Marcus G. Daniels wrote at 09/13/2013 08:14 PM:
What kind group would contain an instance of such a cabal?
Perhaps a decent example might be ALEC http://www.alec.org/ or, perhaps,
funders of the Cato Institute or Heritage Foundation. The point is that they may
well lobby/advocate for
mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote at 09/16/2013 02:53 PM:
Such a Beast will be slow moving. All those people need to be motivated to
clarify and then solve some problem posed to them.
I'm not so sure. I admit that the current trend toward flat corporate
hierarchies works toward the requirement to
Glen wrote:
But the old style, autocratic, specialize everything, command and control
structure doesn't need such motivation.
Well, I mean some mental models have to develop at the various levels of
the organization. I used the term `motivation' to mean the process of
understanding enough of a
mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote at 09/16/2013 03:45 PM:
Well, I mean some mental models have to develop at the various levels of
the organization. I used the term `motivation' to mean the process of
understanding enough of a sub-problem to propose a solution. If the
problem is hard, the it may have
Any asymmetrically weaker entity would, in principle, be able to dig into
any aspect of the system. But such an entity would be incapable of
grokking the whole system, at least as well as the army of lawyers,
accountants, auditors, programmers, etc. who worked on behalf of the cabal.
Such a
On 9/12/13 6:23 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
Or do you also need [..] doping [..]
Saw this on /. this morning.
http://people.umass.edu/gbecker/BeckerChes13.pdf
Yikes..
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On 9/13/13 2:57 PM, glen wrote:
If we know this is/will-be the case, then why press for absolute
transparency at all? Why not be anarcho-capitalist and allow for the
opacity of some, strategically allowed, opacity?
The anarcho-capitalist will try to extract every bit of value from any
Marcus G. Daniels wrote at 09/13/2013 02:59 PM:
If people know how their hardware works, then some competitor can come along
and create similar hardware at a lower price point. Provided an open source
effort can come along and make a sort of similar VHDL design that puts them out
of
On 9/13/13 6:40 PM, glen wrote:
Membership in the cabal comes from cognitive investment, not capital.
I disagree. Membership in the set of cabal _tools_ ... the
technically competent person, comes from cognitive investment.
Ownership/control of those tools comes from capital, usually in the
On 9/13/13 6:40 PM, glen wrote:
So, it would work fairly well without a requirement for absolute
transparency.
If the goal is to develop versatile technical language, and someone
effectively owns a bunch of the useful words (interfaces , ...) that is
an impediment to giving everyone a fair
Glen wrote:
It has always struck me that diversity and co-evolution constitute a
superset of obscurity.
I posit that co-evolution moves faster in today's open source world,
because:
1) More independent thinkers. Drones tend not to care, and not caring
leads to not thinking. Passive aggressive
Marcus G. Daniels wrote at 09/11/2013 07:55 PM:
If there are bad statistics, that would suggest to me some benefit from
security from obscurity?
That reminds me. Did anyone see Stephanie's presentation? It has always
struck me that diversity and co-evolution constitute a superset of
mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote at 09/12/2013 09:30 AM:
I posit that co-evolution moves faster in today's open source world,
because:
At first, I agreed vehemently. Then I started thinking (always a mistake). It depends
on what you mean by faster. It's possible that the species diversity might
2) Improved access to information -- the source code, and a community
around it. This allows motivated individuals to educate themselves
rapidly
about things, and to be empowered to use this information.
It also allows us to lavish kudos on the fame-tolerant we find there.
E.g. Musk,
mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote at 09/12/2013 02:32 PM:
I think it is better to not deprive the drone prone of important
existential angst. Make them sit around these people for a few days until
they lose their religion. That won't happen if they just watch them on
TED, or in carefully produced
On 9/12/13 6:23 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
But where do you stop, in your ideal? Do you stop at the source
code? Or do you also need a transparent compiler? Linker? Run-time?
System? Component, vhdl, ceramics, doping, drawing methods?
One way to avoid going down and down is to build a
On 9/6/13 5:29 PM, Parks, Raymond wrote:
I did a quick search through my data and there haven't been any major
Skype vulns in a while. There's a local privilege escalation from
this last spring and URL snooping, but neither should result in
massive Skype usage. The Dark Comet Remote Access
I did a quick search through my data and there haven't been any major Skype
vulns in a while. There's a local privilege escalation from this last spring
and URL snooping, but neither should result in massive Skype usage. The Dark
Comet Remote Access Tool (RAT) uses the Skype port and protocol
] [EXTERNAL] Urgent: skype vulnerability?
I did a quick search through my data and there haven't been any major Skype
vulns in a while. There's a local privilege escalation from this last
spring and URL snooping, but neither should result in massive Skype usage.
The Dark Comet Remote Access
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Thanks, Raymond,
There is nobody else within an eight of a mile and the wifi barely reaches
across the house
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Raymond
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I did a quick search through my data and there haven't been any major
Skype
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