RE: Sending bricks through the mail
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
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
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!