On 7/28/15 8:21 AM, bbrewer wrote:


On Jul 28, 2015, at 10:47 AM, stef [1]<s@ctrlc.hu> wrote:

is this mailinglist suddenly transformed to the libtech list? cypherpunks i
believe build their own infrastructure, they work on remailers, and other
related stuff. what the hell happened? can someone foia what the codeword for
operation "disrupt cypherpunks mailinglist" is?

the mind boggles.

I wanted to hit the ‘like’ button on this, but I couldn’t find it. My internet m
ust be broken.

   You do it like this: The original 'Like':
   +1
   And then everyone is supposed to notice and mentally tabulate the
   results.  Or your mail reader could track posts and do it for you, but
   nobody ever did that.


(I will agree hosting your own could be the way to go, however, running/admining
 your own box at home / work or hosted on a VPS each carry with them their own d
angers of security, trust, yadda yadda).

   I've run my own box on the Internet continuously since 1992.  But there
   is a payment history, it's been in the same location for 8 years, etc.
   When I imagine a more secure (in certain senses) alternative, as least
   as an individual, it usually involves public cloud services, perhaps in
   some ephemeral rotating basis way.  First you need to secure DNS, or
   some similar alternative, then...  Tor or similar helps for a certain
   class of usage, but then you're outside the normal Internet world.
   Without interesting goals, no point in interesting solutions other than
   knowing how to do interesting solutions and what their limitations
   are.  Which is a good thing in and of itself.


There is, as you state, a large difference between acknowledging these other opt
ions and their upsides/downsides, vs. simply not acknowledging their existence a
t all.

Depressing.


   sdw

References

   1. mailto:s@ctrlc.hu