At 01:41 PM 02/03/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:23:58AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
> Do you mean that Steve's posts always do this to you?
> I've only seen one like that, and I assumed that Steve had simply
> Bcc:d the Cypherpunks list and some
At 10:19 AM 02/03/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Looking at this more, I think it's two separate problems. I don't get the
"recipient list suppressed" or whatever it is from Declan's posts, it just
appears that something is wrong with the header, and it's probably something
minder.net is doing
At 10:19 AM 02/02/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Journalists may as well be saying the above, saying that shuttle debris
has evil spirits which can come out if the debris is touched.
They're also saying that Feds will come and arrest you if you touch them.
You'll have to draw your own conclusions ab
At 12:26 PM 02/02/2003 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
"Truth" is no longer the opposite of false. It is what makes the Sheeple
act according to the morality of the day.
Hey, it's Chinese New Year, and my calendar says that this is
The Year of the Sheep. So I guess they're just going with the flow.
At 06:14 PM 02/01/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php?products_id=331
http://www.deltrontech.com/Enclosure/E3S/E3S.htm
Interesting, but I'm confused about the
"Real-time 64-bit/ 40-bit DES (Data Encryption Standard)
Encryption/ Decryption with throughp
At 02:21 PM 01/31/2003 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
> I don't know how it works in the US, but railroads are both comfortable
> and pretty reliable in Europe.
A bit too expensive, especially in Germany. I also like being able to work
on the train -- given
At 12:16 PM 01/30/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:05:46AM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote:
> >That's a pretty easy decision to make, eh? Ethanol is renewable,
oil isn't.
> > Ethanol doesn't pollute, oil does. Ethanol doesn't require troops in
the Middle
> > East, wars, a
Washington: In a daring attempt to avoid identification by the
Ministry of Total Information Awareness, the Senate resorted to a
voice vote when blocking TIA's funding, hoping that without
a written record, individual Senators might not be caught.
TIA cameras ###.###. and ###.###. [redacte
At 11:30 AM 01/30/2003 -0500, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
I lived in San Francisco for 10 years. One job I had required me to have
a car so I could get to a data center in San Jose in cases of
emergency (never happened), so I bought a cheap beater. Spent $1000 on
the car, $400 a year on insurance, and a
When Bush is talking about a hydrogen economy,
remember that he's really referring to Orion-engine cars...
At 06:38 PM 01/29/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
It's why I'll be safer when I run into Harmon on the freeways.
His heirs will appreciate his savings in gasoline for the time he owned
his Lupo.
At 03:13 PM 01/29/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 02:24 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Tim May wrote:
Nonsense. What "political science" do you think was stopping Ford or
Honda or Volvo or GM from introducing a hydrogen fuel cell car by 1980?
What I
At 07:52 PM 01/29/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 06:33 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:53:21PM -0500, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
One of the problems I think is rampant with, for instance, getting
alternate fuel sources off the ground is that govern
At 09:12 AM 01/26/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
There's a report on indymedia that the lastes worm is part of an anti-war
tactic which will escalate if Iraq is attacked.
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=231141&group=webcast
Yup. It's either wanabees talking big about what 3
At 05:39 PM 01/27/2003 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote:
That's because non-US licenses constitute automatic permission for minor
traffic law violations. The scenario is something like the following:
[Driver gets pulled over].
Driver: "Gidday mate, hows it going?"
[Cop asks for license, looks at it]
C
>On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:23:15AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>> The versions of all the secure phones I've evaluated needed this feature:
>> a minimal answering machine. With just the ability to record IPs of
While it's nice to have it built into the phone's user interface,
you can alwa
At 07:56 AM 01/24/2003 -0500, Bob Hettinga wrote:
http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/01-2/grijpink.html
There's some interesting discussion about the ability of the
Dutch legal culture to provide useful tools for regulating transactions
in anonymous or semi-anonymous environments - if you can't find
Ah, the joys of Open Source military intelligence...
I guess it's not one of those Total Information Awareness things.
It would be fun, but I'm not even going to Google for this one.
A well-known non-US journalistic source reports:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29026.html
DoD offering a
Thumbdrive products are a good step in the right direction, but by far not
long enough. Another approach is needed.
I think of them as actually a large step in a silly direction.
Having a USB drive with a convenient on/off drive for times that
it's physically awkward to unplug/replug is usually g
At 11:40 AM 01/24/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
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."
Agreed. Furthermore, the
At 10:45 PM 01/22/2003 +, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
W H Robinson wrote:
> [...]
>> with greater clarity
> [...]
>> disseminate truthful, accurate, and effective messages about the
>> American people and their government.
> [...]
>> convey a few simple but powerful messages.
>
> Shouldn't Saatch
At 12:45 AM 12/18/2002 +, Adam Back wrote:
If I recall some time ago (years ago) there was some discussion on
list of using non-US drivers licenses or out-of-state drivers licenses
I think to get around this problem. I thought it was Duncan Frissell
or Black Unicorn who offered some opinions
At 03:36 PM 01/21/2003 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:
But after making this dead actor sing a different song,
it would a new work, and the copyright clock would be reset.
Now if someone wants to do the work on an open-source-like basis...
It's obviously a job for an Alan Smithee film...
you can alway
At 09:54 AM 01/20/2003 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
It dwindles because the rate at which the copyright period is increasing
averages more than 1 year/year. Quite a number of works which had
been in the public domain fell out of it when the 20 year extension went
into effect.
The public domain *did*
-- Forwarded Message
From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:27:14 +0100
To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TSA's TIA Secret Spying on Air Passengers
http://cryptome.org/tsa011503.htm
Source: http://www.access.gpo.g
At 12:11 AM 01/20/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:45:56AM -0500, Jay h wrote:
> The obsession with Starbucks really puzzles me. Starbucks is one of
> the few mass retailers that actually offers medical coverage to even
> part timers, it allows people to move from pl
[Stanford's ee380 class often has interesting talks.
This one sounds like it's by the Bad Guys :-)
There's a parking building nearby where the public can park after 4:00,
but construction has eaten most of the other parking lots.]
Subject: [CSL Colloq] Solving High Technology Crime * 4:15PM,
Wed J
At 12:47 PM 01/14/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Some of this is natural. I've adopted the southern "y'all" because
English has no plural third person and this
ambiguity is annoying when you're emailing to several people. Note also
the efficiency of the contraction.
"You" and "Y'all" a
... and they lie about it being 3G (which doesn't exist yet.)
It's a CDMA2000 phone which is 3G.
3G networks exist in many parts of the world, although behind schedule in
other parts.
The whole "Cell Phones - The Next Generation" thing
has been a pure marketing scam from the beginning.
It's a
At 04:25 PM 01/14/2003 +, Ken Brown wrote:
> > All contemporary natural languages, like all biological species, are
> > the same age.
> This statement is so silly it leaves me speechless... []
> Nonsense. Icelandic is little changed from the Old Norse of 1000 A.D.
> Icelanders can easily read
At 11:39 PM 01/13/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Hardly Brinworld. And T-Mobile has had it for awhile.
Why is warmed-over technology news given headlines?
Because all of us phone company stockholders hope maybe
warmed-over headlines will get them to buy the stuff this time?
Less cynically, though,
At 12:31 PM 01/14/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
I saw mention on the Yahoo news site that some health clubs and
gyms are already taking steps to limit the types of cellphones
allowed in the changing areas (and maybe elsewhere).
Hey, some people get their privacy by going to places that
have Rules a
At 02:25 PM 01/13/2003 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
The hunting post was obviously a joke, as the final line made
clear. The real joke was that some readers would fail to see
that the first line was a joke, would believe that cypherpunks
really do go hunting black people.
Now, hunting black _he
At 10:44 AM 1/13/03 -0800, [Bill Stewart] wrote:
If you've got your brother counting the votes,
and you can prevent anybody else from counting them,
then you don't need to cancel elections.
On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:23 PM, John Kelsey wrote:
Personally, I was shocked, *sh
At 09:40 PM 01/09/2003 +, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
If Bush can decide alone whether or not we are at war, and if
Bush can decide alone with whom we are at war, and if Bush can
decide alone what the boundaries of the war zone are, and if
Bush can decide alone what behavior makes one an ene
An interesting article, with some information on the people
who'll probably be appointed to run the Department of Homelands Security's
division of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection.
But somebody has to make the bad pun, because otherwise it's just sitting
there -
we fought Clippe
At 04:23 PM 01/11/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 03:47 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
- A distributed computing like this needs several parts:
- A problem to solve - they seem to keep waffling on this;
their FAQ really needs to be upfront
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. (And from some of May's comme
At 03:35 PM 01/10/2003 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
Neo has been ping-ponging between working on RSA-576 and the
Xbox signing key (2048 bits).
I initially thought that that sounded irresponsibly silly of them.
Now that I've read their web page, they seem a bit too disorganized
and non-mathematical
At 12:14 PM 01/10/2003 +0100, Bo Elkjaer wrote:
This is worth a laugh. I have never before heard of or seen a hacker as
bad as this one. Oh my.
http://www.andrews.af.mil/89cg/89cs/scbsi/images/poster8.jpg
Obviously the "artist" had been playing Quake or Ultima Online or whatever
and just gotten
The most likely explanation is that some subscriber to
one of the cypherpunks lists is using an account on
some machine at USPTO.GOV (which is the Patent and Trademark Office,
not the Post Office), and their mail server not only has an
antivirus filter but also a bad language filter.
While I don't
At 10:11 AM 01/09/2003 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote:
It's a good thing he was captured by the Feds instead of a militia or a
Private Defense Force of some sort. Note that such forces are not
required to accept surrenders and can simply kill enemy forces (and
vice-versa of course). Private citize
At 05:10 PM 01/08/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Tim May wrote...
> "Cowboy hats are much more common in Cypherpunks Bay Aryan meetings"
And for that matter, what about cypherpunks of non-aryan descent?
We've had some Branch Dravidian folks around as well
I've usually been the one wearin
At 03:14 PM 01/08/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 11:34 PM 1/8/03 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
>I don't know the weaknesses of gait-observing systems, so I can't
suggest
>anything.
Kilts for men (over the knee, please, and not for aesthetics).
Hoop-skirts for women. A heavy backpack ca
At 01:14 PM 01/07/2003 -0600, Some troublemaker Anonymously wrote:
So if someone generated a nice-looking fake log this
would be legally binding in court?
Please don't. John has to put up with enough hassles
as a result of running a valuable and controversial web site.
He doesn't need your, umm
At 12:42 AM 01/07/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 05:14 PM 1/6/03 -0800, Michael Motyka wrote:
>
>BTW, I think I read somewhere that when the water gets too hot the frog
just leaves.
>
>It was in print, it must be true.
Perhaps it is. But if you put a TV in the pot with the frog, he g
-- Forwarded Message
From: Meng Weng Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 00:10:52 -0500
To: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: a different take on airport security
http://pennandteller.com/sincity/penniphile/federalvip.html
I insisted on his name and badge number. I fille
At 12:39 AM 01/04/2003 -0800, Sarad AV wrote:
There has been much speculation around Fermi's famous
question: "Where are they? Why haven't we seen any
traces of intelligent extraterrestrial life?". One way
in which this question has been answered (Brin 1983)
is that we have not seen any traces of
At 02:18 AM 01/03/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 08:55 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote:
People do break cyphers, by finding weaknesses in them. Are you saying
that you think that current cyphers are unbreakable?
You know not whereof you speak.
Breaking RSA or similar
At 09:49 AM 12/31/2002 -0800, Kevin Elliott wrote:
Interesting point on grocery cards... Why do they have your name at all?
Remember when people used checks and had check cashing cards
at grocery stores? Some grocery store chains used courtesy cards
to replace that function. More importantly,
At 12:27 PM 12/31/2002 -0800, Michael Cardenas wrote:
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:12:02PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:32 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> As for your point about prescription drugs, box cutters, kitchen knives
> being trackable, I assume this is a trol
At 11:41 AM 12/31/2002 -0800, Michael Cardenas wrote:
I only ask this because I'm deciding whether to
study computational neuroscience or cryptography in grad school.
Are you planning to get a PhD and/or do research,
or just a terminal master's degree to do engineering?
If you're planning to do
At 03:07 AM 12/21/2002 -0800, Sarad AV wrote:
hi,
Don't encrypt, post it by snail mail.
I remember reading this in pgp's help document.
It addresses why we glue over our envelope and seal it.
It ofcourse is concealing (for the govt) and privacy (for the user).
The govt. never asks letters not to b
At 03:57 PM 12/19/2002 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:56:12PM -0500, John Kelsey wrote:
| I think this would help, but I also think technology is driving a lot of
| this. You don't have to give a lot more information to stores today than
| you did twenty years ago for them
At 11:50 AM 12/13/2002 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
...It had to happen sooner or later, I suppose...
--- begin forwarded text
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [e-gold-list] Announcing Seagold.net: E-mail Privacy, Secure,
Encrypted, accepts e-gold
...
Introducing Seagold.net, a secure web-base
At 07:05 PM 12/29/2002 -0600, Alif The Terrible wrote an
archetypical New Yorker's summary of the plans:
> 1* - Sucks
> 2 - Sucks
> 3 - Sucks - shoot the architect now!
> 4 - Sucks totally
> 5 - Sucks even worse
> 6 - Not so hot, but maybe
> 7 - Also not so hot but maybe
> Whole thing is a scam any
At 01:35 PM 12/20/2002 -0800, Mike Rosing wrote:
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> The moral equivalent of the pre-telegraph French semaphore soldiers
> doing the macarena...
> :-)
To the tune of "I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok".
:-)
Hey, you're hearing that more and more often in
> From 1997 Reason Interview...
> LOOKING FOR RESULTS
> Nobel laureate Ronald Coase on rights, resources, and regulation
> Interviewed by Thomas W. Hazlett
> Again, in 1960, Coase rearranged the study of economics with his essay "The
> Problem of Social Cost." It analyzed what happens when econ
At 6:11 PM -0800 on 12/12/02, Lucky Green wrote:
> Agreed. A few years ago, some would advocate that on the Internet,
> no national laws apply. This was, of course, nonsense. Instead,
> every single national, regional, and local law in effect today
> anywhere in the world applies to anything you do
At 05:21 AM 12/13/2002 +, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
Dave Del Torto wrote:
> Resumes should be in plain
> ASCII text format with a PGP signature (detached sigs are OK) and on
> floppy disk or CD-R also containing a copy of the applicant's PGP
> public key.
Fuck off.
If you think that a PGP ke
At 08:43 AM 12/11/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 01:31 AM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
In a way, Mathew's and Choate's attack upon the list has done
us a favour. The list is now effectively restricted to those
with the will and ability to use filters, which raises the
At 10:00 PM 12/10/2002 -0600, Jim wrote:
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote:
> (Sidebar: I often wish for TIVO radio.
It's called cron and your friendly TV card w/ FM radio.
There are also USB-controlled external radios from people like D-Link.
(They don't use the USB for audio, just for contr
At 08:52 AM 12/09/2002 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Anyone know anything about Akamai (www.akamai.com, also
akamaitechnologies.com)? I was getting about a zillion hits on my web server
from them this morning. They seem to offer services to gov't agencies
according
to their website.
Akamai's be
At 03:07 PM 12/08/2002 -0500, Mark Renouf wrote:
jet wrote:
At 20:48 -0500 2002/12/07, Myers W. Carpenter wrote:
http://www.2600.com/news/display/display.shtml?id=1441
PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING PICTURES OF VICE PRESIDENT'S HOTEL
Posted 5 Dec 2002 06:03:48 UTC
One major issue is these
At 02:17 AM 12/05/2002 +, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
OK, suppose we've got a bank that issues bearer "money".
Who owns the bank? It should be owned by bearer shares, of course.
Why?
Or the propounders wanting to: make a profit/control the bank?
There are two main reasons honest people star
At 11:38 PM 12/06/2002 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
You should have tried this back in the late 80's with a single frame VHS
recorder and an Amiga Video Toaster...one frame at a time, thank god for
AREXX ;)
If you were actually using the Video Toaster, and not just the Amiga's CPU,
you had what pass
> It also helps to speak a language you don't think the telemarketer
> understands...they'll hang up the phone pretty quickly if you're
talking in
> Chinese, for instance. (And if they have a Chinese accent I'll talk to
them
> in Spanish.)
So if you tell them "Put me on your 'Don't Call List'" i
At 11:28 AM 12/07/2002 -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
At 10:56 AM 12/7/2002 -0800, Morlock Elloi wrote:
This, with obligatory cameras in cybercafes, is just plugging the
anonymity holes.
I haven't noticed any cameras in my neighborhood cafes.
Well of course you haven't seen them - that just shows
At 11:36 PM 11/19/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 11:20 PM, Tim May wrote:
* Add additional names...perhaps some in-laws, relatives, college
friends, or colleagues of those who are responsible for this Witch Hunt.
It may be unfortunate to implicate some "innocents
Telco central office. Lots of copper loop I/O, and a big switch.
Used to be mechanical crossbars. Probably a diesel
generator somewhere.
That would normally be my guess too, but it's on one of the ones
AT&T shares with Pac Bell - there's 611 Folsom and another on
Post or thereabouts. But it c
At 10:23 AM 11/24/2002 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote:
(Referring to previous thread about capturing video.)
As I sit here looking at a 64 MB SD Card that I just picked up for $28 at my
local Wally World, I was wondering why it (or it is larger capacity brethren)
couldn't be used to record video and
That, or it's a dot-com that didn't make it,
or an office-space construction that someone hoped to sell to a dot-com
but missed the boom. There's huge amounts of that in SF.
At 05:37 PM 11/24/2002 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote:
On Sunday 24 November 2002 04:49 pm, Tarapia Tapioco wrote:
> There is a
At 02:27 PM 11/18/2002 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 10:42 AM -0800 11/15/02, Sunder wrote:
>What's disturbing about this is that we are on someone's list as e-gold
>customers or something, and this is very likely the same spoofer that had
>earlier set up e-golb.com and attempted the same kind of s
At 01:02 PM 11/18/2002 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
http://news.com.com/2010-1069-966164.html
Perspective: Say hello to Big Brother
By Declan McCullagh
November 18, 2002, 7:05 AM PT
WASHINGTON--Like it or not, the proposed Department of Homeland
Security firmly establishes Washi
James Donald writes:
> In principle it should be possible to create poker playing
> software where the server cannot cheat, but it is not obvious
> to me how this can be done.
>
> Does anyone know of a cheat proof algorithm?
At 05:40 AM 11/15/2002 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Sure, there are any n
At 10:51 AM 11/12/2002 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
Alleged attempts to introduce internet currencies have a ninety
percent humbug and fraud rate.
And the other 10% have unsustainable business plans
:-)
--- "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am struck the contrast between the seemingly
> strong demand for wifi security, compared to the almost complete
> absence of demand for email security.
>
> Why is it so?
Because people generally understand the concept that Wifi is open,
and tha
At 09:20 AM 11/07/2002 -0800, our local weapon of mass destruction forwarded:
Sharon Shea-Keneally, principal of Mount Anthony Union High School in
Bennington, Vermont, was shocked when she received a
letter in May from military recruiters demanding a list of all her
students, including names,
Reported on the NANOG list
> There's been an explosion in a power distribution center in amsterdam,
over
> half the city is without power, and, as far as I know, the Nikhef building
> is competely powerless, Telecity is running on backup generators. Redbus
> building seems at least partially up, bu
At 08:32 PM 11/06/2002 -0800, Mike Rosing wrote:
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:02:54PM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
> > Reported on the NANOG list
> > > 80% of Amsterdam is without power, one AMS-IX site is without no-break
> > > p
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Major Variola ret) writes:
>
> > http://www.washtimes.com/national/20021104-81830128.htm
> > Officials attempt to get inside cells of al Qaeda in U.S.
At 11:09 PM 11/04/2002 -0500, Elyn Wollensky wrote:
& your point would be
;~)
If people start showing up at Cypherpun
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/27917.html
German secret service taps phones, bills buggees
By Tim Richardson
Posted: 04/11/2002 at 14:30 GMT
A software error is being blamed for an incident in which mobile phone
users discovered they were being bugged by German secret squirrels.
Accordi
At 12:41 PM 11/02/2002 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote:
The only business environment I've ever worked in which successfully
used encrypted email mandated specific versions of mail client
(Outlook, ecch) and PGP (integrated into Outlook), had a jackbooted
thug to make sure everyone's keyring was up to
At 09:32 PM 10/31/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote:
I'm missing the gist of this scenario.
If the attackers/hijackers cannot get into the cockpit and gain control of
the plane, then the most they can do with disabling/lethal/nerve gases is
to cause the plane to essentially crash randomly...which kills
At 06:31 PM 10/27/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 01:04 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
[Hmm. lne.com spam-blocked me on the first attempt.
Can you provide details?
If lne.com is blocking posts, I will have to find another CP node.
I don't think Eric will mi
Estimating crowd sizes is difficult even if you don't have
good visibility, and for most events, there are at least
two or three sets of people estimating crowd size who have
axes to grind that bias their results. Washington DC's
especially bad about that.
According to the newsblurb we heard in S
[Hmm. lne.com spam-blocked me on the first attempt.
Given the identity of the research group, I forgot to add the obvious
"The computer says he's a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech."
]
At 01:36 AM 10/27/2002 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>See also:
>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38
[Sorry about any duplicated - lne.com spam-blocked me the first time.]
At 01:34 PM 10/27/2002 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>Advent of another technology wide deployment of which we must delay as
>long as possible. ...
>Unfortunately, brinistas welcome this development because they idiotically
>assume
At 06:02 PM 10/21/2002 -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
So two illegals are going back because they were in a white van
near a pay phone. They're fortunate, they only got the
12gauge in the face and the asphalt facial;
in a month it'll be a cruise missile first, forensics later.
If this were B
http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
HACKERS BEG BORING PEOPLE TO STOP ENCRYPTING EMAIL
Security Experts Concur Most of You Have Nothing Worth Encrypting Anyway
San Jose, Calif. (SatireWire.com)
In an unusual worldwide appeal, the International Brotherhood of
Computer Hackers t
[There's been some discussion of whether you can trust hardware crypto.]
At 11:54 AM 10/18/2002 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
OK...a follow up question (actually, really the same question in a
diferent form).
Let's say I had a crypto chip or other encryption engine, the code of
which I could not s
Subject: Fwd: BNA's Internet Law News (ILN) - 10/18/02
FINLAND CONSIDERING NEW INTERNET SPEECH RESTRICTIONS
Finland is considering establishing changes to its freedom
of speech laws that focus on the Internet. A proposed bill
would allow a court to order an online publication to remove
messages
At 02:04 PM 10/17/2002 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
It is important to note that currently NMR bases systems only allow for
6 qubits. Only very recently we're getting practical qubits in solid state.
.
Everybody realizes that we're discussing currently completely theoretical
vulnerabilities, righ
At 10:52 PM 10/17/2002 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> >I have a working OTP system on $40 64 Mb USB flash disk on my keychain.
>
> Cute. Is it available?
$39 + tax in Fry's.
I don't mean the disk - there are lots of those.
I mean your software.
Also, can your tool use floppies instead of USB ke
At 12:16 PM 10/17/2002 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
I have a working OTP system on $40 64 Mb USB flash disk on my keychain.
Cute. Is it available?
How do you prevent other applications from reading the file off your
USB disk, either while your application is using it or some other time?
That's
At 09:20 PM 10/16/2002 -0400, Sam Ritchie wrote:
ACTUALLY, quantum computing does more than just halve the effective key
length. With classical computing, the resources required to attack a given
key grow exponentially with key length. (a 128-bit key has 2^128
possibilities, 129 has 2^129, etc
> > David E. Weekly[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > As for PKI being secure for 20,000 years, it sure as hell won't be if
> > those million-qubit prototypes turn out to be worth their salt.
> > Think more like 5-10 years. In fact, just about everything except
> > for OTP solutions will be totally, tot
At 01:06 PM 10/13/2002 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
>Oh yeah. Interesting. Of course, this would be done only.
>if the sender knew or supected how mass-scanning might be done.
>And so the existence of another level of heavier encryption ...
>might be a tip off that this is not simply a financial tr
>> > Our bombing of the sudanese
>> > pharmacuetical factory?
>>
>>Yes: The factory was bombed, but actual
>>deaths were one night watchman, "not tens of thousands",
If so, that's gross incompetence on the part of the US military,
since the official rationale for why we were cruise-missiling it
At 09:01 PM 10/11/2002 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:
>There are two advantages of web-based discussion fora over usenet:
>propagation time and firewalls. On the other hand, few discussions are
>so urgent that they need near-real-time reparte, and participants
>shouldn't be cruising usenet from work.
At 02:11 PM 10/11/2002 -0700, James Donald wrote:
> > > > "Our overriding purpose, from the
> > > > beginning through to the present
> > > > day, has been world domination -
.
> > > > Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General
From: "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The Sun is an alternative
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