On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
There's a "Classified USB Cable for file transfer with Classified
PC"
I wonder what a "classified USB cable" is. Perhaps it's an
unclassified USB
cable with the little three-prong USB logo blacked out by the
censors.
I would imagine
On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Hal Finney wrote:
John Gilmore writes:
The last thing we need is to deploy a system designed to burn all
available cycles, consuming electricity and generating carbon
dioxide,
all over the Internet, in order to produce small amounts of bitbux to
get emails or spa
>(Also, it's not clear that a deterministic POW works well for an
>application like Bitcoin; it might let the owner of the fastest computer
>win every POW race, giving him too much power.)
Indeed. And don't forget that through the magic of botnets, the bad
guys have vastly more compute power avai
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126869&intsrc=hm_ts_head
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:
> Jerry Leichter writes:
>
>>There's a "Classified USB Cable for file transfer with Classified PC"
>
> I wonder what a "classified USB cable" is. Perhaps it's an unclassified USB
> cable with the little three-prong USB logo blacked out by the cen
>> I just received a phishing email, allegedly from HSBC:
>>
>>Dear HSBC Member,
>So did the link have a EV cert?
Hardly matters. HSBC has vast numbers of web servers all over the world,
some with EV certs, some without.
For example, their US customer site for deposit customers at
https://w
Jerry Leichter writes:
>There's a "Classified USB Cable for file transfer with Classified PC"
I wonder what a "classified USB cable" is. Perhaps it's an unclassified USB
cable with the little three-prong USB logo blacked out by the censors.
Peter.
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:14 AM, William Soley wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:04 AM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>>
>> It might be useful to put together a special-purpose HTTPS client which
>> would initiate a connection and tell you about the cert returned, then exit.
>
> I use ...
>
>openssl
John Gilmore writes:
> The last thing we need is to deploy a system designed to burn all
> available cycles, consuming electricity and generating carbon dioxide,
> all over the Internet, in order to produce small amounts of bitbux to
> get emails or spams through.
It's interesting to consider the
