Re: Whitehat hacker made FBI patsy

2001-05-12 Thread Bill Stewart
At 03:38 PM 05/09/2001 -0400, Faustine forwarded Kevin Poulsen's 9 May 01 article: ... BIND hole In May, 1998, the Internet was reeling from a devastating vulnerability discovered in a ubiquitous piece of software called the BIND named domain server. Formally known as the iquery BIND Buffer

RE: No*Trace Computer Security Software

2001-05-20 Thread Bill Stewart
formerly available only to high level government agencies which is code for either marketing dept. says it would sound cool or it no longer offers acceptable levels of security so it's free for public consumption (remember skipjack?) or we don't need it now that we've upgraded our computers

Re: Kirkland SSN document, comments and snapshot of what we're talking about

2001-05-20 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:39 AM 05/20/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote: At 10:59 AM -0400 5/20/01, Declan McCullagh wrote: Neither, actually. They claim that I'm acting in concert with justicefiles.org by quoting three lines from the site. And, Kirkland claims, that means I'm bound by the court's injunction against

Re: NYC Police PDA deployment

2001-05-26 Thread Bill Stewart
Yow! $3500 ? Not $350? Palm VIIx sale price is $199 at Fry's, or you can spend probably about $350 for a $99 Visor/Palm3/Palm100 plus an OmniSky modem. NYC may not have Fry's, but they've got 47th Street Computer, which will do just as well. You'd have to teach cops how to write Graffiti

Re: Entire ISP Forced to Close

2001-06-12 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:50 AM 05/16/2001 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: Jim Dixon wrote: Still, the Internet is for the most part a Star Network, with only the very largest providers multi-homed. This is not true, unless your definition of 'the very largest' is very loose indeed. There are many thousands of

RE: Automatics

2001-06-12 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:46 AM 06/11/2001 -0700, Tim May replied: Well said, but: In _The Irish War_ there's a description of IRA improvised recoilless 'rifles' which, like their .mil-industrial analogues, toss an equal mass out the back end. The reacting countermass is a bunch of flakes which dissipate the KE

Re: 40 teraflops (fwd)

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Stewart
Unfortunately, the article that Bob Hettinga excerpted from the South China Morning Post is a pay-only article. http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/ - Japanese government site. http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng/ - Good page http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esrdc/eng/menu.html - The ES center

Re: DoJ Summons Offshore Credit Cards

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:28 PM 03/25/2002 -0800, John Young wrote: Full press release: http://cryptome.org/doj-doe-cards.htm [Expletive deleted]! That's outrageous! It's one thing to issue a John Doe summons for evidence about a specific crime known to have occurred. But this is a Go Fish summons - they're

Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Stewart
At 05:38 PM 03/23/2002 -0800, Lucky Green wrote: While the latter doesn't warrant comment, one question to ask spokespersons pitching the former is what key size is the majority of your customers using with your security product? Having worked in this industry for over a decade, I can state

Re: The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me

2003-06-04 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:00 AM 06/03/2003 -0400, Sunder wrote: That's all nice and good, but why should it be on cypherpunks? Where's the relevance to this list? Why is Ken, or his addres or helipad an interest to the cypherpunks? Why is PGE's monopolistic's actions against him relevant to the topics of this

Re: Chomsky: Iraq is a trial run

2003-04-06 Thread Bill Stewart
At 07:00 PM 04/04/2003 -0600, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: Tyler Durden wrote: This should be seen as a trial run. Iraq is seen as an extremely easy and totally defenceless target. I beg to differ. Haiti and Yugoslavia were the trial runs; but since they happened under a Democratic president, the

Re: Looting of museums, banks, shops, factories--South Central LA writ large

2003-04-12 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:19 PM 04/11/2003 -0700, Tim May wrote: As Anne Coulter and her fellow republidykes have suggested, invade their country, take their oil, give their children blue eyes, convert them all to Christianity, and kill those who don't convert. The Brits did a nice PR spin on some of this - BBC

Re: People converting to the winning side...

2003-04-12 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:06 AM 04/12/2003 -0700, Tim May wrote: I'm not surprised to see some of my friends and associates (not necessarily on this list...I actually do interact with people off-list) switching sides from being anti-war to the other side. They natter about how Saddam was a tyrant (true enough, and

Re: unregistered shell

2003-06-10 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:48 AM 06/09/2003 -0700, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: Capitol Police spokeswoman Jessica Gissubel said police stopped the car as it was traveling on Constitution Avenue on the north side of the Capitol because it had a gasoline container strapped to its roof. The man, who was not identified,