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Speak Freely To Be Withdrawn January 15

Posted by timothy on from the you-can-still-freely-speak dept.

wrenhunt writes "The Speak Freely site has this: 'On January 15th, 2004, Speak Freely will be discontinued and removed from this Web site. Existing users may continue to use the program as long as they wish, but no further releases will be forthcoming. For details and the reasons why Speak Freely is being discontinued, please see the full end of life announcement.'" The reasons are various and interesting; it's graceful of the author to provide an explanation of why a piece of software is going away. Update: 01/11 19:22 GMT by T : As reader pi_rules points out, this story is a duplicate -- my apologies.

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  1. Re:Okay, an offtopic question. by temojen · · Score: 0, Troll

    An answer vaguely on topic...
    You might also link one of these to multiple failed xlock passwords.
    don't forget to make it run nohup.

    #!/bin/bash

    su <<EOF
    (rootpassword)
    wall "Ack! someone's breaking in the door!"
    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda

    EOF

    ----------------
    or, more realistically,

    #!/bin/bash
    # this script does not assume that it will run to completion
    # so it tries to prioritize. It also has never been tested.
    su <<EOF
    (rootpassword)

    wall "Physical Security Compromized!"

    # Kill encryption keys.
    killall -TERM\
    /usr/bin/gpg-agent /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/local/bin/speakfreely\
    /usr/bin/kgpg /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/sshd
    umount -f -d (any cryptoloop filesystem)

    # Dispose of accidentally saved data
    # Comment out the first two lines if you don't use TmpFS
    rm -rf /tmp/*
    umount /tmp
    swapoff /dev/hda2
    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda2

    # Warning: if you don't use TmpFS for /tmp,
    # you need to do something here to clean & scrub /tmp

    # make sure we can start up cleanly.
    mkswap /dev/hda2

    # Shut it down

    /sbin/shutdown -h now

    EOF

  2. Reasons are various?! by uradu · · Score: 0, Troll

    He hates NAT and that's pretty much it. Oh, the software has also degenerated into spaghetti code over the years, but if he didn't hate NAT so much it almost sounds like he would rewrite it from scratch. Now please, everyone, could we kill off NAT so Johnny Walker starts speaking freely again?

  3. Wait a second.. by T9D · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought Ashcroft already eliminated the right to speak freely? Oh, nevermind, this is a dupe. Sorry.