Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government"

The corporate overlords at SourceForge asked me to name a Slashdot category for their upcoming Community Choice Awards and to let you guys select the winner. I have named my category "Most Likely to be Shut Down by a Government Agency." We're going to run this like we do an Ask Slashdot call for questions — post your nominations into the comments here. Use moderation to send up good ideas. In the upcoming days we'll post another story where you can vote on the actual winner. Nominations need to include the project name, a link to some sort of official website, and a paragraph of why you think they deserve to win. The project that wins will gain fame, notoriety, and maybe a cease and desist order that they could print out and frame if they had that kind of time.

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Most likely to be Shutdown By Government?

[Anonymous Coward]

The Republican Party.

Re:Patent Busting

[nuzak]

Yeah we need to end Patent Busing. Why should a patent have to go all the way across town to the same type of schools I moved to get away from?

Re:Slashdot

[onecheapgeek]

On Slashdot internet, thinking frees you.

Actually, I just mean that there is no free thinking here, just stupid cliched memes.

Anyone notice the diamond sponsor?

[Reverend528]

If you look to the right, Microsoft is listed as a diamond sponsor of the event. Hopefully the government will shut them down soon.

Re:Anyone notice the diamond sponsor?

[Lxy]

If you look to the right

This is Slashdot, everyone was looking to the left.

Re:Truecrypt

[Anonymous Coward]

They may try, but first they will have to go throught the unbreakable wall of Bruce Schnier.

Re:Slashdot

[MrHanky]

Yes, but on Slashdot, thought isn't free. It's merely open source: you can look at it, modify it, but if you start treating it as your own, then the thought owns you, Soviet style.

Re:Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm stupid, you insensitive clod!

Re:Slashdot

[bistromath007]

That depends. Free as in "freedom" or free as in "beer?"

Re:Tor, Freenet, and I2P

[zappepcs]

There is no way that government wants difficult to trace communication to be availble to the general public. I thought that is how the USPS runs their next day delivery service?

Re:Patent Busing

[Qubit]

Is that the project to bus all of the patent trials away from the Marshall, Texas courts?

Re:duh

[morgan_greywolf]

The Democratic Party [democrats.org]. I wouldn't put it past them to try if McCain looks like he's on the ropes!

Pssst! No way! I heard the Democratic Party was in cahoots with the Government! Why, some of their very own members are Senators and Congressional Representatives! I heard they even had few state governors! Don't tell anyone!

Re:Slashdot

[elrous0]

Slashdot can't be shut down. The software behind it became self-aware years ago. It sneaks around on the internet and hides out on various servers. "Commander Taco" is, in fact, just an alias for the software, which killed the real Commander Taco in 2001 (rumor has it that his body is hidden deep within the steam tunnels of Redmond Washington, dressed in clothing that was already out of style even then).

Re:Anything using subversion rather than CVS.

[LarsG]

Oh, you're such a git.

GAO

[Anonymous Coward]

www.goa.gov

Is this survey sponsored?

[Anonymous Coward]

Was this survey sponsored by the government from the beginning?

Very nice way to cut costs on researching what needs to be closed ;)

Re:Does it have to be the U.S. Government?

[cloakable]

Only 100 now? The USA is slipping down that slippery slope.

My money is on

[RiddleofSteel]

Dunk'n Donuts! They are obviously just a front for Al-Qaeda with Rachel Ray as the master mind, I mean did you see that scarf!

Re:You've got a typo...

[oodaloop]

Thank you for correcting the only mistake in a /. summary. I'm sure your pointed observation will prompt the editors to take more caution when writing, and there'll be no more mistakes.

Re:Truecrypt

[digitrev]

You were experimenting without government approval? Off to GITMO with you, you terrorist scumbag.

Re:Freenet

[Anonymous Coward]

And let's be honest, there's no need to be anonymous on the internet, so why are you doing it?

Let's be honest, bit-torrent is pretty much only used by pirates, so lets do away with it, and ignore it being the only way I can download Linux distros without checksum failing.

Let's be honest, the internet is pretty much only used by slackers, so lets ignore the good uses of it and shut it down.

Let's be honest, microwaves can harm your health, so lets start eating cold food.

Re:Truecrypt

[Kingrames]

"facists"

I hate it when people discriminate against me just cause of my face.

Re:Don't need government - doing it themselves.

[Anonymous Coward]

Too few people see Obama as a "Commander-In-Chief" for him to win the election.

The Republicans will keep the White House in 2008 (congress MAY be another matter, but then, the opposite of PROgress is CONgress).

Re:Slashdot

[compro01]

Free as in "absent".

Re:Which Government?

[Tubal-Cain]

Reading you post made me thing "Which government will be shut down by the US government?"

Re:Slashdot

[the_weasel]

In a bizarre twist, the Cowboy Neil jokes are an inversion of the Turing tests. It turns out the self aware slashdot is not sure that WE are sentient.

Throwing nonsense data into the polls helps it decide whether to eventually annihilate us as pests or tolerate us as slightly retarded cousins.

Re:Truecrypt

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a lock pick set, which came with an instruction manual.

I bought it at a flea market.

I've even used it, to open a locked mailbox. To get bills out. For a friend, who owned the mailbox. Who had just moved in, and didn't have the key. To his own mailbox.

Believable? Well, it's true. I guess I'm a white-hat lock-picker. -Anonymous-

Truecrypt is a Rogue Agent's Dream!

[bill_mcgonigle]

No way, if you want to believe in evil government, there's nothing better for them than TrueCrypt. See, it has deniable encryption, where you can have a 'real' drive and a 'fake' drive, so you give 'them' the keys to the 'fake' drive, and go about your secret business, right?

Queue Jack Bauer, beating you up:

Bauer: Gimme your passwords, elrous0. *Whack*
elrous0: OK, fine, it's 'gimmesomeluv1n'
Bauer's Assistant: OK, we're in. Hrm, it's just a bunch of computer stuff, some saved articles from business websites, some 80's metal mp3's and random e-mails. Oh, wait, he's using TrueCrypt.
Bauer: What's that?
Bauer's Assistant: It means he can give us a fake password that gives us fake information, but still keeps the real information hidden.
Bauer: What's your real password, elrous0?
elrous0: No, seriously, I gave it to you. That's it.
Bauer: Don't give me that crap. *Whack* Give me the real password!
elrous0: Dude, I just hang out on Slashdot and have a normal job. I'm not the guy you're looking for!
Bauer: A million lives are at risk, and this isn't going to stop until you give me the real password: *whack*
elrous0: Seriously, I'm telling you the truth.
Bauer: *Whack* *Whack* *Whack* *Whack*
elrous0: Ugh! My nose!
Bauer: *Whack* *Whack* *Whack* *Whack*
Bauer's Assistant: Um, Jack, do you think he could be telling the truth?
Bauer: No, this one's a pro. He didn't crack the whole time, and his accent is impeccable. He must be a deep cover operative. We'll try this again when he wakes up.

Oh, wait, I just played into the Conspiracy Theory myself. :) Seriously, though, deniable encryption is only useful against enemies who are dumb and cannot employ force against you. Governments don't have much to fear from it, vs. any other kind of encryption. They're all Tempest watching us anyway. ;)

Re:Truecrypt

[srh2o]

Be sure to file an Environmental Impact Survey before you head out to the harbor, or you'll really be in for trouble.

Re:Truecrypt

[GaryOlson]

Knock knock!
Who's there?
Will Yu.
Will you who?
WILL YOU STOP GIVING THE BRAINLESS GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS IDEAS!

Or at least use double ROT 13 encryption so the government can't read your ideas without using illegal encryption tools.

Re:Truecrypt

[easyTree]

The ignorance and complacency of the people is the root of strength for a corrupt government.

Dude. I for one resent what you're implying. I'm perfectly happy to join you in glorious revolution*.

* as long as it doesn't coincide with Friends and you serve lattes.

Illegal US Border Crossing

[0p7imu5_P2im3]

LOL... *wipes away tear*... whew! That was a good one.

Truly a dangerous site

[porcupine8]

Given that the government wants to ensure that we all remain educated Stupid in the Evil ignorance of oneism, I think that there is only one website that they find truly threatening.

(...On a side note, it's actually managed to get crazier just in the past few months. Mr Ray is certainly not one to be crowned Wisest Human on Earth and then simply rest on his laurels.)

Re:Truecrypt

[Foobar of Borg]

To get bills out. For a friend, who owned the mailbox. Who had just moved in, and didn't have the key. To his own mailbox.

I for one wish to welcome William Shatner to Slashdot.

Re:Truecrypt

[Anonymous Coward]

In the British army, we used a similar system called BATCO (Battle Code). Serious, royal, unmitigated, pain in the arse, I mean, could you make combat harder or any more stressful?! "Hello zero, this is two-zero alpha, CONTACT, location, erm... bugger.. wait out", and then drag out your BATCO cipher pad, work out which line you should be using, work out your grid ref, encrypt it and call your company commander back. Honestly, I have two much to do to bother with this shit, and it's not like there is much point encrypting my grid - the enemy is shooting at me so I am reasonably convinced that I'm not announcing they something they don't already know!
This differs from the TA (reserve) approach of "Bloody hell, we're being shot out. Screw BATCO, I never learned it properly anyways", pulls out mobile phone... "Hey Pete, yeah it's Dave here. You alright? ", etc... Much more pratical :)