Any hackers out there interested in having a whack at one of these boxes...
Just find out what they actually do. Have a snoop on the snoop (I tend to believe they are what they claim to be, even feds have morals)
And just to reiterate what some other posters have said, until quatum computing happens, 128bit encrypted email messages will remain safe... What a simple solution, we just need PGP to spread a bit further, get it OEM on some systems, and it would become a automatic thing to do when sending an email for all users.. and that would be great, mate.
One thing that seems to be forgotten is that you can wear an echelon proof condom...
It's called PGP, which is short for Pretty Good Privacy, and at high encryption levels, it is uncrackable (in public knowledge, and very likely still uncrackable by the government).
I would heartily recommend you use PGP or some related encryption software on your email, and recommend all your associates to do so - it's not that hard - check out www.pgpi.com.
That said, one must have good network & physical security to prevent our brilliant law 'protection' agencies from just hopping onto your computer and stealing your secret key, otherwise the whole exercise has been a waste of time.
Yahuh sorry i did forget to mention the 'onramp' capping - which makes ISDN viable for businesses to get permantently connected. Those capped prices however, are still out of reach of ordinary Australians. Yes any POTS connections have an inbuilt 100-110ms lag (question: is it like that everywhere else in the world?), but thanks to the speed of light, the fastest ping you'll be getting from a geostationary satellite is approx 260ms - not unmanageable but certainly 'existant'. In any case it aint nothin on the 15ms intercapital pings you rich 'terrestrially connected' city folk can obtain:)
Whilst all you Americans, Canadians and Europeans may think this 'too little, too late', this is great news for us Aussies.
In Australia there is a keen, competitive dialup ISP market - but the one & only local loop telco, telstra, is a complete joke.
The great thing about this new modem standard is that the upgrading need only be done at the ISP end and the user end.....
No need for the telco to do anything - Telstra has been able to do ADSL for years, but there is not a single available ADSL connection in Australia.
And aside from the capital cities, cable is very much over the horizon, looking into 2001 or 2002.
The only high bandwidth option available to me here is ISDN, which is laugably expensive (line charges are at the rate of a few dollars per hour) or satellite, which is expensive to setup and the lag means that quake II isnt happening over it.
Thus ive found the best solution is to multilink in three 56k modems to the ISP - 168kbps d/l - i can almost pretend I have ADSL.
With the introduction of this standard, hopefully sometime early next year Ill have the upstream to go with that d/l speed.
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Any hackers out there interested in having a whack at one of these boxes...
Just find out what they actually do. Have a snoop on the snoop (I tend to believe they are what they claim to be, even feds have morals)
And just to reiterate what some other posters have said, until quatum computing happens, 128bit encrypted email messages will remain safe... What a simple solution, we just need PGP to spread a bit further, get it OEM on some systems, and it would become a automatic thing to do when sending an email for all users.. and that would be great, mate.
One thing that seems to be forgotten is that you can wear an echelon proof condom...
It's called PGP, which is short for Pretty Good Privacy, and at high encryption levels, it is uncrackable (in public knowledge, and very likely still uncrackable by the government).
I would heartily recommend you use PGP or some related encryption software on your email, and recommend all your associates to do so - it's not that hard - check out www.pgpi.com.
That said, one must have good network & physical security to prevent our brilliant law 'protection' agencies from just hopping onto your computer and stealing your secret key, otherwise the whole exercise has been a waste of time.
"A PGP a day keeps the NSA away"
Yahuh sorry i did forget to mention the 'onramp' capping - which makes ISDN viable for businesses to get permantently connected. Those capped prices however, are still out of reach of ordinary Australians. Yes any POTS connections have an inbuilt 100-110ms lag (question: is it like that everywhere else in the world?), but thanks to the speed of light, the fastest ping you'll be getting from a geostationary satellite is approx 260ms - not unmanageable but certainly 'existant'. In any case it aint nothin on the 15ms intercapital pings you rich 'terrestrially connected' city folk can obtain :)
Whilst all you Americans, Canadians and Europeans may think this 'too little, too late', this is great news for us Aussies.
In Australia there is a keen, competitive dialup ISP market - but the one & only local loop telco, telstra, is a complete joke.
The great thing about this new modem standard is that the upgrading need only be done at the ISP end and the user end.....
No need for the telco to do anything - Telstra has been able to do ADSL for years, but there is not a single available ADSL connection in Australia.
And aside from the capital cities, cable is very much over the horizon, looking into 2001 or 2002.
The only high bandwidth option available to me here is ISDN, which is laugably expensive (line charges are at the rate of a few dollars per hour) or satellite, which is expensive to setup and the lag means that quake II isnt happening over it.
Thus ive found the best solution is to multilink in three 56k modems to the ISP - 168kbps d/l - i can almost pretend I have ADSL.
With the introduction of this standard, hopefully sometime early next year Ill have the upstream to go with that d/l speed.