Re: Interests of online banks and their users [was Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM]

2002-09-17 Thread Ted Lemon
Relevence to the Pd debate is that banks may in future insist on remote attestation of users' software (however practically possible that is) so that they can attempt to dump yet more liability on their users (Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Mr Doe's claim that he did not authorise this

Re: FC: Politech challenge: Decode Al Qaeda stego-communications!

2002-07-12 Thread Ted Lemon
I'd really like to know who started this stream of web-stego-osama-terrorism articles -- I wouldn't be in the least surprised to know that the original source was someone closely affiliated with some War on Terrorism people. I wouldn't be surprised if it was someone trying to sell

Re: nettime Pirate Utopia, FEED, February 20, 2001

2001-09-24 Thread Ted Lemon
Actually, dictionary attacks reveal about sixty percent of passwords, so for every six passwords you find on a dictionary attack, you can infer ten actual stegotexts times the ratio between your analyzed and discovered (possibly-false) positives. This presumes that people who use