I understand your position. However, you are the minority. Most of the tech world are now young people with careers, families, and bills to pay. Risking prison on an ideology, especially one with which they aren't totally familiar, is just reckless.

Without meaning to sound harsh, it sounds as though you've got nothing left to lose, and in this kind of situation that is a definite boon; such people are nigh on unstoppable. However, a father of two young children dragged through the courts on CP charges and found not guilty, reported in the corporate press as a "lack of evidence", will likely result in the ruined lives of everyone in the family. It's just too big a risk for most.

No, it's a private company with which you have a contract, part of which is that you will not open access to their service to a third party. You are breaching your contract, and they can terminate your agreement at least, sue you for it at worst.

I run a Tor relay 24/7 on my connection, so I'm sort of in the same boat as you. I'm under no misconception, however, that this breaches the terms of my contract. I'd be happy for the situation you refer to above, where internet service is provided as a utility, but we're not there yet.

Nobody will be fired for talking about unions. They will be performance managed out of the position over a period of months.

The only place where you can't easily be fired is the public sector, and that's why they pay so badly.

A friend of mine once said "There are two types of people in the world; Those who keep important things with them, and those who lose things." Leave your stuff lying around, expect to lose it. It's been that way since the concept of property was defined.

Yes they are. If you can receive $1 for one coin, the coins are worth $1 each. If someone else offers you 70c per coin, and your friend doesn't want to buy any more, they're now worth 70c. Congratulations; You've just discovered commodity trading!

The difference between your coin and the dollar, though, is that the government accepts dollars as a means of paying your taxes, making it fiat money If the governemtn started accepting your tin coin as payment, it would be assigned a value by the government, backed by the treasury. You would then have created money, instead of tradeable goods.

White helmet, hi-vis vest, ride with your lights on. You can't see any of those things while you're riding, so it doesn't matter how "cool" you look.

Nobody looks "cool" doing 35MPH over a car bonnet.

Got to have something to polish, aside from their ego, and their... Ahem... Helmet.

Yeah, but people without a functioning liver will probably take one with a little mileage on it. In fact, they'd probably take half of one.

People need to learn that defensive driving doesn't mean "driving like a pansy". It means being observant of your surroundings, and watching for things other drivers would miss, e.g. Parked cars with turned wheels may pull out, looking for reflections in windows to see around obscured objects etc. Driving defensively is not riding the ass of the car in front, not accelerating hard to beat the lights, paying attention to the road conditions in the distance as well as immediately in front of you.

Hell, they should just call it "driving"; There's nothing defensive about it.

Encrypt and checksum the data you give to your attourney. Give your friend / recipient of the data the checksum to check for tampering, and the key to decrypt the data transfered to them by the attourneys. You now need only trust your friend.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Problem solved.

Nobody cares if a credit card is skimmed. That's oney belonging the credit card company that's been stolen; You're not liable. They either reclaim the money from the vendor, or they get it covered by insurance.

This is why you should always use a credit card for large purchases, even in part, and when purchasing online. Not only do you have whatever protections you receive from local legislation, you also have the extra protection of the credit card company. It's UK law, but check out Section 75 Consumer Credit Act 1974 There are other protections for fraudulent transactions.

Why not just browse the adult web from an encrypted VM? Not only are you keeping your proclivities hidden, you're also protecting your system from the myriad of exploits pushed through these particular websites.

How would you know it was genuine without consulting a legal professional? I can download the NSA logo from Google Images, find their address from Wikipedia, and write "You should stop doing this thing or we'll invite you to stay at Guantanamo Bay Care Home for the Politically Undesirable. Oh, and where I said 'invite you to stay at' replace it with 'put you in a 4' x 2' x 2' hold-all and ship you freight to'."

Someone should start sending fakes to random US addresses, just to see what happens.

If we're going to re-write it, do we continue with the ongoing audit? Do we hold back on paying for more testing so we can audit the re-write?