I thought it was the thought of work that made one unproductive...

AES-128? Really? Why not higher at least? If you want to provide a false sense of security at least up the magic numbers and make it sound harder than just handing over the decrypted data since they obviously have the public and the secret keys.

Yeah I was talking about Johnny Mnemonic. Someone posted a good clip... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Ak4N36CMo Watch the movie... I see that being 3D NAND wetware. Couldn't remember the name of the movie till I spotted the post.

Fire it up Jonny

I actually was in this position back in 1999. I was just hired at this midsized company... The Network Admin was stepping down to a programmer position... He went on a 2 week vacation a week after I was hired then turned in his 2 weeks notice on the first day of his vacation. It was tons of fun. The way I did it? Changed all the passwords and went thru everything and charted everything out, then started making changes just in case. Good luck with your experience with this. I know it sucks.

There is no need to pick any candidate on a ballot. Not choosing anyone that is listed is a vote of no confidence for anyone listed for that office on your ballot. I'm going to guess they didn't teach that in Problems of Democracy (POD) for you in High School.

Wanna stop them? Beat the people responsible and behind it within an inch of their lives and let it be know that if you this... this is what you have to look forward to as your pay off when you are caught. I'm sure most of them aren't even from the US so it should be perfectly fine.

I don't know about everyone else but 99.5% of my junk mail is delivered on Wednesdays. I was lucky a few years ago and convinced the postal carrier I had to use my second mailbox that was about 5 feet away from my normal one and was round for all this mail. Now on Wednesdays I get notices posted on my door from the local code inspector because of all the dang spam overflows the box and he calls it litter all over my property. I know it won't happen but it sure would be nice.

I could be wrong, but didn't someone already write a TV show episode where something like this did happen? I think it was NCIS.

Easiest way to get rid of a patent troll (AKA the pushing their luck legal mafia).

#1. Locate the bridge (house, office, courthouse, hobbit hole) that the troll is hiding under(in) while attempting to collect his BS tolls.
#2. Gather like minded folks from the village (internet).
#3. Lead the raid to defeat with the NAMED troll knowing full well that the loot-drops are crap however the infamy of the raid will be remembered forever.
#4. Remember after defeating NAMED troll to take screenshots and to burn the pieces... they regenerate and multiply!
#5. Hope that the next hapless troll thinking about this course of action to make money will think about chasing tow trucks and ambulances.

Thinking about this for a few seconds and I've come to a conclusion... what are the odds that said forensics experts actually just started sharing out, hell even fully downloaded the popular movies and just IP logged all traffic... I say very high to yep that's exactly what they did. Solution... VPNs or a complete rethink to the P2P protocols using something like the old FSP (File Slip Protocol) and writing in something that trashes/obfuscates the destination and origin IPs. However I digress. The real question is... if they are using this technique to "NAB" the offenders... then they are offending themselves. Makes for interesting thought.