RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] more on U.S. passports to receive RFID implants start

2005-10-31 Thread Tyler Durden
One thing to think about with respect to the RFID passports... Um, uh...surely once in a while the RFID tag is going to get corrupted or something...right? I'd bet it ends up happening all the time. In those cases they probably have to fall back upon the traditional passport usage and

RE: Return of the death of cypherpunks.

2005-10-31 Thread Tyler Durden
I don't agree. One thing we do know is that, although Crypto is available and, in special contexts, used, it's use in other contexts is almost counterproduct, sending up a red flag so that those that Protect Our Freedoms will come sniffing around and bring to bear their full arsenal of

RE: crypto on sonet is free, Tyler

2005-10-26 Thread Tyler Durden
: crypto on sonet is free, Tyler Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:52:10 -0700 At 03:15 PM 6/8/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, it's interesting to consider how/if that might be possible. SONET scrambles the payload prior to transmission..adding an additional crypto layer prior to transmission would mean

RE: On special objects, and Judy Miller's treason

2005-10-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Its unfortunate that some posters had to be reminded that anyone calling for government-licensed reporters (and religions, as one author included) deserves to have their carbon recycled, because of the treason to the BoR. Tim May used to call government licensed citizens special objects. Search

Re: Judy Miller needing killing

2005-10-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Cyphrpunk wrote... The notion that someone who is willing to spend months in jail just to keep a promise of silence needs killing is beyond bizarre and is downright evil. This list supports the rights of individuals to tell the government to go to hell, and that is exactly what Judy Miller

Color Laser Printer Snitch Codes

2005-10-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Apparently, it's possible to examine a color printer output and determine make, model, and even print time. http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/ Soon we'll find out that toothbrushes are able to determine what I ate for dinner and are regularly sending the info... -TD

RE: TEMPEST PC for sale on ebay

2005-10-16 Thread Tyler Durden
Uh...it's SAIC. I used to work for a subsidiary so I wouldn't touch this POS with a ten-foot tempest pole. -TD From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TEMPEST PC for sale on ebay Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:39:02 +1300

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents]

2005-10-06 Thread Tyler Durden
There's also some very nice advice for nontechnical people about things like Mixmaster, checking IP addresses, and how to DO a lot of stuff making use of the tools that are out there. It's a great little book. Oh yeah...I think Gilmore wrote a section in it. -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL

Re: Just to make your life more paranoid:) Re: Surreptitious Tor Messages?

2005-10-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Steve Furlong wrote... The noisy protocol has the added benefit of causing the network cable to emit lots of radiation, frying the brains of TOR users. The only defense is a hat made of flexible metal. More than that, I'd bet they engineered that noise to stimulate the very parts of the

Surreptitious Tor Messages?

2005-10-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Can anyone suggest a tool for checking to see if my Tor client is performing any surreptitious signaling? Seems to me there's a couple of possibilities for a TLA or someone else to monitor Tor users. Tor clients purchased online or whatever could possibly signal a monitoring agency for when

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Italy requires logging of personal info at cybercafes]

2005-10-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, the great thing about the Italians is that you can bet in large parts of Italy the law is already routinely ignored. 6 months from now it will be forgotten. -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Italy requires logging of

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wikipedia Tor]

2005-10-03 Thread Tyler Durden
In many segments of the credit card insutry meatspace is also irrelevant. Anyone with a FICO greater than about 680 is almost certainly concered with maintaining their reputation with the current crop of TRWs of the world...collections efforts leverage the potential damage to the reputation,

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Pseudonymity for tor: nym-0.1 (fwd)]

2005-09-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Just a thought. Wikipedia entries from anonymous sources, such as Tor, should have an expiration date and revert back, unless a Wiki Admin or other trusted user OKs the new entry. -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Pseudonymity

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Wikipedia Tor]

2005-09-30 Thread Tyler Durden
One way to build a psuedo-pseudonymous mechanism to hang off of Tor that would be easy for the Wikipedians to deal with would be to have a server that lets you connect to it using Tor, log in using some authentication protocol or other, then have it generate different outgoing addresses based on

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia]

2005-09-30 Thread Tyler Durden
No, this is important. If this isn't Cypherpunks material these days then nothing is. As for the Wikipedia folks, I can't imagine having a more intelligent batch of people disagree. There's is a very practical matter: Reducing the hassles, particularly when said hassles in general deteriorate

Re: Wikipedia Tor

2005-09-30 Thread Tyler Durden
That's trivial: charge Tor-originated users for editing. That 0.0001% (all three of them) that actually contributes to Wikipedia will be resourceful enough to create untraceable payment accounts. ..and ensure that all future Tor-originated Wikipedia entries are about anonymous payments and

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Geowanking] Google Earth Exposes the Indian Military]

2005-09-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Stupid assholes. Despite all the tech work in India going on, their military apparently didn't realize that the world changed a long time ago (way before Google). And if they can somehow block google, then I can merely purchase the photos on the black market from a private satellite. -TD

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia]

2005-09-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Oh...-that's- your point: No, Wikipedia needs to realize that the IP address correlation they enjoy outside of Tor is a happy accident, and that they should stop treating IP addressess as user credentials. If they want credentials, they need to implement them. Well, is it reasonable to

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia]

2005-09-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Dont' agree here... From: Steve Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Hello directly from Jimbo at Wikipedia] Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:41:34 -0400 On 9/28/05, Roy M. Silvernail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Wikiwhiner wrote I have valid

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Wikipedia Tor]

2005-09-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Sorry...I don't understand...why would psuedonymity services be provided within Tor? An external reputation/psuedonymity server would of course reduce a Tor users' anonymity to mere psuedonymity, but I don't see how it would do anything more, and who cares? If Wikipedia (or anyone) doesn't

Re: /. [How Chinese Evade Government's Web Controls]

2005-09-28 Thread Tyler Durden
What the heck are you doing there for three weeks? Buying some golden triangle goods? I hear it's beautiful, however, but it's not like you took a direct international flight there... -TD From: Peter Thoenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wikipedia Tor]

2005-09-27 Thread Tyler Durden
the great Tyler Durden was able to get a Tor client up-and-running, but I find it suspicious that this early wave of Tor users also happen to have a high % of vandals...something stinks. A very subtle attack, perhaps? If I were so-and-so, I consider it a real coup to stop the kinds

Re: Wired on Secrecy Power Sinks Patent Case

2005-09-27 Thread Tyler Durden
] Subject: Re: Wired on Secrecy Power Sinks Patent Case Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:55:48 -0700 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

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

2005-09-23 Thread Tyler Durden
phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]] Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:11:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

2005-09-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Are you sure? -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]] Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:05:31 -0400 At 2:59 PM +0200 9/22/05, Eugen Leitl wrote:

Wired on Secrecy Power Sinks Patent Case

2005-09-22 Thread Tyler Durden
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 state-sponsored protection of intellectual

Re: Wired on Secrecy Power Sinks Patent Case

2005-09-22 Thread Tyler Durden
On 2005-09-20T12:14:13-0400, 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 I'm sick of this mosaic theory being used to justify preventing access to unclassified information. -- War

Tor Webhosting?

2005-09-19 Thread Tyler Durden
A few more Tor questions.. Are there yet commercial Tor web hosters? How much would this cost vs hosting one's own node? Since I assume the website actually resides on a single node, there is the slight problem of the node owner knowing, at least, that he had been paid to host X sites, on

RE: The ghost of Tim May

2005-09-09 Thread Tyler Durden
, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The ghost of Tim May Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:17:47 -0400 Tyler Durden wrote: Ulex Europae wrote... Okay, I've been in a hole in the ground for a few years. What happened to Tim May? May's ghost haunts and trolls lesser

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Radio jamming in New Orleans during rescue operations]

2005-09-09 Thread Tyler Durden
What? A pirate radio station in the Carribean is jamming broadcasts in New Orleans? I find that hard to believe. -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Radio jamming in New Orleans during rescue operations] Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Internet phone wiretapping (Psst! The FBI is Having Trouble on the Line, Aug. 15)]

2005-09-07 Thread Tyler Durden
Like I said: We need a WiFi VoIP over Tor app pronto! Let 'em CALEA -that-. Only then will the ghost of Tim May rest in piece. Then again, the FBI probably loves hanging out in Starbucks anyway... -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: Tor VoIP, etc...

2005-09-06 Thread Tyler Durden
SQ wrote... A Houston (TX, USA) public library? Could be next to impossible, as well as excellent cause for revocation of your library card Oh no! Loss of the Houston library card! My passport to knowledge!!! criminal prosecution if caught. Well, the idea would be not to get caught. I'm

Re: Tor VoIP, etc...

2005-09-06 Thread Tyler Durden
Shawn Quinn wrote... For the people that only route stuff like HTTP traffic through your Tor node, it will be a benefit. If I'm IRCing and get routed through your node, that's a different story (but it's no different than the bad old days of IIP where people dropped off by the dozens when

Re: Perhaps the real reason why Chavez is being targeted?

2005-09-06 Thread Tyler Durden
While the US certainly has been interfering with Chavez and generally trying to mess around in Venezuela for a while, most of what's happening here is just that Chavez is running off at the mouth for domestic political reasons. (Pat Robertson was partly doing that also and partly just

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Tor on USB]

2005-09-06 Thread Tyler Durden
Fascinating little gizmo. Got a question...sorry I'm just too f'in busy to keep up with this side, but... How long will it take the Greater Tor Network to notice the existence of this little node? In other words, if I go into a Starbucks with this thing, can my laptop or whatever start

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Politech] Montana Supreme Court justice warns Orwell's 1984 has arrived [priv]]

2005-08-24 Thread Tyler Durden
some of those growers are good customers of RSA products! -TD From: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED], cypherpunks@minder.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Politech] Montana Supreme Court justice warns Orwell's 1984 has arrived [priv

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Politech] Montana Supreme Court justice warns Orwell's 1984 has arrived [priv]]

2005-08-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Coderman wrote... the state of oregon just passed a law (yet to be put into effect) that requires a prescription from a doctor for all sudafed (pseudo ephedrine) purchases. the problem isn't drug addicts killing themselves with corrosive fluids, as this would be a problem that solves itself

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Politech] Montana Supreme Court justice warns Orwell's 1984 has arrived [priv]]

2005-08-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy Fuck we need some smarter people in this society. OK, you threw away your trash. I see no inherent reason why someone else can't grab it. But INFORMATION about you isn't trash. Then again, you do throw away the photons that exit through your windows, so I guess cops should be able to

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-19 Thread Tyler Durden
. -Tyler Durden Remember, L-IIIa is your friend. :-) And SG IIIb yours. -TD -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0xBD4A95BF I like the idea of belief in drug-prohibition as a religion in that it is a strongly held belief based on grossly insufficient evidence and bolstered

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Sorry. Got you mixed up with the other dude. You seem willing to back up any slams with facts quotes, so all respect is given. A good fight strengthens us, a sniper smells of MwGs. Sorry again. -TD From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL

Re: no visas for Chinese cryptologists

2005-08-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Hey...this looks interesting. I'd like to see the email chain before this. While living in China I learned that whatever Jong Nan Hai most vociferously denies will almost certainly be true, so even Chinese Government propaganda is very interesting. -TD From: Dave Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-17 Thread Tyler Durden
...I'm the guy even the locals won't fuck with. -Tyler Durden From: Steve Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID... Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:20:54 -0400 (EDT) --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-09 Thread Tyler Durden
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68451,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 And since one's passport essentially boils down to a chip, why not implant it under the skin? As for the encryption issue, can someone explain to me why it even matters? It would seem to me that any on-demand access to

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Whaddya know. Thompson said something that didn't make me want to beat him to death... I have a different threat model. I suggest that incompetence is _often_ deliberate and, at least to those who orchestrate such things, is designed to leave or provide cracks in arbitrary systesm that will

RE: [fc-announce] CFP FC'06: Financial Cryptography and Data Security

2005-08-03 Thread Tyler Durden
Your telling me there's someone in Telcordia these days that does something interesting in the cryptograhy field? Or is that his personal hobby... -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [fc-announce] CFP FC'06: Financial

RE: Prosecutors: CIA agents left trail

2005-08-03 Thread Tyler Durden
Reverse Rendition? Here's where Liberals can take a stand...let's round up some of these fuckers and stuff 'em in a shipping container on a Chinese barge to Italy. I've done a quick google search and I've only found a couple of the names. Is the complete list available? -TD From: Eugen

Re: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out

2005-08-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, I did know that 300Mb/sec isn't super-huge for Denial of Service attacks at least, but this is an obscure Tor node. Someone attacking it at this stage in the game has a real agenda (perhaps they want to see if certain websites get disrupted? Does Tor work that way for short-ish

RE: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out

2005-08-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Gee, that's great. A global organization that has taken the task of worldwide censorship into its sweaty little hands. Did the google cache'd versions of these sites dissappear too? Tor networks, anyone? -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL

Re: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out

2005-08-01 Thread Tyler Durden
: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 17:15:17 +0200 On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:54:26AM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Tor networks

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

2005-07-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Well, they got what they want... Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:32:57 -0400 (EDT) --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, apparently you haven't been getting any of my posts to the Al-Qaeda node

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

2005-07-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, apparently you haven't been getting any of my posts to the Al-Qaeda node, otherwise the context would be clear. As for... Local authorities, however, can take these differences as meaningful and act upon them. Yes they can. But should they? From their perspective? Of course.

RE: [Clips] Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment

2005-07-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Any indication he was bludgeoned with a can of spam? -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Clips] Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:09:11 -0400 --- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-07-26 Thread Tyler Durden
This premise, however, depends somewhat on the observation that the so-called left and right-wing divisions of the political spectrum are largely illusory. The most strident critics of diametric political opposites in the press and elsewhere would disagree, but their very occupations are

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

2005-07-25 Thread Tyler Durden
John Kelsey wrote... I think the reality is a bit different. The random searches won't keep someone who's planning an attack from trying to carry it out, but it may delay their attack, if they made plans based on the old security setup, not the new one. It may also convince them to shift the

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

2005-07-24 Thread Tyler Durden
From: Steve Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Well, they got what they want... Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:01:30 -0400 (EDT) --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...I'm sure most are aware that random searches has begun here in NYC, at subway stations

Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-22 Thread Tyler Durden
..I'm sure most are aware that random searches has begun here in NYC, at subway stations and in the LIRR. Contraband (drugs, etc...) can get the owner arrested. The next step, of course, will be to start grabbing anyone carrying terrorist propaganda, such as the Qu'ran, leaflets, or even the

RE: Paintball Terrorist Sentenced

2005-07-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Quit inciting me to bake US troops into pies. I didn't want to do it, but you made such a convincing argument that I just had to. it's all your fault: You FORCED me to bake Corp Anderson and Lieutenant Sanders into pies. (Well, I actually didn't bake them in pies but baked some GI Joe action

Reverse Palladium?

2005-07-12 Thread Tyler Durden
How secure can I make a Java sandbox from the rest of the network I'm on? Can I make it so that my network administrator can't see what I'm typing? In other words, a secure environment that's sitting on an insecure machine. And of course, there's a short term 'solution' (which will work until

RE: Interesting article

2005-07-08 Thread Tyler Durden
That is interesting. One wonders if in certain circles of Russia people are much more careful with their data and encrypting it. Who knows? A country like that might evolve some fairly rigorous privacy procedures. Here in the US it's, Our data is safe because people will go to jail if they hack

Posion Pill for ED?

2005-07-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Hey...can some clever Cypherpunk think of a nice poison pill for ED? Theoretically, something like that is possible, but my only ideas aren't so hot. For instance, and elderly couple could sow some form of radioactive substance into their grounds, in quantities that would take longer than

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, James Dobson (right wing Christian evangelical) is targeting some of these same judges, so I don't think the Democrat Republican division you're pointing to here is all that valid. In other words, some of those same judges are hated by the right. -TD From: James A. Donald [EMAIL

Live Free or Die

2005-06-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Ya' knew that had to happen! Funny but, reading it, it seems like it would be fairly easy to convince the Town board of 5 people that this is a good idea, and from an economic standpoint it just might be!. In much of New Hampshire any revenue at all from something like this is going to

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-28 Thread Tyler Durden
What the hell are all of you smoking? This court has *talked* about restricting inappropriate use of the commerce clause, but when it comes to *doing*, they're 100% behind 100% Federal expansion *through* the Commerce clause. Doesn't anyboy actually LOOK at whats going on anymore, or are we all

Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy crap. Some shitty little township can now bulldoze your house because someone wants to convert the space into a Waffle House. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8331097/ Where's Tim May when you need him? Where's the RAGE? How do you take out a bulldozer? (Remember, bulldozer operators can

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Yeah, but this steps crosses a line, I think. Before, your home could be taken for a public project. Now, the supreme court has ruled that your home can be taken for a public project that consists entirely of private development, in the name of the public good, which is supposed to equal

RE: [jrandom@i2p.net: [i2p] weekly status notes [jun 21]]

2005-06-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Any idea how much it would cost? How much time is involved? (My constraint is the latter and not so much the former.) -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [i2p] weekly status notes [jun 21]] Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:28:21 +0200 Speaking

RE: [dave@farber.net: [IP] Cell Phones Now Playing Role of Wallet]

2005-06-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Sounds great. Citigroup couldn't be bothered to encrypt millions of their customer's detailed data prior to shipping them out via UPS, so I'm SURE they won't screw this up. -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Cell Phones Now Playing

Re: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]

2005-05-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Eugen Leitl wrote... Online activation of software is already quite widespread, so it seems customers are willing to accept restriction to ownership and use. Well, that's an interesting phenomenon. In industrialized nations where the price of software is fairly low compared to the wages,

RE: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]

2005-05-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Eugen Leitl wrote... from the get-you-where-you-live dept. Badluck writes Microsoft and the entertainment industry's holy grail of controlling copyright through the motherboard has moved a step closer with Intel Corp. now embedding [1]digital rights management within in its

e-gold exchange

2005-05-31 Thread Tyler Durden
OK...what;s the best exchange service for transferring dollars (perhaps via paypal or credit cards) into egold? -TD

RE: /. [CIA's Info Ops Team Hosts 3-Day Cyber Wargame]

2005-05-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Other versions of the press release are fairly amusing, and can be paraphrased as follows: Imagining a world where most nations are allied against the United States, the CIA is currently... -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: /.

Anonymous Site Registration

2005-05-26 Thread Tyler Durden
OK, what's the best way to put up a website anonymously? Let's assume that it has nothing to do with national security...the Feds aren't interested. BUT, let's assume that the existence and/or content of the website would probably direct a decent amount of law-suits. Presumably there's no

RE: [Dissidents Seeking Anonymous Web Solutions?]

2005-05-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... Three minutes. This is it - ground zero. Would you like to say a few words to mark the occasion? Narrator: ...i... ann... iinn... ff... nnyin... Narrator: [Voice over] With a gun barrel between

Re: Lions and tigers and iraqi minutemen

2005-05-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Wow! 16 Saudis! A veritable tidal wave. -TD From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lions and tigers and iraqi minutemen Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 09:03:17 -0700 -- James A. Donald: While it doubtless would have been better to behead

RE: Len Adleman (of R,S, and A): Universities need a little Limbaugh

2005-05-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Now that was an enjoyable and even marginally relevant piece of RAHspam. From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Len Adleman (of R,S, and A): Universities need a little Limbaugh Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:39:56 -0400 A little humor this

RE: Terrorist-controlled cessna nearly attacks washington

2005-05-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Relax, dude. It was a joke. The point was that in the US there's hardly anyone (TLAs included) that would not have snickered at the original joke, given the brood that was holed up in Union Station. -TD From: Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Terrorist-controlled

RE: Terrorist-controlled cessna nearly attacks washington

2005-05-12 Thread Tyler Durden
new terrorist target: Union Station You used a remailer for THAT?!! -TD

Re: [rationalchatter] Interesting Trial - IRS trial - July 11th (fwd)

2005-05-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Yeah...it's pretty fuckin' pointless. Tantamount to proving a guy pointing a gun at you is actually pointing a gun at you, TO the guy pointing the gun at you. -TD From: Gil Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [rationalchatter] Interesting Trial - IRS trial - July 11th

Re: [Politech] Passport RFID tracking: a between-the-lines read [priv] (fwd from declan@well.com)

2005-05-10 Thread Tyler Durden
I dunno...I don't see a ton of Leitl stuff on the al-qaeda node. That which does come through seems fairly relevant. I'm thinking Choate and RAH are tsk-ing his failed attempt at pure stream-of-consciousness posting. -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: [rationalchatter] Interesting Trial - IRS trial - July 11th (fwd)

2005-05-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Man, that chic's a little dizzy. Good sweater meat, though. -TD From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [rationalchatter] Interesting Trial - IRS trial - July 11th (fwd) Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 19:46:34 -0500 (CDT) -- Forwarded message

Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

2005-05-06 Thread Tyler Durden
Yes, but only provided the universe lasts long enough for those digits to be computed! -TD From: John Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sarad AV [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 09:42:09 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

2005-05-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Cypherpunk: While I respect your forthrightness you are unfortunately wrong. Read the chapters on Randon Mumber generation from Numerical Recipes in C and you get just a small glimpse of how sticky the issue is, particularly when it comes to computers (which are innately non-random, by the

RE: [Politech] Customs-proofing your laptop: Staying safe at border searches [priv] (fwd from declan@well.com)

2005-05-04 Thread Tyler Durden
I checked out those links...hilarious! Check this out (remember, this gal is running for Senator of Alabama!): On the way to the hotel my cab driver, having heard the conversation with the Border Guard, expressed an interest in learning more about my work. So I filled him in as much as I could

RE: Stash Burn?

2005-05-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Hum. Well, maybe. I guess a dual use argument wouldn't fly. Wait...that furnace should be able to reheat burgers also. -TD From: R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Tyler Durden' [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Stash Burn? Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 12:34:15 -0400

RE: zombied ypherpunks (Re: Email Certification?)

2005-04-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Eh...for email you may have a point, but I'm not 100% convinced. In other words, say they want to monitor your email account. Do you really believe they are going to tap all major nodes and then filter all the traffic just to get your email? This is that whole, The TLAs are infinitely powerful

Re: Email Certification?

2005-04-28 Thread Tyler Durden
them to give up their 'phishing' expeditions. -TD From: Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Email Certification? Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:04:54 -0700 I'm still having trouble understanding your threat model

Re: WebMoney

2005-04-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Are you continuing those dots correctly? I assumed they were leading to the words Russian mob, which has become quite the powerful force in Brooklyn these days. -TD From: Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WebMoney Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:15:06 -0500 On Wed,

What's Packed in Variola's Suitcase?

2005-03-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Interesting. Gives a lower limit to certain storage questions. Guess it's no suprise IBM's SAN product handled things here, it's been field-tested after all. -TD GENEVA -- IBM and CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, today announced that IBM's storage virtualization software

Re: WiFi Launcher?

2005-03-28 Thread Tyler Durden
From: Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WiFi Launcher? Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:50:04 -0500 Thus spake Tyler Durden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [25/03/05 10:30]: : Has anyone heard of a utility that can search for a WiFi hotspot while : driving and then launch an email? I

Re: WiFi Launcher?

2005-03-28 Thread Tyler Durden
through. Which leads to the possibility of perhaps attempting both strategies simultaneously, but on different frequency bands. -TD From: Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WiFi Launcher? Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:21:09 -0800 Thus spake Tyler Durden ([EMAIL

Golden Triangle Drug Traffic Arbitrage?

2005-03-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Hey...had an interesting idea I've been discussing. Actually, no way it's crypto but it's certainly markets/anarchy, so read on if you wish. I'm thinking that that Drug Trafficking in the Golden Triangle might actually be a form of arbitrage. Let me explain... China pegs it's currency to US

RE: What Will We Do With Innocent People's DNA?

2005-03-23 Thread Tyler Durden
The simplest solution is to systematically spread one's DNA everywhere, thus making 'discovery' of it meaningless. Yes, this is what I've been endeavoring to do, but my potential partners don't seem to understand the urgency. -TD

Re: Golden Triangle Drug Traffic Arbitrage?

2005-03-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Hey...I never said May was an idiot. In fact, quite the opposite. His issues with race and violence, I feel, don't emanate from stupidity by any means, but are rather codifications of some kind of issues into his thinking. Get him away from human matters and on the technical level he was

Re: on FPGAs vs ASICs

2005-03-21 Thread Tyler Durden
FPGAs probably make more sense for routers, because you want the ability to change the firmware more often, and a router has a bunch of other parts as well, and realistically, cypher-cracking is not an economically viable activity for most people, so the cost-benefit tradeoffs are a bit twisted.

Re: SHA1 broken?

2005-03-09 Thread Tyler Durden
to an FPGA, though, for reasons above. -TD From: Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SHA1 broken? Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:26:48 -0600 Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, maybe I misunderstand your statement here, but in Telecom most heavy iron has plenty of FPGAs

Re: SHA1 broken?

2005-03-07 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, what would you call a network processor? An FPGA or a CPU? I think of it as somewhere in between, given credence to the FPGA statement below. -TD From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SHA1 broken? Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 06:51:24

RE: I.R.S. Accuses Man of Hiding $450 Million

2005-03-02 Thread Tyler Durden
But later, questioned by reporters, Mr. Everson noted that the I.R.S. law enforcement staff has been cut by at least a quarter in recent years. Mr. Wainstein, the United States attorney, said one of his prosecutors had spent a year developing the case. Anyone gigling? Notice that the amount he

Re: [IP] Books -- The New Hows and Whys of Global Eavesdropping (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2005-03-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Keefe says of Cryptome: The site is a good litmus test for your attachment to freedom of speech. He is not happy about excessiveness of any kind. Attachment to freedom of speech? 'NK'. -TD

RE: Anguilla on $1000 a day - NYTimes

2005-02-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Wanna cut to the chase here? I don't think Jennifer Anuston is a cryptographer, and I got bored hacking my way through this reporter commiserating at being at a high-end clip joint. -TD From: Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anguilla on $1000 a day - NYTimes Date:

John Gilmore and Open Source

2005-02-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Are they just basically saying we just can't travel without identity papers? If that's true, then I'd rather see us go through a real debate that says we want to introduce required identity papers in our society rather than trying to legislate it through the back door through regulations that say

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