Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 06:16 PM, Steve Furlong wrote: On Sunday 31 August 2003 19:20, James A. Donald wrote: Talk is cheap. ... Indeed, the one may be connected to the other -- the absence of stoolies may well be connected to the presence of hot talk. Dunno. I'm not sure that mere talk

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 04:20 PM, James A. Donald wrote: -- Tim May is the perfect example why vigilante justice is generally considered to be a bad thing -- stupid assholes like Tim May spout off take action based on paranoia instead of facts principles of anarchy instead of

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread An Metet
Tim May: If cops ask local neighborhood members to report any suspicious activity, the folks know that any benefits they gain from acting as informants tend to be a lot smaller than the danger of being beat up or even killed by the Mafia. When the cost of acting as an informant is zero,

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sunday 31 August 2003 19:20, James A. Donald wrote: Talk is cheap. ... Indeed, the one may be connected to the other -- the absence of stoolies may well be connected to the presence of hot talk. Dunno. I'm not sure that mere talk of killing a librarian would dissuade the potential

[AntiSocial] Syracuse U tracks the Department of Homeland Security(fwd)

2003-09-02 Thread J.A. Terranson
Of interest to many here, I am sure. Tim: hide your eyes... -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Every living thing dies alone. Donnie Darko --- FORWARDED MESSAGE --- I don't know how many people have seen this already... Interesting new data

RE: DoS of spam blackhole lists

2003-09-02 Thread Andrew Thomas
John: .. a) admit that your stupid, self-appointed-netcop blacklists and self-righteous spam projects are inherently flawed, and .. Please spend your sophomore year working on something besides self-appointed-spam-netcop-site-of-the-week. .. ..., and don't require some asshole swooping in

Re: Terror Reading

2003-09-02 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Anonymous wrote: Some librarians are probably now thinking they have a patriotic duty to see what people are reading and to report any suspicious behavior. Part of the intent of the Patriot Act and the Library Awareness Program was to bamboozle the nation's librarians

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread J.A. Terranson
I wasn't even going to answer the absurd hypothetical, but since it's now in play... On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Sunder wrote: In that case, I would suspect the ISP itself would have incoming/outgoing feeds from other ISP's. Obviously, every ISP does. If that single moral objector ISP refuses to

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Morlock Elloi
What Tim is (correctly) observing here is that a working challenge to the force monopoly is a very effective way to modify behaviour. Where Tim is wrong, though, is that he may have anything resembling a working challenge. = end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this)

Re: CDR: Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Justin
An Metet (2003-09-01 05:54Z) wrote: Here's a clue. If and when crypto anarchy ever becomes a reality, Tim May is going to be one of the first ones killed. He's pissed off too many people. Once they can get retribution anonymously, his days are numbered. Are we talking about the tendency

Philips CRYPTO1 stream cipher

2003-09-02 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
Does anyone have any source code or algos for Philips CRYPTO1 stream cipher as used in their MIFARE products?

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Sunder
In that case, I would suspect the ISP itself would have incoming/outgoing feeds from other ISP's. If that single moral objector ISP refuses to allow carnivores, the other, not quite as moral ISP's might be persuaded to allow it, in which case the fedZ get what they want, just one traceroute hop

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:02 PM 8/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: He said: An ISP is free to say anyone requesting a tap is required to pay a fee, just as any ISP is free to say that it will handle installation of special Carnivore equipment for a certain fee. A customer of the ISP is certainly _not_ the one requesting

RE: DoS of spam blackhole lists

2003-09-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:03 AM 9/1/03 +0200, Andrew Thomas wrote: b) realize that the distributed method you suggest already exists - it is called procmail(*). Procmail serves no purpose by itself. It requires no small amount of effort on the part of the administrator to utilise for any type of systems

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:54 AM 9/1/03 -0400, An Metet wrote: Here's a clue. If and when crypto anarchy ever becomes a reality, Tim May is going to be one of the first ones killed. He's pissed off too many people. Once they can get retribution anonymously, his days are numbered. What, exactly, has Tim done that

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 08:06 PM 8/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: The Mob doesn't actually have to kill too many stoolies for it to be widely known that ratting can be a very dangerous business. Ask David Kelly. Or his associates. Reputation is a tool.

Re: Terror Reading

2003-09-02 Thread Tim May
On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 12:03 PM, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: The risk is not one terrorists have to fear. The biggest problem with the librarian narc program is the same as most of these anti-terrorism measures: completely innocent people are harassed, arrested, or placed under suspicion.

Re: DoS of spam blackhole lists

2003-09-02 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
On Monday 01 September 2003 05:03, Andrew Thomas wrote: The above is useful information. Specifically, the recognition of duplicate mail receipts is a concept that is new to me, though that would require that both email addresses would receive an equal amount of 'publicity' on newsgroups,

Re: CDR: [AntiSocial] Syracuse U tracks the Department of Homeland Security (fwd)

2003-09-02 Thread Justin
J.A. Terranson (2003-09-01 04:33Z) wrote: which, curiously, shows Boulder with zero full-time DHS employees but San Miguel (Telluride) with 7! That must be where all the terrorists ski. -- No man is clever enough to Times are bad. Children no longer know all the evil he does.

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Sunder
Indeed. Despite all of Tim's rage, we're still just rats in a cage, and despite Tim's urging of necklacing ISP owners, or other foam at the mouth arm-chair solutions, Occam's razor still supplies the better, and cleaner solutions: If your MTA has it, turn on the START TLS option. If it doesn't,

Re: domestic terrorism, fat lazy amerikans ducks

2003-09-02 Thread ken
I'm keeping this one. It's tendng to the condition of poetry. John Young wrote: [...] Commies, now there's a diversion fabricated in the propaganda mills by ideological word-toolers of capitalists and socialists, heeding the marketplace rule 1: concoct a worse evil to send the pack howling

Re: JAP back doored

2003-09-02 Thread ken
This piece of political PR was sent to a mailing list intended for internal reporting of computer problems at a university, so was obviously automatically grabbed. Maybe someone sold them a list of ac.uk addresses. Dr Sean Gabb wrote: 2nd September 2003 Dear Educator, We are writing to

Look who's spamming now. [was falsely Re: JAP back doored]

2003-09-02 Thread ken
Whoops - apologies for stupid posting here caused by /me/ being a prat with my mail program. Though the message body it isn't entirely off-topic here - the subject line is quite unrelated to it. Mea culpa. Ken ken wrote: This piece of political PR was sent to a mailing list intended for

Searching for uncopyable key made of sparkles in plastic

2003-09-02 Thread Peter Wayner
Several months ago, I read about someone who was making a key that was difficult if not impossible to copy. They mixed sparkly things into a plastic resin and let them set. A camera would take a picture of the object and pass the location of the sparkly parts through a hash function to produce

Re: Needed a WiFi FidoNet

2003-09-02 Thread Cubic Dog
Steve Schear wrote: It would seems that the means may soon be at hand for using WiFi, or WiFi-like, equipment to create ad hoc, meshed, non-commercial networks. The means are at hand, have been at hand for quite a few years in the form of packet radio, and now of course, as you say, wi-fi. Folks

Re: Searching for uncopyable key made of sparkles in plastic

2003-09-02 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Peter Wayner wrote: Can anyone give me a reference to this paper/project? Is it the MIT project with a laser and glass balls in epoxide resin? http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/20/1217221.shtml?tid=172 http://www.nature.com/nsu/020916/020916-15.html

Re: JAP back doored

2003-09-02 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-02.09.03-005/ German police have searched and seized the rooms (dorm?) of one of the JAP developers. They were on the look for data that was logged throughout the period when JAP had to log specific traffic. The JAP-people say that the seizure was not

Re: Searching for uncopyable key made of sparkles in plastic

2003-09-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Status: U Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:59:05 -0400 Subject: Re: Searching for uncopyable key made of sparkles in plastic Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ravi Pappu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter, That paper was the result of

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May is the perfect example why vigilante justice is generally considered to be a bad thing -- stupid assholes like Tim May spout off take action based on paranoia instead of facts principles of anarchy instead of justice and innocent parties get hurt. Well, on one hand taking justice into

Re: Terror Reading

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim wrote: Even the owner of my ISP is narcing me out. Read what he wrote recently to a Net.Nazi who wanted my speech limited: I'm sorry that Tim is being a bother again. He has a long history of being obnoxious and threatening. So far, he has not broken any laws. We have talked to the

Re: Terror Reading

2003-09-02 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:03:00PM -0700, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Anonymous wrote: Some librarians are probably now thinking they have a patriotic duty to see what people are reading and to report any suspicious behavior. First of all, the entire library community is