Bigotry is abound, apprently, within these boards. There is a level of supposed tolerance I will have no part of. Obviously, it seems to be well-embraced here. I have finally found something more fucked up than what I'm used to. Congrats. - Ruby
Paranoid Linux is an operating system that assumes that its operator is under assault from the government (it was intended for use by Chinese and Syrian dissidents), and it does everything it can to keep your communications and documents a secret. It even throws up a bunch of "chaff" communications that are supposed to disguise the fact that you're doing anything covert. So while you're receiving a political message one character at a time, ParanoidLinux is pretending to surf the Web and fill in questionnaires and flirt in chat-rooms. Meanwhile, one in every five hundred characters you receive is your real message, a needle buried in a huge haystack.~Cory Doctorow (Little Brother, 2008)When those words were written, ParanoidLinux was just a fiction. It is our goal to make this a reality. The project officially started on May 14th, and has been growing ever since. We welcome your ideas, contributions, designs, or code. You can find us on freenode's irc server in the #paranoidlinux channel. Hope to see you there!
http://paranoidlinux.org/QuoteParanoid Linux is an operating system that assumes that its operator is under assault from the government (it was intended for use by Chinese and Syrian dissidents), and it does everything it can to keep your communications and documents a secret. It even throws up a bunch of "chaff" communications that are supposed to disguise the fact that you're doing anything covert. So while you're receiving a political message one character at a time, ParanoidLinux is pretending to surf the Web and fill in questionnaires and flirt in chat-rooms. Meanwhile, one in every five hundred characters you receive is your real message, a needle buried in a huge haystack.~Cory Doctorow (Little Brother, 2008)When those words were written, ParanoidLinux was just a fiction. It is our goal to make this a reality. The project officially started on May 14th, and has been growing ever since. We welcome your ideas, contributions, designs, or code. You can find us on freenode's irc server in the #paranoidlinux channel. Hope to see you there!I think the above quote explains it pretty well.You can download Cory Doctorow's book here if you want to know more. Its not necessary, but it is a good book, and he is encouraging people to share it. I also think something along the lines of Paranoid Linux has potential, even though it is Linux.
Anyone ever think about how Richter inhabits the same reality as you and just scream and scream and scream, but in a good way?
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Quote from: Nigel on June 10, 2008, 05:06:27 pmI can't get the page to load. Paranoid Linux fears you
I keep expecting this to go straight into Pratchett land:"The operating system was so secure and secretive that it removed all traces of itself as soon as installed. It would then stand by in case the user might possibly ever need to do something secretive, and then only after several code words in dead languages and a quarter cup of the user's blood had been presented as verification. Otherwise, it would stew quietly and try to appear as much like a normal terminal as possible. At least until it finished re-wiring itself a cloaking device. Normal useage was horribly slow and obtuse, and influenced early itterations of 'Windows'."