Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 20:20:15 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: jack@diamond.xtalwind.net, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD hacker dinner report... Message-ID: <199611030950.UAA08453@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961103015928.26252B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Nov 3, 96 02:02:40 am
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Tim Vanderhoek stands accused of saying: > > > > > But has anyone thought of the security implications of either SFTP or the > > > DTP? Could someone put mushrooms in my spaghetti in route??? Yuck! :-) *snort* Now _that_ has potential 8) > > Not to worry, you'll have the option of either DES or PGP encryption. > > So does this mean the food would have to be made outside of the US, > then sent to the US, and then SFTP'd to all those German hackers? Nooo, it just means that Taiwanese food vendors would be prohibited from dumping their low-cost food on the US market to protect McDonalds and its margins. (cf. Hyundai etc.) Menus would continue to be unreadable, as they are in any good eating establishment already. > (Not to neglect the Australian who started this, I think) I'd be more worried that the nominated food protocols would suffer from latency, so that either I'd get dessert first, or worse, everything would end up queued in a Cr^Hisco somewhere and arrive cold. Foodagram fragmentation also raises some questions; how does one reassaemble, say, a souffle after it has been fragmented en route? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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