Travis H. wrote:
Part of the problem is using a packet-switched network; if we had
circuit-based, then thwarting traffic analysis is easy; you just fill
the link with random garbage when not transmitting packets. I
considered doing this with SLIP back before broadband (back when my
friend
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:40 -0500, Travis H. wrote:
Many of the anonymity protocols require multiple participants, and
thus are subject to what economists call network externalities. The
best example I can think of is Microsoft Office file formats. I don't
buy MS Office because it's the best
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:41:48PM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
1) You have told your HR person what a bad idea it is to introduce a
dependency on a proprietary file format, right?
Telling is useless. Are you in a sufficient position of power to make
them stop using it? I doubt it, because
At 08:41 PM 10/26/05 -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:40 -0500, Travis H. wrote:
Many of the anonymity protocols require multiple participants, and
thus are subject to what economists call network externalities.
The
best example I can think of is Microsoft Office file
