Is there any way to encrypt the swap partition? Passwords and other
sensitive data can sometimes linger there.
OpenBSD can encrypt the swap. It can't encrypt any other part of the
disk, though. D'ohh! OpenBSD: Crypto everywhere... except for your
files.
Encrypted disks are still rare, but that is because raids
that seize people's computers are rare. Of course it is
regrettable that disk encryption is not part of the operating
system -- but if Microsoft put it in before we had a strong,
widely adopted system, they would doubtless muck
It seems pretty clear from the court documents that the Scarfo
keyboard logger only recorded keystrokes. We don't have details
(classified, national security, CIPA) but the exhibit
introduced as evidence shows backspaces, up-down arrows, and other
functions you'd normally associate with
As for sniffers finding these things...the signals are already being
lost in the noise. Dogs can find certain kinds of explosives, but
are fooled by others. And the vapor emissions can be very, very low.
(Nothing is ever zero on a log scale, of course, but something
sealed inside a glass
And the current monitoring systems... Do they work to detect the
presence of explosives in the physiological duct?
No, not at all. There were a few articles on that grim subject pretty
recently. Bottom line: There is no technology available today that
would work in a practical way to do
No one has yet mentioned surgically implanted explosives.
You could carry more than a twat's worth.
You'd need a mechanical or chemical trigger to avoid
electronics-detection. Think: punch yourself 6 cm left
of the scar, to push the plunger.
Yeah, there have definitely been cases of
Basically half the posts to this list are incoherent, idiotic rambling
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ravage@... The few bits of wonderfully
interesting news on this list aren't quite wonderful enough to
motivate me to figure out how to use mail filters. If someone knows
of a filtered version of
A token-based remailer system, while an obvious system, would be a
major accomplishment.
Any kind of privacy-enhanced token/payment/value system would be a
major accomplishment at this point. The c'punks have been in biz for
almost ten years now, and private payments have always been
I am beginning to think that this whole thing is not so much
Cypherpunks vs. FBI as it is mullets vs. coolnecks. Obviously,
the average mullet is no more qualified to understand net and crypto
than the average coolneck is qualified to understand... well whatever
it is that the FBI does. This is
Could people on this list please learn to format stories that they
post here so we can read them? How hard could that be?
Thank you.
6. The failure to get true digital money. Call it what you like,
digital cash or ecash or even one of Hettinga's pet names, but the
fact is that for both political and technical reasons we don't have
digital cash. This has ripple effects for nearly all of the constructs
which depend on
I am no longer on the list. My Policeman Inside broke out. He won't let me
be associated with silly salad talk, mission orientation, and Levi-Smithing.
You need to build an inner jail for your inner policeman! But to make
sure that he has due process, you need an inner internal affairs
From: coretta fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I make an explosive? its cause that's my science project
It's a fairly simple process really.
I have an even simpler process:
1. Go to the supermarket. You will need the following it: Five large
cans of refried beans, a piece of
Or... is there something that REACTS to freon in an interesting way...?
Freon (chloro difloromethane) is pretty inert stuff, as far as I know.
According to the MSDS (Dupont:
http://www.dupont.com/msds/40_37_2008fr.html), it is stable but
Incompatible with alkali or alkaline earth
WASHINGTON, DC -- Rep. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Vice Chair of the Democratic
Caucus and
Chair of the Democratic Task Force on Homeland Security,
These titles keep sounding more and more like the Committee for State Security
or the Committee for Public Safety.
Bring back the SLORC!
vnconfig -ck svnd0 diskimage
I don't have a BSD system around to check -
what does this approach do?
It creates an loop encrypted loopback FS.
Anyway, for an OS which prides itself on built-in crypto,
why do we have to mess around with loopback? ...
Can you describe a scenario
I don't understand why one would pay $1000 for a Starium device when
comparable devices are available in the market place for less than half
Do you have any references for those? I'm in the market for a voice
encryptor system. Are these devices really comparable in terms of
ease of use?
of
http://www.tccsecure.com/csd4100.htm - no price
Great, no price and uses the world-famous DACE algorithm from Bell
Labs. Next!
http://www.thespystore.com/telefax.htm - $249
One unit is a scrambler which boasts 52,488 code combinations!
The other uses rolling code scrambling, which I assume
We probably need to define the product category we're discussing. I was
listing devices which prevent casual interception, and which Joe Average
might conceivably buy. The Starium is obviously more robust than that,
and consequently more expensive.
Right, exactly. When Starium was first
I happened to hear from Lee Caplin of Starium today. They've
apparently (I'm looking at Lee's email message while typing this,
but I don't wish to speak for them) abandoned plans to sell the
bump-in-a-wire device. Now they're thinking of marketing a small
RJ11'd cryptophone an executive
It's often the fucking Jews--Feinstein, Feingold, Lieberman,
Ellison--who slavishly imitate the Nazis. How ironic to see Larry
Ellison pushing the Papers, please, macht schnell! Orwellian nightmare.
That is a good observation, and something which I'll never
understand. How can they want to
Built-in crypto is a big overstatement for OpenBSD. Unfortunately,
Win 2000 has more built-in crypto than OpenBSD does. Hint: Try to
create an encrypted FS on OpenBSD. Now try on Windows 2000.
You trust Win2k's encryption? Are you CRAZY?
No and no.
You're trusting a closed source
Built-in crypto is a big overstatement for OpenBSD. Unfortunately,
Win 2000 has more built-in crypto than OpenBSD does. Hint: Try to
create an encrypted FS on OpenBSD. [...]
dd if=/dev/zero of=diskimage bs=1024k count=1024
vnconfig -ck svnd0 diskimage
[enter a passphrase]
newfs
(is that the correct plural of Starium?)
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You know, I never even realized until right now that my DL has a mag
strip. This is a new thing for WI, I think. Pretty sure my recent MN didn't
have one. I guess the more interesting thing would be, before wiping it out,
to figure out a way to read it.
I'm sure you can buy card
You mean the magstripe on your license still carries information?
Give that man a magnet.
There's an even simpler alternative: Sure, CA licenses may have this
mag strip, but the format is not universal throughout the world, or
even the US. Carry your passport, which doesn't have a mag strip
Anyone have thoughts or (?) knowledge on efficacy, or guidelines on how
long the heating should last for decontamination?
I would not think that ordinary ironing would effectively
decontaminate letters with anthrax in them. These are tough spores.
The only way to really find out what works
In any case, let the insurers and builders do it if they want. But
they'd better not use any money taken by force from others. And they'd
Money taken by force from others is flowing very freely these days.
I'm sure taxpayer money will be used to rebuild the WTC. Even worse,
I'm sure
The evening news says Dubbya is asking Congress for
20 billion for his little war, and it sounds like the
moron is actually going to try to invade Afganistan. I
hope, in one respect, they actually do it. It will be
amusing to watch the body bags coming home as the Afgans
kick Yankee
The way calling cards in the US work is that the user calls an 800
number and then enters a PIN number and the number to be called. The
way 800 numbers work, the 800 number operator (ie, the company that
pays for it) gets a list of all the numbers that dialed it, because
he's paying.
It seems
Hi, does anyone have a copy of the email Eric Hughes sent out? I
somehow didn't get it and I can't find it in the archive.
Thanks!
Sandy, Aimee, Unicorn, Dillinger, Choate, Nomen Nescio, what about me?
Am I not worthy of this rant?
You've left no impression on me. And I expect you are just another of
the anonymous or pseudonymous ranters, maybe the same one recently using
Nomen Nescio or A Melon.
I wonder what Senor Escobar thinks of all this. Eh Senor? We haven't
heard your street-wise opinions from the great
Copyrights expire; property doesn't.
Never bought milk I guess, or a pet, or been to the beach
Ah, good point. To be more clear: property rights don't expire, but
the property itself might. Speaking of which I think I need to clean
my fridge. But I still have title to that OJ, no
The whole purpose of MAPS is the Balkanization of the internet.
Balkanization of the Internet is a good thing. There should be parts
of the Internet that are spam-free (that's where I want to be) and
other parts where peoples' mailboxes are constantly full of
It depends a lot on your threat model. If the people who want a copy
are determined enough, they'll just retype it :-)
Which is exactly what I want! Basically, I need to create a web page
which is humans only beyond this point. One task that humans can do
easily and reliably is read messy
I agree with Dr. Evil about the unlikelihood of it ever happening, but if it
did, I think the intruder is toast. In California, there is the presumption
Actually, now that I think about it, I think it is essentially
impossible for it to ever happen. If it were to happen, it is almost
certain
Starian, the company founded by Eric Blossom and others, had a 3DES unit
the size of an external modem that worked as described. (I have one.)
The problem is the fax effect: who ya gonna call?
No, in the case of Starium, the problem is decidely not the fax
effect. The problem is that
Si. The hour to create a case of the test we can eliminate policia
then legisladores when they show for above.
And maybe also Los Pepes, the CIA and Delta Force, eh, senor?
Judges have never attempted such crap, and if they do, lawyers will
Please do a search for Negativland and U2 on your favorite search
engine. They were ordered to return to the court or U2's reccord
label or whatever, all the copies they had of their U2 album. Every
single copy.
What's up with voice encryption? I'm ready to use it. I'm ready to
pay money for it. However, this is only if it uses a real crypto
algorithm (AES, 3DES, and not some proprietary crap) and if it has a
published protocol, so we can verify that it is actually encrypting
properly. Starium has
How safe are nyms from text fingerprints, and be it only word frequency
analysis? I have no idea how good the state of the art is, but I wouldn't
be risking it for anything production-quality.
I'm not sure, but I only use this for silly things, so I don't really
care. Senor Escobar probably
Not safe at all, even the unclassified programs are getting better all the
time. Check the archives for some interesting past discussion--and if you
feel like tinkering around yourself, there's a ton of free software you can
download here:
http://www.content-analysis.de/software.html
The prosecutors who read this list must be chortling.
Chortling is a form of laughter. Prosecutors, like Ukrainian customs
agents, have had their sense of humor surgically removed, so I doubt
they chortle very much.
I know of people who refuse to buy Intel-based machines on
principle. Some are Sun users, some are Mac users, some think they
are bypassing Intel by using AMD Athlons.
Yes, I'm one. AMD all the way. Anyway, it's cheaper and has better
performance.
And the anti-Microsoft efforts are
Given the fact that the Anonymizer often comes up in Cypherpunk
contexts, and that many of you are probably reading this list from
cyberpass.net, which is hosted by Infonex (which is the same company
as the Anonymizer, all run by Lance Cottrell, I believe) some of you
may be interested in what
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
Chicken?
No thanks, I had Pork Chops for dinner.
Wow, finally some entertainment for us on the old c-punk list! Maybe
they could do a reality TV show based on this.
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