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So, you think that your password is secure? Let's see: does it contain a mixture of uppercase/lowercase letters, punctuation marks and digits? Yes? Well, even in this case, your password might be still completely insecure. Read ahead why...

To understand the problem, we need first a little rehash of the basic password cracking techniques. The simplest algorithm would be to simply (1) enumerate all English words and names from a given dictionary and (2) check to see if this word matches as your password.

You might say - but in this context we are talking about other characters like punctuation marks and digits that are part of the password. What would an attacker do in this case? Simple - use a little psychology.

The problem is that most people feel that adding digits and other characters is just a burden. When the 'password will expire today' dialog comes, they will be in a hurry to get a new password, maybe an easy-to-remember word, and then alter it in a few ways:    
1) First, the password needs to have a capital letter. Most people will naturally choose the first letter from our English word to be capitalized. So, a word like 'flowers' becomes 'Flowers'.
2) Second, the password needs to contain some digits. The password would look nicer (and easier to remember) when these digits are appended to the word. Even more, people are usually unimaginative here, and just append one digit, or in more complex cases, digit sequences like '123' or '01' or eventually their birthdate.
3) Third, we need some non-alphanumeric characters. Well, let's see. If we replace an 's' with '$', 'a' with '@' or 'o' with zero, then we get what we want, right? It is hard to resist the tentation to replace 's' with '$' at least (and not an 'a' with '$'), and therefore getting a false sense of security. In some cases also using delimiter characters like '!' or '#' to separate the word from the digit sequence.

So, with the example above, the altered forms of the word 'flowers' might be: 'Fl0wer$' or 'Flower$01' or 'Fl0wers#123' and so on and so forth.

The problem with these alteration rules is that they are so predictable. All the attacker has to do is to take the same list of English words, and apply the rules above. He will probably get a longer list by, say a factor of 10-100 which is not that much.

In conclusion, it's not that hard to enter into the minds of regular people, and neither in the minds of attackers. So, if you used any of these rules above, then stop using them. Instead, here are some rules to create strong passwords.

P.S. As for me? I just uuidgen.exe to create a random sequence of digits.

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In yesterday's announcement of the new Zune media player and Zune Marketplace, Microsoft (and many press reports) glossed over a remarkable misfeature that should demonstrate once and for all how DRM and the DMCA harm legitimate customers.

Microsoft's Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio and Video purchased or 'rented' from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow, or any other online media service. That's right -- the media that Microsoft promised would Play For Sure doesn't even play on Microsoft's own device. Buried in footnote 4 of its press release, Microsoft clearly states that 'Zune software can import audio files in unprotected WMA, MP3, AAC; photos in JPEG; and videos in WMV, MPEG-4, H.264' -- protected WMA and WMV (not to mention iTunes DRMed AAC) are conspicuously absent.

This is a stark example of DRM under the DMCA giving customers a raw deal. Buying DRMed media means you're locked into the limited array of devices that vendors say you can use. You have to rebuy your preexisting DRMed media collection if you want to use it on the Zune. And you'll have to do that over and over again whenever a new, incompatible device with innovative features blows existing players out of the water. Access to MP3s and non-DRMed formats creates the only bridge between these isolated islands of limited devices.

The real culprit here is the DMCA -- but for that bad law, customers could legally convert DRMed files into whatever format they want, and tech creators would be free to reverse engineer the DRM to create compatible devices. Even though those acts have traditionally been and still are non-infringing, the DMCA makes them illegal and stifles fair use, innovation, and competition.

May this be a lesson to those who mistakenly laud certain DRM as 'open' and offering customers 'freedom of choice' simply because it is widely-licensed. With DRM under the DMCA, nothing truly plays for sure, regardless of whether you're purchasing from Apple, Microsoft, or anyone else.

Take action now to support DMCA reform and to stop the government from mandating more DRM.

[Postscript: In an interview with Engadget, Microsoft Zune architect J Allard pointed out that Zune has sufficient video format support, in part because there's 'Lots of DVD ripping software out there that encodes to those formats, so the most popular formats out there, whether it's MPEG-4 or H.264, we'll support those.' Gee, he isn't suggesting that his business model benefits from customers using tools like DeCSS or Handbrake to evade the DRM on DVDs, right? Especially since Microsoft is furiously trying to squash the FairUse4WM tool, that would seem rather hypocritical.]

(Cross-posted at DeepLinks)

I bought a Microsoft vx-6000 because it promised to do 1.3 megapixel video. Well... it does do 640x480 at 30fps it does 800x600 at up to 15, and 1280x1024 at 15. So this is not the cheap build it my slef HD Cam I was hoping for. Still a cool camera, and not bad for $99, but I have seen better cameras, that have less noise, and offer IR-LED's for low light.

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