There isn't a single cane of sugar growing on soil where the Amazon rain forest is or was. Be less of an idiot, be more of an educated person, please.

BK also runs on Windows. My old man has been using it for 13 years for his genealogical records. I've tried to get him going with GRAMPS, but still no success.

Maybe it is worth a shot again.

You, sir, have hit the nail right on the head. It's only sad that even foreigners don't see Lula and his gang for what they really are.

IPSec, anlong with SSL/TLS, is one of the most common ways of securing a VPN today.

I'm sure they are not interested in "every computer". Heck, OpenBSD doesn't run in "every computer". They are probably interested in key machines used by companies, foreign governments and such. Devices which actually relay sensible information.

What really gets me worried is that even the audit freaks who develop OpenBSD weren't able to see this. If it turns out to be true then what about other projects which less savvy developers? What about Linux? Not long ago it was reported that the workhorse of Linux development are mostly paid developers, of which most are employed in private companies. What's the chance of FBI having some of them in their payroll?

Other than that, I imagine the "backdoor" is probably a very well hidden bug that allows key leaking of some sort and for which only the FBI has the exploit.

They don't need to dig up any dirt on the man. They could, but it would be a worthless effort. Unless he has raped children before eating their fleshes while they were still alive or has been the central figure of some major economical scandal, they know they can't make him look bad to his followers and to the whole lot of people supporting WikiLeaks. The kind of support and supporters he has attracted are quite hard to get, and once gathered they are quite hard to get rid of as well. Besides finding a way to put him behind bars (be it legal or not) and perhaps shutting down his whole operation in order to avoid the disclose of the rest of the cables, there isn't much they can do about what has happened already.

Educated by the Guardian? Seriously?

It also takes on-line take-out orders in several places of the world, which also requires personal information -- at least a name and an address, but I suppose they ask for more info than that on the order form.

Seriously, why the heck someone would post such stupidity on Slashdot? Everyone knows there isn't a group called "Anonymous". It's just a bunch of perverts with nothing better to do, doing it for the lulz. Most of them can't tell the difference between TCP and UDP, but one doesn't need to know that to install LOIC and fire up a load of nasty packets to a predesignated target. They don't know what the fuck they are doing, they just got a informational image on 4chan describing where to download LOIC, what goes where, and they are all set. It is like this incredible stupid hive with no one leading, one just follows the neighbour without asking questions.

And regarding the traceability of such people, seriously? People are actually doing studies on this? Give me a fucking break. They are anonymous in the sense that one doesn't need to sing up on 4chan to post, nor identify oneself. That's all there's to it. 4chan keep all their IP address logged, they know it and they can't care enough to use proxies.

They are trolling the world, and it is sad that timothy has taken the bait.

You, sir, have made my day with that quote.

Err, "none of us", obviously.

Miserable typo.

The goal of a DDoS attack is to make the site unavailable to those who want to access it.

You can make a picket and you are not in the wrong if people decide to buy somewhere else just to avoid it, there's no problem with that. What you can't do is to chain the doors of the store and make it impossible for people to go in even if they want to.

It should be clear that those are completely different things. The on-line equivalent of a picket is getting ad space on public sites willing to provide it and promoting "XYZ Corp. is evil" campaigns.

Anonymous just wanna see the world burning, that's all there's to it. If there was a website that upon 1 billion accesses it would trigger an atomic bomb to be launched at a random location on Earth, I bet Anonymous would be running scripts to achieve that as quick as possible.

The sad thing is that they got involved in this WikiLeaks business. They serve no other purpose than giving reasons to those opposing it. It illegitimates the whole deal. What's their motto again? "Because one of us are as cruel as all of us" if I am not mistaken. Tells you a lot.

It's happening all right, but I still have my doubts if it is happening due to man or if it's part of some unknown cycle of Earth which is too complicated for us to grasp yet.