re: enjoy this

2001-04-01 Thread Tom

re: enjoy this

2001-03-31 Thread Tom

ap in action (/. story)

2001-03-29 Thread Tom
seems someone put AP into action - and it worked quite well, exactly as jim predicted, and even without crypto (though without rewards either). see http://slashdot.org/yro/01/03/28/2130219.shtml in short: an anti-abortionist website published names and addresses of doctors who made abortions,

[haceaton@hotmail.com: Re: [dvd-discuss] DeCSS public key, been there, done that]

2001-03-29 Thread Tom
after an initial (only half-serious) idea posted by me to the dvd-discuss mailing list, someone actually created a program to create secret keys that result in your public key being a compressed version of decss. - Forwarded message from Harold Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 26

Make Money for What You Already do Everyday!!!

2001-03-29 Thread Tom Watkinson

Re: Microsoft Trial Judge Based His Break-Up Remedy OnFlawed Theory, NotFacts

2001-03-02 Thread Tom
"James A. Donald" wrote: You are full of shit. what a glorious argument. I withdraw all my comments in light of these incredible rhetoric powers.

SEVERAL BIZ OPPS IN ONE!

2001-02-27 Thread Tom Watkinson
SEVERAL BIZ OPPS IN ONE! USeeMoreGreen is a FANTASTIC Downline Club that works very hard for its members. USMG is FREE to join and has one objective-to make money for its members! USMG is currently offering 2 biz opps and when you join the one called Juice you will be automatically

Re: The Key Vanishes: Scientist Outlines Unbreakable Code

2001-02-26 Thread Tom
Ray Dillinger wrote: Here's an interesting thought, though. There are all kinds of number generators already hanging in the sky, and some of them are fairly random, so this thing might actually have a prayer of working. that, of course, requires that you trust THOSE. now it is highly

Re: CDR: Re: Sealand and Experimental Rocketry

2001-02-22 Thread Tom
Jim Choate wrote: While the rest of you folks sit around telling yourself the same old matra, "It can't be done. It can't be done. It can't be done." We're going to do it. please post pictures

Re: The Key Vanishes: Scientist Outlines Unbreakable Code

2001-02-22 Thread Tom
Ray Dillinger wrote: my point exactly. one way or the other you can't TRUST the stream, therefore it is worthless. Here's an interesting thought, though. There are all kinds of number generators already hanging in the sky, and some of them are fairly random, so this thing might actually

Re: We are all terrorists now. It is illegal to pay tax.

2001-02-22 Thread Tom
Ken Brown wrote: The recent bombing of Baghdad fits all 5 of the criteria and involved explosives, therefore it is a terrorist act under these rules. As Ian Jackson pointed out (below), the British government itself is not subject to its own law in this way: but I am. The act also makes it

Re: FAQ? how to set up a cross-platform encrypted mailing list/forum

2001-02-22 Thread Tom
(receipient list snipped) Jim Choate wrote: check back in the archives, early october last year. you'll find an extensive discussion and several posted algorithms which - while not perfect - should work well enough, especially in the kind of controlled, closed environment that the

Re: CDR: Testing for encryption. (fwd)

2001-02-22 Thread Tom
Jim Choate wrote: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Only problem is the constraint that GPG must be specified as the allowed source encryption standard a priori. This was NOT in the original problem description. that, of course, depends mostly on what you consider the "original". for the current FAQ

Re: The Key Vanishes: Scientist Outlines Unbreakable Code

2001-02-20 Thread Tom
An Metet wrote: By GINA KOLATA http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/20/science/20CODE.html?pagewanted=all essentially, a one-time-pad with a central source of randomness, the key being the point in the random-number-stream that you start with. "It's a cute idea, but it's simply

Re: Why Gnutella Can't Scale. No, Really

2001-02-19 Thread Tom
Ray Dillinger wrote: I don't know if it implements exactly the same protocol, but SuSE 7.1 (released on the 12th of February, which is an interesting date considering the timing of the napster ruling) contains something called "gnapster". gnapster is a gtk-napster client. I'm pretty sure it

Re: FAQ? how to set up a cross-platform encrypted mailing list/forum

2001-02-19 Thread Tom
Rachel Willmer wrote: How can I set up a mailing list or online forum with encrypted traffic? I don' think there's an out-of-the-box solution for this one so far. if there is, I'd be very interested in it myself. one low-tech solution would be using SSL. set up a dedicated machine that talks

Re: Taxes on hard drives

2001-02-16 Thread Tom
Alan Olsen wrote: Personally I see the whole unauthorized copying issue as a reaction to the excesive prices charged for music. Think of it as "market forces" at work. exactly. it's not so much that the market has become illegal, it's more that the legal walls have been moved, and are

Re: CDR: Re: Slashdot | European Record Industry Goes After Personal Computers

2001-02-16 Thread Tom
Sampo Syreeni wrote: examples: where I live, making a copy for a friend is LEGAL. If I'm not entirely mistaken, one part of the legislative efforts this thread started from is *precisely* to make any personal copying of AV material illegal. I haven't read the latest draft of these

Re: CDR: Re: Slashdot | European Record Industry Goes After Personal Computers

2001-02-15 Thread Tom
Ray Dillinger wrote: There's a lot to be said for "simple", especially when it would require invasive (and expensive) monitoring to implement a per- song download fee. that is actually one of the main plus points of this, and privacy is one of the reasons it's been implemented here (germany)

hidden update 2

2001-02-13 Thread Tom
once again I'm asking for some details/help on what looks ever more like a pure anonymity problem. maybe I should start with revealing what it's all for, since I'm pretty much stuck there at the moment. point your browser to http://www.lemuria.org/Black if you want and take a look. there's not

Re: **Why doesn't Napster just move offshore?

2001-02-13 Thread Tom
Ken Brown wrote: Why doesn't Napster just move offshore? because it is headed by identifiable individuals.

published secret - similiar to AP prot

2001-02-07 Thread Tom
I'd like to bounce an idea off the list and get some feedback, especially on what I missed. say alice has some information, published e.g. on her website. she is afraid that said information may be a thought crime, aka decss or an sdmi hack. bob makes a copy of the information and wants to

Re: War On Drugs Targets Tech

2001-02-06 Thread Tom
Ken Brown wrote: Don't forget the lawyers accountants. That's the real way to make money out of crime - work for the criminals in a legitimate job. not only that. every criminal gives a job to TWO lawyers (or three, if you want to count the judge in as well). every law means breadbutter