feds try to argue touch tone content needs no wiretap order

2009-01-10 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Just about everyone knows that the FBI must obtain a formal wiretap order from a judge to listen in on your phone calls legally. But the U.S. Department of Justice believes that police don't need one if they want to eavesdrop on what touch tones you press during the call.

Re: MD5 considered harmful today, SHA-1 considered harmful tomorrow

2009-01-10 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 06:23:47PM -0600, Dustin D. Trammell wrote: Nearly everything I've seen regarding the proposed solutions to this attack have involved migration to SHA-1. SHA-1 is scheduled to be decertified by NIST in 2010, and NIST has already recommended[1] moving away from SHA-1

Re: On the topic of Asking the drunk...

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry Leichter
On Jan 9, 2009, at 6:49 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote: https://visa.com/ I get no response. None at https://www.visa.com either. On the other hand, the US-specific site, https://usa.visa.com, responds just fine - but it redirects you to http://usa.visa.com/index.html . Try that same address

Re: On the topic of Asking the drunk...

2009-01-10 Thread Peter Gutmann
Jerry Leichter leich...@lrw.com writes: On Jan 9, 2009, at 6:49 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote: https://visa.com/ I get no response. None at https://www.visa.com either. Sigh, you wait awhile to make sure it's not an intermittent thing and then as soon as you post it it stops working (or maybe someone