The document scanners being analyzed by the FAA and Customs were
built by Ion Track Instruments (ITI) of Wilmington, Mass., one
of a number of manufacturers of sophisticated particle scanners
used by government agencies in the United States and abroad. The
scanner is
Snake oil. They do not have means of delivering what they advertise - they
do not have proper military defenses.
The moment the first atom of authority is pruned from one of the *armed*
governments thanks to HavenCo, Sealand's "independence" will promptly
follow that of Anguilla's and of other
Tim May writes:
The fact that some fine people work for ZKS should cause us to give
them a pass on such important issues.
Of course he meant the opposite (no doubt a correction will have
appeared in the many hours it takes for remailed messages to appear).
The shameful silence of cypherpunks
Upon continuing investigation, it turns out that this case is an even better
example of this complexity than I originally realized. Analysis of the raw
source code of the page referred to above reveals that the form in question
was indeed apparently sent to a secure server (and so would
Has anyone ever studied how hard it is to wipe a rewritable CD?
1. Put the disk in a sandwich plastic bag and seal it.
2. Put an empty glass into a microwave oven, and bagged CD on the top.
3. Set the dial to 5 secs (20 for true paranoids).
4. Press Start and step back.
5. Write "Read This" on
Ray Dillinger writes:
In the interest of making some news if you don't like the news
you're getting, I present -- the Country Mile Cipher. Algorithm
details available (for now) on
http://www.sonic.net/~bear/crypto/countrymile.html
This is a stream cipher based on the
Adam Back wrote:
I think the thing that killed MT / digicash for this application was
MT at the time was reported to be closing accounts related to
pornography -- they apparently didn't want the reputation for
providing payment mechanisms for the porn industry or something.
James Donald
There's no particular need to make it a single-image random dot
stereogram. Double images are much easier to make and provide an extra
bonus (see below). Here is an example from a post to cypherpunks on
September 23, 1997:
VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRlc3Qg VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRlc3Qg
bWVzc2FnZSB3aGljaCBp
From Eurocrypt:
Abstract. We consider the question of protecting the privacy of
customers buying digital goods. More specifically, our goal is
to allow a buyer to purchase digital goods from a vendor without
letting the vendor learn what, and to the extent possible
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