[73641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Aug 30 18:43:22 2004
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:36:39 -0700
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: Scott Call <scall@devolution.com>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0408301404480.13619@twomix.devolution.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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While I agree with everything you said, Scott, I think that is exactly the
kind of application that Feinstein is looking to quash. Her agenda has
been very pro-corporate control anti-free speech, anti-individual since she
took office. The only thing she seems more opposed to is anyone besides
her getting a gun.
Owen
--On Monday, August 30, 2004 2:10 PM -0700 Scott Call=20
<scall@devolution.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>> I recall even seeing posts about people claiming this meant original
>> data being reconstructed from the checksum! That would be truly
>> amazing since I could reconstruct a 680MB ISO from just
>> 61d38fad42b4037970338636b5e72e5a. Wow!
>
> Technically, using an Infinate Monkeys approach, you could rebuild the
> ISO by generating the expentially huge quantity of all possible data and
> check them and find the one that matches the ISO.
>
> Not practical but possible.
>
> As far as the P2P thing goes, framing is a free speech argument is
> probably not a bad way to start. For example, the guy from
> bikesagainstbush.com was arrested over the weekend (while being
> interviewed on MSNBC) and video of the arrest from a 3rd party was
> available on BT within minutes.
>
> A method like P2P (and BT's swarming in particular) allowed this file to
> spread without overtaxing the bandwidth of the person or organization
> distributing it.
>
> Frankly, in a day when news organizations are forced to think about any
> negative impacts of their reporting on their parent corp's agenda, this
> is a must have tech.
>
> -S
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