Re: The price of failure

[Michael Silk]

They won't be changing it:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html

On 10/21/05, Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quick, before they change it: search Google using the term "failure"
> (without the quotes)

Re: Reverse Palladium?

[Michael Silk]

Well not with java ...? Any keylogger would catch what you type; or
any mouse-logger could catch what you click.

You could either attempt to remove/bypass keyloggers with a
lower-level language, or type in code.

..

-- Michael

On 7/13/05, Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How secure can I make a Java sandbox from the rest of the network I'm on?
> Can I make it so that my network administrator can't see what I'm typing? In
> other words, a secure environment that's sitting on an insecure machine.
> 
> And of course, there's a short term 'solution' (which will work until they
> catch on) and then a long-term solution (which they can't very easily stop
> even when they know such a thing exists).
> 
> Oh, and it helps to remember that a network admin AIN'T an engineer: If
> Microsoft or someone hasn't built an app for it, then they can't do anything
> about it.
> 
> -TD

Re: NYTimes article on privacy, identity theft

[Michael Silk]

On 5/18/05, Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://nytimes.com/2005/05/18/technology/18data.html?hp&ex=1116475200&en=7f0572052438ec3b&ei=5094&partner=homepage
> 
> Good NYTimes article on privacy, identity theft, and
> easy correlation of data in public records.
> Usual Suspect Professor Avi Rubin at Johns Hopkins
> has his grad students demonstrating things you can find out.
> Betty Ostergren's "Virginia Watchdog" website
> http://www.opcva.com/watchdog/
> reinforces complaints about public records privacy
> by outing the records of public officials to make her points to them.
> 
> [NYTimes articles usually require free registration;
> I'm not sure if there's currently a "cypherpunks" userID there,
> but I think some of the strings following the ? in the URL
> indicate that you don't need registration if you use this URL..]

there is also 'bugmenot.com', last time i tried it took about the 16th
ID, but it worked.

-- Michael

> 
> Bill Stewart