RE: Toy gun ban: This is pleasantly insane
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: Next thing you know, it will be considered assault to hold your finger like a gun and say "bang". (If it is not already.) Try it in Heathrow airport and you will get ten years. Airports are already a "no humour zone", so that is to be expected... Zero tollerance requires a zero IQ. So with Dufus in the Whitehouse zero tollerance in the US will be comming soon. When Bush Sr. was running for office many people voted for Clinton because "anyone was better". They were wrong. History repeated itself in some sort of sick self-referential joke. I expect that the coming Ashcroft years will make us look back fondly at the Meese and Reno days. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
Re: Bell's 3 Nutcases
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, John Young wrote: Jim Bell has made a motion to have three of the USA's witnesses undergo psychological evaluation. No names given in the case docket. Since Jim has been repeatedly moving to have his federal defender, AUSA London, and Judge Tanner recused, it may be that those are the three needing data minded. Or maybe Jeff Gordon. Or the three could be composed of anyone has ever posted to cypherpunks or received mail from it or wrote about it or read about it or thought about making a snuff film of it. Snuff makes me sneeze. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
Re: REAL assassination politics
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: from fas: ASSASSINATION POLITICS In a new bill introduced in the House of Representatives on January 3, Rep. Bob Barr proposed to eliminate the longstanding official prohibition against assassination. Maybe this article is closer to fact than we realize: http://www.theonion.com/onion3701/bush_nightmare.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
Re: How do I become a member of Cyberpunks??
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 02:28 AM 12/19/00 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I become a member of Cyberpunks??
Read too much William Gibson, get the jack installed in yer head,
or maybe a set of those nice Ono-Sendai eye implants,
and cowboy your way onto the net.
There is already too much jacking off on the net...
If, however, you're looking for the cypherpunks mailing list,
find the Cyphernomicon on the net, and read it.
There are archives at inet-one in Singapore.
If you send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask nicely,
the friendly robot will send you mail. Save the email where
you'll remember to look it up later, and then if you want
50-100 messages delivered to your doorstep daily,
take the blue pill, or was it the red one.
(Second edition of Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography
is the red one.)
And the first edition is the blue one. ]:
The true way to join the Cypherpunks is to find a copy of the album by
"TimMay and The Lords of Darkness", play it backwards and listen for the
steggoed message. ("Leggo my steggo!")
[I gotta stop staying up so damn late...]
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Re: A piece of advice??
At 06:18 PM 12/10/00 +0200, FRANKY wrote: Hello to everyone. I'm Alexis and as I'm new to cryptography I would appreciate a piece of advice. I've read the book "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier and I also have the "ICSA Guide to cryptography". However I would like to know where could I find more books related to cryptography. Just a note... The ICSA crypto book is one of the WORST I have seen. It is very pro-GAK among other things. (It also does not cover a number of topics that you would think. Kerberos gets a half a page. I keep my copy as a reference of what crypto-systems are probably backdoored. The Handbook of Applied Cryptography from CRC press is a good textbook approach to the field. (It is pretty expensive. About $90.) Also (if I'm not causing enough trouble already) as I'm trying to secure one system I would like to kindly ask for guidance. How do we apply an algorithm to a whole system? I know how to encode a message , but a system? You don't. For security I suggest that you checkout one of the many books on firewalls and computer security specifically. If you are trying to encrypt the entire drive, it depends on the OS as to what you would use. The latest OpenBSD is supposed to have some interesting crypto-hooks. --- | Terrorists - The Boogiemen for a new Millennium. | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | | | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |[EMAIL PROTECTED]|
Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Eric Cordian wrote: On or about October 23, 2000, at Vancouver, within the Western District of Washington, James Dalton Bell did travel across a state line from the state of Washington to the state of Oregon with the intent to injure or harrass another person, to wit, Mike McNall, and as a result of such travel placed Mike McNall in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury to himself, and to his immediate family. On or about October 23, 2000, at Vancouver, within the Western District of Washington, James Dalton Bell did travel across a state line from the state of Washington to the state of Oregon with the intent to injure or harrass another person, to wit, Jeff Gordon, and as a result of such travel placed Jeff Gordon in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury to himself, and to his immediate family. What an unmitigated crock of shit. Who would have imagined that anti-stalking laws, originally sold to the public with tear-jerking tales of battered women needing to be protected from violent boyfriends and spouses, would be employed by jackbooted thugs claiming to be in fear of their lives because publically available information about them is in the possession of the citizens they harrass and persecute. Furthermore, Vancouver is damn near a suburb of Portland, OR. Most people in Vancouver cross the state line to avoid Washington sales tax. (I guess that makes them tax evaders as well. I wonder if Jim will get taged with that one.) sounds like Jeff Gordon is looking for a victim so he can justify a pay increase and/or promotion. So the First Amendment is effectively dead, not repealed by the will of the people, but suffocated in the dead of night by Jackboot-Americans like Jeff Gordon and his pals. (puke) Yep. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
Re: FW: BLOCK: ATT signs bulk hosting contract with spammers
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Kevin Elliott wrote: At 07:40 -0800 11/1/00, James Wilson wrote: If any of you get services from ATT you might want to start looking for a more ethical carrier (if one exists) - ATT has been caught red handed hosting spammers and promising not to terminate their services. You know, I don't like spammers any more than the next guy, but come on. Unethical? we're not talking genocide and it's not like it cause significant (heck, even measurable) harm. As long as they are honest about where they are coming from. However, spammers have a nasty habit of lying about their return address. (And the sysadmin of that domain gets to wade through the mountains of shit-mail and hell caused by pissed off people.) Either that or they hijack open relays and cause those servers to crawl to their knees, as well as the above headaches for the site admins of the effected servers. I have had to clean up the mess from a couple of spammers doing the above. (As well as the problems caused by clueless sales people at a company I once worked for.) Not fun. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
Re: Reading list
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote: To expand on this point: At 10:58 AM -0700 10/19/00, Tim May wrote: Indeed. We used to have the reasonable expectation that nearly everyone on the list had some familiarity with the "classics." For example, Friedman's "Machinery of Freedom," Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson," Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom," Vinge's "True Names," Card's "Ender's Game," Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," Brunner's "Shockwave Rider," and maybe even some of the writings of Spooner, Benson, Von Mises, Tannehill, Hospers, and Rothbard. These works helped to establish a common vocabulary, a common set of core concepts. Not that everyone was a libertarian, let alone a Libertarian. But the core concepts were known, and those who didn't know about them were motivated to go off and look them up. We had fewer folks arguing for socialism in those days. The point is not that people must be indoctrinated into the correct ideology, but that these and similar books captured the Zeitgeist of our times vis-a-vis cyberspace, the collapse of borders, the internationalization of commerce, etc. Throw in "Moore's law and the geodesic network" if your initials are the same as Heinlein's. It's not important that everyone read _every_ one of these books. But it _is_ important that they read and internalize at least _some_ of them. I find those lists useful because i find that a number of them I have not read. I prefer recomendations from sources that might share my interests than those that might be just a paid shill for a the book publishing company. (Like, say, the New York Times Best Seller List(tm).) Not all of us have the free time to research interesting book, or the exposure to the same sources. The lists are helpful. I also recommend a list of books that piss people off while reading. Things like "The ICSA Guide to Cryptography". (The most pro-GAK crypto book I have ever read. I keep it as a reminder of which libraries and products to avoid.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
Re: French InfoSec Initiative
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, John Young wrote: This is a variation on the TEMPEST threat, to be sure, but I had not seen the the case of amplication of IR signals. What is the method for TEMPEST-proofing IR devices? Black electrical tape. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
