Re: BSE

2001-04-28 Thread James A. Donald
-- At 01:13 PM 4/26/2001 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a question for you Tim, I'm sure you've read about BSE, scrapie, kuru, Creutzfeld-Jakob et al. Generally they seem to be species-specific but there is some crossover. Let's assume that feeding ground up livestock to livestock is

Re: Airlines IDs [was RE: Amtrak The War On Drugs]

2001-04-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
I believe at least one FOIA request has been pending for the exact FAA rule. I wrote about this a few years ago and asked the FAA to clarify its position, and I never heard anything authoritative. In a recent article, I pointed out that the trend is shifting: You can now use kiosk check-in in

Re: [Fwd: YOU ARE INVITED: Will Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete? -- Next Independent Policy Forum (4/24/01)]

2001-04-28 Thread James A. Donald
-- At 03:37 PM 4/27/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote: We should hold ourselves and our friends to HIGHER standards if we want to get somewhere in the long run. You could start by holding yourself to the standard of actually having some faint glimmering of knowledge about the research areas of

Re: Technological Solution

2001-04-28 Thread Tim May
I wrote: --- If you plan to stay on this list, I think it's long past time that you spend several hours reviewing past developments in these areas. (You see, the quick review process is much better than the method you suggested re: economics, that people read the main textbooks. People

RE: Technological Solution

2001-04-28 Thread Aimee Farr
Tim said: At 2:24 PM -0500 4/28/01, Aimee Farr wrote: Reading the IMC gag order, Henson, the latest anonymous poster stuff, and Tim et. al. beating my head in pavement Since many forums don't allow for 'nymity, (or people just don't), what about a protected/offshore self-destruct

RE: Technological Solution

2001-04-28 Thread Tim May
At 9:43 PM -0500 4/28/01, Aimee Farr wrote: Tim said: * Keith Henson chose to post under his own name, to appear in person at COS offices and recruiting centers, to picket, and so on. He was not trying to be anonymous or pseudonymous, so your proposal above would be pointless in his

Re: Technological Solution

2001-04-28 Thread Tim May
At 10:09 PM -0400 4/28/01, John Young wrote: Finally, reading the NYT account of Kerry's team killing the Vietnamese is sobering. The article is much more disturbing than accounts of it have portrayed. Kerry's and other killers' spin over the years have induced an intolerance for reading the

Re: Technological Solution

2001-04-28 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:32:08PM -0700, Tim May wrote: None of the non-cryptographic methods are very resistant to legal, technical, sniffing, and black bag attacks. And only multiply-chained encrypted-at-each-stage messages, a la remailers, are adequate for high-value messages. If only