"And who is afraid of the NSA in the first place? These folks are the good guys."

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"And who is afraid of the NSA in the first place? These folks are the good guys."

Tom Brosz — 9/27/2005 12:48:14 AM (archived)

Maybe. Maybe not. In any case, there's never a guarantee they'll remain the "good guys." There are ways to organize a society so that crime and terrorism become almost impossible. I don't think it's worth what that would take.

Efficiency is not always the goal.

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National Security Agency gets fix on Internet users location - Eric - 9/25/2005 9:55:17 PM
- Not sure how that can work - Tom Brosz - 9/25/2005 10:23:11 PM
  - Suppose Bin Laden is using dialup. - David F Mayer - 9/26/2005 6:36:34 PM
  - Speculation - Robert - 9/26/2005 2:05:21 AM
    - re: Speculation - Tom Brosz - 9/26/2005 4:06:22 AM
      - re: Speculation - Robert - 9/26/2005 5:31:08 PM
        
        re: Proxies - DL - 9/26/2005 5:43:20 PM
        
        Honey pots - Robert - 9/26/2005 6:13:30 PM
        
        Well, I'd love to see a proxy - DL - 9/26/2005 6:41:20 PM
        
        Unfortunately... - Robert - 9/26/2005 8:17:02 PM
        
        Oh my God... Robert's been comprimised!!! - Scott Evil - 9/27/2005 1:15:18 PM
      - re: Speculation - DL - 9/26/2005 5:24:07 PM
        
        also - DL - 9/26/2005 5:35:22 PM
        
        re: also - Tom Brosz - 9/26/2005 6:07:32 PM
        
        50 hackers - DL - 9/26/2005 6:30:04 PM
        
        One hacker's ideas - Robert - 9/26/2005 8:09:44 PM
        
        more thoughts - DL - 9/26/2005 9:53:54 PM
        
        re: Resonse to One hacker's ideas, plus another hackers notions - DL - 9/26/2005 8:53:05 PM
        
        Actually, I take most of that back - DL - 9/26/2005 9:39:30 PM
        
        except the p2p thing where all latencies are pegged to a constant over the network - DL - 9/26/2005 9:41:25 PM
        
        But even that has a weakness... - Robert - 9/27/2005 7:33:50 PM
        
        I'm not so sure - DL - 9/27/2005 8:08:33 PM
        
        See folks? No worries. Robert and DL almost have it beat already. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/26/2005 9:12:55 PM
        
        Posting these ideas on a BB is akin to handing ... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/26/2005 10:48:53 PM
        
        "And who is afraid of the NSA in the first place? These folks are the good guys." - Tom Brosz - 9/27/2005 12:48:14 AM
        
        re: "And who is afraid of the NSA in the first place? These folks are the good guys." - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/27/2005 3:16:07 AM
        
        Its akin to working out the obvious. - DL - 9/27/2005 12:13:57 AM
  - Here's the patent - SteveS - 9/26/2005 12:27:07 AM
    - Corrected link - Mary Anne - 9/26/2005 2:15:45 AM
      - Thanks Mary Anne (n/t) - SteveS - 9/26/2005 2:44:58 PM

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