Richard Thornton: Not sorry, not a dude, I do not drink alcohol, and I do not associate with people like you. Take your dude problems elsewhere, because I am not interested. OpenBSD is the only reason I am here, and I do not like rubber hoses or the people who try to shove them up my butt. I don't care what Theo thinks, either. It's his operating system, and he can take it or leave it or ignore the spam. And anyone else can use it under the BSD license. That's what he did to NetBSD anyway. I am going to use whatever software I want to use as long as it is legal. Same as anyone else on the mailing list, unless I get B& for some reason, in which case I will find a different mailing list. I don't run the show here, so don't act like I do or I am trying to, because I am not. I'm not interesting in forkingan operating system or going back to Net- or FreeBSD, either. I don't like Linux, either, because the kernel is far too bloated, and I don't like all the spyware, adware, and malware that goes along with it. I just use OpenBSD as an operating system. It does not put me in the mood to party, nor, do I think, is it intended to. Yet another defense to rubber-hose cryptanalysis is to slice those rubber hoses to ribbons with a sharp razor, and install a decent burglar alarm with a secure OS.
________________________________ From: Richard Thornton <rich...@thornton.net> To: zx5...@yahoo.com; misc@openbsd.org Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 7:51 PM Subject: Re: From the military propaganda department Time to drink a beer and chill out, dude! Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network. From: Justin Lindberg Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 2:01 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Reply To: Justin Lindberg Subject: From the military propaganda department Excuse the Yahoo address. That's the best I can do here in the United States of Amerikkka. How is life in OpenBSD-land? The gummint dont trust me when I use OpenBSD because they don't have a clue what I'm doing when I'm at my computer. Even after they've read my code, and obtained all my passwords via rubber-hose cryptanalysis, and they're sitting at my keyboard staring at the hash prompt, they still don't have a clue what I am doing, and they think the problem can be solved by the more liberal use of rubber hoses. Oh, I was writing a letter to my attorney. But some people consider that to be illegal here in Amerikkka. They don't understand that when I am ready to release my software, I release it, and when it's released, it's released. That is my right under our First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech and of the press. I think it works pretty similarly over there in Canada. When you've tested your code and you are ready, you commit it, and when it's committed, it's committed, and the rest of the team is free to tear it to shreds. The best defense to rubber-hose cryptanalysis is small pieces of lead, saboted and silenced and projected at high speed at anyone and everyone armed with a rubber hose. The Penguins over in Linux-land understand this very well. Do the Pufferfish? Because that's my right, too, under our Second Amendment guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms. So when I'm ready, I fire a shot, and when it's fired, it's fired, and there is no calling it back. And that's why I make dead certain that I am ready before I fire. Even if the U.S. Department of Defense considers computer cryptography to be a munition of war, then the right to use it is still protected, only under the Second Amendment rather than the First. Some communications are private, confidential, classified, or privileged and not obtainable with a warrant, and that is why we use cryptography here in the United States of America.
