At 01:42 AM 10/30/2005, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:
One thing to think about with respect to the RFID passports...
Um, uh...surely once in a while the RFID tag is going to get corrupted
or something...right? I'd bet it ends up happening all the time. In
those cases they
When I saw the title of this thread,
I was assuming it would be about getting Mozambique
or Sealand or other passports of convenience or coolness-factor
like the Old-School Cypherpunks used to do :-)
On 10/30/05, Gregory Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only people that I knew that had two
At 05:37 PM 9/27/2005, lists wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:
Sorry...I don't understand...why would psuedonymity services be provided
within Tor?
I find the concept of having both pseudonymous and anonymous traffic
through TOR quite interesting. In some cases, you really do wish to just
TOR
Eran Tromer of Weizmann Institute gave a talk at MIT on
special-purpose factoring machines,
and Intrepid Reporter Bob Hettinga summarized to Perry's List.
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:12:30 -0400
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MIT talk:
Of course, had he suggested wiretapping Catholic churches
in Boston because there might be people raising funds
for terrorist groups like the IRA,
he'd have been run out of town on a rail.
Of course this month it's Protestants who are doing
the terrorism in Northern Ireland, and the IRA's gone
At 01:13 AM 9/8/2005, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:31:32AM +0100, Dave Howe wrote:
Don't really need one. the Skype concept of supernodes
- users that relay conversations for other users -
could be used just as simply, and is
What hinders Mallory from running most of
At 08:53 AM 9/3/2005, Damian Gerow wrote:
Though, you can just skip all that, walk in to Starbucks, sit down, and
start using your TOR node as your own entry point. No registration, no
wait, no nothing: just sit down and go. I just set a node up a few days
ago, and was surprised at how simple
At 10:39 AM 8/23/2005, Trei, Peter wrote:
Tyler Durden writes:
Yes, but the old question needs to be asked: How much of this
crime would go away if crystal meth were legal?
Actually, if we ever managed to kill the culture of prohibition,
I suspect that crystal meth would be about as popular
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/22/002.html
Monday, August 22, 2005. Issue 3235. Page 1.
Irksome Firm Nearly Ejected From Air Show
By Lyuba Pronina
Staff Writer
Ivan Sekretarev / AP
Spectators watching the Patrouille de France aerobatic team perform during
the MAKS air show at
At 11:47 AM 7/12/2005, Tyler Durden wrote:
How secure can I make a Java sandbox from the rest of the network I'm on?
Can I make it so that my network administrator can't see what I'm typing?
In other words, a secure environment that's sitting on an insecure machine.
There's the network and
My brother's summary, spoken by a Wile E. Coyote cartoon figure:
2 KY meth traffickers rigged up their car so if cops closed in a small
rocket with their stash would launch itself from the trunk
that never works meep meep
Fox News Story:
At 05:09 PM 7/5/2005, J.A. Terranson wrote:
OSince I am out of state, the letter's return address serves as my proof
of address, however, it also (according to several city corpses^H^H^H
droids) meand that I need:
* One (1) of the following forms of valid photo-ID:
* Driver license
You're mixing up assassinating a president with
treason performed for revenge and crude political gain.
At 11:56 AM 7/2/2005, J.A. Terranson wrote:
5000 Quatloos that nobody thinks this is (a) impeachment material, or (b)
prosecutable since it was done by Rove...
It's only impeachable if Bush
At 12:32 PM 6/30/2005, A.Melon wrote:
Well, James Dobson (right wing Christian evangelical) is targeting some of
these same judges, so I don't think the Democrat Republican division
you're pointing to here is all that valid. In other words, some of those
same judges are hated by the right.
It's an appalling decision, and as Alif says, it's nothing that hasn't
been happening for years already. Sad to see it formalized, though.
Bush's favorite judges are radical activists when it comes to
interference with most civil rights, especially for non-citizens
or people outside US
What the hell are all of you smoking? This court has *talked* about
restricting inappropriate use of the commerce clause, but when it comes to
*doing*, they're 100% behind 100% Federal expansion *through* the Commerce
clause.
Well, ya' gotta a point there. Actually, I WISH I were smoking
At 07:22 AM 5/31/2005, Tyler Durden wrote:
OK...what;s the best exchange service for transferring dollars (perhaps
via paypal or credit cards) into egold?
I haven't found anybody that'll take credit cards or paypal
without either major hurdles or extremely high fees -
there's too much risk of
currently a cypherpunks userID there,
but I think some of the strings following the ? in the URL
indicate that you don't need registration if you use this URL..]
Bill Stewart
Sigh. Terrified Student Pilot isn't the same as Terrorist.
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/05/msg00213.html
Back in the old days, Tim May would occasionally talk about the
Kolmogorov-Chaitin theories about randomness - Kolmogorov complexity gives
you a lot of deep explanations about this sort of problem. Alas, I never
actually *read* those
I'm still having trouble understanding your threat model.
If you're talking about somebody who can get Hotmail's cooperation, e.g.
cops or sysadmins,
there's no way you can prevent them from doing anything they want to your
incoming mail.
If you're worried about crackers guessing your password,
At 10:35 PM 3/26/2005, Eric Cordian wrote:
Justin writes:
She is a corpse with a heartbeat.
They want her dead, but don't have the guts to just kill her,
so they're going to dehydrate her to death instead
and pretend it's natural, because she can't feed herself.
It's a nasty way to go if you're
More news dispatches from Brinworld
http://www.chieftain.com/business/1109862027/1
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/01/196.asp
Bootfinder, made by G2 Systems in Alexandria VA,
is a combination of a handheld digital camera,
OCR software for locating and reading license plates,
and a database
The NYT updates us on a favorite cryptographers' hideout
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/travel/27high.html
February 27, 2005
HIGH LOW
High: Anguilla on $1000 a Day
By JULIET MACUR
N hour after arriving on Anguilla in early January, I was soaking in the
hot tub at an exclusive
At 09:43 AM 2/10/2005, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
I'm starting get the hang of this. I mean, fertilizer...crypto,
crypto...fertilizer: They're both *munitions*, right?
Right?
Well, sometimes they're both munitions,
but sometimes they're both bullshit.
I have no reason to assume they're not producing a
116, so if the paint is only sold
in whole gallons, and the white vans come around monthly to test,
it could pay off in 3-4 months if it worked, except that
it probably won't work.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a future.
I'm a bit skeptical about whether it's a _near_ future, though
It sounds especially possible for specific classes of pictures,
such as outdoor locations in major cities.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system
in your nearest garbage can or accidentally leaving it in a taxi
or mailing it to Medellin all seem like reasonable activities.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
houses,
where they expect that the targets usually only have
pistols handy near the bed and don't have time for rifles?
Seems like scare-mongering to me, not a practical concern.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
He's smearing his sticky fingerprints all over everything else,
and now he wants them in our passports?
Oughtta learn to keep his hands to himself.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
self-contained
and doesn't phone home to tell advertisers what I'm listening to.
But this one seems to be pretty chatty.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
early just in case,
which is the kind of thing most gun-grabbing liberals want to avoid.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300098464/qid=1105254301/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/102-1630364-0272149
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:36 PM 1/9/2005, Tyler Durden wrote:
OK...most of the time I understanding the relevance of the emanations from
RAH, but this one I don't get. What's the relevance? Choate nostalgia?
Micropayments, of course :-)
transaction, but that's too annoying for most customers.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the
technology and capabilities to protect the homeland.
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why the US paid them $43m for doing
such a great job in their holy war against opium farmers.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
, it'd be interesting if there were
an anonymizer package built for Apache. Widespread anonymous web browsing
would mean that simple web-based remailers would be easily usable.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and a great loss for the
journalism community.''
Services for Mr. Webb are pending.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
computer as evidence of potential crimes,
but we haven't actually charged you with a crime yet
and won't do so unless we can find the hidden stego evidence.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
by saying it's just more
of the same crap that some anonymous people always say about you,
and that there may even be a market for it.
(And Tim didn't even pay me to say that he's Detweiler's father...)
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thing and have to figure out if that's
because you got a verb tense wrong or because it's Nietzsche.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Steve Thompson wrote:
Does anyone here have a good idea of what the PROMIS code actuall does;
what its characteristics and capabilities are in terms of its function as
an aid to intellegence analysts, logistics technicians, or consultants?
At 07:16 PM 12/5/2004, J.A.
The Register has a really friendly article about Kerik,
Giuliani's buddy who's proposed for Homeland Security Czar.
(El Reg is primarily an online technology newswire,
but they do comment on other issues, especially if they
have technical aspects - they especially rag on the
UK's Home Secretary
At 10:02 PM 11/23/2004, James A. Donald wrote:
And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is?
Well, once you get past the invalid and dishonest parts of
Bush's 57 reasons We Need to Invade Iraq Right Now
(WMDs, Al-Qaeda, Tried to kill Bush's Daddy, etc.)
you're pretty much left with Saddam tried to
statement,
but didn't call for censorship.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
as the theme music for Bill Buckley's program Firing Line.
They may be putting on country-boy airs, but they're still elitists...
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
With Ashcroft going, America's a bit safer,
unless of course his successor is just as bad.
One of the candidates for Ashcroft's successor is
Bush's White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales,
who's been responsible for several memos suggesting that
POWs from Afghanistan aren't protected by the
establishment had
pretty much gotten together to take out Howard Dean,
who was building an actual political party inside the
hollowed-out shell of the current party.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not sure if the old Keyser Sose was limping or not,
but he came out last week to give George Bush's campaign a helpful
Booga booga booga to remind the sheeple that he's still there.
Bush's speech had bragged that Osama could run, but he can't hide,
and Kerry neglected the chance to remind the
At 10:54 PM 11/2/2004, Eric Cordian wrote:
So who won the US election? The turd sandwich, or the giant douche?
Cthulhu appears to be way ahead.
At 08:23 PM 10/30/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
And did you see the wire up his back and the earpiece?
Or maybe its hard to get good tailors in Pakistan.
Nah - he's allowed to use a Teleprompter,
unlike Bush and Kerry at the debate-o-mercials.
And unlike Bush, he can actually read.
Bill
and
how much was because they cared about ruling America.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to 15, according to
one or two articles on the web which may be outdated.
So you're saying they lose hundreds to thousands of
smoke detectors a month?
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
this round.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 07:41 PM 10/27/2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
At 9:33 PM -0500 10/27/04, J.A. Terranson wrote:
You graduated after all that beer???
Beer *and* philosophy. I must be a genius, or something.
a href=that Monty Python drunken philosophers song...
:-).
to the Iranians? Fat chance.
Syria's not real likely either, though less improbable,
and Lebanon's mostly under Syrian control but has enough
people there who are anti-Israel that it's possible.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 05:11 PM 10/27/2004, Dave Howe wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:
I'm sure there are several Cypherpunks who would be very quick to
describe Kerry as needs killing.
but presumably, lower down the list than shrub and his current advisors?
Oh, definitely much lower(even if he wins :-).
And if he loses,
, and cultures that are
tribally organized with colonialist-drawn boundaries
are also less likely to be picky about it, though they may
be more picky about whose tribal land you're in.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Doctor himself:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?rnd=1098436549411has-player=trueversion=6.0.12.1040
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
then, inkjet printers are dirt cheap;
when they're on sale, they're essentially a free enclosure
in a box of overpriced printer cartridges,
so even of the printer wants to rat out the user and
it's not easy to change the serial number PROM,
you can just replace the printer.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL
At 11:25 AM 10/19/2004, Dave Howe wrote:
TBH the UK *did* have a major terrorist threat for decades -
because we were dicking around in *their* country :)
Do you mean the terrorists who raised their funding in
bars in Boston and San Francisco? They haven't been
doing much active terror lately,
At 12:18 PM 10/18/2004, James A. Donald wrote:
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041018-124854-2279r.htm
: : Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to
: : renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners
: : of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have
: :
(and, perhaps even more, the quality of onboard coffee) than about
bombers on board.
Unfortunately, cutting the quality of the onboard coffee means that
you're more likely to look like a shoe-bomber by the time the
plane arrives.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and Libertarian Party candidate
Michael Badnarik were protesting their exclusion from the debate
And a whole lot more on the blog page...
Mark
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
, or if that carbon-fiber insulating cloth
that's useful for RF-shielded rooms would work well enough?
Also sounds like a good reason to carry a Rivest RFID blocker in your wallet.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 05:12 PM 9/30/2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
What's a quantum repeater in this context?
It's also known as a wiretap insertion point...
As for Hype Watch, I tend to agree, but I also believe that Gelfond
(who I spoke to last year) actually does have a 'viable' system.
Commerically viable is
Here's a nightclub you'll want to skip, unless you feel like hacking RFIDs...
(Nothing up my sleeve but this Rivest RFID Blocker!)
** Barcelona clubbers get chipped **
Some clubbers in Barcelona have opted to have a microchip implanted which
lets them pay for drinks.
out a demonstrated threat.
They're primarily intended to create a climate of fear and dependence
and reassure the American public that the government's in charge.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've used E-Gold in the past, and found that the hardest part
of the process is buying the stuff to put in your account -
setting up an account and paying people with it are both easy,
but to buy the gold, you need to find some way to give somebody
some other kind of money so they'll give you
Variaola allegedly wrote:
Saw general Abizaid on the news. He was so obviously
either experiencing pharmaceutically-induced nystagmus or
reading from a teleprompter it wasn't funny. Methinks
he's a robot, or taking too many go-pills. Lets hear
2K dead by the elections. We'll settle for
At 06:03 PM 9/25/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Gilmore, et al., are right, as always.
If you've been all-but cavity-searched -- okay, virtually
cavity-searched, given the state of modern X-Ray airport passenger
scanning technology -- and you don't have a weapon, exactly *how* is
knowing *who* you
attacks harder.
For applications like BGP, you don't care if the CA is
Dun Bradstreet or if it's just Alice's own CA,
because it's really functioning as a shared secret
but the commodity VPN hardware wants an X.509 cert
for MITM protection.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
using ACLs,
but IPSEC does have some appeal to it.
You don't even need CAs - pre-shared secrets are perfectly adequate,
but if you want to use a CA-based IPSEC implementation for convenience,
you can agree on what CA to use when you're agreeing on other parameters.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL
- BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE -
At 05:33 AM 9/13/2004, Ben Laurie wrote:
Bill Stewart wrote:
I find it more annoying that there are spammers putting PGP headers
in their messages, knowing that most people who use PGP assume PGP-signed
mail
is from somebody genuine and whitelist it.
Surely
The news says that North Korea's government says they were
blowing the top off a mountain as part of hydroelectric construction.
They don't quote any unnamed officials saying Whoops...
, you cultural imperialist!
Western domination of the Tinfoil Hat market has got to stop!
Traditional Chinese materials can be equally effective and
aesthetically superior.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and all, until ~1850,
when the Greeks were using it as an ammunition depot during
one of their wars with the Turks and the Turks blew it up.)
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 11:45 AM 9/12/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Time will tell, and it certainly could have been a nuke (they have
the SNMs), but if you do it, you talk about it, much like
the Indi/Pakis did. And you can't hide a surface burst, or
even a large belowground test --and an underground test
that
-BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-
So, since this is titled BrinCity, it surely means that the image
streams will be available from a web site and that we the people get
cameras in the emergency response center and the mayor's office?
-END TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-
No, this is
that information at the same time.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3634572.stm
John Young and John Gilmore aren't the only cypherpunks
in the news lately. J. Alif Terranson was in a BBC article
about getting the company to agree to drop the
hundred or so major spammers who've been using their network.
Some of them are
-signed mail
is from somebody genuine and whitelist it.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
might want
the Labour Party to win but you don't like Tony Blair so you vote NOTA
in his home district. In candidate-based elections,
you're telling the individual candidates that you don't like them.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
once.
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Sunder wrote:
except these cops don't (yet?) have tanks
Actually, in New York, they do. At least they *did* when I lived there,
all the way up to 1985. They had exactly one tank (used to mow down the
Middletown NJ has one also (about an hour from the city by car, YMMV by
At 07:46 PM 9/1/2004, you wrote:
This ain't the nice little suburb you do your contract programming in...
this is New York City. We only obey the law because we know there's a
thin line between order and chaos in this town.
Hey, those cops aren't here to create disorder,
they're here to
At 06:54 AM 8/20/2004, Sunder wrote:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/20/MNGQ28BM1O1.DTL
Washington -- Sen. Edward Ted Kennedy said Thursday that he was stopped
and questioned at airports on the East Coast five times in March because
his name appeared on the government's
At 11:50 PM 8/19/2004, Eric Cordian wrote:
Was that our John Young on the Daily Show, talking about being
visited by FBI agents, with the title Anarchist under his name?
Yup. Reruns of the Daily Show are usually on at 7pm the following day,
though check your local cable schedule.
essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
forgotten the derivation of VH coordinates...
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 11:55 AM 8/12/2004, Dave Howe wrote:
of course someone *really* cynical might think they already had him,
but needed to spring a billion towards shrub's reelection campaign
S that's not supposed to happen until October...
Adam Back wrote:
Maybe Bin Laden would turn himself in in
What's interesting about the wallpaper is the ability to
block some frequency bands while passing others.
There's been good shielding wallpaper available for ~15 years,
but that's for blocking everything including cellphones and pagers.
At 12:20 PM 8/9/2004, Sunder wrote:
Iowa's deploying cell-phone location-trackers for 911,
and for whatever other purposes the cellphones support.
http://www.wqad.com/global/story.asp?shttp://www.WQAD.com/Global/story.asp?s=2150225
Des Moines, IA
New technology will allow better response to 911 cell callers
08/09/04 10:35 AM
DES
At 08:35 AM 8/2/2004, Declan wrote:
http://news.com.com/2010-1028-5291476.html
John Kerry is not our friend on this issue.
If you've read Alexander Cockburn's article on Kerry's Vietnam record,
he's not good on peace issues either.
On the other hand, he's not Bush.
While he and Edwards both like
At 12:00 PM 8/1/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109136672993879685,00.html
Terror Threat Level Is Raised For Key U.S. Financial Buildings
Associated Press
August 1, 2004 2:46 p.m.
NEW YORK -- The federal government warned today of possible terrorist
attacks
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At 04:44 PM 7/24/2004, J.A. Terranson wrote:
[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].
You are thinking of Joe Whistler Joe Egressia (sp?), and the kid form
New York whose
At 03:52 AM 7/26/2004, ken wrote:
Assuming its true (*) the one security breach is the action of the cabin
crew member who tried to reassure this woman by going on about air
marshalls. That security breach should certainly get them sacked, and
probably interrogated by the men in cheap suits.
At 11:45 AM 7/17/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Pondering construction of a secure telephone. (Or at least a cellphone in
general. The user interfaces and features available on virtually all the
mass-market phones suck, to put it very very mildly, not even mentioning
If you're trying to build a
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