RE: Solaris Opera

2001-06-21 Thread Trei, Peter
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I dunno if anyone's interested, but here is: #Solaris Press Release: http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/20010619.html # #Download: http://www.opera.com/download/download.cgi?id=123 I'm running it for the first time, not

RE: Slashdot | Phoenix BIOS Phones Home?

2001-06-20 Thread Trei, Peter
Jim: You really don't have a good memory, do you? We dealt with this topic just 3 weeks ago. Check for the thread 'BIOS Spying' around June 1. At that time I said: --- Looking at this, there appears to be smoke without fire. It looks like they don't gather much in the way of

RE: Ian Grigg's Crypto Fiction Choices

2001-06-12 Thread Trei, Peter
From: petro[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] From: Matthew Gaylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ian Grigg's Crypto Fiction Choices Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iang.org/crypto_fiction/ A Fire Upon The Deep You missed A Deepness in the Sky, written by Vinge, and published in

RE: Ian Grigg's Crypto Fiction Choices

2001-06-12 Thread Trei, Peter
From: petro[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] From: Matthew Gaylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ian Grigg's Crypto Fiction Choices Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iang.org/crypto_fiction/ A Fire Upon The Deep You missed A Deepness in the Sky, written by Vinge, and published in

Something more to enter into your firewall listings.

2001-06-01 Thread Trei, Peter
-- From: kelley[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: kelley Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BIOS spying has anyone heard more about this? long list of motherboards at the phoenixnet site. kelley forwarded

RE: BIOS spying

2001-06-01 Thread Trei, Peter
Looking at this, there appears to be smoke without fire. It looks like they don't gather much in the way of data unless you download and install software via phoenixnet. At worst, it's going to reset your homepage once, and you'll pop onto it the first time you start your browser. It's not even

RE: BIOS spying

2001-06-01 Thread Trei, Peter
Looking at this, there appears to be smoke without fire. It looks like they don't gather much in the way of data unless you download and install software via phoenixnet. At worst, it's going to reset your homepage once, and you'll pop onto it the first time you start your browser. It's not even

Oops... [RE: Something more to enter into your firewall listings.]

2001-05-31 Thread Trei, Peter
Sorry, I hit 'reply all' instead of 'forward'. Peter -- From: Trei, Peter Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'kelley' Subject: Something more to enter into your firewall listings.

Something more to enter into your firewall listings.

2001-05-31 Thread Trei, Peter
-- From: kelley[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: kelley Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BIOS spying has anyone heard more about this? long list of motherboards at the phoenixnet site. kelley forwarded

RE:

2001-05-18 Thread Trei, Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Cyperpunks, I am a student at Dartmouth College in New Hamshire USA and I am doing a paper on DVUs - I would like to get some practical information about hoe they work. I would rely apresiate if you could help me. Thanks Liv [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE:

2001-05-18 Thread Trei, Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Cyperpunks, I am a student at Dartmouth College in New Hamshire USA and I am doing a paper on DVUs - I would like to get some practical information about hoe they work. I would rely apresiate if you could help me. Thanks Liv [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: PeopleLink Applications : Instant Messaging

2001-05-11 Thread Trei, Peter
I'll be generous and assume Choate realizes how amusing this claim is. I'll also pass it along to the appropriate people here at RSA. Peter Trei RSA Security -- From: Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Claims to have MD5 based encryption...

RE: Fwd: Re: Simple RF Weapon Can Fry PC Circuits

2001-05-08 Thread Trei, Peter
David Honig[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] At 12:15 AM 5/8/01 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: So probably a magnatron out of a 1500watt microwave (1-2ghz) in an aluminum tube (barrel) to focus the [see notes at bottom] microwaves would be sufficiceint? Or do we need to boost power more

Re: Fwd: Re: Simple RF Weapon Can Fry PC Circuits

2001-05-08 Thread Trei, Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I've seen 3000 watt 12VDC-110VAC inverters for cars being sold. Couple that with 500 watt tubes from some $50 ovens, you can outfit each corner of your car. Another (highly frowned upon) use for this type of device is to toast

RE: Fwd: Re: Simple RF Weapon Can Fry PC Circuits

2001-05-08 Thread Trei, Peter
Sandy Sandfort[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote Peter Trei wrote, One gizmo I dreamed up...resembles a windspeed guage, but with cube-corner reflectors instead of cups... I thought up a similar but stealthier version some time back. The corner cuts would be on bars that rotate about

RE: Fwd: Re: Simple RF Weapon Can Fry PC Circuits

2001-05-08 Thread Trei, Peter
guns effective range, so you have time to slow down. That's all. Peter Declan McCullagh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:48:04PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: Note that these devices are 100% passive, which would avoid FCC problems (though not neccesarily LEA ones). See

RE: RE: Fwd: Re: Simple RF Weapon Can Fry PC Circuits

2001-05-08 Thread Trei, Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I've seen 3000 watt 12VDC-110VAC inverters for cars being sold. Couple that with 500 watt tubes from some $50 ovens, you can outfit each corner of your car. Another (highly frowned upon) use for this type of device is to toast

RE: Free market solutions to foot and mouth disease outbreaks

2001-05-07 Thread Trei, Peter
-- From: Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: Jim Choate Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Free market solutions to foot and mouth disease outbreaks On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Ken Brown wrote: Farming is

RE: Fwd: Re: Simple RF Weapon Can Fry PC Circuits

2001-05-07 Thread Trei, Peter
Making a car with electronic ignition stutter or stall is *old* *news* to folk in the Ham Radio field. If they really had to get within 5 feet, their car killer is really, really feeble. Peter Trei -- From: David Honig[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] At 10:04 PM 5/6/01 -1000, Reese

RE: Fwd: Re: Simple RF Weapon Can Fry PC Circuits

2001-05-07 Thread Trei, Peter
Making a car with electronic ignition stutter or stall is *old* *news* to folk in the Ham Radio field. If they really had to get within 5 feet, their car killer is really, really feeble. Peter Trei -- From: David Honig[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] At 10:04 PM 5/6/01 -1000, Reese

RE: Recording conversations and the laws of men

2001-04-30 Thread Trei, Peter
And if you're in a two-party state, unless you have a sign or tell the trooper that you're recording, you can wind up in jail. It's happened recently here in Massachusetts. Peter Trei -- From: Bill Stewart[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] At 08:57 PM 04/24/2001 -0500, Jim Choate

RE: Recording conversations and the laws of men

2001-04-30 Thread Trei, Peter
-- From: Sandy Sandfort[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:30 PM To: Trei, Peter; 'Bill Stewart'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Recording conversations and the laws of men Peter wrote: And if you're in a two-party state, unless

RE: Recording conversations and the laws of men

2001-04-24 Thread Trei, Peter
I once looked this up: Here's the relevant state law for Massachusetts: [start quote] Mass. Ann. Laws ch. 272 , ยง 99 (1999): It is a crime to record any conversation, whether oral or wire, without the consent of all parties in Massachusetts. The penalty for violating the law is a fine of up to

RE: not getting it in Quebec

2001-04-20 Thread Trei, Peter
It would be cruel to use live animals. Maybe they should use stuffed shirts. Peter -- From: Blank Frank[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] By mid-afternoon, protesters tore down a section of the concrete and chain-link security barricade and pelted police

RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-18 Thread Trei, Peter
It isn't always private - I can remember a about a dozen years back, there was a bit of a kafuffle over certain Florida counties which had state-sponsored kosher inspectors. I don't remember what happened, but suspect they were dropped. Back when I worked in Manhatten, one of our programmers was

RE: Starium?

2001-04-16 Thread Trei, Peter
Here it is http://www.L-3Com.com/cs-east/programs/infosec/privatel.htm 3DES, 1024 bit D-H, TEMPEST compliant. Handles both voice and data. -- From: Trei, Peter Reply To: Trei, Peter Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 1:35 PM To: Dr. Evil; 'Declan McCullagh' Cc

Re: Affording an attorney...

2001-04-05 Thread Trei, Peter
Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The last sentence most certainlly DOES say the state must pay for it, and in ALL criminal cases. That 'compulsory process' clause guarantees it. Amendment VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right

RSA Conference Expo Free Passes

2001-04-03 Thread Trei, Peter
Sorry for the late notice, but I just found out that the deadline for obtaining free passes has been extended. While the website puts the free pass period as ending a month ago, they are actually still available, but will probably end today. What: Expo section at the RSA Security 2001

RE: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-29 Thread Trei, Peter
Anonymous[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote [Peter Trei wrote:] www.safeweb.com Free. Encrypts all data coming from website, but does not obscure URLs in requests. Pretty fast. Lots of configurable options for cookies, etc. Too bad it doesn't work at all: Your browser sent a request

RE: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-29 Thread Trei, Peter
Anonymous[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote [Peter Trei wrote:] www.safeweb.com Free. Encrypts all data coming from website, but does not obscure URLs in requests. Pretty fast. Lots of configurable options for cookies, etc. Too bad it doesn't work at all: Your browser sent a request

Re: Zone On the Range

2001-03-28 Thread Trei, Peter
Jim's been pinged on this many, many times. He used to include tens of kilobytes of HTML pages with his postings, but at least he's gotten over that. I've come to the conclusion that Jim is unable to see things from another's viewpoint, and so regards it a bad trade to spend 30 seconds of his

Re: Zone On the Range

2001-03-28 Thread Trei, Peter
Declan McCullagh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Jim is about as educable as a California politican, and even less friendly. He has shifted from being an eccentric list member to something closer to a list-saboteur. -Declan This thought has occurred to me, too. At least once a month, a large

Re: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Trei, Peter
of perfectly legal cash is another sign of clinical paranoia (or of someone who realizes he's backed into a corner and is resorting to heroic measures rather than admit defeat in an argument). [...] On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Trei, Peter wrote: [anonymizer.com allows payment by cash

Re: semi-anon test from a throwaway account part deux

2001-03-28 Thread Trei, Peter
of perfectly legal cash is another sign of clinical paranoia (or of someone who realizes he's backed into a corner and is resorting to heroic measures rather than admit defeat in an argument). [...] On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Trei, Peter wrote: [anonymizer.com allows payment by cash

RE: Potatos. [was: John Doe vs. John Doe...]

2001-03-22 Thread Trei, Peter
Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Trei, Peter wrote: I fell awfully tempted NOT to inform Jim that potato leaves are poisonous :-) Clearly not personal experience talking. Of course not! I try to learn from *other* peoples mistakes. http://www.life.umd.edu

Hacker obtains Microsoft code signing key;

2001-03-22 Thread Trei, Peter
My reading of this is that a hacker managed to human-engineer Verisign into signing a public key used for codesigning. While the key is signed as being Microsofts, it is in fact the hackers. He can therefore sign his own ActiveX components and make them appear come from Microsoft. Trojan

Hacker obtains Microsoft code signing key;

2001-03-22 Thread Trei, Peter
My reading of this is that a hacker managed to human-engineer Verisign into signing a public key used for codesigning. While the key is signed as being Microsofts, it is in fact the hackers. He can therefore sign his own ActiveX components and make them appear come from Microsoft. Trojan

RE: Did you notice

2001-03-20 Thread Trei, Peter
-- From: Reese[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: Reese Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 8:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Did you notice At 10:20 AM 3/19/01 +, Ken Brown wrote: Reese wrote: England serves as a fine example here;

RE: Did you notice

2001-03-20 Thread Trei, Peter
-- From: Reese[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: Reese Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 8:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Did you notice At 10:20 AM 3/19/01 +, Ken Brown wrote: Reese wrote: England serves as a fine example here;

RE: Did you notice

2001-03-20 Thread Trei, Peter
Ken Brown[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Jim Dixon wrote: If anyone cares, the interpersonal violence rate is considerably higher in the UK. Recent statisics on crime in industrialised countries (and therefore excluding South Africa) showed Australia leading the world and the UK second.

RE: Did you notice

2001-03-20 Thread Trei, Peter
Ken Brown[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Jim Dixon wrote: If anyone cares, the interpersonal violence rate is considerably higher in the UK. Recent statisics on crime in industrialised countries (and therefore excluding South Africa) showed Australia leading the world and the UK second.

RE: CDR: RE: [OT] kuro5hin.org || 12 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide After Christian Taunts.

2001-03-19 Thread Trei, Peter
Ray Dillinger[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Sampo Syreeni wrote: leitmotif to satanistic themes. Similarly a Goth attire and a suitable amount of group aggression will likely be as efficient on a child with a Christian fundamental worldview as a direct threat. And as

RE: Did you notice [UK vs US crime rates]

2001-03-19 Thread Trei, Peter
From: Reese[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] At 05:45 PM 3/16/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: In the FBI stats that came out the majority of police officers killed are killed with their own gun? They'd probably been better served by a stun-vest... Perhaps we should take guns away from them,

RE: Did you notice [UK vs US crime rates]

2001-03-19 Thread Trei, Peter
From: Reese[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] At 05:45 PM 3/16/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: In the FBI stats that came out the majority of police officers killed are killed with their own gun? They'd probably been better served by a stun-vest... Perhaps we should take guns away from them,

Re: Paternity tests [was: WSJ: NSA Computer Upgrade]

2001-03-15 Thread Trei, Peter
John Young[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Men usually got a hangup about paternity, and many don't want to know the truth, so the 28% is surely way low, in particular to protect the kids and the wives and to keep the men in harness. Them's the facts of biology and culture and healthy workplace

RE: Paternity issues

2001-03-15 Thread Trei, Peter
Ray Dillinger[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Ray Dillinger wrote: I've heard similar figures from the CDC - when they discover genetic disease, they often do tests to find out which parent it was inherited through - and about the same fraction of the time, they find

One of Jim Bell's former hobbies.

2001-03-15 Thread Trei, Peter
I was researching something entirely non-cpunkish (yes, it was work-related :-) and came across this page: http://www.multigame.com/spacewar.html Jim apparenly had/has a really cool Spacewar console at home, which an appreciative gamer rescued shortly before the JBTs moved in. Peter Trei

One of Jim Bell's former hobbies.

2001-03-15 Thread Trei, Peter
I was researching something entirely non-cpunkish (yes, it was work-related :-) and came across this page: http://www.multigame.com/spacewar.html Jim apparenly had/has a really cool Spacewar console at home, which an appreciative gamer rescued shortly before the JBTs moved in. Peter Trei

RE: My .sig

2001-03-12 Thread Trei, Peter
From: Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Yes, it's insulting. Hell, it's insulting to me. Since you broached the subject The text of the .sig, in either this or the 'classic' version, doesn't bother me. However, it's too long: The copyright notice is redundant since the Berne

RE: OK, which node is down? [WAS: Re: Denial of Service Attackon Cypherpunks?]

2001-03-09 Thread Trei, Peter
I received no postings from cyberpass from sometime Monday through this morning. It seems to be back now. Peter -- From: Bill Stewart home email[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] As far as I can tell, I've been receiving this discussion via cyberpass.net, so it must be ok

RE: Centre for Hypersonics - HyShot Scramjet Test Programme

2001-02-23 Thread Trei, Peter
I'll speculate that Jim posted this as a demo that 'amateur' rocketry can reach orbit. If you read the article, you'll find it does nothing of the kind. This is suborbital - in fact, the rocket goes almost 350km straight up and down (they're testing scramjet configurations during re-entry). The

RE: Re: Sealand and Experimental Rocketry

2001-02-21 Thread Trei, Peter
-- From: Jim Windle[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: Jim Windle Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CDR: Re: Sealand and Experimental Rocketry I think Tim's point was simply that Sealand's location is too far north

Re: Secure Erasing is actually harder than that...

2001-02-20 Thread Trei, Peter
David Honig[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: At 11:38 AM 2/19/01 -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote: The problem is that data that's been written over once, or even twice or ten times, can often still be read if someone actually takes the platters out and uses electromagnetic microscopy on them.

Phil Zimmerman leaves NAI

2001-02-20 Thread Trei, Peter
From Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/19/1356257mode=thread (I may have broken the signature while copying) Peter Trei -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A note to PGP users: As most PGP users know, Network Associates Inc (NAI) acquired my company, PGP Inc, in

RE: watermarking sucks (Re: stego for the censored II)

2001-02-12 Thread Trei, Peter
I realize that this is *slightly* simplistic, but comparing 2 (preferably 3 or more) copies of the data with different watermark contents should quickly reveal where and what constitutes the watermarking. Of course, there are methods to make this more onerous - MACing the watermarked data

Student scholarships available for RSA Data Security Conference.

2001-02-08 Thread Trei, Peter
The RSA Data Security conference will be held at the Moscone Center and the Metreon in San Francisco this year, April 8-12. http://www.rsasecurity.com/conference/rsa2001/intro2.html It's a really neat conference, but pricey. However, looking through the registration web pages, I found this:

RE: URL spam

2001-02-06 Thread Trei, Peter
He's getting better. Jim's posts used to consist of a cryptic subject line, the URL, and the entire HTML page (sometimes 10's of kb) included as an attachment. Just a cryptic subject line and a URL are a big improvement. It's my hope that one day he'll also add a descriptive line or two to his

RE: Whats NOOS?

2001-01-31 Thread Trei, Peter
I love these scavenger hunts. It's possible (probable!) that none of these are what you want. A Google search turns up: - NOOS Space Technologies Limited is a Russian Satcom group: http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/russia/nst.htm This looks like a possibility, though what they'd be