[Noisebridge-discuss] Anti-piracy / anti-Pirate Bay law currently in Congress [drama]

[Martin Bogomolni]

Added the [drama] tag to help David F's effort to sort his inbox...

-M


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Thomas, I have a similar problem to yours vis-a-vie painful joints.
Specifically caused by repetitive motion injury, mostly from being a
programmer and typing a lot.

When push comes to shove, you hit the [spacebar] much more than you
hit the [return] key on a keyboard, and the [return] key is positioned
such that it can be hit with the pinky finger with the minimum amount
of travel.

There are many work arounds that can help:

Use the side of your hand in a fist, rather than the pinky, to hit
[return] .. many keyboard accomodate this technique well .. what
actually happens is that you hit [shift]-[enter] which outputs the
same thing.

Get a piece of weatherstripping (1/4" or so thick) and attach it to
the [return] key.   Makes it easier to hit, has much the same effect
as the [spacebar] letting you hit it with the hand rather than the
pinky.

There are keyboards, inexpensive ($30 or so), that have larger keys
with better spacing.  Most are very arthritis-friendly.

Also, there are software solutions for every OS that let you remap
keys, or that detect key presses.   The one I find that works the best
in both Linux and OSX is one that lets you hit the spacebar three
times rapidly for a carriage return.

Typing with a disability like arthritis/repetitive stress/carpal can
suck, but you don't have to give up readability to your disability!

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Back to the subject at hand: Tor.

As Jake mentioned, Tor doesn't have back doors.   If there is
something in the code you feel is a back-door, or insecure (and the
code is open source, and freely available) I'd be interested in having
you point it out.   It would be of help to the community.

Same goes for specific security flaws that you can show example code
for, or an exploit for, and hopefully a solution to.    It's important
to back statements like the ones you've been making with concrete
examples.   Otherwise, how will anyone take you seriously?

-Martin