Re: Re: Use Nuclear Threats To Deter Chemical and Biological

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
The future is downloading. Can you hear the impact? O[rphan] D[rift] Cyber Positive The Armadillo Group

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Re: Justice Department criticizes online anonymity

2000-03-04 Thread Declan McCullagh
If you think that report was disturbing, check out my article that should be at wired.com at 3 am pt. --Declan

Re: Payment mixes for anonymity

2000-03-04 Thread Secret Squirrel
David Molnar writes: Note that cash payments can have a property which encrypted messages usually do not : you can have the mix break up the payment into random-sized chunks, or aggregate several payments into a single transaction between servers. For example, say I send a payment for

Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-04 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm using other definitions. What a fucking putz. Invent your own language and you expect others to go along with it? Fat chance. EVERYONE uses his own definitions when he speaks / writes. A dictionary does not "define" words, it just

Re: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-04 Thread John Young
Phill wrote: I know enough people who were involved in the previous investigations of Mitnick to corroborate the points I made, namely that Mitnick is a nasty piece of work and a pathetic loser rather than the harmless chap his defence attorney would have people believe. Watching Mitnick

Re: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-04 Thread Tim May
At 8:48 AM -0800 3/4/00, Steve Mynott wrote: I would have thought the very name "cypherpunks" suggests list sympathies lie more on the "hacker" side then on those of self-professed security experts. On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:30:24PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: When cypherpunks was

Re: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-04 Thread Declan McCullagh
To the contrary, there have been questions raised about the book by journalists who are not in any way a "Mitnick supporter." Check out way back issues of CuD. Mitnick may well be a loser but that does not mean everything written about him was true. -Declan t 10:57 3/4/2000 -0500, Phillip

Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-04 Thread David Honig
At 12:33 AM 3/4/00 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: Economics - the study of how people choose among alternative uses of their (usualy scarce) resources. But using your definition then micro-economics is the same as micro-capitalism? Macro-economics is macro-capitalism? ROTFL The other

An attack on privacy and anonymity

2000-03-04 Thread David Honig
There is a way to find the meat address of a web browser, *even if through an anonymizing proxy*, if the user is connected via a modem subject to Hayes command sequence attacks. The attack uses a variant of the Hayes exploit that Eric Cordian mentioned in a DDoS context. The idea is that

Suggested Reading

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
Hi, Tomorrow's Soldier: The Warriors, Weapons, and Tactics That Will Win America's Wars in the Twenty-first Century D. Alexander ISBN 0-380-79502-7 $6.50 US The future is downloading. Can you hear the

Re: Use Nuclear Threats To Deter Chemical and Biological

2000-03-04 Thread Tim May
At 9:19 PM -0800 3/3/00, Reese wrote: At 01:22 PM 3/3/00 -0500, David Honig wrote: At 01:26 AM 3/3/00 -0500, Bill Stewart wrote: Must be a typo - isn't it "HOW Should The United States Use Nuclear Threats To Deter Chemical and Biological Attacks? A Debate." :-) The only way this would be

Re: Payment mixes for anonymity

2000-03-04 Thread Daniel J. Boone
Another design issue to take into account in building a payments mix system is that, unlike a message mix system, there is (at least in the United States) an obvious "legal" (as opposed to technical) attack against payment mix machine operators. Whereas message remailer operators are not

Re: GI Joe Code talker doll

2000-03-04 Thread Bill Stewart
Export of the dolls is, of course, banned for children without arms dealer permits :-) At 08:55 AM 03/04/2000 -0500, Jay Holovacs wrote: I don't remember seeing this posted here: http://www.msnbc.com/news/377312.asp *** G.I. Joe honors WW II code talkers Navajo action figure

Re: Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote: EVERYONE uses his own definitions when he speaks / writes. A dictionary does not "define" words, it just indicates the most common ones. No, normaly people use words within a reasonable range of commen expectations. It's one of the reasons people

Re: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-04 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Original Message - From: Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Phillip Hallam-Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Matthew Gaylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 12:25 AM Subject: Re: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks At 07:30

Re: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-04 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Markoff. Isn't that the guy who may have fabricated (artistic license) portions of a less than adequately documented book for personal profit, then collaborated on an even more ficticious movie? "May have fabricated", you don't have any proof, but you don't like what he wrote. As Cartman

Shimomura, Markoff, and Packet Sniffers

2000-03-04 Thread Tim May
At 3:57 PM -0800 3/4/00, John Young wrote: It's worth pondering what demonization and criminalization may evolve from close study of the early Cypherpunk archives made availalble a few days ago by Ralph Seberry : http://lanesbry.com/cypherpunks After a fews days of reading those remarkable

Re: X.BlaBla in PGP??? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

2000-03-04 Thread William H. Geiger III
In 003701bf84c2$d4fc4e50$[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/02/00 at 09:44 PM, "Phillip Hallam-Baker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Wait a minute. If I remember correctly, *Thawte* does X.509 in PGP, already, right? Shure does, the problem with the analysis many have been making is that it is 5 years

Re: (Possibly OT) Free speech through pads

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote: Hi! David Madore had an interesting idea - you can read about it at http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/misc/freespeech.html . Being a fan of Delphi, I wrote a program that enables one to implement that idea. Unfortunately, he doesn't have

Re: Re: Re: Payment mixes for anonymity

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, dmolnar wrote: On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Jim Choate wrote: Anonymous mailer operaters can most definitely be considered to be 'doing anything' if it is found they're in the loop of a criminal investigation. Yes. This is why I think it is important that even the senders

Re: damn commie hypocrite leech! (was Re: why worry?)

2000-03-04 Thread Reese
At 08:02 PM 3/4/00 -0500, Petro wrote: ? wrote: People on this list think they've proven communism wrong, but they've always avoided any real confrontation with it. No ones strives to understand if communism might have something valuable to say-- that's what passes for an open mind here.

Purpose of anti-laundering laws?

2000-03-04 Thread reject
Obviously, assorted FedGoons(tm) dislike untraceable money. Nasty terrorists, child pornographers, drug dealers, and other horsemen could hide their "profits" then... But is there a *legitimate* reason to have anti-money-laundering laws? I can't think of any, but perhaps I'm being naive.

Re: Purpose of anti-laundering laws?

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, reject wrote: Obviously, assorted FedGoons(tm) dislike untraceable money. Nasty terrorists, child pornographers, drug dealers, and other horsemen could hide their "profits" then... But is there a *legitimate* reason to have anti-money-laundering laws? I can't think

A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-04 Thread bram
I've written up a public key encryption algorithm I came up with and some thoughts on it at http://www.gawth.com/bram/essays/simple_public_key.html I've also posted some very provocative conjectures at http://www.gawth.com/bram/essays/wild_cryptographic_conjectures.html You might find them

Re: Purpose of anti-laundering laws?

2000-03-04 Thread dmolnar
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, reject wrote: Obviously, assorted FedGoons(tm) dislike untraceable money. Nasty terrorists, child pornographers, drug dealers, and other horsemen could hide their "profits" then... But is there a *legitimate* reason to have anti-money-laundering laws? I can't

Re: Payment mixes for anonymity

2000-03-04 Thread Secret Squirrel
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1956.text.html Daniel Boone writes: Another design issue to take into account in building a payments mix system is that, unlike a message mix system, there is (at least in the United States) an obvious "legal" (as opposed to technical) attack against

Re: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-04 Thread John Young
It's worth pondering what demonization and criminalization may evolve from close study of the early Cypherpunk archives made availalble a few days ago by Ralph Seberry : http://lanesbry.com/cypherpunks After a fews days of reading those remarkable exchanges, it would be a surprise if they

Re: Re: Payment mixes for anonymity

2000-03-04 Thread dmolnar
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Jim Choate wrote: Anonymous mailer operaters can most definitely be considered to be 'doing anything' if it is found they're in the loop of a criminal investigation. Yes. This is why I think it is important that even the senders of anonymous mail not be able to prove

Mixes or Laundering? Re: Payment mixes for anonymity

2000-03-04 Thread Black Unicorn
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Jim Choate wrote: Anonymous mailer operaters can most definitely be considered to be 'doing anything' if it is found they're in the loop of a criminal investigation. Yes. This is why I think it is important that even the senders of anonymous mail not be able to