Re: Judy Miller needing killing

2005-10-20 Thread Riad S. Wahby
parts of our present legal system). Nevertheless, calling for the creation of a (licensed?) journalist class is stupidity so pure it's almost immoral. Repeat after me: we are all journalists. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Running a cypherpunks list node?

2005-10-16 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Meyer Wolfsheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If one were inclined to host a cypherpunks list node, where would one obtain the necessary information? I was just considering that I ought to post a cpunks node howto. I'll get to it some time this weekend, hopefully. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL

Re: cypherpunks@minder.net closing on 11/1

2005-10-14 Thread Riad S. Wahby
! Thanks, Brian, for having run an excellent node for quite a long while. I'm suggesting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an alternative node to subscribe to. To subscribe, talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using the standard lingo. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

2005-09-22 Thread Riad S. Wahby
unusable for those who cared to do so. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Internet phone wiretapping (Psst! The FBI is Having

2005-09-09 Thread Riad S. Wahby
may give that one a try too. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Your epapers, please?

2005-04-04 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Thomas Shaddack shaddack@ns.arachne.cz wrote: Putting the tag into an enclosure made of a feromagnetic material helps, though. Altoids can proved to be a pretty effective shielding. Clearly we need mu-metal Altoids tins. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

2005-03-29 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A vegetable Pope would basicly lock up the mechanisms of the Church. Oh, come on... haven't you guys seen the Godfather III? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SHA1 broken?

2005-03-09 Thread Riad S. Wahby
in the smallest process you can afford so that even the lion's share of the layout can be done in a completely automated fashion, and you're basically all set. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MIME stripping

2005-02-22 Thread Riad S. Wahby
to get through don't (invoking Tim here) MIME-encrust it, just send it through as plain text. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

2005-01-09 Thread Riad S. Wahby
%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22MultiCameraFrame%3FMode%3D%22 Perhaps there are others as well; this is what 10 seconds of googling revealed. (There's something strangely meta about using google to discover a google search string.) -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: California Bans a Large-Caliber Gun, and the Battle Is On

2005-01-06 Thread Riad S. Wahby
of dissonance was long ago demonstrated (and surpassed). -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

2004-12-11 Thread Riad S. Wahby
S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: loosing mail..

2004-12-08 Thread Riad S. Wahby
that if you're on minder. Is there (still) an online archive somewhere being saved of the cypherpunks messages? I don't think so. I thought about it at one point, and maybe I'll think about it again in the future, but it ain't gonna happen right this second... -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cell Phone Jammer?

2004-11-13 Thread Riad S. Wahby
work, assuming that you've got the tube to drive those frequencies and an appropriately-constructed coil. Mine runs at ~25 MHz and broadcasts like a bitch (prolly 100+ Watts). Discrete? What does that mean? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Attention Alif: RDNS is a bitch...

2004-10-28 Thread Riad S. Wahby
of my /29 to me. How's _that_ for unexpected? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

camophone

2004-10-28 Thread Riad S. Wahby
. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses

2004-10-12 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Dave Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Few liquor stores (for example) accept anything else. ..except (ta-d) the passport, which is universally accepted by liquor stores AFAICT. Imagine that. An _actual_ document of identification being used for approximately the correct purpose. -- Riad S

Re: Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses

2004-10-12 Thread Riad S. Wahby
confirm that this is true other than at Sav-Mor Liquors? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA

2004-10-09 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tinfoil Wallets, anybody? :-) My wallet is a metal cigarette case. It's quite effective at blocking RFID, proxcards, c. Plus, it's chic enough that almost no one considers the paranoia aspect. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A nice little dose of pop conspiracy theory...

2004-09-13 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://pixla.px.cz/pentagon.swf Perhaps some of those arguments can be put to bed: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2004/110804factsstraight.htm ..not that I find either one completely convincing... -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the minder node...

2004-08-27 Thread Riad S. Wahby
help). Can someone send me the instructions? It's a standard majordomo thing; send a message with subscribe cypheprunks in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.al-qaeda.net/cpunk/ -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-23 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone can take that much as a mail attachment, or has an acessible ftp site, I'd be happy to send it. I'd prefer someone who can post it for others. You can send it to me as an attachment and I'll put it up

Re: Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-21 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone can take that much as a mail attachment, or has an acessible ftp site, I'd be happy to send it. I'd prefer someone who can post it for others. You can send it to me as an attachment and I'll put it up somewhere with a nice fat pipe. -- Riad S

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

2004-07-24 Thread Riad S. Wahby
the autodialer kicks in; if you do it right the dial tone goes away fast enough that the autodialer never activates. I never tried simply using my own tone dialer, but it's likely that would also work unless they're smart enough to mute the mic. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1984 Comes To Boston (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

2004-07-19 Thread Riad S. Wahby
are supposedly on the central artery; your car can certainly spare 100W or so for some IR blasters... -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Terror in the Skies, Again?

2004-07-16 Thread Riad S. Wahby
has caused me to question whether the United States of America can realistically uphold the civil liberties of every individual, even non-citizens, and protect its citizens from terrorist threats. .. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Final stage

2004-07-07 Thread Riad S. Wahby
J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laying it on just a little thick, no? Either it's a slow day in law enforcement or someone forgot to take their meds again. :-P -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi

2004-06-28 Thread Riad S. Wahby
screen, and isn't too big. It's old enough that it should be cheap, too. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi

2004-06-28 Thread Riad S. Wahby
then be traceable to you. Of course, you can do a bit better by using the external antenna jack and feeding the signal straight into the phone. Make sure in this case that you're using low enough power that you don't blow up the front end. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi

2004-06-27 Thread Riad S. Wahby
. My guess is that with an appropriate connector you could use, e.g., a pringles can to make your antenna much more directional. Triangluating on a non-isotropic antenna should be quite a bit harder... -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi

2004-06-27 Thread Riad S. Wahby
such help don't. If you're ignorant you're not paranoid. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi

2004-06-27 Thread Riad S. Wahby
real GPS, since Qualcomm offers chipsets with GPS support, which they wouldn't do unless their only customers (Sprint phone manufacturers) wanted it. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AOL and Ellison Kiss and Make Up

2004-06-18 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Eric Cordian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps we can all donate to a fund to buy Harlan a clue. Or a fund for a certain prediction ? -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

al-qaeda.net node downtime

2004-05-18 Thread Riad S. Wahby
I'm moving from Massachusetts to Texas, and unfortunately that means that my machine's connectivity will be in a state of flux for a while. Unless someone has a machine with a (fast, static) connection on which they want to let me host the node temporarily, al-qaeda.net will be down for some

Re: Infrared flash?

2004-04-27 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the best approach? The energies here are more in the range of rotation/vibration changes than electrons jumping up and down between the energy states. How to convert a blast of electrical energy into a shower of near-IR photons? If all

looping

2004-04-27 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Looping should be fixed now. Sorry y'all; I suck. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng

recent node activity

2004-04-27 Thread Riad S. Wahby
The al-Qaeda.net node was down for about 30 hours or thereabouts. It ought to be back up now. Messages received during that period have been resent. Sorry for the unannounced outage. Things should be better now. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2 M.Eng

Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-13 Thread Riad S. Wahby
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California state senator on Monday said she was drafting legislation to block Google Inc.'s free e-mail service Gmail because it would place advertising in personal messages after searching them for key words.

Re: current status of cypherpunks, tim may, etc. ??

2004-04-11 Thread Riad S. Wahby
J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunate? I don't know. Tim's gone a little whacko over the last few years, and it doesn't look like his meds are doing crap for him: [snip] It's true, Tim does seem to harbor an awful lot of anger towards certain groups, but while I don't agree

Re: current status of cypherpunks, tim may, etc. ??

2004-04-11 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Joe Schmoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. any comments on this level of spam and bounces, etc., I saw from minder - does al-qeada use a more LNE-like processor ? Well, as the list maintainer I see a lot of bounces c, but (unless something is seriously wrong with my setup) no one else does. 2.

Re: The Gilmore Dimissal

2004-03-30 Thread Riad S. Wahby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No one gets those. But its possible that over-zealous cops could seize your $5000 Lightspeed because it doesn't have a $2 city sticker... for every city you ride through. I managed to get a ticket for riding my bike on the wrong side of the road. When the cop told me

Re: If You Want to Protect A Security Secret, Make Sure It's Public

2004-03-16 Thread Riad S. Wahby
John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite the long-lived argument that public review of crypto assures its reliability, no national infosec agency -- in any country worldwide -- follows that practice for the most secure systems. NSA's support for AES notwithstanding, the agency does not

Re: Virus with encrypted zip file - Important notify about your e-mail account.

2004-03-03 Thread Riad S. Wahby
sunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It attaches a zip file with a password containing an executable. (No worries, I've not run it, and only extracted it on a SPARC machine, so it can't use buffer overflows designed for intel in unzip -- if any exist.) I believe it's called Bagle.J. Lots of

Windows source leaked?

2004-02-12 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Among others, /. is reporting that Win2k and WinNT source code may have leaked. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/12/2114228 Does anyone here have any good evidence as concerns the truth or falsity of this claim? Lots has been said about OSS developers not wanting to look at this for

new CDR node?

2004-01-12 Thread Riad S. Wahby
I'm thinking of setting up a new CDR node much like LNE's. Current CDR operators, would you email me off-list so we can discuss adding me to the backbone and arrange to transfer user lists so that I can limit posting to subscribers (and of course known anonymous entry points). Sorry for not

Re: Canada issues levy on non-removable memory (for MP3 players)

2004-01-11 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would something like this go over in the US? I wonder ... We allow congress to tell us that we can't have VCRs that don't respect Macrovision. I'm sure the sheeple would have no problem paying reparations for imaginary theft of imaginary property. -- Riad Wahby

Re: Skeptical about claim that stamp creation burns out modern CPUs

2004-01-04 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I grant you that I haven't tested CPUs in this way in many years. But I am skeptical that recent CPUs are substantially different than past CPUs. I would like to see some actual reports of burned literally CPUs. I've never seen a burned literally CPU,

Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, as I said in my last post, before you try to understand algorithmic information theory, you need to learn the basics of probability. Without understanding things like combinations and permutations, binomial and Poisson distributions, the law of large

Re: Superpowers distribute 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles, cook their own gooses

2003-08-14 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Steve Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Backblast. A suicide shooter could do it, but it would be non-trivial to pop out, shoot, survive it, and keep your van's paint good enough to avoid notice. This is why soft launch systems were created. http://web.jfet.org/video/JavelLiveFireVsT72.avi

Re: Tunneling through a hostile proxy?

2002-07-23 Thread Riad S. Wahby
David Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if it is what you are asking - but a HTTP proxy doesn't handle the SSL; it simply forwards the packets to the destination site, and forwards the reply back to you; the SSL encryption is handled by your machine and the server (the proxy doesn't

Re: Degrees of Freedom vs. Hollywood Control Freaks

2002-06-07 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, in the linear part of their operation. But its the *distortion* (large signal behavior) which differs ---tubes distort differently when overdriven. I believe the difference when driven with a square wave is that tubes have a more RC-like

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-24 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aren't there dedicated avalanche diodes available with low breakdown voltages, precisely for this reason? I think they're used in applications where zeners could be, except for higher breakdown current. Sure. I was thinking of an IC design, in which