Posted on 08/21/2013 8:50:45 PM PDT by Errant
The Internet, and many forms of online commerce and communication that depend on it, may be on the brink of a "cryptopalypse" resulting from the collapse of decades-old methods of shared encryption.
The result would be "almost total failure of trust in the Internet," said four researchers who gave a presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas earlier this month.
"We need to move to stronger cryptosystems that leverage more-difficult mathematical problems," the presenters said.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
we should try that
I remember I only did local calls back in the day, that was before affordable long distance plans.
This Dell laptop I’m working off of now is the first computer I’ve bought without a modem. Just always insisted on having one as a basic configuration in the past. Now that you mentioned it, lol, those old modems did connect via serial.
Yeah, I was reading about them but why me? All my controversial stuff is in plain text on fr! lol Also, the rainbow tables give a hash match but it is many:one on passwords to hashes, right?
No indication of any more attempted breaches since last night.
Seems likely my account was one of many attacked.
It would work. There are a number of ways to do it. Connect, exchange data and disconnect. May even be some open source software available already.
Wait, this phone plug on my laptop that connects to the FiOS (or could if I wasn’t using wifi) isn’t a modem?
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Whoever received the daily packets via shortwave could upload it to local BBS’ for those who don’t have the shortwave receiver on their computers.
That could be interesting. They could even post some audio broadcasts I guess.
If there is an open source way to pick up data packets from shortwave someone should use Linux From Scratch and build a special Underground Linux OS in preparation. Burn your iso files in advance.
If it’s a phone plug, it should be able to be a modem and able to be used to connect to a dial-in BBS with the right software.
Camas Washington has a BBS with 48 nodes! “DragonLance” must be a local gaming server.
I wonder if this would work, I don’t think my Linux PC has the right software.
I’m no Ham expert, but there are number of folks here you are. I do know it’s possible to send data over ham frequencies. Your idea to have this connected to a dial in BBS is a good one.
OK. I checked the Ubuntu repository and there does appear to be some utilities to dial out.
I’m sure there are a number of open source apps that would do it for you.
Yep. There is a free program called FLARQ that lets us share data over a ham connection. ha.
FLARQ is also FLDIGI
one review :
de WN1Z 21nov11: Running Ubuntu 11.04, FLDIGI is the only app that does psk-31 (etc.) that i can get to run properly with my limited knowledge of configuring my Ubuntu machine. All the other similar apps (twpsk, linpsk, gMFSK, and a couple others) either would not run, or could not find /dev/dsp or some other problem. FLDIGI’s configuration dialog, when i checked “PortAudio,” identified “HDA Intel: ALC272 Analog.” I won’t have a chance to hook it up to my radio for a couple weeks, but testing with a mic and headphones says it works. Thank you author(s)!
To make it harder for the bad guys in the future, try using Google’s two-factor authentication. After anyone logs in successfully with your username and password, Google sends a code to you by phone, text, or email. You can proceed only if you enter that code.
With two-factor authentication, it’s much harder for the bad guys to take over your account.
So, yes the technology and software does exist to make my idea work. So, now... how do we talk one of those big shortwave radio stations into trying this on a large scale (two big ones out of TN one is Christian and the other is a conspiracy/Alex Jones type operation)
I would love to see FReepers all over America who have HAM equipment see if they can download a PDF file from a packet being broadcasted. Then upload the packets to a local BBS where those without the HAM equipment can retrieve it.
The idea is only valuable if we organize a way to use it when it becomes necessary. We could organize this as a test of the Free Republic Emergency Communication System (FRecs for short). It would also be interesting to see if we can get a message from Jim Robison to be spread from Fresno to BBS sites across the country without by HAM using the internet or the big SW radio guys.
We should be prepared in case of the worst.
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