Posted on 08/22/2013 5:09:23 AM PDT by Errant
“men in black”?
I hate the militarization of the Police.
Reminds me of the SS. Black is the color of death. They practiced it, along with unlimited police power.
Are we there yet? Pretty well.
I reminded our local police (very good friend since childhood) and he seemed surprised about my comment on the local black uniform. He, by the way, is a total gun nut and a very very good friend. My brother was married to his sister for a short time when they were very young. He and my brother are still very very good friends. As was the local police officer’s father. Long after the father’s daughter and my brother divorced, they would hunt arrow heads and drink beer together.
Small towns their nice side.
LOL, I've done plenty of that myself! :)
Sure miss the days of Adam-12, Dragnet and Barney on Mayberry.
Where I live makes Mayberry look metro.
hee hee hee
I went to my ‘spam’ folder to empty it out .... and “Spam” (the canned variety) ads started scrolling across the top. I had to laugh .... at first.
I know folks don’t want to hear this but my recommendation is NOT to buy anything that’s advertised. Vote with your pocketbook.
Actually, one could overwhelm the NSA’s computing capacity that way.
My idea is to create an app that allows one to pick an encryption method from a menu (everything from ridiculously weak classical paper-and-pencil ciphers to 2048-bit SSL to a one-time binary pad with a key you supply and had shared with your correspondent by handing him a thumb-drive or CD-ROM at some prior meeting) with which to encrypt an attachment and attach an encrypted file to your e-mail (or to attach a file without the app encrypting it — with the intent that you encrypted it by some other means). But when you don’t attach a file, it would, at random, attach either an file full of random bits or an encrypted message, video, image or sound file with either pointless innocuous content (e.g. cute cat video, a sample of some symphony, an extended quotation from a novel) or message to the NSA (maybe from allowing you to pick whether it will be polite — the text of the 4th Amendment, a photograph of the original Bill of Rights or the like — or rude — e.g. an unexpurgated version of F*** the NSA! repeated about 1000 times, a sound file of an expletive laden rap protesting the NSA’s behavior or the like).
In addition to the attachment, the program would append to the end of each e-mail the sentence:
“If you are expecting an encrypted message from me, it is in the first attachment. If not, the first attachment is a protest against the erosion of our Fourth Amendment rights, please join the protest by downloading....”
with details of where to get the app.
Alas, my programming skills are stuck in the mid-1980’s, so I’d need help. If enough people used such an app (or just by hand implemented the protocol of attaching either an encrypted file or a file of random bits to their e-mails) the NSA’s everything encrypted is suspicious protocol would become a liability to their mission and they really would not be able to attempt to decrypt all of it, forcing them to actually focus on real threats.
Bingo -
Never EVER.
I've convinced some of my family to use 'pen names' and fake data - heck, I don't even use my real name/data for my email accounts.
The only outfits that get my real stats are my bank and outfits I do business/buy from -
Lot less chance of getting hacked with ID theft. Not fool proof, but helps
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