See, this is why I don't debate on Slashdot (and keep making new accounts when things get out of hand). Evidently I'm not good enough at it to get highly modded like some people are.:)
Don't get discouraged
All you need to do in Slashdot - and I've been here for quite some time - is to post messages that can burn images into the minds of the readers
Agreed. I guess that's just the types we get around here.
'scuse moi, but just WHAT types are you referring to?
Tell me, is a picture of a little girl biting a banana considered as "Child Porn" ?
That picture may be just an innocent picture of a little girl enjoying a sweet banana, but to the minds of some, that innocent picture is "sexually suggestive" and therefore, HAS TO BE ABSOLUTELY BANNED !!!
It is arrogant of you that, just because you've not personally experienced something, that therefore you call the people who say they do know what they're talking about, liars and fear mongers.
Anyone can say anything they want.
Anyone can call themselves "expert" in anything.
That does not mean anyone who says that he or she is the "expert" of that field is the expert of that field !!
To call me arrogant, Sir, you better take a good look in the mirror.
If you'd never seen a hand grenade before and I'd warn you to not play with that thing, you'd probably call me a fear monger as well!
In your case, Sir, it's not a hand granade, but a tiny little fire cracker.
It's the "CHICKEN LITTLE SYNDROME" that has made you so fearful of everything that you will warn everyone that this world going to blow up to pieces because of the existence of one tiny fire cracker.
Unfortumately, the Reddit admins' bizarre six-year acceptance of child porn on its site is reflective of an overall lax attitude in online geek communities.
What is really bizarre in this case - and all similar cases - is the censor-happy camp's unquenchable thirst in wanting to close down Internet
They will use all the suggestive words to boost their censorship campaign - like using "Piracy" to boost their campaign to censoring the Net, for example
Reddit caved in because of the word "Child Pornography"
But anyone who understand the true meaning of the word "PORNOGRAPHY" knows that "sexually suggestive postings" does not necessarily means that they are pornographics
I am not campaigning for porn, per se, but I AM sick and tired of those who want to trample on other people's rights just so that your view be the dominant one
Remember one thing, Sir, the Internet belongs to ALL, not those who only wants to powertrip over everybody else
Those who are yelling "Global Meltdown", like their "Millennium Bug" counterparts a decade or so ago, are nothing more than fear mongers
They engage in fear mongering for one very specific purpose, and that is, they benefit from public panics
The "Millennium Bug" fear mongers spreaded fears so wide that even ridiculous fear such as "Planes dropping from the sky" were uttered by many
The "Global Meldown" fear mongers? Island nation wiped out, mass extinction of plants and animals, and so on
On another message I got modded down to "-1 Troll" because the fear mongers do not like people like me who can see through their facade of lies and they will do anything to sweep the truth under the rug
since saying you don't know equals contempt of court
If saying that you do not know the password equals to contempt of court, then, tell the court that you know the way the password was constructed and tell them how you derive the password from
As for the actual password, you just can't remember
There is a distinct difference between what you do not know and what you simply can not remember, you know?
'Legally speaking' the judge can hold you in civil contempt if they believe you know the password and refuse to disclose it
A. I have stated in another message in this thread that if they want to lock me up they can use any excuse to lock me up.
B. By providing a plain-text-file with a clear description of where I got the parts of the passwords from, I am, legally speaking, not withholding anything.
If they still insist that I lie, then, legally speaking they must prove that I lie.
But of course, the above will only be true if the United States of America remains a land of law, not a land of lawlessness tyranny.
Just because you created a file with 'instructions' doesn't mean that the judge is going to believe that is actually how you created the password.
Let me re-state it again --- I did what I did to protect myself legally.
I am not doing it to convince the judge because the judge can think any which way he wants, but still, if the judge respect the law of the land, he still have to act according to the law.
But if the judge wants to lock me up no matter what, hey, he or she can lock me up with whatever excuse they can find
If I tell the judge that I derived my passkey from "War and Peace" the judge can demand that I tell them from which page/paragraph/sentence of that tome that I constructed my passkey from
But when I tell the judge that I got my passkey from 10 online password generators --- and I gave them all the 10 urls - hey, I am not hiding anything from them and the onus is for them to figure out the randomness of the 10 password generators and to reconstruct the passkey from whatever they can come up with
So you could end up being detained forever or until you decrypt this file - which you can't - that doesn't even contain anything. Brilliant!
1. If they want to detain me, they can use whatever excuse to detain me.
2. And when they insist that I must decrypt the file for them, hey, I have already offered my cooperation - all the information on how to decrypt the file is already IN THE PLAIN TEXT FILE
Legally speaking, what I was doing is this:
A. The HD belongs to me. I paid for the HD with my own money. I have the right to store any file in my HD
B. If they confiscated that HD that I owned and found a decrypted file, along with the plain text file that clearly describe how to decrypt that encrypted file, I am, technically and legally not disobeying their order
C. If they still insist that I lie, then, they have to proof that I lie.
Well I'm glad that you released your brilliant plan on a public forum where said law enforcement agents surely wouldn't look.
Maybe he wants law enforcement to think those are just "honey-pots" so they don't try too hard to get at the content.
If more people are doing that and the law enforcement agents are meeting more of HD with such files, how are they (law enforcement agents) going to know which files are honey-pots and which files have real juicy data in them ?
Well I'm glad that you released your brilliant plan on a public forum where said law enforcement agents surely wouldn't look.
The more people set up honey-pots in their HD the more time law enforcement agents are going to waste, only to realize that they ain't gonna get anything useful
It's a "civil disobedience" way - and since it's our HD, we can put any type of files on our HD, right?
If the cops / FBI / or whoever wants to confiscate my HD, the clues on how to decrypt that file is in the plain text file
But there is a catch --- Inside the plain text file I have a brief description and ten (10) urls, which are are links to online password generators.
And the brief description is as followed:
"Passkey is constructed from randomized password obtained from the below 10 urls, have a nice day !"
I did that to protect myself.
1. No matter what the judge ordered me to do, I point to that plain text file
2. I know I can never convince anyone that I forgot the passkey, so I won't tell them that. But I still have an escape clause --I simply can't remember a passkey which was made up from 10 randomized password generator by 10 different online password generators
The trouble is, most questioning of the science related to global warming is politically motivated.
The REAL trouble is, even when the questions are not politically motivated, the "Global Warming" fanbois will label the people with questions as "Anti-changers".
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See, this is why I don't debate on Slashdot (and keep making new accounts when things get out of hand). Evidently I'm not good enough at it to get highly modded like some people are. :)
Don't get discouraged
All you need to do in Slashdot - and I've been here for quite some time - is to post messages that can burn images into the minds of the readers
Agreed. I guess that's just the types we get around here.
'scuse moi, but just WHAT types are you referring to?
Tell me, is a picture of a little girl biting a banana considered as "Child Porn" ?
That picture may be just an innocent picture of a little girl enjoying a sweet banana, but to the minds of some, that innocent picture is "sexually suggestive" and therefore, HAS TO BE ABSOLUTELY BANNED !!!
Who is sick, may I ask?
The child, who enjoy the banana?
The guy (or gal) who took the pic?
Or the person who saw porn when there was none?
It is arrogant of you that, just because you've not personally experienced something, that therefore you call the people who say they do know what they're talking about, liars and fear mongers.
Anyone can say anything they want.
Anyone can call themselves "expert" in anything.
That does not mean anyone who says that he or she is the "expert" of that field is the expert of that field !!
To call me arrogant, Sir, you better take a good look in the mirror.
If you'd never seen a hand grenade before and I'd warn you to not play with that thing, you'd probably call me a fear monger as well!
In your case, Sir, it's not a hand granade, but a tiny little fire cracker.
It's the "CHICKEN LITTLE SYNDROME" that has made you so fearful of everything that you will warn everyone that this world going to blow up to pieces because of the existence of one tiny fire cracker.
I am sorry for you.
Unfortumately, the Reddit admins' bizarre six-year acceptance of child porn on its site is reflective of an overall lax attitude in online geek communities.
What is really bizarre in this case - and all similar cases - is the censor-happy camp's unquenchable thirst in wanting to close down Internet
They will use all the suggestive words to boost their censorship campaign - like using "Piracy" to boost their campaign to censoring the Net, for example
Reddit caved in because of the word "Child Pornography"
But anyone who understand the true meaning of the word "PORNOGRAPHY" knows that "sexually suggestive postings" does not necessarily means that they are pornographics
I am not campaigning for porn, per se, but I AM sick and tired of those who want to trample on other people's rights just so that your view be the dominant one
Remember one thing, Sir, the Internet belongs to ALL, not those who only wants to powertrip over everybody else
... you think they won't exaggerate "Global Meltdown" ??
No zero, sorry
... you !
Those who are yelling "Global Meltdown", like their "Millennium Bug" counterparts a decade or so ago, are nothing more than fear mongers
They engage in fear mongering for one very specific purpose, and that is, they benefit from public panics
The "Millennium Bug" fear mongers spreaded fears so wide that even ridiculous fear such as "Planes dropping from the sky" were uttered by many
The "Global Meldown" fear mongers? Island nation wiped out, mass extinction of plants and animals, and so on
On another message I got modded down to "-1 Troll" because the fear mongers do not like people like me who can see through their facade of lies and they will do anything to sweep the truth under the rug
You, sir, have failed to catch GP joke
It's pretty much a one-sided decision - Intel has bought out the Democrats of New York and they capitulated !!
6.5 million dollars ? What's that, again?
court can reasonably assume that you intended to use said encrypted file
Sure, the court can assume anything, but legally speaking, their assumption is worth shit, if they can not prove that they are right
since saying you don't know equals contempt of court
If saying that you do not know the password equals to contempt of court, then, tell the court that you know the way the password was constructed and tell them how you derive the password from
As for the actual password, you just can't remember
There is a distinct difference between what you do not know and what you simply can not remember, you know?
You're either a troll or an idiot
Oh well ...
'Legally speaking' the judge can hold you in civil contempt if they believe you know the password and refuse to disclose it
A. I have stated in another message in this thread that if they want to lock me up they can use any excuse to lock me up.
B. By providing a plain-text-file with a clear description of where I got the parts of the passwords from, I am, legally speaking, not withholding anything.
If they still insist that I lie, then, legally speaking they must prove that I lie.
But of course, the above will only be true if the United States of America remains a land of law, not a land of lawlessness tyranny.
Just because you created a file with 'instructions' doesn't mean that the judge is going to believe that is actually how you created the password.
Let me re-state it again --- I did what I did to protect myself legally.
I am not doing it to convince the judge because the judge can think any which way he wants, but still, if the judge respect the law of the land, he still have to act according to the law.
But if the judge wants to lock me up no matter what, hey, he or she can lock me up with whatever excuse they can find
The best work-around is to simply use computers that aren't connected to you.
If they want to track you, they can.
Your cellphone is a dead give away where you were and what time you were there, and how much time you spend at a given place
And then they can trace back which computer were at that place at that time
In short, your defence when the judge is threatening to find you in contempt will be 'What can I say, your honor? I'm a retard.'
The judge will find that he has become the donkey himself.
What can the judge do to the defendant at that point, and I mean, legally speaking ?
If I tell the judge that I derived my passkey from "War and Peace" the judge can demand that I tell them from which page/paragraph/sentence of that tome that I constructed my passkey from
But when I tell the judge that I got my passkey from 10 online password generators --- and I gave them all the 10 urls - hey, I am not hiding anything from them and the onus is for them to figure out the randomness of the 10 password generators and to reconstruct the passkey from whatever they can come up with
I'll take this opportunity to state again, publicly, that I have multiple encrypted disks, partitions and files to which I no longer know the password
No matter how many times or how forcefully you tell them you no longer remember the passwords of the encrypted files, they will not believe you
It's better you have documents to show them how you arrived at the passkeys that you used to encrypt the files
So you could end up being detained forever or until you decrypt this file - which you can't - that doesn't even contain anything. Brilliant!
1. If they want to detain me, they can use whatever excuse to detain me.
2. And when they insist that I must decrypt the file for them, hey, I have already offered my cooperation - all the information on how to decrypt the file is already IN THE PLAIN TEXT FILE
Legally speaking, what I was doing is this:
A. The HD belongs to me. I paid for the HD with my own money. I have the right to store any file in my HD
B. If they confiscated that HD that I owned and found a decrypted file, along with the plain text file that clearly describe how to decrypt that encrypted file, I am, technically and legally not disobeying their order
C. If they still insist that I lie, then, they have to proof that I lie.
You mean for the corporation people or the people people?
Doesn't matter, really.
What floats the boat can also sinks it
Well I'm glad that you released your brilliant plan on a public forum where said law enforcement agents surely wouldn't look.
Maybe he wants law enforcement to think those are just "honey-pots" so they don't try too hard to get at the content.
If more people are doing that and the law enforcement agents are meeting more of HD with such files, how are they (law enforcement agents) going to know which files are honey-pots and which files have real juicy data in them ?
Well I'm glad that you released your brilliant plan on a public forum where said law enforcement agents surely wouldn't look.
The more people set up honey-pots in their HD the more time law enforcement agents are going to waste, only to realize that they ain't gonna get anything useful
It's a "civil disobedience" way - and since it's our HD, we can put any type of files on our HD, right?
Just curious
How many Amendments are still left, for the people?
Because I do not plain to use them
They are "honey-pots" I left for the law-enforcement agents, just in case they are interested in what I have in my HD
One file is encrypted
The other one in plain text
If the cops / FBI / or whoever wants to confiscate my HD, the clues on how to decrypt that file is in the plain text file
But there is a catch --- Inside the plain text file I have a brief description and ten (10) urls, which are are links to online password generators.
And the brief description is as followed:
"Passkey is constructed from randomized password obtained from the below 10 urls, have a nice day !"
I did that to protect myself.
1. No matter what the judge ordered me to do, I point to that plain text file
2. I know I can never convince anyone that I forgot the passkey, so I won't tell them that. But I still have an escape clause --I simply can't remember a passkey which was made up from 10 randomized password generator by 10 different online password generators
The trouble is, most questioning of the science related to global warming is politically motivated.
The REAL trouble is, even when the questions are not politically motivated, the "Global Warming" fanbois will label the people with questions as "Anti-changers".