Re: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-08 Thread Bill Stewart
An interesting story on future citizen-units being brainscrubbed in the lovely state of Pennsylvania. http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/5124933.htm ... But recite they must. Under a state law that takes effect today, almost every student in Pennsylvania - from preschool through high

Re: patriot act and public key encryption

2003-02-08 Thread Mike Rosing
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Michael Cardenas wrote: If secret searches with secret warrants are legal now, what good is it to use public key encryption and keep a backup of your private key at home on a floppy? Is there a protocol to have a blinded private key, so you wouldn't actually have access

DOJ quietly drafts USA Patriot II w/crypto-in-a-crime penalty

2003-02-08 Thread Declan McCullagh
Here's the old SAFE Act: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:h.r.00695: - Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 21:53:58 -0500 Thanks to Joe for being the first one to

Re: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:22 AM 2/8/03 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: But recite they must. Under a state law that takes effect today, almost every student in Pennsylvania - from preschool through high school, in schools public and private - must face the Stars and Stripes each school day and say the pledge or

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

2003-02-08 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:15:50AM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, AARG! Anonymous wrote: The main features of TCPA are: - key storage The IBM TPM does this part. AFAIK, IBM's embedded security subsystem 1.0 is only a key storage device (Atmel AT90SP0801 chip). But the

Re: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-08 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:18 PM 2/7/2003 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: Leaving aside the issues of forcing kids to recite something they don't understand or affirm something they don't believe, there's the little problem that if the teachers are going to pledge their allegiance to the Republic, they need to start

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

2003-02-08 Thread Mike Rosing
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Michel Messerschmidt wrote: AFAIK, IBM's embedded security subsystem 1.0 is only a key storage device (Atmel AT90SP0801 chip). But the TPM we're talking about is part of the TCPA compliant embedded security subsystem 2.0 which supports all specified TPM functions, even if

Re: The Statism Meme (fwd)

2003-02-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
[From a friend who has moved to Italy] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:51:40 -0600 (CST) From: Pete Mannix [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The Statism Meme What about Italy? Articles 270 and 270 bis,

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

2003-02-08 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
Mike Rosing wrote: BTW, why should I need a TPM only for secure key storage ? Any smartcard is better suited for this. Because it's soldered into the portable. For an enterprise that means they *know* each portable out in the field is held by the correct user. With a smart card, they

Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death...(fwd)

2003-02-08 Thread Sunder
In real life this will not work as most Windoze hard disk encryption schemes can't encrypt the OS disk - and this is where the temp/cache stuff goes. You can change both where your browser caches stuff off the web and the temp folder so that's ok, but this doesn't work well because temp has to be

Shuttle Audio Cutoff

2003-02-08 Thread Eric Cordian
Overheard on IRC. The nicks have been changed to protect the innocent. Person A: I wonder how NASA would have handled the PR had the shuttle audio continued longer, with horrible screaming. Person B: There's been some discussion on sci.space.shuttle about whether or not NASA