Adding to your previous thoughts, it became clear to me some years ago that the best way to gather information on someone is to find information which they've volunteered.
Facebook and other social networks have a space to select your religion, sexual identity, location, school, work, and contact information. Much of this information can be selected from existing lists. Supplying this information hands it into the realm of Facebook "apps" with permission to access that information, too. But, people have given up this information. They weren't even paid or coerced. Why so naive? But that's just it, isn't it? People are naive. They go to public schools where they are taught to accept what is popular and reject all else, and that's where much of it starts. Computers must run Windows. If you want to be different, buy a Mac. Programs must be big and graphical with plenty of room for error. Why have it any other way? I have also noticed that the news is saying what is and isn't common sense now. They use this term as a backhanded directive, as if to say, "Of course it is so, this is common sense." In fact, common sense is a little more inquisitive than that, and common sense would actually have it that you don't trust everything you hear. On topic and as a response to Theo, Twitter is a vehicle of passive aggression and ad hominem attacks among other things. I blame Twitter for the direction much of the Internet has taken. It is quick, it is short, and that's how people are with other people. They are quick, and they are short. And it seems a pretty weak attempt at disparaging your character. Thank you, and please, please keep it up. On Oct 8, 2013 6:14 PM, "Scott McEachern" <sc...@blackstaff.ca> wrote: > On 10/08/13 20:42, thornton.rich...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I love OpenBSD, seriously, and developers of it are clearly geniuses. And >> any chance I get I promote it. >> > > Excellent, and I applaud you for that. > > You should take a look at the papers/presentations the devs have given. > The stuff Theo wrote on W^X was mind boggling. Over my head, but I got > the gist. I'm not going to find the ones I'm thinking of (it's been a > while since I read them), I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. > You'll find plenty of mind-blowing stuff. > > (Ok, I can't resist. I'll link to one particular page that's really easy > to understand: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/**eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/** > mgp00003.html<http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/mgp00003.html>. > Maybe another, this is from 2005, and I nearly lost my mind: > http://www.openbsd.org/papers/**ven05-deraadt/index.html<http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-deraadt/index.html> > ) > > I don't mean to single out Theo, but he started this thread, so he remains > the focus. You should read the stuff the other devs have written, it's all > excellent stuff. The genius shines through. > > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE >> network. >> > > All I can say is, I hope you don't do anything private with your device. > You have two /proven/ weak points in your hand. Anything HTTPS/TLS/SSL on > your handheld is probably moot, but I'd still use crypto anyway. :) > Convenience comes with a price. > > And Richard, thanks for sharing your thoughts. It adds to the balance. > > -- > Scott McEachern > > https://www.blackstaff.ca > > "Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug > dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any > public into allowing the government to do anything with those four." -- > Bruce Schneier
