Re: your mail

2000-11-20 Thread John Galt
Now where was that ssz bigot? On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Neil Johnson wrote: Is there something wrong with ssz.com. I haven't gotten any list mail and I can get to the site. Thanks. Neil M. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interl.net/~njohnson PGP Key Finger Print: 93C0 793F B66E A0C7

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-20 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 12:08 PM + 11/19/2000, Perry commented: [I see you've never paid attention to how easy it is to get a certificate, Ben. I suspect I could get one in the name of any company with about 20 minutes of unskilled forgery. The level of checking done is trivial. This wouldn't be a problem except

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-20 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 12:10 PM -0500 on 11/20/00, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: If CAs included a financial guarantee of whatever it is they are asserting when they issue a certificate, then all these problems would go away. Right. Like Ellison (and Metzger :-)) have said for years now, the only "assertions"

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-20 Thread Lynn . Wheeler
as pure asside ... any SSL server certificate signed by any CA in my browswer's CA list is acceptable. for list of current valid signing CA's in a typical browswer see: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert14 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert16 my broswer makes no

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-20 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as pure asside ... any SSL server certificate signed by any CA in my browswer's CA list is acceptable. my broswer makes no distinction on which CA signed what ... and/or even what they signed. If I get a certificate signed by any CA in my

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-20 Thread Bram Cohen
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the user goes to www.amazon.com, they get a plaintext http redirect to amazon.hackeddomain.com, which does check. Still confused... The original connection to www.amazon.com is an SSL connection, right? We are following an https: URL?

RE: The cause of uncertainty in the election outcome.

2000-11-20 Thread mmotyka
However the recounts work out I think it's pretty clear that in the statitical sense we have a tie. The uncertainties are far larger than the measured difference. Even the national totals are within about 0.1%. This is probably 1 or 2 orders of magnitude less than the percentage of disqualified

Re: Conspiracy Theory #187389 (RE: Carnivore All-Consuming)

2000-11-20 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 08:56:31AM -0800, Ernest Hua wrote: What is the likelihood that the public just ignores this given the ruckus over the election? Very high.

Re: Is this Reno/wiretap stat true?

2000-11-20 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:00:29PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: -- At 01:29 PM 11/19/2000 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found in Usenet: #I don't know if Reno is a traitor, but consider this: #Between 1992 and 1997, there were approximately 2,500 #national

Re: Carnovore All-Consuming

2000-11-20 Thread batz
If this has been covered already, appologies.. In regards to comments about BGP and OSPF being used to re-route traffic, this can be done easily with a TACACS+ or RADIUS profile. These service authenticate users, and allocate netblocks/routes to connections. This means that they alter

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-20 Thread Tim May
At 1:25 PM -0500 11/20/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 12:10 PM -0500 on 11/20/00, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: If CAs included a financial guarantee of whatever it is they are asserting when they issue a certificate, then all these problems would go away. Right. Like Ellison (and Metzger

Re: Missouri AG needing postnatal abortion

2000-11-20 Thread Eric Michael Cordian
Jim Burnes wrote: "I dont really have any recourse," he said. Ummm, let me think. Move to a different ISP/NSP idiot! I think the point here is that almost every ISP has weasel-wording in their TOS which permits them to terminate service for any reason, or for no reason

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-20 Thread Bram Cohen
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as pure asside ... any SSL server certificate signed by any CA in my browswer's CA list is acceptable. for list of current valid signing CA's in a typical browswer see: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert14

RE: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-20 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is the acceptable threshold of errors? 1 in a 100? What if that 1 is the invalid certificate that allows your bank account to be compromised. CA's should either be 100% or 0% trustworthy. I do agree that there needs to be a protocol

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-20 Thread Dennis Glatting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bram Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless that problem is fixed, man in the middle is hardly made more difficult - for example, Mallory could break into some random machine on the net and steal it's

RE: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-20 Thread cgripp
of certificates for mismatches etc that might reveal an attempt at publishing a fraudulent certificate. Gripp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ray Dillinger Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 11:41 AM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-20 Thread Bram Cohen
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: Perry's last sentence gets to the heart of the matter. If CAs included a financial guarantee of whatever it is they are asserting when they issue a certificate, then all these problems would go away. They aren't going to. -Bram Cohen

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-19 Thread Ben Laurie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually ... not really ... this was discussed early this summer as to what they actually check ... and how trivial it is to fabricate necessary details to pass such checking random ref: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsmore.htm#client3 in general it is

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-19 Thread Lynn . Wheeler
PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually ... not really ... this was discussed early this summer as to what they actually check ... and how trivial it is to fabricate

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-19 Thread Kevin E. Fu
Of relevance to SSL and trust in DNS... Even without stealing keys, there are unconventional ways of circumventing SSL server authentication. That is, pretending to be an SSL server that you are not. For instance, a client might forget to verify in a resumed SSL session that the server

Re: Carnivore All-Consuming

2000-11-19 Thread Bill Stewart
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Steve Schear wrote: A PC, using off-the-shelf HW, is capable of filtering a full 100 Mbps link (144K packets/sec) as demonstrated by the BlackICE products http://www.networkice.com/html/blackice_sentry.html At 03:20 AM 11/20/00 +, Jim Dixon wrote: Third, even if

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-19 Thread Lynn . Wheeler
oh yes, as to the other kinds of certificates. basically this is an issue of trust establishment. there are various forms of trust establishment, advertisement, brand, word-of-mouth, previous history, etc ... not just BBB or consumer report like stuff. Transactions are highly skewed ... with

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-19 Thread Lynn . Wheeler
PROTECTED] on 11/19/2000 04:08:39 AM To: Lynn Wheeler/CA/FDMS/FDC@FDC cc: Bram Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact... [EMAIL

Re: Is this Reno/wiretap stat true?

2000-11-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- At 01:29 PM 11/19/2000 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found in Usenet: #I don't know if Reno is a traitor, but consider this: #Between 1992 and 1997, there were approximately 2,500 #national security wiretaps requested by the FBI. Only one #of these 2,500

Conspiracy Theory #187389 (RE: Carnivore All-Consuming)

2000-11-19 Thread Ernest Hua
Title: Conspiracy Theory #187389 (RE: Carnivore All-Consuming) What is the likelihood that the public just ignores this given the ruckus over the election? Ern -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 10:46 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: Carnivore All-Consuming

2000-11-19 Thread Jim Dixon
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EPIC FOIA... http://www.latimes.com/wires/20001117/tCB00V0387.html WASHINGTON--The FBI's controversial e-mail surveillance tool, known as Carnivore, can retrieve all communications that go through an Internet service -far more than FBI

Re: ssz.com network trouble

2000-11-19 Thread auto58194
Neil Johnson wrote: Is there something wrong with ssz.com. I haven't gotten any list mail and I can get to the site. ICANN action. Jim has become dangerous.

Re: Florida Supreme Court freezes certification

2000-11-19 Thread Me
- Original Message - From: "Me" [EMAIL PROTECTED] IIRC, and I probably don't, the Florida constitution was recently amended so as to make the positio9n of Secretary of State an elected one. Er, make that appointed. I don't know what the 9 means.

Re: Carnivore All-Consuming

2000-11-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:21 PM 11/19/00 +, Jim Dixon wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EPIC FOIA... http://www.latimes.com/wires/20001117/tCB00V0387.html WASHINGTON--The FBI's controversial e-mail surveillance tool, known as Carnivore, can retrieve all communications that go

Re: Florida Supreme Court freezes certification

2000-11-18 Thread George
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #Except that the legal motion was filed by the Reps, not the Dems, #originally. They brought it on them-damn-selves. Idiots. No one asked the Florida Supreme Court to freeze the certification. My current opinion is that they should take the .2% error rate

Re: Aces high (long reply)

2000-11-18 Thread petro
Mr. May: At 5:31 PM -0500 11/17/00, David Honig wrote: At 03:05 PM 11/17/00 -0500, Tim May wrote: years, many decades, to publish learned articles on chads, pregnant chads, And despite all the talk, chad pregnancy is still a problem in America today. You know all those chads are just going to

RE: Schneier: Why Digital Signatures are not Signatures (was Re:CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 2000)

2000-11-18 Thread Lynn . Wheeler
To: "'Digital Bearer Settlement List'" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Lynn Wheeler/CA/FDMS/FDC) Subject: RE: Schneier: Why Digital Signatures are not Signatures (was Re:CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 2000) The Word example actually

Re: Bob's Bank. Hi, I'm Bob. Just slip it in this pocket here.

2000-11-18 Thread James A. Donald
-- At 9:07 AM -0800 11/17/00, Marshall Clow wrote: 900 people -- $186M. That's $206K each. That's a lot of money to put into a 'bank'. Tim May: And a lot of money for "Christian Patriots." Not to belittle either Christians or Patriots, but folks like this typically have

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-18 Thread Ben Laurie
Bram Cohen wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ben Laurie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, the domain name infrastructure has been looking at ways to beef up the integrity of its operation ... like having public keys registered as part of domain name registration. How

Re: ssz.com network trouble

2000-11-18 Thread Bill Stewart
I did a traceroute (well, mswindoze tracert, anyway), and got a "destination unreachable" from a machine at realtime.net in Austin. SSZ has often been unreliable; I think it's connected by ISDN, and it's raining down in Texas. At 06:30 PM 11/18/00 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: Is there something

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-18 Thread obfuscation
Bram Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless that problem is fixed, man in the middle is hardly made more difficult - for example, Mallory could break into some random machine on the net and steal it's public key, then hijack local DNS and when someone goes to amazon.com redirect them to

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-18 Thread obfuscation
Bram Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless that problem is fixed, man in the middle is hardly made more difficult - for example, Mallory could break into some random machine on the net and steal it's public key, then hijack local DNS and when someone goes to amazon.com redirect them to

Re: ssz.com network trouble

2000-11-18 Thread Neil Johnson
ot; [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Neil Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 7:03 PM Subject: Re: ssz.com network trouble I did a traceroute (well, mswindoze tracert, anyway), and got a "destination unreachable" from a machine at realtime.net

Re: Schneier: Why Digital Signatures are not Signatures (was Re:CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 2000)

2000-11-18 Thread Ben Laurie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there are issues about authentication ... like conceptual frame-works of something you have, something you know, and something you are. No, no! Don't go there! I am fond of the things that I am and do not want to encourage people to steal bits of me. Two ways is

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-18 Thread Bram Cohen
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ben Laurie wrote: Bram Cohen wrote: And if you build a protocol which is a pain to use, noone will use it. What, like SSL, for example? SSL is not a pain to use, and it isn't effective against man in the middle attacks, since an attacker could simply make the end

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-18 Thread Lynn . Wheeler
PROTECTED] (bcc: Lynn Wheeler/CA/FDMS/FDC) Subject: Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact... On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ben Laurie wrote: Bram Cohen wrote: And if you build a protocol which is a pain to use, noone will use it. What, like SSL, for example? SSL is not a pain to use

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-18 Thread Bram Cohen
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: note also that current SSL infrastructure is vulnerable to things like domain name hijacking; aka, at least part of SSL protocol is to make sure that you really are talking to the host that you think you are talking to ... i.e. the SSL certificate

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-18 Thread Ben Laurie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: note also that current SSL infrastructure is vulnerable to things like domain name hijacking; aka, at least part of SSL protocol is to make sure that you really are talking to the host that you think you are talking to ... i.e. the SSL certificate contains

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-18 Thread Ben Laurie
Bram Cohen wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: note also that current SSL infrastructure is vulnerable to things like domain name hijacking; aka, at least part of SSL protocol is to make sure that you really are talking to the host that you think you are talking to ...

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-18 Thread Bram Cohen
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ben Laurie wrote: Bram Cohen wrote: Unless that problem is fixed, man in the middle is hardly made more difficult - for example, Mallory could break into some random machine on the net and steal it's public key, then hijack local DNS and when someone goes to

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-18 Thread Ben Laurie
Bram Cohen wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ben Laurie wrote: Bram Cohen wrote: Unless that problem is fixed, man in the middle is hardly made more difficult - for example, Mallory could break into some random machine on the net and steal it's public key, then hijack local DNS and

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-18 Thread Jeffrey Altman
The problem with all of these things is that they are still based on creating an association between a domain name and a key, when in fact what you want is an association between some abstract concept of a counterparty which exists in an end user's mind (like, say, amazon) and the ownership

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-18 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ben Laurie wrote: Bram Cohen wrote: Unless that problem is fixed, man in the middle is hardly made more difficult - for example, Mallory could break into some random machine on the net and steal it's public key, then hijack local DNS and when someone goes

Re: Schneier: Why Digital Signatures are notSignatures (was Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 2000)

2000-11-17 Thread Peter Wayner
Schneier's piece does a good job of listing some of the problems with digital signatures, but he really throws the baby out with the bathwater when he concludes that "Digital signatures aren't signatures." This has been his habit lately. The book _Secrets and Lies_ is filled with plenty of

Re: Bob's Bank. Hi, I'm Bob. Just slip it in this pocket here.

2000-11-17 Thread Marshall Clow
At 11:52 AM -0500 11/17/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded: http://www.foxnews.com/national/1117/d_ap_1117_84.sml # #Group accused of operating bank to defraud IRS # #10.54 a.m. ET (1609 GMT) November 17, 2000 # [snip] #The illegal bank, operated out a warehouse just east of

RE: Schneier: Why Digital Signatures are not Signatures (was Re:CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 2000)

2000-11-17 Thread Lynn . Wheeler
To: "'Digital Bearer Settlement List'" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Lynn Wheeler/CA/FDMS/FDC) Subject: RE: Schneier: Why Digital Signatures are not Signatures (was Re:CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 2000) The Word example actually

Re: Florida Supreme Court freezes certification

2000-11-17 Thread Carol A Braddock
- From: "Jim Burnes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 1:59 AM Subject: Re: Florida Supreme Court freezes certification On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florida Supreme Court freezes certification. (That's it

Re: Bob's Bank. Hi, I'm Bob. Just slip it in this pocket here.

2000-11-17 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:52 AM 11/17/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #The illegal bank, operated out a warehouse just east of Portland, #offered customers anonymous banking transactions to conceal income #and assets, according to IRS Special Agent Kathleen Sulmonetti. #Nine hundred customers

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-16 Thread Lynn . Wheeler
As an aside ... AADS (http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ ) relies on existing business processes that provide secure bindings in account records ... just adding public key digital signature to existing authentication processes for non-face-to-face and/or face-to-face transactions (i.e. the meaning

Re: identity-as-bits vs. identity-as-meat

2000-11-16 Thread R. A. Hettinga
...which brings us to http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/units/law/swire1/pscrypto.htm Which is, mostly, based on Professor Peter Swire's opinion on the cypherpunk "identity is bits" paradigm delivered at FC97, though apparently edited some since then. Not that I agree with him, at all, actually,

Re: Aces high

2000-11-16 Thread George
White Supremacist Tim "I'd like to see a race riot" May Moroned: #Even if meant in jest, as a comment on the situation, #it undermines the basic issue of law. Like, "Needs killing."

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-16 Thread Bram Cohen
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Conventional, hierarchical PKI, built around the ISO standard X.509, has been, and will continue to be, a substantial failure. This paper examines that form of PKI architecture, and concludes that it is a very poor fit to the real needs of

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-16 Thread Bram Cohen
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bram Cohen writes: In the vast majority of cases, preventing man in the middle attacks is a waste of time. In the sense that, in the vast majority of communications, there is no man in the middle attack being mounted? Yes. Couldn't the

Re: Schneier: Why Digital Signatures are not Signatures (was Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 2000)

2000-11-16 Thread obfuscation
Keep in mind that the recent E-Sign bill is not about digital signatures. It's about electronic signatures. An electronic signature doesn't necessarily have to have anything to do with cryptography. It is simply an electronic means of registering consent. This may be as simple as a mouse

Re: Close Elections and Causality

2000-11-15 Thread Steve Mynott
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:00:02PM -0800, petro wrote: The impression that I get is that in Merry Old England, voting is done by county, whereas in this country voting is done by district. You are quite wrong. For the benefit of those not familiar with the American system:

RE: Florida Electoral defection threat!

2000-11-15 Thread Trei, Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: "Trei, Peter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # #It would take at least two faithless electors to #swing the election to Gore. One would make it #a dead heat, and send the decision to Congress. Ping pong, ping pong. Isn't a

Re: digital electronic signature software

2000-11-15 Thread Ray Dillinger
My personal recommendation for purchasing software would be SuSE Linux. It will nearly double the speed of your Win98 machine, and comes with word processors etc having greater functionality and reliability than those you cite below. At US$55. it's not a bad deal at all. Should be

Re: your mail

2000-11-15 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Mike Binas wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:05:31 -0500 From: Mike Binas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] can you please send me some credit card numbers. 5, 12, 7, 194 -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Governments really want us to behave

Re: [ca-firearms] voting

2000-11-15 Thread petro
ading Comprehension Counts". Please re-read the sentence you quoted. I do not claim that it would be fairly simple to eliminate *all* voter fraud, simply to eliminate *most* of the current schemes, and at only a fairly small increase over what is now spent. Heck, in th

Re: Bell's warrant return inventory

2000-11-14 Thread John Young
What's missing from the inventory is material which would disclose other ongoing investigations. And how to tell which material is of genuine interest and which is listed for camouflage. The public docs never disclose everything but are often used to misinform. Jim is being used as bait.

Re: A secure voting protocol

2000-11-14 Thread Matthew Gaylor
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not trust such a system, or be willing to take night school classes in crypto and higher math in order to begin to understand the system...so imagine what other folks will think. It won't happen in our lifetimes. It may happen in European nations, but

Re: the ballot

2000-11-14 Thread Tim May
, 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 County, Broward County, Dade County, and P

Re: Close Elections and Causality

2000-11-14 Thread petro
Mr. May: At 10:20 AM + 11/14/00, Ken Brown wrote: But maybe to redraw the boundaries. That's a common problem in Britain. Every now and again some government (almost always Conservative, for reasons to do with gerrymandering I suspect) gets it into its head that it would be a Good Thing if

RE: A secure voting protocol

2000-11-14 Thread Trei, Peter
Harmon Seaver[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Peter Trei wrote: Also, if you want to get high tech, use a fluorescent dye mixed with DMSO. It'll penetrate deep into the skin, and be visible under UV (no cosmetic objections). I suspect it'd take weeks to wear off. Can't

RE: CDR: Re: Close Elections and Causality

2000-11-14 Thread Trei, Peter
petro[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Mr. May: At 10:20 AM + 11/14/00, Ken Brown wrote: But maybe to redraw the boundaries. That's a common problem in Britain. Every now and again some government (almost always Conservative, for reasons to do with gerrymandering I suspect) gets it

Re: your mail

2000-11-14 Thread John Galt
You have no idea who you just pissed off, do you? On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, morris wrote: i hate you -- When you are having a bad day, and it seems like everybody is trying to tick you off, remember that it takes 42 muscles to produce a frown, but only 4 muscles to work the trigger of a good

Re: Please take me off your mailing list!

2000-11-14 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim.. I hate to tell you, but instructions for toad.com no longer exist on that website ANYWHERE. If you're talking, http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr/index.html#subinst then you can't read for shit. Let me quote (as I am looking at it real time),

Re: Beware the Rants of May

2000-11-13 Thread George
#---guy Oops, now Tim will kill me. Geigertronics wrote: #Pot, Kettle, Black A, I'm picking on bully TimMay. Cry me a river.

Re: BSA deploys imaginary pirate software detector vans

2000-11-13 Thread Ian BROWN
Wasn't there some articles some time ago about Microsoft doing research into Tempest/Van Eck (sp) radiation ? It was speculated at the time that they were going include software to "broadcast" their serial numbers so that illegal copies could be detected. This was a suggestion by Markus Kuhn

Re: BSA deploys imaginary pirate software detector vans

2000-11-13 Thread Ben Laurie
Neil Johnson wrote: Wasn't there some articles some time ago about Microsoft doing research into Tempest/Van Eck (sp) radiation ? It was speculated at the time that they were going include software to "broadcast" their serial numbers so that illegal copies could be detected. That was a

Re: BSA deploys imaginary pirate software detector vans

2000-11-13 Thread ji
This reminds me of the Monty Python skit with the Cat Detector Van... "never seen so many bleedin' areals"

Re: Beware the Rants of May

2000-11-13 Thread George
I_Have_No_Name_At_ALL@Ether wrote: #Am I the only one delighting in the irony of someone #using the name Orwell having no better writing skills... Ah, start out with an ad hominem attack. Such writing skills. I_Have_No_Name_At_ALL@Ether wrote: #I merely point out that those who

Re: Stop sending me these emails

2000-11-13 Thread Ken Brown
Yes. Whoever subscribed you to the list. It isn't a "site" it is a mailing list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell how I can stop receiving emails from your site? Gerry Inman

Re: Bush Florida lead dwindles toward zero...

2000-11-12 Thread Tim May
At 5:08 AM -0500 11/12/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bush actually lost votes, a very bad omen for him. Partially detached chads tend to come off during repeated runs through the tabulating machinery. This recount is occurring without a court order, it's provided for by Florida law. Vulis,

Re: A successful lawsuit means Gore wins!

2000-11-12 Thread Kevin Elliott
At 19:28 -0500 11/11/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I ever find out your real name and where you live, I'm going to come over and deal with you LOL, I believe his name is Tim May and he lives in California, somewhere around San Francisco. It's not exactly a big secret... -- "As nightfall

Re: Bush Florida lead dwindles toward zero...

2000-11-12 Thread auto9950013
Getting a little testy are we Tim? Perhaps Mac needs to be hunted down and killed. At 10:19 PM -0600 11/12/00, Mac Norton wrote: Tim, that's just stupid. MacN And I don't need your prissy comments about my choice of words. --Tim May On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Tim May wrote: Live and let

Re: Declan on Bell

2000-11-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bell was not coerced into taking the plea agreement; if anything, he seems to have more mental resources to fight the system than other defendants I have interviewed. Unless the plea agreement specifies a sentence equal to the upper range that

Democrat FUD: If our lead does not mount, you must re-count!

2000-11-11 Thread Tim May
nd tried to vote for Gore after discovering they accidentally voted for Buchanan. We demand a re-vote!" * Stage Four of the FUD Campaign, current: "We demand a manual recount. Two counts, the first one and then the state-mandated machine recount, are not enough. We are certain that if

Re: A very brief politcal rant

2000-11-10 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:56 PM 11/9/00 -0800, petro wrote: a Democrat -- and that might well be so. But I doubt the Federal Election Commision will think much of a ballot where 'you vote Democratic -- we'll fill in the blank' is a legitimate vote. I would say the same for any 'candidate', but they Republican,

RE: Where is John Young?

2000-11-10 Thread Vin McLellan
At 11/10/00, Trei, Peter wrote: There are new articles, dated today, in the cryptome. There is a gap from Nov 5 thru Nov 9. Maybe he went on vacation. Naaah. John doesn't go on vacations. I would be surprised if he sleeps. According to well-informed US government sources

Re: CDR: Response to false statements about Zero-Knowledge

2000-11-10 Thread Greg Broiles
ate your candor - and am confident that your analysis of the economics of the bandwidth required to foil traffic analysis was correct - I do think there's perhaps some room for improvement re keeping people up-to-date on what sort of protection they can expect from Freedom and ZKS. If you are ever

Re: A successful lawsuit means Gore wins!

2000-11-10 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: White Supremacist Tim "I'd like to see a race riot" May Moroned: White Supremacist Tim "I'd like to see a race riot" May Moroned: Y'all don't get it do you? Tim's not a racist -- racists like race riots because they're about race, and they take

Re: A successful lawsuit means Gore wins!

2000-11-10 Thread Me
- Original Message - From: "Ray Dillinger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm reasonably sure that a three-way shooting war between sports car enthusiasts, denture wearers, and shoe salesmen would make Tim just as happy as a race riot. Almost anything that carries fear and confusion to the

Re: A very brief politcal rant

2000-11-10 Thread petro
At 2:05 PM -0500 on 11/9/00, Jim Burnes wrote: I've seen first hand the intent and demeanor of St. Louis politics and its not pretty. Agreed. I don't know if it still is, but, say, 23 years ago, St. Louis was a great place to be *from*. According to the wife, it's a really nice

Re: A very brief politcal rant

2000-11-10 Thread petro
a Democrat -- and that might well be so. But I doubt the Federal Election Commision will think much of a ballot where 'you vote Democratic -- we'll fill in the blank' is a legitimate vote. I would say the same for any 'candidate', but they Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or Dead.

Re: A successful lawsuit means Gore wins!

2000-11-10 Thread George
White Supremacist Tim "I'd like to see a race riot" May Moroned: #I sort of hope the hundreds of lawyers sent down to #Florida by the Gore Team succeed in throwing the #election to Gore. Yes, the closely recounted votes will turn to Gore. Gore will be president. White Supremacist

Re: call forwarding trick in Las Vegas

2000-11-10 Thread John Doe Number Two
Michael, Of course we can help you. Please send us the name, address and telephone number of your friend and we will be glad to help. Yours in Science, John on 10.11.00 19:34, Michael Gilman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Interesting information, do you have additional info. regarding

Re: A successful lawsuit means Gore wins!

2000-11-09 Thread Declan McCullagh
(As a followup, I should say I see "RIGHT" in the sample ballot, but that is not a requirement, but a suggestion, and I'd argue the ballots that were used probably have substantially the same form.) -Declan

Re: A very brief politcal rant

2000-11-09 Thread Jim Burnes
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 10:36 AM -0500 on 11/8/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the citizens of Missouri chose to elect a deceased person as Senator, I think that's exactly what they should get. Would that we were all so fortunate. Imagine, a whole senate full of dead

Re: BSA deploys imaginary pirate software detector vans

2000-11-09 Thread Neil Johnson
Wasn't there some articles some time ago about Microsoft doing research into Tempest/Van Eck (sp) radiation ? It was speculated at the time that they were going include software to "broadcast" their serial numbers so that illegal copies could be detected. I wonder how the Supreme is going to

Re: CDR: Re: More blather from the DEMS on FL

2000-11-09 Thread Brian Lane
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:20:23PM -0800, Tim May wrote: At 7:02 PM -0800 11/8/00, Evan wrote: what the hell is the electoral college still doing in existance? it should have gone out w/ unlimited presidential terms voting with their conscience my ass voting in a partisan fashion is

Re: A successful lawsuit means Gore wins!

2000-11-09 Thread Tim May
At 5:24 PM -0500 11/9/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spooky Cypherpunk Niggar Tim May Moroned: #And, of course, Palm County will _not_ be given a #second chance to vote in this election. I guarantee it. It's either that or the choice you liked even less. Oh, I _like_ that other choice.

Re: Al Gore is only 630 votes away from winning the election

2000-11-08 Thread George
Declan the Reporter wrote: #Al Gore is only 630 votes away from winning the election Now they'll have to wait until all the absentee ballots are counted. They had to be postedmarked by midnight. Approximately 10 days away. Surreal.

Weather [was: RE: Well, that's over. Heads up, America!]

2000-11-08 Thread Trei, Peter
Ken Brown[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: OK you folks on the downwind side of the Atlantic, now your election is over (even if you won't know the result for 3 weeks yet), can you take your weather back? We've had a month of egregious rain and floods over here and I'm sure it has to be

Re: Al Gore is only 630 votes away from winning the election

2000-11-08 Thread Tim May
At 3:49 AM -0500 11/8/00, Declan McCullagh wrote: With 99.9 percent of the votes in Florida counted, Al Gore is only 630 votes away from winning the presidency. The Florida Department of State reports -- in numbers updated in the last five minutes -- that George W. Bush won 2,898,865 votes

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