Starvation?? The planet still produces food surpluses, and some countries (***cough**USA***cough***) throw away 40% of the food they buy at the market/restaurant.

The answer is that you GIVE the food to the children, you economic and moral imbecile. The parent was talking about making gadgets, not tending crops.

Here in this blog post: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/06/usb-security-challenges.html

Is definitely a concern to her Qubes OS project.

Seems there are modtrolls who don't want people to know about DeleteMe...

Its called 'DeleteMe' and you can check with them to see if they can help you with particular sites.

This is the same group that makes the anti-tracking browser addon 'DoNotTrackMe'.

See http://qubes-os.org/trac/wiki/QubesArchitecture

Computers can be operated such that all networking components starting at the NIC and ending at the (entire) remote system are untrusted. In an OS like Qubes, the NIC and IP stack are operated in their own untrusted VM running from a read-only template.

It works great!

Then, of course, there are the tools you can use to enhance privacy and trust: Tor and I2P use onion routing and use addresses that are verified with crypto. Where I2P improves over Tor is in the former's abilities as a general purpose transport, and its P2P spin (lack of centralization) on onion routing.

When the privacy tools are not application-specific, there is better potential for consistent utilization and for thwarting attacks.

Did it occur to you they might not be able to?

I don't know of another one. FWIW, they are developing on Android primarily so they are forced to keep the code as efficient and lean as possible. The effect on resource usage has been very positive.

As for taking off, I2P nodes and traffic have already been on a big upward climb over the past few years. I wouldn't be surprised if it surpasses Tor soon in the number of relays and amount of traffic.

I2P has a DHT based messaging system available. The whole stack is fully open, and the underlying protocol is actually like a marriage between bittorrent and Tor-- users are expected to relay traffic thus contributing greater bandwith and anonymity to the network.

I2P also has anonymized bittorrent built-in, so I'm not sure what this new bt chat brings to the table. It seems like too little too late to me.

An I2P messaging system 'I2PBote' was developed several years ago, and is based on DHT. It has the benefit of decentralization, plus the privacy/anonymity of onion routing.

Everyone is offering an encryption mode for their apps these days. But they don't address two important factors in privacy: Revealing the who/when/where info (the metadata the NSA is so interested in, for instance), and inconsistency of use. Using a network like I2P for all/most of your communications (including email, chat, bittorrent, etc) means there is far more guesswork involved for any spy even if they want to analyze your packet timing... with all your different protocols plus forwarded traffic from other systems in the mix, it offers more privacy and anonymity than even Tor.

Just having a market that leans heavily toward Android (open choice of apps) is pretty significant. Add to that the surge in interest for free distributions (Cyanogen Mod has recently raised millions in funding) and there is obviously a trend. That is all about software, but its logical to think that companies will start looking for open hardware designs when they are already dropping American vendors over the NSA spying scandal.

There is nothing typical about Stallman... not even within the core free software movement. And even his mode of usage fits very well with Web 1.0, so you exaggerate when you say 1970s paradigm.

Well, I think Qubes OS is one of the most exciting systems to appear in a long time, and its devoted to the idea of a convenient desktop environment built around strong security. As such, binary blobs and other proprietary code --yes, even drivers-- are kept strictly virtualized. There is no other way to keep an eye on risk factors.

The security lessons of the past 7 years demand more not less openness in consumer-oriented software.

Stallman also poses an interesting example for open hardware, however the focus of the FSF (AFAIK) remains on software. I have a hard time putting that stance in the 'purist' category; IMO they are far too trusting of hardware manufacturers. The lack of a hardware FSF analog is one reason why even the activation lights on our webcams are programmable and microphones have no light at all. Its why our physical systems don't provide any hooks for providing a solid visual security context to users (a primary goal of Qubes). Its why voting with computers is deemed "black box voting" (BBV) even when FOSS is running on them.

Something just went "snap!" in your supposedly comfortable (in practice, tortured) world of unserviceable consumer fads this year, largely due to the Showden leaks. People around the world are walking away from proprietary computing in droves, and the ones who aren't have already internalized the zeitgeist that will eventually lead to sharp reductions in closed components. Certain stocks are dropping for this very reason. And your head is stuck somewhere in 2003.

Yet the processing for that key nevertheless stretches out quite a while in computing terms; Choose the right time scales at which to analyze the acoustic signal, and perhaps something like an RSA key can be recovered where most other types of info are beyond reach because they are processed only fleetingly.