What Victory?

2000-02-17 Thread Michael Motyka
The battle is far from won. It may be, in fact, headed towards being irretrievably lost. If cryptography policy on the surface appears more liberal you can bet your left nut that in parallel and more quietly the legal foundation for giving you the rubber hose treatment should you choose to keep

Re: curfew laws

2000-03-07 Thread Michael Motyka
dmolnar wrote: On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Michael Motyka wrote: you? Or have you always been a mindless, obedient twit? Is that what Harvard is accepting for admission these days? If so, we're doomed. I sure as hell won't send my kids there. Would you believe I was being sarcastic

CyberCzar

2000-03-13 Thread Michael Motyka
If people would just mind their own business and put half the effort into securing systems and data in transit that they put into detection, enforcement and punishment then the world would be a happier place. Can't have that in a Puritan society. That's why we need an Information Czar NOW,

Re: Jolly Roger

2000-06-13 Thread Michael Motyka
Personally, I think they ought to be tracked down and dealt with more directly. Cops who solicit illegalities need to be dealt with directly. But that's just my opinion. I think it should just be considered entrapment and made unusable in court. That would end the problem right

patent ( was Re: Re: Cringely on Carnivore )

2000-07-17 Thread Michael Motyka
Cam you say "patent" at least for https, Oh I'm longing for September 20th !! (The pessimistic side me predicts that on or around that date the NSA/RSA will announce some sort of legal maneuver to extend or complicate the end of the patent. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it the case

Subscriptions

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Motyka
I've got it - the LEO trollers are subscribing the list to all this crap. Time to 'suscribe' them right back.

Re: FBI gets new hacking tools - any ideas?

2000-08-14 Thread Michael Motyka
* "image matching" software A huge field. Probably will go after the basics : filenames, file sizes, hashes, data matched against known set. * "steganography detection" software Another huge field. Maybe like virus detection SW. For each Stego system that is implemented and available

Re: Re: Major University to Review Carnivore

2000-08-14 Thread Michael Motyka
At 11:04 AM 8/11/00 -0700, jeradonah wrote: Major University to Be Asked to Review F.B.I.'s 'Carnivore' Is there a *John* Major University? :-) ... Today's announcement was not a surprise, since the F.B.I. said several weeks ago that it wanted an outside study of Carnivore.

Re: Re: FBI gets new hacking tools - any ideas?

2000-08-14 Thread Michael Motyka
Interesting. But my main concern was the anti-stego software. I can't see how it relates much to child porn (you can't hide a typical GIF or JPEG inside another one - it takes huge amounts of data in which to hide little amounts of other data that way). You could easily hide JPEGs inside

Re: Re: Black Hoes screw Disney, trample free speech

2000-08-24 Thread Michael Motyka
From: "Reese" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Idiot, you underscore Tim's point with your own racism. That's cool. Tim's racism is ok, anybody else's is wrong. [Plus, what's the connection between "Tim May has a small dick" and racism?] Sometimes, Tim manages to write something libertarian; most of

NSA Hopes to Stave Off High-Tech Deafness

2000-08-28 Thread Michael Motyka
First few paragraphs are titillating but it fizzles quickly http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34238-2000Aug27.html

Re: Re: would it be so much to ask..

2000-09-19 Thread Michael Motyka
Um, if there's any hint of a trail back to the sender where's the anonymity? Trust the recipient to use a remailer chain for the return path. or not. Include the return mail address in the body if you choose to. Isn't that what anonymity is about? Placing the choice for the disclosure of