Adding encryption is likely to introduce a couple more round trips, which can be very noticeable
Probably not much. SSL supports connection reuse, so a client can use the same session key (which avoids renegotiation and key exchange) for downloading multiple objects on the same site.
Thawte has been on the list of trusted CAs for ages. I remember I used them in 1999 to sign the certificate for the online travel agency I worked for that summer.
Email certificates can be had for free these days, thanks to e.g. Thawte, and those work in all modern email clients. So it doesn't have to cost anything.
FU Moderaterna, yesterday you started the journey out of government. It is clear that you are out of touch with your own voters and I should know since I was one of them.
Several of their propositions has had a sense of urgency to them, like they knew from the beginning that they will be voted out next election. So they seem to try to get as much as they can through parliament before they are thrown out.
The same applies to websites./. is a hub where intellectuals and technocrats gather, albeit they might be drowned out by the voices of the more normal among us. The least/. could do is set an example by going exclusively https.
Oh right, the old "the social democrats started it!" excuse. Some of the right-wing politicians who passed this law actually used that one as a reason for not opposing it. While the observation is factually correct, it is not a valid reason to pass bad laws.
You obviously misunderstood my point. I did not excuse passing bad laws because the current opposition created it, I just observed that this bill would likely have been passed regardless of administration, simply because it was supported by both the alliance and the social democrats.
And as for your statement that "The opposition (the previous administration) used a law that enabled them to defer a decision for one year", that was done by the green party + the left party + the christian democrats.
I read in several articles that this was done by the social democrats, the left and the greens. If I was wrong, I'm sorry for that.
The only hope, however faint is that people neither forgets nor forgives this treason, and remember who the traitors were the next time elections are coming up.
That won't help. The previous social democrat administration created this proposition, and they aren't going to throw out this law unless held by their throat by the greens and/or the left party. And the only way that could happen would be if the lefts/greens would threaten to unseat the social democrats by siding with the (assumed) right-wing opposition. And that is highly unlikely, especially for the left party, because regardless of how much they dislike the social democrats, they dislike all the right-wingers much more.
And FRA, the agency responsible for the surveillance in question has behaved very well so far with every thing else they do.
Behaved well? The leader of the Pirate Party, Rick Falkvinge, in a conversation with the director of FRA back then (which was secretly recorded by Rick) got a confession that the FRA has been tapping the wires for many years already. The Pirate Party filed a complaint with the police shortly afterward.
And what worries me personally, is that the system will flag on encryption.
If we could get enough people to encrypt their communications, such a flag would be worthless. They would have to break an enormous number of encrypted messages (which is hard work even for the biggest supercomputers in the world) just to find out that they are not relevant.
giving the left/socialist plenty of time to rip it apart.
Unless forced to by the greens and the left party, the social democrats won't rip it out, quite the contrary. They will say thank you to the previous administration, for implementing and taking all the heat on a proposition that was originally created by the social democrats.
Right now there are two parties in parliament that I can trust. That would be the left party and the green party.
On this matter, there is only one party that I trust, and that is the Pirate Party. They might be most well-known for their views on non-commercial file-sharing and copyright laws, but they also have really sane views on protection of privacy, something I care a lot about.
You mean like a constitutional court? We don't have one. The only instance that vaguely resembles one is the joke that is the Committee on the Constitution. They have no power to rule any law as unconstitutional, they just argue among themselves with no actual results.
Ironically, the current administration has actually argued for setting up a constitutional court when they were in opposition. When they were voted into power, those arguments seemed to be forgotten.
This is what happens when countries vote in right-wing governments.
Actually not. This bill was originally created by the previous Social Democrat administration (which was supported by the Green Party and the Left Party), while the current administration voted against the bill in parliament. Pretty quickly after gaining being voted into power, the current administration resurrected the scrapped social democrat proposal as their own, and put it before parliament. The opposition (the previous administration) used a law that enabled them to defer a decision for one year, and voted against the proposal today.
The only reason for the opposition's no-vote seem to be that they would prefer to vote it into law when they are in power themselves.
I was with you right up until you said, Microsoft's customers couldn't care less about closed. I think Vista sales are proving otherwise.
The below-expectation sales of Vista has nothing to do with the system being closed, but rather the performance problems and driver incompatibilities. After all, Windows XP was equally closed, and few of them seemed to care.
You cannot give out the lock and the key together and expect it to not get cracked.
And that applies especially much to open source software, so much that I think that it is actually impossible. How could they prevent anyone from removing the DRM if the attacker has both the locked content, the key and the source code for the locking mechanism.
And for the trolls out there, no, this is not at all equivalent with having the locked content and the source code to the lock, but no encryption key, which is the case with regular encryption.
Or should I be responsible for keeping my own skills marketable? Me, I figured "Hey I should learn some of this Linux stuff"
This is a path that I completely agree with. It is every citizen's own responsibility to keep his skills marketable, and doing as you did, exploring a new and unfamiliar system, as well as widening your perspective, is simply the right thing to do.
Mac GUI applications still use the Mac specific APIs rather the X Windows ones though. Describing OS X as Unix is disingenous because while OS X can run Unix applications, both GUI and command line, Unix can't run Mac GUI applications.
Are you saying that the X Window System is required for an operating system to actually be Unix? A Unix system without X isn't Unix?
Have all data on a remote server somewhere in Sweden;
Given that Sweden is right now in the process of passing a new law that will enable far-reaching wiretapping of all wired communications, I don't think that Sweden is the ultimate country for such a server. Information gathered for the wiretaps are likely going to be forwarded to the US government, especially if it contains information on copyright infringement of US products.
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That remains to be seen. I would hold off on making any such statements until the court case is concluded.
Probably not much. SSL supports connection reuse, so a client can use the same session key (which avoids renegotiation and key exchange) for downloading multiple objects on the same site.
Okay, this wasn't my mistake. It's a problem with Slashdot.
See my reply to myself. I made a mistake when posting my reply. Sorry. :)
Thawte has been on the list of trusted CAs for ages. I remember I used them in 1999 to sign the certificate for the online travel agency I worked for that summer.
So? S/MIME certificates are available from well-known CAs for free.
What? You pay for your S/MINE certificate? I got mine for free yesterday from Thawte.
Email certificates can be had for free these days, thanks to e.g. Thawte, and those work in all modern email clients. So it doesn't have to cost anything.
Several of their propositions has had a sense of urgency to them, like they knew from the beginning that they will be voted out next election. So they seem to try to get as much as they can through parliament before they are thrown out.
Why do you think that? They can get my public key, but who cares? Good luck breaking it. My private key has never left this computer.
I completely agree.
You obviously misunderstood my point. I did not excuse passing bad laws because the current opposition created it, I just observed that this bill would likely have been passed regardless of administration, simply because it was supported by both the alliance and the social democrats.
And as for your statement that "The opposition (the previous administration) used a law that enabled them to defer a decision for one year", that was done by the green party + the left party + the christian democrats.I read in several articles that this was done by the social democrats, the left and the greens. If I was wrong, I'm sorry for that.
That won't help. The previous social democrat administration created this proposition, and they aren't going to throw out this law unless held by their throat by the greens and/or the left party. And the only way that could happen would be if the lefts/greens would threaten to unseat the social democrats by siding with the (assumed) right-wing opposition. And that is highly unlikely, especially for the left party, because regardless of how much they dislike the social democrats, they dislike all the right-wingers much more.
Behaved well? The leader of the Pirate Party, Rick Falkvinge, in a conversation with the director of FRA back then (which was secretly recorded by Rick) got a confession that the FRA has been tapping the wires for many years already. The Pirate Party filed a complaint with the police shortly afterward.
And what worries me personally, is that the system will flag on encryption.If we could get enough people to encrypt their communications, such a flag would be worthless. They would have to break an enormous number of encrypted messages (which is hard work even for the biggest supercomputers in the world) just to find out that they are not relevant.
I got my free S/MIME certificate from Thawte today, for encryption of email, and so did all my co-workers.
Unless forced to by the greens and the left party, the social democrats won't rip it out, quite the contrary. They will say thank you to the previous administration, for implementing and taking all the heat on a proposition that was originally created by the social democrats.
On this matter, there is only one party that I trust, and that is the Pirate Party. They might be most well-known for their views on non-commercial file-sharing and copyright laws, but they also have really sane views on protection of privacy, something I care a lot about.
You mean like a constitutional court? We don't have one. The only instance that vaguely resembles one is the joke that is the Committee on the Constitution. They have no power to rule any law as unconstitutional, they just argue among themselves with no actual results.
Ironically, the current administration has actually argued for setting up a constitutional court when they were in opposition. When they were voted into power, those arguments seemed to be forgotten.
Actually not. This bill was originally created by the previous Social Democrat administration (which was supported by the Green Party and the Left Party), while the current administration voted against the bill in parliament. Pretty quickly after gaining being voted into power, the current administration resurrected the scrapped social democrat proposal as their own, and put it before parliament. The opposition (the previous administration) used a law that enabled them to defer a decision for one year, and voted against the proposal today.
The only reason for the opposition's no-vote seem to be that they would prefer to vote it into law when they are in power themselves.
I have heard such reasoning before, in the daycare center. Some kid asks "Why is XXX YYY?". A "teacher" replies "Because!".
The below-expectation sales of Vista has nothing to do with the system being closed, but rather the performance problems and driver incompatibilities. After all, Windows XP was equally closed, and few of them seemed to care.
And that applies especially much to open source software, so much that I think that it is actually impossible. How could they prevent anyone from removing the DRM if the attacker has both the locked content, the key and the source code for the locking mechanism.
And for the trolls out there, no, this is not at all equivalent with having the locked content and the source code to the lock, but no encryption key, which is the case with regular encryption.
This is a path that I completely agree with. It is every citizen's own responsibility to keep his skills marketable, and doing as you did, exploring a new and unfamiliar system, as well as widening your perspective, is simply the right thing to do.
Are you saying that the X Window System is required for an operating system to actually be Unix? A Unix system without X isn't Unix?
Given that Sweden is right now in the process of passing a new law that will enable far-reaching wiretapping of all wired communications, I don't think that Sweden is the ultimate country for such a server. Information gathered for the wiretaps are likely going to be forwarded to the US government, especially if it contains information on copyright infringement of US products.