The difference in what I propose is that a user reads the EULA (or is given the opportunity to do so) and then makes a decision to take action or not. I suppose I'd have to add the actual EULA as some sort of header in the pgp key, or possibly serve the key out only via 'click-wrap' which, although disturbing as it is, is legal in the USA.
I can write procmail rules such that stuff from listservs, certain domains, or certain subjects get through. Procmail is a great tool for doing this sort of thing.
Remember, this is the land where the mear act of opening some plastic wrap constitutes acceptance of an EULA. I agree, this is insane, but this insanity should not just be a tool of big corporations. We too should attempt to use it to our behoove.
I agree it would have to be made as simple to use as possible to make it accessable to the average internet user. A central database of PGP keys already exists. http://pgp.mit.edu/ should qualify. There are also plenty of gnugp/pgp plugins for most popular email clients.
Having said all this, I don't think it's necessarly a bad thing that sending qualified email take a bit more thought.
But I have provided some of the enthropy used in the generation of my public key. I can recall having to type some keystrokes or move the mouse about in order to generate some randomness to seed the pseudo-random number generator.
I think this approach would be rather simple to implement
Copyright my gnupg/pgp public key and write a EULA outlining its use. Here is where I'd explicitly disallow unsolicited advertisement.
Have procmail or some other filter direct all non-pgp mail to/dev/null
If someone sucessfully sends me encrypted email having violating the EULA of my gnupg/pgp key, pursue legal action against them.
Enjoy my spammless mailspool
There are other fringe benefits...the overhead encrypting to a large number of keys would certainly slow a spammer's throughput down. Also, this would encourage the use of widespread secure email.
I'd consider this vendor-installed Linux to be more of a proof of concept test that the hardware actually can run Linux. I'd make sure the 3d video works nice (tuxracer perhaps), that the sound is working, that the NIC works (without killing performance), and that the modem (if any) works. Then I'd buy it, partition it the way I like, and install RH 9 on it.
I'd never ever actually use a vendor-installed OS, either Linux or Windows.
It is possible, just difficult to post anonymously. I like to use stolen carrier pigeons for this. If you use your own birds, it doesn't work so well. You can get a couple MB of source onto microfiche ya know.
Seriously, ever hear of cyberpunk remailers? Ever seen a lab / library / wireless network with no access control?
Cyberpunk remailers chained together for added security, each remailer stripping off a layer of pgp encryption, extracting a forwarding address, and sending an encrypted message to the next remailer. It's a pretty solid system. Besides having the final remailer send an email to someone, these remailers can also post to usenet.
Here in South Texas we typically have winter humidity in the 80% - 100% range, with 100% being very common during evening and early morning hours (mist/fog). Last winter I can recall being around 100 miles south of Corpus Christi just near Raymondville, TX and seeing a mysterious glow on the horizon. After a couple hours of driving north, this glow in fact turned out to be the ambient light of Corpus Christi.
During these misty evenings, car lots with their hundreds of thousands of watts of light make it possible to see quite well, and in some cases there is enough light to read a newspaper several blocks from these car lots.
I know cities such as Phoenix, AZ have enacted strict lighting rules to combat light pollution. Here in Corpus Christi, buildings are commonly lit up with huge flood lights on the ground aimed upwards. I do hope this city realizes that there has to be some impact on its rich wildlife. We have a lot of exotic birds down here, including whooping cranes. Perhaps some federal regulation is necessary.
I don't know how exactly much impact this light has on wildlife, but I do know that I hear birds chirping all night on these bright nights that I don't normally hear at night.
>It is even easy to use because of the qwerty >keyboard.
Yuck! As an avid Dvorak keyboard user, I wonder if I can use xmodmap to remap it's little keyboard to something much more sane and logical. QWERTY is worse than alphabetical placement.
I wonder if there is any way to access the audio
side of these mobile phones and develop a secure
voice-over-IP phone. Since these phones already do GSM compression, I wonder if the compressed audio is accessable from a program.
Secure voice on the PC is too clunky...I love speakfreely, but it's just not as handy as using a telephone.
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Everything else aside, requiring pgp encryption for email acceptance would slow down the rate a spammer can send at.
Oh, and by the way,
"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"
Behoove Be*hoove", n.
Advantage; behoof. Obs.
It shall not be to his behoove. --Gower.
However, IANAL, but I know a few.
Remember, this is the land where the mear act of opening some plastic wrap constitutes acceptance of an EULA. I agree, this is insane, but this insanity should not just be a tool of big corporations. We too should attempt to use it to our behoove.
Having said all this, I don't think it's necessarly a bad thing that sending qualified email take a bit more thought.
But I have provided some of the enthropy used in the generation of my public key. I can recall having to type some keystrokes or move the mouse about in order to generate some randomness to seed the pseudo-random number generator.
There are other fringe benefits...the overhead encrypting to a large number of keys would certainly slow a spammer's throughput down. Also, this would encourage the use of widespread secure email.
There is absolutly nothing wrong with selling OS-less PC's.
I'd never ever actually use a vendor-installed OS, either Linux or Windows.
It is possible, just difficult to post anonymously. I like to use stolen carrier pigeons for this. If you use your own birds, it doesn't work so well. You can get a couple MB of source onto microfiche ya know. Seriously, ever hear of cyberpunk remailers? Ever seen a lab / library / wireless network with no access control?
Cyberpunk remailers chained together for added security, each remailer stripping off a layer of pgp encryption, extracting a forwarding address, and sending an encrypted message to the next remailer. It's a pretty solid system. Besides having the final remailer send an email to someone, these remailers can also post to usenet.
During these misty evenings, car lots with their hundreds of thousands of watts of light make it possible to see quite well, and in some cases there is enough light to read a newspaper several blocks from these car lots. I know cities such as Phoenix, AZ have enacted strict lighting rules to combat light pollution. Here in Corpus Christi, buildings are commonly lit up with huge flood lights on the ground aimed upwards. I do hope this city realizes that there has to be some impact on its rich wildlife. We have a lot of exotic birds down here, including whooping cranes. Perhaps some federal regulation is necessary.
I don't know how exactly much impact this light has on wildlife, but I do know that I hear birds chirping all night on these bright nights that I don't normally hear at night.
or worse... Forced to use the WinME upgrade edition from a base win95a installation
>It is even easy to use because of the qwerty
>keyboard.
Yuck! As an avid Dvorak keyboard user, I wonder if I can use xmodmap to remap it's little keyboard to something much more sane and logical. QWERTY is worse than alphabetical placement.
I wonder if there is any way to access the audio side of these mobile phones and develop a secure voice-over-IP phone. Since these phones already do GSM compression, I wonder if the compressed audio is accessable from a program. Secure voice on the PC is too clunky...I love speakfreely, but it's just not as handy as using a telephone.