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How to Save PGP
Tomcat666 sends in: "The Register got some excerpts from an interview with Phil Zimmerman. He talks about how it might be possible to save PGP (Network Associates couldn't sell it, and will stop its development), OpenPGP and the future (industry-backed OpenPGP?)." A follow-up to our story yesterday about Network Associates mothballing PGP.
Who cares about PGP... if companies and investors are not opting in, there is a reason... ponder that.
Life Sucks... Have a Beer and a Smoke then Smile Damnit!!!
The 3,500 figure for Afghani non-combatant dead is highly disputed. In any case, and this may seem callous, it's kind of a drop in the bucket in the face of the death toll of their continuing civil war. By finishing the war quickly and efficiently, we probably saved Afghan lives in the long run.
CIA
A bad start.
Experiments with Mind Control
It gets worse
on Children
Yep, gotta save 'dem chilluns! Where's the bastard! We'll lynch 'im!
by Jon Rappoport
Ok, if you didn't stop before this, you can now. This is the man who claims that AIDS is not a virus, but a secret weapon of the drug companies!
He's a real tin-foil-hat kinda guy (or just found a market among that crowd).
The CIA mind-control apparatus has been well known since 1975
Obviously, I failed to stop. Pardon me, but what is your definition of well known?
when 10 large boxes of documents were released pursuant to Freedom of Information Act requests.
Oh, well that's certainly an interesting metric for well known! (later he claims that J.R. is a highly respected journalist, but fails to indicate who respects him....)
Several good books were then written on the subject of the CIA program known as MK-ULTRA.
They were good books of course. Not like those powdery, tasteless books you serve your relatives!
LSD and more powerful compounds
I live that line. I'm going to have it framed.
In case you're wondering, as with most nutters, J.R. has hit on a thread of truth, and then run with it to the mythalogical end-zone of his own creation.
There really were CIA experiments on CIA agents and civilians alike with LSD in the 60s. The CIA thought that it might work out as a truth serum of sorts, but it was not very effective, and had very dangerous long-term consenquences.
However, much of the rest of this theory is based on these axioms: 1) If you testify about something to a government panel, it must be true 2) the CIA has nothing better to do with its time than recruit children to perform missions that there are scads of willing volunteers in the military for 3) events which have common themes are obviously linked.
I recommend that you do your own research here. Books like this one are aimed to scare and shock (that's how they sell). If the facts don't fit, they are often... re-shaped.
If you want to play "spot the loonies" just look for key phrases like "in [document/testemony/etc] the name [government or corporate figure] came up" cited as "proof" that linkage exists between an event and a group that the author wishes to accuse of wrong-doing.
Properly used, a one time pad system is unbreakable. And you can send it in plain text.
An e-mail message would look like this:
e4sd4 3dkw22 kwdi4 dlw23 jdclp s3dgx and so on and so on.
Since the code is never used twice, you never get a good enough sample to break it unless you somehow get a copy of the code sheet.
No PGP needed - just discipline in properly using the system, never re-using a sheet, and destroying old sheets as soon as they're used. And there's very little tech involved aside from the e-mail itself.
PGP is more convenient, so we might as well save it for ourselves. The bad guys will always have a tool to use.
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I'm not even going to start on what a mockery your law would make of private property and personal freedom...