They truly do design some high quality stuff. I bought a large Porsche Design bag for some extra luggage when I was in Amsterdam a few years ago. It is the highest quality piece of luggage I have ever seen and my favorite bag. Plus I can now say that I own a Porsche!
Harmful applications are getting better and better at exploiting the supidity of the general user population on the Net. How is an administrator supposed to educate all of his users, they don't care, and they don't think. They just click on things that they THINK they want. when they get themselves in trouble, they just call tech support who is forced to clean up the mess.
These messes can get pretty messy and we have been fortunate so far that nothing really terrible has been written and spread. Imagine if this application not only emailed everyone in your PAB, but also installed a trojan that emulated HTTPS and let connections back into the infected machine through the firewall and functioned like a P2P program with other infected systems to continue to do damage, launch DDOS attacks, steal information etc...
We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg right now. I'm truly frightened of what we'll see in 3 years.
But we should be ok then right? Palladium will fix all of this!
The laws that are being written these days are very interesting. In Washington state, we have some fairly aggressive anti-spam laws, one of them makes it illegal to alter the headers of a SMTP message. My Symantec Enterprise firewall has the capability in the SMTP proxy to strip header information of internal SMTP hosts as a security precaution on outbound messages.
Are they going to come and take me away because I'm illegally altering headers but not sending spam?
I'm getting more and more convinced that we can't make good technology leglislation without infringing freedoms and that we're all doomed.
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity." -Einstein
I have just applied a patent for the method of accepting cash for goods and services. with my army of lawyers, I'll soon be the richest man on the planet and after that, King of the world!
It's easy to see why they adopted a political ideology rather than try to succeed based on artistic merit
You obviously don't know much about punk. NOFX has never sold out, never had a video on MTV, always been indie, been around and a huge success for years and is one of the top 5 punk bands around today.
But I guess you are right, since you don't hear them on the radio and you didn't like the lyrics to one song, they probably don't have any artistic merit..
Sit back watch it crumble, see the drowning watch the fall
I feel just terrible about it, that's sarcasm, let it burn
I'm gonna make at toast when it falls apart
I'm gonna raise my glass above my heart
Then someone shouts that's what they get!
For all the years of hit and run for all the piss broke bands on VH one
Where did all their money go? Don't we all know?
Parasitic music industry as it destroys itself
We'll show them how it's supposed to be
Music written from devotion not ambition, not for fame
Zero people are exploited there are no tricks up our sleeve
Were gonna fight against the mass appeal
Were gonna kill the seven record deal
Make records that have more then one good song
The dinosaurs will slowly die and I do believe no one will cry
I'm just fucking glad I'm gonna be there to watch the fall
Prehistoric music industry three feet in la brea tar
Extinction never felt so good
If you think anyone will feel badly you are sadly mistaken
The time has come for evolution, fuck collusion, kill the big five
What ever happened to the handshake?
whatever happened to deals no one would break? whatever happened to integrity?
It's still there, it always was for playing music just because
A million reasons why all dinosaurs must (will) die !!!!
Anonymizer works ok as long as you are not trying to hide from the government. Use SSH to tunnel your traffic to anonymizer proxy and you are safe from your ISP monitoring and the site you are going to knowing where you are coming from. Go get a bunch of kiddie porn or terrorist stuff and Anonymizer will have to give you up when the FBI comes knocking on their door.
Someone already mentioned multiproxy. Also check out Java Anonymous Proxy and Peekabooty. You seem kind of new to the game of paranoia. Why not just start here and do some reading.
It's important to understand exactly what these anonymous services get you and who and what they are protecting against so take some time and realistically educate yourself to the risks and threats.
umm, SSL protects against information in transit being captured (unless you are an idiot and using unpatched IE). It does nothing to hide your IP address. using SSL in a P2P would protect against a carnivore type device capturing what you are doing, but will do nothing to stop what BayTSP is doing.
Freenet is much better, but not perfect, nothing is. Like Bruce likes to say, "If you think encryption will solve your problem, you don't understand encryption and you don't understand your problem"
you will no longer be able to find an ad-blocking proxy server to use, they will be illegal black box circumention devices designed to alter the display of a copyrighted work.
you will not be able to legally alter the way an application you own interacts with things other than the way the manufacturer intended. Wanna change the user-agent your browser reports??? Want to block the ability of a program you own from phoning home and tracking you? Even Quake 3 does this if you don't block it.
Reverse engineering will also include using a sniffer to look at the network traffic that is leaving your machine and deciding what you do and do not want to allow to go out to the internet.
blocking cookies will be illegal.
anonymous proxies, remailers, news posters or any technology that grants the user relative or absolute anonynmity will be illegal, they allow the widespread and fast and unaccountable distribution of illegal information such as what the latest bug in a copyrighted work is that the manufacturer doesn't want you to know about (circumventing the DMCA).
freenet will be illegal.
Encryption will be for criminals.
Freedom and copyright/IP are mutually exclusive concepts as pure ideals. There is a sliding scale with freedom on one side and copyright/Intellectual Property on the other. Pragmatically we'd be foolish to think of having absolute freedom, the scale is sliding strongly towards complete copyright/IP & enforcement and there is tremendous power pushing it in that direction. Who's to stop them? A few geeks who can see what's going on. Unfortunately I think the geeks get caught up in these issues applying only to the Internet, or only to technology issues. These same issues apply to nearly everything with the world today and all tie together.
Think about it, figure it out and educate as many as you can and get as polically active as you can be.
Technology has started a new revolution just as the printing press did when invented. Centralized control of information was shattered then. Now it's being shattered again. There is going to be quite a struggle and the powerstructures are facing the biggest threats ever. They are counting on ignorance of the masses to win. I'm afraid they will and that terrible things will result.
Another trick is that in many areas there is a law on the books that specifies the amount of time that you must get a court date within if you request one. If you get your traffic ticket in a busy district than request your court date, it is quite possible that you will not be granted the court date within the legally required time. Check the laws in your area and figure this out. If they don't grant it in time, make a motion for a dismissal and cite the law. You will get it. My wife has personally gotten 3 tickets dismissed this way over the years.
Traffic court is very weak. Often you can find something wrong and get a dismissal if you look hard enough. OJ got off right? this is just traffic court, but they count on the fact that you won't have a good lawyer and won't fight too hard or figure out how to legally defend yourself.
there are many seemingly minor things that can cause the court decision to go your way, or better yet, get a dismissal.
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They truly do design some high quality stuff. I bought a large Porsche Design bag for some extra luggage when I was in Amsterdam a few years ago. It is the highest quality piece of luggage I have ever seen and my favorite bag. Plus I can now say that I own a Porsche!
These messes can get pretty messy and we have been fortunate so far that nothing really terrible has been written and spread. Imagine if this application not only emailed everyone in your PAB, but also installed a trojan that emulated HTTPS and let connections back into the infected machine through the firewall and functioned like a P2P program with other infected systems to continue to do damage, launch DDOS attacks, steal information etc...
We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg right now. I'm truly frightened of what we'll see in 3 years.
But we should be ok then right? Palladium will fix all of this!
Are they going to come and take me away because I'm illegally altering headers but not sending spam?
I'm getting more and more convinced that we can't make good technology leglislation without infringing freedoms and that we're all doomed.
I have just applied a patent for the method of accepting cash for goods and services. with my army of lawyers, I'll soon be the richest man on the planet and after that, King of the world!
You obviously don't know much about punk. NOFX has never sold out, never had a video on MTV, always been indie, been around and a huge success for years and is one of the top 5 punk bands around today.
But I guess you are right, since you don't hear them on the radio and you didn't like the lyrics to one song, they probably don't have any artistic merit..
Punk? idealogy? Punk is all about ideals man!
Sit back watch it crumble, see the drowning watch the fall
I feel just terrible about it, that's sarcasm, let it burn
I'm gonna make at toast when it falls apart
I'm gonna raise my glass above my heart
Then someone shouts that's what they get!
For all the years of hit and run for all the piss broke bands on VH one
Where did all their money go? Don't we all know?
Parasitic music industry as it destroys itself
We'll show them how it's supposed to be
Music written from devotion not ambition, not for fame
Zero people are exploited there are no tricks up our sleeve
Were gonna fight against the mass appeal
Were gonna kill the seven record deal
Make records that have more then one good song
The dinosaurs will slowly die and I do believe no one will cry
I'm just fucking glad I'm gonna be there to watch the fall
Prehistoric music industry three feet in la brea tar
Extinction never felt so good
If you think anyone will feel badly you are sadly mistaken
The time has come for evolution, fuck collusion, kill the big five
What ever happened to the handshake?
whatever happened to deals no one would break?
whatever happened to integrity?
It's still there, it always was for playing music just because
A million reasons why all dinosaurs must (will) die !!!!
I feel truly sorry for the guy who calls himself an audiophile and spends 40K on a system at BEST BUY!
Someone already mentioned multiproxy. Also check out Java Anonymous Proxy and Peekabooty. You seem kind of new to the game of paranoia. Why not just start here and do some reading.
It's important to understand exactly what these anonymous services get you and who and what they are protecting against so take some time and realistically educate yourself to the risks and threats.
Oh, and don't forget to check out Freenet
Freenet is much better, but not perfect, nothing is. Like Bruce likes to say, "If you think encryption will solve your problem, you don't understand encryption and you don't understand your problem"
you will no longer be able to find an ad-blocking proxy server to use, they will be illegal black box circumention devices designed to alter the display of a copyrighted work.
you will not be able to legally alter the way an application you own interacts with things other than the way the manufacturer intended. Wanna change the user-agent your browser reports??? Want to block the ability of a program you own from phoning home and tracking you? Even Quake 3 does this if you don't block it.
Reverse engineering will also include using a sniffer to look at the network traffic that is leaving your machine and deciding what you do and do not want to allow to go out to the internet.
blocking cookies will be illegal.
anonymous proxies, remailers, news posters or any technology that grants the user relative or absolute anonynmity will be illegal, they allow the widespread and fast and unaccountable distribution of illegal information such as what the latest bug in a copyrighted work is that the manufacturer doesn't want you to know about (circumventing the DMCA).
freenet will be illegal.
Encryption will be for criminals.
Freedom and copyright/IP are mutually exclusive concepts as pure ideals. There is a sliding scale with freedom on one side and copyright/Intellectual Property on the other. Pragmatically we'd be foolish to think of having absolute freedom, the scale is sliding strongly towards complete copyright/IP & enforcement and there is tremendous power pushing it in that direction. Who's to stop them? A few geeks who can see what's going on. Unfortunately I think the geeks get caught up in these issues applying only to the Internet, or only to technology issues. These same issues apply to nearly everything with the world today and all tie together.
Think about it, figure it out and educate as many as you can and get as polically active as you can be.
Technology has started a new revolution just as the printing press did when invented. Centralized control of information was shattered then. Now it's being shattered again. There is going to be quite a struggle and the powerstructures are facing the biggest threats ever. They are counting on ignorance of the masses to win. I'm afraid they will and that terrible things will result.
DO SOMETHING.
Another trick is that in many areas there is a law on the books that specifies the amount of time that you must get a court date within if you request one. If you get your traffic ticket in a busy district than request your court date, it is quite possible that you will not be granted the court date within the legally required time. Check the laws in your area and figure this out. If they don't grant it in time, make a motion for a dismissal and cite the law. You will get it. My wife has personally gotten 3 tickets dismissed this way over the years.
Traffic court is very weak. Often you can find something wrong and get a dismissal if you look hard enough. OJ got off right? this is just traffic court, but they count on the fact that you won't have a good lawyer and won't fight too hard or figure out how to legally defend yourself.
there are many seemingly minor things that can cause the court decision to go your way, or better yet, get a dismissal.
Loopholes exist....
Rip the system.