Fucking nuts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/politics/22TRAC.html?pagewanted=printposition=bottom
Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet
By JOHN MARKOFF
The Pentagon research agency that is exploring how to create a vast
database of electronic transactions and
Marc Branchaud wrote:
Having read the article I can't help but consider more benign reasons
for its removal...
1. It's not funny.
2. It's jokes are in pretty poor taste.
3. Michael Bay got his lawyers to send a letter to the Onion.
Color me dumb, but when I read the article, I assumed it
Markoff writes in the NY Times about a proposal called eDNA which would
reconfigure the Internet to forbid anonymous usage of certain parts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/politics/22TRAC.html
The scheme was explored by DARPA a few months ago, which gave a contract
to SRI to look into it.
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, James A. Donald wrote:
Mojo was intended to do this but it failed, I think it failed
because they failed to monetize mojo before it was introduced
as service management mechanism.
Mojo ultimatively failed because MojoNation failed. MNet is very alive,
though, and it will
identifying network miscreants and revoking their network privileges
If one has any doubt, this sentence says it all. In fact,
revoking their network privileges
does it. No, wait,
network privileges is enough.
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At 04:59 PM 11/21/02 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
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According to Microsoft,
http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc
Darknet is being undermined by free riders.
They attribute this to 2 things: most are on 56Kbps, and legal
harassment of
large sharers is possible.
I suspect it is
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Darknet is being undermined by free riders.
They attribute this to 2 things: most are on 56Kbps, and legal
harassment of large sharers is possible.
I attribute this to lack of agoric load levelling, and prestige
accounting. Legal harassment is
Question: if you control the traffic layer you can easily disrupt
opportunistic encryption (STARTTLS Co) by killing public key exchange,
or even do a MITM.
Is there any infrastructure in MTAs for public key caching, and admin
notification if things look fishy? (Fishy: a host which used to do PKI
Geek 'Vigilantes' Monitor Border
By Michelle Delio | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 1
02:00 AM Nov. 22, 2002 PT
A group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology
to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from
Mexico
into the United States.
