Re: Judy Miller needing killing
cyphrpunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The notion that someone who is willing to spend months in jail just to keep a promise of silence needs killing is beyond bizarre and is downright evil. Straw man alert. MV's notion is that a person who thinks journalists should be a special class of people who enjoy freedom of press (while, presumably, the rest of us don't) needs killing. That this person happens also to have spent months in jail, c, is unhappy coincidence. This list supports the rights of individuals to tell the government to go to hell, and that is exactly what Judy Miller did. She should be a hero around here. It's disgusting to see these kinds of comments from a no-nothing like Major Variola. I agree that her actions with regard to the Grand Jury situation are commendable (especially in light of my belief that the entire Grand Jury process is one of the most broken parts of our present legal system). Nevertheless, calling for the creation of a (licensed?) journalist class is stupidity so pure it's almost immoral. Repeat after me: we are all journalists. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Judy Miller needing killing
cyphrpunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The notion that someone who is willing to spend months in jail just to keep a promise of silence needs killing is beyond bizarre and is downright evil. Straw man alert. MV's notion is that a person who thinks journalists should be a special class of people who enjoy freedom of press (while, presumably, the rest of us don't) needs killing. That this person happens also to have spent months in jail, c, is unhappy coincidence. This list supports the rights of individuals to tell the government to go to hell, and that is exactly what Judy Miller did. She should be a hero around here. It's disgusting to see these kinds of comments from a no-nothing like Major Variola. I agree that her actions with regard to the Grand Jury situation are commendable (especially in light of my belief that the entire Grand Jury process is one of the most broken parts of our present legal system). Nevertheless, calling for the creation of a (licensed?) journalist class is stupidity so pure it's almost immoral. Repeat after me: we are all journalists. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running a cypherpunks list node?
Meyer Wolfsheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If one were inclined to host a cypherpunks list node, where would one obtain the necessary information? I was just considering that I ought to post a cpunks node howto. I'll get to it some time this weekend, hopefully. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cypherpunks@minder.net closing on 11/1
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:49:00PM -0400, Brian Minder wrote: The minder.net CDR node will be shutting down on November 1, 2005. This includes the cypherpunks-moderated list. Please adjust your subscriptions accordingly. Thanks Brian. Indeed! Thanks, Brian, for having run an excellent node for quite a long while. I'm suggesting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an alternative node to subscribe to. To subscribe, talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using the standard lingo. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running a cypherpunks list node?
Meyer Wolfsheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If one were inclined to host a cypherpunks list node, where would one obtain the necessary information? I was just considering that I ought to post a cpunks node howto. I'll get to it some time this weekend, hopefully. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cypherpunks@minder.net closing on 11/1
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:49:00PM -0400, Brian Minder wrote: The minder.net CDR node will be shutting down on November 1, 2005. This includes the cypherpunks-moderated list. Please adjust your subscriptions accordingly. Thanks Brian. Indeed! Thanks, Brian, for having run an excellent node for quite a long while. I'm suggesting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an alternative node to subscribe to. To subscribe, talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using the standard lingo. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]
R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fixed *that*. I've had my location off (as much as is possible) since I had my first phone that had the option, a Samsung A500. Unfortunately, that phone had a firmware bug (never fixed while I had it) such that, when it was in non-location mode, upon losing contact with the network, it would be unable to reconnect (thus, unable to place or receive calls) until powered off and then on again. The moral of the story: very few people turn the location stuff off. Otherwise, they'd have fixed this bug much sooner, as it made the phone more or less unusable for those who cared to do so. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]
R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fixed *that*. I've had my location off (as much as is possible) since I had my first phone that had the option, a Samsung A500. Unfortunately, that phone had a firmware bug (never fixed while I had it) such that, when it was in non-location mode, upon losing contact with the network, it would be unable to reconnect (thus, unable to place or receive calls) until powered off and then on again. The moral of the story: very few people turn the location stuff off. Otherwise, they'd have fixed this bug much sooner, as it made the phone more or less unusable for those who cared to do so. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Internet phone wiretapping (Psst! The FBI is Having
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a recent working email address? Does [EMAIL PROTECTED] still work? I don't have a usenet reader right now, and Google groups munges addresses. At some point he announced that he was changing from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may give that one a try too. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WebMoney
Marcel Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, was there a black hole on this list, or am I the only one who isn't receiving any messages? It seems to be working for me, just not much traffic lately. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Your epapers, please?
Thomas Shaddack shaddack@ns.arachne.cz wrote: Putting the tag into an enclosure made of a feromagnetic material helps, though. Altoids can proved to be a pretty effective shielding. Clearly we need mu-metal Altoids tins. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Your epapers, please?
Thomas Shaddack shaddack@ns.arachne.cz wrote: Putting the tag into an enclosure made of a feromagnetic material helps, though. Altoids can proved to be a pretty effective shielding. Clearly we need mu-metal Altoids tins. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AP For Starvation Judge
Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A vegetable Pope would basicly lock up the mechanisms of the Church. Oh, come on... haven't you guys seen the Godfather III? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AP For Starvation Judge
Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A vegetable Pope would basicly lock up the mechanisms of the Church. Oh, come on... haven't you guys seen the Godfather III? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: on FPGAs vs ASICs
Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Riad doesn't seem to appreciate this. Of course I do. I'm saying that for our purposes (a dedicated hashcracker) we want an ASIC. Whether we can afford one or not is another question (obviously if we can't, we buy the best FPGA we can). ...or are we no longer assuming an adversary with unlimited resources? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SHA1 broken?
Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then again, if you're looking for sheer, brute performance and design cycle times are not a limiting factor, ASICs are often the way to go. Even in a Variola Suitcase, however, I'd bet some of the trivial functions are off-loaded to an FPGA, though, for reasons above. Oh, sure. Buy yourself the flexibility of the FPGA, e.g., by putting an FPGA on a huge DMA pipe. But don't count on the FPGA to do the brunt of the crunching once you've settled on an implementation. Note also that you can probably buy yourself lots of performance without increasing the design cycle time all that much by simply synthesizing (via Synopsys or the like) the same Verilog with which you would have programmed the FPGA. Buy (or pirate if you can; it's not like you're selling these things, so who cares about the IP issues?) a set of standard logic cells in the smallest process you can afford so that even the lion's share of the layout can be done in a completely automated fashion, and you're basically all set. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SHA1 broken?
Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then again, if you're looking for sheer, brute performance and design cycle times are not a limiting factor, ASICs are often the way to go. Even in a Variola Suitcase, however, I'd bet some of the trivial functions are off-loaded to an FPGA, though, for reasons above. Oh, sure. Buy yourself the flexibility of the FPGA, e.g., by putting an FPGA on a huge DMA pipe. But don't count on the FPGA to do the brunt of the crunching once you've settled on an implementation. Note also that you can probably buy yourself lots of performance without increasing the design cycle time all that much by simply synthesizing (via Synopsys or the like) the same Verilog with which you would have programmed the FPGA. Buy (or pirate if you can; it's not like you're selling these things, so who cares about the IP issues?) a set of standard logic cells in the smallest process you can afford so that even the lion's share of the layout can be done in a completely automated fashion, and you're basically all set. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SHA1 broken?
Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, maybe I misunderstand your statement here, but in Telecom most heavy iron has plenty of FPGAs, and as far as I understand it, they more or less have to. Have to in what sense? If they're constantly reconfiguring the FPGAs (new software revs, or some sort of evolutionary learning process--- the latter not likely in telecom, of course), sure, they have to be on reprogrammable structures. If, on the other hand, you're building a custom hash cracking machine, you don't need to reconfigure your gates. You could design your parallelized SHA1 cracking machine and dump it onto a bunch of FPGAs, but if you really have unlimited resources you take the plunge into ASICs, at which point you can tighten your timing substantially. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SHA1 broken?
Thomas Shaddack shaddack@ns.arachne.cz wrote: There are FPGAs with on-chip RISC CPU cores, allowing reaping the benefits of both architectures in a single chip. FPGAs are mostly useful for prototyping. Once you've decided on a design, there's no point in realizing it in a reprogrammable environment. Synthesize it, time it carefully, and run it as fast as your process allows. TSMC 0.13u just ain't that pricey any more. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
test message, please ignore
see subject -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MIME stripping
Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-02-21T22:40:03+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Yes, complain to the Al-Q. node maintainer. The same code which strips my digital signatures also wrap the lines. Really? No. Both lines came through unwrapped. AFA sigs go, if you really want your sig to get through don't (invoking Tim here) MIME-encrust it, just send it through as plain text. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MIME stripping
Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-02-21T22:40:03+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Yes, complain to the Al-Q. node maintainer. The same code which strips my digital signatures also wrap the lines. Really? No. Both lines came through unwrapped. AFA sigs go, if you really want your sig to get through don't (invoking Tim here) MIME-encrust it, just send it through as plain text. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Team Building?? WIMPS!!
Thomas Shaddack shaddack@ns.arachne.cz wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Tyler Durden wrote: And then, even if we somehow capture May, I'd bet he's got all sorts of dead-man stuff like poison gas and whatnot. It'd be like a big game of DD, not that any Cypehrpunk knows what THAT is! It would be closer to a LARP. Considering its origins, and our own, I'd like to think that we could make the whole thing as close to a Shadowrun[1] as possible. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as if it's hard to discover what they are at this point. http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22ViewerFrame%3FMode%3D%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22MultiCameraFrame%3FMode%3D%22 Perhaps there are others as well; this is what 10 seconds of googling revealed. (There's something strangely meta about using google to discover a google search string.) -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as if it's hard to discover what they are at this point. http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22ViewerFrame%3FMode%3D%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22MultiCameraFrame%3FMode%3D%22 Perhaps there are others as well; this is what 10 seconds of googling revealed. (There's something strangely meta about using google to discover a google search string.) -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: California Bans a Large-Caliber Gun, and the Battle Is On
Roy M. Silvernail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What leads you to believe that was accidental? Most likely the fact that Michael Moore is pro-gun control. It shows a certain level of cognitive dissonance to say guns aren't the problem! Ban guns! Of course, in Michael Moore's case, that level of dissonance was long ago demonstrated (and surpassed). -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: California Bans a Large-Caliber Gun, and the Battle Is On
Roy M. Silvernail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What leads you to believe that was accidental? Most likely the fact that Michael Moore is pro-gun control. It shows a certain level of cognitive dissonance to say guns aren't the problem! Ban guns! Of course, in Michael Moore's case, that level of dissonance was long ago demonstrated (and surpassed). -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving
Joseph Ashwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I regularly drive down through Los Angeles, when I have stopped for gas or food and checked I rarely see an unprotected network. This seems like a peculiarity of your location. Here in Austin almost all of downtown is covered by free wireless. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving
Joseph Ashwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I regularly drive down through Los Angeles, when I have stopped for gas or food and checked I rarely see an unprotected network. This seems like a peculiarity of your location. Here in Austin almost all of downtown is covered by free wireless. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: loosing mail..
Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to have not received a few of the emails in the PROMIS thread. What is the best approach if one really wants to receive all emails? Subscribe to multiple feeds, filter identical message-ids? You'll get lots of spam, but you're already doing that if you're on minder. Is there (still) an online archive somewhere being saved of the cypherpunks messages? I don't think so. I thought about it at one point, and maybe I'll think about it again in the future, but it ain't gonna happen right this second... -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: loosing mail..
Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to have not received a few of the emails in the PROMIS thread. What is the best approach if one really wants to receive all emails? Subscribe to multiple feeds, filter identical message-ids? You'll get lots of spam, but you're already doing that if you're on minder. Is there (still) an online archive somewhere being saved of the cypherpunks messages? I don't think so. I thought about it at one point, and maybe I'll think about it again in the future, but it ain't gonna happen right this second... -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cell Phone Jammer?
Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To jam the entire cell freq *bands* would take more power and more complex circuits. A jacob's ladder and/or tesla coil might work but would be indiscrete at least. A plasma speaker http://images.jfet.org/20031027/imgp1255.jpg would also work, assuming that you've got the tube to drive those frequencies and an appropriately-constructed coil. Mine runs at ~25 MHz and broadcasts like a bitch (prolly 100+ Watts). Discrete? What does that mean? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cell Phone Jammer?
Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To jam the entire cell freq *bands* would take more power and more complex circuits. A jacob's ladder and/or tesla coil might work but would be indiscrete at least. A plasma speaker http://images.jfet.org/20031027/imgp1255.jpg would also work, assuming that you've got the tube to drive those frequencies and an appropriately-constructed coil. Mine runs at ~25 MHz and broadcasts like a bitch (prolly 100+ Watts). Discrete? What does that mean? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Attention Alif: RDNS is a bitch...
R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell ya what. You send me (directly, I think. :-)) pointers to how to bash RDNS out of earthlink's hands and into mine, and I'll buy you a beer. Earthlink gobbles balls like a twelve-year-old Thai hooker. Surprisingly, SBC was willing to delegate RDNS of my /29 to me. How's _that_ for unexpected? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
camophone
http://www.camophone.com/ Caller ID spoofing for the masses. Give them the target phone number, your phone number, and the number you want to appear on the caller ID. One wonders (1) how long this will last and (2) just how eager they'll be to bend over to the first TLA who comes along. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Attention Alif: RDNS is a bitch...
R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell ya what. You send me (directly, I think. :-)) pointers to how to bash RDNS out of earthlink's hands and into mine, and I'll buy you a beer. Earthlink gobbles balls like a twelve-year-old Thai hooker. Surprisingly, SBC was willing to delegate RDNS of my /29 to me. How's _that_ for unexpected? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
camophone
http://www.camophone.com/ Caller ID spoofing for the masses. Give them the target phone number, your phone number, and the number you want to appear on the caller ID. One wonders (1) how long this will last and (2) just how eager they'll be to bend over to the first TLA who comes along. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
test
This is a test. Please disregard. [1] -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
test [2]
This is another test; hopefully it's the last one. Sorry for the trouble. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
test [3]
This is another test. Please disregard. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses
Dave Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how many americans have a passport,and carry one for identification purposes? Probably not all that many. Tangentially, I was once told that, at least in Massachusetts liquor stores, even an _expired_ passport was useful identification. Can anyone confirm that this is true other than at Sav-Mor Liquors? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses
Dave Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Few liquor stores (for example) accept anything else. ..except (ta-d) the passport, which is universally accepted by liquor stores AFAICT. Imagine that. An _actual_ document of identification being used for approximately the correct purpose. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses
Dave Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how many americans have a passport,and carry one for identification purposes? Probably not all that many. Tangentially, I was once told that, at least in Massachusetts liquor stores, even an _expired_ passport was useful identification. Can anyone confirm that this is true other than at Sav-Mor Liquors? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tinfoil Wallets, anybody? :-) My wallet is a metal cigarette case. It's quite effective at blocking RFID, proxcards, c. Plus, it's chic enough that almost no one considers the paranoia aspect. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tinfoil Wallets, anybody? :-) My wallet is a metal cigarette case. It's quite effective at blocking RFID, proxcards, c. Plus, it's chic enough that almost no one considers the paranoia aspect. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recruiting Only Smart People
Eric Cordian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
www.{first 10-digit prime found in the consecutive digits of e}.com
To be honest, their puzzles just aren't that impressive. If they really
want puzzle solvers, they should just recruit at the MIT Mystery Hunt.
The puzzle they presented here is would be among the easiest in a given
year's hunt.
http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/
--
Riad S. Wahby
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A nice little dose of pop conspiracy theory...
Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://pixla.px.cz/pentagon.swf Perhaps some of those arguments can be put to bed: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2004/110804factsstraight.htm ..not that I find either one completely convincing... -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the minder node...
Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sheeit. I think I'm the only one left on the minder node...I ain't gettin shit. A quick googling revealed nothing about how to subscribe to the al-qaeda node, which I have been avoiding doing (but then again, St Bernardus Belgian ale does not really help). Can someone send me the instructions? It's a standard majordomo thing; send a message with subscribe cypheprunks in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.al-qaeda.net/cpunk/ -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another John Young Sighting
Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone can take that much as a mail attachment, or has an acessible ftp site, I'd be happy to send it. I'd prefer someone who can post it for others. You can send it to me as an attachment and I'll put it up somewhere with a nice fat pipe. The Daily Show clip is now available from http://web.mit.edu/rsw/Public/JohnYoung040820.mpg -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another John Young Sighting
Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone can take that much as a mail attachment, or has an acessible ftp site, I'd be happy to send it. I'd prefer someone who can post it for others. You can send it to me as an attachment and I'll put it up somewhere with a nice fat pipe. The Daily Show clip is now available from http://web.mit.edu/rsw/Public/JohnYoung040820.mpg -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another John Young Sighting
Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone can take that much as a mail attachment, or has an acessible ftp site, I'd be happy to send it. I'd prefer someone who can post it for others. You can send it to me as an attachment and I'll put it up somewhere with a nice fat pipe. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another John Young Sighting
Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone can take that much as a mail attachment, or has an acessible ftp site, I'd be happy to send it. I'd prefer someone who can post it for others. You can send it to me as an attachment and I'll put it up somewhere with a nice fat pipe. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies
Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back when the protocols were unprotected... much like the 'net today :-) Hell, as recently as three years ago the pay phones in Boston could still be red boxed. It may actually still be possible---I haven't tried in a while. Haven't done it here in Austin, either. I discovered (probably not the first time it's been discovered, but new to me anyway) a while ago that the autodial phones in ATMs that connect you to the bank's Retard Line could be fooled into making phone calls for free. You just have to start pulse dialing with the hook before the autodialer kicks in; if you do it right the dial tone goes away fast enough that the autodialer never activates. I never tried simply using my own tone dialer, but it's likely that would also work unless they're smart enough to mute the mic. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies
Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back when the protocols were unprotected... much like the 'net today :-) Hell, as recently as three years ago the pay phones in Boston could still be red boxed. It may actually still be possible---I haven't tried in a while. Haven't done it here in Austin, either. I discovered (probably not the first time it's been discovered, but new to me anyway) a while ago that the autodial phones in ATMs that connect you to the bank's Retard Line could be fooled into making phone calls for free. You just have to start pulse dialing with the hook before the autodialer kicks in; if you do it right the dial tone goes away fast enough that the autodialer never activates. I never tried simply using my own tone dialer, but it's likely that would also work unless they're smart enough to mute the mic. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1984 Comes To Boston (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from the panopticonjob dept. walmass writes In preparation for the DNC in Boston, [1]75 cameras monitored by the Federal government will be operating around the downtown Boston location. There are also an unspecified number of state police cameras, and 100 cameras owned by the Metro Boston Transit Authority. Quote: 'And it's here to stay: Boston police say the 30 or so cameras installed for the convention will be used throughout the city once the event is over. We own them now, said police Superintendent Robert Dunford. We're certainly not going to put them in a closet.' Maybe it's time to start making those high power IR emitters. Make them cheap enough and we can just hand them out to right-minded folk to drop here and there. Has anyone seen these cameras? Are they noticeable? At least some of them are supposedly on the central artery; your car can certainly spare 100W or so for some IR blasters... -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Terror in the Skies, Again?
I don't quite know what to make of this. Is it just paranoid rambling? http://www.womenswallstreet.com/WWS/article_landing.aspx?titleid=1articleid=711 Terror in the Skies, Again? By Annie Jacobsen Note from the E-ditors: You are about to read an account of what happened during a domestic flight that one of our writers, Annie Jacobsen, took from Detroit to Los Angeles. The WWS Editorial Team debated long and hard about how to handle this information and ultimately we decided it was something that should be shared. What does it have to do with finances? Nothing, and everything. Here is Annie's story. On June 29, 2004, at 12:28 p.m., I flew on Northwest Airlines flight #327 from Detroit to Los Angeles with my husband and our young son. Also on our flight were 14 Middle Eastern men between the ages of approximately 20 and 50 years old. What I experienced during that flight has caused me to question whether the United States of America can realistically uphold the civil liberties of every individual, even non-citizens, and protect its citizens from terrorist threats. .. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Final stage
J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laying it on just a little thick, no? Either it's a slow day in law enforcement or someone forgot to take their meds again. :-P -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Final stage
J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laying it on just a little thick, no? Either it's a slow day in law enforcement or someone forgot to take their meds again. :-P -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi
Jack Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking at getting a Sprint phone last week - every model I looked at had a GPS chip. Try the Sanyo SCP-8100. It does network-assisted location only. It also has a much more sensitive frontend than anything from Samsung, has a reasonably nice-looking screen, and isn't too big. It's old enough that it should be cheap, too. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi
Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no such thing as a GPS frequency. Well, clearly there's the frequency on which the satellites broadcast (~1500MHz). I think his point was that to jam the GPS you've got to put out RF energy on the appropriate frequency, which would then be traceable to you. Of course, you can do a bit better by using the external antenna jack and feeding the signal straight into the phone. Make sure in this case that you're using low enough power that you don't blow up the front end. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jamming GPS is no problem, but then they'll just triangulate you within the cell. The only way to prevent that would be to switch off, andn to pull the battery (unless the firmware is open source, and peer-reviewed). A little poking around on google reveals that all but the most recent Sprint phones don't support GPS at all. They rely for location on AFLT, advanced forward link trilateration. That is, they look for multiple towers, then report their delay readings to the network, allowing triangulation. More recent phones from Sprint must support real GPS, since Qualcomm offers chipsets with GPS support, which they wouldn't do unless their only customers (Sprint phone manufacturers) wanted it. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi
Jack Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking at getting a Sprint phone last week - every model I looked at had a GPS chip. Try the Sanyo SCP-8100. It does network-assisted location only. It also has a much more sensitive frontend than anything from Samsung, has a reasonably nice-looking screen, and isn't too big. It's old enough that it should be cheap, too. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi
J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly, some [early] models had external antenna jacks built in to them. Many still have test jacks on them. Both my old Samsung A500 and my current Sanyo SCP-8100 have a connector (either MC or SMA, IIRC) on the back hidden under a rubber plug. My guess is that with an appropriate connector you could use, e.g., a pringles can to make your antenna much more directional. Triangluating on a non-isotropic antenna should be quite a bit harder... -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi
J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You assume that Jane's only problem is equipment procurement. Alas, Jane's biggest problem has not changed much in the last 100 years: knowledge. Jane doesn't know this is an issue that she might need help with. People who don't know they need such help don't. If you're ignorant you're not paranoid. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jamming GPS is no problem, but then they'll just triangulate you within the cell. The only way to prevent that would be to switch off, andn to pull the battery (unless the firmware is open source, and peer-reviewed). A little poking around on google reveals that all but the most recent Sprint phones don't support GPS at all. They rely for location on AFLT, advanced forward link trilateration. That is, they look for multiple towers, then report their delay readings to the network, allowing triangulation. More recent phones from Sprint must support real GPS, since Qualcomm offers chipsets with GPS support, which they wouldn't do unless their only customers (Sprint phone manufacturers) wanted it. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi
J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly, some [early] models had external antenna jacks built in to them. Many still have test jacks on them. Both my old Samsung A500 and my current Sanyo SCP-8100 have a connector (either MC or SMA, IIRC) on the back hidden under a rubber plug. My guess is that with an appropriate connector you could use, e.g., a pringles can to make your antenna much more directional. Triangluating on a non-isotropic antenna should be quite a bit harder... -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi
J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You assume that Jane's only problem is equipment procurement. Alas, Jane's biggest problem has not changed much in the last 100 years: knowledge. Jane doesn't know this is an issue that she might need help with. People who don't know they need such help don't. If you're ignorant you're not paranoid. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AOL and Ellison Kiss and Make Up
Eric Cordian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps we can all donate to a fund to buy Harlan a clue. Or a fund for a certain prediction ? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AOL and Ellison Kiss and Make Up
Eric Cordian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps we can all donate to a fund to buy Harlan a clue. Or a fund for a certain prediction ? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: al-qaeda.net node downtime
Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Congrats on being able to exercise your 2nd amendment rights a little bit more.. Thanks :-) I've been missing my AK, which I had to leave back in Iowa when I moved out here to the land without guns. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
al-qaeda.net node downtime
I'm moving from Massachusetts to Texas, and unfortunately that means that my machine's connectivity will be in a state of flux for a while. Unless someone has a machine with a (fast, static) connection on which they want to let me host the node temporarily, al-qaeda.net will be down for some (unspecified, but hopefully not too long) time while I move. If you do have a place to put the node (I believe [EMAIL PROTECTED] once offered such a machine, but perhaps things have changed), let me know within the next day or two and I'll move everything over before I leave. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
al-qaeda.net node downtime
I'm moving from Massachusetts to Texas, and unfortunately that means that my machine's connectivity will be in a state of flux for a while. Unless someone has a machine with a (fast, static) connection on which they want to let me host the node temporarily, al-qaeda.net will be down for some (unspecified, but hopefully not too long) time while I move. If you do have a place to put the node (I believe [EMAIL PROTECTED] once offered such a machine, but perhaps things have changed), let me know within the next day or two and I'll move everything over before I leave. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
looping test
Test message to check for looping. Please ignore. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
looping test (#2)
Looping test, please ignore. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
looping
Looping should be fixed now. Sorry y'all; I suck. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: Infrared flash?
Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the best approach? The energies here are more in the range of rotation/vibration changes than electrons jumping up and down between the energy states. How to convert a blast of electrical energy into a shower of near-IR photons? If all you're trying to do is screw with surveillance cameras, a Xenon tube is crushing a fly with a crane. You can probably get away with an IR laser and a diffuser or something to that effect. It would be cheap (diode laser) and easy to build (for a strobe-like effect it would take, what? a 555, a couple resistors, a cap, and the diode). If you want, you can probably extend this idea to much more IR output just by adding more diodes and more juice. I don't remember the numbers off the top of my head, but IIRC the efficiency of a diode is substantially greater than the efficiency of a Xenon tube. Just took a quick look around, and it seems like a Xenon would still work at 900nm: http://msp.rmit.edu.au/Article_03/02a.html Apparently, Xenon tubes put out lots of crap around 900nm. In fact, it's somewhat more than they do in the visible spectrum. If you get yourself a good enough filter, you might be able to pull off a mega-photon-dump setup. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
looping
Looping should be fixed now. Sorry y'all; I suck. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
recent node activity
The al-Qaeda.net node was down for about 30 hours or thereabouts. It ought to be back up now. Messages received during that period have been resent. Sorry for the unannounced outage. Things should be better now. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California state senator on Monday said she was drafting legislation to block Google Inc.'s free e-mail service Gmail because it would place advertising in personal messages after searching them for key words. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/nm/20040412/wr_nm/tech_google_dc_1 A private interaction between two consenting parties has absolutely nothing to do with the state, period. The bitch supporting this shit should be removed from office forthwith. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California state senator on Monday said she was drafting legislation to block Google Inc.'s free e-mail service Gmail because it would place advertising in personal messages after searching them for key words. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/nm/20040412/wr_nm/tech_google_dc_1 A private interaction between two consenting parties has absolutely nothing to do with the state, period. The bitch supporting this shit should be removed from office forthwith. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
NYTimes
Apparently someone signed up [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a NYTimes ID. Member ID and password are both joecypher. Have fun. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: current status of cypherpunks, tim may, etc. ??
Joe Schmoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. any comments on this level of spam and bounces, etc., I saw from minder - does al-qeada use a more LNE-like processor ? Well, as the list maintainer I see a lot of bounces c, but (unless something is seriously wrong with my setup) no one else does. 2. Was tim may being filtered from minder, or is he just gone now ? I talked to him a little bit after lne went down; he said he wasn't interested in posting to the list any more. Quite unfortunate, in my view. Apparently he's still to be found posting on various Usenet groups. RAH knows more about this than I do. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: current status of cypherpunks, tim may, etc. ??
J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunate? I don't know. Tim's gone a little whacko over the last few years, and it doesn't look like his meds are doing crap for him: [snip] It's true, Tim does seem to harbor an awful lot of anger towards certain groups, but while I don't agree with it, he's entitled to his opinion. The part I find unfortunate is that, along with his less tactful points, gone are his insightful ones. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: On Needing Killing
An Metet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This stuff should be Cypherpunks 101.
...along with Assassination Politics. I've always taken X needs
killing to be a statement to the effect that same had earned himself
an AP-style contract, if only such a thing existed.
While your point is good, inasmuch as it's important to realize that
many illegitimate restrictions on liberty can be circumvented with
cpunk technologies, there are other ramifications that are just as
meaningful. With widespread adoption of cpunk technologies comes the
demonopolization of force, the anonymity necessary for AP-style
contract markets, c. It's inevitable---even if {you, the government,
whomever} doesn't like the idea of such uses of cpunk technologies---
that these things will spring up. After all, there will likely be
great demand for them, and cpunk tech will have enabled them in just
the same way it's enabled circumvention of other restrictions on
liberty.
It's useful to be reminded what the cpunks will have wrought. Like it
or not, needs killing is likely to remain a fixture around here.
--
Riad Wahby
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: current status of cypherpunks, tim may, etc. ??
J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunate? I don't know. Tim's gone a little whacko over the last few years, and it doesn't look like his meds are doing crap for him: [snip] It's true, Tim does seem to harbor an awful lot of anger towards certain groups, but while I don't agree with it, he's entitled to his opinion. The part I find unfortunate is that, along with his less tactful points, gone are his insightful ones. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: current status of cypherpunks, tim may, etc. ??
Joe Schmoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. any comments on this level of spam and bounces, etc., I saw from minder - does al-qeada use a more LNE-like processor ? Well, as the list maintainer I see a lot of bounces c, but (unless something is seriously wrong with my setup) no one else does. 2. Was tim may being filtered from minder, or is he just gone now ? I talked to him a little bit after lne went down; he said he wasn't interested in posting to the list any more. Quite unfortunate, in my view. Apparently he's still to be found posting on various Usenet groups. RAH knows more about this than I do. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: The Gilmore Dimissal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No one gets those. But its possible that over-zealous cops could seize your $5000 Lightspeed because it doesn't have a $2 city sticker... for every city you ride through. I managed to get a ticket for riding my bike on the wrong side of the road. When the cop told me he was giving me a ticket, I said to him you're not serious; shouldn't you be out catching criminals or something? He didn't seem to appreciate it. Oh well, fuck him. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: The Gilmore Dimissal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No one gets those. But its possible that over-zealous cops could seize your $5000 Lightspeed because it doesn't have a $2 city sticker... for every city you ride through. I managed to get a ticket for riding my bike on the wrong side of the road. When the cop told me he was giving me a ticket, I said to him you're not serious; shouldn't you be out catching criminals or something? He didn't seem to appreciate it. Oh well, fuck him. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: If You Want to Protect A Security Secret, Make Sure It's Public
John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite the long-lived argument that public review of crypto assures its reliability, no national infosec agency -- in any country worldwide -- follows that practice for the most secure systems. NSA's support for AES notwithstanding, the agency does not disclose its military and high level systems. Nevertheless, given that the public has two options (disclosure or non-), it seems public review is as good as it gets. You're right, of course---don't put 100% trust in anything---but I think it's still reasonable to trust a publicly reviewed system more than a closed one. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: If You Want to Protect A Security Secret, Make Sure It's Public
John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite the long-lived argument that public review of crypto assures its reliability, no national infosec agency -- in any country worldwide -- follows that practice for the most secure systems. NSA's support for AES notwithstanding, the agency does not disclose its military and high level systems. Nevertheless, given that the public has two options (disclosure or non-), it seems public review is as good as it gets. You're right, of course---don't put 100% trust in anything---but I think it's still reasonable to trust a publicly reviewed system more than a closed one. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: Virus with encrypted zip file - Important notify about your e-mail account.
sunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It attaches a zip file with a password containing an executable. (No worries, I've not run it, and only extracted it on a SPARC machine, so it can't use buffer overflows designed for intel in unzip -- if any exist.) I believe it's called Bagle.J. Lots of people allow .zip files through their virus scanners if they're encrypted, since until now it was thought that no virus would encrypt the .zip file. In fact, one popular way of sending viruses/trojan horses/other malware to forensic mailing lists for analysis and discussion is by putting it inside an encrypted .zip file, preventing it from opening automatically or being identified by virus scanners and bounced. Clever clever. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: Virus with encrypted zip file - Important notify about your e-mail account.
sunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It attaches a zip file with a password containing an executable. (No worries, I've not run it, and only extracted it on a SPARC machine, so it can't use buffer overflows designed for intel in unzip -- if any exist.) I believe it's called Bagle.J. Lots of people allow .zip files through their virus scanners if they're encrypted, since until now it was thought that no virus would encrypt the .zip file. In fact, one popular way of sending viruses/trojan horses/other malware to forensic mailing lists for analysis and discussion is by putting it inside an encrypted .zip file, preventing it from opening automatically or being identified by virus scanners and bounced. Clever clever. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: [Users] Announce: FreeS/WAN Project Ending (fwd from eugen@leitl.org)
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we demime the mails on this node? It's already being done. It seems, however, that the formatting of some messages is getting screwed up. I haven't found the problem yet, but your other recent mail is an example of this. Do you have a copy of the original message so I can look into what's going wrong? If so, please send it to me personally. Thanks. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Windows source leaked?
Among others, /. is reporting that Win2k and WinNT source code may have leaked. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/12/2114228 Does anyone here have any good evidence as concerns the truth or falsity of this claim? Lots has been said about OSS developers not wanting to look at this for fear that they will be tainted. While it is true that simply the act of looking at the code is unauthorized and illegal, I wonder if there is any truth to the claim that a developer who looked at Windows source would endanger future projects (assuming, of course, that simple copying---which is clearly illegal---doesn't happen). Comments? -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: Cypherpunks response to viral stimuli
Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then, is it possible to create some kind of filter that stops these replies? If it's the type of virus that delivers its payload as soon as it's viewed (relying on bugs in MSOE or whatever), then it's possible that such a thing could go undetected, especially if AV signatures haven't been updated to stop it. Of course, you could also just put a web bug in an HTML email sent to the list and wait for people to view the message in the proper viewer (read: MSOE, c). Other than relying on bugs (or features) of the mail client, however, it seems that any such system relies on the user opening a malicious attachment. Any reasonably clueful person knows not to do this, so the answer to the filter question is yes; lack of stupidity is a filter that will stop this sort of attack. Of course, this assumes that the mail client doesn't automagically execute the payload; on the other hand, it could be argued that using such a client is itself an act of stupidity. There's another answer as well: subscribe to a moderated node that demimes messages before passing them on. Viruses won't get through at all, nor will HTML email. LNE used demime before its demise; pro-ns.net and al-qaeda.net do as well. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: all the viruses, spam and bounces that are all I get from this list at the moment
Dave Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bah, I really miss the crap-filtered version of cypherpunks can anyone recommend a better node than the one I am using now? Well, you might consider me slightly biased (since I run the node), but I recommend [EMAIL PROTECTED] Filtered in essentially the same way as LNE was. Send subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
test message
test message --- please ignore -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
new CDR node?
I'm thinking of setting up a new CDR node much like LNE's. Current CDR operators, would you email me off-list so we can discuss adding me to the backbone and arrange to transfer user lists so that I can limit posting to subscribers (and of course known anonymous entry points). Sorry for not emailing y'all individually, but I don't really know which nodes are still alive (there seems to be some question about that in general) and thought I'd get better results this way. Cool. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
new CDR node?
I'm thinking of setting up a new CDR node much like LNE's. Current CDR operators, would you email me off-list so we can discuss adding me to the backbone and arrange to transfer user lists so that I can limit posting to subscribers (and of course known anonymous entry points). Sorry for not emailing y'all individually, but I don't really know which nodes are still alive (there seems to be some question about that in general) and thought I'd get better results this way. Cool. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
Re: Canada issues levy on non-removable memory (for MP3 players)
Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would something like this go over in the US? I wonder ... We allow congress to tell us that we can't have VCRs that don't respect Macrovision. I'm sure the sheeple would have no problem paying reparations for imaginary theft of imaginary property. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng
