Sounds goods. Maybe we can make it part of the Freenet Project.
The only thing is, to be truly secure against, say the Secret Service or the FBI, who can subpoena your harddrive and comb it with an electron microscope (if they are so inclined), wouldn't you have to remove the header information before it is ever written to your hd, such as straight off the wire. I don't much about the ip protocol and if its feasible, but maybe someone could make a secure ethernet driver that strips off the packet header before it is even sent to the remailer server and the packet data is saved to disk, even in cache.
For people not sure what this means, here is a little background:
Biologists have been using artificial chromosomes for years now, except that they have only been able to engineer them for less complex organisms such as bacteria and yeast. Artificial chromosomes are useful carriers for genes that produce proteins that are medically and academically useful without disrupting natural chromosomal function. Also, when cells reproduce they replicate the articifial chromosome along with all the natural chromosomes, so that it is transfered from generation to generation (of cells, or if the chromosome is inserted into the germline, then organism to organism).
However, the major problem with using bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) and yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) is that there are some proteins that bacteria and yeast can't successfully produce (since they are simpler organisms, they lack the proper cellular machinery to manufacture and correctly fold larger proteins). So basically, these researchers have just extended a usefull technique to mice. Now it is possible to manufacture a greater range of useful proteins. Getting the protein from the mouse is a little messier than getting is from bacteria or yeast, however:(
The main reason this is cool is that the machinery to replicate a mouse chromosome is (obviously) more complicated (and the chromosome itself is bigger) than a bacteria or yeast, so constructing a chromosome that has only the necessary scaffolding to ensure that it is replicated is pretty difficult. Unfortunately for the average non-biologist lay person, this New Scientist article was a bit vague (and exagerated) in describing the potential of this technique. At the end, they mention using mouse artificial chromosomes that contain a protein that can help ease the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, and that if the system works in rats trials will could begin in people. However, the human trials they are talking about have to do with testing the manufactured protein in people, not injecting humans with artificial chromosomes. That will be a long time coming (however, the Human Genome Project will certainly speed the development of human artificial chromosomes).
That's not exactly true. Part of the DVD specifications includes watermarking technology that prevents licenced DVD players from playing illicit copies.
So with DeCSS, which can be used to create an unlicenced player not subject to the restrictions placed by the CCA, they also lose the ability to prevent the playing of illicit copies.
Disclaimer: this is what I remember from a Communications of the ACM article I read over Christmas. Unfortunately I can't refer to it since I left it at home. Should be available on ACM's site, though.
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Sounds goods. Maybe we can make it part of the Freenet Project.
The only thing is, to be truly secure against, say the Secret Service or the FBI, who can subpoena your harddrive and comb it with an electron microscope (if they are so inclined), wouldn't you have to remove the header information before it is ever written to your hd, such as straight off the wire. I don't much about the ip protocol and if its feasible, but maybe someone could make a secure ethernet driver that strips off the packet header before it is even sent to the remailer server and the packet data is saved to disk, even in cache.
For people not sure what this means, here is a little background:
Biologists have been using artificial chromosomes for years now, except that they have only been able to engineer them for less complex organisms such as bacteria and yeast. Artificial chromosomes are useful carriers for genes that produce proteins that are medically and academically useful without disrupting natural chromosomal function. Also, when cells reproduce they replicate the articifial chromosome along with all the natural chromosomes, so that it is transfered from generation to generation (of cells, or if the chromosome is inserted into the germline, then organism to organism).
However, the major problem with using bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) and yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) is that there are some proteins that bacteria and yeast can't successfully produce (since they are simpler organisms, they lack the proper cellular machinery to manufacture and correctly fold larger proteins). So basically, these researchers have just extended a usefull technique to mice. Now it is possible to manufacture a greater range of useful proteins. Getting the protein from the mouse is a little messier than getting is from bacteria or yeast, however :(
The main reason this is cool is that the machinery to replicate a mouse chromosome is (obviously) more complicated (and the chromosome itself is bigger) than a bacteria or yeast, so constructing a chromosome that has only the necessary scaffolding to ensure that it is replicated is pretty difficult. Unfortunately for the average non-biologist lay person, this New Scientist article was a bit vague (and exagerated) in describing the potential of this technique. At the end, they mention using mouse artificial chromosomes that contain a protein that can help ease the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, and that if the system works in rats trials will could begin in people. However, the human trials they are talking about have to do with testing the manufactured protein in people, not injecting humans with artificial chromosomes. That will be a long time coming (however, the Human Genome Project will certainly speed the development of human artificial chromosomes).
That's not exactly true. Part of the DVD specifications includes watermarking technology that prevents licenced DVD players from playing illicit copies.
So with DeCSS, which can be used to create an unlicenced player not subject to the restrictions placed by the CCA, they also lose the ability to prevent the playing of illicit copies.
Disclaimer: this is what I remember from a Communications of the ACM article I read over Christmas. Unfortunately I can't refer to it since I left it at home. Should be available on ACM's site, though.