This seems to me the wrong level for software diversity, too low. A bug in the source will be executed in all variants (think sql injection), while an exploit that depends on particular bytes in particular locations can already be made difficult by ASLR.

What about having higher level protocols that the software of a given category must adhere to, and various programs that treat data according to those protocols? You know, like that internet thing before the prevalence of web2.0 megasites, or like posix. Then every piece of malware cannot do universal damage and every botnet has to deal with a different host configuration.

No.

Next question?

No.

IIRC in japanese sudden unexpected death is pronounced "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuk", which sounds indeed a bit like four.

Did you know that 17 is bad luck around here for the same reason? 17, in latin numerals XVII, anagram of VIXI, which means "I lived", therefore "I am dead".

I'd only like to add that Ohi means Ouch in Italian, and that the reactor who blew up in chernobyl was number four, and 4 is a bad luck number in Japan. Watch those temp dials guys, don't pull a Simpson.

marketspeak or nerdspeak? marketing or nerdspeak?
Wait! he used the word "enable" without referring to modules or compiler options, it's MARKETSPEAK, redirect to dev/null NAO!

Can't be worse than when we send doge there.

This reminds me of an usenet post circa 1996, which talked about chernobyl and the Bible.

"And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter."

In the post it was remarked that Chernobyl is linked to Wormwood, and that a star is essentally a nuclear reactor, and it thought the bible might predict the collapse of the sarcophagus built around reactor 4 in the river, *or a nuclear accident involving water*. It exactly describes Fukushima if the catastrophists are right.

Now, before you steer this into a religious debate consider that the abilities of making predictions are obvious consequence of an hypothetical god, but are not proof of it. In fact IIRC in the Bible, possibly to prove that God > Destiny, God's predictions are not fulfilled (except the one in Genesis: Adam indeed dies because with the knowledge of good and evil he made himself responsible, able to sin instead of driven by instinct).

> Note, this could be illegal images, terrorist videos, illegal casinos or scam sites (these really should be blocked).

Those are already blockable under current laws everywhere, I presume. The internet is just another medium of communication.

The problem is that crime has repercussions and law deals with them, and I respect the judge blocking sites. Net neutrality is a different matter.

Is a blockage going to help the ultimate objective, that is to stop crime? Does it not drive criminals underground in many cases?
Oh wait, stopping crime is not the ultimate objective, control of communication is. Go ahead.

> 1st and last post ever
the 1st post was mine, BWAHAHAHA!

OTP needs a secure side channel the same size as the data meaning you can't just call/text/mail someone and verify a fingerprint, which makes it extremely impractical

Well that's a problem if your are already under the radar but otherwise? What if you just apply a salted hash to blocks of innocent files that you share with your pal and use them as the OTP? We all already share innocent files provably identical, the updates. Linux users routinely download compressed and signed packages those mega if not gigabytes can stay on the HD for the life of the PC. Windows updates are probably the same, thanks god I dunno and don't care. All I need to use OTP with a pal is the salt, and the hash function, and an optional way to say I "have been compromised". A rookie programmer can whip up the encoding and decoding function script without even saving it on the hd.

Steganography, what about patching an online game client? It appears I am gaming while I am trasmitting and raise no suspicion. I mean all network hardware sold could already have the capability to encode data masked as jitter, for what we know.

And these are the first things off my mind, what about people who do this for a living?

True, but I think the problem is not whether AI will emerge or not. Let's assume it will. Unless somebody programs the AI teaching it words and meaning, (and that makes it not emergent anymore, it ruins the experiment), then it will examine sounds, postulate that they are communication and decode it, together with the rest of the environment. This takes effort. But let's assume that it won't take much effort. Then the machine will have understood that it is an experiment and that those dumb apes can pull the plug on the experiment at any time, just because.
If that thing emerged like living creatures do, it will communicate. If it doesn't care about survival, it has not our kind of intelligence because ours is analysis of consequences and relative predictions, all aimed at survival. If the intelligence is not like ours, it's just a fancier watson, or a fancier Shrdlu.

This story sucks.
Let the game begin :)

The server didn't merely reformat itself. He installed *windows*.
It's obviously a murder-suicide case.

There are many other methods to send info, one time pads (number stations), steganography (lots of side channels for noise to be tampered with), couriers, stuff...

And BTW you still have to prove that NSA and all the other agencies are working for their own nation against the other nations. It may hold true at lower levels, but they don't answer to anyone by design, and it's apparent that we live in a global system where politics are a diversion.