Except he sent the email 30 minutes before the exam, because he was desperate at the last minute.

Also, news at 10pm: Desperation makes teenager do stupid stuff.

Modern firewalls (Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Juniper) include IPS features and generally log all sessions by default until the disk is full. If you give it a few TB of space, you can keep years of logs on individual TCP sessions....

It's common practice in business (and education).

Keeping firewall logs is a standard activity to be able to respond to malware and other types of attacks.

Your average top-of-the-line firewall like a Palo Alto is generally configured to keep all transaction logs for 1-5 years, depending on traffic volume and needs.

They can do cool reporting of "change in traffic over time" and pull metrics on how BitTorrent traffic from a set of IPs is more/less than it was in the same period a year prior, etc.

And, it can help with investigations.

This is done. Be aware of it, but it's not going to go away, unfortunately. It's too valuable to network admins and the people who pay for the bandwidth.

Yep, just another example of externalizing long-term costs and claiming savings by doing it.

Humans are BAD at long-term risk analysis.

In short, no, this is a silly publicity stunt.

Batteries in cars are optimized for weight and cost at a moderate level of normal power draw. They are not optimized for powering buildings.

This is silly.

What is the most practical way to maintain bitwise accuracy on a diverse set of binary data in an automated way using "diff and md5sum"?

Note that part where he was looking for an automated solution that will run itself without intervention, or a better means than hard drives...

You suggested... "Do some manual stuff using hard drives".

Right.

Mr Snowden did illegal things, but he is a hero, honestly, which could be illustrated no more clearly than your post.

Well, they did, until the Conservative government in the 1990s spawned the NZ First party and ran the government in a coalition with them, with their primary point of agreement on getting away from liberal Scandinavian-style legal approaches and into closer alignment with CanAusUS policy of "tough on crime".

It has worked rather poorly for them if you ask me.

Yes, but none of them would offer a $180,000 fine for the entire security response operation to a single individual protester.

I don't hear too many people arguing that there should be no punishment for willful DoS. Just that the response should be comparable to the offense.

And this is a problem with the US justice system, in my opinion.

"Been done since the 1980s" doesn't make it right.

Yes, but you wouldn't charge the guy who bolted the fourth bolt into the foundation of the gas chamber with genocide...

Or the guard in the back corner of the 97th train car.

Or the civilian who stopped by to offer a hand with herding unruly prisoners in what he thought was a justified act....

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No, but this seems to be the argument of the GGP post.

But that's not how it works. This is how it might work in the Austrian Economics model, where it is assumed that people are perfectly rational.

They aren't.

Increasing punishments often had only marginal decreases in crime and sometimes none at all.

But we see this. And the conclusion in the English speaking world these days, paradoxically, isn't "hmmm, this isn't working", it is instead "need more!"

So we increase punishments again and still see only marginal decrease in crime.

Surveys show that immediately after the implementation of draconian punishments, crime rates drop slightly (but not linearly with the punishment), but often slowly rise back up over a period of time.

Now you've just reset the baseline, with marginal reductions in crime, and drastically harsher punishments.

This is how the United States came to be imprisoning more people per-capita than arguably any country in history (possibly setting aside Stalinist Russia and a few similar regimes), yet having one of the higher crime rates in the same population.

As was said before, what if you later catch guys 2-9?

What if it is 180,000 people?

Does the first guy who is caught owe 180,000 times his own contribution?