Sorry, none of your points hold water. Defence in depth, Separation of duties and Discretionary access control are all well known security tenets.

No, and that is the whole point. If they publish the password in a book, then they themselves must also publish their copy of the archive - or the password is useless. So if one organisation publishes their file, and then another publishes their password, there is no issue.

If you are going to share extremely sensitive documents with several people, why the FUCK wouldn't you create several *different archives* with different passwords - one for each individual you are sharing the information with?!

Give each individual access for a short period of time, and then DELETE THE INDIVIDUAL FUCKING ARCHIVES FROM YOUR SERVER! This has the additional benefit of being able to trace any future leaks.

Seriously, if you have disseminated the password to your single "master copy" archive to multiple organisations, then it might as well not be encrypted. If they had created different archives + passwords for each recipient this would be a non-issue.

An analogous situation is where you're setting up a webserver which hosts multiple sites/apps. You run the server process of each site as a different user because that way if one site is exploited, the damage is contained to that site only.

I seriously wonder if Wikileaks employees run their desktops as root.

You can still have a rifle in the house. It just can't be semi-automatic. This means that the guy who wants to do target practice or shoot roos can do so, but the guy who wants to easily kill as many people as possible in a short period of time has some difficulties.

How is that a bad thing?

Australia also has a constitution. We just don't treat it like Moses brought it down off the mountain.

Does Newegg.com ship internationally?

Newegg.com does not currently ship internationally; we only deliver to locations within the United States and to Puerto Rico.

Standardising on a non-free operating system thus encouraging people to download rootkitted warez.
Most people worldwide genuinely can't pay $250+ for an operating system.

Sciencedaily is good, but the sheer volume of content is very difficult to keep up with.

I personally like arstechnica's science coverage. Their articles are *always* well researched and written and usually very interesting. http://arstechnica.com/science/

Yes.

Yes they have. Konqeror is still there, and can be set as the default file manager if you want.

As I said, all these features are available, accessible, and are arguably better than they were in KDE 3. I honestly don't know how you haven't been able to discover them.

My lungs are now half full of coffee. Thanks.

You outed yourself as an uncivilised US-ian there.

And George Carlin reminded us again not so long ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q

On the contrary, the US is very interested in Somalia for the very same reasons the pirates are - it's lack of government and infrastructure means whoever has the most money/guns in their own patch is the law. This makes it an ideal location for the CIA to set up secret prisons, as well as pirates to set up their base of operations.

The US government is controlled by the citizens. Or were you referring to the proles?

The proles constitute 85% of the population. They receive little education, work at jobs in which tough physical labour is the norm, live in poverty, and usually die by the age of sixty.

...proles are not expected to understand that they are being exploited by the Party as a source of cheap labour and are unable or unwilling to organize resistance. Their functions are simple: work and breed. They care little about anything but home and family, neighbour quarrels, films and football, beer and lottery tickets. They are not required to express support for the Party, except for a mild form of patriotism. The Party creates meaningless songs, novels, even pornography for the proles. Proles do not wear a uniform, can use cosmetics and have a relatively free internal market economy. Proles also have free sex lives, uninterrupted by the Party, and divorce is permitted. Despite the personal freedoms enjoyed by the Proles, the Thought Police moves among them, spreading false rumours and marking down and eliminating any individuals deemed capable of causing trouble.

Hohoho.. do you really think that facial recognition technology hasn't been there from the beginning?

ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 1997) — Computer "eyes" are now up to such tasks as watching for fugitives in airline terminals and other busy locations. A sophisticated face-recognition system that placed first in recent Army competitive trials has been given the added ability to pick out faces in noisy or chaotic "street" environments.
The new "Mugspot" software module developed at the University of Southern California automatically analyzes video images, looking for passers-by. When it finds them, it picks out the heads in the images and then tracks the heads for as long as they remain in the camera's field.

Almost 15 years ago, it was already possible to accurately track and recognise people in grainy, blurry, low-res video. As if intelligence agencies *aren't* having a field day with facebook.