Cryptographic-quality true randomness is really dangerous in "uncontrolled" hands. Many cryptosystems can be compromised in elegant way by compromising the entropy source, eg./dev/random, which is extremely difficult to detect when done properly. So I wouldn't be entirely surprised if "They" would try to mandate (or more likely, covertly sneak in) compromised RNGs into mainstream computers.
Unleash a worm upon the world. Let it spread, scan the disks of the infected machines for JPEG files, and stego-encode randomly picked data encrypted by a randomly generated key into them. In just few hours, the false positives in any stego-detecting systems shoot up by many orders of magnitude, effectively rendering them useless.
Set up a band. Sending lossless recordings is common for professionals and semi-professionals, when preparing a CD.
On the other hand, all non-RIAA-signed bands are already considered terrorists.
Lots of original recordings? No problem. Just whip out your trusty digital camera, switch it to movie mode, and record your kitten playing with a string. Or run a garage band or get a DV camera. There are lots of hobbies that can serve as a cover story for having disks full of uncompressed audio or video files.
You won't believe how much you are able to improvise when you are intimately familiar with elementary physics. Couple bits of chemistry, geology and biology sprinkled over physics can nicely boost your survival abilities. Technical skills then come to use for salvaging whatever left from the pre-collapse civilization.
Don't underestimate the techies. You may happen to need them.
The legislative developments won't leave us any reasonable privacy soon anyway. Most of the people are already unable to think independently. At least Borgs never feel lonely. (...and think about the firepower!)
The new part is using LEDs only.
I use an (I think) HPWT-ML00 amber LED for gentle unobtrusive lighting of my keyboard for at least 3 years already. I used high-power green and amber LEDs as flashlights back when it wasn't mainstream yet, maybe as long as 15 years ago. Gave less light than incandescent flashlights, but it was enough to see what I needed to see (eg, where to step) and it didn't have tendency to blind me with light, leaving my peripheral night vision intact.
It's very useful thing. If they have sufficient light output, may be good for room lighting as well. Especially because the LEDs have very long life, so they don't tend to die all the time. (And they are easy to rewire for usage of only part of the LED bank with a backup power supply, thus offering a ready way to run emergency lights on very low power in case of a blackout.)
The development moved to Sourceforge. The only thing that is discontinued is the support from its original creator, Sir John Walker of Autodesk. The software and its userbase are still alive and well.
Problem. Once people start loving themselves "as they are", wide segments of economy collapse as demand for things to make them "in", or "looking younger", or so, dries up. In the name of Holy GDP, this can't happen.
Did you ever hear about rapid prototyping? People doing robotics, like everybody else, find Legos very useful.
I have a couple sets of something vaguely similar I use pretty often when I need to try if a design would work. A set of generic pre-made parts is what you need - and it doesn't matter much if they are originally intended for kids, that doesn't make them ANY less useful. Milling custom parts is a lot of hassle and time and cost, so it's better to do it only when really necessary, not just because it's the "grown-up way". Did you ever try it?
So often, so true. But not always - and you never know for sure until you try.
Somebody knows what to do, but not how. Somebody knows how to do things, but doesn't know how they should look. Only by pooling the knowledge/skills and actually communicating the situation can be improved. So even if you can't do all by yourself, write down what you can and hope for the best.
Why use seemingly complicated ways to get the TV guide instead of the retail ones? What about cost, reliability (so I won't have to worry that the machine bluescreens when I am away or sleeping, which rules out most Consumer-Friendly Approaches), and in some areas just plain unavailability of any ready-made solution? Besides, it's usually something that has to be done only once, save eventual minor tweaks when the TV station website format changes, and even that could be worked around by heuristic preprocessing of the page as its meta-structure is always the same.
Somebody with lots of experience with various graphics software could sit down and write a thorough description of ideal user interface, and write a description of how the existing Gimp menus should be reshuffled to the ideal form and what's the reason for every change. The biggest problem in programming is to figure out what the users want; this way the requested changes should be easy to implement.
I dare to suggest it is simple. In eDonkey2000 network, the standardized way how to download a file is an URL of the ed2k://|file||| format - the hash is the unique identifier of the file. Seed the network with couple copies of the file (which ensures the necessary decentralization), post its URL to the Usenet and couple spamfighting mailing lists (which ensures timely distribution), and sign the post with PGP or GPG (which prevents spoofing). Voila - problem solved.
Could it be possible to pre-process the picture so artefacts characteristic for modification would be introduced, so it won't be possible to prove beyond reasonable doubt if the photograph in question is real or fake?
There is the possibility that they would like to copyright the end-user experience, where the "derivative work" would be created even by walking away for a while. Luckily feet and mute buttons still have "substantial noninfringing use".
In some countries it's possible to detect the ads by the presence of TV station logo, which should be fairly easy to do. The question is, could a device that could automagically mute the sound and dim the image be illegal?
...and disabling this system then is about as difficult as pulling the connector from the solenoid. Or just dropping something corrosive on it couple weeks before, and then eventually blaming the falling-off wire on "natural causes" when eventually confronted by the police.
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Pigeons are unsuitable for lower-level protocols like TCP/IP. However, they could be good enough for higher protocol, eg. HTTP or SMTP.
Cryptographic-quality true randomness is really dangerous in "uncontrolled" hands. Many cryptosystems can be compromised in elegant way by compromising the entropy source, eg. /dev/random, which is extremely difficult to detect when done properly. So I wouldn't be entirely surprised if "They" would try to mandate (or more likely, covertly sneak in) compromised RNGs into mainstream computers.
Unleash a worm upon the world. Let it spread, scan the disks of the infected machines for JPEG files, and stego-encode randomly picked data encrypted by a randomly generated key into them. In just few hours, the false positives in any stego-detecting systems shoot up by many orders of magnitude, effectively rendering them useless.
Set up a band. Sending lossless recordings is common for professionals and semi-professionals, when preparing a CD.
On the other hand, all non-RIAA-signed bands are already considered terrorists.
Plus, you can encode not into LSBs themselves, but into some state-dependent combination of input. Eg, parity of four adjanced LSBs.
Lots of original recordings? No problem. Just whip out your trusty digital camera, switch it to movie mode, and record your kitten playing with a string. Or run a garage band or get a DV camera. There are lots of hobbies that can serve as a cover story for having disks full of uncompressed audio or video files.
You won't believe how much you are able to improvise when you are intimately familiar with elementary physics. Couple bits of chemistry, geology and biology sprinkled over physics can nicely boost your survival abilities. Technical skills then come to use for salvaging whatever left from the pre-collapse civilization.
Don't underestimate the techies. You may happen to need them.
The legislative developments won't leave us any reasonable privacy soon anyway. Most of the people are already unable to think independently. At least Borgs never feel lonely. (...and think about the firepower!)
The new part is using LEDs only.
I use an (I think) HPWT-ML00 amber LED for gentle unobtrusive lighting of my keyboard for at least 3 years already. I used high-power green and amber LEDs as flashlights back when it wasn't mainstream yet, maybe as long as 15 years ago. Gave less light than incandescent flashlights, but it was enough to see what I needed to see (eg, where to step) and it didn't have tendency to blind me with light, leaving my peripheral night vision intact.
It's very useful thing. If they have sufficient light output, may be good for room lighting as well. Especially because the LEDs have very long life, so they don't tend to die all the time. (And they are easy to rewire for usage of only part of the LED bank with a backup power supply, thus offering a ready way to run emergency lights on very low power in case of a blackout.)
One word: DMCA. (And more such laws staying between the geeks and the enjoyment of life.)
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pigeon carrying a 256-megabyte CompactFlash.
The development moved to Sourceforge. The only thing that is discontinued is the support from its original creator, Sir John Walker of Autodesk. The software and its userbase are still alive and well.
Problem. Once people start loving themselves "as they are", wide segments of economy collapse as demand for things to make them "in", or "looking younger", or so, dries up. In the name of Holy GDP, this can't happen.
So we turn into short text messages steganographed into innocuous plaintext VoIP chitchat.
Did you ever hear about rapid prototyping? People doing robotics, like everybody else, find Legos very useful.
I have a couple sets of something vaguely similar I use pretty often when I need to try if a design would work. A set of generic pre-made parts is what you need - and it doesn't matter much if they are originally intended for kids, that doesn't make them ANY less useful. Milling custom parts is a lot of hassle and time and cost, so it's better to do it only when really necessary, not just because it's the "grown-up way". Did you ever try it?
nmap -O should answer this question. OS fingerprint.
So often, so true. But not always - and you never know for sure until you try.
Somebody knows what to do, but not how. Somebody knows how to do things, but doesn't know how they should look. Only by pooling the knowledge/skills and actually communicating the situation can be improved. So even if you can't do all by yourself, write down what you can and hope for the best.
Why use seemingly complicated ways to get the TV guide instead of the retail ones? What about cost, reliability (so I won't have to worry that the machine bluescreens when I am away or sleeping, which rules out most Consumer-Friendly Approaches), and in some areas just plain unavailability of any ready-made solution? Besides, it's usually something that has to be done only once, save eventual minor tweaks when the TV station website format changes, and even that could be worked around by heuristic preprocessing of the page as its meta-structure is always the same.
Somebody with lots of experience with various graphics software could sit down and write a thorough description of ideal user interface, and write a description of how the existing Gimp menus should be reshuffled to the ideal form and what's the reason for every change. The biggest problem in programming is to figure out what the users want; this way the requested changes should be easy to implement.
I thought one red pill should be enough!
I dare to suggest it is simple. In eDonkey2000 network, the standardized way how to download a file is an URL of the ed2k://|file||| format - the hash is the unique identifier of the file. Seed the network with couple copies of the file (which ensures the necessary decentralization), post its URL to the Usenet and couple spamfighting mailing lists (which ensures timely distribution), and sign the post with PGP or GPG (which prevents spoofing). Voila - problem solved.
Who would read a book during driving?
Ever got stuck in a really really bad traffic jam?
Could it be possible to pre-process the picture so artefacts characteristic for modification would be introduced, so it won't be possible to prove beyond reasonable doubt if the photograph in question is real or fake?
There is the possibility that they would like to copyright the end-user experience, where the "derivative work" would be created even by walking away for a while. Luckily feet and mute buttons still have "substantial noninfringing use".
In some countries it's possible to detect the ads by the presence of TV station logo, which should be fairly easy to do. The question is, could a device that could automagically mute the sound and dim the image be illegal?
...and disabling this system then is about as difficult as pulling the connector from the solenoid. Or just dropping something corrosive on it couple weeks before, and then eventually blaming the falling-off wire on "natural causes" when eventually confronted by the police.