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Flaw Found in VPN Crypto Security
peeon writes "CNET reports the British National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre has discovered a flaw in IPSEC protocol. From the article: 'The flaw, which the NISCC rates as "high" risk, makes it possible for an attacker to intercept IP packets traveling between two IPsec devices. They could then modify the encapsulation security payload--a subprotocol that encrypts the data being transported.'"
You've heard it time and time again on these message boards:
The Founding Fathers, the architects of our democracy, were liberals.
Actually, they were "liberals," at least in one sense of the word. According to Webster, one definition of the term "liberal" is:
"of democratic or republican forms of government, as distinguished from monarchies, aristocracies, etc."
Certainly the ideas of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Franklin, John Adams and others would come under that definition. As would the political philosophies of the great thinkers whose thought provided the very foundation of our form of government: John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
However, "liberalism" in this sense is a far cry from the typical usage of the word referring to a contemporary political movement. Liberals, in the sense of the self-proclaimed ones we see on this board and infesting the Democratic Party, owe less to Locke or Mill, and much more to Marx and Mao, for the source of their inspiration. They have absorbed the paradigm of class struggle and of the intrinsic exploitative and evil nature of capitalism.
Just how much respect for democracy the modern-day liberals have, is shown by their response to the results of the last election. When they learned that a majority of the popular vote went to Bush, they concluded that Americans were "fat, inbred, Wal-Mart sheeple," and ridiculed the "Red States."
Modern liberals have little use for democracy. They view themselves as the "intellectually superior few," an elite minority, whose causes and views should somehow be made the law of the land, no matter what the majority says. They do not simply want consideration of the minority; they want their particular minority to dictate all the rules. This is much more in line with the paradigm of an oligarchy or an aristocracy than with the democratic and republican paradigm of the Founding Fathers.
In summary, modern liberalism has about as much relevance to the liberalism of the Founding Fathers, as the political buzzwords "life" and "choice" have to the dictionary definitions of those terms.
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hey de la rocha, it's daniel-san...
Sounds like we can get our money for nothing after all! (What about the chicks for free?)
Brent J. Nordquist N0BJN