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socat, mentioned on NTK, seems useful. There's much else out there; we'll have to go out and find some things for the new LNX-BBC, which I hope can be published by LinuxWorld in August.
The EFF went to see Windtalkers, which was quite violent. (People get shot, impaled, blown up, partly blown up, have throats cut, catch fire, lose parts of limbs, are crushed by objects and vehicles, and repeatedly stabbed with bayonets and knives.) The violence made me feel ill -- even though war movies are supposedly not as extreme as horror movies. One of the things a modern war movie demonstrates graphically, thanks to the state of the art in special effects, is that, whatever kinds of horrors you might have imagined, there are always other horrors out there, things which actually happen.
("This is real, this is something that happens!" Magnolia.)
During World War II, a relatively "lawful" war (although much of modern war-crimes law was still uncodified), people were burned to death every day, and died in hundreds of other ways.
The Marines had a recruiting ad at the beginning of the movie! (The combatants in the movie are marines.) Did that make sense to other people who've seen the movie?
There was a lot of war and not very much code; I don't think this is a great movie for crypto fans unless they're also war movie fans.
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