> From: Ben Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:27:45 -0400
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM, <virgins...@vfemail.net> wrote: > > ... we can encrypt anything that might be incriminating ... > > http://xkcd.com/538/ Heh. I was half expecting to find a NSFW cartoon involving rubber hose... But really, in this day and age, our personal data can be protected beyond all practical means to obtain it. With steganographic techniques, we can hide our data such that nobody can prove that data even exists. The technology available to FOSS users today rivals that of the military. Beyond cryptography... we have industrial-grade IP firewalling, stack-protecting compilers, SE Linux (nod to the NSA), support for GPS, wireless (including ham) networking, on and on. The IT accessible to our government used to be leaps and bounds beyond that available to the private citizen. Now, it's only leaps ahead... and thanks in large part to the FOSS movement. Of course, FOSS has also empowered services like Google, which threaten to erode all the privacy which our technology is now able to protect. But, that's a whole other issue. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
