Posts by Christoph 3320 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Dec 2007
"your church... none of them are a bank or financial advisor so they can't be trusted with your money."
Standard trick - use people who the victims know and trust, or are well known and respected in the community. That's the way people work - they assume it's not necessary to plough through all the checks because "X wouldn't lie to me".
Classic example of running a Ponzi scheme in this way: Bernie Madoff
When they demanded that women wear heels, did they make a legally binding commitment to cover all medical expenses for injury to their legs and feet from wearing those ridiculously impractical things? Including injuries from tripping or losing their balance, and also long-term damage from holding the feet in an unnatural position?
There was another problem with the Clipper chip. How do you persuade people in other countries to use computer kit that the US can spy on at whim?
"Only the government can decrypt it" - which government? If you mandate it in your country, what do you do about visitors? Force them not to use their own tech?
Even if you use it among the 'friendly' Five Eyes, they are promptly going to spy on each other.
What do big international firms do? Their executives are flying from country to country carrying kit that contains extremely valuable information. Which governments where and when can grab that for industrial espionage?
He is loudly claiming that the powers are deparately needed to protect us from those terrible $CURRENT BOGEYMEN$.
Where is the evidence for this need? How many times in the last few years did the lack of these powers cause a problem for the police?
No handwaving please. State the number of times, with supporting evidence.
You mean they are treating American Citizens in the same way that they have given themselves the right to treat every other person in the world?
As if American Citizens were just ordinary people? Not shining examples to the rest of the world of what they ought to be aspiring to but obviously can never be because they are not American Citizens?
You know those pictures of active galaxies firing matter out of their poles, but in bursts toggling in opposing directions?
We've got plenty of time to develop interstellar travel and get to the core, then we divert matter into the central black hole to make it active.
But we only let it fire matter in one direction.
The ejected matter goes one way, the black hole goes the other way and drags the Milky Way galaxy with it. So we simply fly the galaxy away from Andromeda.
They have specifically said so themselves:
Uncle Sam's legal eagles appear to have anticipated this by insisting that it "does not seek to stop or restrict the publication or distribution of Permanent Record." It claims it just wants to stop Snowden from being paid.
And I don't believe for a moment that they haven't heard of the Streisand Effect.
"will be able to properly engineer the ultimate black.”
'Ultimate' black depends how you define the frequency range you are measuring. Even if you can get it to reflect zero visible light, it's still going to emit infra-red (or longer waves if it's really chilled) since it's not at absolute zero.
I used to drive through the Socialist Republic of Islington once a month, back when they put all the council's money into important things like international politics rather than fixing the roads. I was able to avoid the enormous potholes as I could remember where they were - they had been there for years.
"eavesdrop on the built-in microphone"
What does it do to those children, knowing that their parents can listen in on everything that they say or is said to them? Any time, any place, they are under constant monitoring. That could have life-long effects. It certainly won't lead them to trust their parents in anything.
If the passwords were not salted and hashed, they have major problems. Anyone not doing that in 2019 should be fired for incompetence.
If the passwords are salted and hashed then what is stored is the hash which is a fixed length. Therefore imposing an arbitrary password length limit is completely pointless. You need some limit on buffer length and calculation time, but 20 characters?
By paying other businesses, who have no more idea than anyone else, to work out exactly what will be needed (without knowing what will actually be happening) and produce information packs to tell other companies what they will need to do to prepare.
The entire process including that preparation will have plenty of time - a whole month!
Then there was the game of Space Invaders which ran on a line printer. Print out the screen on fan-fold paper, wait for a user key, print out the amended screen.
This was at AWRE Aldermaston - there's a fictionalised account in Dave Langford's "The Leaky Establishment" but it did actually happen, as did most of the events in that book other than (hopefully) the main plot.
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