Funny when you think that the internet all started with DARPA!!!! Mike McGinness
Evergreen Solutions wrote: > I just wanted to chime in very quickly about the hacker mentality and ethic. > > In theory, hackers hack to make things better. Security, speed, > effeciency, clock cycles, whatever. > > I just heard a story on NPR tonight about "prius hackers" who have > doubled the effeciency of their Prius's by adding additional batteries > and a plug-in. I'm digressing.. > > Red boxes, blue boxes, tron boxes...home cable descramblers...it's a rocky > path. > > I used to use a red box while I was away at college to call my > friends, still have about 6 of them, haha. When radio shack stopped > selling tone dialers I bought all their remaining stock. I did it > because I was poor, and stealing from "the man" seemed legitimate. > "The man" had lots of money, and was so automated he couldn't tell the > difference between a quarter and the tone I generated. We experimented > with one of the boxes that prevents the line voltage from dropping > when you pick up a call too, although our use was to prevent > telemarketers from being able to hang up. > > I've recently done a lot of thinking about how FEW people do the > thinking for SO MANY. From law makers to engineers, whatever. However, > with people like the EFF (electronic frontier foundation) floating > around, I don't believe that we're in true danger of losing our > "internet", per se. > > If anything, I see it becoming LESS centralized, and LESS controlled. > The MPAA/RIAA are fighting a losing battle against a community that's > consistently outpacing them in terms of privacy and anonymity. To a > google search on Tor, I use it personally. > > The main point for me I guess is that the fattest pipes out there are > NOT on american soil, and the technology is NOT american. > > I don't doubt anyone's desire to inflict greater control or profit > margin on American internet access, I just don't see it happening any > time soon. True privacy on the internet is a fallacy anyway, but not > even Google will listen to the government telling it not to put > satellite imagery of bases, etc, up free on googleearth. Pakistan and > India are suing....but...who? > > It takes about 6 months for a pharmacy lab to learn to copy someone else's > drug. > It took 72 hours to break the DRM on iTunes. > It took 24 hours to break the "ultimately encrypted" dvd encryption. > It took 12 hours to break Arista's new CD protection scheme. > It took 6 hours to break sony's illegal DRM. > > Fear not fellow subverts, the underground will keep us safe. Sort of. > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
