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Just started reading a new book, (fiction), in which a method was stated to avoid having your email read, without having to encrypt it, (they used simple word code in the book).
Both parties use the same email account and only write drafts, ie.
Person A writes a draft and saves it.
Person B reads, deletes, and writes a new one.
Person A reads, deletes, etc, etc.
No email is actually sent between servers.
Interesting idea, don't know how feasible it would be, (barring unauthorised remote access to the email server).-4wd (August 29, 2013, 12:49 AM)
Many of us managed for years without email...
Simple solution:
* Toss out your PC
* Go and buy a quill
Happy days are here again.-esoito (August 28, 2013, 11:27 PM)
Apple is attempting to trademark the word "startup", covering a range of products and services, in a bold application filed in Australia on 27 August.
The application -- first spotted by TM Watch -- was filed by the company's Cupertino headquarters alongside the Sydney branch of law firm Baker & Mckenzie. The application seeks to use the trademark in relation to retail store services; the maintenance, installation and repair of computer hardware and other devices; educational services, including classes, workshops and seminars, and the design and development of computer hardware and software. So pretty much everything Apple does then.
American software mogul John McAfee appears relaxed at a downtown restaurant as he digs into a bowl of poutine, but says even the safe haven of Canada isn't immune from government spying.
"Your Canadian government has all of the facilities that the American government has, no more, no less," he says, in light of recent leaks by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
"If you think that the Canadian government is somehow morally or ethically or in any other way superior, you're wrong."
Warp-drive technology, a form of "faster than light" travel popularized by TV's "Star Trek," could be bolstered by the physics of quantum thrusters — another science-fiction idea made plausible by modern science.
NASA scientists are performing experiments that could help make warp drive a possibility sometime in the future from a lab built for the Apollo program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
A warp-drive-enabled spacecraft would look like a football with two large rings fully encircling it. The rings would utilize an exotic form of matter to cause space-time to contract in front of and expand behind them. Harold "Sonny" White, a NASA physicist, is experimenting with these concepts on a smaller scale using a light-measuring device in the lab. [Warp Drives and Transporters: How 'Star Trek' Tech Works (Infographic)]
NASA-funded lunar research has yielded evidence of water locked in mineral grains on the surface of the moon from an unknown source deep beneath the surface.
Using data from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument aboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists remotely detected magmatic water, or water that originates from deep within the moon's interior, on the surface of the moon.
Strange and interesting interview.-mouser (August 27, 2013, 09:00 PM)
Good to know - Bummer they didn't just drop the silliness.-Stoic Joker (August 27, 2013, 03:37 PM)
VidCoder-4wd (August 25, 2013, 02:51 AM)
It said Cuba had changed its mind after pressure by the United States, which wants to try Snowden on espionage charges.
Whose side are you on? Or do we have a lot of extroverts here?-Arizona Hot (August 25, 2013, 10:52 PM)
Don't expect the introverts to respond.-Renegade (August 26, 2013, 12:37 AM)
Can't say I got 100% on the "test"...but I did get an 'A'.
(Happy now?)-Stoic Joker (August 27, 2013, 06:33 AM)
6. You're easily distracted.
16. You have a constantly running inner monologue.
Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN
The European Union building on New York's Third Avenue is an office tower with a glittering facade and an impressive view of the East River. Chris Matthews, the press officer for the EU delegation to the United Nations, opens the ambassadors' room on the 31st floor, gestures toward a long conference table and says: "This is where all ambassadors from our 28 members meet every Tuesday at 9 a.m." It is the place where Europe seeks to forge a common policy on the UN.
...
'Thou Shalt Not Get Caught' (page 2)
With few exceptions, this electronic eavesdropping not only contravenes the diplomatic code, but also international agreements. The Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations of 1946, as well as the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, long ago established that no espionage methods are to be used. What's more, the US and the UN signed an agreement in 1947 that rules out all undercover operations.
But even in UN circles a little bit of spying has always been viewed as a minor offense and, according to statements made by former government employees, the Americans have never paid much attention to the agreements. But this could change with the revelations of US spying on the EU. "The US has violated the 11th commandment of our profession," says a high-ranking US intelligence official: "Thou shalt not get caught."
This would explain a lot.-dr_andus (August 27, 2013, 04:44 AM)
But it also signifies an end of Fidel's Cuba as we knew it. What sort of leverage could the US use over them, considering the over half a century of economic blockade etc?
I suppose there has been a thawing of relations recently with the US and maybe they didn't want to jeopardise that? But it also shows that Russia wasn't able to convince Cuba to take him, which is quite a reversal of roles between the US and Russia vis-a-vis Cuba.-dr_andus (August 27, 2013, 04:44 AM)
If introverts didn't respond, there wouldn't be any posts here.-Arizona Hot (August 26, 2013, 10:34 PM)
(Just poking fun!) But seems the other introverts don't want to come out to play? 
(see attachment in previous post)
Which martial art to use?-Arizona Hot (August 26, 2013, 10:37 PM)
The market could use more entrants, whether they are hardware, software or service providers. From this standpoint it's a good thing. Questionable marketing has happened before and will happen again too.-rgdot (August 26, 2013, 12:50 PM)
True.
But as long as the telcos continue to have a stranglehold on the hardware, and deliberately dumb-down what these phones can do to preserve their antiquated business model, it's mostly moot.
Compare a smartphone you get from ATT or Verizon with a completely unbuggered and not deliberately crippled version straight from the manufacturer and you'll swear they're completely different pieces of hardware.-40hz (August 26, 2013, 01:41 PM)
The NYPD Division of Un-American Activities
Now there's a name that's more than just a bit chilling. All they need now is a list of properly American Activities, a "study" that shows the "proper" participation levels, and they should be ready to start rounding uppeople"decenters" in no time.-Stoic Joker (August 26, 2013, 12:29 PM)
Superb story. However, given the nature of the subject matter, one has to wonder how true any of it might be, or whether there are all kinds of embedded and deliberately misleading points and/or half-truths in it.-IainB (August 26, 2013, 12:07 PM)