1st amend applies to video games

2003-06-06 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
A federal appeals court panel has struck down a law that restricted children's access to violent video games, giving the software the same free-speech protection as that for works of art. A panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a St. Louis County, Mo.,

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-06 Thread Derek Atkins
Eric Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Too often people see something like Peter's statement above and say oh, it's that nasty ASN.1 in X.509 that is the problem, so we'll just do it in XML instead and then it'll work fine which is simply not true. The formatting of the certificates is such a

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-06 Thread Eric Rescorla
Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Too often people see something like Peter's statement above and say oh, it's that nasty ASN.1 in X.509 that is the problem, so we'll just do it in XML instead and then it'll work fine which is simply not true.

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-06 Thread Adam Shostack
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 07:15:13PM -0400, John Kelsey wrote: | At 03:50 PM 6/3/03 -0700, Eric Blossom wrote: | ... | GSM and CDMA phones come with the crypto enabled. The crypto's good | enough to keep out your neighbor (unless he's one of us) but if you're | that paranoid, you should opt for the