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  • GatorLUG Meeting

    Posted on by Wells Comment

    Here at the GatorLUG meeting… talking about Google Fiber in Gainesville… at least as a possibility. There needs to be a lot more organization than I have seen so far in order for this to proceed, as well as a good bit more information. I feel so far that information is going to be the main thing that they are going to be needing at this time.

    The discussion has devolved into a political discussion, which for the most part is boring and ridiculous.

    Ed Allcut then gave a discussion about what good GPG is for. Eh, seeing as I don’t even like to admit that I have even used GPG, and that I feel that in most cases it is pretty much pointless, I have basically tuned it out. Instead I am being snippy about it on IRC.

    One question that has come up (at least to me): How would I implement a GPG enabled vacuum cleaner?

    The meeting is ending with a GPG signing, which quite frankly I am not going to participate in.


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  • GPG Spam

    Posted on by Wells Comment

    So a discussion came up just recently concerning spam scanners on mail servers and their tendency to score on emails that happen to be GPG encrypted, simply because the contents is a bunch of gobbledy-gook. Things were thrown back and forth concerning the computational expense of scanning emails for spam in the first place and stuff… then the conversation took a bit of a left turn when I started going off about how I was going to become the next spam king, whose sole purpose would be to generate spam using nothing but GPG signatures and encryption, as well as generating new keys for the spam every day so that a filter could not be placed on any single GPG key/signature.

    They whined a bit about how it is still computationally expensive, and that all of the key generation and encryption would actually reduce the amount of spam being sent, to which my reply was that they did not understand the goal I was trying to achieve… not to make money from spam, but instead to kill GPG forever.

    Yes, I was a bit bored…


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