Try using the tried and true encryption method. A piece of paper inside an envelope, with a stamp and an address. It's slower, but it's a lot more private than you'll EVER GET on the internet, now or in the future.
Said no cryptographer ever. Sending your communique in plain text is never encryption. You might argue it is stenography... but the mail, pretty fucking obvious. Each piece of mail is scanned, metadata is kept, pieces of interest are opened. That is not the least of your problem either. Do you think wifi is insecure? What about the mailbox? Mail theft is a real problem. If someone wants specific information about you, the cheezy lock on your mailbox is not going to do shit.
They ask: If court orders are legitimate, why should we allow engineers to design services that protect users against court-ordered access?
The real answer question is, in what fucking world is it appropriate for courts to say what a private company programs?!? If the encryption is not illegal (it shouldn't be either way, but encryption is still legal in the US) the judiciary has no business saying whether it should be used or not.
The bicycle that takes me to my office weighs about 22 lbs. So who wins?
Can your bicycle propel you and four passengers across the country at 75 mph? Hypothetically, if you crashed your bicycle into a tree at 50 mph, would you live? Can your bicycle get you to the store at even 15 mph? Is it suitable transportation for the very young, elderly, or disabled? Does it perform well in bad weather?
But your waste affects me. Your external costs affect me.
Aren't you painting with broad strokes buddy? You do not know anything about me, besides your mental stereotype of... whoever your villain is. Riding a bicycle is not an option for me, the grocery store is 20 miles away. Riding a motorcycle is not an option, because I refuse to risk my life to save a few hundred ounces of petrol. If you want to save the world, start with, "Here is a practical solution to the problem." Hint, it is not to replace motor vehicles with bicycles. Calling everyone who drives a vehicle, that you consider to be inefficient, an asshole, is not going anywhere.
The first post from this asshole was cheeky and fun, lets provoke some discussion or whatever.
How the fuck is this at least the 3rd article by this guy posted to the Slashdot front page? He just keeps saying the same thing over and over again (read, it is not even news) and they just keep posting it.
Officer Bruch probably thinks he is a white robed saint of justice, letting the innocent walk free, while only hoodwinking those who deserve it, the perps. Either he is a horrible police officer, or he knows that getting people to say stupid things makes his job easy. Most likely he thinks that he lets people go who talk and have a convincing narrative, when the carefully ignored truth of the matter is that he would eventually have to let them go anyways. Sooner than later, if they know to ask if they are being detained.
He is either a liar, or telling some perverted version of the truth, which lacks any basis in fact.
Not to mention that legal thinking is inherently at odds with scientific thinking. Courts trust what has been known for a long time, whether science has proven those things wrong or not. Forensics, truth, and the court, have been at odds since the inception of forensic evidence.
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that it appears to me that OP is being deliberately obtuse. His questions have been answered thoroughly and repeatedly, yet he continues to ask them.
His questions are so obtuse, and elicit such lucid and persuasive answers, that I wonder if he is in fact arguing for our side by asking dumb questions from the other side. Kind of a straw man of sorts.
Only in vapor form. You can put out a match by dipping it in gasoline. That's part of the reason gasoline is such a good vehicle fuel. It has to be conditioned in a carburetor or a fuel injection system to be very volatile so it's fairly safe as a fuel.
It will be reassuring to know that the liquid gasoline is not burning my car.
They just need to come up with an alternative story about how they got the information legally. For example the official story is that they happened to notice fake ids in the mail - just by accident. No one can say if that was really by accident - the knowledge that they needed to look at that particular package might have been from an illegal source. This is standard practice in US law enforcement, even though it's supposed not to happen by the principle of fruit of the poisonous tree. Of course, the defense won't have the ability to make that legal argument if the true source of evidence is illegally concealed.
And this back-fabrication of probable cause has been happening for the past 75 years to, "protect confidential informants".
Cool, I got a new bluetooth keyboard, let me just pair it with my blackberry which also has bluetooth. Hmm, HID profile not recognized? Blackberry only supports serial port profile bluetooth keyboards? Where do I get one of those? Nowhere, wtf?
BMW is well known for absurdly high parts and maintenance costs. They are even significantly more expensive than the other German cars. For this purposes of this discussion it is a poor example, and might even be disingenuous.
They are both professional actors, and by any definition get the job done right. Denzel Washington, besides being a famous actor, is pretty much a normal guy. Mercurial as a DVCS is the same way... it just works, and nobody really feels compelled to say anything about it. Wesley Snipes is flashy and interesting, he is fun to gossip about. There is always some drama about Git, whether Linus Torvalds is telling someone else that they are also fucking incompetent morons, or it is being ported from Perl to C, but definitely NOT C++ (because all C++ programmers are morons, according to Linus Torvalds).
Is that really the extent of your similarities and differences list between Wesley Snipes and Denzel Washington? Go back to your brainstorming room until you figure it out.
Exactly, the rock star musician is a naturally arrogant piece of shit, so anyone who identifies with that term is more likely to share traits with the musician than a highly competent programmer.
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Try using the tried and true encryption method. A piece of paper inside an envelope, with a stamp and an address. It's slower, but it's a lot more private than you'll EVER GET on the internet, now or in the future.
Said no cryptographer ever. Sending your communique in plain text is never encryption. You might argue it is stenography... but the mail, pretty fucking obvious. Each piece of mail is scanned, metadata is kept, pieces of interest are opened. That is not the least of your problem either. Do you think wifi is insecure? What about the mailbox? Mail theft is a real problem. If someone wants specific information about you, the cheezy lock on your mailbox is not going to do shit.
They ask: If court orders are legitimate, why should we allow engineers to design services that protect users against court-ordered access?
The real answer question is, in what fucking world is it appropriate for courts to say what a private company programs?!? If the encryption is not illegal (it shouldn't be either way, but encryption is still legal in the US) the judiciary has no business saying whether it should be used or not.
Good point.
The article seems to speak more on crimes against humanity, like killing imaginary civilians.
The bicycle that takes me to my office weighs about 22 lbs. So who wins?
Can your bicycle propel you and four passengers across the country at 75 mph? Hypothetically, if you crashed your bicycle into a tree at 50 mph, would you live? Can your bicycle get you to the store at even 15 mph? Is it suitable transportation for the very young, elderly, or disabled? Does it perform well in bad weather?
But your waste affects me. Your external costs affect me.
Aren't you painting with broad strokes buddy? You do not know anything about me, besides your mental stereotype of... whoever your villain is. Riding a bicycle is not an option for me, the grocery store is 20 miles away. Riding a motorcycle is not an option, because I refuse to risk my life to save a few hundred ounces of petrol. If you want to save the world, start with, "Here is a practical solution to the problem." Hint, it is not to replace motor vehicles with bicycles. Calling everyone who drives a vehicle, that you consider to be inefficient, an asshole, is not going anywhere.
With the rest of the misinformed, vitriolic, drivel; which nobody reads. Please, no more of this crap on the Slashdot homepage. Thanks!
The first post from this asshole was cheeky and fun, lets provoke some discussion or whatever.
How the fuck is this at least the 3rd article by this guy posted to the Slashdot front page? He just keeps saying the same thing over and over again (read, it is not even news) and they just keep posting it.
Officer Bruch probably thinks he is a white robed saint of justice, letting the innocent walk free, while only hoodwinking those who deserve it, the perps. Either he is a horrible police officer, or he knows that getting people to say stupid things makes his job easy. Most likely he thinks that he lets people go who talk and have a convincing narrative, when the carefully ignored truth of the matter is that he would eventually have to let them go anyways. Sooner than later, if they know to ask if they are being detained.
He is either a liar, or telling some perverted version of the truth, which lacks any basis in fact.
Not to mention that legal thinking is inherently at odds with scientific thinking. Courts trust what has been known for a long time, whether science has proven those things wrong or not. Forensics, truth, and the court, have been at odds since the inception of forensic evidence.
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that it appears to me that OP is being deliberately obtuse. His questions have been answered thoroughly and repeatedly, yet he continues to ask them.
His questions are so obtuse, and elicit such lucid and persuasive answers, that I wonder if he is in fact arguing for our side by asking dumb questions from the other side. Kind of a straw man of sorts.
Only in vapor form. You can put out a match by dipping it in gasoline. That's part of the reason gasoline is such a good vehicle fuel. It has to be conditioned in a carburetor or a fuel injection system to be very volatile so it's fairly safe as a fuel.
It will be reassuring to know that the liquid gasoline is not burning my car.
My agenda is solar powered, friend.
So you have an electric car agenda? The Tesla Model S weighs 4,600 lbs... what is your point? Solar will magically and mysteriously make cars lighter?
Car fires tend to be pretty spectacular... gasoline is quite flammable.
They just need to come up with an alternative story about how they got the information legally. For example the official story is that they happened to notice fake ids in the mail - just by accident. No one can say if that was really by accident - the knowledge that they needed to look at that particular package might have been from an illegal source. This is standard practice in US law enforcement, even though it's supposed not to happen by the principle of fruit of the poisonous tree. Of course, the defense won't have the ability to make that legal argument if the true source of evidence is illegally concealed.
And this back-fabrication of probable cause has been happening for the past 75 years to, "protect confidential informants".
Cool, I got a new bluetooth keyboard, let me just pair it with my blackberry which also has bluetooth. Hmm, HID profile not recognized? Blackberry only supports serial port profile bluetooth keyboards? Where do I get one of those? Nowhere, wtf?
BMW is well known for absurdly high parts and maintenance costs. They are even significantly more expensive than the other German cars. For this purposes of this discussion it is a poor example, and might even be disingenuous.
/. is my personal entertainment you insensitive clod!
It is more than entertainment for me, more like the meaning in my life.
You guys sure are high strung about personal entertainment.
Mod +1, factually correct response to america bashing asshole.
They are both professional actors, and by any definition get the job done right. Denzel Washington, besides being a famous actor, is pretty much a normal guy. Mercurial as a DVCS is the same way... it just works, and nobody really feels compelled to say anything about it. Wesley Snipes is flashy and interesting, he is fun to gossip about. There is always some drama about Git, whether Linus Torvalds is telling someone else that they are also fucking incompetent morons, or it is being ported from Perl to C, but definitely NOT C++ (because all C++ programmers are morons, according to Linus Torvalds).
They are both black!
Is that really the extent of your similarities and differences list between Wesley Snipes and Denzel Washington? Go back to your brainstorming room until you figure it out.
My loyalty is to my family not some 6-figure CEO who thinks I should work more hours for less money so he can skim off the profits.
Good for you, become a consultant?
Git is Wesley Snipes, Mercurial is Denzel Washington.
Exactly, the rock star musician is a naturally arrogant piece of shit, so anyone who identifies with that term is more likely to share traits with the musician than a highly competent programmer.
Lets make something exactly like B02K but charge money for it, ingenious!