Tomte

Gutmann's cryptlib, as well, I guess.

Germany's best-selling PC magazine c't periodically distributes "Bankix" on their CD. It's a Linux live system (with permanent storage on a USB stick) geared specifically towa…

Encrypt your content with AES-128 with a random (from /dev/random) key; write the key down as 32 hexadecimal digits. Nobody is going to break it, ever. Don't you advocate the use of u…

I do not see where I actually commented on the merits of the case or the extradition request. Maybe you can enlighten all of us?

Luckily, criminals (and innocents) don't get to dictate the process and legal rules of criminal investigations (and extraditions). We call it rule of law. You may have heard of it.

I passed the last course and cannot recommend it enough. I'd love to know the answer to the last week's programming problems, though. I only got part of it.

The difference is probably that in your case you're showing self-produced evidence that you can easily and arbitrarily create, while in the case of physical shipment another party confirms the sh…

> Reasonably foreseeable outcome. In German law that's even intent. The weakest form of intent, and not always easy to distinguish from wanton negligence, but still.

Ambiguity does exist in natural languages, and it is obviously no big problem.[1] Unfortunately, technically inclined people like to apply their domain specific "knowledge" (compiler cosntru…

A saying from an aquaintance who works as a public prosecutor in capital cases: "Generally it's preferable to discuss the limitations of self-defense with the prosecutor, than having the fa…

I find the Florida system eminently sensible, even not going far enough. Maybe just because I'm kind of used to it. German self-defense law is even stronger than all those Stand Your Ground laws …

Well, but I know about what German courts require in cases of self-defense with a gun. I'm sorry to hear that the US have not developed some sensible framework of self-defense.

That is equivalent to abolishing rule of law. And leads to an immediate race to the bottom of human sentiments and emotions. Feel free to google for "Gesundes Volksempfinden" (~"healthy…

That's wrong (you may mean "in the US", though, I don't know about that). And incredibly stupid. Of course it is desirable to give the attacker a chance to retreat by firing a warn…

My friend's computers don't have PGP installed. Neither do "surf terminals". I certainly cannot install PGP there. Everything that requires some special software to run is a non-st…

A password manager does not encrypt or sign mails.

Doesn't help. First, I'm not remotely interested in running my own mail infrastructur anymore. Been there, done that. Today it's much too hard to get mails accepted by others. But more …

I have played with GPG time and again, my Enigmail/Thunderbird/OpenPGP card setup is fully functional. But what's holding me back is webmail. I don't use the web interface often, b…

No, it didn't. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit did.

Okay, then I misunderstood where you were getting at. My fault.

Of course "you don't implement caching". I think it was clear that I was talking about designing a cache-aware application. Cf. http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/ .…

I don't understand why you would want to implement HTTP caching in a language's runtime. Honestly, I don't even see where and how you could even do that.

The language does not implement caching. Your application architecture needs to take server caching into account. And in my experience, devs who focus so much on the "fast language" part, do so, becau…

Its language semantics are a sweet spot for me. And in my kind of web applications I handle massive load via HTTP Caching, leaving your "fast" language without cache-aware architecture far behind, tha…

As far as I understood the article, David had this accident in Argentina and the local authorities are investigating the matter. Daniel then left the country, going back to Brazil. Presumably -- but t…