Re: X-Cypher, SIP VoIP, stupid propriatory crapola

2004-07-29 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Dave Howe wrote: Particularly disgusted by the last paragraph | With encryption comes the problem of either managing public/private | keys, which must be kept secret, or the annoyance of transmitting a | secure key to a remote party over other secure methods.

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

2004-07-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:44 PM 7/24/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: There might be blind cypherpunks, we don't discriminate[1], There Is No We. touche' [1] the original phone phreaks were blind, This is a ridiculous statement, and even worse, leaks information

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

2004-07-29 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Did you know that your teeth enamel contain isotope ratios that encode regions where you might have grown up around age 6? Yes. I am also aware that tooth enamel has the interesting property of trapping a fantastic number of parmaceuticals.

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

2004-07-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:52 PM 7/27/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Variola wrote... In the *public* lit. Well, perhaps but perhaps not. Burst-mode signaling, transceivers, and networking technology are a good example. If you see DISA, NSA, and DARPA all working with the acknoledged experts inthe academic field, and

Thanks Declan

2004-07-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
1. Thanks Declan for pruning my beliefs ---I had actually thought the younger, stupider, more surrounded by idiots Bush had puked that quote re Athiests not being 'Merikans. But Googling and your 0-ROI investment in Lexis-Nexus shows that stupidity is heriditary. But this is why you are an

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

2004-07-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Remember that the spookfabs don't have to contend with *economics and yield*. Damn, this is precisely where I wish Tim May was still around. Certainly, the Spooks have their own fabs, and I don't think they even hide this fact (I doubt they could, ultimately). And certainly, the Spooks crank out

[OT] Apple calls Real a hacker

2004-07-29 Thread Sunder
http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/29/technology/apple_real/ Interesting non-cypherpunkish stuff. So Real goes off and does some reverse engineering so it can use Apple's DRM to publish its own stuff for iPod's. Interestingly, Apple wants to sue using the DMCA, *BUT* where it gets interesting is