed by Netscape.  SSL uses a private key to encrypt data over the SSL connections.  Secure Http is an alternative to SSL.  Public keys are not need for S-Http or SSL.  When a secure session is occurring when the URL turns from HTTP to HTTPS.

Issues digital IDs to enable authenticated, 128-bit SSL encryption that secure e-commerce and online payments across the Internet.

 References

1. Neuman b. & Theodore T. Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Computer Networks. USC/ISI Technical Report number ISI/RS-94-399.  http://www.isi.edu/gost/publications/kerberos-neuman-tso.html
2. Simpson W. PPP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP), RFC 1994 (RFC1994). Internet RFC Archives. August 1996 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1994.html
3. Karve, Anita. SSL and S-HTTP: Secure Communication over the Internet. 1 Jan 1997. Networkmagazine.com

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSL.html

This is an update on my first post about the removing the trojan called smithfraud.  I help my friend get rid of the trojan and had the system purring, but shortly after he got back on the Internet with no protection and got hacked again.  This time worse then before.  Not only did he get smithfraud AGAIN but he got some crap I never even heard of.  I may have to wipe his entire hard drive.

I constantly tell him how important it is to secure your system even if your on dial-up.  Just having Sp2 for XP is not enough.  I recommend at least a firewall. 

If you have a broadband connection check out my walk through on securing broadband Internet connections.

Windows 2000 was awarded the Common Criteria Certificate.  This
is the first Microsoft Operating System to receive such a prestigious
certification putting it on the same level as SecureOS Solaris Unix,
both built on an operating system that has been around for over thirty
years.  This document will explain what the Common Criteria Certificate is, how a vendor achieves it and why a vendor would want it.

Common Criteria is based on the idea of a sound way of evaluating the security of an operating system.  Common Criteria has evolved over the years.  Security evaluation criteria goes back to the ‘70’s.  The
first standard for this criteria was published in the United States
Trusted Computer Systems Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC), the “Orange Book.”  It was published in 1985 by the National Security Agency.  Europe
came up with similar standards in an effort to create an international
standard called Information Technology Security Evaluation and
Certification (ITSEC) in 1991.  This led to the CC Editorial Board (CCEB) which was formed establishing globally recognized standards for security evaluation (dinopolis).  Each country has its own organization that enforces and advertises these international standards.  In the United States,
both the NSA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology
meet the security and testing needs of Information Technology producers
and consumers.  They do this through a joint program called the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP).  The responsibilities of these organization are outlined in the Computer Security Act of 1987 (epic).

In order for a vendor to be awarded the Common Criteria Certification it must pass all required tests for a security certification accepted in 15 countries.  There
are three parts to the CC: 1) Introduction and general model, is the
introduction to the CC. It defines general concepts and principles of
IT security evaluation and presents a general model of evaluation.  2)
Security functional requirements, establishes a set of security
functional components as a standard way of requirements for Targets of
Evaluation (TOEs).  3) Security assurance
requirements, establishes a set of assurance components as a standard
way of expressing the assurance requirements for TOEs (CRYPTIC).

Common Criteria is essential particularly in these times of heightened Information security awareness.  The CC Certification is verification that the operating system has met a specific level of security.  Consumers
are more likely to purchase an operating system that is internationally
accredited than one with just a good reputation.

This certification took Microsoft three years and millions of dollars to attain.  Very few companies have the time, money and resources to reach this level security.  According to Microsoft they obtained the Common Criteria “because its evaluation and certification process helps consumers make informed security decisions (Microsoft).”

Works Cited

Dinopolis. Common Criteria History. 11 May 2001. http://www.dinopolis.org/documentation/misc/theses/hhaub/node78.html

 NIAP. Common Criteria Evaluation Verification Scheme.

http://niap.nist.gov/

 Electronic Privacy Center. Computer Security Act of 1987. http://www.epic.org/crypto/csa/

 Microsoft. Windows 2000 achieves the Common Criteria Certificate. 29 Oct 2002.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/news/bulletins/cccert.asp#top

Radium. The Rainbow Series Library. 28 June 2000.

http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/rainbow/

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The reason I haven’t been able to find Cat Schwartz is because I’ve been spelling her name with a “K” Kat Schwartz. My graMARr and speling Good, it is not.

Silly me. Shes at Catschwartz.com [dead and gone]a pretty cool blog hi tech mommy. I feel so empty now that I’ve found you Catherine.

I know I should be happy but the guess I let the obsession of finding you fill me for so long that it began to comfort me. Wait… perhaps I can meet you in REAL life. Just kidding Cat, I’m not really psycho. Or am I?

Contact Cat:

TheTechChick@gmail.com[dead?]

Cat Schwartz Obsession:

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Catherine_Schwartz_Fan_Club/