Encrypt all the things!

Cooperative self interest

^^ uncooperative worker

There's no contradiction, nor even a tension. We can co-operate perfectly well without agreeing on everything, or even most things. Much of the poisonous journalism about the Occupy movement has pivoted on this fallacy, accusing them of not having a vision, as if they were a political party (as if any of the political parties had a vision anyway).

Anarchism means "without rulers", not without rules I suppose.

So yes, if one posited a society of people who would generate rules by consensus, and then abide by them, then a cooperative would work.

My impression of anarchists is that they don't want any rules, either implicit or explicit, which would not bode well for a cooperative society I would suggest- concepts such as ownership of ones own labours and so forth being fairly important.

Most anarchists I know would all agree that rules as a concept are fine: "Thou shall not kill" would be agreed upon unanimously.

It's more a case that rules should not be applied by a remote third party. That is to say, rules should be localised, and where rules from one locale to another are universal you can say those were the base societal rules that everyone had to abide to, and that other rules would be hyper-local.

A hyper-locality (a small commune) might agree to ignore concepts of property within their area of influence. Whereas another locality might establish rules of property ownership, inheritance, etc. Who has the right to take either set of rules and impose it on the other?

So it isn't an absence of rules... you can't just go kill someone. But it's the absence of the imposition of rules.

Anarchism means "without rulers", not without rules I suppose.

True. The problem with the word is that it can also literally (and ambiguously) mean 'without principle' (ἀρχή):

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arche[/ame]

Principles are good. Rule by force is not.

Local agreement of rules
Based on principles
Decided consensually

But who enforces the rules?

The group who agreed them

I think at a minimum you'd have to elect a police force, albeit a short term position that everyone in the society could expect to do at some point.

Otherwise I fear you'd end up with a feudal society, really quickly.

One principal requirement for anarchy is ethical behaviour. Nobody's perfect and it wouldn't eliminate disorder completely, but on a positive view of human nature, which the absence of force itself would foster, disorder can be limited to a manageable extent without requiring a police force.

The best police is an individual's conscience. You may be able to get away with shoplifting in the sense that no-one sees you and no-one is able to deduce that it must have been you, but you know you did it. Can you police yourself?

The reasons why people transgress are complex, but two principal causes are being forced to do things we don't want to do, and living in badly-connected, anonymous lots rather than communities with intact social relationships. Anarchism usually aims at improving on both problems.

Again, nothing can fully eliminate all problems, but there's definitely room for improvement this way.

"Last week the UK High Court ruled that several of the country’s leading ISPs must block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay. "

from: http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-enjoys-12-million-traffic-boost-shares-unblocking-tips-120502/

And from bbc we get:

"Justice Arnold ruled that BT must use its blocking technology CleanFeed - which is currently used to prevent access to websites featuring child sexual abuse - to block Newzbin 2."

Cleanfeed, designed to "to block access to child abuse/pornography", paid for by us, now used to run the errands of the media companies. Nice.

I guess this belongs in here:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/17/3026204/london-metropolitan-police-mobile-data-extraction

So, how can you prevent the Radio Tactics' Aceso Kiosk accessing your phone?

If it's locked and you've forgotten the pin, will that be enough?

Just had a look through the settings on my galaxy nexus and I can encrypt it requiring a pin entering to unencrypt it when its turned on. Not sure how this affects an external system trying to access data on it if its already on though.

Doubt just a pin on the lock screen would be enough to stop it.

Sounds similar to what iOS does, it encrypts the storage when locked or switched off. When the device is actually on/unlocked its fair game.
You should bear in mind that 3g is an extremely secure way of transmitting data so any snooping would have to come from malware or your network provider.

Yeah, I wasn't really thinking about via 3g, more what happened if they tried to connect one of these data extraction devices if the phone is already on.

Anyway its encrypted and password locked now.

I'd love a fingerprint reader on an Android. Should be possible, the tech already exists.

Had a meeting with a client the other day, they had been repeatedly attacked (and compromised a couple of times) by a hacker, who had recently been arrested (again).

Turns out he'd set up his storage in such a way that if he did not login and reset the clock within a 24 hour period then it wiped itself- said storage was inside an AWS image.

None of his computers had anything more than an operating system on- all storage was based in his "private cloud" (as someone is bound to call it), so when the coppers seized his machines they were doing him a favour as he could no longer login and keep his storage from nuking itself.

He's 21 I think- the client genuinely believes that next time they will never catch him.

Your client should hire him.

That was my recommendation, they said that would be politically impossible.

Whenever I get paranoid*, I use hotspot shield from Anchorfree. Is this a waste of time? Am I actually protecting myself from anything? Apologies if this has been already covered. Couldn't find it in a search.

*or when I want to access content restricted to US IP addresses

encrypteverything.ca uses an invalid security certificate.

LOLz

Why is it so difficult to find a password safe that is synced to my phone and my PC? I am using KeePass.

I am finding regularly now, I wont have the program on me, so I reset the password to something useable to gain access to things like Amazon or eBay. Im sure thats not the proper way to do it. Then after a time I have to go thru the process of rechanging it when Im at home on my pc.

It was also part of the reason I bought my Android tablet, so I could have the program on all 3 systems. But trying to keep all of them up to date is impossible. And to further complicate things, I also have it on a thumb drive. So thats 4 but each one seems to be evolving differently.

Is there a better way?

How do I keep them all sync'd? Is there a better program?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I'm using https://agilebits.com/onepassword which works great with home mac, work mac and iPhone. You have to manually update the iphone db though, but that's quickly done when you need it