Kinda like it's argueable that Cisco is the . in.com. Their routers and hardware run all over the place, but most end users don't even know it's there. Just like that lowly '.'.
Everyone seems so stuck on the fact that AOL censors its content. While censorship may be morally repugnant to the Slashdot community, Joe Blow average father likes the fact that his kids are protected from all of those evils of the internet that they keep hearing about from the media, which is now partially merged with AOL.
That is the part that scares me. The media has had a love affair with all of the bad stuff on the internet for a while, only reporting about crackers and perverts and child pornography. Now Time-Warner has a reason to print those, and maybe at the bottom tell people about AOL's blocking of "questionable" content.
The people on AOL that don't like those little signs that say "Please do not press this button again." will go elsewhere. And once elsewhere, they will persecute AOL users like AOL persecutes free speech. "This site is ONLY viewable in Mozilla, Opera,..., and Lynx, if you are using IE or AOL, you're SOL."
A backdoor could be hidden in the numbers, but everyone is so paranoid about that happening that the people who write the algorithms use well known numbers that seem random. For example, blowfish initializes the key generation part with the hex values of the decimal part of pi. While it's possible for them to use that in some way to have a back door, it's not like DES where the people that created them are the ones that might be trying to get at your data.
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Kinda like it's argueable that Cisco is the . in .com. Their routers and hardware run all over the place, but most end users don't even know it's there. Just like that lowly '.'.
Everyone seems so stuck on the fact that AOL censors its content. While censorship may be morally repugnant to the Slashdot community, Joe Blow average father likes the fact that his kids are protected from all of those evils of the internet that they keep hearing about from the media, which is now partially merged with AOL.
..., and Lynx, if you are using IE or AOL, you're SOL."
That is the part that scares me. The media has had a love affair with all of the bad stuff on the internet for a while, only reporting about crackers and perverts and child pornography. Now Time-Warner has a reason to print those, and maybe at the bottom tell people about AOL's blocking of "questionable" content.
The people on AOL that don't like those little signs that say "Please do not press this button again." will go elsewhere. And once elsewhere, they will persecute AOL users like AOL persecutes free speech. "This site is ONLY viewable in Mozilla, Opera,
A backdoor could be hidden in the numbers, but everyone is so paranoid about that happening that the people who write the algorithms use well known numbers that seem random. For example, blowfish initializes the key generation part with the hex values of the decimal part of pi. While it's possible for them to use that in some way to have a back door, it's not like DES where the people that created them are the ones that might be trying to get at your data.