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The real reason is that they can't tap Skype. Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/09/2241223 Posted by: Zonk, on 2005-09-09 23:37:00 from the no-freebies dept. [1]Retrospeak writes According to a Reuters report [2]China is starting to block Skype service in Shenzhen, an affluent southern city of China. Local Chinese media report that China Telecom has plans to eventually block the service throughout its coverage area nationwide. Could this have something to do with the fact that China Telecom charges close to $1 per minute for calls to United States and Europe? From the article: A China Telecom spokesman had no comment on the reports about the Shenzhen blockage, but gave a broader view. 'Under the current relevant laws and regulations of China, PC-to-phone services are strictly regulated and only China Telecom and (the nation's other fixed-line carrier) China Netcom are permitted to carry out some trials on a very limited basis,' he said. References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=internetNewsstoryID=2005-09-09T133130Z_01_BAU948593_RTRIDST_0_NET-TELECOMS-CHINA-CHINATELECOM-DC.XML - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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The ghost of Cypherpunks
Slashdot has published Isaac Jones' review of my book describing how we killed 56-bit DES, Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard. The followup has been curiously devoid of mention of the Cypherpunks, a critical force in the Crypto Wars and to whom I dedicated the book. http://books.slashdot.org/books/05/09/08/1653245.shtml?tid=93tid=172tid=231tid=95tid=6 Did the Cypherpunks have their heyday and that's it? -- Matt Curtin, author of Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard Founder of Interhack Corporation +1 614 545 4225 http://web.interhack.com/
Business co-operation
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RFID driver's licenses?
A friend of mine is expressing concern over the recently passed REAL ID act which will supposedly require RFID-readable driver's licenses (which it doesn't say in the text of the bill which just makes a vague reference to machine-readable technology.) My questions are: 1. Have any states already implemented RFID-readable IDs/licenses? 2. If not, which states plan to?
IMPORTANT NOTICE: MIT CONFERENCE ON REAL ID ACT IS POSTPONED AND AUGMENTED BY ONLINE DISCUSSION.
--- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:48:22 -0400 From: Daniel Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE: MIT CONFERENCE ON REAL ID ACT IS POSTPONED AND AUGMENTED BY ONLINE DISCUSSION. [Apologies if you have already received this notice - the mail server at the MIT Media Lab crashed today and we are aware that at least some people on our notice list did not get this important message.] Please be advised that the public forum originally scheduled for Wednesday, September 14, 2005 to address the REAL ID Act of 2005 has been postponed. This has become necessary because many of the people interested in the forum are from the homeland security and first responder communities, and their focus is now squarely on the ongoing efforts to recover from Hurricane Katrina. In place of the September 14th public forum, the MIT Media Lab and the MIT E-Commerce Architecture Program will be organizing an online forum to start a conversation about the REAL ID Act of 2005. This online forum will be an ongoing, asynchronous event lasting from Monday, September 19, 2005 through Friday, September 23, 2005. This online discussion will include presentations by leaders in the field, policy experts and governmental officials who will give deeper background on the status and issues related to REAL ID. There will also be an opportunity for all registrants to participate in a dialog with the speakers and each other. Additional details about the online forum will be available shortly at http://ecitizen.mit.edu/realid.html. Please register at that web site between now and September 19th in order to participate in this web-based discussion. Finally, there will be a physical meeting at MIT to discuss the REAL ID Act of 2005 on Thursday, November 17, 2005. The upcoming online forum will provide an excellent opportunity to design this event so as to provide the maximum benefit for the people who will be attending this gathering. In the meantime, please continue to use the registration feature on the website to let us know if you are interested in participating in the online forum or attending the November meeting. Also be sure to check the website periodically for additional details. Regards, Daniel J. Greenwood, MIT Media Lab, Smart Cities Group, Lecturer MIT E-Commerce Architecture Program, Director --- end forwarded text -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
