What's your problem? She's a fucking nutcase, she has no business aspiring to a leadership position that requires clear thinking and a reality-based worldview. She should quit, no, be fired, from her aspirations.
I'm not suggesting she be destroyed. Religion, on balance, is nothing.
but it's a regional decision only at this point and barely scratches the surface of the civil rights and privacy issues that plague American Citizens today. Smile but don't get happy yet.
It would be instructive to see distribution data for monthly bandwidth use. Tentatively, I have no problems with ISPs reallocating bandwidth above some threshold as a toll road.
It is not imaginary technology: it exists.
Think about this: communication channels have by and large been open and subject to eavesdropping or even MITM attacks throughout history. That has not changed. Security, real security, exists in spite of the open nature of channels. The internet ain't special or new in that regard.
Avoid discussions about technology, you're not qualified, stick with making your movie.
Well, I guess I should give up on privacy just because you say so.
Imagine if you will, a large pool of internet traffic entering and leaving a network node that is secure from government meddling(it is possible). You encrypt your traffic and send it into the pool. Your query or other communication is made by this node (or collection of nodes) and the results are sucked back into the pool, encrypted and transmitted back to you. The larger the pool the more difficult it becomes to associate any one user with a particular outgoing request.
You need to stop being so sure of yourself. It just looks worse when you're wrong. Better to say "I don't think it is possible, does anyone know otherwise?"
Mod parent up.
This is precisely my most pressing concern about privacy. It is a political, not technical issue. Too bad we could resurrect Jefferson - he'd call for hangings for the traitors who have NO respect for the Constitution.
PS: the recent rulings regarding compelled production of passphrases within the borders are mildly encouraging.
Nonsense.
Eavesdropping on an encrypted conversation where the encryption is managed by the two endpoints gives you nothing but the identities of the communicators, and if they have taken steps to conceal their identities an eavesdropper doesn't even get that information.
This secure communication exists peacefully alongside your "vast open network".
You clearly invested a fair bit of time writing your post. Why? What part of communication security technology do you not understand?
Lots of traffic is passing through Sweden, but more importantly, the Swedish government is not alone in using this type of surveillance."
If anything the Swedes are latecomers to this sort of monitoring. It's tough for a politician to resist that sort of power since it requires great strength of character. Our politicians in the USA are the weakest.
It seems to me that we should deliberately publish maps of China and its neighbors with the borders and names FUBARed in order to piss off the powers that be in China. Like Taiwan and Tibet especially. Also I think there are a few small islands in the Philippines that China is trying to bully onto their map. When China creates this opportunity to abuse their wishes take advantage.
See the Patriot Act for what it was in historical terms: a reactionary measure passed and supported by representatives of a hurting, angry nation. Considering the national mood at the time, it was the "right" thing to do: Americans were more than happy to give up essential liberties for Bush's promise of temporary security. His approval ratings set new historical record highs in the weeks immediately following the 9/11 attacks and the start of the Afghan war. You are being naive. Passage of the Act was actively exploitative of a shocked and fearful nation. It was a massive power grab timed to take advantage of a disoriented country. You are too easy on the perpetrators of the anti-Constitution Patriot Act.
I think a small palmtop that has thoroughly documented HW could be turned into a moderately secure device that used a general purpose PC as a gateway to the standard channels. Plaintext only ever visible on the dedicated device.
I've been writing SW for almost 30 years. I would never trust a general purpose computer as a means of secure communications. It could be used as a gateway for a specialized device.
And as for face to face, I wouldn't even trust that without the Cone of Silence.
well, the concept is probably doomed. The better solution is a hybrid light drive (yes, massless photons have momentum) and an ion drive that uses spent fuel as mass. Just my 2c
As long as the ion drive has to carry all the mass it'll ever use it will never be useful for seriously long trips. It would need to vacuum up stray particles as a mass source for that. But it's mildly interesting anyway.
Oh Yeah! But it ain't complete without the Mermen playing Varykino Snow at full volume, followed by a heart melting The Goodbye on the glide into the beach...
How much do you want to bet that legally, trademarking a color is analogous to copyrighting a rendered font - you can only copyright the name of the font, not the bitmap characters. So fine, I won't try to sell "Cat Yellow" or "John Deere Green" but I see a heckuva lot of yellow bulldozers out there that are not Caterpillars(started in Stockton, I think).
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What's your problem? She's a fucking nutcase, she has no business aspiring to a leadership position that requires clear thinking and a reality-based worldview. She should quit, no, be fired, from her aspirations. I'm not suggesting she be destroyed. Religion, on balance, is nothing.
Well, sure, everything made by man fails. I'm just waiting for religion to fail completely.
let Sarah Palin be a member of the Royal Society!
but it's a regional decision only at this point and barely scratches the surface of the civil rights and privacy issues that plague American Citizens today. Smile but don't get happy yet.
It would be instructive to see distribution data for monthly bandwidth use. Tentatively, I have no problems with ISPs reallocating bandwidth above some threshold as a toll road.
It is not imaginary technology: it exists. Think about this: communication channels have by and large been open and subject to eavesdropping or even MITM attacks throughout history. That has not changed. Security, real security, exists in spite of the open nature of channels. The internet ain't special or new in that regard. Avoid discussions about technology, you're not qualified, stick with making your movie.
Well, I guess I should give up on privacy just because you say so. Imagine if you will, a large pool of internet traffic entering and leaving a network node that is secure from government meddling(it is possible). You encrypt your traffic and send it into the pool. Your query or other communication is made by this node (or collection of nodes) and the results are sucked back into the pool, encrypted and transmitted back to you. The larger the pool the more difficult it becomes to associate any one user with a particular outgoing request. You need to stop being so sure of yourself. It just looks worse when you're wrong. Better to say "I don't think it is possible, does anyone know otherwise?"
Mod parent up. This is precisely my most pressing concern about privacy. It is a political, not technical issue. Too bad we could resurrect Jefferson - he'd call for hangings for the traitors who have NO respect for the Constitution. PS: the recent rulings regarding compelled production of passphrases within the borders are mildly encouraging.
Nonsense. Eavesdropping on an encrypted conversation where the encryption is managed by the two endpoints gives you nothing but the identities of the communicators, and if they have taken steps to conceal their identities an eavesdropper doesn't even get that information. This secure communication exists peacefully alongside your "vast open network". You clearly invested a fair bit of time writing your post. Why? What part of communication security technology do you not understand?
Lots of traffic is passing through Sweden, but more importantly, the Swedish government is not alone in using this type of surveillance." If anything the Swedes are latecomers to this sort of monitoring. It's tough for a politician to resist that sort of power since it requires great strength of character. Our politicians in the USA are the weakest.
penalty for digitally altering an otherwise innocent picture of a senator to depict taking bribes or other sexually depraved bahavior?
It seems to me that we should deliberately publish maps of China and its neighbors with the borders and names FUBARed in order to piss off the powers that be in China. Like Taiwan and Tibet especially. Also I think there are a few small islands in the Philippines that China is trying to bully onto their map. When China creates this opportunity to abuse their wishes take advantage.
I think a small palmtop that has thoroughly documented HW could be turned into a moderately secure device that used a general purpose PC as a gateway to the standard channels. Plaintext only ever visible on the dedicated device.
I've been writing SW for almost 30 years. I would never trust a general purpose computer as a means of secure communications. It could be used as a gateway for a specialized device. And as for face to face, I wouldn't even trust that without the Cone of Silence.
that prolly should be "runs good" After all we're in Amurrica and some of our lectrical comes from nucyulerr. err. pardon me while I drool.
well, the concept is probably doomed. The better solution is a hybrid light drive (yes, massless photons have momentum) and an ion drive that uses spent fuel as mass. Just my 2c
As long as the ion drive has to carry all the mass it'll ever use it will never be useful for seriously long trips. It would need to vacuum up stray particles as a mass source for that. But it's mildly interesting anyway.
Sarcasm is that tough to spot? Sheesh!
Somebody should sue the catholic church, oh, wait...
This is still the land of the free and the home of the brave isn't it? Love it or leave it! Stop hating Amerika.
Oh Yeah! But it ain't complete without the Mermen playing Varykino Snow at full volume, followed by a heart melting The Goodbye on the glide into the beach...
How about Cyber Warfare Command That encompasses both offense and defense. Done.
I think they should start out small by going after spammers all over the world. Just think of the positive publicity!
How much do you want to bet that legally, trademarking a color is analogous to copyrighting a rendered font - you can only copyright the name of the font, not the bitmap characters. So fine, I won't try to sell "Cat Yellow" or "John Deere Green" but I see a heckuva lot of yellow bulldozers out there that are not Caterpillars(started in Stockton, I think).