If some anonymous tipster told them you were using it for terrorist purposes or you were selling drugs, you'd be out of luck relying on your fourth amendment rights. Hello military tribunal...
You've done almost exactly what I dreamed about doing to our car (silver Jetta w/ black leather BTW) on our annual southwestern US tour this year. I subjected my poor wife to laptop duty most of each driving day, which she was far from thrilled about. Tons of wires, clunky laptop, poor visibility... I wish I had your determination/extra income to do this type of mod.
Not really. It depends on how used the society is to crackpot views, rumors and plains lies. Long time users of the internet are used to this. A society that is just emerging from authoritarian rule, used to seeing only one side of things, are not used to this and are easily taken advantage of.
It probably wasn't his original idea, but I remember reading something along these lines in Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. He likens the cultural exposure that can be caused by free-flowing information to a contagion spread by immigration (a la small pox to the Native Americans).
That said, my US-media poisoned opinion is that protecting their people is not their primary focus, they are protecting themselves and their position of power. See the People's Daily coverage of the recent plane incident for an example of the government controlling what the people are told to further their own agendas. I realize the same thing happens here, we all know that, it isn't my point. I simply don't believe they're trying to protect anyone but themselves by filtering or stopping the flow of info to the people.
You do realize that Stephen King, famous horror author, adored by many, that even he failed in his internet book effort? And stopped the distribution as a result?
er, his words were "In my view, 'The Plant' has been quite successful." I'd say "successful" and "failed" are two words that are quite at odds with each other. He also refutes the claim that he stopped publishing the story due to financial causes.
Agreed, RIAA has definitely brought attention to Napster, and, at the risk of overestimated their intelligence, they must know that. I think RIAA/MPAA/etc's secondary long-term goal is trying to head off general public acceptance of these technologies. Just the fact that Napster is being sued gives the impression that they're evil. If you plant the meme via the media that copying stuff via Napster/OpenNap is evil and/or socially irresponsible, people will be less likely to use them even if the court battles end up against the RIAA. It will eat people up inside if they know they ganked that file from Napster. Is this just my perception? Isn't that their business, to tell people how to think?
BTW: also front page on both Minneapolis and Saint Paul papers yesterday.
You're right, you can certainly tell where pieces of the file are coming from. I can get the IPs by running a simple netstat during the transfer, but no single node contains the whole file. Additionally, the data you're pulling from the node may not actually have been placed by the node admin.
The strength of the Freenet model is that you, as a node operator, have plausible deniability since all content on your node is encrypted. It's much more difficult for an entity to find all nodes containing a specific piece of data and shut them down, especially if it's a popular piece of data (since it's copied to each node that requests it). Also, when data is placed on Freenet, it's split into pieces and distributed to several nodes making it even tougher. Additionally, you can't know that the key you're requesting doesn't reside on other machines, unless your request touches every node on Freenet.
What I've been idly contemplating is if Freenet nodes may be vulnerable to an attack where the percentage of data coming from a node for a given key request is analyzed. As far as I can tell, when a key is inserted, the bulk of the data (if not all) ends up on the node it's inserted into and comparatively little on other nodes. Using that data, it might provide evidence that a certain node either originated that data or voluntarily transferred it to their node perhaps providing strong indication of mal intent. Like you, I haven't felt like plowing through code:)
(ObGripe: sure would be nice if the slashdot crew would do a teeny bit of background research on these stories, instead of just pointing us at junk news sources).
Who would you trust to do research on this stuff, you (someone who apparently has _some_ knowledge regarding this stuff) or Rob and Hemos? This is what/. is about and why it's cool. BTW: thanks for looking it up:)
Agreed, the amount of pages is highly irritating, but you can do something about the ads. On my NT workstation at work I run Proxomitron as a filtering proxy. I can even route it to the corporate firewall without much headache. At home I run CGIProxy on my home web server to get around the corporate firewall when it blocks pages (until they block my home machine). If you're running linux (or WinX, for that matter), you can set up a Junkbuster proxy that will perform pretty much the same function as Proxomitron.
It claims nonsence clear to enyone knows that light frequency's 1E12 times greater than one of sound
I suspect the laws of physics are different in your part of the world (as well as the rules of English spelling and grammar). Where I live, the speed of sound in air is of the order of 3e2 m/s, and the speed of EM radiation (light!) is 3e8 m/s. That's a factor of 1e6, not 1e12!
I suspect there are other more serious problems in your part of the world (perhaps localized to your frontal lobe). Nowhere in his post did he mention the speed of sound or light through air.
er, my not-so-informed take was that an appeal would be granted only if there was new evidence to present. I'm sure different judicial levels have different rules though.
Wait just long enough for all the hardware companies to tool up and make SDMI everything, then prove that the format is worthless.
Right, then you have another DeCSS fiasco replete with lawsuits. It has that nice "stick it to The Man" feel to it, but I sure wouldn't want to be the guy going public.
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I got a very similar reply from my MN congressman. I don't have it handy, but I'd wouldn't be surprised if it were the exact same text.
Would it even be possible to get the tones loud enough through those little buds to actually dial anything though?
It would be cool and all, but since there's no external speaker, it would be pretty useless.
Are we reading the same slashdot? Maybe I unchecked the "intellect" option in my config...
You obviously haven't dealt with the LAPD
Some might consider that a good thing.
sounds like a Kids in the Hall sketch...
IEEERADICATOR!!!
I don't think it was the program he was arrested for. It was the talk he gave at Defcon that detailed what his program did that got him in hot water.
genius... where are my +1 points when I need them?
If some anonymous tipster told them you were using it for terrorist purposes or you were selling drugs, you'd be out of luck relying on your fourth amendment rights. Hello military tribunal...
You can get the Silencer fans cheaper (especially in quantity) direct from PPC&C and get free shipping to boot!
You've done almost exactly what I dreamed about doing to our car (silver Jetta w/ black leather BTW) on our annual southwestern US tour this year. I subjected my poor wife to laptop duty most of each driving day, which she was far from thrilled about. Tons of wires, clunky laptop, poor visibility... I wish I had your determination/extra income to do this type of mod.
niche != less of an OS, or less of anything, for that matter
niche n.
2. A special area of demand for a product or service: One niche that is approaching mass-market proportions is held by regional magazines.
I think cell phones count as a special area of demand, as do set top boxes.
I guess if gas was more expensive in US it would be easier for you people to sign the Kyoto agreement:)
"you people"... heh, you can only blame slightly less than the majority of us.
Not really. It depends on how used the society is to crackpot views, rumors and plains lies. Long time users of the internet are used to this. A society that is just emerging from authoritarian rule, used to seeing only one side of things, are not used to this and are easily taken advantage of.
It probably wasn't his original idea, but I remember reading something along these lines in Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. He likens the cultural exposure that can be caused by free-flowing information to a contagion spread by immigration (a la small pox to the Native Americans).
That said, my US-media poisoned opinion is that protecting their people is not their primary focus, they are protecting themselves and their position of power. See the People's Daily coverage of the recent plane incident for an example of the government controlling what the people are told to further their own agendas. I realize the same thing happens here, we all know that, it isn't my point. I simply don't believe they're trying to protect anyone but themselves by filtering or stopping the flow of info to the people.
No, I actually thought they were splitting up individual files at this point. Maybe I should read my own links :)
er, his words were "In my view, 'The Plant' has been quite successful." I'd say "successful" and "failed" are two words that are quite at odds with each other. He also refutes the claim that he stopped publishing the story due to financial causes.
BTW: also front page on both Minneapolis and Saint Paul papers yesterday.
If the nodes relay requests (as was pointed out above) then it's improbable that this hypothetical attack would succeed.
The strength of the Freenet model is that you, as a node operator, have plausible deniability since all content on your node is encrypted. It's much more difficult for an entity to find all nodes containing a specific piece of data and shut them down, especially if it's a popular piece of data (since it's copied to each node that requests it). Also, when data is placed on Freenet, it's split into pieces and distributed to several nodes making it even tougher. Additionally, you can't know that the key you're requesting doesn't reside on other machines, unless your request touches every node on Freenet.
What I've been idly contemplating is if Freenet nodes may be vulnerable to an attack where the percentage of data coming from a node for a given key request is analyzed. As far as I can tell, when a key is inserted, the bulk of the data (if not all) ends up on the node it's inserted into and comparatively little on other nodes. Using that data, it might provide evidence that a certain node either originated that data or voluntarily transferred it to their node perhaps providing strong indication of mal intent. Like you, I haven't felt like plowing through code :)
Anyway, here's the FAQ/Features page for the Freenet project on Sourceforge, for those who'd like more background.
Who would you trust to do research on this stuff, you (someone who apparently has _some_ knowledge regarding this stuff) or Rob and Hemos? This is what
Agreed, the amount of pages is highly irritating, but you can do something about the ads. On my NT workstation at work I run Proxomitron as a filtering proxy. I can even route it to the corporate firewall without much headache. At home I run CGIProxy on my home web server to get around the corporate firewall when it blocks pages (until they block my home machine). If you're running linux (or WinX, for that matter), you can set up a Junkbuster proxy that will perform pretty much the same function as Proxomitron.
I suspect there are other more serious problems in your part of the world (perhaps localized to your frontal lobe). Nowhere in his post did he mention the speed of sound or light through air.
er, my not-so-informed take was that an appeal would be granted only if there was new evidence to present. I'm sure different judicial levels have different rules though.
Right, then you have another DeCSS fiasco replete with lawsuits. It has that nice "stick it to The Man" feel to it, but I sure wouldn't want to be the guy going public.