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Aren't a couple of those "less than objective" judges coming up on retirement? What then?

Interesting opinion. The "overhead" I'm concerned with is based in hardware, not my own creativity.

When I install Python I get about 14MB of stuff. The interpreter is about 8K. The libpython shared library is about 1.5MB. If what you are referring to as the standard library is i…

The standard libraries count as an external library. Why wouldn't they?

So who should we entrust with protecting our communications over the open Internet? The US defense contractor and the reclusive gentleman in the UK whose code (for whatever reasons…

How many LOC in the libraries used to be able to write the implementation in 500 lines of Python? Why not include some experiments with Lua and lpeg? It would probably be faster th…

I'm guessing the downvoters have no clue what TAP is or why it is relevant to peer-to-peer. Either that or they just think this is some critique of their beloved Apple. I'm referri…

Last time I checked iOS still lacks a TAP device. Castration indeed.

(First stage bootloader) Yes, I know that. I have yet to find a device that meets all my requirements (some of which I did not mention). In RPI's favor I will say that 1. it is not…

As soon as they have something that boots BSD, where starting the graphics layer is optional and it has decent networking, I will definitely purchase one of these. I wouldn't mind …

Yes, this is a good suggestion. Time will tell. I prefer BSD and this is potentially a candidate. For now, I'm investing my time in my RPi.

"It's an interesting project but practically speaking $100 (no contract) can already buy a pretty good smartphone these days... and one with a more "unofficially open" SoC too." Do…

No, you said that. I said that having email so closely coupled to DNS is part if the problem. I'm not sure why you would have to remember IP addresses. We routinely "dial" telephon…

Thank you for being honest. But I am actually referring to something different: hosting your own mailserver. So when I say "set up DNS" I mean set up a DNS server, not simply an MX…

Are we discussing control of email, or aesthetics of email? If you want to use names instead of numbers, then you can do that. You and your recipient must use the same DNS root.

OpenBSD has to be commended for executing on a simple idea that sadly few developers ever adopt: You can make software more valuable by taking things out.

Part of the problem is that many years ago certain people decided it would be a good idea to tightly couple email to domain names (DNS). Previously email needed only IP addresses t…

For per packet encryption. For authentication, there is CurveCP. People seem confident with OpenSSH's authentication mechanism. Why not use that? At some point one has to trust tha…

How did you reach this conclusion? At least with devices running iOS, if you let the charge drop to zero, and it loses its cached network settings, and then when you try to reconne…

Our current testing utilities are relatively small and compile with modest amounts of RAM. Hobbit's netcat, WR Stevens' sock, etc. We have security auditing rules that require us t…

You are correct. They mentioned Heartbleed and the software that is responsible for it.

Chances are, you're already running one. If you have a smartphone, it allows the carrier (=client) to access the device (=server) remotely. Same for cable modems. Maybe you also ha…

"It doesn't scale!" Who said it needed to scale? How many Facebook friends does the average user have? Do these these networks need to be larger than that? If users want larger net…

As you know, OpenVPN cannot do what n2n can do. Someone has to run an OpenVPN server. Everyone on the network has to trust that server. And connections between network participants…