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It is an object lesson:
Created on 2006-07-13 16:22:33 (#10660549), last updated 2007-04-27
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Basic Info| Name: | Chicago Mike |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1982 |
| Location: | Henderson, Colorado, United States |
| Website: | chicago--mike.com |
BioIt is an object lesson: the kind of nightmarish, snowballing
technological fuck-up that keeps hackers awake at night even when they can't hear the results.
seems to be cognoscente at some level that it has its weaknesses from a security
standpoint. So if you sit down and talk to most people who use e-mail they are
aware at some level that their e-mail really isn’t private. Everyone hears about
crackers breaking into systems all the time. Everyone who uses a cell phone must
understand at some level that it’s a radio, a walkie-talkie, and every word they
say is being broadcast in a way that anyone with a scanner could pick it up and
listen to it.
People know these things but nobody acts on it, which I find kind of interesting.
Historically there is not a lot of actual spying on people’s email that goes on.
It happens, but it doesn’t seem to be causing serious problems for very many
people. The same is kind of true for cell phones.
An engineer would look at our communications system today--email, cell phones--and
be horrified at all the security gaps and predict that the bad people would exploit
those gaps on a massive scale and a huge market for crypto would spring out of it,
but it hasn’t happened. Maybe it will.
Most people living in a society seem to put certain limits on what they will and
won’t do. This is a hard thing for scientists and engineers to understand, but it
seems to be very true.
-- Neal Stephenson on Cryptography today
"So here I am...
Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it.
Leslie Lamport
4 August 1979
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