> Nope, I expect that 99% of end users will not have this extension > installed in the first place...
You might be wrong. It's been, surprisingly, a very popular plugin even for non-technical folks. At least from what I see. But do your part anyway and install it on people's machine's whenever you get the chance to.
Not sure if that's what you're referring to, but in the preferences (optionally saved as cookie or as bookmark'able URL hash) you can turn off filtering of search results.
> no, its the new AOL. Which, to me, should be the one thing no > company wants to be.
Actually I want it to be the new AOL. Look where AOL is now! The same will happen to FB...the increasing perception of 'uncoolness' of the company will be its doom, in fact, I firmly believe we're already past "Peak-FB". Ditto for Apple, though it will be somewhat more gradual a decline...
> Well, your government believes it has the right to exercise its > authority anywhere on the planet, and has been caught writing laws > for other countries (when it doesn't outright invade them) so in all > fairness, the entire planet should get to vote in US elections.
Kinda like: "No occupation without representation"?:-)
> > How does the prosecution prove that you haven't forgotten something?
> The problem is the judge can throw you in jail for contempt to "give you time to remember".
But, purely in the semantic sense, 'forgetting' is not the same as 'being in contempt of'. Kinda like the difference between an accidental death and premeditated, deliberate murder.
Besides, if you really did forget your long passphrase, no time in jail will likely 'make you remember'. How do I know? Forgot my own not just once. Mostly after a mere two or three months of not actually using it. Your body memory of typing it in gets messed up. If you use it each day you have the illusion to never forget. Well, take a vacation to Australia for 10 weeks and then find yourself dumbfounded sitting in front of your machine (I'm talking 128-bit passphrases here). The important point here is, that this can happen even without any outside pressure! And you will rack your brain for days, sometimes you will remember, more often you won't. In a pressure situation, legal proceedings etc. chances are, your passphrase has long been eaten by a synapse grue.
> Like in Mexico, they will take your hand if you are lucky. If you aren't > lucky, the bank will have some kind of life detector which will check > if the hand is alive. > In that case the gang just takes you along with your hand and then > disposes of both together after the crime.
Wow...'Talk to the hand!' will get a whole new meaning now...
> I once needed access to a credit card i'd left at home with my folks. > I relised i had no way of communicating it securely. In the end we > had to split the transaction of that info over email and a voip call.
This is where you could use an (emergency) one-time pad. Stuff a few small sheets in your wallet on your travels, preferably waterproof, and leave the corresponding pads at home. You can now communicate short messages in ultimate security regardless of medium.
> If you suddenly start using encryption, it'll throw up a big flag.
> If you've always been using strong encryption, then there's no > change in behavior to be noticed.
Yes, and if you suddenly stop sending plain-text messages for three months (because you are on vacation), your behavior will be interpreted as you having gone underground plotting to overthrow the free world.
Seriously, where do you come up with stuff like that? That's what I call a paranoid mindset, not the person's, who wants to simply use crypto to keep his/her privacy!
> It strikes me that they have no trouble with the common practice to > list name and e-mail address on one of the PGP key servers
> I would also really like to use PGP but I don't want my details listed > on one of these servers.
I had this gripe myself, for the same reasons I decline being listed in the phone book. I send my public key to interested people directly, usually after a couple plain-text exchanges. This doesn't, however, protect me from having someone else upload the key to a key server. What is needed, IMHO, is a "NO KEY SERVER" option in the public key, that, when present, will cause key servers to just discard any such uploaded key and not list it publicly.
In the meantime, you can always use a pseudonym as name on your key. The people you know you can easily explain that to and the people you don't know don't care anyway since they have no way of verifying in normal interactions.
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> All NSA is doing here is trying to get secure voice over IP on a
> smart phone.
About time that SOMEBODY does! Go NSA.
> > "Until SETI improves its resolution, this is all just masturbation."
> Well, then, count me in!
Is this what they call the Slashdot effect? :-P
Hey Peter...thank you and the rest of the folks at the EFF for such great and important work! Beer's on me if we ever run into each other! :-)
> Nope, I expect that 99% of end users will not have this extension ...
> installed in the first place
You might be wrong. It's been, surprisingly, a very popular plugin even for non-technical folks. At least from what I see. But do your part anyway and install it on people's machine's whenever you get the chance to.
> I'll be the first to agree if you end up with some incompetent boob,
> you want that on him
Yes folks...you ALWAYS want such boobs on the other guy! :-P
> StartingPage filters a lot of results.
Not sure if that's what you're referring to, but in the preferences (optionally saved as cookie or as bookmark'able URL hash) you can turn off filtering of search results.
> use UPS or Fedex?
US Postal Service, of course:
"Fry like an Eagle...into the future~~" :-D :-/
> Worse, the attacker could sign things that looked like they came
> from you.
Hey, I wrote that!! :-O
> there is this new fangled thing called "the internet"
Is this true?? Has Netcraft confirmed?
Never dealt with this issue so be gentle...
1. What's it take to convert/digitize VHS tape on a computer?
2. What's the best, or most appropriate, format to 'rip' the tapes into?
3. What programs do you need to do so (Linux preferred)?
4. Does PAL vs. SECAM matter?
5. Any experiences/stories from folks having done so?
Thanks!
> We all have to die, so let's commit suicide?
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> no, its the new AOL. Which, to me, should be the one thing no
> company wants to be.
Actually I want it to be the new AOL. Look where AOL is now! The same will happen to FB...the increasing perception of 'uncoolness' of the company will be its doom, in fact, I firmly believe we're already past "Peak-FB".
Ditto for Apple, though it will be somewhat more gradual a decline...
> Well, your government believes it has the right to exercise its
> authority anywhere on the planet, and has been caught writing laws
> for other countries (when it doesn't outright invade them) so in all
> fairness, the entire planet should get to vote in US elections.
Kinda like: "No occupation without representation"? :-)
> Make sure you find an honist women that has morals and love in
> her heart before you marry her.
I think, that's sound advice for any man out there. Thank you! :-)
> > How does the prosecution prove that you haven't forgotten something?
> The problem is the judge can throw you in jail for contempt to "give you time to remember".
But, purely in the semantic sense, 'forgetting' is not the same as 'being in contempt of'. Kinda like the difference between an accidental death and premeditated, deliberate murder.
Besides, if you really did forget your long passphrase, no time in jail will likely 'make you remember'. How do I know? Forgot my own not just once. Mostly after a mere two or three months of not actually using it. Your body memory of typing it in gets messed up. If you use it each day you have the illusion to never forget. Well, take a vacation to Australia for 10 weeks and then find yourself dumbfounded sitting in front of your machine (I'm talking 128-bit passphrases here). The important point here is, that this can happen even without any outside pressure! And you will rack your brain for days, sometimes you will remember, more often you won't. In a pressure situation, legal proceedings etc. chances are, your passphrase has long been eaten by a synapse grue.
PS: Chadwick's wife is a b*&%!!
> Like in Mexico, they will take your hand if you are lucky. If you aren't
> lucky, the bank will have some kind of life detector which will check
> if the hand is alive.
> In that case the gang just takes you along with your hand and then
> disposes of both together after the crime.
Wow...'Talk to the hand!' will get a whole new meaning now...
> > Too bad I will have to share their faith.
> I think you mean: share their *fate*?
Well, he'd have to share the 'faith' first, before presumably being assigned/led to believe in being assigned a 'fate' by 'faith's' $DEITY.
My interpretation. Take it on faith. :-P
> But, this is web 2.0 now. Completely safe.
Twice as safe even! :-P
> I far prefer wiki's. it takes seconds to correct and version a spelling
> fix in a document in MediaWiki.
How do you deal with the MediaWiki code? That's the biggest stumbling block in my org...nobody wants to learn the syntax of Wiki.
> I can imagine Balmer at the meeting now: "Familiarity, familiarity,
> FAMILIARITY, FAMILIARITY..."
"Familiarity, familiarity, FAMILIARITY, FAMILIARITY...YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
TFIFY! :-P
Here's to hoping for a MeeGo port...
And good job, Twitter. Somehow you're becoming far more sympathetic than that 'other' big social network player...
> I once needed access to a credit card i'd left at home with my folks.
> I relised i had no way of communicating it securely. In the end we
> had to split the transaction of that info over email and a voip call.
This is where you could use an (emergency) one-time pad. Stuff a few small sheets in your wallet on your travels, preferably waterproof, and leave the corresponding pads at home. You can now communicate short messages in ultimate security regardless of medium.
> If you suddenly start using encryption, it'll throw up a big flag.
> If you've always been using strong encryption, then there's no
> change in behavior to be noticed.
Yes, and if you suddenly stop sending plain-text messages for three months (because you are on vacation), your behavior will be interpreted as you having gone underground plotting to overthrow the free world.
Seriously, where do you come up with stuff like that? That's what I call a paranoid mindset, not the person's, who wants to simply use crypto to keep his/her privacy!
> It strikes me that they have no trouble with the common practice to
> list name and e-mail address on one of the PGP key servers
> I would also really like to use PGP but I don't want my details listed
> on one of these servers.
I had this gripe myself, for the same reasons I decline being listed in the phone book. I send my public key to interested people directly, usually after a couple plain-text exchanges. This doesn't, however, protect me from having someone else upload the key to a key server. What is needed, IMHO, is a "NO KEY SERVER" option in the public key, that, when present, will cause key servers to just discard any such uploaded key and not list it publicly.
In the meantime, you can always use a pseudonym as name on your key. The people you know you can easily explain that to and the people you don't know don't care anyway since they have no way of verifying in normal interactions.
> my email is pretty darn non-interesting to anyone
How do YOU know? The value is determined by the other person(s), not you!