Re: Affording an attorney... (fwd)

2001-04-05 Thread David Honig
At 06:03 PM 4/4/01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:32:57 -0500 (CDT), Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that there's NO stipulation about 'if you can't afford an attorney one will be appointed to you'. Whether you're rich or poor the state is OBLIGED to provide

RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-16 Thread David Honig
At 12:36 PM 4/15/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: There are many markets out there which do not rely on the official court system to enforce contracts for. The diamond-trading jews of New York use reputation (ostracism from the community, centrally enforced by a council that rules their voluntary

RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-16 Thread David Honig
At 02:11 PM 4/15/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote: Tim; One thing to consider is the role of "credit histories", or virtually any other identity-linked information, in a milieu where the people have access to the necessary techniques and programs to do those deals. You sell Alice a credit

Re: Reading List (for the umpteenth time....)

2001-04-16 Thread David Honig
At 05:14 PM 4/15/01 -0700, Kevin Elliott wrote: At 15:14 -0700 on 4/15/01, Tim May wrote: * Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Game." Kids using untraceable pseudonyms. Huh? Excellent book but I don't recall it having the slightest mention of anything remotely applicable to the current thread...

Re: Starium?

2001-04-17 Thread David Honig
At 12:05 PM 4/16/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: Thanks for the tip on that. I'll be looking out for it, although at that price, it's cheaper to buy a dedicated PC and run SpeakFreely, as you point out. There seem to be good market reasons for dedicated set up, especially one that ordinary phones

RE: Amtrak The War On Drugs

2001-04-25 Thread David Honig
At 09:59 AM 4/25/01 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: The figure I heard was that up to this date, the amount of dioxin released in the cow-pyres was equal to 25% of the total annual British industrial output. Presumably more will be released as the cull goes on (they really should be using napalm).

Re: Undermining government power and authority

2001-04-26 Thread David Honig
At 12:11 PM 4/25/01 -0400, John Young wrote: Podesta noted that the 125th anniversary of the gummed-envelope was approaching. That that technology is trusted for privacy because of custom and law backing the custom. He stated that any privacy technology is going to be workable only if backed by

Re: Technological Solution

2001-05-01 Thread David Honig
At 06:32 PM 4/28/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: People don't need to spend several months wading through cryptography textbooks to come up to a level that is sufficient to understand the real issues.) --Tim May In fact, crypto textbooks will teach you about the tensile strength of steel, but not

RE: BSE

2001-05-01 Thread David Honig
The idealism that I refer to is the concept that human beings can create something substantially better than what exists. This is the fundamental driving force of all human endeavor incl. tech., ag., etc. Make your kids' situation better than yours. Everything follows.

RE: layered deception

2001-05-01 Thread David Honig
At 12:13 AM 4/30/01 -0400, Phillip H. Zakas wrote: i agree...unless you're specifically directed to do so, maintaining log files is completely optional. Is it in fact a crime of fraud to advertise that you don't keep logs when in fact you do?

re: layered deception (timestamping logs)

2001-05-03 Thread David Honig
At 10:12 PM 5/2/01 -0700, Anonymous wrote: Seems to me that secure digital timestamps on the logs would be really interesting to anyone wanting to preserve their usefulness as evidence. If you protected some logs (say, local user logins) really well, and left other logs (say HTTP) unprotected

RE: layered deception

2001-05-03 Thread David Honig
At 11:36 AM 5/2/01 -0700, Greg Broiles wrote: In any scenario, it seems like a few points are likely to be crucial - 1. Was the logging foreseeable at the time the statement/promise regarding no logging was made? If there was no intentional misrepresention, pretty much everything except