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

2005-09-30 Thread sunder
Tyler Durden wrote: Actually, depending on your App, this would seem to be th very OPPOSITE of a moot point. -TD Indeed! I've been ignoring this list for a while, so sorry for the late posting. I remember sometime in late 99, I had one of the early blackberry pagers, the small ones that

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-28 Thread sunder
Steve Schear wrote: The term 'securisimilitude' (from verisimilitude) comes to mind. Steve True, but I think the goal was FUD and it worked. On Tuesday (I think) both the Metro and AMNY free rags reported that all of a sudden there was a rash of suspicious packages being reported. Ya

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-24 Thread sunder
Tyler Durden wrote: Saw a local security expert on the news, and he stated the obvious: Random searches and whatnot are going to do zero for someone determined, but might deter someone who was thinking about blowing up the A train. In other words, everyone here in NYC knows that we've given

Re: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]

2005-06-07 Thread sunder
DiSToAGe wrote: not a backdoor, we forget to much that every system is only 1 and 0 through electricity and physical circuits. If you can make them you can watch them (with time and monney i agree). Perhaps thinking that datas (certs, instructions) can be hidden behind a physical thing is only

Re: Terrorist-controlled cessna nearly attacks washington

2005-05-12 Thread sunder
Bill Stewart wrote: Sigh. Terrified Student Pilot isn't the same as Terrorist. Yeah, but they both start with the same four letters and sound alike, which seems to be the attention span of those who are afraid of the boogie man and consequentially imagine they see him under every rock, or

Re: Secure erasing Info (fwd from richard@SCL.UTAH.EDU)

2005-05-02 Thread sunder
Yeah, but these days, I'd go with the largest flash drive I could afford. USB2 or otherwise. I don't believe you can recover data from these once you actually overwrite the bits (anyone out there know any different?). They're either 1 or 0, there's no extra ferrite molecules to the left or

Theory of Secure Computation - Joe Killian, NEC Labs

2005-02-18 Thread sunder
http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.asp?rid=2233 A bit sparse on details, but a good overview of all sorts of secure protocols. Our friends Alice and Bob are of course present in various orgies of secure protocols. :)

Re: new egold phisher - this time it's a malware executable

2005-01-23 Thread sunder
uncle kicked the bucket and left me a fortune? :-D Wheee! sunder wrote: So, the e-gold phishers are at it again... received a very nice email this morning with an attachment. The Received-From header showed this beauty: from 195.56.214.184 ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [195.56.214.184] (may be forged

new egold phisher - this time it's a malware executable

2005-01-21 Thread sunder
So, the e-gold phishers are at it again... received a very nice email this morning with an attachment. The Received-From header showed this beauty: from 195.56.214.184 ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [195.56.214.184] (may be forged)) Indeed! Don't know if it's a trojan, spyware, virus, or worm, and I

Gait advances in emerging biometrics

2004-12-14 Thread Sunder
Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14/alt_biometrics/ Gait advances in emerging biometrics By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk) Published Tuesday 14th December 2004 15:07 GMT Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Retinal scans,

RE: Optical Tempest FAQ

2004-12-05 Thread Sunder
, the subject and the place. -TD From: Sunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Optical Tempest FAQ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:27:04 -0500 (est) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/optical-faq.html Along with tips and examples. Enjoy, and don't use a CRT in the dark. :-)

Optical Tempest FAQ

2004-12-02 Thread Sunder
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/optical-faq.html Along with tips and examples. Enjoy, and don't use a CRT in the dark. :-) --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never

Re: Broward machines count backward

2004-11-07 Thread Sunder
It sounds suspiciously like an int16 issue. 32K is close enough to 32767 after which a 16 bit integer goes negative when incremented. Which is odd because it should roll over, not count backwards. perhaps they did something like this: note the use of abs on reporting. int16

Re: bin Laden gets a Promotion

2004-10-30 Thread Sunder
As usual, South Park is a great source of wisdom. So, are you voting for the Giant Douche or the Turd Sandwich? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking

Re: bin Laden gets a Promotion

2004-10-30 Thread Sunder
is President. - On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 2:42 PM -0400 10/30/04, Sunder wrote: the Turd Sandwich? Turd Sandwich, of course. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: James A. Donald's insanity

2004-10-22 Thread Sunder
, 21 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 21 Oct 2004 at 13:41, Sunder wrote: No you imbecile, I'm telling no one anything, other than you to get a clue. Where did I tell people who are under attack to suck it up? When you tell us it is horrible to lock up in Gautenamo people

Re: Printers betray document secrets

2004-10-21 Thread Sunder
Simple way to test. Get two printers of the same make and model. Print identical documents on both printers, scan them, diff the scans. Some will be noise, repeat several times, see which noise repeats and you get closer and closer to the serial #'s.

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-21 Thread Sunder
\/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. - On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 20 Oct 2004 at 21:27, Sunder wrote: I repeat: And you

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-21 Thread Sunder
2004 at 10:26, Sunder wrote: IMHO, you are a misguided armchair general who sees yourself as equal to those scumbags that have risen in power to lead or enslave nations since you seem to constantly say they should have done X, and not Y When people are under attack, you cannot tell them

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-20 Thread Sunder
2004 at 13:05, Sunder wrote: Re: Gitmo And you were there and kept an eye on each and every guard, interrogator, and prisoner to make sure that the POW's weren't tortured? Lots of murderous terrorists have been released from Guatanamo, and in the nearly all cases the most serious

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-20 Thread Sunder
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: Here is my prescription for winning the war on terrorism We SHOULD rely on shock and awe, administered by men in white coats far from the scene. SNIP The US government should expose and condemn these objectionable practices, subvert

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-20 Thread Sunder
Re: Gitmo And you were there and kept an eye on each and every guard, interrogator, and prisoner to make sure that the POW's weren't tortured? Wow, you are good... or phrased another way, what brand of crack are you smokin' 'cause the rest of us thin it's some really good shit and would like

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-18 Thread Sunder
There is still of course the matter of the unexploded bombs in that building that were dug out, and that the ATF received a Don't come in to work page on their beepers, and the seize and classification of all surveilance video tapes from things like ATM's across the street.

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-18 Thread Sunder
I think you need to read this remake of the First they came for the commies poem. Short translation - whenever anyone's rights are being trampled upon, whether it affects you or not, you should protest. Goes along with one of the unsaid credos about cypherpunks: I absolutely disagree with

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

2004-10-12 Thread Sunder
Right, just because your Passport or driver's license expired, doesn't mean that you got any younger and therefore shouldn't drink. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They

cryptome.org down?

2004-10-12 Thread Sunder
DNS seems to resolve, but never get to the web server. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people,

Most Disturbing Yet - Senate Wants Database Dragnet

2004-10-07 Thread Sunder
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65242,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,65242,00.html Senate Wants Database Dragnet By Ryan Singel 02:00 AM Oct. 06, 2004 PT The Senate could pass a bill as early as Wednesday evening that would let government counter-terrorist

Federal program to monitor everyone on the road

2004-10-01 Thread Sunder
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/01/federal_program_to_m.html Federal program to monitor everyone on the road Interesting article about the Fed's plans to develop an all-knowing intelligent highway system. Most people have probably never heard of the agency, called the Intelligent

How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.

2004-09-28 Thread Sunder
Q: How do you cause an 800-plane pile-up at a major airport? A: Replace working Unix systems with Microsoft Windows 2000! Details: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2275 --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are

stegedetect - looks like we need better mice

2004-09-07 Thread Sunder
http://freshmeat.net/projects/stegdetect/?branch_id=52957release_id=172055 http://www.outguess.org/detection.php Steganography Detection with Stegdetect Stegdetect is an automated tool for detecting steganographic content in images. It is capable of detecting several different steganographic

Re: Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet

2004-09-07 Thread Sunder
Forgive my ignorance, but would other PK schemes that don't rely on prime numbers such as Elliptic Curve be affected? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking

RE: stegedetect Variola's Suitcase

2004-09-07 Thread Sunder
The answer to that question depends on some leg work which involves converting the source code to stegetect into hardware and seeing how fast that hardware runs, then multiplying by X where X is how many of the chips you can afford to build. I'd image that it's a lot faster to have some hw

Re: The cages on the Hudson, AKA Little Guantanamo (fwd)

2004-09-02 Thread Sunder
Um, don't know what you've been smoking but: a. there is no we, except individuals with the freedom to chose their own actions. b. cops have guns. c. some cops have armor and semi (or full?) automatics along with the non-lethal weaponry. d. non-cops don't and aren't allowed to carry the

Re: The cages on the Hudson, AKA Little Guantanamo (fwd)

2004-09-01 Thread Sunder
Wheee! NYC==Police State for the last week for those of you living under rocks... --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country

Re: Backdoor found in Diebold Voting Tabulators

2004-08-31 Thread Sunder
is President. - On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Eric Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:30:35AM -0400, Sunder wrote: Oops! Is that a cat exiting the bag? http

Wired: Attacking the 4th Estate

2004-08-25 Thread Sunder
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64680,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 or, the HTML crap free version: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,64680,00.html Attacking the Fourth Estate By Adam L. Penenberg | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 2 next 02:00 AM Aug. 25, 2004 PT John

RE: Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-25 Thread Sunder
All Hail Cthulhu! Why worship the lesser evil? Vote for Cthulhu! Why vote for the lesser evil? --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to

Reason on Gilmore VS Ashcroft

2004-08-25 Thread Sunder
http://www.reason.com/links/links082404.shtml --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and

Re: Digital camera fingerprinting...

2004-08-25 Thread Sunder
Yes, your holiness, but how much of that will survive jpeg compression, photshop (or GIMP) cleanups, and shrinking down to lower resolutions, and insertion of stego? Or what about those disposable digital cameras that are hackable? Perhaps there should be a cypherpunks pool to swap disposable

T. Kennedy == Terrorist says TSA

2004-08-20 Thread Sunder
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 secret no-fly list. SNIP That a

Excerpts from Rudy Rucker's new Book

2004-08-19 Thread Sunder
From Rudy Rucker's new book: The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul. (The interesting bits to which Tim fantasizes to.) As seen on: http://www.boingboing.net/text/guestbar.html SNIP Rant at Start of Chapter on Society I write this book during a dark time. America.s government is in the

Gilmore VS Ashcroft opens today

2004-08-16 Thread Sunder
http://www.papersplease.org/gilmore/ In this corner we have John Gilmore. He's a 49 year-old philanthropist who lives in San Francisco, California. Through a lot of hard work (and a little luck), John made his fortune as a programmer and entrepreneur in the software industry. Whereas most

Re: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field

2004-08-13 Thread Sunder
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Morlock Elloi wrote: The purpose would be that they do not figure out that you are using some security program, so they don't suspect that noise in the file or look for stego, right? The last time I checked the total number of PDA programs ever offered to public in

Re: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field

2004-08-13 Thread Sunder
Right, in which case GPG (or any other decent crypto system) is just fine, or you wouldn't be looking for stego'ing it inside of binaries in the first place. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are

Re: A Billion for Bin Laden

2004-08-12 Thread Sunder
Yeah, about as brilliant as a turd. Didn't they recently call Al-Qaeda's network a hydra? correct me if I don't recall my Ancient Greek myths, but when you cut off one head on the hydra, two more grow back, so are we to assume that future heads that grow back will carry such bounties? A

2+2=5 and mention of cryptome

2004-08-12 Thread Sunder
Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/11/al_q_geek_us_overthrow_plot/ Al-Qaeda computer geek nearly overthrew US By Thomas C Greene (thomas.greene at theregister.co.uk) Published Wednesday 11th August 2004 16:45 GMT Update A White House with a clear determination to draw paranoid

Re: maybe he would cash himself in? (Re: A Billion for Bin Laden)

2004-08-12 Thread Sunder
Nah, if Bush already had him in a hole somewhere to produce him just in time for the elections, he'd collect the billion for himself as his personal reward. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are

Don't smile for UK Big Brother's passport pix

2004-08-06 Thread Sunder
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/06/passport_scanners/print.html Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/06/passport_scanners/ Home Office prohibits happy biometric passports By Lucy Sherriff (lucy.sherriff at theregister.co.uk) Published Friday 6th August 2004 10:08 GMT The Home

Ridge: The Terrorists are comming! The Terrorists are coming! (wag the media)

2004-08-05 Thread Sunder
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/03/us_terror_alert_political_football/print.html US terror alert becomes political football By Thomas C Greene (thomas.greene at theregister.co.uk) Published Tuesday 3rd August 2004 15:15 GMT Update As we reported recently

Wired on Navy's new version of Onion Routing

2004-08-05 Thread Sunder
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,64464,00.html Onion Routing Averts Prying Eyes By Ann Harrison Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64464,00.html 02:00 AM Aug. 05, 2004 PT Computer programmers are modifying a communications system, originally developed by the U.S.

RE: On how the NSA can be generations ahead

2004-08-04 Thread Sunder
Some interesting URL's on how this can be technologically achieved. These are just from various news sources, nothing indicating one way or another that the boys in Ft. Meade are using any of this stuff - though DARPA is mentioned in the first link. :)

Welcome to 1984 - almost.

2004-08-04 Thread Sunder
This speaks volumes as to where intentions lie. http://scoop.agonist.org/story/2004/8/3/84635/46365 Justice Department attempting to remove public documents from libraries American Library Association July 30, 2004 CHICAGO -- The following statement has been issued by President-Elect

Re: Al-Q targeting NY corporations?

2004-08-03 Thread Sunder
. -- http://www.sunder.net On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 12:58 PM 8/1/04 -0400, Sunder wrote: You Al-Qaeda types hate us for having freedom, right? You're not taken in by that mularky, are you?

Re: Al-Q targeting NY corporations?

2004-08-01 Thread Sunder
FUD Mode=True I've a better idea for the terrorists who may be paying attention, why not just leave NYC alone and target something more useful to take out - like Microsoft, for example. IMHO, the planes that were targeted at the WTC would have been better directed at various Redmond, WA

[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

Osama says Vote for Bush!

2004-07-21 Thread Sunder
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001393 Not that (m)any of us really expected Al-Qaeda to want Kerry. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :I find it ironic that, on an amendment designed to protect /|\ \|/ :American democracy and our constitutional

Reputation Capital Article - 1st Monday: Manifesto for the Reputation Society

2004-07-19 Thread Sunder
Here's a paper/article/screed on reputation capital. A subject we discussed here a long while ago back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, etc... well, not quite that long ago. This doesn't seem to mention anything about anonymous users, however.

New trend: dropping trou at the TSA

2004-07-15 Thread Sunder
BoingBoing calls this The Freedom Flash http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/14/man_flashes_authorit.html http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20040714/ap_on_fe_st/airport_flasher_1 Man Exposes Self During Airport Screening Wed Jul 14, 9:07 AM ET Add Strange News - AP

Re: Mexico Atty. General gets microchipped (fwd)

2004-07-14 Thread Sunder
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote: Forwarded for amusement ...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out about them. Osama Bin Laden - - - There aught to be

Re: USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

2004-07-11 Thread Sunder
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Bill Stewart wrote: At 01:44 PM 7/9/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Is it possible to write a database access protocol, that would in some mathematically bulletproof way ensure that the fact a database record is accessed is made known to at least n people? A way that would

Re: [IP] Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight

2004-07-09 Thread Sunder
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: 1. I've seen adverts for linear sensors which image the bottoms of cars as they drive over. Sort of a scanner where the paper does the moving. Installed in the road. Come to think of it, yes, the road within the tollbooth gate was a bit

Re: Faster than Moore's law

2004-07-09 Thread Sunder
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Steve Schear wrote: Just want to remind y'all that drive capacity has increased *faster* than semiconductor throughput, which has an 18 month doubling time. But access time has not nearly kept pace. Which is why all manner of database architectures have been created

Re: Final stage

2004-07-08 Thread Sunder
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Howie Goodell wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:26:59 -0400 (edt), Sunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: Praise Allah! The spires of the West will soon

Re: [IP] Hi-tech rays to aid terror fight (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2004-07-08 Thread Sunder
I recently visited the Canadian side of Niagra falls. On the return entry to the US customs, etc. meant driving through penns that look like toll booths. But I noticed little sensors in pairs and large square sensors as well. The entry gate was fairly large - I'd say about 2' deep by 2'

Re: UBL is George Washington

2004-07-07 Thread Sunder
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Anonymous wrote: But asymm warfare has to accomplish its goal. It's not being very successful. The only people who are siding with al-qaeda are those whose brains are already mush -statist socialists, to be precise. If al qaeda bombed government buildings or targetted

Re: Final stage

2004-07-07 Thread Sunder
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: Praise Allah! The spires of the West will soon come crashing down! SCREED Deleted Laying it on just a little thick, no? Here we go again. Get ready for more FUD from the

Re: Privacy laws and social engineering

2004-07-07 Thread Sunder
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Sometimes you get access by telnet. Sometimes by a voice call. Hack the mainframe. Hack the secretary. What's better? (Okay, I agree, you can't sleep with the mainframe.) I feel zen today. Me too: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#31

Re: [IP] more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2004-07-02 Thread Sunder
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: Call me cynical (no... go ahead), but if VOIP is found to have no 4th Amendment protection, Congress would first have to agree that this *is* a problem before thay could fix it. Given the recent track record of legislators vs. privacy, I'm not

Re: [IP] more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2004-07-02 Thread Sunder
The Tempest argument is a stretch, only because you're not actually recovering the information from the phosphor itself. But the Pandora argument is well taken. Actually there is optical tempest now that works by watching the flicker of a CRT. Point is actually even more moot since most

Re: For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi

2004-06-28 Thread Sunder
One phone I'd like to recommend against is the SideKick. I've no idea if it's got a GPS receiver or not - likely it doesn't need one since it's GPRS and can use tower timing as discussed before. I'm recommending against it, because while I love the phone and its features, it's too big

Re: Antipiracy bill targets technology

2004-06-21 Thread Sunder
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://news.com.com/2102-1028_3-5238140.html?tag=st.util.print CNET News Antipiracy bill targets technology A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate would, if passed, dramatically reshape copyright law by prohibiting file-trading networks and

Re: [osint] Assassination Plans Found On Internet

2004-06-14 Thread Sunder
Or it could just be agitprop meant to raise the theat level back up a notch, or provide more funding to the surveillance kitty. On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 10:45 PM +0200 6/14/04, Thomas Shaddack wrote: It may be also a very cheap method of attack. True enough.

Shoulder surfing for passwords by ear

2004-05-13 Thread Sunder
Hmmm, sounds like we now need keystroke sound jammers. Shouldn't be too hard to implement if you have a good random noise generator, but it could get annoying if you play white/pink noise while a password prompt pops up. Of course, there's still the issue of the pinhole camera in the ceiling

Re: Id Cards 'Will Protect Youngsters from Paedophiles'

2004-04-28 Thread sunder
Rgggh! And posting your full name, address, phone number, date of birth, social security number, the account and expiration dates of all your credit cards + the 3 digit extra code on their backs, ATM card account # and the PIN, plus, several samples of your signature (optional) in JPEG

Re: Airport security failures justify CAPPS-II snoop system

2004-04-28 Thread sunder
Meh, same old song: NSA/CIA/FBI failed to prevent the WTC missile attacks, despite the billions of dollars they receive per annum, so guess what, they get rewarded with guess what kiddies, even more tax payer dollars! Condoleeza Rice lies about a specific PDB, calling it historical and doesn't

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

2004-04-26 Thread sunder
Jack Lloyd wrote: Still, I liked this quote: 'I came to vote because wasting one's ballot in a democracy is a sin, he told the BBC.' Not too common a view in the US these days, it seems like. What do you expect when the previous choice we've had was between Al I Invented the Innnernet Gore, and

Re: BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

2004-04-26 Thread sunder
Damian Gerow wrote: Actually, Mr. Gore didn't once claim to invent the Internet. Through various mis-wordings and lax fact-checkings, the Mass Media came to represent what he said through that phrase. What he /actually/ claimed (and what he /actually/ did) was recognize its importance, and then

Re: Fact checking

2004-04-26 Thread sunder
Damian Gerow wrote: Hey, I'm no fan of Tipper either. And I'm not saying that Al Gore was a /good/ choice. But in retrospect, he probably would have been a lesser evil than the current president. THAT, ultimately is the meta-point. You shouldn't have to vote for the lesser evil, but when your

Re: What Should Freedom Lovers Do?

2004-04-26 Thread sunder
An Metet wrote: In my devotion to freedom, I apparently go beyond the point where most cypherpunks are comfortable, in that I support private initiatives and technologies of all sorts and oppose government regulation of them. I am a supporter and admirer of Microsoft, which has achieved tremendous

Re: Fact checking

2004-04-26 Thread sunder
Damian Gerow wrote: I don't give a flying fuck who you vote for, who the options are, what you think of them, or even if they're convicted drunk drivers hell-bent on converting the world to their belief system (...). You, sir, are in great need of an enema. *PLONK*

Re: Meshing costs (Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies)

2004-04-14 Thread sunder
Tyler Durden wrote: Someone enlighten me here...I don't see this as obvious. I might certainly be willing to pay to route someone else's message if I understand that to be the real cost of mesh connectivity. In other words, say I'm driving down the FDR receiving telemetry about the road

Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies

2004-04-11 Thread sunder
Jim Dixon wrote: The term is used because most or all trees in the region where the English language originated are shaped just like that: they have a single trunk which forks into branches which may themselves fork and so on. These branches do not connect back to one another. I believe the real

Re: BBC: File-sharing to bypass censorship

2004-04-11 Thread sunder
Justin wrote: This is one nation under God (the Christian God), or haven't you noticed? If the Christian Right thinks God doesn't like something, it's not Constitutionally protected. Even worse, I've once heard a coworker explain to me why Bush doesn't give a rats ass about the environment:

Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies - the internet is a tree.

2004-04-10 Thread sunder
Jim Dixon wrote: Yes. I know what a tree is, and I am quite familiar with structure of the Internet. These very pretty pictures certainly look like the Internet I am familiar with, but don't resemble trees. It is a tree. I'll give you a hint. Think of this: God is like an infinite sphere,

Re: VPN VoIP

2004-04-10 Thread sunder
Eugen Leitl wrote: I've been installing a Draytek Vigor 2900 router at work lately, and found a line of models which do VoIP (router with analog phone jacks on them). They also support VPN router-router, and come with DynDNS clients. I thought I've seen VoIP over VPN being mentioned, but I can't

Re: The Gilmore Dimissal

2004-03-30 Thread sunder
93: One of the nice things about ignorance is that it is curable. Unlike Neo-Conservatism. Or more accurately - Neo CONfidence artist. Would be nice to turn those into NEO convicts, but we may as well dream of a free country. Many, many, thanks go to Richard Clarke for exposing the truth we

Re: Saving Opportunistic Encryption

2004-03-17 Thread sunder
Eugen Leitl wrote: No, anything requiring publishing DNS records won't fly. OE is *opportunistic*. It doesn't care about what the true identity of the opposite party is. Any shmuck on dynamic IP should be able to use it instantly, with no observable performance degradation, using a simple patch.

Re: 'Special skills draft' on drawing board

2004-03-15 Thread sunder
So is this Uncle Sam's way of getting good workers for no pay? You could expect the same kinds of skills to bring in several hundred dollars per hour in the .mil consulting sphere... Huh... So working from January to April/May to pay one's tax burden isn't enough service to the republic

Re: I'd recognise that ear, anywhere

2004-03-11 Thread sunder
This is old news. No, really, I'm not channeling Mr. May and telling you to hit the archives... A few years ago, this was a topic here, and the outcome was that cypherpunks should wear their hair long so as to cover their ears. Kinda goes with the long hair - 10 gallon hat kinda look. :) I

Re: Fwd: Re: Don't Panic - Not All Jobs Are Headed Overseas

2004-03-03 Thread sunder
R. A. Hettinga wrote: Any keyboard job can be shipped overseas, including engineering (CAD), XRAY and MRI analysis/interpretation. If you really think about CEO, CFO, CIO jobs can ALL be exported to India , and there won't be anything to stop the boards of major companies from doing that.

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

2004-03-03 Thread sunder
Interesting virus - anyone know what this one is called and what it's payload does? Haven't seen this one before today... 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

Re: Microsoft Plans Biometric ID Cards

2004-02-25 Thread sunder
No doubt such a card will automatically be linked to a Microsoft Passport account, Microsoft Wallet, etc. to make sure that the violation of your privacy can continue unhindered. No doubt, the 2nd step will be to either add an RFID chip inside it plus a reader on the PC... Or setting the next

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread Sunder
That all depends on your definition of sovereign. After all, we put, or at least helped, that monster into power. No different an action than we the many times before putting tyrants into control of small, but important nations under the guise of protecting democracy. So, while he was our

RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-25 Thread Sunder
Um, last I checked, phone cameras have really shitty resolution, usually less than 320x200. Even so, you'd need MUCH higher resolution, say 3-5Mpixels to be able to read text on a printout in a picture. Add focus and aiming issues, and this just won't work unless you carry a good camera into the

Re: Partition Encryptor

2003-11-17 Thread Sunder
Which only works on win9x, and no freeware updates exist for Win2k/XP/NT. i.e. worthless... There is this, but it too isn't free: http://www.pcdynamics.com/SafeHouse/ --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin,

Re: Gestapo harasses John Young, appeals to patriotism, told to fuck off

2003-11-10 Thread Sunder
Not scared, hungry. They're looking for more collars they can throw in jail so they meet their quotas. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile

Re: If you DON'T use encryption, you help the terrorists win

2003-10-30 Thread Sunder
:08AM -0500, Sunder wrote: The biggest hurdle and the thing that will have the most effect is to have every MTA out there turn on Start TLS. It won't provide a big enhancement For the record: it's unreasonably difficult (for a pedestrian sysadmin such as me) to set up StartTLS. Debian unstable

Support the Bush-Orwell '04 campaign!

2003-10-24 Thread Sunder
http://www.cafeshops.com/grandoldparty/76732 --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ --*--:weapons.. Reasons for

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales

2003-10-13 Thread Sunder
Ok, so I finally bothered to read said article. I assumed that they had something interesting that made it look to the error correction code like a scratch, etc... They don't. No such weakness exists in error correction used on CD's. Their protection is no more than putting bad error

Re: [linux-elitists] LOCAL Mountain View, California, USA: events this week (fwd from schoen@loyalty.org)

2003-10-13 Thread Sunder
Tell Intel simply: We don't want no Scumware Inside We won't buy NGSCB crippleware. Want to sell motherboards? Don't include this shit. Keep it simple. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of

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