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Yes and no. Your private key is still useless without the passphrase, and you never, EVER leave that on ANY computer.

I have ONE written copy of the passphrase, in the safe with the rest of my passwords, in as tamper-proof a package as I can make it. My wife has instructions to open it IF something happens to me. . .

ANY Encryption can be cracked, given enough computing power and enough time.

Mind you, when I do PGP, I use a 4096 bit key, as strong as they come. Given current tech, and every computer on the planet, we’re STILL talking nearly a billion years to brute-force it. The only thing more secure than a high-bit dual RSA key is a one-time pad, and THOSE require sharing a document first.

As long as you use a long and complex pass-phrase, and keep it properly safeguarded (i.e. in your head only), it’s as secure as it gets. .

He should have carried a gun, and claimed to be threatened by the hammers . . . and 4 punks, Dead Right There. . .

On the other hand, this is New York: they’d give him the chair for it.

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to do what farmers do when they discover “endangered” species. . . . shoot and shovel. . .

IT still doesn’t solve the problem of emails.

For that, you can go commercial (PGP Desktop Professional) or Open-Source (Gnu Privacy Guard) PGP is easier to set up, GPG is free. . .

Gee, they voted for it. . . .what, they don’t like it now ???

Congratulations on the Baby Spoon. May he grow to dish out all his father has, and more!!!

Pay back their salaries AND all income earned after elected. . . .

Not to mention inflicting sufficient mental stress to force him to wet his pants OR negligent indifference to his requests to perform a basic hygenic function, thus inflicting FURTHER stress through forced violation of societal taboos.

(Yes, I’m phrasing it in such a way to attract the interest of a lawyer. . .)

And. . . when we DO have need to get some of the help we’ve paid in for for decades. . . strangely, we’re not eligible. . .

Haven’t you figured it out. . . it’s a FAMILY REUNION!!!

Barry’s taking the Wookiee and kids back to the Motherland. . .

Security Oath ? No such thing, sorry. Two page signed agreement, that’s all. . .

She was obviously trying to emulate the town’s father, the Man They Call Jayne.

She just couldn’t handle her Mudder’s Milk. . . (grin)

Quite probably. But most of it is at or near Fort Meade, Maryland. Heck, there are EXITS for it on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. . .

Let’s see. . . .he lived in HAWAII. NSA is in MARYLAND. . .

Both DEEPLY blue States. Democratic Senators and Congresscritters. How far would it go, ESPECIALLY as he noted that he was giving Obama a chance to fix it. . .and Zero doubled down. . .

Best Database programmer and app developer I ever met. . .was a college dropout. ENGLISH major. He found Code, and has been raking it in happily ever after. . .

All I can say is that Delegate Joe May is running a 100% negative campaign against Dave LaRock. . . tons of half-truths, and all repeated endlessly with a really edited version of events. . . .

NOTHING positive about Joe May. . . because there’s nothing positive about the guy.

Just another long-service RINO who needs to be sent out to pasture.

Vote LaRock!!!

Funny, but I can think of several things. In fact, I have, and have even (SURPRISE BLOG PIMPING) shown what they are and given pointers on how to use them and where to get them. . .

Public Service Time: PRISM, Government Snooping, and what YOU can do about it. . .

I’d say Angry Birds is more appropriate. They certainly are the mortal enemy of Pork in the budget. . .

I know a LOT of techies without formal educations. And a lot with no FORMAL background in computing. Best database programmer I ever knew. . . .had his B.A. in English, his concentration was Elizabethan Poetry.

A LOT of the really serious coders don’t have formal credentials. . . .much to the chagrin of the HR Mandarins. . .

Another guy I know, only finally got his Bachelor’s at age 29. He was co-author of a major security software package, and has two O’Reilly books out. But he had problems finding a regular job, because he didn’t have the proper tickets (i.e. degree and certifications) punched. . .

Oh, trust me, the entire atmosphere at Booz is Center-Left. . .

I worked there, hated it. . .

Lost wax would still need touchup, and if you get voids. . .remelt and start again. Although for THAT level of injection molding. . . you could probably use a wood mold, provided you didn’t want to do production. And a setup like that, with no cooling and limited injection capability, isn’t really a production system anyway...

The problem here isn’t erectile dysfunction.

It’s ELECTILE dysfunction. . .

You STILL need to make the molds. . . either additive metal fabrication tech (which is NOT at the home/hobbyist level yet) or CNC (which IS available at the home/hobbyist level. . .)

Actually, probably not. ODNI gets ignored by both CIA and NSA: it’s mostly an administrative unit, from what I’ve seen and heard. . .

They’ll protect the Imperial Core. The Suburbs, not so much. . .

Well, at least according to Hillbuzz, he does that regularly. . . sort of. Minus all the medical stuff, but he IS reportedly getting. . . probed. . .

Personally, I’d find that VERY revolting. . . (evil grin)

And in a possibly related matter. . . who is willing to bet that (1) this would have been a MUCH different story if the parents were Obama donors, and/or (2) the parents will turn out to have donated to one or more Republican and/or Conservative causes. . .

Same County, different schools. But the pattern is there. . .

Luckily, I've blogged on both.

The Cap Gun was Dowell Elementary School in Lusby MD

The Kid talking guns on the bus was Northern Middle School, in Owings, Maryland

Only one thing to do. . .

Paging Samuel L. Jackson. . . .

Last Eagles prior to the Sodomy Merit Badge requirement. .

And “unwanted” defined as messages critical of the Divine Path as spoken unto the masses by the Ear Leader. . .

"Millennials have very different expectations,"

Horse Hockey. An engineer or otherwise smart enough to work shale knows DAMNED well what he or she is worth, knows that the compensation will be high, but the living conditions austere, simply because it's occuring far from built-up areas. So they want "comfort" fringes as well. . .

Helen Mirren needs no TARDIS to go beyond Space and Time. . .

As SNL showed us. . . (Borderline NSFW)

Two Words.

Hugh Laurie.

The House is in The Doctor (evil grin)

Ethical or not, it’s been done for DECADES. . .

Yes, I’ve have it, too. My point, is an EPUB or Kindle-format copy would be (1) Easier to read and (2) put some cash in John Ross’s pocket.

A pity there’s not an official E-book version of it.

Paying 40 bucks for a paperback is a stretch, especially in the Obamaconomy. HARDCOVERS don’t sell for that much. . .

Me, I’m waiting for the new Gay Scouting “mentoring” program, the “Chickenhawks”. . . .

That’s because we can SEE that Vladimir Putin is a Man to be Reckoned With.

Obama. . . not so much. . .

So let me get this straight: someone is FORCING students to take loans ?

Sorry, the students CHOOSE to take loans. They COULD work their way through college, or join the Armed Forces, and get the GI Bill. . .

Instead, what we have is the Housing bubble, all over again: all the risk is on the taxpayers. . .

Here’s a hint: before getting a Student Loan, make sure the jobs you can get as a result of it pay enough, and are solid enough, to make a living and the payments on that loan. Not too many jobs out there for Womyn’s Studies or Underwater Basker-Weaving majors. . .

I know moderates. Moderates are friends of mine. And YOU, Lincoln Chafee, are no moderate. . . .

(stealing a line from Ronaldus Magnus. . . )

I’m not fond of Charlie either. . . . oh, you mean JESUS Christ. . . . nevermind. . . . (evil grin)

(that, btw, is an example of how to zing a Lefty right back. . .)

Survivor: Inside the Beltway ????

It’s just “Capital District”. DC in reverse. And the Hunger Games have been going for years. . .

May the EBT always be in your favor !!

Of course. They used the money to buy up some motels, so it’s much more comfortable when they seduce the younger Girl Scouts. . .

"Or are only other people's deductions to be depicted as somehow wrong, while our own are OK?"

Ding-ding-ding!! You just hit the defining mantra of the Progressives. . .

And sending her to a WOMEN’S PRISON will do this ???

Just saying. . .

Cue the typical Green reaction:

“A **COST-BENEFIT-ANALYSIS** ??? That sort of supposedly “objective” thinking is indicative of male-dominated pen*s-science. and objectifies Mother Gaia. . . “

Did I get the tone right ??? (grin)

“TANGO DOWN”. hmm. . . .that phrase is USUALLY associated with th3j35t3r, one of the Patriot Hackers. . .