RE: What is the truth of the anti war rallys?

2002-10-28 Thread Lucky Green
James wrote: Supposedly tens of thousands turned up, forty two thousand in San Francisco Yet oddly, the photos of marches that I see look more like forty in San Francisco, and four hundred in Washington. Perhaps there were a lot more out of frame, but that is an odd way to photograph

Re: FC: Privacy villain of the week: DARPA's gait surveillance tech (fwd)

2002-10-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Oddly enough, your behavior on the net, even the behavior of a given signature in cypherspace, is biometric, as well. If my traffic is remixed the signature is not linkable to a point of origin. The signature emitted is not rich, and can be scrambled

Re: What is the truth of the anti war rallys?

2002-10-28 Thread Bill Stewart
Estimating crowd sizes is difficult even if you don't have good visibility, and for most events, there are at least two or three sets of people estimating crowd size who have axes to grind that bias their results. Washington DC's especially bad about that. According to the newsblurb we heard in

[silk] I Went Down to the Demonstration... (fwd)

2002-10-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 08:28:12 +0530 From: Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [silk] I Went Down to the Demonstration... From John Perry Barlow. Interesting. Udhay -- -- 100,

Re: Office of Hollywood Security, HollSec

2002-10-28 Thread David Howe
at Saturday, October 26, 2002 1:18 AM, Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Yes, but check very carefully whether one is in violation of the anti-hacking laws (viz. DMCA). By some readings of the laws, merely trying to break a cipher is ipso fact a violation. IIRC, you can't be arrested

RE: What is the truth of the anti war rallys?

2002-10-28 Thread John Young
We were at the DC march. It took two hours to pass a point, and we left before the end had appeared, in fact couldn't see the end. The Wash Post reported over 100,000 participated, largest since Vietnam. We videoed and photoed the demo, but tape and chip were confiscated Sunday by the guards at

Re: Details on lne.com's blocking of Cypherpunks posts??

2002-10-28 Thread Bill Stewart
At 06:31 PM 10/27/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 01:04 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: [Hmm. lne.com spam-blocked me on the first attempt. Can you provide details? If lne.com is blocking posts, I will have to find another CP node. I don't think Eric will mind me

Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Tyler Durden
In antoher context I've wondered about the possibility of wireless, near-real-time video upload. With 3G this will cetainly be easy, but I'm wondering if there are soft/hard gadgets that can auto-upload stuff.(In addition, 3G looks like it's going to roll out in the US only in fits and starts

Software developer is trying to prove his DVD Copy Plus does not violate

2002-10-28 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Robert H. Moore, a software developer on the outskirts of St. Louis, built a multimillion-dollar business out of helping people copy DVDs. Now he's trying to prove that his products are legal. Moore's wares enable the copying of discs even if they are scrambled to prevent duplication, as are

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Optimizzin Al-gorithym
At 10:08 AM 10/28/02 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: In antoher context I've wondered about the possibility of wireless, near-real-time video upload. With 3G this will cetainly be easy, but I'm wondering if there are soft/hard gadgets that can auto-upload stuff. Plenty of webcams come with software to

Re: Details on lne.com's blocking of Cypherpunks posts??

2002-10-28 Thread Eric Murray
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 06:31:40PM -0800, Tim May wrote: On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 01:04 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: [Hmm. lne.com spam-blocked me on the first attempt. Can you provide details? If lne.com is blocking posts, I will have to find another CP node. Lne has been

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Mike Rosing
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Tyler Durden wrote: In antoher context I've wondered about the possibility of wireless, near-real-time video upload. With 3G this will cetainly be easy, but I'm wondering if there are soft/hard gadgets that can auto-upload stuff.(In addition, 3G looks like it's going to

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, the possibility of using 802.11b had occurred to me, but right now I would think it's too vulnerable. First of all, there will be a visible and stationary box somewhere. Second, this has to exist at the termination of either a DSL link, cable modem, or T1/fractional T1. All of these

RE:Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread jayh
The problem might be the resultant emf signature, much more of a giveaway than the brief activity of a digital camera. What really might be useful is steganographically placing it on the back of some bulshit cellphone call (not likely to arouse much suspicion these days) j - Original Text

Re: FC: Privacy villain of the week: DARPA's gait surveillance tech (fwd)

2002-10-28 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 8:36 AM +0100 on 10/28/02, Eugen Leitl wrote: If my traffic is remixed the signature is not linkable to a point of origin. The signature emitted is not rich, and can be scrambled in principle. Yes, but the behavior of the signature, the things it does, is biometric. You can't have

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Tim May
On Monday, October 28, 2002, at 08:44 AM, Optimizzin Al-gorithym wrote: At 10:08 AM 10/28/02 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: In antoher context I've wondered about the possibility of wireless, near-real-time video upload. With 3G this will cetainly be easy, but I'm wondering if there are

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:01 PM 10/28/02 -0800, Tim May wrote: It's going to be interesting to see how airlines and other security narcs deal with fuel cells. The energy content of a small canister/container of the fuel can be high. Given that butane lighters are now banned... Based on personal experience (e.g.,

RE: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Trei, Peter
Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Monday, October 28, 2002, at 11:08 AM, Trei, Peter wrote: Batteries are becoming the main drag on this stuff. Hopefully, fuel cells will be available soon. It's going to be interesting to see how airlines and other security narcs deal

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Adam Shostack
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 04:13:31PM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: | Actually, the DoT has already ruled positively that one fuel cell from | Polyfuel | can be carried on board. They appear to have a cartridge for the methanol, | similar to a ink cartridge. It's a pity it's methanol - I want to be able

Re: Fw: RE:Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Dave Emery
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:56:29PM -0800, Richard Crisp wrote: hmm, it seems to me that video riding in a stegano fashion on a cell phone call would exceed the bandwidth capability of the channel. It's one thing to send a single image steganographically on a cell call, but it is another to

Re: 3G (Was: Confiscation of Anti-War Video)

2002-10-28 Thread Mats O. Bergstrom
Tim May wrote: 3G is having problems, according to a news item I saw this weekend. Apparently a bunch of analysts and journalists were invited to Helsinki or somesuch to get a demo of the 3G and video capabilities. The demos failed, and Nokia and others were forced to show simulated

Re: Fw: RE:Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Dave Emery
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:32:48PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Any chance this is the same Dave Emery who does the radio broadcasts? (I listen from WFMU). If so, man! If a tiny fraction of the stuff you have said over the years is true, well...brrr. A good example is Los Amigos de

Re: Fw: RE:Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Any chance this is the same Dave Emery who does the radio broadcasts? (I listen from WFMU). If so, man! If a tiny fraction of the stuff you have said over the years is true, well...brrr. A good example is Los Amigos de Bush...doesn't have to be true/right...the fact that those theories so

Re: Warning.. Warning.. *bleep*

2002-10-28 Thread Axolotl2
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 17:59:17 +1300 (NZDT), you wrote: Next in the series: FBI warns bouncy castles may be targeted Nahh, FBI warns buses may be targeted, leading to late or missed buses. The primary targets will likely be places where citizen concealed carry is prohibited, for citizen

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Morlock Elloi
My notion was that Bob, who receives Alice's WiFi signal, is also using a laptop, which he simply walks off with. He doesn't need a DSL or cablemodem or whatever. Could be an interesting exercise for the next cpunk meeting. The goal is to leave the meeting with some content on the laptop