Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:26:20PM +0100, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: 1. Sousveillance [1] is one of the best hopes of not falling into dystopia. Big Brother is scary only until the point that everyone starts looking back. Sousveillance interests me, too. For a start, it offers some obvious

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-22 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 20/08/13 17:06, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: And it's only the beginning. I agree with Groklaw's owner. The Internet is over. Thoughts? Darknets. What we cypherpunks have been saying last two decades. I have two main

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-22 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 20-Aug-13 10:57 PM, Dave Long wrote: Steganets (none of you has ever seen a dead donkey) might be a little less obvious than darknets (and the normally abysmal S/N ratio of social networks may actually provide decent channel bandwidth?) Interesting example of a darknet:

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-21 Thread Dave Long
... accept surveillance, embrace it, and set up the mechanism for subterfuge. Only that route can allow creative ways of spooking the system to emerge. cf Russell, Eric Frank, ... And Then There Were None, 1951 In practice, after a certain scale on this planet one is far more likely to wind

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-21 Thread Badri Natarajan
On 21 Aug 2013, at 09:33, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: No right to privacy yet, anywhere, but it has been argued in India that it exists. The leagles would know, surely. The Supreme Court of India has held that there is a Fundamental (Constitutional) Right to privacy arising out

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 09:22:47AM +0530, SS wrote: None of this is new. George Orwell predicted it. It happened in Stalin's Russia, and China has been well into this for decades. The current capability is completely new. Many misunderstand Vernor Vinge to be a science fiction author. Reality

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-21 Thread SS
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 14:31 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: If you embrace the system then there cannot be any subterfuge. Technically yes. Subterfuge would be a criminal act. Forget the criminals. No. Criminals are important here. Only an intention to be a criminal would make one attempt

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-21 Thread Dave Kumar
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Groklaw has decided to shut shop. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130820/02152224249/more-nsa-spying-fallout-groklaw-shutting-down.shtml Thoughts? Seems a tad overwrought as far as reactions go, but to each their

[silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Groklaw has decided to shut shop. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130820/02152224249/more-nsa-spying-fallout-groklaw-shutting-down.shtml A rather melancholy take, from elsewhere: And it's only the beginning. I agree with Groklaw's owner. The Internet is over. Thoughts? Udhay -- ((Udhay

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 09:20:24PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: And it's only the beginning. I agree with Groklaw's owner. The Internet is over. Thoughts? Darknets. What we cypherpunks have been saying last two decades.

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: And it's only the beginning. I agree with Groklaw's owner. The Internet is over. Thoughts? Darknets. What we cypherpunks have been saying last two decades. I have two main thoughts around this. 1. Sousveillance [1]

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi - Silk
On Aug 20, 2013 9:36 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: 2. A brilliant quote from silklister Heather Madrone captures my thoughts. From memory, Save your dial-up modems. We can restart the internet right under their feet. So I go back and relearn Morse code?

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Groklaw has decided to shut shop. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130820/02152224249/more-nsa-spying-fallout-groklaw-shutting-down.shtml A rather melancholy take, from elsewhere: And it's only the beginning. I

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 09:36:47PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: And it's only the beginning. I agree with Groklaw's owner. The Internet is over. Thoughts? Darknets. What we cypherpunks have been saying last two

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: 2. A brilliant quote from silklister Heather Madrone captures my thoughts. From memory, Save your dial-up modems. We can restart the internet right under their feet. So I go back and relearn Morse

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 09:39:36PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi - Silk wrote: So I go back and relearn Morse code? I'm actually going to get a ham license. You can probably think why.

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 09:56:56PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: No, it merely means (in my understanding) that you can redo a peer to peer net with this technology. It doesn't even need to be taken literally - witness the comment about darknets made upthread. If you don't own the signalling

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread SS
On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 21:20 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Groklaw has decided to shut shop. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130820/02152224249/more-nsa-spying-fallout-groklaw-shutting-down.shtml Here's a quote from the above link: The people talked about how it stopped them from being

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread Dave Long
Save your dial-up modems. We can restart the internet right under their feet. A fine sentiment, but it's trivial to distinguish modem traffic from voice. Steganets (none of you has ever seen a dead donkey) might be a little less obvious than darknets (and the normally abysmal S/N ratio

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Shades of if you aren't doing anything wrong, why do you object? in your response. I'll revisit this later. On 20-Aug-13 10:06 PM, SS wrote: My late mother grew up in her father's house with 4 siblings and 15 odd cousins. Privacy was non existent and this makes people grow up in a peculiar

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread SS
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 07:47 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Shades of if you aren't doing anything wrong, why do you object? in your response. I'll revisit this later. Yes, but I will explain below. First let me respond to this quote its currency in a society. The Haunted Land, a book that

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread Bonobashi
No right to privacy yet, anywhere, but it has been argued in India that it exists. The leagles would know, surely. Indrajit Gupta On Aug 21, 2013, at 9:22 AM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 07:47 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Shades of if you aren't doing anything wrong,

Re: [silk] Collateral damage

2013-08-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The US bill of rights - which is the bedrock of all these constitutional protections, applies to US citizens. So .. I am not sure if this discussion isn't entirely moot. --srs (iPad) On 21-Aug-2013, at 9:22, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 07:47 +0530, Udhay Shankar N