Take a look at OpenSSH. From the history/credits page:
Niels Provos (GERMANY but living in USA) quickly removed the remaining cryptographic and GPL'd components by doing road trips to Canada, so that we could end up with a completely freely reusable source code base.
Niels was a PhD candidate at Univ. of Mich., and would drive the 45 minutes or so to Canada to work on the crypto code to avoid the US restrictions.
I'm assuming by doing the work in Canada, even though he was living in the US, Canadian law applied. You could ask him for more clarification if you'd like. Just google his name. You'll get a lot of hits, especially since he works there.
Well, speaking of decrypting codes, look at the url for the document. ~umich at umich.edu. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that a publicly available document at the University of Michigan is safe for distribution, but I could be way off here . . .
I've already solved this. It's the final piece of Kryptos, which pretty much leads you to what is buried at Langley . . . I would publish my findings, but I'm waiting for a better book deal.
Sorry, I was trying to etch my girlfriend's name (and yes, she is real) on the sun with my new laser pointer, and i must have upped the wattage too much. my bad.
so, this is just another (small) reaction to an ever-growing problem. how long do you honestly think it will be before some little cracker-wannabe figures out how to ocr the 'graphical characters' currently used to stop spam-bots? what then? what we need is a more permanent method of stopping this type of refuse from invading our lives. the type of scum that performs these activities obviously gets paid a lot of money. and like a lot of people who get paid a lot of money, they sit around thinking of ways to make more. so they should be punished, severely, and stopped at their source.
instead of just 'reacting' to the next new thing these maggots use to spam, we should act proactively to stop them. i think if a site is using spam bots to post comment spam, shut it down. disable the domain name and punish the owner. hold ISP's and webhosting companies responsible for the content of their customers. force ISP's to spam-filter their outgoing mail. blacklist any ISP that doesn't do these things and enable browsers to block the offending IP addresses. set up blacklists on dns servers so that they don't reference producers of spam. if they can physically capture and imprison a spammer, how much easier would it be to just shut down their source of income?
obviously things are not that simple. ideas like these could easily be subject to abuse and a whole new form of DoS, but that doesn't mean something like this can't be worked out. if a president can set up "free speech zones" that blatantly violate constitutional rights, enacting stricter policies on what is allowed on the internet should be a piece of cake (especially since most spam apparently originates in the US).
there are already limits on what can be broadcast on the radio, what can be shown on broadcast/cable tv, and what you can and can't do in public, and i don't hear many people complaining about those. ( and yes, i know things are different outside of the US, and other countries are far more liberal in what they allow. ) but the concepts are still there.
just like any other virus or nagging problem, you have to attack the source, not just treat the symptoms.
now, i need some cawfee, tawk amongst yerselves . ..
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Niels was a PhD candidate at Univ. of Mich., and would drive the 45 minutes or so to Canada to work on the crypto code to avoid the US restrictions.
I'm assuming by doing the work in Canada, even though he was living in the US, Canadian law applied. You could ask him for more clarification if you'd like. Just google his name. You'll get a lot of hits, especially since he works there.
Well, speaking of decrypting codes, look at the url for the document. ~umich at umich.edu. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that a publicly available document at the University of Michigan is safe for distribution, but I could be way off here . . .
I've already solved this. It's the final piece of Kryptos, which pretty much leads you to what is buried at Langley . . . I would publish my findings, but I'm waiting for a better book deal.
Sorry, I was trying to etch my girlfriend's name (and yes, she is real) on the sun with my new laser pointer, and i must have upped the wattage too much. my bad.
so, this is just another (small) reaction to an ever-growing problem. how long do you honestly think it will be before some little cracker-wannabe figures out how to ocr the 'graphical characters' currently used to stop spam-bots? what then? what we need is a more permanent method of stopping this type of refuse from invading our lives. the type of scum that performs these activities obviously gets paid a lot of money. and like a lot of people who get paid a lot of money, they sit around thinking of ways to make more. so they should be punished, severely, and stopped at their source.
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instead of just 'reacting' to the next new thing these maggots use to spam, we should act proactively to stop them. i think if a site is using spam bots to post comment spam, shut it down. disable the domain name and punish the owner. hold ISP's and webhosting companies responsible for the content of their customers. force ISP's to spam-filter their outgoing mail. blacklist any ISP that doesn't do these things and enable browsers to block the offending IP addresses. set up blacklists on dns servers so that they don't reference producers of spam. if they can physically capture and imprison a spammer, how much easier would it be to just shut down their source of income?
obviously things are not that simple. ideas like these could easily be subject to abuse and a whole new form of DoS, but that doesn't mean something like this can't be worked out. if a president can set up "free speech zones" that blatantly violate constitutional rights, enacting stricter policies on what is allowed on the internet should be a piece of cake (especially since most spam apparently originates in the US).
there are already limits on what can be broadcast on the radio, what can be shown on broadcast/cable tv, and what you can and can't do in public, and i don't hear many people complaining about those. ( and yes, i know things are different outside of the US, and other countries are far more liberal in what they allow. ) but the concepts are still there.
just like any other virus or nagging problem, you have to attack the source, not just treat the symptoms.
now, i need some cawfee, tawk amongst yerselves . .