RE: Sending bricks through the mail

2002-11-04 Thread Lisa
I think this is what you're looking for:

http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html

At 11:17 PM 11/3/02 +0100, Thoenen, Peter  Mr.  EPS wrote:
Tried emailing direct but bounced so apologize to the list for the OT 
content :)

You don't happen to have the url do you?  Think it would make an
amusing
read.




Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-27 Thread Lisa

I didn't suggest that they should be banned.  I simply stated that this 
was one consumer usage of the smart card reader.

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Ben Laurie wrote:

 Lisa wrote:
  They are also actively used to modify DirecTV  Dish Network access cards 
  to steal service.
 
 Damn. We'd better ban them then. I've heard this Interweb thingy is used 
 to steal content - should we ban that, too?




Free Copy of Applied Cryptography

2002-09-11 Thread Lisa

http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/09/11/1616231.shtml?tid=93

Handbook of Applied Cryptography 
Posted by michael on Wednesday September 11, 12:24PM
from the complete-from-adelman-to-zimmerman dept.
cconnell writes The Handbook of Applied Cryptography is now available 
free (for personal use) on the Internet. This is a $100 book. Note also 
the companion C source code for most of the crypto algorithms, written by 
James Pate Williams. There is some very cool code here!