Ok, how about this: You never take the test and you never plan to, but people you are related to do. How hard is it really going to be to start collecting this information and cross referencing it with birth records?
Remember, once this gets out there we are going to going to be able to get it back and corporationsrarely do anything that does not benefit themselves.
Now they could be talking about the user's system, which is really scary, but I read it to be talking about the Carnivore box. Which would seem to suggest a port or two being left open.
What problems did you have with Speakeasy? I've used them for two locations in MA over the past 1.5 years and not had any problems outside of the wait for Bell Atlantic to stop screwing around. The connection is always up.. and always fast. Same with everyone else I know who has it. Of course their web page is rather ugly.. but we move on with out lives.
I believe there are too public/private key pairs in use here, thus the breaking of one should not compromise the other.
The message from mother to me: Uses my public/private keypair to encrypt/decrypt
The message from me to mother: Uses mother's public/private keypair to encrypt/decrypt
Thus, if they mange to brute force the recipe they have only gained my private key. Which will give them any message sent/to/ me. But they will not have my message to mother because that uses her key and not my own.
Of course, if you really want to nitpick, with my private key they could now sign a message as me, encrypt it using mother's public key and send it to her. Perhaps something along the lines of "come visit me in the location specified in the last message." Then they will just need to follow her for a while.
Or.. knowing my mother, they could just walk into the house, go over to the computer, and read the plaintext of the message I just sent to her which she has failed to destroy. (And if they were really that keen on getting it, the recipe as well.)
Come on.. you know the answer to this one. If only "interesting" traffic is encrypted there is a lot less encrypted traffic flying across the lines to confuse big brother like organizations. You encrypt everything to make it more difficult to figure out which encrypted packets are the ones you should be interested in brute forcing.
If big brother like organizations waste a week trying to decrypt your mother's letter about a new recipe she just tried, that is a week they don't have to decrypt the message you reply with explaining why your family has to go into hiding. We need to inject more noise into the system.
I don't think I would mind losing privacy quite as much if it meant the government and corporations and such also lost an equivalent amount of privacy. Wide scale tracking of individuals seems to be happening at the same point that large organizations are required to tell us less. If they want to track me at least allow me the courtesy of tracking them as well. Secrets suck.
I think I would be far more interested in this if it were: A) Cheaper, $1500 is a little much for me to imagine dropping on what would only end up being another blinky toy. Or B) Shown actually doing something. There are really only so many times I can see installing BSD/Linux/BeOS/Windows/QNX before I start losing interest in life. And I am undercreative so I cannot see doing anything past installing an OS.
Handwriting is really not so bad for normalish letter writing and such.. but what happens if you intend to use the machine as more of a portable development platform? Trying to write out all of the {'s and such would drive me insane. It is difficult to imagine anything replacing the keyboard for that sort of thing. Of course I am sure I am just not being imaginative enough.
No, this is really a problem with almost anywhere. It is not even really restricted to programming.
Not many people would choose maintaining an application over creating a new one, and the next best thing is adding features. Tracking down bugs is boring, hairy work that very likely will go unnoticed by 90% of the world.
You have an old, semi-maintained building and are given the choice: you can fix all the plumbing or build an entirely new gleaming wing; which are you really likely to choose?
This is just one of those annoying facts of life. People want to be noticed and the work that is likely to be most useful is less likely to get them any fame. No one likes to think of themselves as a cog, but without the cogs clocks don't run.
Since it is the plaintiff bringing the lawsuit they should be the only ones to pay should they lose. (No one should be forced to pay more for having attempted a defense of themselves.) However, what should happen instead of repaying the defendants lawyer fees, is the plaintiff should be required to pay the defendant the amount equal to the plaintiff's lawyer fees.
Thus, the higher priced your lawyers when you sue the more you have to pay when/if you lose. A large corporation spending a fortune in lawyers to defend itself will only be due the amount payed by the plaintiff which, if it is some random individual, is not likely to be all that much. Of course, a large corporation suing someone who manages to win without spending all that much might owe the defendant quite a bit more then the they actually paid. A nice little bonus.
You have complete control over how much you are risking and the defendant has a chance to be repaid for lawyer fees.
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> Who do you "blame?" The marketing department?
> Or the people they convinced?
Do I have to assume that to be an exclusive-or?
Ok, how about this: You never take the test and you never plan to, but people you are related to do. How hard is it really going to be to start collecting this information and cross referencing it with birth records?
Remember, once this gets out there we are going to going to be able to get it back and corporationsrarely do anything that does not benefit themselves.
In the specifications for Carnivore 1.2 one of the features listed is: /ca rnivore/evolution.html
"Remote control of system from another location [Rest of line blacked out]" from http://www.epic.org/privacy
Now they could be talking about the user's system, which is really scary, but I read it to be talking about the Carnivore box. Which would seem to suggest a port or two being left open.
-prak
What problems did you have with Speakeasy? I've used them for two locations in MA over the past 1.5 years and not had any problems outside of the wait for Bell Atlantic to stop screwing around. The connection is always up.. and always fast. Same with everyone else I know who has it. Of course their web page is rather ugly.. but we move on with out lives.
I believe there are too public/private key pairs in use here, thus the breaking of one should not compromise the other.
/to/ me. But they will not have my message to mother because that uses her key and not my own.
The message from mother to me: Uses my public/private keypair to encrypt/decrypt
The message from me to mother: Uses mother's public/private keypair to encrypt/decrypt
Thus, if they mange to brute force the recipe they have only gained my private key. Which will give them any message sent
Of course, if you really want to nitpick, with my private key they could now sign a message as me, encrypt it using mother's public key and send it to her. Perhaps something along the lines of "come visit me in the location specified in the last message." Then they will just need to follow her for a while.
Or.. knowing my mother, they could just walk into the house, go over to the computer, and read the plaintext of the message I just sent to her which she has failed to destroy. (And if they were really that keen on getting it, the recipe as well.)
Come on.. you know the answer to this one. If only "interesting" traffic is encrypted there is a lot less encrypted traffic flying across the lines to confuse big brother like organizations. You encrypt everything to make it more difficult to figure out which encrypted packets are the ones you should be interested in brute forcing.
If big brother like organizations waste a week trying to decrypt your mother's letter about a new recipe she just tried, that is a week they don't have to decrypt the message you reply with explaining why your family has to go into hiding. We need to inject more noise into the system.
-prak
I don't think I would mind losing privacy quite as much if it meant the government and corporations and such also lost an equivalent amount of privacy. Wide scale tracking of individuals seems to be happening at the same point that large organizations are required to tell us less. If they want to track me at least allow me the courtesy of tracking them as well. Secrets suck.
-prak
I think I would be far more interested in this if it were: A) Cheaper, $1500 is a little much for me to imagine dropping on what would only end up being another blinky toy. Or B) Shown actually doing something. There are really only so many times I can see installing BSD/Linux/BeOS/Windows/QNX before I start losing interest in life. And I am undercreative so I cannot see doing anything past installing an OS.
-prak
Handwriting is really not so bad for normalish letter writing and such.. but what happens if you intend to use the machine as more of a portable development platform? Trying to write out all of the {'s and such would drive me insane. It is difficult to imagine anything replacing the keyboard for that sort of thing. Of course I am sure I am just not being imaginative enough.
No, this is really a problem with almost anywhere. It is not even really restricted to programming.
Not many people would choose maintaining an application over creating a new one, and the next best thing is adding features. Tracking down bugs is boring, hairy work that very likely will go unnoticed by 90% of the world.
You have an old, semi-maintained building and are given the choice: you can fix all the plumbing or build an entirely new gleaming wing; which are you really likely to choose?
This is just one of those annoying facts of life. People want to be noticed and the work that is likely to be most useful is less likely to get them any fame. No one likes to think of themselves as a cog, but without the cogs clocks don't run.
Since it is the plaintiff bringing the lawsuit they should be the only ones to pay should they lose. (No one should be forced to pay more for having attempted a defense of themselves.) However, what should happen instead of repaying the defendants lawyer fees, is the plaintiff should be required to pay the defendant the amount equal to the plaintiff's lawyer fees.
Thus, the higher priced your lawyers when you sue the more you have to pay when/if you lose. A large corporation spending a fortune in lawyers to defend itself will only be due the amount payed by the plaintiff which, if it is some random individual, is not likely to be all that much. Of course, a large corporation suing someone who manages to win without spending all that much might owe the defendant quite a bit more then the they actually paid. A nice little bonus.
You have complete control over how much you are risking and the defendant has a chance to be repaid for lawyer fees.
-prak