Re: e voting

2003-11-22 Thread Bill Frantz
At 9:19 AM -0800 11/21/03, Tim May wrote: On Nov 21, 2003, at 8:16 AM, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to produce a paper printout that voters can check to make

Re: Vivendi to Destroy MP3.com archive

2003-11-22 Thread Morlock Elloi
Somebody please tell me that this is a nightmare, and I am about to wake up. Let's see ... was there a contract to keep things up ad infinitum ? This is a good step, part of waking up from the dream that there are free things on Internet. If there is no eyeball-catching value to be derived

Re: e voting

2003-11-22 Thread John Washburn
I agree. The paper printout may be unconnected to fraudulent tally numbers produced later for publication. This is better than the literal nothing produced at present. There is a small chance many voters could use there receipts to counter fraudulent tally in low-vote ward. -Original

RE: [Asrg] Re: [Politech] Congress finally poised to vote on anti -spam bill [sp]

2003-11-22 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Yeah, Yeah dictionary attacks... The key is that the search space is actually thinly populated enough to make dictionary attack hard. Most usernames are 6 characters or more, many include numbers, that is about 26^6 worth of search space per domain. Of course this is not evenly populated, but the

Vivendi to Destroy MP3.com archive

2003-11-22 Thread proclus
Vivendi et al. about to demonstrate how they value artists and their work. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/11/21/14616/561 Somebody please tell me that this is a nightmare, and I am about to wake up. Regards, proclus http://www.gnu-darwin.org/ -- Visit proclus realm!

Re: Idea: GPG signatures within HTML - problem with inline objects

2003-11-22 Thread Thomas Shaddack
There is a problem with images and other inline objects. There is a solution, too. The objects included into the document can get their hash calculated and included in their tag; eg, IMG SRC=image.jpg HASH=SHA1:4e1243bd22c66e76c2ba9eddc1f91394e57f9f83 The tag has to be in the signed part of the

Re: Idea: GPG signatures within HTML

2003-11-22 Thread Henryk Plötz
Moin, Am Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:54:39 +0100 (CET) schrieb Thomas Shaddack: A trick with HTML (or SGML in general) tag and a comment, a browser plugin(or manual operation over saved source), and a GPG signature over part of the HTML file should do the job, with maintaining full backward

Re: [Politech] Congress finally poised to vote on anti-spam bill [sp]

2003-11-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:13 PM 11/21/2003 -0600, Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A copy of the bill is here: http://news.com.com/pdf/ne/2003/FINALSPAM.pdf I interpret paragraph 1037(a)1 - 5 as possibly prohibiting the use of anonymous remailers, or proxies and nyms in registering email accounts, for the

RE: [Asrg] Re: [Politech] Congress finally poised to vote on anti -spam bill [sp]

2003-11-22 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
We need to consider the technical workings of the do-not-spam list and the requirements that we would like the FTC to meet. I propose as a minimum: 1) Allow individual subscribers to list their email addresses with the service. 2) Permit mail sender to quickly determine whether a given email is

Toronto man charged with wardriving, possession of child pornography

2003-11-22 Thread Tim Meehan
http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/release.php?id=4732 November 21, 2003 - 01:20 pm CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ARREST  USING STOLEN INTERNET SIGNAL Corporate Communications 416-808-7100 On Wednesday November 19th, 2003 at approximately 5:03am, Sgt. Don Woods (7167) of 11 Division

Idea: GPG signatures within HTML

2003-11-22 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Sometimes a problem appears with publishing information on the Web, when the authenticity of document, especially a widely-distributed one, has to be checked. I am not aware about any mechanism available presently. A trick with HTML (or SGML in general) tag and a comment, a browser plugin (or

Drug policy activist *searched and detained* by notorious South Carolina principal after being invited onto school grounds

2003-11-22 Thread Tim Meehan
Report by Dan Goldman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (http://www.ssdp.org) Forwarded from Loretta Nall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) of the US Marijuana Party (http://www.usmjparty.com) Loretta said: This just in from my buddy Dan Goldman who is still on the ground in South

RE: DigiCash Saves PayPal?

2003-11-22 Thread Scott Guthery
Not to mention the pneumatic tube systems in department stores that sent your charge plate upstairs for approval. Those who do not learn from ... Oh, never mind. Cheers, Scott -Original Message- From: R. A. Hettinga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 3:20 PM To:

DigiCash Saves PayPal?

2003-11-22 Thread R. A. Hettinga
And Greg Aharonian, San Francisco-based patent expert, said eBay could get the case dismissed if it finds a company or institution that developed its own trusted intermediary or similar electronic payment system even before ATT researchers filed for their patent. Bingo. Somebody at First Data