Exactly. Which is what Phil Zimmerman has been saying for years:
"Perhaps you think your email is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something? If you hide your mail inside envelopes, does that mean you must be a subversive or a drug dealer, or maybe a paranoid nut? Do law-abiding citizens have any need to encrypt their email?
What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope for his mail, it would draw suspicion. Perhaps the authorities would open his mail to see what he's hiding. Fortunately, we don't live in that kind of world, because everyone protects most of their mail with envelopes. So no one draws suspicion by asserting their privacy with an envelope. There's safety in numbers. Analogously, it would be nice if everyone routinely used encryption for all their email, innocent or not, so that no one drew suspicion by asserting their email privacy with encryption. Think of it as a form of solidarity."
However, some of my friends think I am a crackpot for signing my emails; I do it for solidarity. I wish there was a bit less tech-looking way to do it. I honestly believe it's not the complexity, but appearance that is holding back most people.
Section 404: Use of Encryption to Conceal Criminal Activity.
In recent years, terrorists and other criminals have begun to use encryption technology to conceal their communications when planning and conducting criminal activity. Title 18 of the United States Code currently contains no provision on the use of encrypted communications to plan or facilitate crimes. This proposal would amend federal law to provide that any person who, during the commission of or the attempt to commit a federal felony, knowingly and willfully uses encryption technology to conceal any incriminating communication or information relating to that felony, be imprisoned for an additional period of not fewer than 5 years. These additional penalties are warranted to deter the use of encryption technology to conceal criminal activity. In addition, it does not address the issue of whether software companies and internet service providers should give law enforcement access to "keys" for the purposes of decoding intercepted communications.
"Attempt" to download a copyrighted work from Kazaa and email someone about it using PGP = 5+ years in federal prison.
" 20 or minutes or so " to hit the ground... i have to disagree. nowhere near that long. a minute or so, at most.
You are correct, it wasn't 20. It was a bit over 3 minutes. My memory seems to have exaggerated after almost 20 years.
"Analysis of crew cabin wreckage indicates the shuttle's windows may have survived the explosion. It is thus possible the crew did not experience high-altitude cabin decompression. If so, some or all of the astronauts may have been alive and conscious all the way to impact in the Atlantic some 18 miles northeast of the launch pad. The cabin hit the water at better than 200 mph on Scobee's side. The metal posts of the two forward flight deck seats, for example, were bent sharply to the right by force of impact when the cabin disintegrated.
"The internal crew module components recovered were crushed and distorted, but showed no evidence of heat or fire," the commission report said. "A general consistency among the components was a shear deformation from the top of the components toward the +Y (to the right) direction from a force acting from the left. Components crushed or sheared in the above manner included avionics boxes from all three avionics bays, crew lockers, instrument panels and the seat frames from the commander and the pilot. The more extensive and heavier crush damage appeared on components nearer the upper left side of the crew module. The magnitude and direction of the crush damage indicates that the module was in a nose down and steep left bank attitude when it hit the water.
"The fact that pieces of forward fuselage upper shell were recovered with the crew module indicates that the upper shell remained attached to the crew module until water impact. Pieces of upper forward fuselage shell recovered or found with the crew module included cockpit window frames, the ingress/egress hatch, structure around the hatch frame and pieces of the left and right sides. The window glass from all of the windows, including the hatch window, was fractured with only fragments of glass remaining in the frames."
Several large objects were tracked by radar after the shuttle disintegrated. One such object, classified as "Object D," hit the water 207 seconds after launch about 18 nautical miles east of launch pad 39B. This apparently was the crew cabin."
I had always assumed that the front compartment would be highly reinforced and could remain intact longer than the rest of it. It seems that is not the case.
It is, however it won't help them. Even if the front compartment survived the explosion, it will still drop all the way down.
That's what happened to Challenger btw. At least some were alive for the 20 or minutes or so it took to hit the water. While there were no recordings, evidence was found, such as the emergency air supply being turned on for the pilot -- that can only be done behind the seat by another person, so it was obvious people were moving around.
Let's all hope that is NOT the case this time. That would be a simply horrible prolonged way to die:-( Rest in peace, shuttle astronauts, this is an extremely sad day.
I would rather have a larger 240x320 screen than a smaller 320x320 screen. My Handera (at 240x320) is MUCH easier to read ebooks on than the Sony 320x320s I have used.
Of course, a Sony 480x320 screen is better still...
The large, thick, form factor is an absolute killer for me in these PDAs. (Though that small iPaq mentioned in the parent... that looks interesting.)
Check out the Viewsonic V35 too. They are both just over 4 oz, full screen, and XScale. Ironic that while Palm really hit the jackpot on the Palm V and smaller form-factor models, you cannot get a small form factor full-screen Xscale Palm OS model. The Tungsten is nice, but I want full screen!
Sony could really hit it big too. OS 5 actually USES the full capabilities of the Xscale (unlike the Xscale in PPCs, which are crippled by the OS). A full-screen Palm model should run faster for the same MHz and have a longer battery life (due to less code to run, as well as being able to use the XScale "scaling" feature to lower clock speed when you don't need it -- hell, the Xscale was NAMED after this feature and PPCs can use it).
The thing is a brick. 10.3 oz? And $800? Come on. Why not get a laptop?
I really, really, REALLY hope Sony gets off this everything-but-the-kitchen-sink kick, and release a lightweight, full screen version of the Clie. Hell, I have been using the Palm OS for years, but my Ipaq 1910 is on it's way now, because it is approximately the same size/weight as a Palm V.
Post 9/11, it transpired that we, the supposed forces of good, had intercepted messages between "them", the forces of bad, that would have tipped us of. The trouble was that by the time the messages had been processed, decoded, translated, it was 9/12.
I will preface this by stating my email is OpenPGP compliant, and I sign my emails. I believe possessing strong encryption is a right of privacy.
However, look at your argument here. I really doubt if the 9/11 thugs sent a message it would ONLY be on the morning they left. They were in the US for a long time (2 years or something right?) So a hypothetical email could have had 2 years to be processed, decoded, and translated.
Think about what the other side would say about your argument. Know your enemy.
Take a look at my comment again, especially what I was responding to: "pretend to be you, online". You don't think someone would figure that out eventually?
What is REALLY needed is GOOD anti-spam laws that would provide for hefty jail terms for spammers that do this kind of thing. Since most spam is US centric (even though spammers frequently use international open relays) US laws would make a huge dent in spam.
I would tend to disagree with this. How are you going to prove that all those Chinese open relays were exploited in the US? And if you could, spammers would just move to Anguilla and set up shop there.
Fine, but it doesn't scale, and it wouldn't stop spammers from finding your email address. In fact, it would make it easier as all the email addresses are available at one easy-to-use location!
As someone said, it isn't stopping them today -- you can go farm lots of addresses on the netservers right now.
This is why I predict whitelisting becoming more and more common. However, it is really easy to get around a lot of the whitelisting today -- for example, most people include their OWN email address (they had to see if it worked, right?), and this has already been used to get by a whitelist -- just forge the from and to headers BOTH to the address your are spamming.
I guess the more drastic kind of whitelist would be a "trusted circle" variety that required digital signatures of the person sending you an email.
What is to stop your domain from getting blacklisted? And I hope your friend is running a good whitelisting program on all but the address s/he is using, since spam comes in bundles to various addresses in the domain, which will all end up in his/her default box.
I have worried about this stuff for a long time. First, as so many have stated already, "get a new email address." Really no way around that, your old one is *dead*.
So what to do about the future? I guess you have to assume that every email address can eventually be nuked, and get used to sending out new email address notifications to everyone. Another reason I see digital signing becoming a necessity in the future -- else what is to stop a trojan hijacking your email address and sending out fake change of address messages?
More and more it's heading to the point where your *real identity* has nothing to do with your email address, but rather with your PGP key.
It's odd but useful. I usually don't like the Vorkosigan series, for example (well, I liked Memory quite a bit), but the real usefulness of this list is to find stuff that you might have overlooked. I am going to list out all the ones I have never read (or bothered to look at) for the next time I go Sci-fi used book shopping.
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I wish I had mod points left.
Lack of an "Ultra" type solution from nVidia would leave ATI's Radeon9700 uncontested as the defacto performance part
The Radeon 9900 is expected out next month, with the new R350 core.
I am glad I don't have Nvidia stock right about now.
Copyright infringements and DMCA violations are not felonies.
It's not under the DMCA, and you are incorrect about copyright infringements on peer to peer networks.
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Exactly. Which is what Phil Zimmerman has been saying for years:
"Perhaps you think your email is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something? If you hide your mail inside envelopes, does that mean you must be a subversive or a drug dealer, or maybe a paranoid nut? Do law-abiding citizens have any need to encrypt their email?
What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope for his mail, it would draw suspicion. Perhaps the authorities would open his mail to see what he's hiding. Fortunately, we don't live in that kind of world, because everyone protects most of their mail with envelopes. So no one draws suspicion by asserting their privacy with an envelope. There's safety in numbers. Analogously, it would be nice if everyone routinely used encryption for all their email, innocent or not, so that no one drew suspicion by asserting their email privacy with encryption. Think of it as a form of solidarity."
However, some of my friends think I am a crackpot for signing my emails; I do it for solidarity. I wish there was a bit less tech-looking way to do it. I honestly believe it's not the complexity, but appearance that is holding back most people.
Section 404: Use of Encryption to Conceal Criminal Activity.
In recent years, terrorists and other criminals have begun to use encryption technology to conceal their communications when planning and conducting criminal activity. Title 18 of the United States Code currently contains no provision on the use of encrypted communications to plan or facilitate crimes. This proposal would amend federal law to provide that any person who, during the commission of or the attempt to commit a federal felony, knowingly and willfully uses encryption technology to conceal any incriminating communication or information relating to that felony, be imprisoned for an additional period of not fewer than 5 years. These additional penalties are warranted to deter the use of encryption technology to conceal criminal activity. In addition, it does not address the issue of whether software companies and internet service providers should give law enforcement access to "keys" for the purposes of decoding intercepted communications.
"Attempt" to download a copyrighted work from Kazaa and email someone about it using PGP = 5+ years in federal prison.
Ironic that it is section "404".
Best mirror for the full draft is here.
Duh! My brain seemed to have been locked when I posted this morning. You are correct of course.
" 20 or minutes or so " to hit the ground... i have to disagree. nowhere near that long. a minute or so, at most.
You are correct, it wasn't 20. It was a bit over 3 minutes. My memory seems to have exaggerated after almost 20 years.
"Analysis of crew cabin wreckage indicates the shuttle's windows may have survived the explosion. It is thus possible the crew did not experience high-altitude cabin decompression. If so, some or all of the astronauts may have been alive and conscious all the way to impact in the Atlantic some 18 miles northeast of the launch pad. The cabin hit the water at better than 200 mph on Scobee's side. The metal posts of the two forward flight deck seats, for example, were bent sharply to the right by force of impact when the cabin disintegrated.
"The internal crew module components recovered were crushed and distorted, but showed no evidence of heat or fire," the commission report said. "A general consistency among the components was a shear deformation from the top of the components toward the +Y (to the right) direction from a force acting from the left. Components crushed or sheared in the above manner included avionics boxes from all three avionics bays, crew lockers, instrument panels and the seat frames from the commander and the pilot. The more extensive and heavier crush damage appeared on components nearer the upper left side of the crew module. The magnitude and direction of the crush damage indicates that the module was in a nose down and steep left bank attitude when it hit the water.
"The fact that pieces of forward fuselage upper shell were recovered with the crew module indicates that the upper shell remained attached to the crew module until water impact. Pieces of upper forward fuselage shell recovered or found with the crew module included cockpit window frames, the ingress/egress hatch, structure around the hatch frame and pieces of the left and right sides. The window glass from all of the windows, including the hatch window, was fractured with only fragments of glass remaining in the frames."
Several large objects were tracked by radar after the shuttle disintegrated. One such object, classified as "Object D," hit the water 207 seconds after launch about 18 nautical miles east of launch pad 39B. This apparently was the crew cabin."
I had always assumed that the front compartment would be highly reinforced and could remain intact longer than the rest of it. It seems that is not the case.
:-( Rest in peace, shuttle astronauts, this is an extremely sad day.
It is, however it won't help them. Even if the front compartment survived the explosion, it will still drop all the way down.
That's what happened to Challenger btw. At least some were alive for the 20 or minutes or so it took to hit the water. While there were no recordings, evidence was found, such as the emergency air supply being turned on for the pilot -- that can only be done behind the seat by another person, so it was obvious people were moving around.
Let's all hope that is NOT the case this time. That would be a simply horrible prolonged way to die
I would rather have a larger 240x320 screen than a smaller 320x320 screen. My Handera (at 240x320) is MUCH easier to read ebooks on than the Sony 320x320s I have used.
Of course, a Sony 480x320 screen is better still...
But a magnet might actually add an oz. or two. Sony's philosophy is to NEVER add useless extra weight! ;-)
Of course I meant to say the Xscale was NAMED after this feature and PPCs can't use it. (embarrased for not using preview -- duh!)
The large, thick, form factor is an absolute killer for me in these PDAs. (Though that small iPaq mentioned in the parent... that looks interesting.)
Check out the Viewsonic V35 too. They are both just over 4 oz, full screen, and XScale. Ironic that while Palm really hit the jackpot on the Palm V and smaller form-factor models, you cannot get a small form factor full-screen Xscale Palm OS model. The Tungsten is nice, but I want full screen!
Sony could really hit it big too. OS 5 actually USES the full capabilities of the Xscale (unlike the Xscale in PPCs, which are crippled by the OS). A full-screen Palm model should run faster for the same MHz and have a longer battery life (due to less code to run, as well as being able to use the XScale "scaling" feature to lower clock speed when you don't need it -- hell, the Xscale was NAMED after this feature and PPCs can use it).
The thing is a brick. 10.3 oz? And $800? Come on. Why not get a laptop?
I really, really, REALLY hope Sony gets off this everything-but-the-kitchen-sink kick, and release a lightweight, full screen version of the Clie. Hell, I have been using the Palm OS for years, but my Ipaq 1910 is on it's way now, because it is approximately the same size/weight as a Palm V.
rofl. If I hadn't just commented in this thread you would have had a +1 Funny.
Post 9/11, it transpired that we, the supposed forces of good, had intercepted messages between "them", the forces of bad, that would have tipped us of. The trouble was that by the time the messages had been processed, decoded, translated, it was 9/12.
I will preface this by stating my email is OpenPGP compliant, and I sign my emails. I believe possessing strong encryption is a right of privacy.
However, look at your argument here. I really doubt if the 9/11 thugs sent a message it would ONLY be on the morning they left. They were in the US for a long time (2 years or something right?) So a hypothetical email could have had 2 years to be processed, decoded, and translated.
Think about what the other side would say about your argument. Know your enemy.
As long as they don't tie this together with the World's most accurate lie detector I will be Ok...
Rofl! I wish there was a "clueless" mod. Or /. could add "Idiot" to the Friend/Foe system.
Take a look at my comment again, especially what I was responding to: "pretend to be you, online". You don't think someone would figure that out eventually?
they get... the ability to pretend to be you, online.
Well, those people who were too stupid not to create a revocation certificate, at least.
What is REALLY needed is GOOD anti-spam laws that would provide for hefty jail terms for spammers that do this kind of thing. Since most spam is US centric (even though spammers frequently use international open relays) US laws would make a huge dent in spam.
I would tend to disagree with this. How are you going to prove that all those Chinese open relays were exploited in the US? And if you could, spammers would just move to Anguilla and set up shop there.
Fine, but it doesn't scale, and it wouldn't stop spammers from finding your email address. In fact, it would make it easier as all the email addresses are available at one easy-to-use location!
As someone said, it isn't stopping them today -- you can go farm lots of addresses on the netservers right now.
This is why I predict whitelisting becoming more and more common. However, it is really easy to get around a lot of the whitelisting today -- for example, most people include their OWN email address (they had to see if it worked, right?), and this has already been used to get by a whitelist -- just forge the from and to headers BOTH to the address your are spamming.
I guess the more drastic kind of whitelist would be a "trusted circle" variety that required digital signatures of the person sending you an email.
What is to stop your domain from getting blacklisted? And I hope your friend is running a good whitelisting program on all but the address s/he is using, since spam comes in bundles to various addresses in the domain, which will all end up in his/her default box.
I have worried about this stuff for a long time. First, as so many have stated already, "get a new email address." Really no way around that, your old one is *dead*.
So what to do about the future? I guess you have to assume that every email address can eventually be nuked, and get used to sending out new email address notifications to everyone. Another reason I see digital signing becoming a necessity in the future -- else what is to stop a trojan hijacking your email address and sending out fake change of address messages?
More and more it's heading to the point where your *real identity* has nothing to do with your email address, but rather with your PGP key.
It's odd but useful. I usually don't like the Vorkosigan series, for example (well, I liked Memory quite a bit), but the real usefulness of this list is to find stuff that you might have overlooked. I am going to list out all the ones I have never read (or bothered to look at) for the next time I go Sci-fi used book shopping.
Since I have no mod points left, I will have to leave a thank you for this link instead ;-)