Re: IBM Uses Keystroke-monitoring in NJ Mob Case (was Re:

2000-12-08 Thread Ken Brown
Petro wrote: R. A. Hettinga wrote: [...] As I've written, the FBI should run quality house cleaning services in large cities. How do you know they don't? In every office or factory I've ever been in, including government ones where we kept paper copies of tax returns (yes folks,

Re: Knowing your customer

2000-12-08 Thread Ken Brown
"R. A. Hettinga" wrote: [...] I am not, of course, a banking lawyer, but I certainly hang out with enough of those folks these days, I've certainly had enough of this stuff shoved into my head over the years, and, I expect that to get a bank account without a Social Security number in

Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online

2000-11-23 Thread Ken Brown
Eric Cordian wrote: Alan Olsen wrote: [...snip...] He seemed to think that the only target of this would be the government. I think this is a reasonable observation. You really have to be acting under color of authority to strongly alienate enough people, who have so litle recourse

Re: Florida Vote

2000-11-21 Thread Ken Brown
Posted without permission. You've probably seen it before it probably isn't funny but I'd been drinking beer when i saw it I laughed: NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE To the citizens of the United States of America, In the light of your failure to elect a President of the USA and

Re: Bush Cousin Made Florida Vote Call For Fox News

2000-11-20 Thread Ken Brown
No User posted: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14686-2000Nov14.html By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 14, 2000; Page C1 In yet another bizarre twist to an already surreal campaign, the head of Fox News's Election Night decision

Re: The Ant and the Grasshopper, Election Version

2000-11-14 Thread Ken Brown
Mac Norton wrote: And then the locusts descend. And they feed. Because the ants and the grasshoppers never could get their shit together. 0/10 for entomology. Locusts *are* grasshoppers :-) Ken

Re: Close Elections and Causality

2000-11-13 Thread Ken Brown
Kevin Elliott wrote: At 12:38 + 11/10/00, Ken Brown wrote: But are there no rules in Florida allowing for a re-vote? If there really are 19,000 spoiled papers from once county, that sounds "massive" to me. It may not be fraud - the fools who designed the papers probabl

Re: Late-postmarked ballots from ZOG-occupied Palestine

2000-11-13 Thread Ken Brown
Tim May wrote: The solution has been obvious for a long time: absentee ballots must be received by the close of business on the polling day. Those who know they are going to be out of their voting area must mail their ballots in time to arrive. This eliminates this particular hazard. When

Re: Close Elections and Causality

2000-11-10 Thread Ken Brown
ade me an expert on the laws of a state I've never visited know nothing about I suppose...) Ken Brown (unfortunately a fan of elections and constitutions)

Re: California bars free speech of those cutting deals on votes

2000-11-01 Thread Ken Brown
The voters will be able to suss it out without a website. In the last UK general election about a couple of million voters very precisely voted either for whichever of the Labour (who won overall) or Liberal (came 3rd) candidates was most likely to beat the Conservatives (who were thereby

Mootos

2000-10-30 Thread Ken Brown
There has recently been some discussion on UKcrypto of a hypothesised eavesdropping-safe boot CD containing OS necessary software to get encrypted IP links to a (predetermined?) safe site. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.fairbrother/ The "won't be able to import files" and so on sounds

Re: New OLD cryptograph patent for NSA

2000-10-13 Thread Ken Brown
priority and scholarly recognition at UCL over here a couple of years ago - of course the spooks don't get any outside their own fences, the poor little lambs... Ken Brown Tim May wrote: At 2:23 PM +0300 10/12/00, Sampo A Syreeni wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Bo Elkjaer wrote: Note

Re: Re: Internet bearer cryptography patent trusts (was Re: Chaumian cashredux)

2000-10-09 Thread Ken Brown
Dan Geer wrote: Wearing my "inventor" badge, I asked nearly every member of nearly every panel what they they had to say about intellectual property protection. This means that I asked the same question to samples of size 4 of each of lawyers, accountants, entrepreneurs, noveau riche

Asymmetrical spam again

2000-09-20 Thread Ken Brown
Asymmetric wrote: That the list be changed so that un_registered email addresses cannot send messages to it? This spam is getting ridiculous. [...snip...] The benefits of having the list open to u_nsubscribed postings seem far outweighed by the cost in time spent by everyone filtering

Re: Re: Quantum Cryptography and resistance

2000-08-17 Thread Ken Brown
lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: Quantum cryptography will be of little practical value for the average person. That's because you need to get photons unchanged from one person to the other. This requires either a line of sight or a fiber optic cable, neither of which is likely to be