Letters to the Editor
thelastnamechosen
Published Letters: 283
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Scientician
[Read the article: The conservative vision of America, by National Review]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As always, the the problems of key transmission exist.
Doesn't public key encryption take care of this issue?
It is a cat-and-mouse game, and this is one area where I will give a decisive advantage to the NSA over the terrorists. You just can't shoestring substitute the banks of supercomputers and PhD mathematician code-breakers.
It is not a battle between terrorists and the NSA, it is a battle between civilian mathematicians and cryptology experts and government employed mathematicians and cryptology experts. The problem with giving the NSA decisive advantage is that it is based upon the premise that the government has an understanding of mathematics and/or access to technology that is well beyond what civilian scientists think is possible right now. I am not saying that the civilians are correct, I am just saying that is one hell of a deep rabbit hole to jump into.
I personally believe that spelunking is an important part of life, just make sure you tell loved ones where you are going and when you should be back:)
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Much smarter people than I have addressed these issues much better than I could (damn these slow pudgy fingers and small brain)
This is worth repeating...
rustcrumb said...
There are of course other ways to get around encryption, like using security holes in the operating system, exploiting weakness in the random number generator, installing a keylogger ... However, most of these things don't lend them to large-scale automation, which makes the blanket FISA warrant idea more or less pointless.
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God you suck
[Read the article: Nepotistic tough guys and their coddling parents]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps it's the anonymity of the internet that allows us to be much meaner than we ever would face to face.
You could not be more wrong...JERK.
To all subscribers of the so called Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory--
If I ever meet you I will kick your ass!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
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I will try to not to die like a dog
[Read the article: Live-blogging the Mukasey confirmation hearing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The good news:
When we finally find the vast underground wing of Hatch's home that houses his porn collection, the unprecedented size and the almost ritualistic obsession with cataloging and cross referencing will form the basis for the Erotica Museum.
The bad news:
As above, so below. Just rotated 90 degrees. The democrats remind me of a kid trying to sleep through the whole month of December so that Christmas will get here sooner. Frozen caveman lawyers waiting for the Wii.
Bamage,
Are you sure you want to miss the end of the world?
Is Hecht's still around? I have a hundred dollar gift certificate around here somewhere. Scrip for the company store.
The insanity of optimism still tastes better than the insanity of pessimism.
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I will resurrect it, I'll have a good go at it
I'll streak his blood across my beak and dust my feathers with his ash
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Long dark blues
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Songs: Ohia
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bebop-o
[Read the article: Live-blogging the Mukasey confirmation hearing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Leave the top button undone. At least for the pearl divers.
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Anon
[Read the article: Live-blogging the Mukasey confirmation hearing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Hatch is responsible for Smilin Bob, then I am torn. When the wife disappointingly holds up the toothpick skewered vienna sausage, that bumped the moon landing down a notch on the list of great TV moments.
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Excellent work Glenn!
[Read the article: The truth about telecom amnesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I look forward to the full interview. I would also encourage everyone to join the EFF. Don't forget to buy a "SWAT" cap.
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The Pale Criminal
[Read the article: AT&T, other telecoms, buy victory in lawsuits]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of the most depressing sides of this story, if Glenn Greenwald is correct, is that Rockefeller has been 'bought' for chump change. I followed the link documenting his connections to telcom industries. While it is true that AT&T, Verizon, etc., are near the top contributors, the total contribution of this group is something like (I just eyeballed it, forgive the approximacy) $100,000. At&T gives $16,000, etc.
Thus speaks the red judge: "Why did this criminal commit murder? He meant to rob." I tell you, however, that his soul wanted blood, not robbery: he thirsted for the bliss of the knife!
But his weak reason did not understand this madness, and it persuaded him: "What matters blood!" it said; "don't you want, at least, to rob? Or take revenge?"
And he listened to his weak reason: like lead its words laid upon him- therefore he robbed when he murdered. He did not want to be ashamed of his madness.
And now the lead of his guilt lies upon him, and once more his weak reason is so numb, so paralyzed, so dull.
---Thus spoke Zarathustra.
Rockefeller wanted murder, but "He did not want to be ashamed of his madness."
ICgracchus@09:57 is spot on. This is well worth repeating--
If Washington will be unaccountable, then we need to start marching on Albany, Richmond, and Sacramento to get state legislatures to protect us.
In fact, it would not surprise me if some states already have telecom privacy laws similar to the federal legislation that is being circumvented. Some research is in order.
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Well this doesn't look good--
[Read the article: AT&T, other telecoms, buy victory in lawsuits]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On behalf of the ACLU, a non-partisan organization with hundreds of thousands of activists and members and 53 affiliates nation-wide, we urge you to vote “no” when S. 2389, the Protecting Consumer Phone Records Act, comes to the floor. This bill may be considered on its own, or as part of S. 2178, the Consumer Telephone Record Protection Act. This legislation would pre-empt pending investigations in at least 10 states into whether telecommunications companies violated the privacy rights of their customers by providing sensitive personal information about their telephone calls to the National Security Agency.
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/gen/26909leg20060927.html
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This is dated 9/27/2006, and I don't yet know the final fate of the specific wording they are referring to, but I am not hopeful. I think the ultimate problem is a Supreme Court that accepts the idea that federal law alone can nullify state law.