The beauty of the Internet is that you can do your part all by yourself, without waiting for anyone else to get their shit together first. You don't need to start a movement, you don't need to tear anything down or build some international organization to oversee everything. Just do what you said -- stop using Google, stop trusting root CAs, roll your own encryption, use VPNs, etc.

If other people want to continue using commercial / government crap, well, that's their prerogative. If it's as bad as you say then they'll eventually see the light and the Internet will be a better place for them too.

There's no 36,32 hamming code that can give full SECDED. Intel and AMD use 72,64. Probably everyone else too, since x72 memory is so common.

1. On-die caches are SRAM, not DRAM.

2. On-die caches have ECC.

Always has been, always will be.

I would like to propose a moratorium on comments of the form, "I manage a team and would never hire you." They add nothing to the discussion and only lead to useless dick waving competitions. ("Oh yeah? Well, I'm president of a Fortune 137 company and *I* wouldn't hire *you*!" "Oh yeah? I'd never accept an offer from your crappy company and you couldn't afford me anyway! Neener neener!" "Oh yeah? [etc]")

Tina Fey is 10x better at the news-host schtick than Poehler. What's she up to these days?

Windows 3.0 shared DLL code segments in memory. It's the whole point of DLLs.

How to protect yourself from Sony-style attacks:

Step 1. Don't be Sony.

Socialism: an economic system in which the workers control the means of production. If the workers are all robots, that bodes ill for humanity. I hope you meant "communism" instead.

It should be a felony for a police officer to do this, because they wield so much more power in this equation.

It is a felony.

It's exactly the same thing, except it's on the Internet, which makes it completely different. And innovative! And high-tech! Which is why these dumb stories about taxi companies should be flooding Slashdot every day, I guess.

Since every bug this year needs to have a catchy name for the headlines, I propose we call this one "Davy Jones' Lockup."

It's legal in your own country to spy on foreign powers.

This case has nothing to do with spying on foreign powers. It's about federal agents searching through the private effects of an individual, which is explicitly, specifically, Constitutionally illegal without a warrant.

Well said. You saved me the trouble of writing a comment not half so clear and complete.

Ask professional drivers. These "ethical" questions are ridiculous. Avoid obstacles if possible; if not, slow down. It's better to crash into something you can't avoid as slowly as possible. It's also best to maintain control just in case the situation changes.

So, what are you going to use for ID?

So, in that atmosphere, how any single website would ever be able to "authenticate" your ID, I have no idea.

How about tamper-resistant cryptographic biometric devices? Use your government-issued fingerprint reader to log into Big Brother's system, then each server is required to make sure you have a valid current login certificate from BB before providing any services. Complete records must be kept indefinitely and will be audited against upstream connection logs.

Nobody is required to have government ID, but network service providers are prohibited from communicating over the Internet with anybody who isn't logged in with Big Brother.

Obviously this only works within one jurisdiction. Foreign Internet users would have to be handled separately, if at all.

I guess it would be easiest to manage this at the ISP level -- ISPs would be required to require proof of identity (via secure biometric reader) at regular intervals from all users. Then you don't necessarily have to bother auditing web, email, etc, servers.