begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 06:31:29PM -0700: > On 4/4/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > >Isn't google the parasite? Parasites don't suffer, hosts do. > > You have it backwards. Gootgle is the host for many a Mashup. > For instance, all kinds of services are being built on top of Google > Maps. > > What pays for them? Advertising.
Okay, my reference was oblique. I shouldn't have expected you to catch it. My bad. [snip] > >What, do you use kiosks or something? > > Any Internet cafe that has a browser. That is a pretty large > universe in this world. I can find that in surprisingly remote places. So yes, a kiosk. > >If so, I suspect my trust boundaries are far different from yours. > > Yeh right. Everybody cannot wait to steal your email, lol. You misunderstand. It's the booming underground economy that bothers me. Leaking a few email messages isn't a problem... but leaking 'em ALL is, because I think that would provide information of use to the sorts of folks who don't care who I am, really, but want to take advantage of my resources nonetheless. > If that really sticks in your craw encrypt messages and send them as > attachments. Duh. That's dumb. Encrypting messages on hardware I can't trust is a waste of time. > Cannot stand the thought that some one might know you are > sending email to somewhere ... use a little steganography. Your conception of what you think my threats are is...interesting. Misguided. But interesting nonetheless. > >I want something the size of a PDA when not in use, and a laptop in use. > > I want something as ubiquitous as the telephone ... oh not secure > the CIA is probably listening to your phone calls. Yep all 6 billion > of us. The CIA has better ways of doing that. You seem to presume that sheer numbers make the problem intractable; but it's not, not really. It's merely tedious and boring, and guess what... computers are REALLY GOOD with tedious and boring[1]. > I guess it is useful for BOFHs to be paranoid but you don't really > expect the rest of us to care do you? Its your job, take care of us. Oh, we know how to do that. You'll one day see the rise of the exalted priesthood in our temples of glass and blinkenlights, and you'll have to beg us for access to your life. Welcome to the future. It's going to suck. [1] And not in *making* things tedious and boring, but in doing things that are tedious and boring. -- o/~ We are the priests / of the temple of syrinx ... o/~ Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
