At 6:53 PM -0400 7/17/00, Steven Furlong wrote:
In fact, I interpret the First to mean that government may _not_
decide who's a "legitimate reporter" and who's not, anymore than the
First would allow government to decide which religions are "valid"
and which are not. If Declan is covered
Gil Hamilton wrote:
no, I would definitely NOT argue that last point. however, corporations
are established entirely WITHIN the framework of the legal system. it is
the legal system that defines what exacatly a corporation is, for
example that M$ is one, but the mafia is not. humans are not
Vin McLellan wrote:
In the US, at least, no copyright held by a corporation has
been given
over to the public domain since WWI -- and, Tom's suggestion to the
contrary, there were many of them in corporate hands even then;-)
are there any sources for this?
None I
At 11:50 AM 7/15/00 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37573,00.html
Is Encryption Tax-Protective?
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3:00 a.m. Jul. 15, 2000 PDT
WASHINGTON -- It used to be FBI Director Louis Freeh who would rail
Heinz-Juergen 'Tom' Keller wrote:
A company called "Ontrack" claimed that they were capable of reading datas
on drive after several format.
I'm not shure if this was mentioned here before. But there is a suite
of tools called secure_delete at the THC site (http://r3wt.base.org).
Author:
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Some people have started an email discussion list to talk about the
possible founding of a Digital Commerce Society of the District of
Columbia.
You might want to look at the URL, below, for details (such as they are
so far), and to sign up.
Cheers,
Robert
Tom Vogt writes:
Gil Hamilton wrote:
So, to take this argument back to its roots: You apparently would argue
that
the mafia, being a voluntary association NOT established entirely within
the
framework of the legal system, retains its owners' natural rights to
collect, own and use
Gil Hamilton wrote:
the fine point is that M$ in return gets rights the mafia has not. so in
practice, you're possibly better of the M$ way (the sheer number of
corporations proves this). it's just that should the government fall,
M$'s "rights" (created by the government) will fall as well.
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At 9:33 PM -1000 on 7/17/00, Reese wrote:
For an even better analysis of why some people make digeri doos and
others
make F16's see, "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The fates of Human
Societies", by
Jared Diamond.
This book talks about how access to
Dear cypherpunks,
You've tried Quicksheet, the Palm spreadsheet that Tap Magazine has
twice called "Product of the Year" for two consecutive years, BUT if
price is all that's been keeping you from buying - you've run out of
reasons because we have a special offer JUST FOR YOU.
We are offering
Tom Vogt writes:
I guess that's just the government demonstrating the point I'm making,
namely that it can take away at any time what it has given.
it could also be the big bully showing the wannabe bully who's got more
muscle.
OK, now I've got your definition of "right". It comes from the
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, zombywuf wrote:
1*misspelling + 1*cut and paste function = 1*complete smeg up
Okay so I can't spell and it wasn't eloquent but the point was that echElon
has been around for ages monitering the entire worlds telephonic
comunication's, but suddenly the FBI have a *new*
[This is completely off-topic, but I thought I'd add a few comments]
"R. A. Hettinga" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
about a society of mostly pacifist, egalitarian hunter-gatherer (the kind you
get in resource poor areas, like the Australian outback or the Kalihari)
polynesians,
The Moriori.
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The "disintermediation" effects
insert blather about a "geodesic writing economy" as desired
:-). You rang?
Hold on, my Rapturous New Age Smile needs a little super glue to stay
put...
may be
very real, but the effect of widespread distribution of words
At 09:02 AM 7/17/00 -0700, Anonymous wrote:
Following this crypto list and spam attacks has interesting side-effects.
To us living outside US it is almost unbelieveable what kind of pathetic
retards US general public became. Just look at the spam subjects. Petwarmers.
Heartwarmers. And don't
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 11:32:21AM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
The only factors which rein in this exploitation are speed and cost. A
determined, well-funded investigator could remount the platters
and attempt to read them using special tools, such as STM probes.
However, I'd be really
Facts = www.enenkio.org
AMERCIA REMOVE IT OR PROVE IT ! www.enenkio.org -- A Nation The newest
OFCs, e.g., Niue and the Marshall Islands, are now sprouting in remote
areas of the world, such as the Pacific. Even more "remote" are mere
figments of fertile imaginations such as the Dominion of
At 5:41 PM + 7/17/00, matthew gream wrote:
1) Manuel Castells 'The Information Age', and in particular 'The end
of the Millenium' and the rise of the 4th world, and the continuing
globalisation of society to produce global cultural layer that sits
alongside local layers. Actually, I
The trial against 2600 Magazine commenced at 9am today (Monday) in the
federal court house at 500 Pearl in NYC. Throughout the day,
approximately 40 protestors stood behind a police blockade with anti-MPAA
and anti-DMCA signs, chanting some great slogans. The court room was
packed all day.
At 6:11 AM -0400 on 7/19/00, Peter Gutmann, and actual New Zealander :-) wrote:
I don't know how
well this was presented in the book.
Probably better than I did here. :-).
A good book, though. I reccommend it.
Cheers,
RAH
--
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R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The
For the person who asked about Easter:
Easter is the Roman Catholic hijacked holiday that was the
Pagan festival of Oestre, which is obviously cognate for Easter.
Oestre is a Germanic goddess which is the same as (and cognate with)
the Mesopotamian godess Ishtar. In their Mythos Ishtar was the
At 09:53 AM 7/17/00 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Assume there is a person who wishes to participate in the mailing list.
Assume that person wants to participate via a single email address. They
have for all intents and purposes zero technical skill. They are
participating via a PPP dial-up through a
At 08:27 +0200 7/18/00, Tom Vogt wrote:
I maintain that the owners have given up their personal rights in
exchange for government-created corporate rights. as long as the
government is stable, that is usually a good deal.
Ahhh, but that, as they say, is not how the game is played. You
don't
I just skimmed the below, but it seems a very nice writeup.
My general-audience pieces from yesterday and today are at wired.com.
-Declan
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:11:02PM +0200, Anonymous wrote:
The trial against 2600 Magazine commenced at 9am today (Monday) in the
federal court house at
I am in the unfortunate situation of having to run a server in a
machineroom which I don't completely trust.
Some folks at the Cypherpunks meetings have been working on projects
using the Dallas Semi iButton, which is a cheap FIPS140-1 Level 1
certified hardware security device. You can get
It doesn't really matter what you do. Attacker could always kill
power to your case, open it, and or your hard drive. After that
the game is over. The only thing that I could think of is to
install a battery power tamper detector which would fry the hd on
detection. I know that OpenBSD
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:48:15 CDT, you wrote:
As far as tamper resistant PC hardware... it sounds like you are looking for
something like Microsoft's SYSKEY ability to render the OS usless without a
type of bootable key (Floppy and/or password). Even if you were to install
such a program your
Can you put the machine in your basement with an encrypted
VPN over a DSL connection? Then you will have physical
security that you can trust?
Mark
As far as tamper resistant PC hardware... it sounds like you are looking for
something like Microsoft's SYSKEY ability to render the OS usless without a
type of bootable key (Floppy and/or password). Even if you were to install
such a program your would be attacker would be able to circumvent
Feds may update wiretap law for e-mail
By Ted Bridis, WSJ Interactive Edition
July 18, 2000 6:58 AM PT
URL: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2604731,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
WASHINGTON -- The White House is urging changes in U.S. law to make it easier for
authorities to eavesdrop
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