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Is it "total government surveillance" though? I keep seeing people assuming that it is, or that the capacity even exists.

They are saying that they don't do that. Obviously, they aren't going to tell us if they did, but does that suspicion automatically mean that they are actually doing it?

Of course not, it's just that there's no reason to believe anything they tell us. But consider, the guy who runs the Internet Archive did some back-of-the-envelope calculations and said that for $27M in capital costs, $2M for electricity, and 5000ft2 floor space he could store every telephone call made in the US for a year. That's pocket change for NSA. Can you believe that they (or some other TLA) are not going to do it?

I keep seeing people writing comments as if there is a lengthy file on them, or there could be at a moment's notice. I call bullshit on that for most people.

Maybe, but how hard would it be to have a file on everyone? In any case, I know there's files on me, though I don't know if the NSA has one, because I've seen my (redacted) FBI file. It goes back quite a way to the '60s. And after 9/11 there were events that gave me reason to believe that my mail was being examined (the outside of it, anyhow, I've no evidence that they were opening it, and maybe my postal carrier talks too much; of course now we know that they take and keep pictures of both sides of all mail, not just mine), and that at least some of my email was being read (a very odd inquiry from an ISP as to whether my outgoing mail was written by me or automatically generated, probably occasioned by blocks of encoded data I appended to them).

What are they doing with the info? We don't know. But we know that the FBI tried to blackmail Dr. Martin Luther King into committing suicide, we know that "they" have kidnapped people off the street and had them tortured, so we know the sorts of things "they" are capable of.

We're asking people like General Alexander questions, but we don't listen to the answers if they don't match our internal world view. Sure, he could be a mustache-twirling villian, but what if he's actually just another civil servant trying to do his job?

You don't have to be a mustache-twirling villain to do evil, and being "just another civil servant trying to do his job" says nothing about whether you're doing evil or not. I expect that most of the people who worked for any secret police (whether now or in the past) are just punching in, doing their job, and going home. Cinematic villains are really pretty rare. Sometimes you're just making the trains run on time, and you're not going to ask who is being carried where.

Clearly they have violated Standard NASA Ames Procedures for dealing with this sort of thing.

They failed to fill out a both the DARC-820AD -- 'Identifying a Barbarian Attack' and FF-1066AD -- 'Report of Viking Raid' forms.

I refuse to do business with Netflix, because they send spam. Yes, I have personally received unsolicited commercial E-mail from Netflix, like the people writing at the two links I cite. Any company that uses and/or promotes spam should be boycotted and shunned.

As for the "mark of the beast" - I don't know what the heck are you talking about,

Biblical prophecy, from the book of Revelations (AKA John's Terrible, Horrible No Good, Very Bad Trip), Chapter 13:

16 And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,
17 and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.

Some fascinating metaphor in that particular prophecy, for those not so closed-minded as to discount it just because it comes from the Christian Bible.

I don't buy it, personally, but I do find it interesting considering one popular conspiracy theory that the secret cabal that truly runs the world (Bilderbergs, Illuminati, whatever) are a bunch of inbred satan worshippers trying to bring about the Christian apocalypse.

Really interesting stuff, especially if you're into occult anthropology.

Did the author of the summary read the article? The article for some reason mentions individualized video feeds for every American which is unrealistic and nothing like the sort of thing anyone has said the NSA is recording.
12,000 PB is far, far larger than the 272 PB estimated to hold all US domestic phone calls for a year, plus the foreign and international calls (which people forgot the NSA captures).

I recommend people read the archive.org description of the problem of archiving phone calls (TL;DR 272 PB) and DJB's article on cryptanalysis (PDF) (TL;DR NSA isn't stupid).

The author of the summary was Cold Fjord -- that's all we really need to say.

Did the author of the summary read the article? The article for some reason mentions individualized video feeds for every American which is unrealistic and nothing like the sort of thing anyone has said the NSA is recording. 12,000 PB is far, far larger than the 272 PB estimated to hold all US domestic phone calls for a year, plus the foreign and international calls (which people forgot the NSA captures).

I recommend people read the archive.org description of the problem of archiving phone calls (TL;DR 272 PB) and DJB's article on cryptanalysis (PDF) (TL;DR NSA isn't stupid).

That pre 1963 Polio vaccine was contaminated with SV40 virus? CDC soon yanked the warning, and it only exists now on the Internet Archive. http://web.archive.org/web/20130522091608/http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/updates/archive/polio_and_cancer_factsheet.htm

Given that vaccines Drs want to give to kids have increased 3x since 1980, and many are for non-lethal diseases like rotavirus or for things like Hep B that a baby is highly unlikely to contract, and given that drug production is imperfect, I think many parents have legitimate concerns and being ordered to unquestionably follow their known-to-be-imperfect doctor's advice feed the backlash against vaccines.

Dr. Sears has good information for parents who want to take an informed, balanced approach:

http://www.askdrsears.com/topics/vaccines

What I'm saying is that as soon as you envelope the wearer with a water-tight suit the sweating has no net cooling effect. Sweating works because you shed the excess heat in the moisture leaving your body. If you try to keep the water you have to find another way to cool it. You could use a different process to cool the lining of the suit enough to cause water to condense on it but if you could do that it would be more efficient to directly press the cool suit against the wearers skin.

With an external power source, sure you could be as cool as you like. You'd want to carry the solar panels like an umbrella though rather than wear them on the surface of the suit. A 20% efficient solar panel would convert 20% of the Sun's energy to usable electricity while the other 80% would just be heating you up. Carrying the solar panels will also require more physical exertion which generates heat.

This topic has been analyzed by others as well http://web.archive.org/web/20080319013644/http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/mar/14/exploring-duniverse-of-frank-herbert/. Basically, a stillsuit as described in Dune won't work, and sure you could engineer something that would be more practical.

Because that has nothing to do with signals intelligence.

NSA isn't "tracking terrorists"; it's doing foreign SIGINT against foreign intelligence targets, some of whom may be described as "terrorists". To take your hypothetical, if NSA tips another agency that it is tracking a terrorist currently within the United States, and OTHER information is developed on, say, the license place of the rental the person is driving, why SHOULDN'T data that has been lawfully* collected by any number of agencies be brought to bear on that problem?

If you want to become outraged or make slippery slope arguments, at least realize that it's going to be federal domestic law enforcement agencies (e.g., FBI) that utilize this data, not "the NSA". This willful misunderstanding of what NSA does, and for what reasons, has got to stop.

This talk by Dr. Donald Kerr is well worth a thorough reading:

http://web.archive.org/web/20120207055035/http://www.dni.gov/speeches/20071023_speech.pdf

Safety and privacy -- it's common thinking that, in order to have more safety, you get less privacy. I don't agree with that. I work from the assumption that you need to have both. When we try to make it an either/or proposition, we're bound to fail. You can be perfectly safe in a prison; but you certainly aren't free. And you can be perfectly free in an anarchist society; but you certainly aren't safe.

The balance is one we've been working to perfect throughout my time in the intelligence community. That's of course a very hard thing to convince people of. Movies like "The Enemy of the State" and "The Good Shepherd" have poisoned the well of public opinion in some ways, and make people think we focus on safety mainly for governmental activities to the exclusion of all else. My takeaway message for today: We're not. You can -- and we do -- have both. We have always been a free people who can defend ourselves without giving up the liberties that animate us to action.

These two components of security -- safety and privacy -- are the crux of much of what we're doing in the intelligence community.

Bruce Schneier recognizes this truth

I have come to believe that the solution to all of this is regulation. And it's not going to be the regulation of data collection; it's going to be the regulation of data use.

* If we want something to not be done by government, it needs to be prohibited from doing so by law. Vague platitudes about surveillance states aren't going to cut it. Here is where some say, "But, but, but, it's unconstitutional!" No. It isn't, if a legal determination has already been successfully made by the government -- whether or not it has been challenged in court -- until a court of competent jurisdiction says it is. That's sort of how our system works, and perhaps the outcomes of arguments by the ACLU, EPIC, EFF, and similar in the era of "Big Data" will formalize some of these principles in law. Until then, this is the electronic equivalent of a police officer looking at and remember a license plate -- and yes, I realize full well that the scale and automation completely transform the argument. But a previously legal and perfectly legitimate government activity doesn't magically become illegal and/or unconstitutional simply because of scale or automation.

These tests evaluate the impact of anti-virus software on system performance, as programs running in background – such as real time protection antivirus software -
  AV-comparatives performance chart
For more in depth see:
  Performance-Test (AV) May 2013 PDF

NOD32 is very fast, its core is written in assembly. source from NOD32, see performance

Correct. But to the intelligent man, this is the most solid proof that all of religion is made-up bullshit.

I sympathize with the sentiment, but if that's the most solid proof we have, then its pretty weak sauce as "solid proof".

Its like "proving" something isn't an uncountable set by enumerating subsets of it. And then as your enumerated subsets get ever larger you point at it as solid evidence, if not solid proof that these so-called "uncountable" things are just forever retreating into the distance as we can keep enumerating forever, and therefore nothing is uncountable.

Yet there are uncountable sets. (An uncountable set is an infinite set that cannot be put into a 1:1 correspondence with the infinite set of natural numbers. Thus it cannot be enumerated, or "counted".)

The upshot is that I'm not convinced that even a grand unified theory would answer all our questions. Not that I'm saying the answer is "God did it", but there may well be things that science cannot answer.

Can you imagine a "climate change crusade" today where people would sign up to make war on, say, China because they pollute so much and we must stop them? Doesn't pass the giggle test, does it?

Its not as implausible as we'd like. I'll leave you with this:

"I am pleased to have the opportunity to appear before you and discuss the threat posed by eco-terrorism, as well as the measures being taken by the FBI and our law enforcement partners to address this threat."

[...]

"During the past decade we have witnessed dramatic changes in the nature of the terrorist threat. In the 1990s, right-wing extremism overtook left-wing terrorism as the most dangerous domestic terrorist threat to the country. During the past several years, special interest extremism, as characterized by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), has emerged as a serious terrorist threat... "

[...]

"The FBI and all of our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners will continue to strive to address the difficult and unique challenges posed by eco-terrorists. Despite the recent focus on international terrorism, we remain fully cognizant of the full range of threats that confront the United States."

Testimony of James F. Jarboe, Domestic Terrorism Section Chief, Counterterrorism Division, FBI Before the House Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health

http://web.archive.org/web/20080311231725/http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress02/jarboe021202.htm

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I don't feel unsafe except on a couple of carriers in the US. First, anything flown by Republic which is a contract carrier for US Airways and others and secondly, Delta.

Funny you'd say you feel unsafe on Delta, when they and Southwest are by far the two safest airlines in the world.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130115111507/http://planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20090917114421/http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm

At least since 1989, Delta has had only a single fatal crash, in over 16 million flights.

I strongly suggest you revisit whatever criteria you're using to judge these airlines, because it's pointing in the opposite direction that it should.

My rule-of-thumb advice is that the big carriers are all quite safe these days. But every small commuter airlines (no matter who's logo is painted on the fuselage) has a rather poor safety standards, and a record to match. I'd rather travel on a rusty old Greyhound bus than a commuter flights, no matter how hard the big carrier's system try to put me on one for a leg of my trip.

I don't feel unsafe except on a couple of carriers in the US. First, anything flown by Republic which is a contract carrier for US Airways and others and secondly, Delta.

Funny you'd say you feel unsafe on Delta, when they and Southwest are by far the two safest airlines in the world.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130115111507/http://planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20090917114421/http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm

At least since 1989, Delta has had only a single fatal crash, in over 16 million flights.

I strongly suggest you revisit whatever criteria you're using to judge these airlines, because it's pointing in the opposite direction that it should.

My rule-of-thumb advice is that the big carriers are all quite safe these days. But every small commuter airlines (no matter who's logo is painted on the fuselage) has a rather poor safety standards, and a record to match. I'd rather travel on a rusty old Greyhound bus than a commuter flights, no matter how hard the big carrier's system try to put me on one for a leg of my trip.

Someone posted AOLiza in the comments of the article. You can thank the Internet Archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010223222122/http://fury.com/aoliza/

Replying to myself with some more information in lack of being able to edit Slashdot posts. Apparently it was a conscious decision to go with the fox instead of a panda as the panda "didn't quite conjure up the right imagery". So there you have it.

You are expecting that all servers at the NSA have the same admin passwords?

OOOOOOOO.

GOTOs can be a useful language feature, improving program speed, size and code clearness, but only when used in a sensible way by a comparably sensible programmer.

Linus Torvalds: http://kerneltrap.org/node/553 (mirror at the Wayback Machine)
Steve McConnell: http://www.stevemcconnell.com/ccgoto.htm

* REMOVED from the author's blog but still on archive.org (for now)

http://web.archive.org/web/20130210124730/http://log.nadim.cc/

blog owner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadim_Kobeissi
Known for: Cryptocat

WHY was this removed? Was it a work of fiction, fishing, or paranoia?

Begin:

"Disclaimer: While this story sounds highly suspect, especially considering that I have been the target of FBI entrapment less than a year ago, please take it with a grain of salt. After all, this may all be just one big prank, with me as the victim.

I am under surveillance, my computer has been backdoored

For public record:

On January 12, 2013, I had an interview with Radio-Canada regarding Cryptocat, my surveillance by the U.S. Government, how the FBI tried to entrap me, and so on. It was a successful interview and everything went well.

On January 31st, 2013, a person identifying as PG sent me an email saying that he would wish to meet to discuss a business opportunity with me. He specified Concordia Universityâ(TM) bar, Reggieâ(TM)s, as the place where he would like to meet. At the time I received his email, I was in a class at Concordia just one floor above that bar.

I answered PG telling him that I leave for New York City that day. He insisted he can meet me before I leave. When I asked him what heâ(TM)d like to discuss, he simply answered âoeIâ(TM)ll be wearing a black suit. See you at Reggieâ(TM)s at 12:45PM.â

I insisted that I would not meet with him unless he specified his reason. He said he needed a website for his new business venture, a traffic ticket contestation service. I replied saying sorry, I am not available for this sort of work. PG replied: âoeOK, thank you.â

At 1:00PM, I received an email, sent from a Blackberry, from someone claiming to be PGâ(TM)s colleague. They identified themselves as GB. GB mentioned that he was surprised that I am not at Reggieâ(TM)s, and that PG had asked him to write an email to me since PG is partially blind and cannot write emails. This is very strange to me since PG had written to me many emails during this incident.

At this point, I angrily replied to both GB and PG asking them to go away, and that I had already said that I am not available for a meeting or for hire.

Hours went by with no answer. Then, PG again sent an email (this time switching to the French language) in which he claimed that the radio interviewees from Radio-Canada had given him my contact information (this was denied by Radio-Canada when I checked with them.) In this new email, PG suddenly claimed that he was both a Juror and that he was previously a correspondent for Le Monde Paris.

PG then claimed that he knew people at CSIS, Canadian Intelligence, who were interested in acquiring Cryptocat. GB had incidentally mentioned that PG was interested in Cryptocat acquisition. In the same email, PG also mentioned that he too went to NYC often due to being invited to CIA conferences there. He said: âoeIâ(TM)m sure you know what Iâ(TM)m talking about re. CIA conferences, since you yourself seem to be funded by the U.S. Government.â

To this I replied: âoeWell, this was never a story of a business venture at all, was it? I am not surprised. I must admit, a former Juror and Parisian journalist who claims to work for CSIS; you inspire a lot of confidence ;-)â PG replied: âoeWe will speak Tuesday upon your return.â

Ever since my return from NYC, for days now, the Secure File Transfer desktop client that I use to connect to Cryptocat and other services in order to manage critical file and data transfers has been attempting to connect to, by itself:

Hostnames that appear to belong to CSIS.

Yeah, I remember some guys project to run a lisp interpreter based on template magic during compile time.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030204184347/http://www.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/~czarn/meta/metalisp.cpp

What do they need an improved c++ standard for, they can do anything with a c++ compiler already.

This topic reminds me of an old "SoftSide" article about a TRS-80 (4K, Level 1) that provided some "computer console" effects for Star Trek : The Motion Picture.

The $44,000 Star Trek! Game ( [sic] - the article's title does have the exclamation point, and the program is not really a game)

Program listing included. Some conversion will probably be needed for your new IMSAI, but I can't say for sure.

It's from news media quoiting peopple who have no substantiation. In other words, it's B.S.

The QRZ survey numbers can be compared to the IARU survey of 2000.

So, the announcement 6 years ago that they were fully supporting open source drivers and documentation is finally coming to fruition?

Here you go.

Nope, that is not valid as it is not an advertisement. For more details, please refer to my reply to your duplicate post above .

Here you go.

Nope, that is NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT. That is just a section from the Manual/User's Guide, which you see AFTER you buy the PS3. I know, as I have the original fat 60 GB as well.

Thanks for at least trying to provide some proof rather than just empty words.

That being said, I repeat, what Sony-haters claim is an "ADVERTISEMENT", which you would see online, in print, in media (and probably on YouTube) without having to buy the damned thing, or without having to search for the manual online (which most people wouldn't do unless they needed help in understanding how to use it)

IF there really were an advertisement, I would assume it WOULD be on YouTube, considering all the other crap that has made it on there.

Found it archived here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130625004125/http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/press_releases/section_702_protections.pdf

https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/govt/privacy

Read the part "Records stored by others"

Do you have any evidence or reason to believe U.S. Persons are targeted without a warrant or FISA authority? Do we understand what targeted means?

"Last Man on Earth", the Vincent Price movie version of "I am Legend" is available at the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/TheLastManOnEarth_72

Although I prefer Mathewson's original story to any of the movie adaptations, I think that this is the best movie of the three based on it.

Found it archived here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130625004125/http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/press_releases/section_702_protections.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20100124155951/http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index.html

Here you go.

Here you go.

Previously released but retracted - still in archive....

Download low-pass filtered Soft Tempest fonts:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020101000000*/http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/st-fonts.zip

So-called reason(s) for retraction of fonts:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/softtempest-faq.html

Is that true? (Something to think about.) Even if what you say is true, that says nothing about these specific individuals. Unless you prove that someone is right in this specific case, I'd hold off on the accusations. To me, the individuals matter more than the statistics to begin with, so I'll refrain from calling her a liar, and I'll refrain from calling him a rapist.

What disturbs me here is the knee-jerk suggestion that she invented the story for some unspecified reason. Statistically, only a very small number of rape accusations turn out to be fabricated.

You have been lied to, or are just bullshitting. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and call you a fool.

Eugene Kanin study: 41% false rape figure in a metropolitan community; Follow up study finds 50% of rape allegations in college to be false, of the false charges 53% of the women admitted to filing false claims as an alibi. HTML, PDF

What I find disgusting is the fools like you who believe things without searching out any evidence to substantiate a claim. It's not a "knee jerk" reaction to disbelieve an unsubstantiated claim; It's common sense based on the natural state of a scientific mind, and past corroborating empirical evidence.

ABSTRACT: Empirical evidence does not support the widespread belief that women are extremely unlikely to make false accusations of male sexual misconduct. Rather the research on accusations of rape, sexual harassment, incest, and child sexual abuse indicates that false accusations have become a serious problem. The motivations involved in making a false report are widely varied and include confusion, outside influence from therapists and others, habitual lying, advantages in custody disputes, financial gain, and the political ideology of radical feminism.

Maybe these studies are wrong? You say there are statistics, show they aren't fabrications: Where's your study? Who told you those stats in the first place?

Interestingly enough, a quick search of the Wayback Machine no longer returns copies of this site. Oh wait, let's look at who funds Internet Archive:

http://archive.org/about/credits.php

Enough said.

A guy from the Wayback Machine had these estimates: $27m/year in equipment, $2m/yr in electricity (CA price), 5000sqft of space to store all phone communications for a year.

http://blog.archive.org/2013/06/15/cost-to-store-all-us-phonecalls-made-in-a-year-in-cloud-storage-so-it-could-be-datamined/

That facility should be good for 20 years worth of calls.

Is it too late for the NSA to spin this as just a huge misunderstanding?

I mean PRISM was obviously intended to be a redundant backup of the entire Internet.

Exactly! http://archive.org/index.php is not personal (or social, or whatever, you know what I mean) at all. With only partial backup of public Internet, it does not provide services at personal level, and we need it, surely!

Citation please.

Citation here.

Taste is subjective

Taste is subjective, but discrimiation is not. Whether a $15 red wine is better than a $60 white wine is subjective. But if they have different flavors, a human should be able to discriminate between the two.

The submitter probably doesn't have access to their version control.

He doesn't need it if The Wayback Machine has an older copy of the page, and if they kept a copy of his code along with it. If this is true, he can estimate the date it changed, and point prospective clients to that - let 'em argue against a third party website archive at that point.

Hell, I think if I wrote website code, I'd make it a point to request that archive.org uploaded a copy of the thing into their archive the moment I released the code to production.

The submitter probably doesn't have access to their version control.

However, if they can show their work remotely, they could easily find an archive.org link to an older version. I believe javascript files are archived just like everything else. This could possibly be useful if the submitter decides to take legal action -- I think they have some grounds to do so.

http://web.archive.org/

Have them lookup the site and view the original JS file's source.

While much of Manhattan's traditional communications infrastructure was literally a smoking crater after 9/11, the Ricochet mesh network was alive and well, built to barely notice the loss of individual nodes.

The company had recently gone bankrupt, but all the hardware was still in place, so some ex-employees drove from Denver to NYC with a bunch of modems and laptops, to bring mobile connectivity to the recovery effort.

Mesh works in this case because MCDN uses geographic routing -- the packet header literally contains a packed lat/long for the destination, and nodes make their routing decisions by angle and distance. There's a layer of name-to-geo resolution which makes that all work, and in the Ricochet days it was centralized, but I believe it could be made to operate with DHT like torrent networks do now.

I liked your counterpoint about AT&T... and although the GP didn't really have a point, they were referring to the original purpose of mtgox.com, as evidenced by The Wayback Machine's snapshop of it from 2007: http://web.archive.org/web/20070817170606/http://mtgox.com/gwt/mtgox.php

You don't need most of the things on that list. B&W Cellulose acetate film stored at low temps would still be around. In principle Nitrocellulose stored at low enough temps might have survived but you'd need to get postgrads or other expendable people to handle it.

Even some of the earliest movies have been digitized from ancient film. For example there are collections of shorts by Edison (1899-1902), as well as items like The Little Match Seller (1902), The Great Train Robbery (1903) or both halves of the Chicago-Michigan Football Game (1903). Obviously these are silent and monochrome, and in some cases the original was imperfect.

You don't need most of the things on that list. B&W Cellulose acetate film stored at low temps would still be around. In principle Nitrocellulose stored at low enough temps might have survived but you'd need to get postgrads or other expendable people to handle it.

Even some of the earliest movies have been digitized from ancient film. For example there are collections of shorts by Edison (1899-1902), as well as items like The Little Match Seller (1902), The Great Train Robbery (1903) or both halves of the Chicago-Michigan Football Game (1903). Obviously these are silent and monochrome, and in some cases the original was imperfect.

You don't need most of the things on that list. B&W Cellulose acetate film stored at low temps would still be around. In principle Nitrocellulose stored at low enough temps might have survived but you'd need to get postgrads or other expendable people to handle it.

Even some of the earliest movies have been digitized from ancient film. For example there are collections of shorts by Edison (1899-1902), as well as items like The Little Match Seller (1902), The Great Train Robbery (1903) or both halves of the Chicago-Michigan Football Game (1903). Obviously these are silent and monochrome, and in some cases the original was imperfect.

You don't need most of the things on that list. B&W Cellulose acetate film stored at low temps would still be around. In principle Nitrocellulose stored at low enough temps might have survived but you'd need to get postgrads or other expendable people to handle it.

Even some of the earliest movies have been digitized from ancient film. For example there are collections of shorts by Edison (1899-1902), as well as items like The Little Match Seller (1902), The Great Train Robbery (1903) or both halves of the Chicago-Michigan Football Game (1903). Obviously these are silent and monochrome, and in some cases the original was imperfect.

I'm not saying it can't be, I'm just confused on how a fridge compressor / motor can output that kind of power, enough to jam a celluar system. That is why I want some proof, just saying it happened isn't enough.

I can't imagine why you're so skeptical. A refrigerator, when running, can draw a couple kilowatts of power... If a non-trivial amount of that is leaking as RF, it could be jamming a huge swath of signals in the area, while running.

It doesn't take much to jam a signal... People regularly run into problems like their WiFi or OTA TV signals dropping out when they (or their neighbors) use their microwave. With weak/remote cellular signals, it would take very, very little local RF interference to cause problems.

This kind of thing happens all the time. A little bit of corrosion on a connection between a power line and a transformer, and you get all kinds of interference in the area.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060429014327/http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2004/10/17/news/top_story/gtsun01.txt

http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/british-digital-tv-box-sends-fake-sos-1007267.php

The problem is that those lists end up providing a false sense of security for the people paying for them. In reality they block most of the famous sites and only block a fraction of the other sites out there while accidentally blocking innocent sites(pretty much all of them, have a high false positive rate). The other problem is that the contents of those lists are secret and once sensors get going they simply cannot stop. Several of filters have been known to block any sites that post anything critical of their practices and even Time Magazine was once blocked in retaliation by one of the most used filters.

This may be helpful. It was posted to slashdot a few years ago.

I do that, but choose the Academic Free License instead of the GPL because I hate cult-like behaviour.