This is possibly the most interesting statment I've read on/. for a long time. What if you place a bootup message on your system proclaiming all information contained on this system, unless specificly copyrighted by another party is copyrighted by me and further any encrypted information is protected under the DMCA. Also make your tag line on all your email read something similar.
The most interesting part of this is it is using Big Governments/Big Business own laws against them in order to protect my own privacy. I realize this is very silly and would never hold up, however I wonder how long you could keep a court tied up while your lawyer tried to get your encrypted laundry list declared a trade secret. I'd still end up in jail for contempt of court but at least I'd get some entertainment out of it.
As a community we say all we want is a small, fast, compliant browser. I have news for everyone, this is not what we want. If this had been true, when Galeon was announced a hundred Hackers would have jumped on it a two weeks later we would have had a small, fast, stable and compliant browser. Instead everyone yawned and said wake me up when it supports java. The fact of the matter is we have browser evny, we want our browser to support java, activeX, plugins and just for the sake of it we want it skinable as well. If Mozilla is dead it is because we as a community nailed it to a cross and jabbed a spear in its side.
If this bothers you, there is a way to protect yourself from such things in Linux. At a command line log in as root and tyoe the following line;
echo 1 > proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
Now add this line to your rc.local file, so when you have ever have to reboot your system, you won't have to remember to do it. This line make it so your system will not respond to ICMP packets, meaning ping and traceroute. I don't know if Windows has a similar feature or not.
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A few years ago some now defunct programing magazine proposed the idea of hiding your data inside another piece of data, say a scanned picture or a sound byte. Most non compressed image and sound formats, such as *.bmp and *.wav, have uneeded bytes, which is why they can be compressed so well into *.jpg or *.mp3. The proposed program would replace a certain number of these bytes with other information based on a password, the file could then be transfered to the intended person, who would then extract the information out. realisticly you could not encrypt a large amount of data like this, but when combined with the pad idea, all that needs to be inserted is the names of the 5 or 6 pads you used. This gives an added layer of protection, because it requires the bad guys to know it contains other data or if its just a badly scanned picture and then have to prove there is encrypted data contained within the picture and not just a fluke.
Another idea is, use the governments own tricks against them. The best way to hide information is to make it as long and boring as possible. If you don't beleive me try reading some banking law or any budget for the government. This is how the government gets funding year after year for stupid projects.
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I am absolutly for the RIGHT to be anonymous on the internet for the same reason I am against the death penalty. I am against the death penalty, not because it protects the guilty from being justly put to death, but to protect the innocent from being put to death unjustly and if even one innocent person is put to death unjustly, that is way too many, it is a little hard to apoligize or make resitution after the fact. I beleive in the RIGHT to be an anonymous coward, not because it protects criminals, but because it protects the innocent. Think about this, if we are not allowed to be anonymous on the internet, that means a potential employer can do a search in all the news groups or Slashdot for your name and find out your politics or religion, do you really want a potential employer or your boss for that matter, to know you are for legalizing marijuana. Then comes the question, should a 40 year man be denied a job because of statments he made in a news group when he was 18. Anybody who beleives either the innocent don't need protecting or that the Government/Business will protect us or even do the right thing is sadly deluded.
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Once, but after a little media spin, it wouldn't work again and they might even get it outlawed. What this amounts to is buying stock for the sole purpose of gaining influnce in company policy and then selling out. The first time this might work, but the second time, a smart CEO would ask the Representive of the "Club" why he should take him seriously when he will be sell the stock tomorrow and further has no vested intrest in the long term viability of the company. I can also see Companies who become victums of this, going to congress and having this sort of thing outlawed. I beleive we will get away with this once and only once, maybe not even that. Our only real chance is to get another BB with world class lawyers to support us, otherwise we are lost. Besides we'd probably get eaten alive by capital gains tax.
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To add to the problem, it is 35 years of compter time per key. Just because one key was broken does not mean all keys have been broken. Once they have one key, the hacker would then have to start all over to get the next one
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All I have to do is hook up my DvD player to my TV Tuner card, and play the movie, I then start the Digital VCR, which came with the TV Tuner card, pause the movie about half way through and start a new file and 90 minutes later I have 2 MPEG files on my hard drive, then burn it to 2 regular CD's. I don't need DeCSS or $10K worth of equipment to pirate movies, nobody does. DeCSS doesn't even make it easier.
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I have read, Corel plans on a good chunk of its income over the next 5 years to come from Linux. Can you give us an idea of what Corels plans are to bring this about.
Stenography is often raised as a solution to the covert exchange of data, but I question its validity. There are a group of very bright people employed by governments who have spent 30 years studying ways to detect hidden information, and the government has almost unlimited resources and the root password to the Constitution at its disposal.
the key to stenography is not neccessarily about keeping the government or whoever from reading the information. What stenography is really about is keeping them from realizing there is any information to be read at all. It becomes more difficult if One regularly posts the JPG's to a newsgroup, some with important data (encrypted then embedded) and some without. First the government has to realize something is going on, then they have to analyze all the JPG's to figure out which ones have data, they must then decrypt it (only to find 4 out of 5 of the messages were about golf games) and even after all that, there is no way to tell who the intended reciepient was.
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This is possibly the most interesting statment I've read on /. for a long time. What if you place a bootup message on your system proclaiming all information contained on this system, unless specificly copyrighted by another party is copyrighted by me and further any encrypted information is protected under the DMCA. Also make your tag line on all your email read something similar.
The most interesting part of this is it is using Big Governments/Big Business own laws against them in order to protect my own privacy. I realize this is very silly and would never hold up, however I wonder how long you could keep a court tied up while your lawyer tried to get your encrypted laundry list declared a trade secret. I'd still end up in jail for contempt of court but at least I'd get some entertainment out of it.
-Numbersyx
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
As a community we say all we want is a small, fast, compliant browser. I have news for everyone, this is not what we want. If this had been true, when Galeon was announced a hundred Hackers would have jumped on it a two weeks later we would have had a small, fast, stable and compliant browser. Instead everyone yawned and said wake me up when it supports java. The fact of the matter is we have browser evny, we want our browser to support java, activeX, plugins and just for the sake of it we want it skinable as well. If Mozilla is dead it is because we as a community nailed it to a cross and jabbed a spear in its side.
-Numbersyx
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.
If this bothers you, there is a way to protect yourself from such things in Linux. At a command line log in as root and tyoe the following line;
echo 1 > proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
Now add this line to your rc.local file, so when you have ever have to reboot your system, you won't have to remember to do it. This line make it so your system will not respond to ICMP packets, meaning ping and traceroute. I don't know if Windows has a similar feature or not.
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Jesus died for somebodies sins, but not mine
A few years ago some now defunct programing magazine proposed the idea of hiding your data inside another piece of data, say a scanned picture or a sound byte. Most non compressed image and sound formats, such as *.bmp and *.wav, have uneeded bytes, which is why they can be compressed so well into *.jpg or *.mp3. The proposed program would replace a certain number of these bytes with other information based on a password, the file could then be transfered to the intended person, who would then extract the information out. realisticly you could not encrypt a large amount of data like this, but when combined with the pad idea, all that needs to be inserted is the names of the 5 or 6 pads you used. This gives an added layer of protection, because it requires the bad guys to know it contains other data or if its just a badly scanned picture and then have to prove there is encrypted data contained within the picture and not just a fluke.
Another idea is, use the governments own tricks against them. The best way to hide information is to make it as long and boring as possible. If you don't beleive me try reading some banking law or any budget for the government. This is how the government gets funding year after year for stupid projects.
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Jesus died for somebodies sins, but not mine
I am absolutly for the RIGHT to be anonymous on the internet for the same reason I am against the death penalty. I am against the death penalty, not because it protects the guilty from being justly put to death, but to protect the innocent from being put to death unjustly and if even one innocent person is put to death unjustly, that is way too many, it is a little hard to apoligize or make resitution after the fact. I beleive in the RIGHT to be an anonymous coward, not because it protects criminals, but because it protects the innocent. Think about this, if we are not allowed to be anonymous on the internet, that means a potential employer can do a search in all the news groups or Slashdot for your name and find out your politics or religion, do you really want a potential employer or your boss for that matter, to know you are for legalizing marijuana. Then comes the question, should a 40 year man be denied a job because of statments he made in a news group when he was 18. Anybody who beleives either the innocent don't need protecting or that the Government/Business will protect us or even do the right thing is sadly deluded.
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Jesus died for somebodies sins, but not mine
There are no effective Linux Virus in the wild is because everyone who is capable of writing one, is too busy writing virus for Windows.
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Jesus died for somebodies sins, but not mine
Once, but after a little media spin, it wouldn't work again and they might even get it outlawed. What this amounts to is buying stock for the sole purpose of gaining influnce in company policy and then selling out. The first time this might work, but the second time, a smart CEO would ask the Representive of the "Club" why he should take him seriously when he will be sell the stock tomorrow and further has no vested intrest in the long term viability of the company. I can also see Companies who become victums of this, going to congress and having this sort of thing outlawed. I beleive we will get away with this once and only once, maybe not even that. Our only real chance is to get another BB with world class lawyers to support us, otherwise we are lost. Besides we'd probably get eaten alive by capital gains tax.
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Jesus died for somebodies sins, but not mine
(But to be fair, if you were having a non-hardware related WinNT problem, I doubt calling Dell would do you much good.)
LoL, Oh so painfully true.
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Jesus died for somebodies sins, but not mine
To add to the problem, it is 35 years of compter time per key. Just because one key was broken does not mean all keys have been broken. Once they have one key, the hacker would then have to start all over to get the next one
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Jesus died for somebodies sins, but not mine
All I have to do is hook up my DvD player to my TV Tuner card, and play the movie, I then start the Digital VCR, which came with the TV Tuner card, pause the movie about half way through and start a new file and 90 minutes later I have 2 MPEG files on my hard drive, then burn it to 2 regular CD's. I don't need DeCSS or $10K worth of equipment to pirate movies, nobody does. DeCSS doesn't even make it easier.
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Jesus died for somebodies sins, but not mine
The fix is Here
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Jesus died for somebodies sins, but not mine
Here
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Jesus died for somebodies sins, but not mine
I have read, Corel plans on a good chunk of its income over the next 5 years to come from Linux. Can you give us an idea of what Corels plans are to bring this about.
Stenography is often raised as a solution to the covert exchange of data, but I question its validity. There are a group of very bright people employed by governments who have spent 30 years studying ways to detect hidden information, and the government has almost unlimited resources and the root password to the Constitution at its disposal.
the key to stenography is not neccessarily about keeping the government or whoever from reading the information. What stenography is really about is keeping them from realizing there is any information to be read at all. It becomes more difficult if One regularly posts the JPG's to a newsgroup, some with important data (encrypted then embedded) and some without. First the government has to realize something is going on, then they have to analyze all the JPG's to figure out which ones have data, they must then decrypt it (only to find 4 out of 5 of the messages were about golf games) and even after all that, there is no way to tell who the intended reciepient was.
Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine.