Posted on 06/07/2010 9:29:58 PM PDT by oc-flyfish
This is pretty scary stuff. The Federal government is ready to seize control of private company networks in order to "protect" us in the event of a hacker attack.
Comrade, if you have nothink to be hidingk, vy you should be vorried about government control of internet?
Then again if you had asked Germans if they would act the way they did - before it happened, they would have thought you nuts. Human nature tells us it's happened before - and it can happen again...
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lol.
I am just wondering how long before they try to apply the McCain-Feingold restrictions to the internet? Shut down FR 30 days before every election!
Sounds like something only Obama-Kagan & Soros could support.
You lucky bastard. I still think I was born a bit too late to have a lot of the fun I could have had.
BTW, the Skein hash algorithm made by Bruce and his usual collaborators is in the second round of the NIST hash function competition. Wish him luck. Their Twofish algorithm made it to the final five for the encryption standard, but didn't get chosen.
The WiFi networking coupled with mesh network e.g. Freifunk would allow a community to have good networking independent of ISPs. The peer-to-peer network file sharing programs will work just fine over a mesh of that type. It's more viable than what we did with our ham radio packet networks in the 80's.
There are alternative firmware loads for the Linksys WRT-54G router that natively support Freifunk. I don't recall whether that is an AODV or OLSR mesh. The routers that support it were Linux based. Later board revisions moved to a different OS and smaller memory footprint to save money. The best configurations are running dual frequency bands. A "backbone" on 802.11a goes router to router. Local connectivity is achieved on 802.11b/g on 2.4 GHz. The antennas are small and easy to place high on your house.
You seen this yet??
I’m rushing out to Cost-Co now. I will not be caught without a supply of tin foil!
I started attending UseNIX in 1988. It was a great place to rub elbows with my peers in the industry and meet some of the giants who created it. Dennis Ritchie, David Korn, Mike Karels, Chris Torek and a long list of others were folks I had the pleasure of meeting at those events. By 1996, the UseNIX meetings were getting less productive. Linus Torvalds did a very amusing presentation at the last one I attended. He is a real live wire in person. Not all of the luminaries are pleasant folks in person. I won't elaborate, but one meeting was sufficient for a few. I really liked Larry Wall. He always showed up in a tux for his talks.
The first time I met Phil Karn, I was on a technical business trip to Bellcore. Phil's office was in an adjacent building. It was a real maze of passages. It was around 1 PM when I was looking for his office. A nearby office mate said it was "a little early for Phil". He did walk in a few minutes later. That day he was preparing to attend the Dayton Hamvention. It was nice to finally meet in person. A couple months later, Phil signed on with Qualcomm and made his trek to San Diego with a Qualstar device on the roof of his car.
I’m just gonna go with my tag line for my comment!
On second thought, it probably wasn't that I was born too late, but that I was running around the world in the Army.
FYI
Little known fact...there is a second, seperate, significantly larger net that is operated by the government. It is essentially what they were building before the public was given access. They do not use the network upon which you and I communicate.
Thanks to you I just did. I'm alerting some others to read it.
Not much would surprise me in this day and age. The best I can do it seems is to keep muttering to myself: We're screwed.
I'll contact my rep--but his name is Lloyd Doggett--don't expect much help there. We could also contact Gov GoodHair, and K Bailey and John Cornyn,but that would probably be wasted effort too.
What are your suggestions for action?
At the time cryptography export restrictions as a munition prevented the disk from being exported. However the book could be exported since it was only text. Thus the government's reason for banning the disk assumes nobody in any foreign country knows how to type.
Karn sued over export of the disk. It was a thorn in the administration's side, and I believe led them to realize the export restrictions were stupid. Remember, this was also a time when US businesses had to ship lower-encryption products overseas, killing their ability to be competitive with foreign companies who could use the full encryption in their products. Karn thus incidentally did a lot for the US software business.
A related issue was Phil Zimmermann's Pretty Good Privacy. The Clinton administration hounded him for years because people had exported PGP. To show the idiocy, Phil published a book with the source, and foreigners scanned it in, compiled it and put it on the Internet. Thus you could download a legal version of PGP from a foreign source (IIRC, Finland was popular), but not from Phil here in the US since he couldn't publish it in a place where it could be easily downloaded to a foreign country without Clinton's goons nailing him.
See reply #50 and 137 on this thread. We need a boots on the ground network.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2529899/replies?c=50
Ackshully, I did know because it “buzzed” my car while I was washing it and left your message loud ans splatty while chirping chopsticks ib Morse code. It had to be psychic because my own sister don’t know where I live. (And don’t you tell her either!)
So the bigger question is what do you have against my car? And just wait until you get my response!
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
Shiny side out.
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