Posts by Trotsky 12 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jul 2007
What happens when the accused forgets his password?
Also, does anyone have an estimation of how long it will take for law enforcement to be able to crack PGP? Surely the authorities can use this as part of a plea bargain to release the password now; tell us the password and get 50% off your sentence, or else wait a few years until we can figure it out ourselves and we give you the full punishment?
Does anyone seriously trust the FBI etc to obey the law and delete any data? They can easily just misplace a few laptops with the info on it. I think these laws are indirectly good - people need to be made aware that they have no privacy anymore, no matter what the laws say.
Bush is just doing us all a favour and trying to communicate this fact to the public.
Short selling sounds like a scary evil tactic employed by evil Wallstreet traders. It is not.
Stock Exchanges around the world allow short selling. If a professional investor is selling short he is sending a message that he thinks the company is worth less than the current price. If short sellers get it wrong and sell a good company then they will push the price artificially low - and another company will take it over at a cheap price. When a large number of professionals short sell the same company it means one of two things:
1. They are in an evil conspiracy out to get paranoid CEOs.
2. The company is worth A LOT less than the current price.
Overstock has made a loss in 17 out of the last 19 financial quarters, with no real sign of becoming consistently profitable. Their CEO spends way too much time on his crusade and not enough time trying to fix his company.
Hmmm... now where's my $30k?
Imagine you are running a spying operation and wanted access to the HSBC's data.
1. Hire an insider
2. Figure out that if you cause "network issues" on a specific day then the relevant data will be transferred by post
3. Figure out how to intercept the post.
There comes a point where you have to wonder if the regularity of these "lost in the post" type incidents have more sinister forces behind them.
I don't see much difference in downloading music for free and using "shadowy Russian sites". The artist loses out in both cases; is it more ethical to download it yourself or to pay someone to organise and host the music for you?
The sooner the recording industry reverts to an unlimited monthly subscription model the better. I spend maybe £50 a year on CDs - I'd easily spend £200 a year for a much better selection.
Maybe the real villains are the iTunes customers who are indirectly delaying the introduction of a subscription model by paying ridiculously high charges for music, and allowing the recording industry to sit back and wait for the next big illegal download revolution.
A quote from explosives expert Andy Oppenheimer, editor of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical International on the 29th of June:
"If the first bomb had gone off, people inside the Tiger Tiger nightclub would have stood no chance. This looks as if it was something like propane. We are talking about highly incendiary qualities which would have made a big fire, probably destroyed buildings and caused mass fatalities,'' he said.
People would have stood "no chance"?? So are we to assume that this guy is either lying or is incompetent?
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