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I had held for a long time that OpenBSD was the best, not only for security reasons, but to escape corporate and government influence. Unlike Linux and FreeBSD, which have involvement and sponsorship by the NSA, other government agencies & contractors, and large multinational corporations, with built in “remote attestation” and “optional” built-in support for [...]

From Lew Rockwell: Backscatter Van (Updated 8/26/11 with new video address, since this post needed a link)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation finally succeeded at something: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until now, could have been sued for their [...]

The ride was great, the beach is better. The GPS device in the car we rented spies on traffic around the country and gave us paths through country roads when it would avoid traffic. Morally and Constitutionally terrible, but helpful every now and then I guess. And the beach was great today.   You Are [...]

From Engadget: Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, [three people] at the University of Michigan claim they [...]

From Lorain County, Ohio’s Chronicle-Telegram Online: The thief who crashed his car through AdultMart here early Wednesday knew exactly what he wanted: He picked up a $300 sex toy, discarded it for a smaller, less expensive model and then drove off — all of which was captured quite clearly on security video. Video description on [...]

Lately I’ve been getting into all the stuff I used to do before college and all that came along. I put on Coast to Coast AM the other day, now with George Noory after Art Bell retired. I also got BOINC up. I run SETI@Home, Enigma@Home, yoyo@home’s OGR wrapper, and SHA-1 collision search (currently dormant). [...]