Legally thwarting FBI surveillance of libraries and ISPs

2005-10-26 Thread Steve Schear
I'm one of those that believes that agrees with Louis Brandice's dissenting opinion about the constitutionality of wiretaps. That they violate the privacy of those parties who call or are called by the party being wiretapped. I have written on this in 2002/2003. There seem to be at least two

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:14 AM 10/24/2005, cyphrpunk wrote: Note that e-gold, which originally sold non-reversibility as a key benefit of the system, found that this feature attracted Ponzi schemes and fraudsters of all stripes, and eventually it was forced to reverse transactions and freeze accounts. It's not

The price of failure

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Schear
Quick, before they change it: search Google using the term failure (without the quotes)

Re: Wired on Secrecy Power Sinks Patent Case

2005-09-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:14 AM 9/20/2005, Tyler Durden wrote: Very interesting CPunks reading, for a variety of reasons. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68894,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 Of course, the fact that Lucent has been in shit shape financially must have nothing to do with what is effectively a

Re: GPS Jammer Firm nearly ejected from Russian air show.

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:27 PM 8/22/2005, Bill Stewart wrote: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/22/002.html Monday, August 22, 2005. Issue 3235. Page 1. Irksome Firm Nearly Ejected From Air Show By Lyuba Pronina Staff Writer Ivan Sekretarev / AP Spectators watching the Patrouille de France

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

2005-07-27 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:17 PM 7/23/2005, 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

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-07-07 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050706-094903-3663r.htm At the grass-roots, the most amusing development is a push by a citizens' group to seize the Weare, N. H., home of Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, author of the Kelo opinion, for a development project to be called the Lost

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:36 AM 6/24/2005, J.A. Terranson wrote: Not surprising at all. The Bush camp's court agenda is spearheaded by members of the Federalist Society which wants to roll back many of the SC's decisions of the early-mid 20th century (esp. the Social Security Act and the expansion of the

Re: WiFi Launcher?

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:21 PM 3/25/2005, Bill Stewart wrote: especially if you've got to do a DNS lookup or two. Directional Antennas are unlikely to be useful - if you've got them aimed right, you might win, but you're much more likely to miss entirely or have only a few meters that you're in range. Horizontally

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

2005-03-13 Thread Steve Schear
-0800, Steve Schear wrote: Why? BT is designed with zero privacy in mind. And this was a profound error, IMHO. One of the epiphanies from my work at It was a deliberate decision on Bram Cohen's part. BT is a very useful medium to deliver software updates, movies und most for what

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

2005-03-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:15 AM 3/10/2005, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I worked with Bram and Zooko at Mojo Nation (where both BT and Mnet got their respective genesis) and was frankly surprised when the MPAA was so easily able to target and put out of commission BT's trackers. The Why? BT is designed

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

2005-03-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:14 PM 3/9/2005, Eric Cordian wrote: If you had a thousand hours of genius programmer time, would you spend it embracing and extending Bittorrent, or shoveling through the indecipherable bowels of legacy Mnet and Freenet code? I worked with Bram and Zooko at Mojo Nation (where both BT and

Re: Auto-HERF: Car Chase Tech That's Really Hot

2005-02-07 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:15 AM 2/4/2005, R.A. Hettinga wrote: The beautiful part of using the (microwave) energy is that it leaves the suspect in control of the car, he said. He can steer, he can brake, he just can't accelerate. Sorry Charlie, but I think newer vehicles are moving to fly-by-wire steering,

RE: Researchers Combat Terrorists by Rooting Out Hidden Messages

2005-02-02 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:07 PM 2/1/2005, Tyler Durden wrote: Counter-stego detection. Seems to me a main tool will be a 2-D Fourier analysis...Stego will certainly have a certain thumbprint, depending on the algorithm. Are there certain images that can hide stego more effectively? IN other words, these images

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

2004-08-31 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:23 AM 8/30/2004, Justin wrote: On 2004-08-29T20:55:19-0700, Steve Schear wrote: I am not discussing presidential elections, this is another matter. Fine. Steve Schear wrote: The problem is that use of voting districts seems to have always resulted in gerrymandering in our political

Re: Tilting at the Ballot Box

2004-08-27 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:12 AM 8/27/2004, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2004-08-25T11:25:09-0700, Steve Schear wrote: At 09:18 AM 8/25/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/print/0,17925,683182,00.html Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Printable Version

Re: Why there is no anonymous e-cash

2004-07-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:41 AM 7/19/2004, James A. Donald wrote: As I predicted, transactions are increasingly going on line. And as Hettinga predicted, the more anonymous and irreversible the transaction service, the cheaper and more convenient its services. All happening as predicted. So why don't we have

Re: Secure telephones

2004-07-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:45 AM 7/17/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Pondering construction of a secure telephone. (Or at least a cellphone in general. The user interfaces and features available on virtually all the mass-market phones suck, to put it very very mildly, not even mentioning that there's no access to their

Re: USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt

2004-07-11 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:44 PM 7/9/2004, you wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Steve Schear wrote: Quite a few book stores (including the local Half-Priced Books) now keep no records not required and some do not even automate and encourage their patron to pay cash. In California book sellers to such used/remaindered

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

2004-07-09 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:27 AM 7/9/2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: *** PGP Signature Status: good *** Signer: Eugen Leitl (makes other keys obsolete) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Invalid) *** Signed: 7/9/2004 6:27:50 AM *** Verified: 7/9/2004 11:27:24 AM *** BEGIN PGP VERIFIED MESSAGE *** - Forwarded message from [EMAIL

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

2004-07-08 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:09 PM 7/7/2004, Adam Back wrote: Then we implemented a replacement version 2 mail system that I designed. The design is much simpler. With freedom anonymous networking you had anyway a anonymous interactive TCP feature. So we just ran a standard pop box for your nym. Mail would be

Re: Faster than Moore's law

2004-07-08 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:31 PM 7/7/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 02:55 PM 7/7/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: A few years ago. Lets call it two years ago. That would make the average hi-cap drive around 30gb. Just want to remind y'all that drive capacity has increased *faster* than semiconductor throughput,

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

2004-07-07 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:28 AM 7/7/2004, Tyler Durden wrote: If you think the cable landings in Va/Md are coincidental, you are smoking something I've run out of. Its all recorded. I'm sure the archiving and database groups in Ft. Meade will get a chuckle out of your the right to idioms. Well, I don't actually

Re: New Radar Sees Through Walls (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

2004-07-05 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:42 AM 7/4/2004, Eugen Leitl wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2 Jul 2004 19:26:10 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Radar Sees Through Walls User-Agent: SlashdotNewsScooper/0.0.3 Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/02/158257 Posted by: CowboyNeal, on 2004-07-02 16:46:00

Re: my name is Doe, John Doe

2004-06-29 Thread Steve Schear
After a hard day, I'm safe at home Foolin' with my baby on the telephone Out of nowhere somebody cuts in and Says, 'Hmm, you in some trouble boy, we know where you're been.' I'm out on the border I thought this was a private line Don't you tell me 'bout your law and order I'm try'n' to change

Re: [IP] When police ask your name, you must give it, Supreme Court says (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2004-06-22 Thread Steve Schear
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that people who refuse to give their names to police can be arrested, even if they've done nothing wrong. The court previously had said police may briefly detain people they suspect of wrongdoing, without any proof. But until now, the

Re: We're jamming, we're jamming, we hope you like jammin too

2004-05-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:16 AM 5/13/2004 +1000, Ian Farquhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would almost bet money that the commercial interests currently evaluating RFID tags will push for a legislative ban on RFID jamming. And I'll bet they get it too. I really won't matter what they prohibit, it will get out into the

RE: [IP] One Internet provider's view of FBI's CALEA wiretap push

2004-04-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:43 AM 4/23/2004, Trei, Peter wrote: If you're dealing with a state-level attacker, any scheme involving explosives or incendiaries would get the attackee in as much or more trouble than the original data would. This is a hard problem. I suspect any solution will involve tamper-resistant

Smartcard patents

2004-04-23 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000121.html Cryptography Research, the California company that announced the discovery of differential power analysis around late 1997, have picked up a swag of patents

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:03 PM 4/7/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the well-...um...-dressed terrorist... Nah, just a plastic shower cap during explosive handling. steve http://www.sciencedaily.com/print.php?url=/releases/2004/04/040406083933.htm Source: University Of

Some more anarchy and capitalism -- Fwd: [dgc.chat] Starving the Bastards in Bolivia

2004-04-08 Thread Steve Schear
Bolivia is a poor country. Nevertheless, no one, however poor, ever starves in Bolivia: food is dirt cheap and readily available. In contrast, the government is starving to death. What joy! It is desperate for increased revenue and is preoccupied with schemes for new taxes etc. You may recall

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:08 AM 4/8/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: And McVeigh used ammonium nitrate which wasn't tested, and as a highly soluable (in fact deliquescent) inorganic it probably won't persist like a nitrated organic. Also common as dirt in agville. He also added nitromethane to the mix, obtained

Re: MR

2004-03-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:46 AM 3/22/2004, javve wrote: Mr. Are the are anny spy device can look trough the wall too see you? If the are with one? IR systems capable of locating warm objects within structures have been available for a long time. They are routinely used for search and rescue in collapsed

RE: J.P. Morgan Is Facing Heat Of Patriot Act

2004-03-11 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:14 AM 3/11/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 02:27 PM 3/10/04 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: At 11:49 AM 3/10/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: This is how the US intimidates such that the USG can monitor all transactions. A serious practical problem for e$ when it needs to interface

Re: Evidence is clear: Videos convict

2004-03-09 Thread Steve Schear
Transferring home videos from tape to PC is a common and inexpensive consumer practice today. Tapes are cheap and trashing them after use for recording of incriminating evidence is an effective way to get rid of that copy. Once transferred to PC users can also now easily encrypt the videos.

Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II

2004-03-02 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:50 AM 3/2/2004, Tyler Durden wrote: 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

Re: Offshoring of commercial data...

2004-02-11 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:44 AM 2/11/2004, Tyler Durden wrote: Steve Schear wrote... This is why all such records, if they are generated at all, should be held offshore and accessible only through a procedure which includes a duress clause. This leads me to an interesting set of ideas I've been playing

Seven years jail, $150,000 fine if you don't tell the world your email and home address

2004-02-07 Thread Steve Schear
and criminal offence. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35376.html A foolish Constitutional inconsistency is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

Re: Feds win rights to war protesters records.

2004-02-07 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:09 PM 2/7/2004, Harmon Seaver wrote: Also, activists subpoened to grand jury. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20040207/ap_on_re_us/activist_investigation This is why all such records, if they are generated at all, should be held offshore and accessible only through a

Scary Psychological Test

2004-01-27 Thread Steve Schear
Scary Psychological Test Read this question, come up with an answer, and then scroll down to the bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has gotten it right - including me. A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met this guy whom she did

Re: Encrypted phones/scramblers, etc.

2004-01-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:15 PM 1/25/2004, Harmon Seaver wrote: Someone was just trying to tell me that the FCC, et al, won't allow encrypted phones or even the old style scramblers to be sold anymore. Have there been any moves in that direction? I worked for Cylink, where we sold industrial strength crypto

Re: Hey be careful, I have three balms in here

2004-01-21 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:27 AM 1/21/2004, Graham Lally wrote: Surprised this hasn't gone through the list yet. Did it get much coverage in the US? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/3415525.stm 'According to the arrest report, Miss Marson placed her bag on the belt at a security check, telling a

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:23 PM 1/12/2004, Tim May wrote: During the Carnivore debate, I argued that mandatory placement of computer agents in systems was equivalent to quartering troops: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03198.html The Third Amendment, about quartering troops, is seldom-applied.

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:48 AM 1/13/2004, Tim May wrote: On Jan 13, 2004, at 8:41 AM, Steve Schear wrote: This was from July, 2000. I believe it also came up in earlier discussions, including in a panel I was on with Michael Froomkin at a CFP in 1995. I could assume this also applies to the the TCPS

Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-11 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:53 PM 1/10/2004, Steve Furlong wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 19:02, J.A. Terranson wrote: What good is a Jury when the judge can pick and choose which arguments and evidence you can provide in support of your case? I've occasionally handed out pamphlets on jury nullification outside the

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-06 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:05 PM 1/6/2004, BillyGOTO wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:39:41AM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: As has been discussed on this list many who graduated college before the late '70s were able to pursue independent science experimentation (esp. chemistry and rocketry, etc.). Now almost all

Re: progress

2004-01-05 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:33 PM 1/5/2004, Declan McCullagh wrote: This is a welcome step, assuming the pharms are legit. We still need some form of reputation service. But I'm not overly optimistic (I tend not to be, in the short run). I do not know how resistant the e-gold corporate and technical infrastructure is

Re: Sources and Sinks

2004-01-04 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:50 PM 1/3/2004, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 3 Jan 2004 at 8:09, Michael Kalus wrote: Yes, the way this usually works is that the government builds the road, then sells it to a private company for some money and then the upkeep is handled by the company. It is rather seldom that

Microsoft publicly announces Penny Black PoW postage project

2003-12-26 Thread Steve Schear
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3324883.stm Adam Back is part of this team, I think. Similar approach to Camram/hahscash. Memory-based approaches have been discussed. Why hasn't Camram explored them? steve BTW, Penny Black stamp was only used briefly. It was the Penny Red which was

Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

2003-12-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:20 AM 12/22/2003, James A. Donald wrote: The Nuremberg trials were held in Germany by the victors. Why this big desire to do something different this time around? I don't hear anyone except the usual Nazis whining that Nuremberg was illegitimate or unfair. From a 2001 cypherpunks post to

Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

2003-12-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:20 AM 12/22/2003, James A. Donald wrote: This is war. Rule of law does not apply. Rules of war do apply. And rules of war say that the US army can not only give Saddam a dental examination, it can nail Saddam's head to a post in Baghdad with a nine inch nail, because he was captured out

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-20 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:37 PM 12/19/2003, you wrote: In a message dated 12/19/2003 3:38:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Saddam was warned that if he took Kuwait, terrible consequences might well follow. That's bullshit. Saddam was told by our Chick ambassador (I can't remember her name)

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

2003-12-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:00 AM 12/19/2003, Nomen Nescio wrote: After WWI the winners humiliated the loosers badly. This is one of the main reasons Hitler came to power and got support from the Germans for the aggressions that started the war. He managed to use these feelings of being treated as dogs and paying to

RE: The killer app for encryption

2003-12-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:14 PM 12/18/2003, Morlock Elloi wrote: What I'd like to see is a P2P telephony that also supports end-user gateways to the POTS. I'm not certain, but I think there are some MS However, I don't see people letting others use their POTS lines, nor I see them using their own for this

RE: The killer app for encryption

2003-12-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:47 PM 12/18/2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 08:16 PM 12/18/03 +, Jim Dixon wrote: What exactly do you mean by peered IP telephony? What I'd like to see is a P2P telephony that also supports end-user gateways to the POTS. I'm not certain, but I think there are some MS certified

RE: The killer app for encryption

2003-12-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:57 PM 12/18/2003, Morlock Elloi wrote: Because it means you can complete call to the POTs with no company-controlled switch involved, meaning no where to serve a court order. Since the call could be routed through a few intermediate nodes and I see. So, in the real world, X uses this

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:19 AM 12/19/2003, Jim Dixon wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Saddam had been less of an idiot, if he had left Kuwait alone, he would be relaxing in one of his palaces today and his sons would be out snatching women off the street, torturing people who had annoyed them

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

2003-12-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:06 AM 12/19/2003, Michael Kalus wrote: I'll have a look at it. But I guess you also tell me that anything Michael Moore said in Bowling for Columbine is wrong too? http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others that write what men do, not

Re: [dgc.chat] Fwd: [NEC] #2.12: The RIAA Succeeds Where the CypherPunks Failed

2003-12-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:39 PM 12/17/2003, Patrick Chkoreff on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Clay Shirky has done it again, writing a very insightful article on the current digital scene, this time on the unintended but beneficial consequences of RIAA's crackdown on file sharing. Here is one particularly

Re: [dgc.chat] Fwd: [NEC] #2.12: The RIAA Succeeds Where the CypherPunks Failed

2003-12-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:39 PM 12/17/2003, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: Well, Clay Shirky has done it again, writing a very insightful article on the current digital scene, this time on the unintended but beneficial consequences of RIAA's crackdown on file sharing. Here is one particularly telling excerpt: Note that the

Re: [dgc.chat] Fwd: [NEC] #2.12: The RIAA Succeeds Where the CypherPunks Failed

2003-12-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:24 PM 12/17/2003, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: The really interesting aspect of this is what it portends for the future. If, as Clay suggests, the current situation is like Prohibition from citizen perspective can we expect a similar repeal of government surveillance? If not, what will

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

2003-12-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:18 PM 12/16/2003, Jim Dixon wrote: You should try to remember how the US Civil War ended. The armed forces of the South surrendered. Lee handed his sword to Grant. I believe that Grant returned it - and allowed each Southern soldier to keep a rifle and a mule. Lee and the other leaders of

Re: Appeals court OKs no-knock warrant as perfectly appropriate

2003-11-25 Thread Steve Schear
We have recognized that, HN6[]under appropriate exigent circumstances, strict compliance with the knock and announce requirement may be excused. United States v. Grogins, 163 F.3d 795, 797 (4th Cir. 1998) (holding no-knock entry justified where officers had reasonable suspicion that entering

Fwd: Bedazzled Log-in Method Whitepaper

2003-11-25 Thread Steve Schear
Bedazzled Log-in Method Whitepaper Author: George Hara (http://www.filematrix.xnet.ro/ideas/whitepapers/login.htm) Introduction Using strings of characters as passwords has always been a security issue because they are hard to remember and can be stolen by key-loggers or screen-text

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

Stego SPAM

2003-11-18 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.spammimic.com/index.shtml Not new to this group but interesting. steve

Re: 'Smart stamps' next in war on terrorism

2003-11-13 Thread Steve Schear
The postal notice itself says this is the first step to identify all senders, so this is not a matter of paranoia, this is reality. The post office is moving towards identification requirements for everyone, said Chris Hoofnagle, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

F.B.I.'s Reach Into Records Is Set to Grow

2003-11-12 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/12/politics/12RECO.html November 12, 2003 F.B.I.'s Reach Into Records Is Set to Grow By ERIC LICHTBLAU ASHINGTON, Nov. 11 A little-noticed measure approved by both the House and Senate would significantly expand the F.B.I.'s power to demand financial records,

Re: Gun ownership == using it in crime, Texas court rules

2003-11-12 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:01 AM 11/12/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: Appellant does not deny that the shotgun was a deadly weapon or that he was in possession of it. Rather; he argues that there was no evidence to support the jury's finding that his possession of the shotgun facilitated the associated felony

Re: FLASH: DHS wants info on store refunds?

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:11 PM 11/1/2003 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: Well, when I brought back the returns, they wanted a drivers license. Odd, considering it was a cash sale and I was holding the receipt. It's required by the Homeland Security Department says the kid behind the register. Sorry. I need ID, and I

Re: Spelling corrections are now export-controlled

2003-11-02 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:47 AM 11/2/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Of course there are limits in regards to freedom of speech. They are as follows: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the

Re: If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!

2003-10-25 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:00 PM 10/24/2003 -0400, Cael Abal wrote: What *is* a library? 1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state entity. 2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is that I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that license at a

Re: If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!

2003-10-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:00 PM 10/24/2003 -0400, Cael Abal wrote: What *is* a library? 1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state entity. 2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is that I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that license at a

Re: If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!

2003-10-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:28 AM 10/24/2003 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: Someone else must have thought up this idea, but I don't recall seeing it. Please inform me nicely if you have seen it proposed before. This sounds a lot like the SunnComm DRM system that got so much publicity recently. (the one that

RE: C3 Nehemia C5P with better hardware RNG and AES support

2003-10-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:04 PM 10/22/2003 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: Peter wrote: In case anyone's interested, there's a cpu die photo at http://www.sandpile.org/impl/pics/centaur/c5xl/die_013_c5p.jpg showing the amount of real estate consumed by the crypto functions (it's the bottom centre, a bit hard to read the

Re: [mnet-devel] DOS in DHTs (fwd from amichrisde@yahoo.de)

2003-10-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:21 PM 10/20/2003 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: Looks like the only way to shield from DOS is to raise the cost of DOS. This will eventually eliminate the low cost of Internet bandwidth, one way or another. You don't get nearly the same amount of DOS on your telephone as you do on Internet,

Remarks by U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd on Final Passage of Iraq

2003-10-20 Thread Steve Schear
[For all the good it will do, one of the few Senators to stingingly rebuff the Administration's Iraq position and demand for tribute to support their further misadventures. However, there are equally large lies and tribute being supported by Byrd and others upon which they are silent. Besides

Re: Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

2003-10-14 Thread Steve Schear
A pointer to the original journal article http://www.plos.org/downloads/plbi-01-02-carmena.pdf steve

Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Schear
[Can remote soldiering and amplified Terminators be too far away? Steve] Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 13, 2003; Page A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17434-2003Oct12?language=printer Scientists in North

EU directive could spark patent war

2003-10-09 Thread Steve Schear
[I wonder what if any effect this might have on crypto patents, e.g., Chaumian blinding?] The European Parliament's decision to limit patents... risks creating a patent war with a fallout that could make it illegal to access some European e-commerce sites from the United States... Pure

Jack(ass) Valenti stirs up a storm in L.A.

2003-10-08 Thread Steve Schear
The Motion Picture Association of America's decision to ban DVDs of Oscar contenders for Academy Awards voters has developed into an industry cat fight, (as) distributors and publicists of smaller films, who fear that their pictures no longer will have a shot at a gold statuette. The MPAA

[cdr] Political cartoon says it all: Saddam falls

2003-09-22 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.courier-journal.com/nick/2003/09/0912.html The guerrilla wins by not losing, the army loses by not winning -- Henry Kissinger

Plain talk from Bush

2003-09-19 Thread Steve Schear
Either Bush's ignorance or hubris is showing again. You decide. In the CNBC interview, Mr. Bush also criticized China for manipulating its currency in order to boost sales of Chinese exports. The president told CNBC's Ron Insana that Treasury Secretary John W. Snow had failed during recent

Neocon flashbacks

2003-09-17 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm Notice the date and signatures... ...if America were tempted to ''become the dictatress of the world, she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.'' What empires lavish abroad, they cannot spend on good republican government at

Re: Satellite Tracking of Suspects Requires a Warrant, Court Rules

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:05 PM 9/12/2003 -0700, John Young wrote: The agents who installed the criminal tracking device and interpreted (doctored) the data, were in the courtroom and smiled broadly at Jim's futile challenge of conventional wisdom. It is possible that there was no device and the whole rig was made up

Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform

2003-09-09 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:28 AM 9/9/2003 -0700, Tim May wrote: On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 08:39 PM, Steve Schear wrote: At 04:51 PM 9/8/2003 -0700, Joseph Ashwood wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [anonymous funding of politicians

Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform

2003-09-09 Thread Steve Schear
. steve A foolish Constitutional inconsistency is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

Digital cash and campaign finance reform

2003-09-08 Thread Steve Schear
statesmen. - Steve Schear

Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform

2003-09-08 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:51 PM 9/8/2003 -0700, Joseph Ashwood wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [anonymous funding of politicians] Comments? Simple attack: Bob talks to soon to be bought politician. Tomorrow you'll recieve a donation

Re: JAP back doored

2003-09-02 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-02.09.03-005/ German police have searched and seized the rooms (dorm?) of one of the JAP developers. They were on the look for data that was logged throughout the period when JAP had to log specific traffic. The JAP-people say that the seizure was not

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Schear
devices (which to be effective must be capable of destroying the entire building). steve A foolish Constitutional inconsistency is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-08-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:54 PM 8/29/2003 -0700, you wrote: Stopping your notification that the service is not monitored can be forbidden by a strict enough secrecy order. It may be the least legally risky of the options. The fact that you will stop notification should be included in your terms of service. All

Re: Terror Reading

2003-08-29 Thread Steve Schear
that there are no investigations, it can serve as a clue that something may be happening. http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/1706/1/41 steve A foolish Constitutional inconsistency is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

IRS loses a big one?

2003-08-28 Thread Steve Schear
is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

Some new problems uncovered for short latency mixes

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Schear
Probabilistic Analysis of Anonymity by Vitaly Shmatikov Abstract: We present a formal analysis technique for probabilistic security properties of peer-to-peer communication systems based on random message routing among members. The behavior of group members and the adversary is modeled as a

Re: Is it time to kill the JAP backdoor cretins and their families?

2003-08-26 Thread Steve Schear
by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

Re: [dave@farber.net: [IP] blackmail / real world stego use]

2003-08-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:36 PM 8/25/2003 -0400, you wrote: To be real clever, he did not approach the website with the car adds directly. Police found out the add was approached trough a US anonymizer called SURFOLA.com. SURFOLA.com claims on their website : We will not give out your name, residence address, or

Re: domestic terrorism, fat lazy amerikans ducks

2003-08-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:11 PM 8/26/2003 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: So... how many people does one have to terrorize in order to be a terrorist? PS: Anyone else getting tired of the term terror? Back when we all hated Osama bin Laden (remember that guy?) Osama was promoted from Terrorist to terror mastermind to

Re: Popular Net anonymity service back-doored (fwd)

2003-08-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:39 PM 8/21/2003 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: However, perhaps the JAP team at TU Dresden hadn't much choice. I haven't seen the court order, but I could imagine that they weren't allowed to inform the users because it would have harmed the criminal investigation. Following the order

So, if Arnold wins can he claim Total Recall ;-)

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Schear
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the

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