Accept new users. No hassle. Accept new posts from new users: no hassle. But IF the first post contains an external link, automatically hell-ban the user until a moderator intervenes.
What would be more effective for a spammer: Check back to see if their spam made it through? From a different account? Or.... just try and insert more spam into some forum/wiki/whatever?
I have a wiki, and now a forum that gets spammed. They don't come back to check. They come back to insert more spam. Instead of using existing accounts, they create a new one. On my wiki, the combination of measures means they are stopped from posting stuff, but not from creating accounts. So I'm getting lots of new accounts. But not very many spam posts.:-)
So... Hellbanning works: It makes sure other users and search engine spiders don't see the spam. It also helps for real-people forum-trolls: to them it looks as if the forum works, but they are being ignored.
Most people have their car as a dual-use vehicle. First they commute to work, bring the kids to school and get groceries at shops nearby. This is something an electric car can do just fine. (except for really long commutes). But then they also use that same car to go to friends who live 200 miles away, or go on vacation 500 miles away. Those are things that electric cars are not good at. When it becomes accepted practise that you rent a car for this, that's when things can take off.
Markets are complicated things. If it is accepted that you pay $700 for a fancy phone, that's what people will pay. If it is accepted that you pay for owning and driving a car. that's what people will pay. If the prices to own and operate cars continue to rise slowly, then people will adapt and continue to pay rediculous amounts (according to current standards), even if it starts taking a significant portion of their income.
A sudden increase in say gasoline prices of say a factor of two will make a bunch of people think twice. Some will say F*** it and sell the car. Some will switch to electric. But most will adapt, and simply pay the higher price. A few years later a few percent of the population has changed their behaviour due to the increased pricepoint. But the majority continues the same old way.
The parallel here is cigarettes. Sometimes the government increases the taxes by a few percent causing a significant bump in the price for those things. A few people give it up and a few months later, everything is back to the way it was.
> How do Slashdot users back up? RAID? I work at a data-recovery company. RAID does not replace backups!
There are a bunch of things that could happen. 1) disk drive dies. 2) Power supply dies and fries all drives in the machine. 3) building goes up in flames. 4) City is wiped from the face of the earth.
A raid protects against a type-1 mishap. The broken powersupply fries all disks in the raid at once. You could use an external USB drive to protect against that. You need to store the USB drive or other backups off-site to protect against number 3. You need the off-site backups far away to protect against the big world-shattering disasters. I'm protected up to level 3: I have off-site, same-city backups (on raid systems of my main data which lives on a raid system).
I was in a driving safety training a few years back. The instructor noticed I put my hands in the "react quickly" position when approaching the machine that yanked the hind wheels into a slip, while I relaxed immediately afterwards. He said: How are you going to react to a sudden slip in real life if you're driving in that laid-back position? My reaction to that is: We'll I'd be dead tired after the first half hour of driving in the super-tense position. I'd probably not react at all. Driving is all about managing your abilities. You're able to concentrate 100% for a certain amount of time. If you try to keep 100% concentrated all the time, you'll be too worn down by the time something interesting happens. As long as the "relaxed" pose and state-of-mind is able to recognize the interesting parts in advance, it pays off to be relaxed when you can and focus your attention on the interestings parts.
The easiest ways of "keeping tabs" on a company laptop would be to install stuff like a keylogger and browser-history-catcher in the operating system.
That is unlikely to work if you install a new operating system. i.e. resize the partition where the main OS lives, and install a whole new OS instance on the free space. Best would be to install Linux while the rest runs mircosoft stuff. But installing your own copy of the microsoft stuff should work too. That would be reasonably convenient and reasonably safe. Of course it might not fit your definition of "reasonably safe" (or for "reasonably convenient").
The problem some people see is that drives remap "grown defects".
This means that after manipulating the "grown defect table", you might be able to recover part of the data that was overwritten in the new location, but not in the old.
The chances of those few blocks holding interesting data are very very slim, but if they are the launch codes for the nuclear missiles you'd better be safe than sorry.
Even for "sensitive" information of a big company I'd say: I'd be willing to risk it: Not everybody CAN recover that data, chances are someone will get at the disk and find it completely empty, and then start using it. If the drives are marked: "Super secret next model Iphone plans inside" then you'd better be more careful.
He used to work for me, but Apple made him an offer he couldn't refuse. When he left, he said he was going to work in security. Apparently they found something else for him to do:-).
As far as I know he went to apple for an internship, and after that they asked him: finish your studies and come work for us after that.
He used to work for me, but Apple made him an offer he couldn't refuse. When he left, he said he was going to work in security. Apparently they found something else for him to do:-).
Exactly! You need to solve the problem at hand and not something unrelated.
Provided they reach their goal of having a cryptographically secure log-message-chain, what do you do if your software reports: sorry, chain broken here? You know that your logfile was tampered with. So what?
But with the binary format and the program that is required to read the binary format.... The hackers just replace the binary-format-reader and make it report: "all is fine". It's easy enough to do: the source is available....
What the article is missing, is that you can manage reasonably well at 10 or 20mbit. But jumping to 100Mbit as I have done means a huge improvement on a few applications. Things you'd "just not do" because they would take too much time.
Similarly the network companies are aching to be able to sell you stuff that the network can't handle today. A video rental store just around the corner can rent you a movie when you're "in the mood for a movie at home". But you have to go out and walk/drive to the shop. Wouldn't they sell more if you could rent the movie from your couch? Sure! And you can do that already. But then it takes planning. How many people plan badly?
And another thing. Just looking at the traffic numbers, you can extrapolate when > 20Mbit is necessary. Telcos have to start planning for that and actually invest for that way ahead of time. So it's good that telecom companies are looking ahead and investing ahead of time. In the mean while some advanced users will be happy to be connected to the internet at gigabit speeds TODAY.
I'm copying over a large dataset at the office. I tried to get it started on Friday to have it finished by Monday morning. No such luck. It's been doing over a gigabit all weekend....
(Yes I know the AC (and this remark) is talking about in-the-office, while TFA is about internet).
Of course some differences between theory and practice can be expected. For example, some experimental noise is expected. And at these scales, some fuzziness is also weird if it wouldn't happen.
However the topology should be correct. Now in the top image on the right there is a "white" area at the top. Whereas on the left (the real data) the white area at the top has a dent in it. As if there is a black area on the top with two white areas on the corners.
In short: From this experiment I'd say: The theoretical model is seriously flawed.
People are underestimating the (relative) difficulty of the different steps in "space travel".
A good measure of difficulty is the energy required to get there. To go up to "the edge of space" at 100km high you just need g.h per kg of of payload in energy. That comes to about 1MJ/kg.
To get into low earth orbit at 200km high, you need g.h for the height, but also 1/2 v^2 for the kinetic energy. This comes to 2MJ/kg + 28MJ/kg = 30MJ/kg. It is about 30 times as difficult to get into low earth orbit than to get to 100km.
Taking along enough "fuel tank" and "motor" to use this energy after you've burnt part of it is a serious problem.
Remember the math problems with trucks or camels that can carry only so much water or fuel and you want to travel into the desert? You need to go on one trip to make a stash of fuel along the way that you'll use on your final expedition. With space travel that's (almost) not possible. You'll have to take everything along in one go.
Now to go to the moon is again an order of magnitude more difficult. Getting back doubles the difficulty again!
Getting to another planet is similarly difficult as getting to the moon and back. Getting back from another planet is very difficult indeed.
Back in 1985 I've done some "artificial evolution" simulations on a computer. What I learned is that if living conditions are good, then no evolution happens. It's when conditions are tough when evolution kicks in. But if conditions are "marginal" all the time, life will simply die out. What is needed are cycles. Good times are succeeded by bad times and vice versa.
And the good thing about earth is that we have lots and lots of cycles. Ripples on the oceans have a period of about 10Hz. Waves 1Hz to 0.1Hz. then there are cycles with higher and lower waves. Then there are the tides at every 12 hours. Then day-and-night at 24 hours. Then the moon at 28 days. Then seasons at once a year. Then the solar cycle at 11 years, and very likely the earth is also involved in larger cycles causing ice ages and things like that.
Life on earth with the dinosaurs and such was "stable". Nothing much changed. Only when a catastrophe hit, did things get moving again.
The evolutionary reason for this is that when a certain trait (gene) is 5% better for the individuals that carry it, the carriers will not overtake the whole population. Some percentage of the population will evolve to have the gene, but not all. This is essential for evolution: If this didn't happen, life would die out quickly. Some genes that carry an advantage have disadvantages as well. So a gene that helps individuals when it's rainy might prove fatal in a drought. So it is essential that the pool of genes remains large. Then when "bad times" arrive, some of the bad genes might prove fatal for the individuals carrying them. Population shrinks. Some lines will die out.
Once the good times are back, all remaining genes will multiply and a differently diverse population is ready for the next catastrophe.
In conclusion. No a moon is not necessary. However on earth it is responsible for two of our cycles that have pushed evolution forward. If a planet is to support life, it will have to have many cycles at many orders-of-magnitude, and if it doesn't have a moon it will most likely not have enough.
Life and no moon? Possible in theory, but very unlikely.
The thing with diving is: nitrogen gas dissolves in blood ABOVE one atmosphere of pressure, but not much at normal pressure. So if you dive beyond 10m you'll have to be careful, coming back up. But going from 800mbar (pressure inside a plane) to 0.36 bar will not make the nitrogen boil.
People who make mistakes while flying paragliders get sucked up in thunderstorms. They spend half an hour to an hour at 5000 to 10000m. They black out, and don't remember much from "up there" but they come out alive. Frost bitten and all, but alive. (On of the people who didn't died from something electrical: A thunder-strike).
Agreed, if you're falling from an airplane the descent will go so fast that I don't expect you to wake up before you hit. So blacked out: yes, dead: no. (If you happen to hit 5m of fresh snow, they will dig your out alive.)
The problem with space junk is that it goes so fast.
Why don't you worry about flies hitting the windshield of your car on the freeway? They move at a relative speed of about 100km/h (60mph), which is harmless (not if it hits your eye, but as long as it hits the windshield you're ok....).
In orbit, you're travelling at 27000 km/h (16000 mph) minimum. Things you might hit, could be moving in the same direction. Collisions with small objects are then harmless. But if they are moving in a different direction they might be moving at up to 50000 km/h (30000 mph). Now a collision with something as small as a dust particle IS a problem. It will go through almost anything. (I know the top end of the range is unlikely for man-made orbiting junk: the man-made junk is almost always moving with the rotation of the earth....).
So if you put a net in orbit and you encounter a piece of junk of a ton, and it moves at more than say 20km/h (12mph), it wil rip your net apart. If you encounter a screw at more than a few hundred km/h it will go straight through your net.
Ok. Due to an accident, they didn't win in 2009, and they didn't beat the Japanese (this time). But the Japanese verifiably averaged over 100km/h over that 3000 race, so I'm guessing they beat the 100km mark on some of those kilometers....
Rereading appnor's response: revert to GPLV2.. eh? I think thats' because I never trusted the EFF to handle the license on my code in a way that I'd approve. So the licence clause says: GPL V2, and not "or higher". When GPL V3 came out I decided that this decision was sound: I don't want my code under GPL V3 sorry.
> Dear Appnor MSP, > > It has come to my attention that you have taken the modified mtr > sources called winmtr and made a closed source applicaiton out of > that. > > You have always had access to those sources because they were > distrubuted under the GPL. This allows you to modify and extend the > program, provided that you distribute the your modifications with > source code. (section 2b of GPL V2 states that your derived work > still must be licenced under GPL. > > I have downloaded winmtr-0.9, which entitles me to ask you for the > source code. Once you give it to me I will enforce my right to publish > the source on the internet by doing so. > > If you chose not to honor my request for the source code, clause > 4 of the GPL comes into action: > > 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program > except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt > otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is > void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this > License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, > from you under this License will not have their licenses > terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance. > > This means that you may no longer distribute copies of the program. You > are violating copyright law. > > Roger Wolff. >
And I quote from his reply:
> I will have our IP lawyer draft a response and clarification to your claim.
after which he explains no harm was intended (yeah right!) and that it will take until next monday for a reply to surface.....
(I can't go quoting a full Email sent to me as that is copyrighted by the author, when I'm claiming copyright violation on that person.... I think I can quote 1 sentence of a 5 sentence Email as Fair use.)
Please be informed that not just one but multiple criminals use the domains Hotmail.co.uk and yahoo.co.uk. Please disable these immediately to prevent further crimes from occurring. (and they annoy the hell out of me).
Hmm. rereading: "...if an attacker were to chose them."... that's probably not true. An attacker can probably chose pretty bad g and p, so that anyone can figure out the secret key.
Slashdot Mirror
Now THAT is an interesting idea.
How about the following:
Accept new users. No hassle. Accept new posts from new users: no hassle. But IF the first post contains an external link, automatically hell-ban the user until a moderator intervenes.
Now, please think a bit further.
What would be more effective for a spammer: Check back to see if their spam made it through? From a different account? Or.... just try and insert more spam into some forum/wiki/whatever?
I have a wiki, and now a forum that gets spammed. They don't come back to check. They come back to insert more spam. Instead of using existing accounts, they create a new one. On my wiki, the combination of measures means they are stopped from posting stuff, but not from creating accounts. So I'm getting lots of new accounts. But not very many spam posts. :-)
So... Hellbanning works: It makes sure other users and search engine spiders don't see the spam. It also helps for real-people forum-trolls: to them it looks as if the forum works, but they are being ignored.
Most people have their car as a dual-use vehicle. First they commute to work, bring the kids to school and get groceries at shops nearby. This is something an electric car can do just fine. (except for really long commutes). But then they also use that same car to go to friends who live 200 miles away, or go on vacation 500 miles away. Those are things that electric cars are not good at. When it becomes accepted practise that you rent a car for this, that's when things can take off.
Markets are complicated things. If it is accepted that you pay $700 for a fancy phone, that's what people will pay. If it is accepted that you pay for owning and driving a car. that's what people will pay. If the prices to own and operate cars continue to rise slowly, then people will adapt and continue to pay rediculous amounts (according to current standards), even if it starts taking a significant portion of their income.
A sudden increase in say gasoline prices of say a factor of two will make a bunch of people think twice. Some will say F*** it and sell the car. Some will switch to electric. But most will adapt, and simply pay the higher price. A few years later a few percent of the population has changed their behaviour due to the increased pricepoint. But the majority continues the same old way.
The parallel here is cigarettes. Sometimes the government increases the taxes by a few percent causing a significant bump in the price for those things. A few people give it up and a few months later, everything is back to the way it was.
> How do Slashdot users back up? RAID?
I work at a data-recovery company. RAID does not replace backups!
There are a bunch of things that could happen.
1) disk drive dies.
2) Power supply dies and fries all drives in the machine.
3) building goes up in flames.
4) City is wiped from the face of the earth.
A raid protects against a type-1 mishap. The broken powersupply fries all disks in the raid at once. You could use an external USB drive to protect against that. You need to store the USB drive or other backups off-site to protect against number 3. You need the off-site backups far away to protect against the big world-shattering disasters.
I'm protected up to level 3: I have off-site, same-city backups (on raid systems of my main data which lives on a raid system).
I was in a driving safety training a few years back. The instructor noticed I put my hands in the "react quickly" position when approaching the machine that yanked the hind wheels into a slip, while I relaxed immediately afterwards.
He said: How are you going to react to a sudden slip in real life if you're driving in that laid-back position?
My reaction to that is: We'll I'd be dead tired after the first half hour of driving in the super-tense position. I'd probably not react at all. Driving is all about managing your abilities. You're able to concentrate 100% for a certain amount of time. If you try to keep 100% concentrated all the time, you'll be too worn down by the time something interesting happens. As long as the "relaxed" pose and state-of-mind is able to recognize the interesting parts in advance, it pays off to be relaxed when you can and focus your attention on the interestings parts.
The easiest ways of "keeping tabs" on a company laptop would be to install stuff like a keylogger and browser-history-catcher in the operating system.
That is unlikely to work if you install a new operating system. i.e. resize the partition where the main OS lives, and install a whole new OS instance on the free space. Best would be to install Linux while the rest runs mircosoft stuff. But installing your own copy of the microsoft stuff should work too. That would be reasonably convenient and reasonably safe. Of course it might not fit your definition of "reasonably safe" (or for "reasonably convenient").
So you enjoy lugging around two laptops when sent on a business trip?
The problem some people see is that drives remap "grown defects".
This means that after manipulating the "grown defect table", you might be able to recover part of the data that was overwritten in the new location, but not in the old.
The chances of those few blocks holding interesting data are very very slim, but if they are the launch codes for the nuclear missiles you'd better be safe than sorry.
Even for "sensitive" information of a big company I'd say: I'd be willing to risk it: Not everybody CAN recover that data, chances are someone will get at the disk and find it completely empty, and then start using it. If the drives are marked: "Super secret next model Iphone plans inside" then you'd better be more careful.
Apparently by logging in I ended up on a different Apple story. Sorry. :-(
His name must be Tristan Schaap. Not Schapp.
He used to work for me, but Apple made him an offer he couldn't refuse. When he left, he said he was going to work in security. Apparently they found something else for him to do :-).
As far as I know he went to apple for an internship, and after that they asked him: finish your studies and come work for us after that.
His name must be Tristan Schaap. Not Schapp.
He used to work for me, but Apple made him an offer he couldn't refuse. When he left, he said he was going to work in security. Apparently they found something else for him to do :-).
Exactly! You need to solve the problem at hand and not something unrelated.
Provided they reach their goal of having a cryptographically secure log-message-chain, what do you do if your software reports: sorry, chain broken here? You know that your logfile was tampered with. So what?
But with the binary format and the program that is required to read the binary format.... The hackers just replace the binary-format-reader and make it report: "all is fine". It's easy enough to do: the source is available....
What the article is missing, is that you can manage reasonably well at 10 or 20mbit. But jumping to 100Mbit as I have done means a huge improvement on a few applications. Things you'd "just not do" because they would take too much time.
Similarly the network companies are aching to be able to sell you stuff that the network can't handle today. A video rental store just around the corner can rent you a movie when you're "in the mood for a movie at home". But you have to go out and walk/drive to the shop. Wouldn't they sell more if you could rent the movie from your couch? Sure! And you can do that already. But then it takes planning. How many people plan badly?
And another thing. Just looking at the traffic numbers, you can extrapolate when > 20Mbit is necessary. Telcos have to start planning for that and actually invest for that way ahead of time. So it's good that telecom companies are looking ahead and investing ahead of time. In the mean while some advanced users will be happy to be connected to the internet at gigabit speeds TODAY.
I'm copying over a large dataset at the office. I tried to get it started on Friday to have it finished by Monday morning. No such luck. It's been doing over a gigabit all weekend....
(Yes I know the AC (and this remark) is talking about in-the-office, while TFA is about internet).
Of course some differences between theory and practice can be expected. For example, some experimental noise is expected. And at these scales, some fuzziness is also weird if it wouldn't happen.
However the topology should be correct. Now in the top image on the right there is a "white" area at the top. Whereas on the left (the real data) the white area at the top has a dent in it. As if there is a black area on the top with two white areas on the corners.
In short: From this experiment I'd say: The theoretical model is seriously flawed.
People are underestimating the (relative) difficulty of the different steps in "space travel".
A good measure of difficulty is the energy required to get there. To go up to "the edge of space" at 100km high you just need g.h per kg of of payload in energy. That comes to about 1MJ/kg.
To get into low earth orbit at 200km high, you need g.h for the height, but also 1/2 v^2 for the kinetic energy. This comes to 2MJ/kg + 28MJ/kg = 30MJ/kg. It is about 30 times as difficult to get into low earth orbit than to get to 100km.
Taking along enough "fuel tank" and "motor" to use this energy after you've burnt part of it is a serious problem.
Remember the math problems with trucks or camels that can carry only so much water or fuel and you want to travel into the desert? You need to go on one trip to make a stash of fuel along the way that you'll use on your final expedition. With space travel that's (almost) not possible. You'll have to take everything along in one go.
Now to go to the moon is again an order of magnitude more difficult. Getting back doubles the difficulty again!
Getting to another planet is similarly difficult as getting to the moon and back. Getting back from another planet is very difficult indeed.
... is that a moon is required.
Back in 1985 I've done some "artificial evolution" simulations on a computer. What I learned is that if living conditions are good, then no evolution happens. It's when conditions are tough when evolution kicks in. But if conditions are "marginal" all the time, life will simply die out. What is needed are cycles. Good times are succeeded by bad times and vice versa.
And the good thing about earth is that we have lots and lots of cycles. Ripples on the oceans have a period of about 10Hz. Waves 1Hz to 0.1Hz. then there are cycles with higher and lower waves. Then there are the tides at every 12 hours. Then day-and-night at 24 hours. Then the moon at 28 days. Then seasons at once a year. Then the solar cycle at 11 years, and very likely the earth is also involved in larger cycles causing ice ages and things like that.
Life on earth with the dinosaurs and such was "stable". Nothing much changed. Only when a catastrophe hit, did things get moving again.
The evolutionary reason for this is that when a certain trait (gene) is 5% better for the individuals that carry it, the carriers will not overtake the whole population. Some percentage of the population will evolve to have the gene, but not all. This is essential for evolution: If this didn't happen, life would die out quickly. Some genes that carry an advantage have disadvantages as well. So a gene that helps individuals when it's rainy might prove fatal in a drought. So it is essential that the pool of genes remains large. Then when "bad times" arrive, some of the bad genes might prove fatal for the individuals carrying them. Population shrinks. Some lines will die out.
Once the good times are back, all remaining genes will multiply and a differently diverse population is ready for the next catastrophe.
In conclusion. No a moon is not necessary. However on earth it is responsible for two of our cycles that have pushed evolution forward. If a planet is to support life, it will have to have many cycles at many orders-of-magnitude, and if it doesn't have a moon it will most likely not have enough.
Life and no moon? Possible in theory, but very unlikely.
The thing with diving is: nitrogen gas dissolves in blood ABOVE one atmosphere of pressure, but not much at normal pressure. So if you dive beyond 10m you'll have to be careful, coming back up. But going from 800mbar (pressure inside a plane) to 0.36 bar will not make the nitrogen boil.
No it isn't obvious, and it isn't true.
People who make mistakes while flying paragliders get sucked up in thunderstorms. They spend half an hour to an hour at 5000 to 10000m. They black out, and don't remember much from "up there" but they come out alive. Frost bitten and all, but alive. (On of the people who didn't died from something electrical: A thunder-strike).
Agreed, if you're falling from an airplane the descent will go so fast that I don't expect you to wake up before you hit. So blacked out: yes, dead: no. (If you happen to hit 5m of fresh snow, they will dig your out alive.)
TIP: It won't work.
The problem with space junk is that it goes so fast.
Why don't you worry about flies hitting the windshield of your car on the freeway? They move at a relative speed of about 100km/h (60mph), which is harmless (not if it hits your eye, but as long as it hits the windshield you're ok....).
In orbit, you're travelling at 27000 km/h (16000 mph) minimum. Things you might hit, could be moving in the same direction. Collisions with small objects are then harmless. But if they are moving in a different direction they might be moving at up to 50000 km/h (30000 mph). Now a collision with something as small as a dust particle IS a problem. It will go through almost anything. (I know the top end of the range is unlikely for man-made orbiting junk: the man-made junk is almost always moving with the rotation of the earth....).
So if you put a net in orbit and you encounter a piece of junk of a ton, and it moves at more than say 20km/h (12mph), it wil rip your net apart. If you encounter a screw at more than a few hundred km/h it will go straight through your net.
In all, I don't think you'll catch much....
The Delft, the Neterlands "Nuna" solar car drives an average of around 100km/h over 3000km.
http://www.worldsolarchallenge.org/home/history/results-to-date
Ok. Due to an accident, they didn't win in 2009, and they didn't beat the Japanese (this time). But the Japanese verifiably averaged over 100km/h over that 3000 race, so I'm guessing they beat the 100km mark on some of those kilometers....
Rereading appnor's response: revert to GPLV2.. eh? I think thats' because I never trusted the EFF to handle the license on my code in a way that I'd approve. So the licence clause says: GPL V2, and not "or higher". When GPL V3 came out I decided that this decision was sound: I don't want my code under GPL V3 sorry.
I sent Appnor the following Email:
> Dear Appnor MSP,
>
> It has come to my attention that you have taken the modified mtr
> sources called winmtr and made a closed source applicaiton out of
> that.
>
> You have always had access to those sources because they were
> distrubuted under the GPL. This allows you to modify and extend the
> program, provided that you distribute the your modifications with
> source code. (section 2b of GPL V2 states that your derived work
> still must be licenced under GPL.
>
> I have downloaded winmtr-0.9, which entitles me to ask you for the
> source code. Once you give it to me I will enforce my right to publish
> the source on the internet by doing so.
>
> If you chose not to honor my request for the source code, clause
> 4 of the GPL comes into action:
>
> 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
> except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
> otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is
> void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this
> License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights,
> from you under this License will not have their licenses
> terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.
>
> This means that you may no longer distribute copies of the program. You
> are violating copyright law.
>
> Roger Wolff.
>
And I quote from his reply:
> I will have our IP lawyer draft a response and clarification to your claim.
after which he explains no harm was intended (yeah right!) and that it will
take until next monday for a reply to surface.....
(I can't go quoting a full Email sent to me as that is copyrighted by the author,
when I'm claiming copyright violation on that person.... I think I can quote
1 sentence of a 5 sentence Email as Fair use.)
Dear Police,
Please be informed that not just one but multiple criminals use the domains Hotmail.co.uk and yahoo.co.uk. Please disable these immediately to prevent further crimes from occurring. (and they annoy the hell out of me).
Hmm. rereading: "...if an attacker were to chose them."... that's probably not true. An attacker can probably chose pretty bad g and p, so that anyone can figure out the secret key.