Quoting Khoder bin Hakkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[faustine]
More interestingly, s/he neglects to include this disqualifier from
State Secrets:
Allegiance to the United States
Conditions that could raise a security concern and may be disqualifying
include:
d. Involvement in
Quoting James A. Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
--
James A. Donald:
When Chaumian money comes into wide use, I think that for
most end users we will have to stash all unused tokens
inside smartcards.
Someone:
Here in Hong Kong, contactless Octopus smartcards (based on
the Sony
Quoting Trei, Peter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
The phone SW world is nowhere near as closed as you think.
* Thousands of developers are writing Java applets for Japanese iMode
phones.
* Hundreds are developing applets for the Blackberry 5810 and 5820 phones
(free Java-based IDS from RIM).
*
--- Eric Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb
I'm not sure which is more irritating-- the obvious
way in which
the govermedia manipulate the issue, or their
automatic assumption that
americans are too stupid/criminal to turn in all the
parts they
find if NASA just said we need all
--- Adam Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as evolutionary pressures, aggressive and
fast driving is far
more dangerous, however adrenaline inducingly fun
that may be.
Depends on one's strategy. When riding a motorcycle,
there are two aggressive driving principles I observe
at all
Kevin S. Van Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:
Let's take one of my famous extreme examples.
Let's say a section of
the New Jersey Turnpike gets turned over to a
private company, which
now owns and operates this section.
So...now let's say I'm black. NO! Let's say
--- Kevin S. Van Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: Steve Thompson wrote:
That's too logical,
No, it's not. Logical actors dominate in the economy
because those prone
to excessive irrationality end up with little money
to play with.
Perhaps you aren't joking... I would be forced to
agree
--- Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19
Mar 2003, Tim May wrote:
I think the nearly perfectly vertical collapse of
the WTC towers was
because of the pancaking of each floor into the
floors below, as shown
in the videos. Whether removal of one support
triggers pancaking
"R. A. Hettinga" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keith Henson Needs Help (MLP)By BaldrsonWed Sep 15th, 2004 at 07:42:14 AM EST[snip]Anyway, back to the question: Why should you care?Maybe you don't like Scientology.Maybe you like Keith.Maybe you just like to mess with the California
--- John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most of the Boston Red Sox team look as if they have
just
come from a terrorist training camp for blind,
handless barbers,
decked-out in ill-fitting sports gear, staring
wild-eyed at
RPGs being fired at their heads and nuts, swinging
clubs
--- Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thus spake James A. Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[15/10/04 15:19]:
[laws making stupidity mandatory for gov't
officials]
I've had more than one comment about my ID photos
that amount to basically: You look like you've just
left a terrorist training
I seem to recall hearing a rumour that suggested that for years now, photocopiers have been leaving their serial number on the copies they produce. If true, and I am inclined to believe it, it follows naturally that something similar might happen with laser-printers and ink-jet printers.Ian Grigg
"R.A. Hettinga" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[from osint]
Wednesday, November 17, 2004 Group to launch terrorist database BY Diane Frank Published on Nov. 17, 2004[snip]
The Terrorism Knowledge Base is the latest Web-based
resource from the National Memorial Institute for the
Prevention of
--- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--
James A. Donald:
And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is?
On 24 Nov 2004 at 2:42, Bill Stewart wrote:
Well, once you get past the invalid and dishonest parts of
Bush's 57 reasons We Need to Invade Iraq Right Now (WMDs,
--- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--
James A. Donald:
Seems to me that permanent civil war in Iraq provides
Americans with the same benefits as democracy in Iraq,
though considerably more reliably.
Steve Thompson
You might be more accurate to say that a permanent
--- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[permanent holy war]
Steve Thompson
True, but there's a question of the waste of resources and
man-years that would come from such a circumstance.
All the oil money has been wasted, most of the humans in the
middle east have suffered poverty
--- Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[further snippage]
Pray the draft is women-empowered so there's no need
to shanghai the overaged, over-decrepit, over-funny-loving,
inbred-feeders, pray for the Condies and the Maggies to
fight the gameboy-dreamy
--- R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/business/yourmoney/28lock.html
November 28, 2004
Lockheed and the Future of Warfare
By TIM WEINER
LOCKHEED MARTIN doesn't run the United States. But it does help run a
breathtakingly big part of it.
--- Neil Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 08:46 -0500, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote:
To be bobbed is never the goal,
but bobless fear steers the undifferentiated bob
along conventional paths,
to the abattoir
Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-)
Tuning
--- Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I read a few old email messages I had and stumbled over some
interesting material relating to NSA, CIA and one Michael
Riconosciuto among other things.
[PROMIS]
Does anyone here have a good idea of what the PROMIS code actuall does;
what its
--- Neil Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 20:58 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
[PROMIS]
Yes, I have found that puzzling too.
Articles I have read refer to the original version being in the public
domain. You'd think the source code would be out there somewhere
--- Steve Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bonus question:
Who is the author of the origin question that inspired the copycats?
Well, I remember May posting it but I don't think he was the ultimate
author. I suspect whoever posted
--- R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 3:34 PM -0500 12/6/04, Steve Thompson wrote:
I rather suspect that
the people who 0wn the upstream pipe from my points of access are
toying
with their ability to interpose their data in place of
quasi-authoritative
texts.
Oh, *my*...
Come
--- Roy M. Silvernail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
R.A. Hettinga wrote:
Oh, *my*...
Where is Detweiller, now that we need him?
Huh? I thought that *was* Detweiller!
Detwellier had an oral fixation, and while I may like a good argument as
much as anyone, mere talk about sex never really did
--- privacy.at Anonymous Remailer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Steve Thompson:
If that's true, then the government couldn't have stolen it.
However, I suspect that mainfraim code of any sophistication is
rarely released into the public domain. I imagine the author would
be able to clear
--- Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Furlong:
Random racist ranting is also required. There are some racist
assholes currently posting on cpunks, but none have quite the May
flavor.
LOL
You can say that again. Here are a few examples of what this once
renowned
--- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Thompson wrote:
[take back the night]
Yep, the state fights to preserve its life
while the people suffer their own.
The mistake of top down thinking
lies in the inability to really model large populations with rules,
too much
--- Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps I am stupid. I don't know how one would go about modifying
application software to include a 'back door' that would presumably
enhance its suceptibility to TEMPEST attacks. Isn't tempest all about
EM
spectrum signal detection and
--- John Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[May]
Maybe, maybe not. The thing I always find interesting and annoying
about Tim May's posts is that he's sometimes making really clearly
thought out, intelligent points, and other times spewing out nonsense so
crazy you can't believe it's coming
--- Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2004-12-10T15:50:22-0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
[snip]
state's personality, the state has the right, nay, obligation to
preserve
its identity unchanged. (Isn't this pretty much polysci 101
material?)
Not typically. The idea that the state has
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Sounds like a fuckin' party, if you ask me! Quit bogartin' that J...
Oh, sure. It wasn't all bad. Just ask the chick who is known in certain
circles as Nefertiti. (That's her code-name). We had an excellent time
together; or at least we
--- Roy M. Silvernail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Thompson wrote:
[imagine]
Imagine using observed timing to conclude that your agent provocateur
operates from geostationary orbit.
That would be a neat trick considering the variety of likely signal path
lengths to be found
--- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Process and perception
[snip]
We have lots of timing to tap. Response times, flicker fusion times,
saccades, pulse, peristalsis, menstruation. The royal road to cognitive
illumination is the path of chronus.
If you go about tapping the
--- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the tools currently being used in the cognitive sciences is the
measurement of reaction time to stimulus.
What's this? The cognitive equivalent to wacking someone on the knee with
a rubber hammer to measure the mentak kick reflex of
--- R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Thompson wrote:
[assholes]
You tell them, Steve
I believe I just did.
Insanity is a great cover for an insurectionist!
I suppose it could be, although I am give to belive that residents of the
White Room Hotel may only carry out
--- J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Steve Thompson wrote:
snip one of the funniest posts in recent cpunk history
(STANDING OVATION) (SOUNDS OF MANY HANDS CLAPPING)
Thank you Steve, for that short but entertaining look into the dark
recesses of our
--- Justin Guyett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2004-12-11T08:10:27-0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
[snip]
This is what happens when one picks up ideas from people who present
them
second-hand (or at even greater distances from their origin) and who
do
not make proper footnotes.
That's
--- J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Bill Stewart wrote:
The more serious problem is what this means for computer evidence
search and seizure procedures - the US has some official rules about
copy the disk and return the computer that came out of the Steve
--- J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:
Out of nowhere cometh Steve Thompson, and sayeth he all manner of
things. But, while his mouth moveth one way, he seemeth to move the
other.
http://groups
as
to what relation Mr. Erickson's possible stoopidity has to the topic at
hand, which is (if we are to take the message at face value), that he is
concerned with a complaint about a bad eBay sale, which is the
responsibility of someone using the name Steve Thompson, and which was
made to Cypherpunks
The subject header is very nice.
--- J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Several points come to mind:
(1) Mr. Monahan seems to think that lies on police reports are an
artifact
of 9/11. Welcome to the real world Mr. Monahan.
You say that like it's a bad thing. The real world, that
--- Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Gadi Evron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cell phones for eavesdropping - finally some public chatter
Of course, the low-budget govt snoops go for the basestations
and landline links.
Oh, I don't know about that. What would it cost a
To leave the attributions and headers, or not?
--- Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Forwarded message from David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
From: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:02:03 -0500
To: Ip ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: [IP] more on No
--- R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 12:31 AM +0100 1/16/05, Eugen Leitl wrote:
it is believed that unspecified
commercial surveillance tools are employed now.
It was always AGGroup's Skyline package to begin with.
The FBI is like NASA. They never build anything, and take
--- Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 04:12 PM 1/21/05 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote:
John Young, Cryptome strikes again. NPR is running a story on all of
the
sensitive information available. Funny shit!
LATimes ran something too! And even included a link to the
--- R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://nytimes.com/2005/01/23/books/review/23KAPLAN.html?pagewanted=printposition=
The New York Times
January 23, 2005
'The Interrogators' and 'Torture': Hard Questions
By ROBERT D. KAPLAN
[snip]
What a load of shit.
The reality of today
--- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--
On 24 Jan 2005 at 10:34, Tyler Durden wrote:
Military and civilian participants said in interviews that
the new unit has been operating in secret for two years -- in
Iraq (news - web sites),
Well hell, it's doing such a good job
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[airport security]
More indications of an emerging 'Brazil' scenario, as opposed to a
hyper-intelligent super-fascist state.
As if.
There already is a kind of intelligent super-fascist state in place
thoughout much of society. My bugbears of the
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[mistake rate]
And of course there's the fairly obvious point that lots of those in
prison
correctly are there for drug-related crimes. Said crimes would
almost
completely dissappear and drug usage would drop if many of those drugs
were
--- Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder
--- Tyler
Speaking of mistakes I seem to have pasted the wrong message text when
I sent my reply to Mr. Trei. I regret the unfortunate duplication and
consequent waste of list bandwidth.
---
--- Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[mistake rate]
If, in a capital case, where
--- Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly
the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of
your computer which you may not have full control over.
Well we all know that having complete control over one's own
computer is far
--- Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Forwarded message from jrandom [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
From: jrandom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:03:02 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [i2p] weekly status notes [feb 1]
[snip]
Thats all I have for the moment (good thing
Anonymous wrote:
I challenge anyone here to answer the question of what it means to be
a cypherpunk. What are your goals? What is your philosophy? Do you
In this day and age, do you realy expect anyone to answer questions like
that openly and honestly? Really. There's a similar and simple
--- John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The FBI continues to claim Jim Bell is a WMD threat
despite having no case against him except in the media,
but that conforms to current FBI/DHS policy of fictionalizing
homeland threats.
--- ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James A. Donald wrote:
The state was created to attack private property rights - to
steal stuff. Some rich people are beneficiaries, but from the
beginning, always at the expense of other rich people.
More commonly states defend the rich against the
[snip]
Agreements and accords such as the Berne convention and the DCMA, to
say
nothing of human-rights legislation, are hobbled by the toothlessness
of
enforcement, pulic apathy to others' rights, and a load of convenient
exceptions to such rules made for the agents of state.
Okay.
--- R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Property is like rights. We create it inherently, because we're human,
it
is not bestowed upon us by someone else. Particularly if that property
is
stolen from someone else at tax-time.
Bzzt. I call you on your bullshit.
Supposedly by
--- Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2005-02-16T13:31:14-0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
--- R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Property is like rights. We create it inherently, because we're
human,
it
is not bestowed upon us by someone else. Particularly
--- Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2005-02-15T13:23:37-0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
--- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
As governments were created to smash property rights, they are
always everywhere necessarily the enemy of those with property
--- Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Still, if we could achieve mutual respect and freedom in the physical
world, we would happily pay the price of increased rudeness online.
Speak for yourself.
Regards,
Steve
--- Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And then, of course, in the off chance they can't actually break the
message under that flag, they can merely send a guy out with
binoculars or whatever.
Don't forget about rubber-hose cryptanlysis. Rumour has it that
method is preferred in
--- A.Melon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Steve Thompson scribbled:
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[incinerating the evidence]
What's wrong with this idea?
The Alabama hillbilly remains free to harass you the next time
you pass through the area.
Don't you think it's a little
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
Oh, I don't know about that.
What about proving that someone is pointing a [gun] at
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...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
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
--- John Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Jul 23, 2005 9:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Well, they got what they want...
...
Saw a local security expert on the news, and he stated the
obvious: Random earches and
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, apparently you haven't been getting any of my posts to the
Al-Qaeda
node, otherwise the context would be clear.
I'm not even going to bother with you anymore. Your motivation is quite
clear enough, and any further bad-faith back-and-forth on
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's an old pattern to character assassins: I've attacked you
publically
but I really don't want to have defend what I've said or reply to
suggestions about my own motivation.
And psychopaths are sometimes said to accuse their victims of the
--- J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Steve Thompson wrote:
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pretend you hate. But there is an up-side: you're too fucking stupid
to
be of permanent use to the 'Stazi', and so you can anticpate outliving
your
--- Roy M. Silvernail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
And since one's passport essentially boils down to a chip, why not
implant
it under the skin?
You say that as though it hasn't been considered.
Good point. As many of us know, there are groups of
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whaddya know. Thompson said something that didn't make me want to beat
him to death...
Too bad for you that I cannot say the same about what you write.
I have a different threat model.
I've reached more or less the same conclusion. Or at least,
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