I was thinking more of the ties to the larger organization, rather than it being a lone bomber. (Instead of leading to his arrest, or preventing things) Maybe that isn't significant, but...
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Terrorists use Export Restricted Version of Windows 2000 to encrypt their filesystems. Terrorists get stomped on by US military, and their computers get bought by the US press. US press decrypt filesystem based upon really weak encryption. Interesting things are learned.<br>
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Anybody else notice how this WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE (in any reasonable amount of time) if the 128-bit encryption (in W2K SP2) had been used? So the export restrictions *did* their job... While everyone is saying how export restrictions are meaningless, as any "evil-doer" can find good encryption anywhere in the world, if only they look, it seems that the current leader (in terms of evilness, and at the top of the list of orgs that the US is fighting) of terrorist organizations neglected to do that...<br>
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I think that the US gov't will be empirical rather than ideal when looking at this issue, and their reply to anyone who doesn't want export restrictions will be that, obviously, THEY WORK.<br>
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--evan<br>
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(Sidenote, the time issue is significant, as if it took many years to decrypt the filesystem, then the information linking our shoelace bomber to al-Qaeda would have probably come too late to be of any help.)<br><br>
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The FCC recommendation, about an inch-thick document that was distributed late Wednesday evening to the five commissioners, includes a clause to ensure that AOL does not discriminate in its contracts with other instant-messaging firms, sources said. After AOL strikes its first deal to connect its instant-messaging system with a rival, the online giant would be required to offer other instant-messaging firms terms that are no worse than those offered in its first contract, sources said.
The FCC recommendation gives AOL and Time Warner another option on instant-messaging: to adopt an industry standard to make their system interoperable with others, sources said.
So, If the reccomendations are accepted, AOL-TW must extend offers that are no worse than the initial one to other IM providers, or adopt an industry standard IM protocol.
Why do you people think this lawyer is so great, better then other lawyers? He's saying those things because he's being paid to say them by andover, secondly, he's not that intelligent.
Do you think that he came up with all these questions on his own? Of course not. Everyone at Andover and Slashdot, not to mention all of the comments on the subject influenced those questions. Perhaps they should have posted the letter for review before they sent it to M$.
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I was thinking more of the ties to the larger organization, rather than it being a lone bomber. (Instead of leading to his arrest, or preventing things) Maybe that isn't significant, but...
Let's see...
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Terrorists use Export Restricted Version of Windows 2000 to encrypt their filesystems. Terrorists get stomped on by US military, and their computers get bought by the US press. US press decrypt filesystem based upon really weak encryption. Interesting things are learned.<br>
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Anybody else notice how this WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE (in any reasonable amount of time) if the 128-bit encryption (in W2K SP2) had been used? So the export restrictions *did* their job... While everyone is saying how export restrictions are meaningless, as any "evil-doer" can find good encryption anywhere in the world, if only they look, it seems that the current leader (in terms of evilness, and at the top of the list of orgs that the US is fighting) of terrorist organizations neglected to do that...<br>
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I think that the US gov't will be empirical rather than ideal when looking at this issue, and their reply to anyone who doesn't want export restrictions will be that, obviously, THEY WORK.<br>
<br>
--evan<br>
<br>
(Sidenote, the time issue is significant, as if it took many years to decrypt the filesystem, then the information linking our shoelace bomber to al-Qaeda would have probably come too late to be of any help.)<br><br>
(Score:-1, Troll)
The FCC recommendation, about an inch-thick document that was distributed late Wednesday evening to the five commissioners, includes a clause to ensure that AOL does not discriminate in its contracts with other instant-messaging firms, sources said. After AOL strikes its first deal to connect its instant-messaging system with a rival, the online giant would be required to offer other instant-messaging firms terms that are no worse than those offered in its first contract, sources said.
The FCC recommendation gives AOL and Time Warner another option on instant-messaging: to adopt an industry standard to make their system interoperable with others, sources said.
So, If the reccomendations are accepted, AOL-TW must extend offers that are no worse than the initial one to other IM providers, or adopt an industry standard IM protocol.
-nicadic
When was the last time M$ actually "Innovated"?
Why do you people think this lawyer is so great, better then other lawyers? He's saying those things because he's being paid to say them by andover, secondly, he's not that intelligent.
Do you think that he came up with all these questions on his own? Of course not. Everyone at Andover and Slashdot, not to mention all of the comments on the subject influenced those questions. Perhaps they should have posted the letter for review before they sent it to M$.