I'm sorry, this is probably totally going to blow rules one and two, but it just kinda struck me (and yeah, I'm behind on a lot of these arguments, so bop me on the head and correct it fast) But:
If the web, as it is used and accessed, is international, then how can encryption in use on the web be national only? Only so long as the keys are NOT cracked are they national...the moment it's broken, it becomes international. So any movement that says "this algorithm/code must stay in the country for national security" seems to be more like hedging than any actual useful thing. I'm stating the obvious, I suppose. Okay, I'm going to shut up now.
Which brings me to wonder. Currently, we have email systems such as hotmail going over to a cookie rich environment, where if you don't have the pass cookie on your machine, the system chokes up on your entry. Is this merely the progress of modern internet tracking systems, or is this a govt. movement toward cookie usage so that it won't be as suprising to have said security cookies in use, and thus easier for the govt. to track things? Talking out of my nether orfice here, but...possibility?
1. If you're going to post anonymous, why include an email post back?
2. If you're going to go to all of the trouble to post from a public with crypto, etc., just to be obnoxious...than at some point you really have to question what all of the effort is for. What is this really worth? Yay, you left a comment assaulting your enemies in some estranged chat room. But if it's really that important an issue, don't you need to be talking to somebody who can get things done, rather than just whining to (what tends to be a majority of) techheads who's idea of a good time is sitting around and whining through anon cryto?
It's a bit too late for that, they traced you down and hired a mafia hitman a month ago. The video will be on America's Funkiest in a week...
You have to wonder if the NSA/FBI/what have you are building of a file of people who are too stupid for their own good, who will say things like this just to see if the dog will bite. Maybe they'll have a big crackdown one of these days, and lower the stupidy quotia of America. Ah well, one can dream....
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I'm sorry, this is probably totally going to blow rules one and two, but it just kinda struck me (and yeah, I'm behind on a lot of these arguments, so bop me on the head and correct it fast) But:
If the web, as it is used and accessed, is international, then how can encryption in use on the web be national only? Only so long as the keys are NOT cracked are they national...the moment it's broken, it becomes international. So any movement that says "this algorithm/code must stay in the country for national security" seems to be more like hedging than any actual useful thing.
I'm stating the obvious, I suppose. Okay, I'm going to shut up now.
Todd
Which brings me to wonder. Currently, we have email systems such as hotmail going over to a cookie rich environment, where if you don't have the pass cookie on your machine, the system chokes up on your entry.
Is this merely the progress of modern internet tracking systems, or is this a govt. movement toward cookie usage so that it won't be as suprising to have said security cookies in use, and thus easier for the govt. to track things? Talking out of my nether orfice here, but...possibility?
1. If you're going to post anonymous, why include an email post back?
2. If you're going to go to all of the trouble to post from a public with crypto, etc., just to be obnoxious...than at some point you really have to question what all of the effort is for. What is this really worth? Yay, you left a comment assaulting your enemies in some estranged chat room. But if it's really that important an issue, don't you need to be talking to somebody who can get things done, rather than just whining to (what tends to be a majority of) techheads who's idea of a good time is sitting around and whining through anon cryto?
Todd
Even a stopped clock is only relatively correct.
It's a bit too late for that, they traced you down and hired a mafia hitman a month ago. The video will be on America's Funkiest in a week...
You have to wonder if the NSA/FBI/what have you are building of a file of people who are too stupid for their own good, who will say things like this just to see if the dog will bite. Maybe they'll have a big crackdown one of these days, and lower the stupidy quotia of America. Ah well, one can dream....