Re: Copy protection of ordinary disk drives?
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 05:13:53PM +0100, Tom Vogt wrote: Brian Lane wrote: Maybe I'm being dense today, but I don't see how this is going to work. So they have a key on your drive, they encrypt the data using this key, but at some point the data has to be decrypted and used, which means that it can be intercepted. interesting change in culture. not too long ago, knowing how your home electronics actually work was the sign of the geek. not too far in the past, knowing how your home electronics really works will be the sign of the criminal. I can see it now -- "Mr. Lane, you are being convicted for reverse enginerring the embedded encryption system in the IBM-SuperSekret-HD." "But! But! I was just trying to recover my Quicken 2001 backup!" as they drag me off to prison. The only way they can make this even begin to work in the marketplace is to force manufacturers to stop producing uncontrollable drives. I wouldn't be suprised if there was an amendment to enact this waiting to attach itself to an obscure bill in Congress. Or maybe I'm just being paranoid? G Brian -- Brian C. Lane - Linux Programmer/Consultant/Writer www.brianlane.com Virtual Web Hosting www.nexuscomputing.com NRA Life Member www.libertynews.org I had a friend who was a clown... when he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car... -- Stephen Wright PGP signature
Re: throw-away acct test
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:18:11PM -0800, montag montag wrote: testing ... testing CHECK ! It works. Not too useful when Yahoo records your IP address. Received: from [64.164.25.91] by web11403.mail.yahoo.com; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 +13:18:11 PST Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:18:11 -0800 (PST) From: montag montag [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: throw-away acct test And when there are only a couple of regular posters using similar connections to adsl-64-164-25-91.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net I'd guess that there is a moderate probability of you being "Jonathan Wienke" [EMAIL PROTECTED] - JonathanW (adsl-64-164-156-82.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.164.156.82]) from a couple of recent postings. Of course this is all rampant speculation on my part. Brian -- Brian C. Lane - Linux Programmer/Consultant/Writer www.brianlane.com Virtual Web Hosting www.nexuscomputing.com NRA Life Member www.libertynews.org 911 -- government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer. PGP signature
Re: CDR: Re: More blather from the DEMS on FL
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:20:23PM -0800, Tim May wrote: At 7:02 PM -0800 11/8/00, Evan wrote: what the hell is the electoral college still doing in existance? it should have gone out w/ unlimited presidential terms voting with their conscience my ass voting in a partisan fashion is more like it If you are an American citizen, you have failed to understand that this nation is a federal republic, not a direct democracy. Perhaps there are night school classes in your area to help you to fill in the gaps in your education. He sounds like one of the victimized voters from Florida. Illiterate, uneducated people who are allowing themselves to be used to throw an election (or draw things out, as the Clinton/Gore administration tends to do). If we get rid of the Electoral College then we may as well throw out all the States and just call ourselves federal citizens (not that we are very far from that state of affairs anyway). Brian -- [Inside 66.04F]---[Outside 38.32F]---[Drink 69.64F]- Brian C. Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Consulting Web Hostingwww.nexuscomputing.com Patriot www.libertynews.org Domain hosting $25/mo (30Meg,MySQL,PHP3,SSL,Perl) To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form. -- Roy Innis, president of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 1988 PGP signature
