Sunday, February 21, 2016
My kind of news!
I have no sympathy for Sony, one of the main drivers of culture-smashing rot. But credit where credit is due.....
It was one of Hollywood’s biggest ever cyberattacks, which led to a string of embarrassing leaks and millions of dollars’ worth of damage. But the hack of Sony Pictures also had an unintended consequence: it brought the fax machine – all but forgotten since the 1990s – back into fashion. Michael Lynton, the chief executive of Sony Pictures whose private emails and credit card details were published online, has revealed that since the hack he now writes sensitive messages by hand and sends them by fax. "I'm not being facetious. It's surprising how quickly you can write something down on a piece of paper and shove it in the fax. By the way — sometimes, slowing things down for a minute — that's not the worst thing in the world either."Amen to all of that, ESPECIALLY the last sentence. Tech-bullies hammer us with the demonic idea that History Only Moves One Way, and the One Way is toward Total Control By Tech-bullies. Everything must be fully digital, fully wireless, and fully software-controlled, and all the data and code must be contained in Tech-bully territory called NSA (alias The Cloud). NO. History can be turned around. Now that unquestionably COOOOOL people have discovered the R in the shift-quadrant of history, the bullies have been broken for a moment. Analog is better. Paper is better. Physical transmission by physical wires is better. Landline phones can be tapped, but the tap itself has to be physical and has to be on a completely known and mapped set of wires. It can generally be spotted by plain old LOOKING. Whether visible or not, a tap changes the impedance of the line. The change can be measured, and the tap can be localized. These detective methods were perfected 80 years ago. You can't tap a landline phone from the other side of the world, and you ESPECIALLY can't insert information into a landline phone.
Labels: defensible spaces, Metrology
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