Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:19:46AM +, Justin wrote: If I film off a HDTV screen with a HDTV camera (or just do single-frame with a good professional camera) will the flag be preserved? I don't think so, I think the flag is in the bitstream and doesn't affect visual output at all. You

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-07 Thread Dave Emery
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 11:23:14AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: The point is that HDTV is a popular consumer technology, and the MPAA and TV networks alone managed to hijack it. I have yet to see a single HDTV movie/broadcast, and I understand most TV sets can't display anything beyond

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 08:21:47PM +, Justin wrote: They managed with the HTDV broadcast flag mandate. If I film off a HDTV screen with a HDTV camera (or just do single-frame with a good professional camera) will the flag be preserved? Watermarks will, but that's the next mass genocide by

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-07 Thread Justin
On 2005-02-03T22:25:28+0100, Anonymous wrote: The only people endangered by this capability are those who want to be able to lie. They want to agree to contracts and user agreements that, for example, require them to observe DRM restrictions and copyright laws, but then they want the power to

RE: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-07 Thread Steve Thompson
Anonymous wrote: I challenge anyone here to answer the question of what it means to be a cypherpunk. What are your goals? What is your philosophy? Do you In this day and age, do you realy expect anyone to answer questions like that openly and honestly? Really. There's a similar and simple

Sex offender list used to find dates, police say

2005-02-07 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/04/BAGV2B5O6P1.DTLtype=printable www.sfgate.com Return to regular view SANTA CLARA COUNTY Sex offender list used to find dates, police say Convict on Megan's Law roster charged with misdemeanor - Ryan Kim, Chronicle

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-07 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 19:07 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: The ability to convincingly tell the truth is a very handy one between people who are roughly equal. It is a potentially disastrous one if one party can do violence with impunity to the one with the ability to convincingly tell the

Re: Auto-HERF: Car Chase Tech That's Really Hot

2005-02-07 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:15 AM 2/4/2005, R.A. Hettinga wrote: The beautiful part of using the (microwave) energy is that it leaves the suspect in control of the car, he said. He can steer, he can brake, he just can't accelerate. Sorry Charlie, but I think newer vehicles are moving to fly-by-wire steering,

What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-07 Thread Anonymous
Justin writes: No, I want the right to fair use of material I buy. If someone sells DRM-only material, I won't buy it at anything approaching non-DRM prices. In some cases, I won't buy it at all. Well, that's fine, nobody's forcing you to buy anything. But try to think about this from a

RE: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-07 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, I agree with the general gist of this post though not it's specific application. OK...a Cypherpunk ultimately believes that technology and, in particular, crypto give us the defacto (though, as you point out, not dejure) right to certain levels of self-determination and that this 'right'

Re: Auto-HERF: Car Chase Tech That's Really Hot

2005-02-07 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:41 PM 2/4/05 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: At 10:15 AM 2/4/2005, R.A. Hettinga wrote: The beautiful part of using the (microwave) energy is that it leaves the suspect in control of the car, he said. He can steer, he can brake, he just can't accelerate. Sorry Charlie, but I think newer

Re: Jim Bell WMD Threat

2005-02-07 Thread Steve Thompson
--- John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FBI continues to claim Jim Bell is a WMD threat despite having no case against him except in the media, but that conforms to current FBI/DHS policy of fictionalizing homeland threats.

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-07 Thread Justin
On 2005-02-04T23:28:56+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 08:21:47PM +, Justin wrote: They managed with the HTDV broadcast flag mandate. If I film off a HDTV screen with a HDTV camera (or just do single-frame with a good professional camera) will the flag be preserved?

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-07 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 19:18 -0800, D. Popkin wrote: The true danger of TCPA is not that free MP3s and movies will become unavailable, but the de facto loss of privacy as non-TCPA gear becomes unavailable or prohibitively expensive. Agreed, in part. I don't think it'll fly too well if any

ACLU (Road) Pizza

2005-02-07 Thread R.A. Hettinga
Wherein the ACLU pitches us with the flash-pizza from hell: http://www.adcritic.com/interactive/view.php?id=5927 I suppose I might actually give a damn about the above scenario if a *business* was able to obtain all that information from other *businesses* on an open market, from information

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-07 Thread Anonymous
As far as the question of malware exploiting TC, it's difficult to evaulate without knowing more details about how the technology ends up being used. First there was TCPA, which is now called TCG. Microsoft spun off their own version called Palladium, then NGSCB. But then Microsoft withdrew

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-07 Thread Anonymous
Eric Murray writes: The TCPA chip verifies the (signature on the) BIOS and the OS. So the software driver is the one that's trusted by the TCPA chip. I don't believe this is correct. The TPM does not verify any signatures. It is fundamentally a passive chip. Its only job is to store hashes of

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-07 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 3 Feb 2005 at 22:25, Anonymous wrote: Now, my personal perspective on this is that this is no real threat. It allows people who choose to use the capability to issue reasonably credible and convincing statements about their software configuration. Basically it allows people to tell

Interview with Ward Churchill

2005-02-07 Thread R.A. Hettinga
I want the state gone: transform the situation to U.S. out of North America. U.S. off the planet. Out of existence altogether. Cheers, RAH --- http://www.satyamag.com/apr04/churchill.html Satya April 04 Dismantling the Politics of Comfort The Satya Interview with Ward Churchill

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-07 Thread D. Popkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Cypherpunks generally distrust the collectivist wisdom ... Yes, but Big Brother governments are not the only way such wisdom gets imposed. Bill Gates came close to imposing it upon all of us, and if it hadn't been for Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, we

CodeCon Reminder

2005-02-07 Thread Len Sassaman
e'd like to remind those of you planning to attend this year's event that CodeCon is fast approaching. CodeCon is the premier event in 2005 for application developer community. It is a workshop for developers of real-world applications with working code and active development projects. Past

RSA Conference, and BA Cypherpunks

2005-02-07 Thread Trei, Peter
Once again, the RSA Conference is upon us, and many of the corrospondents on these lists will be in San Francisco. I'd like to see if anyone is interested in getting together. We've done this before. At past conferences, we've had various levels of participation, from 50 down to 3. Since the

Re: RSA Conference, and BA Cypherpunks

2005-02-07 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Trei, Peter wrote: Once again, the RSA Conference is upon us, and many of the corrospondents on these lists will be in San Francisco. I'd like to see if anyone is interested in getting together. We've done this before. Yeah, but can we eat food, drink beer, shoot drugs