1. Re: Why We Must Fight UCITA
- Posted by neksys <i.shoot at REDNECKS.COM>
Jan 31, 2000
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Last edited Feb 01, 2000
LEVIATHAN wrote:
> > An interesting
> > question - I live outside the US (in New Zealand), obviously American law
> > does not apply here, but how could we prevent Micro$oft from electronically
> > disabling our software or some such?
>
> For anyone outside the US, you're safe. Err, for a while.
> The US has a problem with policing the world. So, yes, it'd spred the disease.
> Umm, methinx WTO is behind this...
> but for thuse of us in the US, heres my conspiracy theory...
>
I'm in Canada, but we're more or less one and the same now, huh?
>
> Whelp, encryption is a start, but that won't stop it. PGP or anything publicly
> available wouldn't save us. We'd have to make our own hybrid encryption
> schemes.
> And hide it in rock. (Go into the middle of the street, cut a slab out, and
> hide
> the decryption key)
>
That's the problem: if everyone has different homebrew encryption, we won't be
able
to actually exchange data. If we try to establish a public standard, we've
suddenly
given away our secrets (the walls have ears, you know =) ). It's not a very
promising situation.
>
> Intrusion detection software. As low level as possible. See an intrusion, bomb
> the HDD.
>
I recently read an article about extremely low level (read: physical
destruction)
data-loss techniques. Email me privately if you want the URL. They're designed
for
the hardcore paranoid, but it's an interesting read nonetheless.
>
> Personally, i'm afraid of this. Umm, really scared.
>
I'm goddamned terrified.
>
> --"LEVIATHAN"
Greg Phillips
