At 10:25 PM 2/14/01 -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
The things I find most interesting in the way of the non-traditional music
distribution channels are the things I *cannot* buy.
Using the search mechanisms, you can find groups in a genre you are
interested in.
For instance, 'industrial' will find
At 08:09 PM 2/14/01 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Why should someone who is not downloading music or images (or
whatever it is the tax is allegedly meant to support) be taxed thusly?
Yep. This is terrifically offensive.
(But some of us had the last laugh. The "Home Recording Act" tax came
with the
At 01:34 PM 2/19/01 +, Rachel Willmer wrote:
How can I set up a mailing list or online forum with encrypted traffic?
Simplest way: forward only pgp encrypted email. All correspondents must
have picked up the public keys of any poster.
...
"What company did you say you were from, Mr.
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.
Really? You think the fed specs on secure
At 06:32 PM 2/19/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
On 19 Feb 2001, LUIS VILDOSOLA wrote:
Before you can judge an act to be a crime against humanity.
I'd like to know what acts can be identified as crime,
where is humanity and how are both these ideas brought together.
A crime is any act, or in
At 12:11 AM 2/21/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
So you write it so that unencrypted e-mail simply will be bounced. Simple
enough to do.
Really? Provide a reference to such an algorithm? Determining if a
1. look for appropriate headers
and/or
2.
At 05:54 PM 2/21/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
There is NO algorithm which will determine if an arbitrary piece of text
is encrypted by an arbitrary algorithm. You can tell, at least
statistically if a particular piece of arbitrary text ISN'T a particular
algorithm or language either. Again, not
Next week: the RIAA tries to make portscanners as criminal piracy tools,
and activity on port 6699 as 'probable cause'
SINCE MONDAY, the Recording Industry
Association of America, the main trade group
representing
record labels, has
At 10:47 AM 3/1/01 +, Ken Brown wrote:
Though I bet that if you asked a late mediaeval lawyer about the
philosophy they'd tell you that it is because a crime is something that
threatens society. Murder, theft, rape, arson, treason all those
things are threats to us all and should be pursued
At 12:27 PM 2/24/01 +0100, Predrag wrote:
well, they could well be
Actually there was an IP battle fought over mice. See, some mice cost
$150 a pop, and at the same time, mice are easy to copy. And the community
of mouse-users (aka biologists) likes to share.
In the end, the NIH (the largest
At 12:33 PM 3/10/01 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 06:16 PM 03/01/2001 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
Technology wise, I'm real keen on the Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyst engines,
especially Platinum catalyst. Platinum is problematic, rare expensive.
Say 1 out of 1,000 potential hobbyist can afford it.
FWIW: even in Kalifornia, you can walk into a store and walk out with a
black powder
revolver, powder, caps, balls and patches.
At 01:58 PM 3/12/01 -0500, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/uk_politics/newsid_1207000/1207355.stm
At 08:45 PM 3/12/01 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
Not many people use fixed width fonts to read mail, so I'll let the
They deserve to die, along with HTML posters.
At 05:51 PM 3/12/01 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
Can't we do without Victimologist prattle on a cryptography and privacy
list? Shrinks should be next after all the lawyers are fed to the lions.
"Medicalizing" your opponent's argument, instead of responding to it, is a
tactic of police states,
At 10:41 AM 3/15/01 -0600, Blank Frank wrote:
If you are caught
using a radio in the commission
of a crime
your charges can be enhanced
with
At 06:39 PM 3/15/01 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i want to request rave flyers.. you kno where i can get some..old/new?
We used to do a lot of ranting and raving, now we just look forward
to bleating and babbling into the dream..
At 08:38 PM 3/23/01 -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
And finally, it would have to have some kind of tamperproof
keyboard -- noplace to install hardware key loggers.
What the world needs now
is a membrane keyboard, used only for entering keys,
which can be folded into a credit card and stored
in
At 08:46 AM 3/29/01 -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think Judge Kozinski's ruling can also be easily read in support of free
speech by operator and participants in anonymous betting pools with
political
interests.
I think you are wrong. The
At 07:30 PM 3/29/01 -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
At 09:09 PM 3/29/01 -0600, you wrote:
http://www.sightings.com/politics6/dwbb.htm
There have been a few discussions on this list of possible means for
defeating such systems operating in public places. I recall suggesting a
new religion, whose
At 10:29 PM 4/4/01 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
In light of recent "situations" involving cpunks and the courts, I've been
thinking about the 5th Amendment.
I pose two questions:
If called to testify in a criminal case, and asked the question "Are you
known by any other names" (or a derivative of
At 09:11 AM 4/4/01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tanner then told Leen: "He [Bell] doesn't trust you." Leen: "He has
great personal animosity." Tanner then told Leen that he had responded
Bell well.
Responded [to] Bell well
or
Represented Bell well
??
likely the latter..
At 06:02 PM 4/5/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
I don't do interviews.
I also own the copyright on everything I post to Cypherpunks. If it gets
printed without my permission (and I won't give it) in a newspaper or
other COMMERCIAL venture it is copyright infringement. You're free to post
excerpts.
At 02:21 PM 4/12/01 -0400, Sunder wrote:
While he can't really enforce what people do with the emails that they
receive from him, if he sees his posts printed in full in the next issue
of WIRED, he could sue.
Quite salient coming after Tim's post about the vulnerability of
centralized,
At 05:34 PM 4/13/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Something I've never bought before - "Globe" 4/17/2001 - has
compromising photos of John Walsh and another babe.
"Caught! America's most perverted host"
Is this the same COPS producer busted for DUI while filming in Atlanta?
At 10:39 AM 4/16/01 -0800, Daniel J. Boone wrote:
Hack away -- it's that simple!
Disclaimer: In many states, if you hack at decorative trees or shrubs
that do
not belong to you, you may be liable for a sum in damages equal to thrice the
actual value of the vegetation destroyed.
-- Daniel
In
At 08:59 PM 4/16/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote:
At 02:06 PM 4/15/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
regard to contract enforcement. There has to be a hook where someone
who does a ripoff can be punished, or else there is no deal.
In infospace
At 09:12 PM 4/16/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
If the party were truly anonymous there would be no way to identify them
to a third party in order to pass the 'reputation capital' along.
There would have to be a 'persistent nym', not an anonymous one.
Persistent, untraceable nym.
Both.
At 08:45 PM 4/17/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote:
Persistent, untraceable nym.
Both.
Untraceables without persistance are useful mostly for email.
Persistent untraceable, that's part of the Realization.
Well, part of it, probably. The point being
At 09:05 PM 4/17/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Isn't the anonymizing agent itself a 'reputation service' in that it's
reputation capital is 'anonymity'?
Completely orthogonal to the reputations (or lack thereof) of its clients,
yes, a so-called anonymizer has a reputation, actually, several
At 11:02 AM 4/24/01 +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
and burn a million cows on pyres of
used tyres and railway sleepers (they are thinking of using napalm to
save money)
The chemicals in the materials you're using for your pyres are
poisoning the locals with dioxins... napalm is a lot cleaner and
At 03:23 PM 4/24/01 -0500, Jon Beets wrote:
Here in the state of Oklahoma, recording conversations is legal as long as
one of the individuals in the conversation knows its being recorded. So a
third party wanting to listen in without the other two knowing is still
required to follow the standard
At 08:57 PM 4/24/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote:
At 11:05 AM 4/24/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
(Even contractual issues are amenable to this analysis. If Alice
doesn't want to be taped in her interactions with Bob, she can
negotiate an arrangement that he
At 11:55 AM 4/25/01 -0400, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
private efforts to create private networks, I don't think Mr. Crew
has thought through the technical and political ramifications of his
proposal. Personally, while it requires great effort to stay and
fight to keep the Internet free
Agreed.
At 06:48 PM 4/25/01 -0400, Sunder wrote:
David Honig wrote:
Personally I plan to teach Jr. how to do covert recording; otherwise it
might
be his word vs. a schoolyard bully or state-employed bully. [FWIW, I think
some girl
was recently acquitted of wiretap charges for taping or imaging
At 05:15 PM 4/26/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a question for you Tim,
I'm sure you've read about BSE, scrapie, kuru, Creutzfeld-Jakob et al.
Generally they seem to be species-specific but there is some crossover.
Let's assume that feeding
If your web server runs off a CDROM, and has no disk, that machine at least
can't keep logs.
Also hard to vandalize in an unrecoverable way.
At 01:35 AM 5/3/01 -0400, An Metet wrote:
[I wonder if our more unpopular Federal agencies house their mainframes in
facilities that are shielded from this sort of attack]
Simple RF Weapon Can Fry PC Circuits
Ê
Scientists show device that could make the electromagnetic spectrum the
terrorist
At 10:04 PM 5/6/01 -1000, Reese wrote:
At 07:05 PM 5/6/01, Steve Schear wrote:
For a one-stop shopping site see http://www.rfterrorism.com
One of the links towards the top of that page, Demonstration of RF weapon
on a car. Watch an electronic nervous breakdown occur. (1836 K)
A car is a
At 10:19 AM 5/7/01 -0700, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
David Honig wrote:
A car is a hardened target ---largely
shielded...Something like a bunch of
personal radios or a TV van would be
more vulnerable.
What I'm waiting for is the portable, concealable boom box killer. It's
time to take back
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 than this? Can magnatrons be run in series? 8-)
At 02:28 PM 5/14/01 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
What the _hell_ is the point of a shared secret scheme where you can
reconstruct the secret with only one key??
Interesting question. There have been times when I've sent
email and not encrypted it to myself, and later wanted to
read it,
At 10:01 PM 5/14/01 -0700, Jonathan Wienke wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
One of the features of PGP is that when you encrypt a message, you
can specify any number of recipients (unique public keys) who can
read the message. The message is encrypted with a random session
At 03:37 PM 5/15/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Blank Frank wrote:
Label releases copy-protected CD with Pride
More power to him. Let this guy copy-protect his songs if he can;
Well sure...
Sooner or later the artists who intentionally release free music
At 06:09 PM 5/16/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
11.Recognize that ultimately the only person fit to decide with
respect to abortion is the mother and her doctor. This should
be a new Amendment.
What are you talking about? A doctor is a mechanic, they can give
you advice, but
At 06:44 PM 5/16/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Actually, it's possible to make digital speakers, at least there is no
'analog' section per se.
There is a class of audio amplifiers which sends pulse-code-modulated
pure square waves (ca. 1 Mhz) to the speakers, which integrate the
pulses to
At 10:19 PM 5/16/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
But even if I have permission, it also has to be newsworthy.
-Declan
That's censorship! (Not :-)
At 05:34 PM 5/16/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
The way I see it, record labels are totally redundant right now and
copy protection, especially if it works, will drive them right out
of business by driving people to discover this fact.
I'm all for disintermediation, but realize that editors
At 09:03 PM 5/16/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Tim May wrote:
Bank of America is perfectly free to choose its customers as it
wishes, just as an ISP is perfectly free not to have as its customers
those who run websites catering to homosexual pedophiles.
Which is only
If you fire up Napster and search for h2k you will be able
to download some (freely propogatable) recordings of that
conference.
FWIW
At 08:24 PM 5/17/01 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
Abortion is up to the parasitised, no one else.
It's up to whoever can exert means of controlling it. Check the history
books.
Oh, you meant in the abstract, libertrarian sense ?
Yes its well known that that is my vice.
Pardon the intrusion
The next stage of virii will forward recently-modified
documents from the sender to the receiver. That will
be an interesting bit of shotgun social engineering.
Shudder.
Intelligence, N. 384, 14 May 2001, p. 13
USA
FBI TRIES TO LEGALIZE ITS HACKING ABROAD
During the last week of April, in Seattle, two Russian hackers
were indicted on charges of breaking into the networks of
banks, Internet service providers and other companies. The
somewhat routine charges
At 09:26 AM 5/20/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Tim correctly found the SSNs of the Kirkland officials at a google cache of
justicefiles.org.
The employees that Kirkland screwed can simply change their SSNs and
bill Kirkland for the inconvenience[1].
It will be interesting when geneology
At 03:49 PM 5/21/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
So what's this Dept of HEW, and where's a real cite?
-Declan
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:53:12AM -0700, David Honig wrote:
[1] From http://www.mind-trek.com/practicl/tl17b.htm
However, one of the laws provision is not so well known
The following article suggests that, counter to a point made months ago,
the statists (in this case a VA county) can and will force things
on your personal property *even when you're not selling it*
This guy got 3 months jail and now the judge is allowing bulldozers
onto his property, against
At 06:46 PM 6/2/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Oye! Oye! Oye! Build Your Own Box! But Don't Do It Alone!
Jim that's a postive thing to do, but the chant is
'oyez' which is some 'plural y'all' tense of the french
verb to hear, ie, listen, listen, or listen youze, listen youze
perhaps for Brooklyn.
At 09:05 AM 6/6/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is important that Felton win his case. What I wonder is even if he
does will the courts create only a very narrow exception for
credentialed scientists working at recognized institutions?
I think TM has a phrase re journalists, or
At 10:37 AM 6/6/01 +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
better idea. lne.com filters some potential spam I believe.
LNE is a fucking godsend.
At 11:56 AM 6/10/01 -0400, Paul H. Merrill wrote:
of types available is included. IOW the classic
fight between programmers and software engineers
goes on.
Conjugate:
I architect systems
You engineer software
They program
At 02:09 PM 6/10/01 -0400, Greg Newby wrote:
This is because there are strict US FDA regulations concerning the use
of infected beef in restaraunts, but they have little to say about
what individuals in private homes eat.
Indeed there's been a few cases of something like BSE in Americans
who've
At 04:56 PM 6/10/01 -0700, petro wrote:
A .300 Win Mag or .338 Laupa will do 1000 to 1500 yard hits
just as well, in a smaller, cheaper, easier to handle package.
In unknown wind? Ok.
Anything past 800 to 1000 yards is luck and voodoo anyway.
Not me, but others, could
In _Science_ Vol 292 1 June 01 p 1637
there's a brief reference to musicogenic epilepsy,
a rare conditionin which seizures are triggered
by music
And a note that Che Guevara had congenital amusica,
ie, he couldn't understand music.
At 05:14 PM 6/10/01 -1000, Reese wrote:
At 03:59 PM 6/10/01, David Honig wrote:
At 02:09 PM 6/10/01 -0400, Greg Newby wrote:
This is because there are strict US FDA regulations concerning the use
of infected beef in restaraunts, but they have little to say about
what individuals in private
At 08:19 PM 6/10/01 -0700, petro wrote:
Heart/lung shots and brain shots tend to be your best bet
with a pistol.
The brain moves too much. The farther you are from the CG
the more the parts move.
At 10:32 PM 6/10/01 -0700, petro wrote:
it's not that difficult to get a CCW in California if you are willing to go
to the effort required. Give me a call if you want more info.
It varies *greatly* with the attitude of the Chief. In my Calif county
the CCWs have tripled in the last few years
At 04:01 PM 6/12/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
Or, I'll even go further. It was an example of private law,
where the law merchant publishes a list of people who break
the laws they sell and then lets the market punish or not as
they choose. However flawed the list, and however obnoxious
At 11:25 AM 6/11/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
#
#``Where, as here, the government uses a device that is not in
#general public use to explore details of the home that would
#previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the
#surveillance is a 'search'
At 09:30 AM 6/12/01 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 08:01 AM 06/12/2001 -0700, David Honig wrote:
I know how to read, and I read _Science_. A sidebar called American's own
prion disease describing Chronic Wasting Disease belonging to the
transmissable spongiform encephalopathies (like Creutzfeld
At 02:49 PM 6/15/01 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
What I am interested in is how could this be prevented ? What would be the
most
effective way to disable analog audio recording and subsequent digitizing ?
What are the signs to look for ? Is there open-source software for
digitizing ?
Look for A/D
At 03:37 AM 6/16/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone figure this out?
It's a link from the ebay splash page,
so it's high profile.
Is it DeCSS?
Why would it be? You don't need DeCSS to copy the files on DVDs.
At 03:02 PM 6/20/01 -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
David Honig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why would it be? You don't need DeCSS to copy the files on DVDs.
No, but you do need to authenticate with the DVD-ROM drive. To do
this, at least under Linux, you have to invoke the proper ioctls, and
Linux
At 02:36 PM 6/21/01 +0200, Lars Gaarden wrote:
The DVDCCA license requires that DVD equipment never allow access to
the raw digital data.
http://www.dvdcca.org/data/css/css_proc_spec11.pdf
If you buy the media (and more importantly, the license to play
the content) you can use any
At 01:48 PM 6/21/01 +0200, Lars Gaarden wrote:
David Honig wrote:
Not if you have lawfully paid for the content.
As read by the MPAA, the DMCA enable them to sell you a locked house
and then drag you to court if you try to pick the lock.
Look everyone, I know the judge at the current level
At 11:15 AM 6/21/01 -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
The EBay advert could have been selling cp because there was nothing
about playback implied. Presumably you would copy your DVD files
from CDs onto a hard drive and then play them back. As the ad said,
perfectly legal.
You don't need to
At 06:15 PM 6/21/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, David Honig wrote:
My argument, to any judges reading, is that its *not* circumvention if
you've
bought the damn thing, no matter how you decode it.
If you paid for satellite TV but you build your own descrambler, its
At 03:00 AM 6/26/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Excerpt:
#Likening the task to the 1960s effort to put a man on the moon,
#John Chambers, chief executive of Cisco Systems Inc., is asking
#that the federal government commit to making broadband connections
#available to every
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