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CITS – MD5 Collisions
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Lage straffen in bouwfraude-proces
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De rechtbank in Rotterdam heeft donderdag weinig overeind gelaten van de straffen die justitie had geëist in het proces over de bouwfraude. De vier bouwbedrijven die zich moesten verantwoorden, kregen geldboetes van maximaal 100.000 euro. De twaalf verdachte (ex)directeuren van de aannemers moeten eveneens voornamelijk geldboetes betalen.
Uitzondering hierop vormden twee directeuren van bouwonderneming Koop Tjuchem, onder wie de voormalig topman H.K.. Zij kregen allebei een werkstraf van 180 uur. Bovendien moet een van hen ook een boete van 6000 euro betalen.
Als je dus moet kiezen tussen bouwfraude plegen en bijstandsfraude plegen, kies dan voor bouwfraude – dan kom je er stukken beter van af!
Apple wants a Pentium M, IBM wants an Xbox
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The first Apple systems in 2006 will use Intel’s Pentium M processor, according to sources familiar with the companies’ plans. The Pentium M uses the same x86 architecture as the Pentium 4, but consumes far less power than Pentium 4 chips and its design philosophy is expected to be the model for Intel’s future processors.
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Industry analysts agreed that the Pentium M product Intel plans to launch in early 2006, the dual-core Yonah processor, could be an industry leader in performance per watt at that point.
IBM’s PowerPC 970FX chip, which Apple called the G5, simply doesn’t lend itself to PC designs that require low power consumption, such as notebooks and small form factor desktops, Jobs said. Apple was also frustrated by IBM’s inability to supply it with sufficient processors last year as the chip maker struggled with yield problems while getting its new manufacturing facility in East Fishkill, New York, up and running.
But Apple accounted for just around 2 percent of IBM’s chip wafer production in East Fishkill, according to industry sources, and IBM is moving away from making chips for the PC market in favor of gaming consoles and high-end servers. An IBM spokesman declined to comment on the nature of his company’s relationship with Apple, but the company put out a statement indicating it probably won’t miss Apple’s business.
“IBM is aggressively moving the Power Architecture beyond the PC, as shown by our recent successes with the next-generation gaming systems announced by Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. … IBM is focused on the highest value opportunities in each marketplace, and our direction with the Power Architecture is consistent with that strategy,” the company said in a written statement.
Console makers like Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Nintendo Co. Ltd. will sell tens of millions of units combined over the next couple of years, and it’s likely that IBM would rather focus its attention on the deals it has struck with all three companies, as opposed to taking on the engineering challenge of making a low-power G5 processor to suit Apple’s small market share.
Knowledge and Propaganda
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If a movement wins political power, it can do those positive things it wants to do. Only then does it have the power to protect its accomplishments. At the moment a movement or party wins control of the state, its worldview becomes the state and its party becomes the nation. The nation is not the 60 million people who live in it. That is a confused mixture. One says yea, the other nay. That is not a nation. A nation is characterized by consciousness. Instinct alone is not enough. Only when I am aware that I am a member of the nation, when I am consciously a German, do I belong to the German people. The Great Elector did not say: “Think and remember that you are a German.” Rather, he said: “Consider well that you are a German.” Consideration is at the level of consciousness. Such consciousness belongs to the entire nation. Adolf Hitler rightly answered the court in Munich in this way when he was asked: “How could you think of establishing a dictatorship over 60 million with such a tiny minority?” His reply: “If an entire nation has become cowardly, and there are only a thousand left who want something great, and who have to power to transform the state, then these thousand people are the nation.” If the others let a minority conquer the state, then they must also accept the fact that we will establish a dictatorship.
Joseph Goebbels, 9 january 1928
Exterminate! Exterminate!
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The owners of a Somerset visitors’ attraction are offering a 500 reward after a full-size Dalek was stolen.
The 5ft model, believed to be an original from the cult BBC Dr Who series, was taken from Wookey Hole Caves near Wells overnight on Monday.
Bosses say it is worth thousands of pounds and promise to pay the reward for its safe return “or capture”.
A spokesman said: “There may be a black market out there for Daleks – but it’s still a strange thing to steal.”
Ah, cute!!!
This is the reason you should never sign a document provided by someone else. Notice the blob of random data at the top of the ps files? These were tweaked to make the md5sums “meet in the middle”. The computational effort to “meet in the middle” are only the square root “one meeting the other”. In other words, if the creators hadn’t been allowed to create both documents, the effort would have been unfeasible (well, say, 10^80 ops instead of 10^40 ops).
Take home message: always randomize (adding spaces here and there, etc.) any document you sign that you didn’t write yourself.
And, no, no MD5 has yet been replaced in our fine company. I bet you, in ten years, we will
Yeah, what JJV said. Don’t sign stuff prepared by someone else.
And the article you linked to suggests that people are hard at work on similar exploits for SHA-1.