Why worry about squatters, if ironcrypt.org is taken just use ironcrypt.foo. My favorite open-source transparent crypto product uses doxbox.eu; doxbox.org is something else - who cares?
Dennis Ritchie: “So fsck was originally called something else”
Question: “What was it called?”
Dennis Ritchie: "Well, the second letter was different"
~ Q&A at Usenix
I don't know if he was a pre-teen when he wrote it, but it's a bad name anyway because it doesn't suggest anything to do with the purpose of the tool.
As well as the obvious GIMP theres BitchX, gnome-toaster, squid, the Security Administrator's Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN), Back Orifice (arguably cool as well) , touch, finger and fsck
I like the doxbox project - it works with linux crypto containers as well. Its a fork of freeotfe that was always better than truecrypt because its easier to use and has a license that encourages people to contribute.
Sometimes if I leave k3b (DVD burning software installed by default) open for to long, it causes KDE to go full-on rahtard, and has been known to require a reboot.
You may find you can just restart X. press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE
Every time I upgrade to the latest version of slackware, I'm able to simply copy data and I'm right back in business. This matter of having the same data for 10+ years is extremely important to so many people.
This is a huge advantage of *nix from a sysadmins PoV; the fact that there is an enforced directory convention, with config data all in/etc, apps in/usr etc. windows has something similar in theory - but it's not enforced and few apps follow it.
these "freedom activists"... the actual perpetrator.
If someone is active in supporting freedom then they are a freedom activist - no scare quotes needed. Which concept are you implying is dubious: freedom or being an activist?
OTOH people can be identified and punished for saying or doing things online that have no victims apart from political ideologies - so they are 'perpetrators' not perpetrators.
It's one thing to stand up and say "I am Spartacus", it's quite another to point at someone else and say "he is Spartacus".
I don't quite get this, if you explicitly allow some dissident (called 'Spartacus', say) to use your network and identify as yourself, how isn't that you yourself saying 'I am Spartacus'?
All the people saying "don't open your router because then the gov't will hold you responsible for things other people use it for" are missing the point. This is exactly why this is a freedom of speech issue and why the EFF is involved in the first place.
The gov't would like every act online to be traceable to an individual who can then be held responsible for it.
Freedom of speech means freedom from punishment because of your speech. The Soviets used to have a joke "everybody in Russia is free to say what they like - they're just not free to stay out of prison afterwards."
The only way to guarantee FoS is anonymity. The gov't can't punish you if they can't find you. Which is why dictatorships
hate online anonymity.
Even if it was true that you could be held responsible for things others do using your router, you'd still have a duty to let them do it.
IANAL but AFAIK there is no legal basis in either the UK or US to punish someone for enabling someone else to commit a crime, unless it was part of a deliberate conspiracy, or 'common purpose'. So, (if its true at all that this is 'dangerous') the authorities are trying to illegally blackmail people into supporting their unconstitutional attempt to destroy anonymous Internet access.
Submitting to this blackmail is treason. Keep your country free, Keep your WiFi free.
The irony behind the argument that "many eyes" didn’t work here, is that the code was only tested so thoroughly because it was open source.
We've no idea how many bugs like heartbleed there might be in proprietary libraries that simply hasn't been found yet (outside the NSA)
Do not feed RSA private key information to the random subsystem as
entropy. It might be fed to a pluggable random subsystem....
What were they thinking?!
So far as all the "won't this introduce more bugs than it fixes" comments go, this is a recurring argument I have at work.
I am of the "clean as you go", "refactor now" school.
Everyone else says "If it works don't fix it"(IIWDFI), "don't rock the boat" etc.
Heartbleed is what happens when the IIWDFI attitude wins. Bugs lurk under layers of cruft, simple changes become nightmares of wading through a lava flow of wrappers around hacks around bodges.
Whenever anyone says IIWDFI, remind them that testing can only find a small proportion of possible bugs, so if you can't see whether it has bugs or not by reading the code, then no matter how many test cases it passes, it DOESN'T WORK.
Yes, it appears young people are becoming more impatient shallow, and frivolous, and have been for some time:
The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for
parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as
if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is
foolishness with them.
- Peter the Hermit, 13th Century AD
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond
words... the present youth are exceedingly impatient of restraint
-Hesiod, 8th century BC
The art of letter-writing is fast dying out. When a letter cost nine pence, it seemed but fair to try to make it worth nine pence... Now, however, we think we are too busy for such old-fashioned correspondence. We fire off a multitude of rapid and short notes, instead of sitting down to have a good talk over a real sheet of paper.
- The Sunday Magazine 1871
It is, unfortunately, one of the chief characteristics of modern business to be always in a hurry. In olden times it was different.
- The Medical Record 1884
With the advent of cheap newspapers and superior means of locomotion... The dreamy quiet old days are over... For men now live think and work at express speed. They have their Mercury or Post laid on their breakfast table in the early morning, and if they are too hurried to snatch from it the news during that meal, they carry it off, to be sulkily read as they travel... leaving them no time to talk with the friend who may share the compartment with them... The hurry and bustle of modern life... lacks the quiet and repose of the period when our forefathers, the day's work done, took their ease...
- William Smith, Morley: Ancient and Modern, 1886
Conversation is said to be a lost art... Good talk presupposes leisure, both for preparation and enjoyment. The age of leisure is dead, and the art of conversation is dying.
- Frank Leslie's popular Monthly, Volume 29 1890
Intellectual laziness and the hurry of the age have produced a craving for literary nips. The torpid brain... has grown too weak for sustained thought.
There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.
- Israel Zangwill, The Bachelors' Club
1891
The art of pure line engraving is dying out. We live at too fast a rate to allow for the preparation of such plates as our fathers appreciated. If a picture catches the public fancy, the public must have an etched or a photogravured copy of it within a month or two of its appearance, the days when engravers were wont to spend two or three years over a single plate are for ever gone.
- Journal of the Institute of Jamaica, Volume 1
1892
So much is exhibited to the eye that nothing is left to the imagination. It sometimes seems almost possible that the modern world might be choked by its own riches, and human faculty dwindle away amid the million inventions that have been introduced to render its exercise unnecessary.
The articles in the Quarterlies extend to thirty or more pages, but thirty pages is now too much so we witness a further condensing process and, we have the Fortnightly and the Contemporary which reduce thirty pages to fifteen pages so that you may read a larger number of articles in a shorter time and in a shorter form. As if this last condensing process were not enough the condensed articles of these periodicals are further condensed by the daily papers, which will give you a summary of the summary of all that has been written about everything.
Those who are dipping into so many subjects and gathering inform
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Why worry about squatters, if ironcrypt.org is taken just use ironcrypt.foo. My favorite open-source transparent crypto product uses doxbox.eu; doxbox.org is something else - who cares?
Dennis Ritchie thought so too:
I don't know if he was a pre-teen when he wrote it, but it's a bad name anyway because it doesn't suggest anything to do with the purpose of the tool.
As well as the obvious GIMP theres BitchX, gnome-toaster, squid, the Security Administrator's Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN), Back Orifice (arguably cool as well) , touch, finger and fsck
I like the doxbox project - it works with linux crypto containers as well. Its a fork of freeotfe that was always better than truecrypt because its easier to use and has a license that encourages people to contribute.
Sometimes if I leave k3b (DVD burning software installed by default) open for to long, it causes KDE to go full-on rahtard, and has been known to require a reboot.
You may find you can just restart X. press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE
Every time I upgrade to the latest version of slackware, I'm able to simply copy data and I'm right back in business. This matter of having the same data for 10+ years is extremely important to so many people.
This is a huge advantage of *nix from a sysadmins PoV; the fact that there is an enforced directory convention, with config data all in /etc, apps in /usr etc. windows has something similar in theory - but it's not enforced and few apps follow it.
Sometimes people do things when they're not "perfectly fine" with possible consequences because it's the right thing to do. Its called morality.
these "freedom activists" ... the actual perpetrator.
If someone is active in supporting freedom then they are a freedom activist - no scare quotes needed. Which concept are you implying is dubious: freedom or being an activist? OTOH people can be identified and punished for saying or doing things online that have no victims apart from political ideologies - so they are 'perpetrators' not perpetrators.
It's one thing to stand up and say "I am Spartacus", it's quite another to point at someone else and say "he is Spartacus".
I don't quite get this, if you explicitly allow some dissident (called 'Spartacus', say) to use your network and identify as yourself, how isn't that you yourself saying 'I am Spartacus'?
Your test failed.
All the people saying "don't open your router because then the gov't will hold you responsible for things other people use it for" are missing the point. This is exactly why this is a freedom of speech issue and why the EFF is involved in the first place.
The gov't would like every act online to be traceable to an individual who can then be held responsible for it.
Freedom of speech means freedom from punishment because of your speech. The Soviets used to have a joke "everybody in Russia is free to say what they like - they're just not free to stay out of prison afterwards."
The only way to guarantee FoS is anonymity. The gov't can't punish you if they can't find you. Which is why dictatorships hate online anonymity.
Even if it was true that you could be held responsible for things others do using your router, you'd still have a duty to let them do it.
IANAL but AFAIK there is no legal basis in either the UK or US to punish someone for enabling someone else to commit a crime, unless it was part of a deliberate conspiracy, or 'common purpose'. So, (if its true at all that this is 'dangerous') the authorities are trying to illegally blackmail people into supporting their unconstitutional attempt to destroy anonymous Internet access.
Submitting to this blackmail is treason. Keep your country free, Keep your WiFi free.
At the time of writing http://pipedot.org/ has 58 comments in the first 10 stories.
http://squte.com/ has 69
http://soylentnews.org/ has 247
slashdot has 1043
I always use ad-block on slashdot, but it's better to use a site that treats you as a contributor rather than an 'audience' in the first place.
Technocrat is pretty much dead now. I like squte.com, which mirrors everything to Usenet, so it can't 'do a Beta' in future.
Nowadays you don't need to type the http:// in the address bar, so it's just "slashdot dot org"
There are other alternatives to slashdot: http://squte.com/ http://pipedot.org/ and http://soylentnews.org/
How many fascias does your Stihl have?
The irony behind the argument that "many eyes" didn’t work here, is that the code was only tested so thoroughly because it was open source. We've no idea how many bugs like heartbleed there might be in proprietary libraries that simply hasn't been found yet (outside the NSA)
See also:
So far as all the "won't this introduce more bugs than it fixes" comments go, this is a recurring argument I have at work. I am of the "clean as you go", "refactor now" school.
Everyone else says "If it works don't fix it"(IIWDFI), "don't rock the boat" etc.
Heartbleed is what happens when the IIWDFI attitude wins. Bugs lurk under layers of cruft, simple changes become nightmares of wading through a lava flow of wrappers around hacks around bodges.
Whenever anyone says IIWDFI, remind them that testing can only find a small proportion of possible bugs, so if you can't see whether it has bugs or not by reading the code, then no matter how many test cases it passes, it DOESN'T WORK.
The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them.
- Peter the Hermit, 13th Century AD
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... the present youth are exceedingly impatient of restraint
-Hesiod, 8th century BC
The art of letter-writing is fast dying out. When a letter cost nine pence, it seemed but fair to try to make it worth nine pence ... Now, however, we think we are too busy for such old-fashioned correspondence. We fire off a multitude of rapid and short notes, instead of sitting down to have a good talk over a real sheet of paper.
- The Sunday Magazine 1871
It is, unfortunately, one of the chief characteristics of modern business to be always in a hurry. In olden times it was different.
- The Medical Record 1884
With the advent of cheap newspapers and superior means of locomotion... The dreamy quiet old days are over... For men now live think and work at express speed. They have their Mercury or Post laid on their breakfast table in the early morning, and if they are too hurried to snatch from it the news during that meal, they carry it off, to be sulkily read as they travel ... leaving them no time to talk with the friend who may share the compartment with them... The hurry and bustle of modern life ... lacks the quiet and repose of the period when our forefathers, the day's work done, took their ease...
- William Smith, Morley: Ancient and Modern, 1886
Conversation is said to be a lost art ... Good talk presupposes leisure, both for preparation and enjoyment. The age of leisure is dead, and the art of conversation is dying.
- Frank Leslie's popular Monthly, Volume 29 1890
Intellectual laziness and the hurry of the age have produced a craving for literary nips. The torpid brain ... has grown too weak for sustained thought.
There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.
- Israel Zangwill, The Bachelors' Club 1891
The art of pure line engraving is dying out. We live at too fast a rate to allow for the preparation of such plates as our fathers appreciated. If a picture catches the public fancy, the public must have an etched or a photogravured copy of it within a month or two of its appearance, the days when engravers were wont to spend two or three years over a single plate are for ever gone.
- Journal of the Institute of Jamaica, Volume 1 1892
So much is exhibited to the eye that nothing is left to the imagination. It sometimes seems almost possible that the modern world might be choked by its own riches, and human faculty dwindle away amid the million inventions that have been introduced to render its exercise unnecessary. The articles in the Quarterlies extend to thirty or more pages, but thirty pages is now too much so we witness a further condensing process and, we have the Fortnightly and the Contemporary which reduce thirty pages to fifteen pages so that you may read a larger number of articles in a shorter time and in a shorter form. As if this last condensing process were not enough the condensed articles of these periodicals are further condensed by the daily papers, which will give you a summary of the summary of all that has been written about everything. Those who are dipping into so many subjects and gathering inform