Did anyone else notice the chain of companies and how the money flows between them all? It sounds a lot like the Canopy, et al. Looking at the connections between McBride and others during the SCO saga has revealed similar almost incestuous relationships between companies (many of which appear to be just shells for passing money around).
3: The current "Real ID" law is, to my understanding, based in the twin areas of interstate trade and national security, both firmly vested in the federal government. If you don't mind never getting a passport and never taking the plane, you can probably avoid entering into this database--although there will be a fair bit of hardship on your part.
You seem to miss the point, without a RealID, you can't even drive a car, have a job, have a bank account or anything. The only way for the the national ID to work is to require it as the only acceptable ID. I'd say that goes beyond just a fair bit of hardship.
4: You are *already* required to identify yourself when you board a plane, when you get a passport, and when you do any of the other things that you would use RealID for. The federal government *already* can track and aggregate all of the information that it or any government in the United States collects on you. And, ALL of this information is protected by the same kind of legal protection that your yearly tax forms are protected by--and trust me, the government knows FAR more about you from your taxes than they can get from your driver's license.
Actually, I don't need a passport or identification to board a plane for interstate travel. Show me the law that says otherwise, then contact John Gilmore, because he can't even get the TSA to show him or his attorney the law. I agree that you do need an ID for a passport, but that is because it establishes citizenship. Just like my SS# is only to establish eligibility in the Social Security program and my eligibility to work. Besides, if the Gov't already has all this data, why do they need additional legislation to guarantee that they have it?
5: It's worth noting that, if there's only one place where all of your information is stored by the government, then realistically you will be able to use this to much more effectively defeat identity theft. Prove to one federal judge (or even a state judge...) that you are the real CygnusXII and that other guy in Pittsfield is a fraud, and it's a done deal.
So what's to guarantee that they guy in Pittsfield isn't going to have the same or better documentation. How about someone else steals my RealID via RFID and uses it locally for purchases or for a terrorist act (link talks about the new passports, but is just as relevent showing gov't cluelessness). How can I prove it wasn't me? Often Identity Theft occurs close to home. That's what makes it so hard to battle. The legislation does nothing to ensure that mass duplication of my ID is prevented.
I was actually telling my wife that my new hobby should be sniffing RFID. I'd make it a challenge to see whose names and information I can acquire. No, the data would not be online and no, I wouldn't use it for nefarious purposes.
I find identity theft reprehensible, but I think the danger of public remote (read wireless) datagathering needs to be at the forefront of peoples minds. Especially when the congresspersons are so ignorant as to allow the Department of Homeland Security to run our Driver Licensing system.
I don't know if this is sad, interesting or ???, but aside from the amount of RAM, this almost describes my tower at home up until my HD died over the winter holiday. The processor is actually faster and the fact that it's a laptop is pretty impressive.
The following is enough to run Mandrake Linux 10.1: Athlon 1Ghz CD-RW (but a regular CD would be enough) 40G HD (I upgraded to 80G when it died) 3COM NIC 256M RAM 16M Matrox G450
My laptop is even worse, old PII-300 with 196MB RAM and a 6G HD. It was sufficient for me to use to get through 2 years of college in a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology degree program. And it was running Gentoo at the time (now running SUSE).
Considering I'm not rushing to upgrade either (I'm not into gaming), I'd say these Wal-Mart machines are plenty for a lot of people.
Actually both Mandrake Linux and Mac OS X support encrypted filesystems out of the box. It's very easy to set up an encrypted filesystem that lives as a single file somewhere on the harddrive or a removable disk.
I can't remember exactly, but I believe in both cases AES128 is the default level of encryption.
I won't speak for other distro's because the only other one that I am really familiar with is Gentoo. And there isn't anything "standard" with that distribution. Although on my laptop, it was configured with an AES256 encrypted root filesystem (the gentoo forums have a sticky thread on how to do this). Even going single user or using a boot disk wouldn't give you access to the contents of the drive.
This sounds an awful lot like the network started by the guys a ZeroKnowledge (now defunct something like 4 years). Can someone summarize how this is different?
They've been around for a long time and can be had for better than half the price.
See here.
They can be made by enterprising individuals and assembled in about the same timeframe as the cardboard house. I've even seen a picture of a complete yurt packed into the back of a pickup truck (no small "commercial truck" from TFA).
At one time I figured the price to do it on my own would be less than $5000 (US). At that price I figured I'd make three or four and have guest housing as well. I know wood is now more expensive, so I don't know if current DIY would be as cost effective as buying one from Pacific Yurts.
Aside from the earlier statement about finding older documents, another thing to remember is that SCO filed a "Slander of Title" lawsuit. Novell has only had to do enough work to demonstrate a lack of malice in their public claims. The letters from SCO asking for copyright transfer should have been enough to show that the ownership was in question and Novell was not acting with malice in stating they still retained copyright.
SCO was also looking for a way to remove the Novell issue from the IBM lawsuit without introducing their weak interpretation of the contracts involved.
I've used a laminate coating created by GBC for an application similar to this. The product isn't teflon, it's Tedlar(tm). It's grafiti and chemical proof (also incredibly thin). I was however able to scratch it.
As I understand it, it was developed for outdoor graphics used on bus stops and other public locations.
As a test, I coated my ID badge. I can now "alter" my identity with a sharpie at any time.
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Did anyone else notice the chain of companies and how the money flows between them all? It sounds a lot like the Canopy, et al. Looking at the connections between McBride and others during the SCO saga has revealed similar almost incestuous relationships between companies (many of which appear to be just shells for passing money around).
That is one of the best pictures I have seen in ages! It's also a fun film to rent, not the best acting in the world, but an interesting story.
Let's race to the sea!!!
You seem to miss the point, without a RealID, you can't even drive a car, have a job, have a bank account or anything. The only way for the the national ID to work is to require it as the only acceptable ID. I'd say that goes beyond just a fair bit of hardship.
4: You are *already* required to identify yourself when you board a plane, when you get a passport, and when you do any of the other things that you would use RealID for. The federal government *already* can track and aggregate all of the information that it or any government in the United States collects on you. And, ALL of this information is protected by the same kind of legal protection that your yearly tax forms are protected by--and trust me, the government knows FAR more about you from your taxes than they can get from your driver's license.
Actually, I don't need a passport or identification to board a plane for interstate travel. Show me the law that says otherwise, then contact John Gilmore, because he can't even get the TSA to show him or his attorney the law. I agree that you do need an ID for a passport, but that is because it establishes citizenship. Just like my SS# is only to establish eligibility in the Social Security program and my eligibility to work. Besides, if the Gov't already has all this data, why do they need additional legislation to guarantee that they have it?
5: It's worth noting that, if there's only one place where all of your information is stored by the government, then realistically you will be able to use this to much more effectively defeat identity theft. Prove to one federal judge (or even a state judge...) that you are the real CygnusXII and that other guy in Pittsfield is a fraud, and it's a done deal.
So what's to guarantee that they guy in Pittsfield isn't going to have the same or better documentation. How about someone else steals my RealID via RFID and uses it locally for purchases or for a terrorist act (link talks about the new passports, but is just as relevent showing gov't cluelessness). How can I prove it wasn't me? Often Identity Theft occurs close to home. That's what makes it so hard to battle. The legislation does nothing to ensure that mass duplication of my ID is prevented.
I find identity theft reprehensible, but I think the danger of public remote (read wireless) datagathering needs to be at the forefront of peoples minds. Especially when the congresspersons are so ignorant as to allow the Department of Homeland Security to run our Driver Licensing system.
The following is enough to run Mandrake Linux 10.1:
Athlon 1Ghz
CD-RW (but a regular CD would be enough)
40G HD (I upgraded to 80G when it died)
3COM NIC
256M RAM
16M Matrox G450
My laptop is even worse, old PII-300 with 196MB RAM and a 6G HD. It was sufficient for me to use to get through 2 years of college in a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology degree program. And it was running Gentoo at the time (now running SUSE).
Considering I'm not rushing to upgrade either (I'm not into gaming), I'd say these Wal-Mart machines are plenty for a lot of people.
I can't remember exactly, but I believe in both cases AES128 is the default level of encryption.
I won't speak for other distro's because the only other one that I am really familiar with is Gentoo. And there isn't anything "standard" with that distribution. Although on my laptop, it was configured with an AES256 encrypted root filesystem (the gentoo forums have a sticky thread on how to do this). Even going single user or using a boot disk wouldn't give you access to the contents of the drive.
This sounds an awful lot like the network started by the guys a ZeroKnowledge (now defunct something like 4 years). Can someone summarize how this is different?
They can be made by enterprising individuals and assembled in about the same timeframe as the cardboard house. I've even seen a picture of a complete yurt packed into the back of a pickup truck (no small "commercial truck" from TFA).
At one time I figured the price to do it on my own would be less than $5000 (US). At that price I figured I'd make three or four and have guest housing as well. I know wood is now more expensive, so I don't know if current DIY would be as cost effective as buying one from Pacific Yurts.
Aside from the earlier statement about finding older documents, another thing to remember is that SCO filed a "Slander of Title" lawsuit. Novell has only had to do enough work to demonstrate a lack of malice in their public claims. The letters from SCO asking for copyright transfer should have been enough to show that the ownership was in question and Novell was not acting with malice in stating they still retained copyright.
SCO was also looking for a way to remove the Novell issue from the IBM lawsuit without introducing their weak interpretation of the contracts involved.
I've used a laminate coating created by GBC for an application similar to this. The product isn't teflon, it's Tedlar(tm). It's grafiti and chemical proof (also incredibly thin). I was however able to scratch it. As I understand it, it was developed for outdoor graphics used on bus stops and other public locations. As a test, I coated my ID badge. I can now "alter" my identity with a sharpie at any time.
Nope. He passed away. December 1982 if memory serves.