What this shows to me is that md5 needs to die. Perhaps it was a good in times past, but now it is too easy to crack with commodity computer hardware. The rig shown in the article costs <$2000 USD when priced out on newegg.com. Top-shelf gaming GPUs are only going to get faster.
I was surprised to read that the right to freedom of speech is not recognized in France. Anyone here from France willing to affirm or refute article's claim in that regard?
It is. The french constitution state:
> La libre communication des pensées et des opinions est un des droits les plus précieux de l’homme ; tout citoyen peut donc parler, écrire, imprimer librement, sauf à répondre de l’abus de cette liberté dans les cas déterminés par la loi.
Which mean that you have free speech, BUT, you can be prosecuted if you abuse it as defined by the law. Example of common abuses: defamation (the most common), incitement to ethnic or racial hatred, privacy violation, historical revisionism, intellectual property infringement, etc.
But except "incitement to ethnic or racial hatred" and "historical revisionism" it's mostly the same in the US.
Also, it's not all about the law, during the same sex marriage debates, a lot of homosexual people got beaten by far right / nazi-like groups.
This IS a lie. Do you have any sources?
There have been one attack on a gay couple, hugely used by the government and their supporting medias. Newspapers have implies (no facts) that the culprits where members of the strike against same sex marriage or far right activists. There was then a huge huge buzz to shame the strikers. And finally, 4 months later, the police arrested 4 youths: 3 in a "cité" (public housing, "ghetto") and one was already in jail, all of them well known of the police services for violence facts. http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/agression-homophobe-a-pari...
Some people in the comments do say that the police delayed the arrest so that the government could shame the protesters against same sex marriage.
One more thing, the man beaten reacts to the arrest on a far left web site. https://bellaciao.org/fr/spip.php?article137205 And he is in a complete deny, not being able to recognize that those who beat him have nothing in common with those that protested against same sex marriage.
What's the "lie", the aggressions or the fact that it come from far right groups ?
If the former:
http://www.france24.com/fr/20130421-climat-homophobie-agress...
> 1200 aggressions on homosexual people in the first 3 months of 2013 compared to 1 556 on the whole 2011.
Almost 4 times more than usual, is it enough for you ?
About the authors of the aggressions:
http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2013/09/04/bar-gay-sac...
Are skinheads far-right enough for you ?
But off course, skinheads are probably not behind ALL these aggressions, most of them are probably "standard" homophobics.
"L’organisme (SOS homophobie) a reçu trois fois plus d’appels et de mails entre le 1er janvier et la fin mars. (1 200 personnes sur trois mois, contre 1 556 sur l'ensemble de l'année 2011)." "Ces chiffres sont un indicateur important car ils permettent de mesurer la libération de la parole homophobe."
No. MD5 needs to stop being used in inappropriate ways.
Switching rsync to bcrypt, scrypt, or pbkdf2 for it's hashing is _not_ a sensible idea.
Using "fast hashes" for cryptographic level protection is not a sensible idea.
MD5 still has a great many uses. Killing it off because some people use it for the wrong things is shortsighted at best…
If you assume that "Gravatar usage" means uses a unique identifier for me across multiple websites, and that "secure enough" means that it doesn't leak information about my identity – then the question becomes nonsense:
"Is there a way to uniquely identify me across multiple websites that doesn't uniquely identify me?"
What this really highlights is that, like fingerprints, it's a lot easier to accidentally share things that can uniquely or partially identify you than to cover up and stay anonymous. (Or find a nice middle ground, pretending to be someone else, say.) There's a lot of security through obscurity that we tend to trust -- that people won't investigate my identity simply because they've no reason to. And so it's worrisome when you see it happen to others.
See also: http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/26/i-challenged-hackers-to-inv...