There is another option. Learn the Common Law, the Law of the Land. http://1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/sovreign.htm "...at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people; and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are sovereigns without subjects...with none to govern but themselves; the citizens of America are equal as fellow citizens, and as joint tenants in the sovereignty." CHISHOLM v. GEORGIA (US) 2 Dall 419, 454, 1 L Ed 440, 455 @DALL 1793 pp471-472
Do you comprehend what that means... If you are a citizen unit, then you are screwed: http://1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/pvc.htm American Citizens are those who have voluntarily given up their American Nationality. American Citizens aka "persons" are de-facto corporations - are you conscious of that? A degree in "Law" from Harvard won't help. On 07/10/10 05:39, Marsh Ray wrote: > On 10/06/2010 06:42 PM, silky wrote: >>> >>> The core Tahoe developers promise never to change Tahoe-LAFS to >>> facilitate government access to data stored or transmitted by it. Even >>> if it were desirable to facilitate such access—which it is not—we >>> believe it would not be technically feasible to do so without severely >>> compromising Tahoe-LAFS' security against other attackers. [...] > > You guys are my heroes. > >> How will you stand by this if it becomes illegal not to comply though? > > As an American software developer myself, I guess I need to consider > this too. I could imagine a US open source developer might choose to: > > 1. Quit developing security software and take up a new line of work, > say, selling 0-days to the Russian Business Network. This is probably > what much of the US data security industry will be reduced to, since > obviously no one will want to buy backdoored data security products and > services from US companies anymore (well, except outsourcers audited for > conformance to US government procurement standards). > > E.g. MIT Kerberos and Heimdal: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_%28protocol%29#History_and_development > > > The term "non-US" will once again be the universally recognized mark of > effective cryptography. It's really a win-win for the former Eastern > Block, as they'll gain a huge market as US purchasers begin obtaining > their critical data security products from them. > > Remember when the best stuff always seemed to come from ftp.cs.hut.fi? > > 2. Comply by forking the codebase to a new "Backdoored-Tahoe-LAFS", > (which of course nobody would ever use). Commit code to that repository > and the free world could pull your patches out of it, if they want to. > Of course, as a developer your source code management overhead would be > twice as difficult as everyone else's. So you'd probably be doing the > small, menial tasks and end up marginalized as the direction of new > development gets set overseas. > > 3. Emigrate to England where they apparently have other methods of > cryptanalysis. > > 4. Adopt a cool hacker alias (e.g. "Bobby Tables") for all your > development work. Dress like someone from The Matrix, and add the > glasses-nose-mustache disguise for good measure. Send all your email > through spam relays, and originate all your network traffic from > sympathetic human rights activist offices in China. Be sure to obtain > all your development software from warez sites too. > > 5. Protest the law, loudly and publicly. Become too well-known to > prosecute for offenses of questionable constitutionality, grab headlines > whenever possible. Get yourself accused of criminally deviant behavior > by multiple Swedish women simultaneously, then un-suspected, then > arrested in absentia, then re-suspected, and so on. > > 6. Quietly continue developing secure software and services and be > subject to selective prosecution according to how the political winds > blow in the future. > > Welcome back to the bad-old-days. > > Except this time, it's cloud-based services, too. > > - Marsh > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography -- Rayservers http://www.rayservers.com/ Zurich: +41 43 5000 728 London: +44 20 30 02 74 72 Panama: +507 832 1846 San Francisco: +1 408 419 1978 USA Toll Free: +1 888 265 5009 10:00 - 24:00 GMT We prefer to be paid in gold Globals™ and silver Isles™ Global Standard™ - Global Settlement Foundation http://www.global-settlement.org/ Our PGP key 0x079CCE10 on http://keyserver.rayservers.com/ _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
