You should look into sharefile. It is a secure alternitive to drop box. You can also optionally host an on prem appliance while still utilizing their cloud based access and front end.

The way that I read Jeff's comment was not so much as a ban of the Feds but he seemed to be politically cautioning the attendance of Feds on potential hostilities from attendees who aren't particularly thrilled with the recent disclosures. We can all argue the maturity level of the conference but in the immortal words of Friedrich Nietzsche: "Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages, it is the rule" Surely there would be severe consequences on both sides were there to be pranks or aggressions on Feds in attendance. Of my many years of attendance, I have never considered Defcon to be a completely open environment free from danger, but rather a Hackers Mos Eisley where you can interact with all walks of life, but that you had better be aware of those who do not like you.

"Similarly, you should not be concerned merely because your neighbors are a member of any national gun advocacy organization. The actual threat â" just to cite the best known org â" that the National Rifle Association (NRA) and its kin present to you and your children is political."

To put it another way. The wolf does not adhere to the laws of the little pigs. If your tired of him blowing your house down, you need to stop thinking about patching holes in your straw house. Reenforcing reeds isn't a scalable solution. You need to start building the houses with bricks.

I'm not sure that we have a choice. "Because its hard" is probably not going to be a sufficient excuse with respect to the critical mass we are heading toward. If everything that the world has invested in standing on top of the Internet is so important, than all that important stuff is going to need to experience the growing pain of adapting to new redesigned transit protocols. The alternative seems to be a sheer cliff.

Given that a lot of these problems stem from inherent design flaws with our current Internet protocols, perhaps we ought to start improving upon the 20 and 30 year old protocols we've been relying on. Fundamental scale and design flaws will continue to empower bad people to do bad things so long as it continues to be nearly effortless. BGP, DNS, IPv4... You can only build on a foundation for so long before its age and brittleness beings to cause serious problems.

Are you kidding? While I think this has little to do with the discussion, your statement is completely idiotic. The United States was attacked on 9/11. Texas is a small (albeit larger than most) part of the whole. We all got hit.

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Really...? You have real threats out there like APT1, and the most useful thing you can think to do is threaten 124 years of prison to try and shake out folks who are doxing, and ddosing??? US Gov: You're doing it wrong.

Correction: I'm mailing a check. Pain in the ass but at least I'm reducing the number of untrusted hands involved in my transaction.

I went to donate and saw that. I'm actually very unhappy about it but I won't be able to donate because they only accept payment via systems I don't trust. If there a direct payment option, I'd have opened my wallet immediately but I refuse to do business with PayPal and just don't trust Amazon. Call me paranoid but it is what it is.

Many things on /. are worthy of debate and lead to much trolling. This isn't. This is a Good Thing. I'm throwing in a couple bucks and anyone old enough to remember what a phone call and how pagers work should too.