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I have worked with some people who would consider this :)

Actually a while back I found someone was passing around instructions on how to setup some software that needed a random key for a symmetric cipher. It used a 256 bit block cipher so it needed a 256 bit key.

The instructions being passed around where clearly cut and pasted from a web site (they might have even had the url) but they remembered that we had key policies for other things and so they changed the dd command to make a 1024 bit key....because we use at least 1024 bit keys by policy right?

A little bit of knowledge can be such an amusing thing.

Lol its like some people never played Uplink. Even the game had the log deleter and the log modifier, which was used in the frame job contracts. Its almost kind of a no brainer. and hardly a new concept, what is a botnet really but a way to look like hundreds of other people instead of yourself?

> That seems like a huge tradeoff in usability for not much security benefit, IMHO, particularly if the box is running
> services that are far more likely to be probed than ssh. Nor do I much care for the notion of having to rely on Tor
> if I need to manage a critical system.

The thing is to a tor service, a "port" is just an identifier that allows multiple services to have the same name. There is no underlying "address" that you can use to further attack the host. It is a lot like being behind a very restrictive firewall where you have only 1 port exposed.

It also means you can't be found in random sweeps. In order to connect to a tor service, you need its name to look it up and connect to it with, you can't just scan random addresses/names looking for ssh servers.

Some people think they are clever moving ssh to another port, but port scanners have already found them on ports like 2222 (someone thought that was clever I guess).

> What exactly do they need to do that couldn't be done with a staff of two or
> three hundred good people and a $150-$200 million budget? WTF

create jobs. That is really all it has been about for a while. Shit go all the way back to prohibition and we got beginings of the drug war partially from efforts made by people who were basically looking to lose their jobs with nothing to do now that alcohol was legal.

Their role is to create jobs and use as much budget as possible because the more they spread around the cake, the more support they will get from the people they spend that money on.

You have to realize, that for every few people who took Eisenhower's speech as a warning, there were others writing it down as a proven strategy that is working and should be used elsewhere. The more jobs you create, the more cake you hand out, the more secure your job is.

It doesn't even hardly matter if what you do works, its almost better if it doesn't because that will just be because you need to do more of it.

> Because, parallel construction in itself is not necessarily about illegally obtained evidence

Except it is a blatant attempt to hide the truth of where evidence is obtained from the court, which means it is about not allowing the court to make that determination based on the truth. So saying its not about illegally obtained evidence is.... not supported by anything but the claims of the very people who are perjuring themselves in court.

This particular term does deserve to have its awareness raised, and quite frankly, every person involved in it should, by all rights, be charged criminally. Their job is to make a case, not lie to the court.

True but, unlike you he actually used the words parallel construction and linked to the wiki article. Since those two words and what they mean really do need to be spread as far and wide as possible, and are evidence that the law really isn't, and the people who are most highly charged with following it (ie the people who enforce it themselevs) actually don't bother.

Its almost like, we don't really have a system of laws so much as a theater troupe who plays "legal system" for real stakes.

Actually it has been implemented already, and there was even a slashdot article about it a few days ago:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

That said, my phone doesn't support it and it seems few do, but, its a start and somebody is trying.

> AM and PM mean "anti-meridian" and "post-meridian",

Total nitpick, its ante not anti.

ante- prefix meaning before
anti - prefix meaning against

You see it in words like "antediluvian" (before the flood).

Hit it? why? The earth is already being slowed down by tidal interactions with the moon. we just need to slow the moon down until it drops under geosynchronous orbit, then its tidal bulge will move faster than our rotation and rotational energy will transfer from the moons new orbit to earth's rotation.

There are a couple of minor downsides....like massive increases in the amplitude of the tidal bulge, but moon missions will require a lot less delta v...... of course, it also means the moons orbit will progressively shrink.

Maybe put it in geosync and just try to keep the day length where it is?

Please explain why this is relevant. The 2nd explicitly states that is it because of the need for a militia that the right will not be infringed. I don't see where there is any requirement that gun bearers be members of the militia or that the militia itself even must exist, just that because of the need for one, the right wont be.

It is a clause in support of the declaration that the right will not be infringed, I see no dependency on it.

However your list will in no way actually change the fact that the common expectation at the time. The most you can prove with your list is that people's perceptions were skewed from reality.

Simple fact is, On September 10th, 2001 if you asked people what they would expect to happen if they were on a hijacked plane, the tarmac hostage situation scenario was what the majority of people would have expected. The entire plan hinged on it.

On September 11, 2001 by about 11am, this entire plan was burned and was never going to work again, even without a single change to security.

> The copper-cables running from my house cross plenty of public spaces. Still, tapping them requires (or used to require) a warrant.

Are we sure about that? Perhaps the FBI would like to let us know what "exceptions" exist? Perhaps because the copper cables run over public spaces that makes for an exception in their book? They certainly wouldn't want to tell us unless they had to.

We engineer our space craft to come down within 15 inches of our chosen return point.... with an acceptable margin of the entire earth. It hits within the acceptable range every time!

Well yes and no. The main thing that 9/11 hijackers exploited was NOT the fact that passengers were disarmed but, the fact that previous hijackings all resulted in hostage situations. Seriously, you are sitting in a seat, on an airplane, going somewhere.

In a pre-9/11 world (ugh i can't believe I said that), what is your expectation when a hijacking happens? You expect the plane will be grounded, the hijackers will make demands. Eventually they will either be killed and arrested, but you are going to be released within a couple of days, unharmed.

A small crowd can easily overpower a couple of hijackers with knives. The reason they didn't was simply that everyone expected they were going to be walking out alive and well within a few days.