Re: I crypt you

2003-01-07 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Anonymous wrote: (unrelated, I noticed that there is no un-crippled free version of PGP for windows XP any more - 8.0 beta expired) What about PGP 8.0 Freeware? That isn't crippled. (It doesn't include automatic email plugins, which many think are a bad idea anyway, and

Re: Singularity ( was Re: Policing Bioterror Research )

2003-01-07 Thread Tim May
People, Please don't quote a long article and then bottom-post a few comments. Or top-post a few comments. In fact, the best idea is to only quote enough to remind other readers what you are commenting on. It's not a matter of bandwidth, it's a matter of relevance and consideration. I plan

[p2p-hackers] p2p-hackers meeting, this upcoming sunday (fwd)

2003-01-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:39:24 -0800 (PST) From: Bram Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [p2p-hackers] p2p-hackers meeting, this upcoming sunday usual time, usual place when: second sunday, this time it's the 12th, 3pm till whenever we

Tarzan swings

2003-01-07 Thread Steve Schear
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 04:12:41 -0500 (EST) From: Michael J. Freedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tarzan code Hi everybody, So tonight I threw up a tarball of Tarzan's code, after finally updating it against new releases of its dependencies. It's released under the GPL.

crypto car keys

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Rosing
Anybody know the TI chip used in Ford 2002 and newer immobilizers? I've found a white paper on TI's web site that describes their challenge/response system, but nobody at Ford customer service has a clue what I'm talking about. Ford calls it securilock, but the Ilco tester at my local hardware

Re: Singularity ( was Re: Policing Bioterror Research )

2003-01-07 Thread lcs Mixmaster Remailer
BTW, I think I read somewhere that when the water gets too hot the frog just leaves. Like someone already mentioned, all that is needed for the total collapse of the US government is that 90+% of sheeple abstains from TV and newspapers for 30 consecutive days (externally induced psychosis

Re: Dossiers and Customer Courtesy Cards

2003-01-07 Thread Todd Boyle
Somebody said, Frankly, if using my card saves me $10 on a roast, it's hard for me not to think it's a good exchange.. Hogwash. It's not saving customers anything at all. Same gimmick as credit cards. Take away a percentage from noncard-holders and give it to the cardholders. What economic

Re: Let there be Blah

2003-01-07 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 11:33 PM, Anonymous wrote: Blah wrote quite an excellent post. In fact, I've met few physics PhDs which would have been able to respond so well. So needless to say, my curiosity is peaked concerning who Blah is in the real Or even piqued. world. Weirder

Re: Singularity ( was Re: Policing Bioterror Research )

2003-01-07 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:42 AM 01/07/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 05:14 PM 1/6/03 -0800, Michael Motyka wrote: BTW, I think I read somewhere that when the water gets too hot the frog just leaves. It was in print, it must be true. Perhaps it is. But if you put a TV in the pot with the frog, he gets

Austin Cypherpunks Monthly Meeting - Tue. Jan. 14

2003-01-07 Thread Jim Choate
Time:Jan. 14, 2003 Second Tuesday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) Location:Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables.

Singularity ( was Re: Policing Bioterror Research )

2003-01-07 Thread GaryJeffers
Michael Motyka writes BTW, I think I read somewhere that when the water gets too hot the frog just leaves. It was in print, it must be true

Re: The Microsoft Xbox Key

2003-01-07 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim writes: Given that x86 boxes without Windows installed can now be had for about the price of an XBox, and given that the graphics chip in the Xbox is not used by any of the Linux server uses (so far as I know), the main value of hacking the Xbox is for cuteness, to show that it can be

RE: The Microsoft Xbox Key

2003-01-07 Thread Trei, Peter
Eric Cordian[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: [...] Ignoring for the moment that The Neo Project had zero chance of factoring a 2048 bit key using publicly available algorithms, their caving under imagined legal pressure strikes me as a really bad precedent. [...] The Neo

Re: The Microsoft Xbox Key/dvd issues

2003-01-07 Thread Peter Fairbrother
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28749.html The entertainment lobby has failed to persuade a Norwegian court to convict a teenager for creating a utility for playing back DVDs on his own computer. Jon Lech Johansen has been acquitted of all charges in a trial that tested the legality of

Re: Misconceptions about how remailers work

2003-01-07 Thread A.Melon
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 10:46 AM, Igor Chudov wrote: A nice article, although I was under impression that basically the remailer network was no longer operable. Wanted to send some joke stuff through them and was unable to do so due to lack of working remailers. According to

Re: The Microsoft Xbox Key

2003-01-07 Thread Tyler Durden
I think you're drifting here from my original point, which that it is in no way illegal, or even immoral, to run free software on hardware that you own, and to pick any locks on the hardware you own, which would preclude you from doing so. Amen, brudda. So will the cops eventually bust down my

Re: Television

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Rosing
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Nomen Nescio wrote: It's amusing that Mr. May thinks that anyone gives a fuck if he (Mr. May) filters him/her out for whatever reason and considers worthwhile/effective effort to explain that reason at length every time, and yet doesn't consider that similar and far more

Re: The Microsoft Xbox Key

2003-01-07 Thread Mark
From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, some would argue that microsoft does use forms of coercion to get ultimately use their products. Quite similar to the people who try and argue that Napoleon was a horse, right? will be some slight pressure on 'Soft to get the prices back up to at

Re: Television

2003-01-07 Thread Nomen Nescio
A trivial point, barely worth making time for, but folks ought not to think that brainwashing via t.v. has _anything_ substantively causal to do with the sad state we are in today. It's amusing that Mr. May thinks that anyone gives a fuck if he (Mr. May) filters him/her out for whatever reason

The Microsoft Xbox Key

2003-01-07 Thread Eric Cordian
Slashdot is reporting that The Neo Project, a distributed computing effort, has ceased trying to factor Microsoft's Xbox binary signing key, due to legal reasons, and the fact that many of their current participants don't want to be soiled by association with something having a nefarious

Television

2003-01-07 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 02:04 AM, Bill Stewart wrote: At 12:42 AM 01/07/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 05:14 PM 1/6/03 -0800, Michael Motyka wrote: BTW, I think I read somewhere that when the water gets too hot the frog just leaves. It was in print, it must be true.

Re: Misconceptions about how remailers work

2003-01-07 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 10:46 AM, Igor Chudov wrote: A nice article, although I was under impression that basically the remailer network was no longer operable. Wanted to send some joke stuff through them and was unable to do so due to lack of working remailers. igor First, please

Cryptome Log...A nice opportunity!

2003-01-07 Thread Anonymous
It was written... Commonwealth before said GRAND JURY in the matter of Commonwealth v. John Doe, and bring with him/her all logs recording the I.P. addresses and/or users who visited http://cryptome.org/sec-con.htm; between 11/7/02 00:00:00 GMT and 11/14/02 23:59:59 GMT. If no such log exists

Re: Cryptome Log Subpoenaed (Pissing on Potassium)

2003-01-07 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Dear John A. Grossman, MA AAG: You might also subpeona the masters of http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:NW6ZES17aTcC:cryptome.org/sec-con.htm+hl=enie=UTF-8 You might also ponder the words of the First Fellatrix: I think people have not quite gotten their hands around the speed at which

Re: Singularity ( was Re: Policing Bioterror Research )

2003-01-07 Thread David Howe
at Tuesday, January 07, 2003 1:14 AM, Michael Motyka [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: financial resources, other than those that pass through verified identity gatekeepers; That's an odd way to spell Campaign Fund Contributing Corporations