RE: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-09 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
My favorite quote from Phill on libertarians: "All the libertariacrap is just that, prattling of a bunch of blinkered idealogues who know diddly squat about the net, their ass or their elbow." It was true then and its true now. I helped change the world. You guys sat on your ass and debated

RE: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-09 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 20:31 3/9/2000 -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: I helped change the world. You guys sat on your ass and debated theology - policing each other for political correctness as assiduously as any Trotskyite faction. Hahahahaha... What Matt wrote is correct, of course, but at least this part of

RE: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-06 Thread Trei, Peter
age- From: Tim May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 12:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks At 8:48 AM -0800 3/4/00, Steve Mynott wrote: I would have thought the very name "cypherpunks" suggests list

Re: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-05 Thread Steve Mynott
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 12:19:03AM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: I don't think anyone has accussed Markoff of actually falsifying the emails exchanged between Mitnick and his accomplices and I refered to the book only to establish that the material was already in the public domain and

RE: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-05 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
In response to Steve Mynott: the name cypherpunk is due to John Gilmore No, this is not correct. Ooops, sorry Tim! On the net you both look alike you know. I'll get it right in the book. Phill smime.p7s

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: 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

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: Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-03 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
In support of Vin's case, it is not unusual for hackers to claim noble motives for their actions that are completely refuted when their private communications come to light. A key example of the type being Kevin Mitnick whose protestations of having never intended harm are contradicted by the

Vin McLellan Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

2000-03-03 Thread Matthew Gaylor
[Note from Matthew Gaylor: Sent with permission. Charles Mudd's rebuttal appears at the end of Vin McLellan's comments. I thought both posts covered some interesting territory.] From: Vin McLellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hearings on Denial of Service Attacks Charlz