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2002-11-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
Fucking nuts. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/politics/22TRAC.html?pagewanted=print&position=bottom Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet By JOHN MARKOFF The Pentagon research agency that is exploring how to create a vast database of electronic transactions and analyz

Re: Worm Klez.E immunity

2002-11-22 Thread Nomen Nescio
In case someone missed this, the content of tim may's file is: 0617 13 010 1 1 RODRIGUEZ DUARTE IRENE EJIDO SAN CARLOS . 0873 02 010 1 1 GONZALEZ MONTOYA RAYMUNDO1 DE MAYO CALLE 3 # 195 . 8047 13 0

Re: Onion Self-Censorship

2002-11-22 Thread Eric Cordian
Marc Branchaud wrote: > Having read the article I can't help but consider more benign reasons > for its removal... > 1. It's not funny. > 2. It's jokes are in pretty poor taste. > 3. Michael Bay got his lawyers to send a letter to the Onion. Color me dumb, but when I read the article, I assume

Blaze, Diffie, et al torpedo eDNA

2002-11-22 Thread Nomen Nescio
Markoff writes in the NY Times about a proposal called eDNA which would "reconfigure" the Internet to forbid anonymous usage of certain parts. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/politics/22TRAC.html The scheme was explored by DARPA a few months ago, which gave a contract to SRI to look into it. S

Re: Worm Klez.E immunity

2002-11-22 Thread Dave Emery
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:47:24PM -0600, tcmay wrote: > Content-Type: application/octet-stream; > name=RPOUDOMI.TXT > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-ID: > Who are all these people with Hispanic names anyway ? Doesn't look like a list of arab terrorists to me.

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:33:39AM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote: > > To flesh this out a little more - the judge was Stephen > > Trott, speaking on September 18 2002 at the Commonwealth > > Club. Trott credits the torture warrant idea to Alan > > Dershowitz, whom he describes as a good fri

Re: Microsoft on Darknet

2002-11-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, James A. Donald wrote: > Mojo was intended to do this but it failed, I think it failed > because they failed to monetize mojo before it was introduced > as service management mechanism. Mojo ultimatively failed because MojoNation failed. MNet is very alive, though, and it wil

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: <[EMAI

Re: Worm Klez.E immunity

2002-11-22 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 09:46 PM, Dave Emery wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:47:24PM -0600, tcmay wrote: Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=RPOUDOMI.TXT Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-ID: Who are all these people with Hispanic names anyway ? Doesn't loo

Re: Microsoft on Darknet

2002-11-22 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 04:59 PM 11/21/02 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: >-- >According to Microsoft, > >http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc > >Darknet is being undermined by free riders. They attribute this to 2 things: most are on 56Kbps, and legal harassment of large sharers is possible. I suspect i

Re: Blaze, Diffie, et al torpedo eDNA

2002-11-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:20 AM 11/22/2002 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: Markoff writes in the NY Times about a proposal called eDNA which would "reconfigure" the Internet to forbid anonymous usage of certain parts. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/politics/22TRAC.html The scheme was explored by DARPA a few months ag

Re: Microsoft on Darknet

2002-11-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >Darknet is being undermined by free riders. > > They attribute this to 2 things: most are on 56Kbps, and legal > harassment of large sharers is possible. I attribute this to lack of agoric load levelling, and prestige accounting. Legal harassmen

Q: opportunistic email encryption

2002-11-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
Question: if you control the traffic layer you can easily disrupt opportunistic encryption (STARTTLS & Co) by killing public key exchange, or even do a MITM. Is there any infrastructure in MTAs for public key caching, and admin notification if things look fishy? (Fishy: a host which used to do PKI

[Burbclaves + Brinworld] Geek 'Vigilantes' Monitor Border

2002-11-22 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Geek 'Vigilantes' Monitor Border By Michelle Delio | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 1 02:00 AM Nov. 22, 2002 PT A group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States. Member

Re: Q: opportunistic email encryption

2002-11-22 Thread Adam Shostack
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:23:57PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: | Question: if you control the traffic layer you can easily disrupt | opportunistic encryption (STARTTLS & Co) by killing public key exchange, | or even do a MITM. | | Is there any infrastructure in MTAs for public key caching, and admin