Re: Sen. Hollings plans to introduce DMCA sequel: The SSSCA

2001-09-09 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Carsten Kuckuk wrote: Am I right in that this bill would effectively outlaw all free open-source operating systems like Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, etc.? Carsten Kuckuk Yes. All interactive digital systems that directly connect to the net will have to licensed. Most

Re: Shades of FV's Nathaniel Borenstein: Carnivore's Magic Lantern

2001-11-21 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R. A. Hettinga writes: Everyone remember First Virtual's Nat Borenstein's major discovery of the keyboard logger? 'Magic Lantern' part of new 'Enhanced Carnivore Project' [etc] In the same vein, but a different application, does

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-10 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote: ... / Right, and you can boot untrusted OS's as well. Recently there was discussion here of HP making a trusted form of Linux that would work with the TCPA hardware. So you will have options in both the closed source and open source worlds to

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-01 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote: Eric Murray writes: TCPA (when it isn't turned off) WILL restrict the software that you can run. Software that has an invalid or missing signature won't be able to access sensitive data[1]. Meaning that unapproved software won't work.

RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-02 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 2 Aug 2002 at 10:43, Trei, Peter wrote: Since the position argued involves nothing which would invoke the malign interest of government powers or corporate legal departments, it's not that. I can only think of two reasons why our

Re: Privacy-enhancing uses for TCPA

2002-08-03 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote: ... / Now for a simple example of what can be done: a distributed poker game. Of course there are a number of crypto protocols for playing poker on the net, but they are quite complicated. Even though they've been around for almost 20 years,

Re: FYI: Palladium now NGSCB

2003-01-27 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2129337,00.html Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword- bloated tongue twister: next-generation secure computing

Re: Microsoft: Palladium will not limit what you can run

2003-03-13 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Hermes Remailer wrote: The following comes from Microsoft's recent mailing of their awkwardly named Windows Trusted Platform Technologies Information Newsletter March 2003. Since they've abandoned the Palladium name they are forced to use this cumbersome title.