Tim May wrote:
Someone could make a little Perl or Python script to let the
computers do all the work.
or reorganize the stuff into a square for a quick round of "cyperpunks
buzzword bingo". :)
Nomen Nescio wrote:
I guess an equivalent ID will do. in germany, you need your ID card to
open a bank account (um, for those not in the know: we have state-issue
ID cards in addition to passports. the passport is a travel document,
used to visit non-EU countries. the ID card is used
"Trei, Peter" wrote:
R. A. Hettinga[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote
You're thinking of something else, but you're close enough. For instance,
there are laws in most jurisdictions about requiring a social security
number to open a bank account
Are you saying that a visiting foreigner
fogstorm wrote:
So if an Australian puts it on his web site can the German government sue for
copyright infringement? Can they prosecute for violation of their anti Nazi
laws? If a German citizen views it in Amsterdam can his government prosecute
when he returns home?
they'll most likely try
Duncan Frissell wrote:
Germany's Kampf Furor Renews by Steve Kettmann
actually, contrary to almost all other cases of censorship (not that I
say this isn't) the german state of bavaria owns the COPYRIGHT of "mein
kampf", and as such actually has some kind of standing in most of the
cases. yeah,
Jim Choate wrote:
the solution is easy, if you accept a few limitations.
Yeah, like the elimination of choice and the implimentation of coercion
through a 'do it my way or hit the highway' attitude.
Not acceptable.
as I said back then: if it's *my* remailer (or whatever) then I can darn
petro wrote:
Oh come now. You have real recourse against Bill Gates and John Tesh
Bill Gates is a questionable case, but there is no doubt that
John Tesh should die.
if everyone who hates windos puts $10 in a box, you'd need quite a large
box. which makes one wonder why the guy
Tim May wrote:
The claim is that if they can "prove" they were unable to have them
postmarked by the time polls closed in Florida, due to the violence
or whatever, that maybe they will still be allowed in.
how can you be unable to do something as simple as sending a letter by a
deadline you
Tim May wrote:
And, though it's undeniably funny, it grossly misrepresents the
ballot issue. In fact, the "butterfly ballot" issue has been put on
the back burner by the Democrat vermin. They are putting their
efforts into re-sampling and re-counting and fiddling with the
ballots in Volusia
Gil Hamilton wrote:
Hence, the obvious solution is to make it *cost money to send mail*
(or to use any other network resource). Combine that with automated
reputation handling -- charge a small fee to accept mail from
"unknown" parties -- and this both reduces spam and shifts the cost of
Anonymous wrote:
CLASSIC VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's
a fool and laughs, dances, and plays the summer away. Come winter, the
ant is warm and well fed. The
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# There's no SS# on a Texas DL, never has been. There is a DL# that is 8
# digits in length (and related to time and place of initial license
# application, not SS#).
Then someone in tx.politics was wrong (and I passed it along).
But now I'm confused (no cracks
"Trei, Peter" wrote:
Seeing as the rest of this site is talking about crop circles and
UFOs, I think I can ignore this report.
five minutes search on google turn up no "2 year hibernation" in her
resume. while it appears that she wasn't very active 1995-1997, that
appears to have been
Greg Broiles wrote:
Nader is getting a late start in the enthusiasm stakes, but it could
be that he'll really surge. A lot of folks are mired deeply in what
Nietzsche called "resentiment." They just don't like it when other
people have done well by investing instead of by drinking beer
Kevin Elliott wrote:
You know, I don't like spammers any more than the next guy, but come
on. Unethical? we're not talking genocide and it's not like it
cause significant (heck, even measurable) harm.
as a matter of fact, it does. the quantity of it, you know. if your 1
mio spam mails cause
Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
I think it's more about the principle of it. No sane, sensible, tolerant
person would go as far as to try to regulate spam. Or, indeed, UBE-friendly
ISPs. But bulk mailing is such reprehensible behavior that it surely
deserves a pile of social and technological
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wouldn't the time of the hack be pretty well known and wouldn't the RPI
firewall logs be timestamped or am I naive?
most likely that was a failed case of the assumption that the criminal
always returns to the site of the crime.
Igor Chudov wrote:
I have a website (www.algebra.com) that makes money from banners. I have
a suspicion that a small percentage of my users uses Junkbusters proxy
in order to avoid seeing my banners.
too bad, you lost.
no, there's no way you can do that. I'm operating a junkbuster proxy
Igor Chudov wrote:
This may or may not be true. This all depends on how junkbusters script
works. Perhaps junkbusters filters out all 480x90 images, for instance. In
which case I can place a 480x90 transparent gif at the bottom of my
entrance page, and upon request of such gif I can set
Alan Olsen wrote:
Actually you can. Junkbusters mucks with the http headers for client type.
subject to configuration. not reliable.
Secret Squirrel wrote:
Students have been adjusting to the Windows 95-based system and
the additional responsibilities connected to it, officials say.
there should be several geeks in the school that are already
anticipating the fun they will have with this crap.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Typical of May to wish that those who he hates be nuked, but please don'tt
let it effect his portfolio.
so? in that respect he's a great relief from all the "houlier than thou"
"for the chiiildren" pseudo-moralists.
in the end, nobody cares if he's not affected.
Ken Brown wrote:
But we're on the edge of a continent and we've absorbed more foreign
words than *you* :-)
I wasn't under that impression, so far.
- and later on there seemed to be a similar sharing of words between
English Norse ( sometimes Dutch/Low German as well). So "ship",
there's been an error in the directions for public transport. one of the
train lines has been misslabeled as "U1" when it should, actually, be
"U3". the exit you want to take from station "St. Pauli" is called
"Reeperbahn".
the webpage has already been updated.
in addition, here's
there was an error in the directions. it is the line U3, not U1. sorry.
also, you can find us by looking for the usual books on the tables. I'll
definitely bring a copy of "privacy on the line", maybe others bring
others, like the "usual" "applied cryptography". :)
--
"The net treats
Tom Vogt wrote:
I have started a little webpage with links to maps, etc. I will be
adding a couple of photos of the place to make finding it trivial. I
think I will have photos roughly 24h from now.
hit http://www.lemuria.org/cpunk.html for that webpage.
I now have pictures available
update on time and especially location:
final time is: 30/Sep/2000, 16:00 (293016)
location is the Tex's Bar'b'que (or something like that - the spelling
is a little odd) on Millerntorplatz 1, Hamburg, Germany.
I have started a little webpage with links to maps, etc. I will be
adding
petro wrote:
sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. this is an
economic puzzle, not a political one. food, clothes, tobacco, gas/petrol
Then you neither understand politics, or economics.
one was part of my study, the other not.
And no, I don't claim to
Tim May wrote:
"Here's something to think about - while queuing up for petrol this
afternoon (yes - I confess to being a panic buyer) I worked out that
OPEC is charging $30 a barrel and our government is taxing us at
slightly over $150 a barrel - ouch!"
this is true, and similiar pretty much
Tim May wrote:
The quote said nothing to the contrary. Crude results in some
fraction of gasoline/petrol, and taxes are applied. His point was
that the taxes are about 4-5 times the cost of the underlying petrol,
which is about what it is in the U.K. (Last I heard, gas in the U.K.
is about
Ray Dillinger wrote:
Hmmm. It seems unfair to slap a huge tax on something if there
are *laws* in place requiring people to have and use it. I'm
thinking specifically of clothes, since you mentioned them. Is
clothing particularly heavily taxed?
not that I knew of. I included it for the
Tim May wrote:
At 11:44 AM -0700 9/6/00, Bill Stewart wrote:
How often do people check signatures?
If they check them, and they pass, how often do they check keys?
doesn't matter. it's POSSIBLE, that's what is important. the first time
you lose a million bucks at the exchange because you
Tim May wrote:
are you required to provide your private keys to an enemy (e.g. someone
who is sueing you) ?
The lawyers and lawyer larvae can comment better than I can. I
believe the answer is "yes, documents must be in usable form by your
ex-wife's lawyers," for example. This probably
Tim May wrote:
Who uses crypto on a regular basis are those for whom the risks of
getting caught with certain material or certain thoughts are nonzero,
and for whom the penalties are significant. The usual examples:
freedom fighters plotting to blow up government buildings, child
Ralf-Philipp Weinmann wrote:
Yip. Interested. Definitely interested. What happened to that meeting in
munich ? Do you need any help organizing ?
I didn't get any reply on what's up with the munich meeting, so I guess
it was just a rumour.
if anyone wants to help in the org, I'd be happy.
Benjamin Huth Byer wrote:
does anyone know the traffic on 2600.com ? I wouldn't be surprised if
they get the peak of their life.
No, and nobody ever will. The MPAA tried to make an issue of this --
"surely DeCSS is making you popular!" The response was that 2600 keeps no
logs and does
you'll find a small piece of software attached. from the README:
the purpose of this program is to demonstrate that ANYTHING is speech, or
can be expressed as speech. one of the wordlists supplied as examples is
the US constitution. using dox, you can express decss, or cookie recipes,
or kiddie
I've done a simple chaffing and winnowing implementation, and would like
to invite everyone interested to have a look and give comments.
download: ftp://ftp.lemuria.org/pub/Code/Shaft-0.1.tar.gz
requires: openssl (for hmac)
the program consists of two parts: shaft will encode/decode, while
John Young wrote:
We are sending the CIA-PSIA files by e-mail in the
meantime. The same pack sent here. Mirrors of them
are up or getting up:
http://www.openpgp.net/censorship/psia/
I just copied that, on:
http://www.lemuria.org/mirrors/PSIA/
one example of privacy laws stopping big brother government:
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/8412/1.html
Gil Hamilton wrote:
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
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
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:
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.
Vin McLellan wrote:
anonymous' view is too drastic, but I guess that he's more
close to home as far as copyright AS A BUSINESS is concerned. I
don't remember any multinational corporations living entirely on
(C) in, say, 1928.
In the 1920s, all over the industrialized world,
Gil Hamilton wrote:
You seem to be saying that there's nothing wrong with simply defining away
the rights of the owners by changing the legal fine print that establishes
the government's treatment of the corporation.
yes, that is what I'm saying. see, by putting your money into a
Gil Hamilton wrote:
yes, that is what I'm saying. see, by putting your money into a
corporation, you also put it into trust in your government. the local
legal system provides the ground rules for your transaction. it can
change them. you do NOT have a natural right that says the rules may
Vin McLellan wrote:
Secret Squirrel suggested:
Copyright is a short-lived aberration (60-70 years ?), and
technology is finally dealing with it.
U. Check out Section 8 of the US Constitution.
1787.http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data/constitution/articles.html
Tim May wrote:
About 90% of all spam and clueless "how do i make bombz?" crap would
be eliminated if messages to toad.com were not picked up by the real
nodes.
Considering that John Gilmore announced several years ago his wish
that traffic be migrated off of toad, I think this is the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a couple weeks I'm going to release Tcl/Tk code that can
a) download all articles from a newsgroup,
b) download selected (by any header line) files from a newsgroup.
The software itself is "generic". (It's not the first, but
might be the first
Jim Choate wrote:
So is my copying music CD's using computer equipment (meaning that those
CD's don't pay the licensing fee) however that doesn't change the fact
that it is theft. If my friend buys a book and I copy it using a copy
machine onto yellow paper or overhead projector film doesn't
Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
9) Internet users are to inform MPT of any threat on the internet;
has anyone considered following this directive to the letter? there are
enough bogus, outdated and other "threats" out there to get whatever
department has the job of looking at them busy for years.
Frog wrote:
now if you rephrase the question to "how many deaths have resulted from
the activities of ..." it becomes a lot more interesting. for starters,
Not really. It's an entirely different question. I've never directly
killed anyone. I also don't give change to any of the
Reese wrote:
Try to realize you are fucking stupid for pursuing the line of reasoning
you've held to until now, ok?
I realize that I'm damn stupid for letting the argument run so broad and
take up so much bandwidth. and for not realizing quickly that my
original take, namely that it is
Tim May wrote:
Much of the basic "there should be laws to protect our privacy"
arguments are so ill-founded and anti-liberty as to not be worth
discussing.
"What if my neighbor remembers something I told him last year? Don't
I _own_ that information he is telling to others? There ought to
Reese wrote:
How would they know they were oppressed, if they didn't recognize their
treatment as oppression? What's the tax rate on income, in those nations?
How long is your memory? Do you really presume to know the intricacies of
all the deals those nations have been involved in?
just
Reese wrote:
German, huh? I may have misspoke then, I was referring to england's
"orificial sekrits act".
I'm not aware of a german equivalent. but if someone knows better, I'd
be very interested in finding out. so far, I have only ignored US courts
(in DeCSS and CyberPatrol rulings). :)
Reese wrote:
Of course not. They wouldn't. Europe is largely socialist,
ROTFL
let me guess: you've never been to europe.
Reese wrote:
Sure you do - you call it the Official Secrets Act (or something like that)
though. Anything your gov't thinks might compromise national security or
whatever, they squelch. You can't export it, can't even engage in it
domestically, if you can't even say it or write it down.
Eric Cordian wrote:
1. Because of the "application barrier to entry", no one can effectively
compete with Microsoft in the Intel/PC market OS, giving microsoft a
monopoly in this market.
This is bogus, because an OS designer can certainly support Microsoft's
APIs in addition to
Matthew Gaylor wrote:
From a nation that censors the speech of it's citizens, and who would
like to censor everyone, why should anyone be surprised that they
have a standard for screws?
at least we don't have crypto export regulations. :)
Ed Gerck wrote:
Take apart what I own is one thing -- publishing the results of taking
it apart for a profit (fame or money) is another. The case of CB's RE
is closer to the second, IMO.
publishing the results (for fame, not money) is not fundamental
difference, since everyone else could
Bill Stewart wrote:
The more interesting part to pass on is pages that _aren't_ porn.
For instance, somebody could write a script that sorts the banned URLs
by domain (or domain and first or second level of directory),
does a whois, and sends out an email saying something like
here we go. I just received an e-mail notice about a "temporary
restraining order" regarding cyberpatrol.
as with decss, they are too dumb to mail everyone individually, and thus
provide us all with nice links, mailing list info and whatever else we
need to organize. in case anyone here is
Tom Vogt wrote:
anyways, the pure gut of sueing someone because he took away your
^^^
this must read "apart", of course.
product astonishes me. it's like saying live on the news "we don't want
people to take
Ed Gerck wrote:
Thus, what happened here is not new and those that want to
effectively combat "hidden" features, pirated code or covert
weaknesses by decompiling code should be aware of it. The
end, however merit it may have, cannot justify the means.
there is an important difference here.
Peter Capelli wrote:
Hmmm, obviously, the information is worth something to them, or they
wouldn't be asking for it! Outside of a count of citizens,
everything else is not mandated by the constitution, and therefore
extra information that I feel is worth something. Marketing firms
Reese wrote:
I see this as one implementation of peer review, note that the writeup was
tailored for articles submitted to a journal, there are other
implementations. For example, Prof. John Lott offered his study on Guns
and Crime to anyone who expressed an interest, whilst he was
David Honig wrote:
Hi, my name is Adrienne and in my advanced history class we are making up
laws and trying to get them passed.
People who sit around making up laws for fun need to be shot.
it says "history class" right up there. I guess the teacher's intention
was to give a live
"Robert A. Hayden" wrote:
Full information at http://www.geek.net/ama
30 Second Overview:
The AMA has sent me a CD letter (received the certified copy in the mail
today) telling me I have to remove an animted GIF from my _private_ web
site. Now I have to decide whether I want to buckle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of the IP's that
ad.doubleclick.net gets assigned to as it rambles along,
switching IP's?
I'd like to kill doubleclick at my firewall.
someone - I think on this list - posted the idea of just putting
doubleclick.net and
Jim Choate wrote:
ca. 1500 in italy is certainly a lot closer to the source than ca. 2000
in northern america, right?
Ad hominims...so sad. You are of course welcome to your opinion.
this is not ad homini, it's a simple statement of fact. unless, of
course, time and place have become
Jim Choate wrote:
ca. 1500 in italy is certainly a lot closer to the source than ca. 2000
in northern america, right?
Ad hominims...so sad. You are of course welcome to your opinion.
this is not ad homini, it's a simple statement of fact. unless, of
course, time and place
Jay holovacs wrote:
Notice how the government mindset immediately looks to privacy by more
laws, rather than the (in this case, at least) much more efficient
privacy through (relatively straighforward) technology.
what did you expect? lawmaking is their business. if all you have is a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know of no way to lend support to the idea that government in general
needs good leadership -- history shows that particular governments
(namely, those that mankind has managed erect) suffer from bad
leadership.
OTOH, I will admit that humanity is fairly new to
Jim Choate wrote:
anything WITHOUT context is meaningless.
No, it just may not be true in all situations. Consider cosmology,
nihilism, and pantheism for a contrary argument to this supposition.
the context there is at least the experience-sphere of mankind. I doubt
that pantheism has the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh to the contrary, the Romans incorporated the chicanery into the standing
government. Poisonings, back alley stabbings, incestuous marriages and most
every immaginable vice and aberration took place during the many years that the
Roman Republic was in existence.
Fisher Mark wrote:
author's anonymity, and site creator Angela Adair-Hoy says she
will release the authors names only under court order.
I doubt that is enough. the litigation hysteria in the us of a is at an
all-time-high as far as I can see. a court order should not be difficult
to come
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any government needs appropriate leadership,
that is an assumption, as yet unproven. I agree that it DOES sound good,
but it is still an assumption. since the rest of your argument rests on
it, you should give it a little more support.
especially in its
infancy..
Missouri FreeNet Administration wrote:
(1) I would argue that there has yet to *be* an actual *Communist* state
by which we could gauge the Communist existense.
now, I've heard THAT argument until I grew sick of it.
say, isn't the fact that there hasn't been a communist state despite
several
What are the prospects for smartcard based systems within the U.S.? Such
cards are essentially nonexistent in commerce. Apparently in Europe and
Asia they are widely used, though, instead of the credit cards preferred
by Americans.
semi-smart cards are in wide use over here.
Greg Broiles wrote:
Why is toad even participating any more? Didn't it get junked after
Gilmore's editorial binge?
No, it, too, has continued to run in an unsupervised/uncontrolled fashion.
which is a good thing - it's still listed in a lot of ftp archives.
should I move to cyperpass.net
Harmon Seaver wrote:
Has anyone noticed that when you go to this "opt-out" page and get
the doubleclick cookie set to optout, that three new cookies get set at
that moment? One for imigis.com, one for www.britannica.com, and another
for avenuea.com.
So possibly the "opt-out" is
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
Disregarding the privacy issues, think of the effect on caching DNS
servers if this becomes widespread... the cache becomes effectively
useless.
oops. didn't even think about that. thanks for pointing it out.
Reese wrote:
I don't get it. A US Fed judge can impose an injunction against a
sovereign of another nation? What does their alleged failure to prevent
reception in the US have to do with copyright infringement? Isn't the MPAA
pursuing an agenda that presumes copyright doesn't respect
if you like this "Location Poisoning" (as I've started to call it) as
little as I do, and you use
squid as your proxy server, then I have a solution.
http://www.lemuria.org/Software/unpoison/
this is a squid-plugin that redirects the poisoned URLs to random IDs,
which should pretty much ruin
I have done a bit of research on something that I believe is interesting
to at least a few here.
in short, this german company came up with a tracking mechanism that not
only defeats proxies and forwarders (and anonymizer), but also allows
tracking ACROSS SITES.
here's a short instruction on
Paul Holman wrote:
Here's a handy link to Opt-Out of DoubleClick:
http://www.doubleclick.net/cgi-bin3/optout/check2live.pl
it wants to set a cookie to opt me out???
I'd rather "opt-out" by adding them to ipchains.
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