Got Osama?

2004-07-24 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:40 PM 7/23/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: My point is only that they will be killed should they leak their actual capabilities. Well... I am reading a book about intelligence now. Specifically, Ernst Volkman: Spies - the secret agents who

Re: LMAO

2004-07-24 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Working for a major Kiretsu, I learn that a certain keypress sequence during boot enables SSH. Security by obscurity, baby. Never heard of Mr. Kirchoff? chuckls Funny use of his laws, but apropos. smiles -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

2004-07-24 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Undersea taps are hard. No matter how you figure it. You think subs are just toys? Yes. Big ass toys for a bunch of boyz without brainz :-) And remember, Ivy Bells technology won't work here. That aside, I'm not arguing that it is

As Cash Fades, America Becomes A Plastic Nation

2004-07-24 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109053116869571496,00.html The Wall Street Journal July 23, 2004 PAGE ONE Paper Losses As Cash Fades, America Becomes A Plastic Nation Even State Troopers Accept Credit and Debit Cards; McDonald's Capitulation A Swiper for Church Donors By

Re: Why there is no anonymous e-cash

2004-07-24 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, James A. Donald wrote: As I predicted, transactions are increasingly going on line. And as Hettinga predicted, the more anonymous and irreversible the transaction service, the cheaper and more convenient its services. All happening as predicted. So why don't we

LMAO

2004-07-24 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Working for a major Kiretsu, I learn that a certain keypress sequence during boot enables SSH. Security by obscurity, baby. Never heard of Mr. Kirchoff? Undocumented backdoor feature, baby. LMAO, yours, MV

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

2004-07-24 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:47 PM 7/23/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: What I meant was, Ames and that FBI dude Hansen (sp?), at least the KGB got Ames' wife as part of the package, whereas the FBI CI dude let his wife off as part of the deal he cut. Nice xian that he was, he was into strippers. Aren't we *all*

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

2004-07-24 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Riad S. Wahby wrote: for free. You just have to start pulse dialing with the hook before the autodialer kicks in; The easier way is to wait for the retard to answer, then curse at them. They'll hang up, and in ~60 seconds you'll be back to a dial tone, and the dialer

Re: Texas oil refineries, a White Van, and Al Qaeda

2004-07-24 Thread Peter Gutmann
Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HOUSTON (Reuters) - Law enforcement officials said on Monday they are looking for a man seen taking pictures of two refineries in Texas City, Texas. At Usenix Security a few years back, we [a bunch of random security people, most of whom were foreign nationals]

Re: Texas oil refineries, a White Van, and Al Qaeda

2004-07-24 Thread Peter Gutmann
Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *: A year or two ago someone posted about the blow up of Texas City back in the early 1950s. 1947. Apparently, some kind of tanker hit something else and set of a chain reaction killing thousands and wiping out the town After several earlier events (the

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

2004-07-24 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: There might be blind cypherpunks, we don't discriminate[1], There Is No We. [1] the original phone phreaks were blind, This is a ridiculous statement, and even worse, leaks information about your nym: [young enough to have not been there].

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

2004-07-24 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back when the protocols were unprotected... much like the 'net today :-) Hell, as recently as three years ago the pay phones in Boston could still be red boxed. It may actually still be possible---I haven't tried in a while. Haven't done it here in