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  1. Re:whatcouldpossiblygowrong by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1, Redundant · on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy

    Railgun? I always think of this

  2. The gun analogy (Registering with the government) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Crypto Restrictions Are Taking Over the World
    Okay, so take your statement one step further, that it's okay to register with the government. You're assuming that the government has to permit anyone to register that wants to register. When have you ever known THAT to be the case?
    The first step towards a ban and confiscation is registration.

    To go back to the much-derided gun analogy, look at the situation in Chicago with handgun registration. In 1968 Chicago imposed mandatory firearm registration, with no effect on homicide rates. In 1982 Chicago closed handgun registration, forbidding any new firearms from being registered.

    Since 1983, the number of legally registered handguns has dropped from 750,000 to 164,030 in 2001. Permits must be renewed every year, and as residents age, move out of town, or forget to renew, the number of grandfathered owners drops. Meanwhile, Chicago continues to set homicide rate records

    Each year in Chicago's "gun court", hundreds of people are convicted for a 'catch-22' crime, not doing something (registering a handgun) that they are not allowed to do (closed rolls since 1983).

    Or that if in fact they do have to allow anyone to register, that your paperwork won't get lost for 25 years? The assumption that registration is okay ignores the possibility that it's actually an explicit (or implicit) approval of your ability to provide crypto. Because I can very easily see a scenario where if you're not willing to provide special Clipper Chips with Key Escrow, your registration will be disallowed or take forever to process.
    I wasn't too upset with the initial "Clipper Chip" proposal, as a work-around to the funky "munitions" export restrictions the US had imposed. But any legislation that promotes "key escrow" is inherently frightening.

    I'm not so much concerned about "the government" intercepting my communications as I am with the real-life abuses that will come out of the infrastructure involved, including the sharing of intercept data with corporations and other interested parties.

    I have nothing to hide from any three letter agency, but I cannot trust that such information will stay there. When priviledged communication is made available to my competition, to megacorporations, to "patriotic" extremist religious groups with their own agenda, I have a problem.

  3. Re:Mirror sites for the PDF version of the opinion by sachmet · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Loses

    I mirrored the PDF version here. (I screwed up the last time and posted the direct PDF link... but if you download it there you don't need a mirror, do you? :-)

  4. Mirror by sachmet · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Loses

    Mirror of the findings available here

  5. Doing nothing - untrue! by StrangeAttractor · · Score: 1 · on Monty Python Turns 30

    Actually, the living Pythons are going to do a reunion special on BBC Oct. 16 - the story is from May, but I just saw a one-paragraph reiteration in my local newspaper this weekend. I think they're writing some new skits for it.