XRCD HDCD

2002-10-01 Thread Tyler Durden
XRCD is not steganographic in the sense that we are disscusing, but merely a very carefully done 24 bit master mastered down to the normal 16x44 of CD. They also pay very careful attention to the physical manufacturing of the disc, and use aluminum as the substrate (instead of the normal

Re: Real-world steganography

2002-10-01 Thread Tyler Durden
The other formats of note are probably SACD and then DVD-Audio. SACD is multichannel 16-bit/44.1kHz... so multichannel CD without additional sample resolution (if I recall). SACD is not backwards compatible though, whereas HDCD is. DVD-Audio is really the way to go, though... 24-bit/96kHz

Re: Echelon-like...

2002-10-10 Thread Tyler Durden
I assume everyone knows the little arrangement that lotus reached with the NSA over its encrypted secure email? I'm new here, so do tell if I am wrong. Are you referring to the two levels of Encryption available in Bogus Notes? (ie, the North American and the International, the International

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
or know that their message is of enough importance to go outside ofLotus Notes or whatever if they have it. On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:37:52AM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: OK, let's assume for the same of argument that it takes about 1 minute for Echelon/NSA-like resources to break a weakly

Re: Echelon-like...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
So as a follow on question...what kind of hardware does it take to break the weak and strong versions of Bogus Notes? Is it possible that NSA or Echelon have the ability to decode a large number of such messages? And if the amount of hardware needed to break the strong version is

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
returns to my original point: the easy availability of strong crypto products does not mean it is unprofitable for an agency to continue to push populations towards lighter forms of encryption. From: Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Echelon-like... Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:41:21 +0100 Sounds about right. 64 bit crypto in the strong version (which is not that strong -- the distributed.net challenge recently broke a 64 bit key

Re: US developing untraceable weapons

2002-10-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, there was also some other details left out by that article. A 100kW beam doesn't tell you very much if you don't know the beam diameter. A 1310nm telecom laser can cause serious eye damage with 10mW, but that's 10mW into, say 38 um^2. But it ain't going to do nothing to enemy aircraft

Re: was: Echelon-like resources..

2002-10-13 Thread Tyler Durden
: Re: was: Echelon-like resources.. Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Tyler Durden As for Chomsky lying, can you give us some specific citations? Did he lie about our support for Sadam Hussein? No Our support for Indonesia? Yes Our bombing of the sudanese pharmacuetical

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-13 Thread Tyler Durden
willing to concede that at his point I'm talking completely out of my arse. (That will change when I get time to do some real homework in this area, however.) From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Echelon-like

Re: palladium presentation - anyone going?

2002-10-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Palladium sets up a separate trusted virtual computer inside the PC processor, with its own OS, called Nexus, and it own applications, called agents. Holy crap. So does this mean that MS Windows 2005 with Palladium operating will take about 15 minutes to boot up? Will Age of Empires 5 even be

nCipher crypto: FIPS 140-2 Level 3?

2002-10-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Apparently a new Crypto chip from nCipher. What's the C-punks view on this standard--FIPS 140-2 Level 3? Anyone have a link to this document? REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Ingrian Networks, the leader in Active Application Security solutions, announced it has extended its strategic relationship

Re: Durden lies, was: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Notes) on EVERY message they sent. Or perhaps you've all discussed this before, but the responses I've seen so far don't indicate that. From: Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Durden lies, was: Echelon-like resources... Date: Fri, 11 Oct

Re: was: Echelon-like resources..

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Uh, first of all can we get rid of the part of the subject line that says Durden lies? (Particularly seeing how the quote attributed to me did not originate from me.) As for Chomsky lying, can you give us some specific citations? Did he lie about our support for Sadam Hussein? Our support for

Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Tyler Durden
In antoher context I've wondered about the possibility of wireless, near-real-time video upload. With 3G this will cetainly be easy, but I'm wondering if there are soft/hard gadgets that can auto-upload stuff.(In addition, 3G looks like it's going to roll out in the US only in fits and starts

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Tyler Durden
AM 10/28/02 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: In antoher context I've wondered about the possibility of wireless, near-real-time video upload. With 3G this will cetainly be easy, but I'm wondering if there are soft/hard gadgets that can auto-upload stuff. Plenty of webcams come with software to auto

Re: Fw: RE:Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Any chance this is the same Dave Emery who does the radio broadcasts? (I listen from WFMU). If so, man! If a tiny fraction of the stuff you have said over the years is true, well...brrr. A good example is Los Amigos de Bush...doesn't have to be true/right...the fact that those theories so

Re: Confiscation of Sensitive Video

2002-10-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Everyone pretty much knows who all is involved, and has to keep in contact with each other in order to capture video optimally. Well, I've been wondering how feasible it would be to implement video transfer in such a way that the cameras don't know the buffers in advance. Haven't put pen to

LIDAR/Lasers

2002-11-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Some of these problems can be avoided by using very short pulses. Again you get into dwell, the short pulses -must- be made up for by increasing the PRR and this defeats the who purpose of the short pulses since you need more of them (we're talking an integration effect here so it doesn't take

RE: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-11-04 Thread Tyler Durden
... From: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'Tyler Durden' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: What email encryption is actually in use? Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:00:56 -0500 -- From: Tyler Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 10:13 AM

Photos in transport plane of prisoners: Time for eJazeera?

2002-11-09 Thread Tyler Durden
The subject line says it all, if one remembers Variola's clever dare. As far as I'm concerned, this big brother bullshit should work two ways: any tyrrany should expect that any public actions will make it onto the net somewhere. Of course, one day they'll probably begin a set of countermoves,

eJazeera?

2002-11-11 Thread Tyler Durden
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Photos in transport plane of prisoners: Time for eJazeera? Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 17:53:48 -0800 At 08:32 PM 11/9/02 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: So I'm still playing with the idea of a publically-accessible document that outlines

Re: Transparent drive encryption now in FreeBSD

2002-11-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Sorry, I'm new, but does this refer to the notion of splitting up a document holographically, and placing the various pieces of numerous servers throughout the 'Net? (Any one piece will probably not contain a complete copy of the information, and is encrypted too, sot that it is not possible

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
a little chatty and clumsy at this point. From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:04:32 -0800 On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 10:22 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, my main point was that the fact that we

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
2002 08:26:02 -0800 (PST) On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote: Damn what a pack of geeks! (Looks like I might end up liking this list!) It's full of nut cases too :-) I have not, however, heretofore considered that there could exist systems that had some form of completeness built in. My

Emergency Coercive Unit

2002-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
a) Those friggin' war-posters are hilarious. b) Downstairs and across the street in front of Starbucks I just saw two NYC cops holding what looked like AK-47s...on their backs it said Emergency Coercive Unit. _ Protect your PC -

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Damn what a pack of geeks! (Looks like I might end up liking this list!) When we say complete, are we talking about completeness in the Godelian sense? According to Godel, and formal system (except for the possibility of the oddballs mentioned below--I hadn't heard of this possibility) is

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
How can anyone claim that the U.S. or Israel or corporations or rich Americans are morally worse than the likes of Hussein? Can't answer that directly, aside from pointing out that theUS is largely responsible for Hussein's rise to power. I could be argued that oil in our hands has created many

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-15 Thread Tyler Durden
Indeed, I've heard the same. One could argue that for someone to believe in something (religion) so intensely as to shun all moral explanation against this hypothesis and to persist in those beliefs without any proof is akin to schizophrenia. Well, I'm sure this is not an issue that

Re: News: House votes life sentences for hackers (fwd)

2002-11-15 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy Shit! Does that mean that some 18-year-old script kiddie could get LIFE? If this wasn't such an immense pile of stupidity, I'd get angry over the obvious invasions of privacy, etc... Having worked in many a company, I KNOW how most management systems work. Let's say there's something as

Does the app exist...

2002-11-16 Thread Tyler Durden
I'm looking for an application that sits on a webserver and receives encrypted images and audio, de-encrypts them, and auto-posts the images. This application will have a public key which on-the-ground videographers (or uploaders) can use. But it's private key no human being knows. The

Re: AIR TRAVELER ID REQUIREMENT CHALLENGED

2002-11-18 Thread Tyler Durden
Damn. I can't help but think that this sounds kinda Kafka-esque...might we see something like this in the future? Court: Please provide a defense for the charges that have been levied against you. Gilmore: Sure, if you'll tell me what the charges are, and what law I've broken. Court: No.

(Being able to) sell votes

2002-11-18 Thread Tyler Durden
Who, for instance, sees nothing at all wrong with selling votes. Where I come from, it's called equity. :-). Yes, one could argue that the vast majority of the public have their votes bought and sold all the time, but they are unaware of it and don't reap the benefits. Wait scratch that...they

Re: Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap Powers

2002-11-18 Thread Tyler Durden
And to think some people think Timoth McVeigh was wrong in liquidating a military target. Holy Crap May, I'm not quite sure how you meant this but I find this distrubing (and I agree with a lot of what you post)...by Military Target do you mean the building, or the people (and children) who

Re: Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap Powers

2002-11-19 Thread Tyler Durden
So there's plenty of meat for conspiracy theory for a long time to come Dave Emory has documented possible links between McVeigh and neo-fascist groups. Search through http://www.spitfirelist.com/. He also extensively documents connections between the Bush family and the bin Ladens

Re: KK wired article on TOE etc

2002-11-19 Thread Tyler Durden
From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: KK wired article on TOE etc Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 01:48:40 -0800 On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 10:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as just noted by TCM, kevin kelly on a computational/algorithmic TOE, wolfram, wheeler,

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-19 Thread Tyler Durden
If we left them alone, we'd be in constant fear of various types of terrorism funded by many governments in that region. We'd always be a hostage to OPEC. These are probably the same arguments used by our state department, and I have to take exception with them. US involvement with the middle

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Granted. I wish we could go back to isolationism, but as the worlds only remaining Super Power, that seems unlikely. No matter what we do, we simply can't win. When faced with a game I can't win, I either decide to not play, or I cheat. For the US, the first isn't an option.

RE: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Mikey: I would suggest tangling with Chomsky for a bit. Start with... http://zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11ItemID=2312 And then go from there. I have to agree with Peter Trei that your arguments sound pretty pre-packaged and freeze-dried, very similar to the pablum the American

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-20 Thread Tyler Durden
and morees. This, of course, does not absolve what is done in the name of that code, but it does make us realize that human nature in the Middle East is not significantly different from human nature in, say, the US. From: Mike Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED],Tyler

RE: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-20 Thread Tyler Durden
In school yard politics this edge is normally a weapon of some sort that can equalize the playing field (guns usually in the US, try going to an inner city public school for 2 years). Saddam sees this and that is what let him to develop those WMD, to equalize against a superior foe / bully A

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-20 Thread Tyler Durden
As to dangerous, I find that most of the people using violence in this country are anti-drug, not pro. Can't exactly agree with ya' here. Just watch COPS...most of those actually committing stupid crimes are apparently pro-Alchohol. Pot? We can't have THAT be legalized now, or the CIA will lose

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

2002-11-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, they have enough non-central leadership to all be against Israel and the US. And to have been at war against the Israelies since Bible times... OK, Mike, this is a good example of the kind of facts that lead to fairly easy (though erroneous) conclusions. Let's have some history here.

Psuedo-Private Key (eJazeera)

2002-11-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Sorry to be a blabbermouth folks, but this one is interesting. Delete anything I've written in the last two days if ya' want. Here's something I've been thinking about for various reasons. I'm assuming this doesn't exist yet, but it's such an interesting idea I'm tempted to brush the dust off

Re: Psuedo-Private Key (eJazeera)

2002-11-20 Thread Tyler Durden
, just 'hides' it a la Rubberhose.) And of course, we'd like to be able to do this on a message-by-message basis. From: Keith Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Psuedo-Private Key (eJazeera) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:49:43 -0600 Quoting Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Psuedo-Private Key (eJazeera)

2002-11-20 Thread Tyler Durden
be something completely innocuous and unrelated to what they were looking for, or in other cases it could look like what they were looking for albeit with doctored information. From: dmolnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: Psuedo-Private Key (eJazeera)

2002-11-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... What's missing? What part of your threat model didn't they consider? Well, that the recipient of the message may not be on their own machine (not running Rubberhose), etc... Stego your activist photos into kiddie porn which is stegoed into random plaintext cover images.

Re: Aerosil digression

2002-11-21 Thread Tyler Durden
UBIK is a book by Philip K. Dick. In the book, the main character is continually receiving messages to imbibe or otherwise apply the substance UBIK to himself. He is unaware (for most of the book) that he has died and is in deep freeze, and that his boss Runciter is sending him UBIK messages so

All you need to know about Stavridou

2002-11-22 Thread Tyler Durden
identifying network miscreants and revoking their network privileges If one has any doubt, this sentence says it all. In fact, revoking their network privileges does it. No, wait, network privileges is enough. From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL

Re: TIA presentation

2002-11-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Poindexter is no dummy. And criticism of TIA based on his past felony trial, the basis of William Safire's main attack, is on the wrong track. Would TIA be more acceptable if it were being pushed by a true Boy Scout? Of course not. Yeah, I was wondering when someone was going to comment on

Re: Video Mules: (Was: Re: Psuedo-Private Key (eJazeera) )

2002-11-24 Thread Tyler Durden
This assumes the insert doesn't result in negative fitness (could very well be, if the insert kills a gene). If the information is the history of human civilization, that may very well end up being information of great negative fitness! (We shall see...) Actually, from what I understand, there

Re: stego building

2002-11-25 Thread Tyler Durden
I'd bet ya' anything that's a CO (Central Office). That's where the phone company has its telecom gear for the area. From: Tarapia Tapioco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: stego building Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:49:29 +0100 (CET) There is a huge concrete building, hardly

Re: The CDR as a Cliological experiment

2002-11-30 Thread Tyler Durden
The vast majority of people are not interested in 'getting along' or 'live and let live', they are interested in creating an environment where the acceptable views and activities are limited (usually pretty severely). This problem will only become more clear as the differences in the potential

Re: CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade - Nov. 29, 2002 (fwd)

2002-11-30 Thread Tyler Durden
its possible I am wrong and there is a wonderful distributed-computing method to solve these purely network routing problems, but it is news to me. I just don't see how a single WiFi cloud will be able to scale very far. All the WiFi users within eyeshot of each other are always going to

Re: The CDR as a Cliological experiment

2002-11-30 Thread Tyler Durden
(Tyler Durden, _please_ learn to trim your replies. Your quote the entire thing top posting is getting tiresome. I hear there are night school classes which teach Outlook Express or whichever braindead mailer you are using.) Damn are you grumpy Tim May. Whaddya usin', carrier pigeon

Re: A couple of book questions...(one of them about Completeness)

2002-12-02 Thread Tyler Durden
That any particular string can be -precisely- defined as truth or false as required by the definition of completeness, is what is not possible. Here we come down to what appears to be at the heart of the confusion as far as I see it. True, depending on who's saying it (even in a discussion of

Re: A couple of book questions...(one of them about Completeness)

2002-12-03 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, this is quite a post, and I agree with most of it. As for the Godel stuff, there's a part of it with which I disagree (or at least as far as I take what you said). If you want to compare something mathematically you -must- use the same axioms and rules of derivation. The -only-

Re: Analysts Examine WiFi's Future: 3 simultaneous channels

2002-12-06 Thread Tyler Durden
I poked around this article and they discussed an issue I had realised w.r.t. the free Wireless networking issue we were kicking around last week or so. I was wondering if there was any way around the intra-zone congestion issue, and whether a user (and possibly the wireless network that

Re: How to Stop Telemarketers...

2002-12-06 Thread Tyler Durden
I'll have to try this (and it should work seeing how I'm Tyler Durden!). But I have utilized a stopgap strategy for a number of years now that has worked pretty good: 1) If I hear silence for more than a moment or two I hang up the phone. 2) If I hear a large number of people talking

Re: How to Stop Telemarketers...

2002-12-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Technological solutions are preferable over statist solutions (which don't usually even work, as the statists write the rules and exempt themselves and their friends). Ya know Tim May, you say a lotta crazy shit but every now and then you say something that really makes some sense.

Re: The trend toward signing away rights

2002-12-10 Thread Tyler Durden
If you put one of these stickers on your car, you are giving the police permission to pull the car over without probable cause if they find it on the road late at night (1am-5am, or something like that), just to check that all is in order. I think it's being promoted as an anti-theft tool.

Re: [2600.com] Update On The Mike Maginnis Story

2002-12-10 Thread Tyler Durden
eJazeera, Baby! That guy should have had a tiny laptop or something that could wisk those images off the moment an 802.l1 port was detected. (Actually, it should wisk off a copy of the photos EVERY time an 802.11 port is detected!) In addition, wouldn't it be great if he had actually had a

Re: QM, EPR, A/B

2003-01-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, Tyler Durden (ie, me) wrote what is attributed to the generic anonymous name of Norman Nescio. Anyway,... Part of the problem is that the detection equipment is many fermions looking at single particles. I think QM is easier to understand when looking at an ion trap. There are lots

Re: The Microsoft Xbox Key

2003-01-07 Thread Tyler Durden
I think you're drifting here from my original point, which that it is in no way illegal, or even immoral, to run free software on hardware that you own, and to pick any locks on the hardware you own, which would preclude you from doing so. Amen, brudda. So will the cops eventually bust down my

Re: Television

2003-01-08 Thread Tyler Durden
WOW! While I may agree that Tim May seems to like anarchy as long as he's in charge of it, he does come up with some truly destabilising and dangerous ideas every now and then. Like his alter ego Jim Choate, there's some real signal burried under that noise so at least token measures of

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Do you forget the episode of the Simpsons where Homer has a camera installed in his 10-gallon hat? (He was catching Apu recycling expired hotdogs or something.) -TD (Who is not RA Hettinga, at least when RAH is awake.) From: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James A. Donald [EMAIL

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... I've been seeing your nitwitticisms and shallow observations for several weeks now. Time to plonk you. Bye. And I can honestly say that based on Tim May's responses, he simply doesn't get what I am saying most of the time. In this case I wasn't actually being too clever. In

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Cowboy hats are much more common in Cypherpunks Bay Aryan meetings Uh...do you actually hold Aryan meetings? Is this a white supremist thing, or will the following be welcome: Iranians Afghans Most people hailing from Northern India Turks And for that matter, what about

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Tyler Durden
the only level that Tim May seems to think Tyler Durden operates on), the US trial by a jury of your peers and innocent until proven guilty are not supposed to be Rome-like luxuries of being a citizen. They in theory represent a system that protects the accused from basically being the target

Indo European Origins

2003-01-09 Thread Tyler Durden
that is concomittant, including hoped-for genocides), in which case bludgeoning him with a heavy, blunt object in the base of the skull would be a break for all humanity. -TD From: Steve Mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Security

Re: Indo European Origins and other stuff

2003-01-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Major Variola wrote... Reference). Of course, the Bhagavad Gita is a subsection of the Maybe your highschool has firewalled off anything that will lead you to Hoffman, Ott, Huxley, etc. Yeah, read all a lot of that shit 25 years ago. Seems easier to ask in an email while making some

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Some guy wrote You are moron. Care to be a little more specific? (I'm not afraid of a little criticism, particularly if its constructive.) Even if true, I don't see how that comment pertains to my reply. For all I know, I've been posting on a list haunted by a bunch of crypto-white

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-16 Thread Tyler Durden
: 12 Jan 2003 20:55:51 - At 09:33 PM 01/10/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: For all I know, I've been posting on a list haunted by a bunch of crypto-white supremists (crypto, as in secret, hidden). And if that's the case, then I want to know. Figured I'd ask for clarification on this issue

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-16 Thread Tyler Durden
: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:13:32 -0600 (CST) On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: For all I know, I've been posting on a list haunted by a bunch of crypto-white supremists (crypto, as in secret, hidden). And if that's the case, then I want to know

Re: The Plague

2003-01-16 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, this may turn out to be more an academic issue than anything. If someone wanted bubonic or pnuemonic samples, all he'd have to do is just grab someone from the western hospitals that contract it each year. Contrary to popular belief, it still exists, but we have effective treatments

Re: Petro's catch-22 incorrect (Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants)

2003-01-18 Thread Tyler Durden
John Keley wrote... There are terrorists who'd want to do nasty things to us for simply allowing global trade, or for allowing trade with repressive regimes like Saudi Arabia or Nigeria, or for selling weapons to countries with bad human rights records. Hummm...kind of an odd argument, don't

Re: Small taste of things to come if the war on Iraq happens.

2003-01-19 Thread Tyler Durden
, we have no particular qualm. -Tyler Durden From: Jay h [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Small taste of things to come if the war on Iraq happens. Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 07:45:56 -0500 -- Original Message -- From: Matthew X [EMAIL

RE: [linux-elitists] LOCAL Stanford University: face down the DMCA enfo (fwd)

2003-01-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Nobody said... Cops probably deserve *your* thanks, since they maintain *your* cash flow. Are you sayin' this guy's growing some grade-A hydroponic sensimilla? -TD _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months

Dissent Takedown...a little sloppy

2003-01-21 Thread Tyler Durden
But that girl was really an undercover cop- surfing the web as part of a police sting operation. OK, so does this mean that the girl wasn't actually 16, just posing as a 16 year-old? (ie, when did the cops start hiring 16 year olds?) So, this guy was busted for BELIEVING that the girl was 16,

Re: Forget VOA -- new exec order creating Global Communications Office

2003-01-22 Thread Tyler Durden
WH Robinson wrote... convey the truth about America and the goals we share with people everywhere. I agree with your ultimate conclusions, but I'm not sure you need so much irony in interpreting these words. My favorite example is Nancy Reagan's Just say NO to drugs...she was a big-time

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minorities is about tobegin

2003-01-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Ain't gonna be a lot of negroes and Mexicans after this war is over. (I'm not a racist. It's their leaders and their ideology that is to blame. These leaders have led their followers to acts which cannot be forgiven, and which must be punished by death. Nearly all of them need

Deniable Thumbdrive?

2003-01-24 Thread Tyler Durden
I got a hold of a little gadget recently that is very nearly perfect for certain forms of data storage. It's called a Thumbdrive and I bought it online somewhere (64Meg for about $179 or so). The cool thing about this drive (small enough that it has holes for use as a keychain) is that it's

RE: Deniable Thumbdrive?

2003-01-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Peter Trei wrote... What's you're threat model? If it's your wife or kid sister, this might work. If it's a major corporation or a government, forget it - they'll bitcopy the whole flash rom, and look at it with ease. At this point, most of my threat models are on this level or the next one

Re: thumdrive integrity --Deniable Thumbdrive?

2003-01-24 Thread Tyler Durden
John Bethancourt wrote... One of these days, I might build a little device that stores a private key and does on-board encryption using a microcontroller. I would do it just for fun, since it is pretty useless if the infrastructure to support it is not out there. ...while Thomas Shaddack gave

Semi-Deniable Thumbdrive...

2003-01-27 Thread Tyler Durden
Robert Fripp has said: Incremental changes are transformative.) -TD Cheap, fast, easy, and MASSIVELY scalability: that's the real end-run. From: John Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tyler Durden

Re: [IP] OASIS takes up lawful intercept standardization (fwd)

2003-01-28 Thread Tyler Durden
XML-specification? Sounds like one of Variola's posts: bulletableNoam Chomskybulletable commie-fagsDC Anti-war Protestcommie-fags nonAmericanelectrifiedPlungerHandleMohammedAkbarelectrifiedPlungerHandlenonAmerican -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:

Palm Pilot Handshake

2003-01-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Yo! Anyone out there in codeville know if the following is possible? I'd like to be able digitally shake hands using a Palm Pilot. Is this possible? What I mean is, Let's say some disgruntled and generic crypto-kook (let's call him, say,...'Tyler Durden') has been signing his (tiring) cyber

RE: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-29 Thread Tyler Durden
And don't forget his promise that we'll all be able to buy Hydrogen-powered cars by 2020 or so. Guess that's how long he thinks this war on terrorism will last (and its probability for ending!). -TD _ Tired of spam? Get advanced

Re: [DIGRESSION] RE: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Mike Rossing wrote... Just gotta kill off a few more arabs to extend the time when that happens is all. That gives me a damned good idea. Perhaps we can use Camp XRay to do some research on how to melt down Muslims and convert then directly into fossil fuels, bypassing all the

Roger Rabbit says: Bullshit

2003-01-30 Thread Tyler Durden
I don't really understand why examining the current state of affairs in US transportation is productive. Who built the highway system? Private companies? Hell no. Basically, the US government did, and that acted as the initial investment to make the value of an automobile (via the Network

The news from May's peech...Narc-power

2003-01-31 Thread Tyler Durden
You folks here pay lip service to aspect of free markets and anarcho-capitalism,but many of you consistently fail to see the follow-through, the applicability to the world around you. You need to have faith that greed is good, that free markets optimize a lot better than planners in

Re: Life Sentence for Medical Marijuana?

2003-02-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Great how bush's daughter, the cocaine addict, isn't in jail, but this man, who was deputized by the city of oakland to grow this marijuana, is going to be in jail for 20 years. Bush himself was arrested for DUI, I wish he was rotting in jail instead of ed. Hold it...Bush's relationship with

Re: punk and free markets

2003-02-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Silliness. The name cypherpunks was a pun on cyberpunks, a pun suggested by Jude Milhon, a woman writer for Mondo 2000 at the time. Being that there is no body which decides what our group is called, or even that it _is_ a group, saying that someone's pun on top of someone

Re: punk and free markets

2003-02-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Declan: Yes perhaps. I try not to think too much (I don't trust 'thinking' unless its mathematics or a good experimental setup), but I'll ponder for a while, to the extent that I am able -TD From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL

Re: Flaming the Clueless

2003-02-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Jesus H(I assume the 'H' was instered to avert the condemnation of blasphemy)...quite a good post. Heard and duly noted. -TD From: John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Flaming the Clueless Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 09:32:47 -0800 (PST) It's common for those

Re: Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits to invade your body!

2003-02-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Last laugh: CNN is carrying (10:06 a.m. PST) an information slug at the bottom of a Wolf Blitzer interview: Columbia was traveling 18 times faster than the speed of light. Yes, speed of light. Yo Choate! Want to take a crack at this? Please explain using your theories how

Re: Passenger rail is for adventurers and bums

2003-02-04 Thread Tyler Durden
That's redundant in the modern US. Too bad; there needs to be a counterbalance to the right-wing control freaks, but the left just isn't up to it. Good comment. Indeed, the only thing the Democrats seem to stand for is that they aren't republicans. Meanwhile, the economics of the 'real' left

Re: The Statism Meme

2003-02-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Even t.v. commercials are spreading the meme that Big Brother is our friend. Funny he should mention this. This very morning was watching the news and a commerical came on for a local monitored Burglar alarm system. It featured a Customed Superhero Alarmo (I think), going

RE: The Statism Meme

2003-02-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Don't count on EU, we're just as fucked, albeit with a slight delay. What about Italy? The Italians seem to be remarkably good at ignoring both the vatican as well as their government (which changes every few years and no wonder...do ANY Italians actually pay taxes?). And yet, Northern Italy

The I-talians and Statism

2003-02-04 Thread Tyler Durden
hanging from meat hooks very amusing: Once Fasicism fell out of fashion, they turned on their ex-dicatator like a pack of wild dogs (they supposedly dragged those bodies through the streets for days until there wasn't much left!). -TD From: André Esteves [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden

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