By your logic, unless you happen to be a backbone provider, no one is paying just for connectivity. FYI, my ISP is Speakeasy, so I've got damn near the closest one can get to the ideal for residential service.
Bullshit. I pay for connectivity and know what I'm doing, and run my own SMTP server. If you don't want my email, you certainly don't have to accept it, but I'll run my own anyway, and the ignorant among you can just not communicate with me.
This analysis suggests that compelling the production of crypto keys wouldn't be interpreted as contrary to the fifth amendment. I found it at the Rubberhose site another reply mentioned. (Rubberhose looks interesting, but for the uses they're describing, like human rights workers, being caught with the executables might be worse than being caught with the data one's opponents are looking for!)
I wish you were right, but I doubt that a judge would hold you any less in contempt for failing to hand over an encryption key than for failing to hand over the keys to a strong box for which there was a search warrant. Except the strong box can be easily broken into without the key--in the case of an encryption key, the defendant has to be broken.
I think it's more likely that the real leechers will be people who just steal the drives, unfortunately. I still like the idea, but don't know how to get around that drawback.
The feds will get an even bigger chuckle while you rot in jail for contempt if you conveniently "forget" the password they can't just double-click the image file and unlock it. In situations like that, encryption is worse than useless without deniability.
So, how many virtual machines running OSX, OS9, and/or OS8 can you run simulatenous without MOL? OSX is pretty sweet, but right now, there's no tool that can do that which runs natively.
It would be very easy for US company to put ASIC for enconding/decoding MPEG-4, off the shelf CPU, standard replacable IDE hard-drive, ability to fetch program information via XMLTV, Linux, ethernet connection, etc.. in a single box.
And then, they'd sell it exactly once, with no further revenue. Better to bemoan the RIAA/MPAA and claim that the devices must be locked down to be sold at all, then charge a subscription fee for the decryption keys . . .
This is not even a reasonable option. this effectively is a DoS to all yoru users requiring ident and other features that non-routeable IP's cannot do.
And what academic purpose does IRC, the only major service that requires ident, server? Anyways, ident certainly can be done by a proxy server for NATed machines.
With respect to paying for service, yes, the students are--but schools aren't going to unbundle it--if they don't like what's provided, they're free to go to school elsewhere.
. . . but one thought is to use non-routable IPs inside the ResNet. Harder to attack a machine that can't be reached, with the added bonus of P2P only working for push transfers.
The only terms and conditions I'm obligated to abide by when getting whatever a company puts on the web for public consumption are defined by the HTTP protocol.
I know you're kidding, but if you pirate TaxCut instead of TurboTax, and use the electronic filing, you've still deprived TurboTax of the electronic filing fee.
Why else does their spam filters filter one porn subject line but ignore another with the same or similar strings?
My guess would be that they're using an IP address-based blocklist and one porn subject line came from an address on the blocklist, and the other didn't.
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By your logic, unless you happen to be a backbone provider, no one is paying just for connectivity. FYI, my ISP is Speakeasy, so I've got damn near the closest one can get to the ideal for residential service.
If that's true (low-thousands worldwide), then why is it such a problem?
And if I were the only one, you'd have a point.
Bullshit. I pay for connectivity and know what I'm doing, and run my own SMTP server. If you don't want my email, you certainly don't have to accept it, but I'll run my own anyway, and the ignorant among you can just not communicate with me.
This analysis suggests that compelling the production of crypto keys wouldn't be interpreted as contrary to the fifth amendment. I found it at the Rubberhose site another reply mentioned. (Rubberhose looks interesting, but for the uses they're describing, like human rights workers, being caught with the executables might be worse than being caught with the data one's opponents are looking for!)
I doubt it. Locks can be cut. And a steel box doesn't seem to be the best idea.
I wish you were right, but I doubt that a judge would hold you any less in contempt for failing to hand over an encryption key than for failing to hand over the keys to a strong box for which there was a search warrant. Except the strong box can be easily broken into without the key--in the case of an encryption key, the defendant has to be broken.
I think it's more likely that the real leechers will be people who just steal the drives, unfortunately. I still like the idea, but don't know how to get around that drawback.
Got the HP48 emulator. Now all I need to do is get PalmOS 5 emulated :).
The feds will get an even bigger chuckle while you rot in jail for contempt if you conveniently "forget" the password they can't just double-click the image file and unlock it. In situations like that, encryption is worse than useless without deniability.
I'd be suspicious that any mail drops listed in SoF were FBI honeypots, especially in these times.
So, how many virtual machines running OSX, OS9, and/or OS8 can you run simulatenous without MOL? OSX is pretty sweet, but right now, there's no tool that can do that which runs natively.
I take it you haven't actually tried to get a P.O. Box or mail drop in the U.S. without showing ID. It's not as easy as you make it sound.
. . . make sure the reverse DNS for whatever box your hosting this on doesn't come back with something like yourname.com, as well.
And then, they'd sell it exactly once, with no further revenue. Better to bemoan the RIAA/MPAA and claim that the devices must be locked down to be sold at all, then charge a subscription fee for the decryption keys . . .
And while your dig about "taking an extra cigarette break" each day might hurt if I were a university network admin, I'm not.
And what academic purpose does IRC, the only major service that requires ident, server? Anyways, ident certainly can be done by a proxy server for NATed machines.
With respect to paying for service, yes, the students are--but schools aren't going to unbundle it--if they don't like what's provided, they're free to go to school elsewhere.
. . . but one thought is to use non-routable IPs inside the ResNet. Harder to attack a machine that can't be reached, with the added bonus of P2P only working for push transfers.
The only terms and conditions I'm obligated to abide by when getting whatever a company puts on the web for public consumption are defined by the HTTP protocol.
. . . but I'll be buying them if and only if they don't include TCPA/Palladium/Trusted PC Platform/Name of lockdown scheme of the week.
30 small ones, to be exact.
I know you're kidding, but if you pirate TaxCut instead of TurboTax, and use the electronic filing, you've still deprived TurboTax of the electronic filing fee.
The download is 328MB, so I imagine it includes the sound.
My guess would be that they're using an IP address-based blocklist and one porn subject line came from an address on the blocklist, and the other didn't.
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