happily write textbooks and have a partner do a quid pro quo arrangement (each prof in a pair requires the other's pricey textbook in a given class to get around the rules forbidding you to require your own)
Quite. However, if security is what you're after, you may not want to use the most POPULAR one, but rather the better one. Like I said, downloaders, who perhaps care more about easy access (popularity) than anonymity, are a different matter.
If you're submitting to Wikileaks, you're using SSL right? You should be. Exit node sniffing is not a large problem. Furthermore, Wikileaks can just run a number of dedicated local exit nodes.
Leaked documents do not need a low-latency anonymous channel (Tor) to be leaked. Potential leakers should use something like Mixminion (http://mixminion.net/) for high-latency, highly anonymous submissions. Downloads, however, are a bit more tricky, since they DO need to be low-latency.
This is shameless self-promotion, but my colleagues and I have a paper at this year's ACM CCS that addresses just this problem. It's called "Membership-concealing overlay networks," and discusses a network with the explicit security goal of hiding the participants. Since we consider IP addresses to be sufficient to break this concealment, this makes the system also difficult to block at the IP layer. You can find the paper here here, and I would love to get some feedback.
Be prepared to throw one away. If you're not prepared, you'll still have to, but it will take longer to realize it, and you'll be more surprised.
Horribly paraphrased from `"The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering" by Frederick P. Brooks.
So, are we prepared to apply good software design methods to countries and governments? Is it time for agile development?
Glad someone finally said this. The Supreme Court ruled on 1st amendment rights, NOT any whistleblower statutes. Those, supposedly, are still in place.
Ah, but you are assuming that anyone has actually been to space! There is absolutely no evidence that any human has ever been in space!:) Conspiracy theorists, start your typing.
I just called the company. I first talked to a woman whose name I did not get (she answered the phone), and she transferred me to someone else, who introduced himself as "Bill". I believe him to be the COO, Bill Whitmore. We had a rather long conversation about the press release and how SunnComm feels about the information being published.
Yes, they did "threaten" Alex with DMCA charges, and they may or may not report this for investigation, but from what Bill told me, they have no plans to file suit against Alex Halderman.
I'm not sure if Bill agreed with me that the press release was rather extreme in its implications, but I think he acknowledged something to that fact. don't hold me to that.
Bill did, however, seem upset that Alex did not contact the company first, before releasing this information to the world. Perhaps they would have threatened him, perhaps they would have offered him a chance to help fix the problem (Bill said the latter). I don't know.
Bill also said that while "all software solutions can be bypassed", his company was trying to create a "licence system" for people to listen to their music legally, without "having to make copies" of it in an illegal manner. So, he said, this is not really a software anti-copying solution, but more of a licence framework for the use of the music.
That was what was said, to the best of my recollection.
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happily write textbooks and have a partner do a quid pro quo arrangement (each prof in a pair requires the other's pricey textbook in a given class to get around the rules forbidding you to require your own)
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Quite. However, if security is what you're after, you may not want to use the most POPULAR one, but rather the better one. Like I said, downloaders, who perhaps care more about easy access (popularity) than anonymity, are a different matter.
If you're submitting to Wikileaks, you're using SSL right? You should be. Exit node sniffing is not a large problem. Furthermore, Wikileaks can just run a number of dedicated local exit nodes.
Leaked documents do not need a low-latency anonymous channel (Tor) to be leaked. Potential leakers should use something like Mixminion (http://mixminion.net/) for high-latency, highly anonymous submissions. Downloads, however, are a bit more tricky, since they DO need to be low-latency.
This is shameless self-promotion, but my colleagues and I have a paper at this year's ACM CCS that addresses just this problem. It's called "Membership-concealing overlay networks," and discusses a network with the explicit security goal of hiding the participants. Since we consider IP addresses to be sufficient to break this concealment, this makes the system also difficult to block at the IP layer. You can find the paper here here, and I would love to get some feedback.
Well, end-of-the-world theories are unfalsifiable. Always bet against the end of the world -- you can't spend the money if you bet on it and win.
Be prepared to throw one away. If you're not prepared, you'll still have to, but it will take longer to realize it, and you'll be more surprised.
Horribly paraphrased from `"The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering" by Frederick P. Brooks.
So, are we prepared to apply good software design methods to countries and governments? Is it time for agile development?
Glad someone finally said this. The Supreme Court ruled on 1st amendment rights, NOT any whistleblower statutes. Those, supposedly, are still in place.
And they're all political prisoners somewhere...
Not free speech, but free assembly. Still, definitely would not hold up in court.
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I'll be a karma whore. Here is a page of information and links to some free viewers.
Thundertray does this quite nicely.
Ah, but you are assuming that anyone has actually been to space! There is absolutely no evidence that any human has ever been in space! :) Conspiracy theorists, start your typing.
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I just called the company. I first talked to a woman whose name I did not get (she answered the phone), and she transferred me to someone else, who introduced himself as "Bill". I believe him to be the COO, Bill Whitmore. We had a rather long conversation about the press release and how SunnComm feels about the information being published. Yes, they did "threaten" Alex with DMCA charges, and they may or may not report this for investigation, but from what Bill told me, they have no plans to file suit against Alex Halderman. I'm not sure if Bill agreed with me that the press release was rather extreme in its implications, but I think he acknowledged something to that fact. don't hold me to that. Bill did, however, seem upset that Alex did not contact the company first, before releasing this information to the world. Perhaps they would have threatened him, perhaps they would have offered him a chance to help fix the problem (Bill said the latter). I don't know. Bill also said that while "all software solutions can be bypassed", his company was trying to create a "licence system" for people to listen to their music legally, without "having to make copies" of it in an illegal manner. So, he said, this is not really a software anti-copying solution, but more of a licence framework for the use of the music. That was what was said, to the best of my recollection.