Do optical mirrors still work in the microwave regime? I have no idea.
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Low-elevation skymapping at 2.45 Ghz
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:09:26 -0700
Telescopes are sold for $200 which include
Justin wrote...
I haven't lived in China, but my impression of the country leads me to
believe otherwise. If it's not *quite* socialist, it's fascist.
As above, this doesn't seem right. Hong Kong might be a major capitalist
center of operations, but Hong Kong is not really China,
Remember too that terrorism is really a form of PR, rather than (in most
cases) an actual destruction of infrastructure or whatnot. Smart terrorists
will obviously leverage any channel available to cause a population to view
their world as unstable.
Also remember too that plans such as this
slowed this process down. We're making
a similar mistake in Iraq, and we New Yorkers will probably pay for it again
(if Tyler Durden stops posting after WTC#2 comes tumbling down, you'll know
what happened. I'll try to post one more time from under the rubble if I can
sniff a WiFi hotspot.)
-TD
It is beneath the station of those those with the power to define,
describe,
and profile the world to pick the pocket of some poor black man in Africa,
while encouraging him to pose for funny pictures that will be laughed at on
some comfortably well off white person's web site.
I gotta admit
Bill Stewart wrote...
and of course remember that their account doesn't *really* have $18M in it
:-)
No doubt it doesn't have $18M. But in order to get the ACH sent, the
originating bank should (theoretically) have to see some kind of $$$ in
there in order to agree to ACH anything over. If the
Hey..
Since an important theme in Cypherpunks is anonymous transactions, I'm
wondering if there isn't some way we can't reverse-swindle folks like this,
perhaps by getting them to wire into an egold account or something.
Supposedly, they perform an ACH into an account, get you to withdraw the
Is that what they do? I've been under the impression that they never
transfer you any money, that they just request incidental expenses which
gullible idiots view as an investment against their cut of the X million
promised.
Well, what I think they do is ostensibly ACH some funds over, which
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Palm Hack?
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:16:37 -0700
At 07:50 AM 6/3/2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
Anybody know of apps that allow someone to hack somebody else's Palm?
PalmOS doesn't have useful memory protection,
so if you can get somebody
Anybody know of apps that allow someone to hack somebody else's Palm?
Specifically, say you are beaming or receiving a beam from someone else's
Palm, but you'd like to know much more than what they had planned on beaming
you. So you actually beam them an app that takes their phonebook and
SO...
This begs the question: Can we start issuing Cypherpunks LEO IDs?
-TD
From: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: US airport fake ID study 'was found in al-Qaida cave'
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 08:30:51 -0400
Well, why can we use this to our advantage?
As usual, this thought emerges from Tyler Durden's punch-drunk brain, but
it's worth considering...
Imagine I'm working for a large Fortune 100 Company. Now imagine I hear
about a sasser-like worm that will install atself and spread, BUT it has
been
Boondoggle. A solution in search of a problem:
Monyk believes there will be a global market of several million users once
a workable solution has been developed. A political decision will have to
be taken as to who those users will be in order to prevent terrorists and
criminals from taking
Thomas Shaddack wrote...
There are quite many important activities that don't require storage of
the transported data.
For example, very very few people record their phone calls.
Storage wasn't my point per se. My point was that quantum cryptography only
becomes unsnoopable* when it's in the
Terrorists in Fallujah claim they'll
give $15 million each for the heads of
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Lt. Gen.
Ricardo Sanchez and Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmit.
Well, does the actual HEAD have to be delivered? That might reduce the
options considerably...
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret)
Well, I want a piece of this!
What I want is a sort of $$$-barrier that I can raise or lower as my mood
hits me. If a spammer (be it Citibank or Do U Want a Bigger Pe-ni$ is
willing to pre-pay above my barrier, then the spam hits my inbox (I make no
claim that I'll read it, however), and I
The volume of data they collect has reached the point where good
analysis is no longer tractable in a theoretical algorithmic sense with
the best tools they currently have at their disposal, particularly when
you have a data space as broad and diffuse as terrorism to sift.
This is also going to
Somebody who fixes a fax machine that is owned by a group that may
advocate terrorism could be liable,
So if I'm a WWII historian and have a deep resentment of the Nazi regime,
and I run a website with links to authentic Nazi historic documents, I guess
I'm a Nazi, right?
If we donate to this
How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about
their
candidates, and vote? Door-to-door campaigns? Talks at the local library?
Grocery store posters?
Well, we could just tell them their lives would be much better under Kodos,
rather than Kang.
-TD
From: Damian Gerow
How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about
their
candidates, and vote? Door-to-door campaigns? Talks at the local library?
Grocery store posters?
Well, imagine if we could buy votes...I'd bet we could scrounge up a few
hundred thousand votes for the price of a few
Hmmm... that's a thought. Tim May as president. Election slogan: You're
*all*
going up the chimneys.
Wasn't there something close a few years ago? I remember a write-in campaign
to get Unabomber Ted Kascinsky elected as President.
-TD
From: Jack Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sunder [EMAIL
I wonder how quickly one could incinerate a memory card in the field
with high success rate? Destroy the data and the passphrases don't
help.
Well, what if there were 3 passwords:
1) One for Fake data, for amatuers (very few of the MwG will actually be
smart enough to look beyond this...that's
As for finance itself, there's a reason that I say that financial
cryptography is the only cryptography that matters. Since the time of
Mesopotamian bullae and grain banks, cryptography has been essential to
finance. You can't do one without the other. The more cryptography you do,
the more
I don't know...I've been following some of the voting discussion, and to
some extent for the rank-and-file, doesn't this still boil down to trust
us? (In other words, it looks like a large number of people have to work
very carefully to make sure the voting system is secure, and then voters
I don't suppose there'll be any civilians in
AmeriKKKa either, and therefore, it will be impossible to label any
destructive act committed against the US, either at home or abroad, as
terrorist.
Ah shit I hate hearing this. Is it possible to retroactively re-cast a
terrorist attack (eg, World
Then what are
you doing here? This list is for discussing and implementing cypherpunk
concepts. If you deny them, you should go elsewhere to pursue your goals.
Tsk tsk...this sounds like Orthodoxy to me. Part of the benefit of an
anarchy is to support otherwise-suppressed forms of existence and
: On Killing Blaster
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:03:30 -0700
At 04:26 PM 4/11/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
When faced with force, you reply with force when you can.
Nah. This isn't even true in a fistfight, except when the guy you're
fighting is a) significantly smaller than you, and b) less trained
Sorry that I pissed on your orthodoxy by doubting that everything was
inevitable in its strongest form.
Aside from inevitability there's the road taken...it may have been
inevitable that the Nazi's would fall (aside from fighting a 2-front war),
but they took out a few folks on their way down.
Jim Dixon wrote...
A) Two links to the same ISP: In terms of redundancy for the purposes of
being fault tolerant, only one of the multiple links is ever used. With
You don't understand and you are quite wrong.
If one AS has more than one link to another AS, there are often very good
reasons
Tim regularly and thoroughly jumped up my ass about my various ideological
impurities
Well, this was fairly annoying and I think made it harder to dig out the
gold from Tim May's poop. And in a way, this was self-defeating from a
topple-the-state point of view.
My point was (and sometimes is)
Eric Cordian wrote...
Can I be the list's new Crusty Retired
Engineer now?
Why, did you retire recently?
-TD
From: Eric Cordian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: On Needing Killing
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:58:50 -0700 (PDT)
Justin writes:
With all due respect to the
.
Tell them, Uh, change that pork to ham, and put it between the two slices
of bread.
Oi La! Instant Ham sandwich!
-TD
From: An Metet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Gmail as Blacknet
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 02:08:39 -0400
Tyler Durden writes:
Ironically, some
RAH wrote...
At 10:43 AM -0700 4/9/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Meshnets (everyone's a router) is cool, admittedly. But are you going
to spend *your* battery life routing someone else's message?
Only if they pay me cash
Someone enlighten me here...I don't see this as obvious. I might certainly
tore off the wrapper).
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Gmail as Blacknet
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:48:02 -0700
At 09:58 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
Well, I never claimed to be Einstein, but your 3 simple steps sound
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Meshing costs, the price of RAH's battery
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:36:28 -0700
At 11:32 AM 4/10/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
So, get a clue. When your battery runs out, you
get *zero* benefit from the mesh. Or even your local
argument any.)
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Meshing costs, the price of RAH's battery
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:03:35 -0700
At 07:06 PM 4/9/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
RAH wrote...
At 10:43 AM -0700 4/9/04, Major Variola
to forcibly or legally shut him down, then one
probably needs killing.
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Gmail as Blacknet (legally required forgetting)
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 20:35:47 -0700
At 05:16 PM 4/9/04 -0400, Tyler Durden
Ironically, some of the features of Gmail bear resemblance to BlackNet.
In particular, its claimed policy of retaining email indefinitely,
even after the recipient has stopped using the account, is reminiscent
of BlackNet's function as a data haven, as well as other Cypherpunk
projects like the
The pre-microprocessor
automation of telephony (pulse and then touchtone dialing) put
expensive automation at the top of the hierarchy, and, as costs fell,
moved down from there.
Well, from the little I can understand of what you're saying, there seems to
be some stuff worthy of at least cursory
Is this that surprising? The CIA isn't doing too well if they cannot
figure out that there are good reasons to doubt anti-Iraq intelligence.
The stuff I've been reading would indicate almost the contrary. Apparently,
the Bush administration decided to more or less bypass the CIA's 'value
added'
Silly bitch. But then again, she may just be looking for a gig.
Can someone out there slip her name into the do-not-fly registries so we can
have a new privacy advocate?
Here's the part I love...
As with
any public or private power, TIA's capabilities could have been abused --
which is why the
Uh...this is getting tiring...as far as I'm concerned this part of the
discussion looks like semantics.
From a pure physics standpoint, there isn't a hell of a lot of diference
between a noncrystalline solid and a liquid. One's moving faster. The
gaseous state is of course where molecules have
supplies security guards to the Coalition Provisional
Authority and has provided protection for Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer,
among other coalition officials.
From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Jackbooted thugs, mercs and non-gov
Just for the heck of it, it would be interesting to look at demographic data
for the area
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: who needs Padilla when you have govt? Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004
09:34:54
So of course, society's interest in protecting police officers allows New
Orleans police to search your home or business at any time, for any
reason, or for no reason at all. As long as the cop mumbles something
about making sure he's safe.
Actually, this is particularly hilarious. The Cops in
Variola wrote...
What the fuck are you ingesting tonight? extreme tolerance to
opinions?? Its only because it would be self-parodying that
accusations of nazihood don't fly. Even with Tim gone, praise be unto
him.
Uh, it was Spaten Octoberfest, ON TAP.
Consider Tyler Durden justifiably bitch
OK, I keep getting this shit. Right now, I can't tell if it's anti-agit-prop
or simply a well-intentioned but idiotic muslim chick (something about the
wording made me assume this was a female).
Listen up. Cypherpunks is a cryptography list, and al-qaeda.net is a node.
The subscribers to this
Well, we actually discussed a similar configuration in the context of mass
demonstration. Such a configuration could prevent a Goonsquad shakedown of
data/photos/videos, particularly when the WiFi device is acting like a
router, and particularly when this router is one of many in a sea of
Ah Variola...do I detect a wee bit of Knee-jerk in your otherwise
consistently iconoclastic views? Let's take a looksee...
Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against
you.
You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one is
coercing you at gunpoint.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2004/tc20040315_6034_tc058.htm
What I don't see mentioned in this little article is that fact that WEP is
largely useless in terms of security. So in a way the Chinese were
attempting to jump into that hole.
Of course, Zhong Nan Hai will have a
More on Fed's seeking to expand CALEA to VoIP.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,62659,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_8
You know, it occurs to me I need a little 'Bot.
What this Bot does is periodically make encrypted calls or send out
meaningless encrypted messages on a regular basis. Then, it
A targeted registration and draft is is strictly in the planning stage,
said Flahavan, adding that the whole thing is driven by what appears to be
the more pressing and relevant need today -- the deficit in language and
computer experts.
Well, we could outsource 'em! I'd bet there's tons of
I can't stop outsourcing.Don't blame me.Blame your own
govt.
Holy Shit, Sarath...what's that got to do with Variola's little quip?
And are you trying to suggest (On Cypherpunks, of all places) that the US
government should somehow regulate outsourcing?
(Me, I work with outsourced experts all
3/10/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Holy Crap this seems bizarre. This isn't even really a case of know
your
customers, but know your customers' customers, isn't it?
Is this some kind of snipe hunt or mere Brazil-like government
incompetence and mindless application of half-baked laws?
Optimist
..slow exhale.. thanks for the hit, Bob, that's the good shit.. I miss
it.
Yeah...I admit it. I snuck down to the cellar and took a few tokes as well.
I don't dig all the calls for needs killing, but every now and then the
dude delivers.
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
How about a pseudo random conversation generator appliance for the person
trying to mask their speech. If it closely models the vocal tract, language
and language characteristics of the speaker it might be extremely difficult
to remove as background noise.
There are plenty of CDs of
Looks like the UN's going to need some encrypted VoIP...
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Gentlemen don't read each others' mail
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:39:22 -0800
Britain Accused of Spying on U.N.'s
that word of mouth
works just fine for disseminating mission-critical information.
-TD
From: Dave Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: More on VoIP
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:49:13 -
Tyler Durden wrote:
Encryption ain't the half of it. Really good liottle article. And I
Encryption ain't the half of it. Really good liottle article. And I didin't
know Skype was based in Luxemborg
http://slate.msn.com/id/2095777/
-TD
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Sarath wrote...
is it true or just another make up so as to make its
citizens feel justified when they go invade another
nation.How much effort does it take to get credible
information of 5 million people oveseas?
Overseas? I would have thought most of them would be in the US! (Probably 4
This came out on lightreading.com. Seems there's one tiny step backward for
CALEA w.r.t Internet telephony. I guess it's obvious the FBI will eventually
get it's way, but it's be interesting to see how it goes about it from here
out.
-TD
At its open meeting today, the FCC took a couple of
Without civil
society, importing the procedures, rituals and even institutions of
democracy results only in instituting one more set of spoils for families
and groups to fight over at the expense of the rest of society. Democratic
mechanisms no more create civil society than wet streets cause
Interesting OpEd piece in the NYT today pointing out that a manned Mars
expedition becomes *much* more affordable if no return trip is planned.
This is not a suicide mission; supplies could be sent for rest of the
emigrants natural lives,
Gotcha. The obvious next place for a greatly expanded
Thank goodness Mr Bush is finally thinking long term.
Not only will the Lunar Base focus all of our attention away from the wars
and other nastiness down here, it will get us to the moon before Al Qaeda
and bin Laden ever have a chance to start spreading their filthy ideas
there. If we control
I'm thinking about a WiFi repeater...
Imagine I work on a high floor in an office tower, but I know that very
nearby, on the ground floor, there's a public WiFi hotspot.
Now let's say I want to be able to access that hotspot, but I'm currently
out of range due to the height.
DOES THERE EXIST
(come to think of it, I
could probably just buy a few cheap Linksys WiFi routers and scatter them
around, but I was hoping for something even cheaper, smaller, and less
obtrusive.)
-TD
From: R/db [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WiFi
to take the kinds of risks implicit in what you're
talking about.
The meme which Tyler Durden and John Young--not surprising to me that both
are Manhattanites, representing the East Coast view of capitalism--are
popularizing is the one that says that what made companies successful was
*government
Tim May wrote...
Because the Jews and negroes have demanded that all students be taught
stuff they obviously will never use. Most inner city mutants should be
taught practical skills, not abstract stuff their previous education has
been bereft of.
Well, I don't know who's responsible, but
Well I be darned if Mr May hasn't inspired a major burst of eloquence,
between this response and Mr Young's.
As for this comment:
Schools don't educate, but merely serve as a filter for employers to
locate those individuals who aren't going to make trouble at the factory.
At best. In the inner
and send the
Scoops around to collect up the students off the streets every morning.
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 08:34:03 -0800
At 11:51 AM 1/1/04 -0500, Tyler
Tim May wrote...
I assume they figured that since they were using PGP to communicate with
their fellow anti-capitalists, that crypto must be cool
Here's the question Tyler Durden has for you.
Which is more important...annhiliation of the state, or getting a bunch of
list subscribers to agree
As long as truth is no defense against hate speech, and hate speech
includes
things which clearly don't involve anyone hating anyone else, hate speech
is simply
a code phrase for suppressing free expression.
At worst. At best it's going to boil down to some local enforcement shitheel
taking it
Variola: PULL!
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James Donald wrote...
There is ample evidence that the 'anti war' crowd is largely
pro Saddam
This is a critical point, and it's one you fail to recognize over and over
again.
Let me tell you a little story. There's this guy that lives down the
block...I think he may be a Satanist or
And I don't usually get quite this MAD, but such ignorance, such blindness,
is the reason we are in this mess.
I'm not so sure Mr Donald is ignorant OR blind. He seems to be something
I've never seen in real life before: Completely aligned with US foreign
policy, past/present/future.
I'm
James Donald wrote...
They were supposedly supporters of the NLF, which they well
knew was a North Vietnamese sock puppet, and thus a KGB sock
puppet.
Uh...huh?
You really get a lot of things mixed up. If you think Ho Chi Minh was a KGB
sockpuppet then you really don't know anything about
I'm not certain, but I think there are some MS certified modems which have
a generalized A/D-D/A capability sufficient to handle voice.
They do. And I'm not so sure POTS is going to be where things will be the
most interesting...cable modem telephony might be where things get
interesting.
As
17, 2003 at 05:06:55PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
A thread that started out quasi-interesting has descended into
non-Cypherpunk levels of triviality.
I thought it was trivial all along.
The original point stands, and is valid. The Islamic world and, in
particular, the Arabic part
Uh...I assume you're quoting somebody here?
The last point is actually a very good one, but getting there requires
hacking through gobbledeegook. What's this all businessmen silliness? And
using vpns WITHIN a company? As an employee of a major Wall Street firm, I
can tell you that's completely
Later today, a source close to the interrogation said that Saddam would be
subjected to stress and sleep deprivation. Basically, teams of
interrogators will ask questions over and over again, and no one will get
any rest until answers are provided.
At least here in NYC local news, it's common to
to grow in status
until he's just a notch or two below Mohammed. Look then for more bombings
and 9/11s here in the US. That Saddam was a cruel, butchering dictator will
soon be nearly irrelevant.
-Tyler Durden
From: Anatoly Vorobey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: U.S
seeing in the press over the
last few years), but he hasn't actually controlled things for a couple of
decades. The Saddam we're really looking for is approximately Saddam #3, and
he's still at large, and directing the insurgency.
-TD
From: Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tyler Durden
Mr Shaddack...
That's some interesting thinking there. The interesting thing is that no one
might ever even notice the presence of this benevolent worm. It could go
pretty much unchecked for a while.
As for Variola's comment, you might be right. I just assumed there's some
kind of
Tim May wrote...
Not only does it not make sense, but clearly this would cause pileups at
_some_ stores (too much Spam) and shortages at _other_ stores (still not
enough Spam, even with the latest send more Spam to all stores order. The
fact that neither shortages nor pileups (that I can see)
them do so well
here in the US. (Though these mega-Barnes-and-Nobles may have dented their
numbers in the last few years...)
-TD
From: ken [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is Matel Stalinist?
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:56:31 +
Tim May quoted Tyler Durden who wrote:
Well, I
not be able to
tell.
Any of you TLA lurkers wanna come in on a remailer and set me straight?
-TD
From: A.Melon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:28:31 -0800 (PST)
Tyler Durden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2003-12-08
.
One could count some fraction of all the *.binaries.* on usenet
as anonymous communications (via stego), but then you'd have to know
how many are stego'd, and that is the game after all.
At 02:24 PM 12/8/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Is it possible to determine that the photo 'originally' (ie, when
I pretty much agree with your views, minus the racism and misogny.
On days that the brilliant thoughtful Tim posts, I'm in awe.
When Tim the asshole posts, I'm disgusted. Unfortunately
these days the latter Tim isn't letting the former Tim
near the keyboard very often.
I dunno...sometimes his
. So in a sense, it's gone way beyond
'repression'...no need for that rat-cage around our heads anymore.
-Tyler Durden
From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 09
Tim May wrote...
This is silly, socialist nonsense. I know some of the book buyers at the
Borders store in Santa Cruz (the very one that the anti-bigness lefties
tried to ban from opening in Santa Cruz). Not only do they have a local
authors section which is larger than the similar section at
OK...let's say I receive a photo that I expected to contain stegoed
information on it, but then find that there's nothing I can retrieve using
the likely methods or software.
Is it possible to determine that the photo 'originally' (ie, when it was
sent to me) contained stegoed information,
Tim May wrote...
I consider Don Frederickson despicable, and stupid. To not bother before
understanding the context of the thread and say, basically, Yes, we have
narced out this customer to law enforcement, but they are just watching is
reprehensible.
Well, I saw the got.net quote before
The anti-globalization protests are a good example of something
misunderstood by Libertarian old-farts. On some levels, these protests have
a libertarian character...anti-globalization is not really about eliminating
free trade per se, but eliminating free trade, which is really just the
Doesn't make sense.
Votes are already bought and sold, but there's so many middle men taking
their cuts in the form of military bases or whatnot that the enduser barely
gets some.
-TD
From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying,
I think that's the source as well - when the most recent of the
TWINKLE and TWIRL papers came out, Lucky Green was talking about
whether it was still safe to use 1024-bit keys,
and $1B for 1 key/day is similar to Shamir Tromer's estimate of
(
is that you don't realize that crypto is no longer a
technological issue now. It's now a social and marketing one. The fact that
Tyler Durden actually has little of major insight to say completely misses
the point. Ideally, Tyler Durden is a generic, popular figure that
embodies virulent
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On Saturday 25 October 2003 04:27 pm, Tyler Durden wrote:
secure (every ask anyone if they believed there was such a thing as
effectively 'unbreakable' encryption? Reglar folks always believe
SOMEBODY'S got the technology to break what scheme you use, so why
bother).
I have a few friends like
:27 pm, Tyler Durden wrote:
Tim May wrote...
secure (every ask anyone if they believed there was such a thing as
effectively 'unbreakable' encryption? Reglar folks always believe
SOMEBODY'S got the technology to break what scheme you use, so why
bother).
I have a few friends like
Tim May wrote...
I predict we'll soon be seeing a new thought control campaign with this
theme, that if you use encryption, you help the terrorists win.
Well, I'm dubious. Right now I'm thinking their strategy has been to pull
encryption down off of the social radar, and that's worked better
The federal government is preparing for the first time to
require that personal computers and other consumer electronics devices
contain technology to help block Internet piracy of digital entertainment.
Just wait until MS unleashes a brood of lobbyists when nobody buys the new
Palladium-ed
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