"Do as I say, but not as I do" - to paraphrase Rummy, you have to use the drivers you got, not the drivers you want.
"Get another card." - that costs money, which may or may not be available. The card may also be a built-in chip in a laptop, and "get another laptop" is a significantly more expensive suggestion.
Sometimes you have to deal with what you got. Your suggestions are valid for the case of unconstrained money supply (when you can buy all you want) and/or unconstrained length of life (so you can wait it out).
Even then it is not a big problem. Encrypt the data stream, pass it as-is to an I/O device, and have it decoded off-the-machine by some custom electronics. A cheap ARM CPU can handle music in software, for high-bandwidth heavy-duty apps there are FPGA arrays. And then there are all the ways how to smuggle data processing through the host CPU itself, obfuscating it beyond the recognition abilities of the silicon cop.
The SMTP protocol has a STARTTLS directive. When both servers that communicate support it, the transaction is TLS-encrypted. Some mailserver installations now reportedly have it on by default.
I should've clarified I did not intend to limit the term "search engine" to fulltext nor metadata. There are already attempts to make automated systems for recognition of objects/activities in video, and automatic transcription systems for audio are already in use (with varying level of success). You are correct that there are huge amounts of data out there. You are correct that they are difficult to organize now. However you may not be aware about R&D trends leading to remedy of this situation.
Use an interference filter tuned to 532 nm, the green laser wavelength. By cutting out only one wavelength you won't even influence much the transparency of the glass itself.
Another option is just wearing glasses with such layer.
A high-tech high-efficiency alternative could be goggles made of vanadium-doped zinc telluride, or other suitable nonlinear optical material, acting as an optical energy limiter - blocking out the high intensity beam without interfering with light coming from other directions. It is investigated for e.g. protection of military electrooptical sensors.
Does using a transistor as a logic circuit output to switch on a relay and indicate that the 230V end of the circuit is switched on by a neon bulb (a rudimentary vacuum tech) count?
Better an anonymous coward todday, than getting googled on the border and getting heat (if a citizen) or kicked out (if a visitor) tomorrow. The Internet has dangerously long memory.
If you monitor, never leave traces you do so and never be seen looking. If nobody can prove you saw something, you are off the hook. It's sad that the best practices today have to include deception and lying through your teeth, but that's life.
Use a hardware token in which the disk key is stored. The token can be locked with a PIN, and a duress PIN, and be connected to environmental sensors (switches, alarm system, etc.). When a set of conditions is met (a switch is disconnected without being deactivated first, a PIN is entered wrong for the sixth time, a duress PIN is entered, an alarm system fired and the PIN is not entered for two minutes afterwards, x-ray use is detected, hardware tampering is attempted..., just about any arbitrary set of events, the token forgets the key. By the time the Forensics gets their hand on the disk itself, they already tripped at least three levels of events, and the disk is a box full of random bits.
The key can be written down somewhere, encoded, split between several trusted people in a m-of-n scheme, or not kept off-device at all.
It's true that injection molding is faster production method. However, if you need so many parts, you can use the stereolithographic machine to make the mold you need. Optionally, you can also make the rest of the components of the molding machine.
Or do it the Microsoft way: implement it, as a decent import filter, and as either crappy or none at all export filter. Use the design of the One Microsoft Way, feed Chairy Steve his own medicine.
Besides, 110/220v pales in comparison to the huge array of different plug shapes and sizes found in countries that miraculously share the same voltage standard.
Easy. Take a hacking wire cutter and hacking screwdriver, cut off the old plug, replace with a new one. Keep the old plug as it can be handy.
Case in point. Laptop bought in Ireland, then used in Central Europe. Had to cut off the UK/IE plug, and replace it with local one. Then added a female local plug to the cut-off cord, making an adapter that later helped running locally sourced equipment in Ireland. Less than five minutes of work, sourcing the material not counted.
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"Get another card." - that costs money, which may or may not be available. The card may also be a built-in chip in a laptop, and "get another laptop" is a significantly more expensive suggestion.
Sometimes you have to deal with what you got. Your suggestions are valid for the case of unconstrained money supply (when you can buy all you want) and/or unconstrained length of life (so you can wait it out).
Seriously, do not underestimate the transfer speed of a hard drive fedexed overnight.
If we could just get people to stop respecting their leaders...
Even then it is not a big problem. Encrypt the data stream, pass it as-is to an I/O device, and have it decoded off-the-machine by some custom electronics. A cheap ARM CPU can handle music in software, for high-bandwidth heavy-duty apps there are FPGA arrays. And then there are all the ways how to smuggle data processing through the host CPU itself, obfuscating it beyond the recognition abilities of the silicon cop.
The Man can not seize (nor misinterpret) what he does not know about.
Wild West -> Gunpowder -> Solid fuel rockets.
Too little too late, but better late than never.
Is it a real, quantifiable threat of loss of customers, or a bosses' moral agenda rationalized as such?
I should've clarified I did not intend to limit the term "search engine" to fulltext nor metadata. There are already attempts to make automated systems for recognition of objects/activities in video, and automatic transcription systems for audio are already in use (with varying level of success). You are correct that there are huge amounts of data out there. You are correct that they are difficult to organize now. However you may not be aware about R&D trends leading to remedy of this situation.
I think that what you are looking for is called "search engine".
Such ideas ruin quality of life for eveybody.
Another option is just wearing glasses with such layer.
A high-tech high-efficiency alternative could be goggles made of vanadium-doped zinc telluride, or other suitable nonlinear optical material, acting as an optical energy limiter - blocking out the high intensity beam without interfering with light coming from other directions. It is investigated for e.g. protection of military electrooptical sensors.
Does using a transistor as a logic circuit output to switch on a relay and indicate that the 230V end of the circuit is switched on by a neon bulb (a rudimentary vacuum tech) count?
Better an anonymous coward todday, than getting googled on the border and getting heat (if a citizen) or kicked out (if a visitor) tomorrow. The Internet has dangerously long memory.
You never know? Only when you're unprepared. Russian Geigers can be bought pretty cheap. I suggest to investigate the DRSB-01 and DRSB-88 models.
Rust takes effort to collect. Iron(III) oxide in a suitable granularity can be purchased cheaply from suppliers of materials for ceramics workshops.
...for an advice. I prevent this sort of issues by writing the key on the CD itself. That way they can not be separated.
If you monitor, never leave traces you do so and never be seen looking. If nobody can prove you saw something, you are off the hook. It's sad that the best practices today have to include deception and lying through your teeth, but that's life.
The key can be written down somewhere, encoded, split between several trusted people in a m-of-n scheme, or not kept off-device at all.
And the quench is not always planned...
It's true that injection molding is faster production method. However, if you need so many parts, you can use the stereolithographic machine to make the mold you need. Optionally, you can also make the rest of the components of the molding machine.
The very concept of such arbitrary red line is much more dangerous than anything that can be behind it.
Or do it the Microsoft way: implement it, as a decent import filter, and as either crappy or none at all export filter. Use the design of the One Microsoft Way, feed Chairy Steve his own medicine.
Easy. Take a hacking wire cutter and hacking screwdriver, cut off the old plug, replace with a new one. Keep the old plug as it can be handy.
Case in point. Laptop bought in Ireland, then used in Central Europe. Had to cut off the UK/IE plug, and replace it with local one. Then added a female local plug to the cut-off cord, making an adapter that later helped running locally sourced equipment in Ireland. Less than five minutes of work, sourcing the material not counted.
If they have regions, we have modchips.