Your computer may already contain child porn and other illegal numbers, thanks to stegonography. There are ways to store arbitrary data in images, and you're currently running a program which can download and store images from arbitrary sources — unless, of course, you're browsing with images off.

Now, running a Freenet node will change the probability that your computer stores illegal numbers, and those numbers would be encrypted and stored in a standard format. But the only way to guarantee that your computer is clean involves wiping it (preferably using a degausser instead of a software program) and keeping it away from all untrusted data sources.

Full disclosure: I like Freenet.

Previously there haven't been such Windows tracking measures attempted by Microsoft.

I probably would react differently, because the above means that I would live in an alternate universe where Microsoft didn't pull all their DRM tricks yet and doesn't come up with names like Windows Genuine Advantage.

Someone mod parent up. This reminds me of the automated mathematician: if it's given rules that encourage discovering the Goldbach conjecture, and you spend enough time tuning it, then it's no surprise that it will eventually discover the Goldbach conjecture. Some debate whether AM actually discovered anything, or just found the stuff it was designed to discover (seeing as it stopped finding interesting conjectures after rediscovering all the known ones). But that's getting into philosophy.

You could print the mirror-image of the text on the inside of the shirt.

Mod up. Not for the author, but for the content.

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That is a problem with opennet mode, but I believe darknet mode addresses that concern. Basically, in opennet you connect to random strangers (less secure), whereas in darknet you only connect to nodes run by people you trust (more secure).

Kind of a pain, though, if you're nomadic or don't have a lot of geeky friends.

Apparently they're just upgrading:

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/17461648435

And even if Wikileaks was to disappear, there's always Freenet if you want to leak something:

http://freenetproject.org/

Of course, you'd have to check your own data to make sure there's no metadata that can be used to identify you. But Freenet covers the anonymous distribution angle.

Yes. And even the official Mac build (at least, the one I have) is compiled for a PowerPC processor. You can still run it on Intel machines thanks to Rosetta, but it's not ideal.

The question is, will we go for a top kill on the data leak, or will we first attempt more risky solutions which profit the data miners? What kind of concrete do you use to seal a data leak? And what's the conversion factor between the scale of an oil spill and the scale of a data spill? In other words, how do we get from m^2 to BAU (Bad Analogy Units), so we can compare them?

Seconded. Even for Idle, this seems... out of place.

I was raised in the Catholic church, so don't preach to me how Christianity is about "love".

This apple is red. Therefore all apples are red.

Maybe they recognize that there's a ton of open source software that people really want to use, and that easy installs of OSS on Windows adds value to Windows.

Like how they contributed some Linux stuff a while back to make it easier to run Linux in a VM... with Windows as the host machine (I'm not clear on the details, so I'm probably getting the terminology wrong).