To send e-mail to ThisIdiot@andycanfield.com you have to send it to ThatIdiot@yandex.com. There is no e-mail service at andycanfield.com because all of the worlds SMTP servers are interconnected by mandatory certification.

There there is no e-mail server on my web site. Your e-mail client connects to SMTP.alpha.com and it talks to SMTP.beta.com which talks to SMTP.gamma.com on down the line until the message gets to SMTP.target.com and delivers the message where he can pick up the message from POP3.target.com. All the world's SMTP servers are inconnected by a web of paid-for certificates. Unlike HTTPS, there is no human involved, so nobody can say "Yes, go ahead and accept that certificate". Your certificate is either signed by a recognized organisation, or you're out of the chain.

I have my own personal web site. It uses HTTP. Several years ago I looked into upgrading it to HTTPS. No thanks. Why not? Because [a] I had to shell out my own money to by a certificate to vouch for my domain name, and [b] It seemed wrong to me to have somebody else to voucth for me. Maybe Mozilla can solve the first problem. But if you go to my domain name, why do you need anybody else to swear that that really is me? Seems wrong, somehow.

- Andy Canfield
www.andycanfield.com

Ahah! Do you believe what I posted? Did I sign it with my PGP key? Do you believe that this is me typing this? Who will you believe if you don't believe me? Answer: don't trust anybody, including me.

I was at U.C. Berkeley in 1968. We forced the US out of Vietnam, we brought down Richard Nixon. We can do it again; we can bring down the US NSA.

How? The same way we did it before - by teaching everyone we meet. What did we teach them in the 1960's? "The government MIGHT be lying to you." Once they learned that, they began thinking and checking, and they saw that very often the government WAS lying. When Richard Nixon denied the accusations, noboty believed him.

What do we need to teach people today? Perhaps it is "The government does not TRUST you." The constitution says that Barack Obama is the boss of the NSA, and that the AMERICAN PEOPLE are the boss of Obama. So how can an organization not trust the boss? Keith Alexander has admitted to Congress that the NSA has lied to the American people, who are his boss. You lie to the boss you get your ass kicked. This posted message is part of that education.

The question is not whether Ed Snowden can get a fair trial. The question is whether Keith Alexander can get a fair trial. So far he hasn't had a trial at all, depite his confession that his agency broke the law.

I was at the U.S. Embassy in Laos monday morning. It was a horrible experience. A brand new embassy building staffed with paranoid idiots. When I got home to Thailand I described the experience at
http://www.andycanfield.com/Th...
I may be 66 years old, but Ed Snowden is my hero. He can sleep on my floor any time. He could sleep on my sofa if I had a sofa.

In 1968 I was in U.C. Berkeley; Uncle Sam was in Saigon, scared. We whipped his ass.

Yesterday I was in the new U.S.Embassy in Vientiane; Uncle Sam was hiding in the USNSA. We will win again; those idiots couldn't invade Pittsburg.

We will, we will rock you.

Question: What kind of visa does the U.S. government require for a decapitated head? Maybe an "H1-B" for laboratory staff?

I have a low-security password that I use all over the Internet, like Slashdot. I have a medium security password I use for Linux logins, and a high security password I use for bank accounts. Notice the security reference standard: money.

I hate it when my low-security password is rejected by some ego-driven web site that thinks I should memorize a special password just for them. FYI my low-security password has 7 lower-case letters and one special character in the middle. No digits! If you won't take that, your web site just isn't worh it, and I will not have an account there. Your loss, not mine.

Oh, and my PGP secret key has a 30-40 character passphrase, the first line of a song I made up and used to sing to my daughter, who died in 1994. The passphrase includes capitalization and punctuation, but it's easy for me to rememember. You turkeys who want high-security passwords, why don't you hash a pass phrase?

Water provudes lots of clean (i.e. solar) electric power. Maybe not as much as New York City wants, but when half the people are dead, the rest can rebuild without coal or oil. Yeah, we can do it.

Oh, and actually, I don't much care what your twit president says and does. I live on the other side of the planet, about as far away from Washington D.C. as one can get (12 hours before EST). But it's nice that you finally have a black president; maybe a women next time?

Don't have a sofa. Have several bedrooms, some with mattresses, some with people, many pillows. blankets, towells, hot water, electricity, Intrenet wifi. No air condiioning. Motorcycle, no car.I live like a Thai farmer.

Actually, the lady you refer to works in Bangkok. I live in Isan, where the lady was born and raised and retires once she's caught her tourists.

Ed Snowden is my hero. He can sleep on my floor anytime.

- Andy Canfield (Thailand)
www.andycanfield.com

I love that! Thanks! "Bad English is the most widely spoken language in the world."

There are more people studying English in China than the entire population of England. The English language does NOT belong to the native speakers - it belongs to the world. It is the "lingua franca" of our age (and doesn't that phrase piss off the French!).

So what's the bittorrent name for the file? I've got to grab it just in case the Hindu fanatics win.