CIA breaks terrorist encryption found on seized laptop

2003-03-14 Thread Bo Elkjaer
List I stumbled over this article, perusing Google for news. Apparently Al Qaida ops planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed tried - in vain - to protect his information by encrypting it on his laptop. I haven't found any references as to what sort of encryption he used - or if it was just a weak password

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-14 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:24:35AM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: I think economics would be a better argument. If the manufacturer can recycle the tags for inventory control they can save a lot of money. And public pressure. Here's a piece I wrote a few months ago that included some

Re: Fatherland Security measures more important than Bennetton tags!

2003-03-14 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:49:41AM -0800, Tim May wrote: By the way, I am enjoying the evolving clusterfuck/train wreck that is coming with the War on Some Terrorrists. Seeing our C-student fratboy One word (well, one domain name): http://www.prudentbear.com/ -Declan

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-14 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:40:27AM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:24:35AM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: I think economics would be a better argument. If the manufacturer can recycle the tags for inventory control they can save a lot of money. And public pressure.

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-14 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:38 AM 3/14/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:40:27AM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:24:35AM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: I think economics would be a better argument. If the manufacturer can recycle the tags for inventory control they

Re: CIA breaks terrorist encryption found on seized laptop

2003-03-14 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:31 PM 3/14/2003 +0100, you wrote: On a sidenote: I'm researching for an article on the history of export regulations. I seem to remember that a couple of years ago there was an incident where some cypherpunks(?) 'exported' encryption to Mexico by missile, thereby exploiting a loophole in US

Identification of users of payphones

2003-03-14 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Couple months ago, our local Telecom decided to switch over from easy-to-emulate EPROM-based dumb smartcards (described at http://www.phrack.com/show.php?p=48a=10 ) to Eurochip ones. Today seemed a good day to learn more about them, so I sniffed around a bit (eg,

RE: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-14 Thread Mike Rosing
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: They don't want to deactivate them. Go back and read the SFGate article I linked in my initial post. They want to recognize when a loyal customer returns, so they can pull up his/her profile and give then personalized treatment. And what happens when

Re: Identification of users of payphones

2003-03-14 Thread Adam Shostack
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:36:28PM +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: | Couple months ago, our local Telecom decided to switch over from | easy-to-emulate EPROM-based dumb smartcards (described at | http://www.phrack.com/show.php?p=48a=10 ) to Eurochip ones. Today seemed | a good day to learn more

RE: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-14 Thread Trei, Peter
Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] They don't want to deactivate them. Go back and read the SFGate article I linked in my initial post. They want to recognize when a loyal customer returns, so they can pull up his/her profile and give then personalized treatment. And what happens

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-14 Thread alan
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Adam Shostack wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:22:44PM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: | You're not thinking this through. As the item goes through the door (in | either direction) the check is made Is this individual tag on this store's | 'unsold inventory' list?. If so,

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-14 Thread Adam Shostack
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:22:44PM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: | You're not thinking this through. As the item goes through the door (in | either direction) the check is made Is this individual tag on this store's | 'unsold inventory' list?. If so, raise the alarm. The tags are not fungible; | they

Bennetton Blacknet Credit Cards?

2003-03-14 Thread Tyler Durden
Peter Trei wrote... The tag cost is already down to under a dime. When it's under a nickle, these things will be in everything. Think about them in books. Yikes. Makes me wish I had some kind of untraceable credit card. What the heck does that 'RA Hettinga' character do, anyway? Can we get a

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-14 Thread Tyler Durden
James Donald wrote... On 11 Mar 2003 at 9:35, Tyler Durden wrote: Does it mean that such observations are invalid just because Marx predicted them? Actually, I didn't write that, though I quoted it. Marx was both untruthful, and spectacularly in error. Marx was primarily an economist, and a