Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Oh no, I fully understood those arguments and conceeded that in certain scenarios such ethnic groups might experience disproportionate amounts of impact. However, when we start talking about actively putting them up the chimneys, then we've moved into making such ethnic groups targets.

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

2004-12-11 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving At 07:47 PM 12/9/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote: If the Klan doesn't have a right to wear pillowcases what makes you think mixmaster will survive? Well besides the

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: Those cops you taught...do you think they were stupid enough to assume that, because this was their first time hearing about Stego, that Al Qaeda was only starting to use it right then? Thats an interesting question on several different levels: (1)

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
J.A. Terranson wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: Those cops you taught...do you think they were stupid enough to assume that, because this was their first time hearing about Stego, that Al Qaeda was only starting to use it right then? Thats an interesting question on several

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread John Kelsey
From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 9, 2004 2:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages .. NSA folks, on the other hand, I would assume have a soft

tangled contexts

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Process and perception This capacity for making high order discriminations about relationships between objects in our world, can be taken as the proper function of our cognitive competency. The attribute of intentionality, to this way of thinking, is best understood as work product of a discrete

Re: tempest back doors

2004-12-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:46 PM 12/9/04 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: --- Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps I am stupid. I don't know how one would go about modifying application software to include a 'back door' that would presumably enhance its suceptibility to TEMPEST attacks. Isn't tempest

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-11 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Steve Thompson wrote: snip one of the funniest posts in recent cpunk history (STANDING OVATION) (SOUNDS OF MANY HANDS CLAPPING) Thank you Steve, for that short but entertaining look into the dark recesses of our collective consciousness :-) -- Yours, J.A. Terranson

Re: Insurrectionist covers

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: [take back the night] Yep, the state fights to preserve its life while the people suffer their own. The mistake of top down thinking lies in the inability to really model large populations with rules, too much of the

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: (curious thing about this spew, it keeps disappearing into the bit bucket, Yawn. Roboposting this babble doesn't really increase its chances of getting read. I work through JY because I know there's uranium in that ore. But I'm about 2 posts away from ensconcing

tangled contexts

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Process and perception This capacity for making high order discriminations about relationships between objects in our world, can be taken as the proper function of our cognitive competency. The attribute of intentionality, to this way of thinking, is best understood as work product of a

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
And don't forget...Spam is a good thing as long as it doesn't clog the Mixmaster bandwidth. -TD From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: punkly current events Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:19:26 -0600 (CST) On Fri, 10 Dec 2004,

Re: SEC Probes Firms That Gather Data on Who Owns What Shares

2004-12-11 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 6:43 PM -0800 12/9/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Just for the newbies, these are all bearer instruments, in RAHspeak. Now, *that* I wasn't paying attention to, having just seen the omigawd, more financial proctology aspects at the beginning of the article. Thank you. Cheers, RAH --

TSA groping

2004-12-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 04:50 PM 12/10/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: The change is minor and TSA officials say they have no plans to rescind pat-down procedures that require screeners to touch passengers' chest and groin areas while checking for weapons or explosives. Nevertheless, it represents an attempt by the

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-11 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Steve Thompson wrote: While we're speaking of pot, I should note that the grass available in this neck of the woods is substandard at best. What with all the illegal suburban grow-ops in Toronto, you'd think one would be able to buy half-decent weed from time to time.

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 10:56 AM -0500 12/10/04, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: But I'm about 2 posts away from ensconcing RWBE in my procmail file What's taking you so long? :-) Cheers, RAH cf: various imprecations against feeding trolls cet... Aww, come on guys i only eat little sheep and i

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:53:26AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Name a place which is not subject to US juridiction? Ok, Iran, N Kr, Most places outside US which are not banana republics. I'm living in one. until we pull a regime change (tm) on them. Yeah, they have a lot of 'net

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: If mixter won't survive, it's due to spammers, and malware spreaders. I disagree. Except for the early days, spammers have been little more than a low volume nuisance on Mix. What killed mix was it's complexity - Joe Blow can't figure out how to use

Re: tempest back doors

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps I am stupid. I don't know how one would go about modifying application software to include a 'back door' that would presumably enhance its suceptibility to TEMPEST attacks. Isn't tempest all about EM spectrum signal detection and

Sheep Herding

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
The secular bible: Our project First let me speak to my Christian brothers and sisters. I mean you no disrespect by using the term bible in an unholy attack on your faith. The project of this secular bible honors the sanctity of holy documents. A secular bible could only be true to itself is it

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: punkly current events If the Klan doesn't have a right to wear pillowcases what makes you think mixmaster will survive? Well besides the misinterprettaion of the ruling, which I will ignore, what makes you think

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: And don't forget...Spam is a good thing as long as it doesn't clog the Mixmaster bandwidth. No, it's not. There are other things that can produce the same cover effects: cron jobs or daemons that fire off random chaff work just as well, without the

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

2004-12-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:47 PM 12/10/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote: Wardriving is also basically dead. On the contrary. A recent article (zdnet IIRC) described a non-hacker visiting his father, and using a neighbor's connection accidentally. This is very common. My own non-tech father regularly finds other nets

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
If you also consider the fact that I have been variously poisoned in recent years with everything from sedatives to stimulants to hormones to psychoactive compounds to low-level hallucinogens, and as well have been subjected to uncounted appeals to my subconscious in the main through the use of

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:19 PM 12/10/04 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: I disagree. Except for the early days, spammers have been little more than a low volume nuisance on Mix. What killed mix was it's complexity - Joe Blow can't figure out how to use it, and new reops have a hell of a time getting a node running

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

2004-12-11 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Joseph Ashwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I regularly drive down through Los Angeles, when I have stopped for gas or food and checked I rarely see an unprotected network. This seems like a peculiarity of your location. Here in Austin almost all of downtown is covered by free wireless. -- Riad

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- John Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [May] Maybe, maybe not. The thing I always find interesting and annoying about Tim May's posts is that he's sometimes making really clearly thought out, intelligent points, and other times spewing out nonsense so crazy you can't believe it's coming

punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Someone should have commented here, so I will, that some judges (earning hanging) basically said that anonymity is not a right. This in the context of mask-wearing in public. If the Klan doesn't have a right to wear pillowcases what makes you think mixmaster will survive?

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Tyler Durden wrote: Well, when you put it that way, that changes everything. All is now clear. Please continue downloading the syntactic mappings of random neural firing...I'm using your output to seed a random number generator. Oh, and don't forget to cc Choate. -TD You could do worse, my

Obligatory Comprehension

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Say what you mean, mean what you say Speaking in metaphor is anti-social If I cant understand you, I cannot trust you. Encrypted, encoded, or implied Secrets are a threat to the homeland

Insurrectionist covers

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Steve Thompson wrote: --- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: [assholes] You tell them, Steve I believe I just did. Insanity is a great cover for an insurectionist! I suppose it could be, although I am give to belive that residents of the

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

2004-12-11 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Riad S. Wahby wrote: Joseph Ashwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I regularly drive down through Los Angeles, when I have stopped for gas or food and checked I rarely see an unprotected network. This seems like a peculiarity of your location. Here in Austin almost all of

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
In my family there's a famous story told of a particular musician who was busted on marijuana possession. His defense: But your honor...it was only lemonade. -TD From: Steve Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

Re: Insurrectionist covers

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-12-10T15:50:22-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: [snip] state's personality, the state has the right, nay, obligation to preserve its identity unchanged. (Isn't this pretty much polysci 101 material?) Not typically. The idea that the state has

Re: Timing Paranoia

2004-12-11 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 10:16 PM -0500 12/9/04, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: Imagine using observed timing to conclude that your agent provocateur operates from geostationary orbit. ..And here I thought VALIS was all in his head... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 06:33:09PM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Someone should have commented here, so I will, that some judges (earning hanging) basically said that anonymity is not a right. This in the context of mask-wearing in public. If the Klan doesn't have a right to wear

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:13 AM 12/10/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Because nodes are not geographically constrained to US jurisdiction? Name a place which is not subject to US juridiction? Ok, Iran, N Kr, until we pull a regime change (tm) on them. Yeah, they have a lot of 'net bandwidth, right. Some of the

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Trei, Peter wrote: J.A. Terranson wrote: (4) I have yet to meet a full dozen people who share my belief that while stego *may* be in use, if it is, that use is for one way messages of semaphore-class messages only. I really do not understand why this view is

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Maybe, but I think it would be very hard to write a general-purpose stego detector, without knowing the techniques used for encoding the message. And if you know the distribution of your cover channel as well as your attacker, or can generate lots of values from that distribution even if you

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: Perhaps LEA confuse themselves thinking al-q is inciting a cultural revolution? In all seriousness, there is some of that fear within the LE community. I'm sure it's about the same as when the weathermen were running around the pentagon's

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread Will Morton
Roy M. Silvernail wrote: R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: (curious thing about this spew, it keeps disappearing into the bit bucket, Yawn. Roboposting this babble doesn't really increase its chances of getting read. I work through JY because I know there's uranium in that ore. But I'm about 2

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Steve Thompson wrote: --- R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lions and Tigers and Steganography, Nell... For those of you without a program, here is the new, official, Horsemen of the Infocalypse Scorecard: At 3:14 PM -0400 10/3/04, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Horseman Color

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Sounds like a fuckin' party, if you ask me! Quit bogartin' that J... Oh, sure. It wasn't all bad. Just ask the chick who is known in certain circles as Nefertiti. (That's her code-name). We had an excellent time together; or at least we

Re: Timing Paranoia

2004-12-11 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
Steve Thompson wrote: --- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Imagine a paranoia involving mysterious e-mail delays and the length of time it takes to catagorize Imagine hordes of otherwise unemployable psychologists and cognitive psychologists deployed on mailing lists and

Re: Timing Paranoia

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Roy M. Silvernail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: [imagine] Imagine using observed timing to conclude that your agent provocateur operates from geostationary orbit. That would be a neat trick considering the variety of likely signal path lengths to be found in the

Cypherpunks archives online

2004-12-11 Thread Nomen Nescio
There were some talk about archives here recently. I found two here: http://www.mail-archive.com/index.php?hunt=cypherpunks And this does indeed seem to be an active archive of the list: http://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks%40minder.net/

Re: tangled contexts

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Process and perception [snip] We have lots of timing to tap. Response times, flicker fusion times, saccades, pulse, peristalsis, menstruation. The royal road to cognitive illumination is the path of chronus. If you go about tapping the

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 10:56 AM -0500 12/10/04, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: But I'm about 2 posts away from ensconcing RWBE in my procmail file What's taking you so long? :-) Cheers, RAH cf: various imprecations against feeding trolls cet... -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet

RE: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread Trei, Peter
Eugen Leitl You could claim your machine was infected with mixmaster malware, or something. Now that would be an interesting worm - one which, instead of installing a spamalator, installed a remailer and posted public keys and contact info to usenet. (Disclaimer: No, I don't do things like

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, when you put it that way, that changes everything. All is now clear. Please continue downloading the syntactic mappings of random neural firing...I'm using your output to seed a random number generator. Oh, and don't forget to cc Choate. -TD From: R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Insurrectionist covers

2004-12-11 Thread Justin
On 2004-12-10T15:50:22-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: --- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: --- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Colouring outside the lines] Yes, you have a point there.I guess a better cover would be as local

re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
(curious thing about this spew, it keeps disappearing into the bit bucket, I know its raw verbiage, but is it so incoherent it self-destructs? -bob) Process and perception This capacity for making high order discriminations about relationships between objects in our world, can be taken as the

Nul Context

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Communication is about context Sometimes the context is so obvious that the frame is nearly invisible, sometimes the context is so subtle that indications of obvious significance can only be detected after much study. Language and meaning involve sharing of contexts. This is obvious, what is

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Tyler Durden wrote: As to the crypto relevance: context Arranged signals can be anything at all. If you don't share the context of the communicators, you have no idea what they convey in their conversation about the whether. That's a stretch. Soon you'll say that Post-modernist literary theory

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:01:25AM -0500, Gabriel Rocha wrote: The latter statement my well be true, I don't use the network, nor know the ratios of good/bad traffic. But I am very curious to find out what I don't have data either. I'm guessing the bad traffic part is 95-98%. (I'm

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 6:33 PM -0800 12/9/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: If the Klan doesn't have a right to wear pillowcases what makes you think mixmaster will survive? Which was me point, mutters Killick, under his breath... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet

Re: Timing Paranoia

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Roy M. Silvernail wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: --- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Imagine a paranoia involving mysterious e-mail delays and the length of time it takes to catagorize Imagine hordes of otherwise unemployable psychologists and cognitive psychologists deployed

Re: Timing Paranoia

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the tools currently being used in the cognitive sciences is the measurement of reaction time to stimulus. What's this? The cognitive equivalent to wacking someone on the knee with a rubber hammer to measure the mentak kick reflex of

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
As to the crypto relevance: context Arranged signals can be anything at all. If you don't share the context of the communicators, you have no idea what they convey in their conversation about the whether. That's a stretch. Soon you'll say that Post-modernist literary theory is Cypherpunkish

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread Trei, Peter
J.A. Terranson wrote: (4) I have yet to meet a full dozen people who share my belief that while stego *may* be in use, if it is, that use is for one way messages of semaphore-class messages only. I really do not understand why this view is poopoo'd by all sides, so I must be pretty dense?

[p2p-hackers] Re: Memory and reputation calculation

2004-12-11 Thread Tim Benham
From: MULLER Guillaume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:33:39 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, Right, I would have cited Dellarocas' papers also because he is the only=20 one I know that worked on this subject. However, IMHO, his claim that size of history doesn't matter is

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: [assholes] You tell them, Steve I believe I just did. Insanity is a great cover for an insurectionist! I suppose it could be, although I am give to belive that residents of the White Room Hotel may only carry out

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Dec 10 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: | | Because nodes are not geographically constrained to US jurisdiction? | | If mixter won't survive, it's due to spammers, and malware spreaders. The latter statement my well be true, I don't use the network, nor know the ratios of good/bad

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Steve Thompson wrote: snip one of the funniest posts in recent cpunk history (STANDING OVATION) (SOUNDS OF MANY HANDS CLAPPING) Thank you Steve, for that short but entertaining look into the dark recesses of our

Re: tangled context probe

2004-12-11 Thread R.W. (Bob) Erickson
Roy M. Silvernail wrote: R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: (curious thing about this spew, it keeps disappearing into the bit bucket, Yawn. Roboposting this babble doesn't really increase its chances of getting read. I work through JY because I know there's uranium in that ore. But I'm about 2

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

2004-12-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:21 AM 12/9/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, May seemed to try to make the case that all of those useles eaters were in large part responsible for the very existence of the state, and that collapse of the state meant the inevitable downfall of huge numbers of minorities (why he focused on

Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

2004-12-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:47 PM 12/9/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote: If the Klan doesn't have a right to wear pillowcases what makes you think mixmaster will survive? Well besides the misinterprettaion of the ruling, which I will ignore, what makes you think MixMaster isn't already dead? OK, substitute

CodeCon CFP deadline nearing

2004-12-11 Thread Len Sassaman
CodeCon 4.0 February 11-13, 2005 San Francisco CA, USA www.codecon.org Call For Papers CodeCon is the premier showcase of cutting edge software development. It is an excellent opportunity for programmers to demonstrate their work and keep abreast of what's going on in their community. All

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-11 Thread John Kelsey
From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 9, 2004 1:19 PM To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages . As recently as two years ago, I had a