Re: overcoming ecash deployment problems (Re: all about transferable off-line ecash)

2002-04-11 Thread A. Melon
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 06:59 AM, Mike Rosing wrote: But the reason we have AC today is because Tesla requested no royalties on his motor/generator. Something for Brands to think about. No, we have AC because AC works better than DC in home

Re: overcoming ecash deployment problems (Re: all about transferable off-line ecash)

2002-04-11 Thread A. Melon
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 06:59 AM, Mike Rosing wrote: But the reason we have AC today is because Tesla requested no royalties on his motor/generator. Something for Brands to think about. No, we have AC because AC works better than DC in home

Re: all about transferable off-line ecash (Re: Brands off-line tech)

2002-04-09 Thread A. Melon
Peter Trei writes: Speaking for myself and a few friends and relations, we'd be perfectly happy to use them, if they were available. A good place to get Sacagawea dollars is from the stamp machine at your local post office. Put in a $20 bill and buy as small an amount of stamps as you can,

Re: all about transferable off-line ecash (Re: Brands off-line tech)

2002-04-09 Thread A. Melon
Peter Trei writes: Speaking for myself and a few friends and relations, we'd be perfectly happy to use them, if they were available. A good place to get Sacagawea dollars is from the stamp machine at your local post office. Put in a $20 bill and buy as small an amount of stamps as you can,

RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-28 Thread A. Melon
Here's a real question: if you could build a special purpose machine to do 1024 bit RSA keys (that is, factor a 1024 bit number), how much would that help with discrete logs in a safe prime field? Solving discrete logs via NFS is structurally similar to factoring. You start off with a factor

Choate's header stripping address

2002-03-28 Thread A. Melon
I have added Choate's header stripping cpunks address (I won't lie and call it an anonymizer) to my killfile, as 95% of all traffic through it has been spam previously. Apparently, Jimbo left a mailto: link on a website somewhere, and it got harvested. Now, Mr. CACL is evading my killfiles by

Brands credentica (Re: [Tsg] Micropayments VISA?)

2002-03-26 Thread A. Melon
[Sorry for duplicates if this comes out multiple times, suspect am experiencing unreliability.] This is a response to Paul Holman's article on the DBS list. Either RAH is intentionally not forwarding the message below or his address is undeliverable to a few remailers. Not like RAH to not

Henry VI and Lawyer-Killing

2002-03-24 Thread A. Melon
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 05:12:41 +1100, matthew X wrote: First we kill all the lawyers. Shakespeare.henry the something. Falling into camp I resemble that remark, here's a bit of history on one of the worlds' most common epithets against the legal profession. While this remark has been reduced to

[Reformatted] Brinworld, privacy: CA court says taping anything illega

2002-03-15 Thread A. Melon
Compliments of the Anonymous Reformatter... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Major Variola ret) writes: http://latimes.com/news/local/la-18985mar15.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dcalifornia Privacy of Calls Affirmed Ruling: Court defines confidential phone conversations broadly, making lawsuits

Marc Perkel arrested

2002-03-12 Thread A. Melon
Marc Perkel, sysadmin at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, has been arrested by LA police department. A political activist, civil libertarian and member of both Rep and Dem parties, Perkel runs the overthrowthegovernment.org and hosts the Bartcop [political humor] web sites.

[Reformatted] Jacking in to China's tube control

2002-03-11 Thread A. Melon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Major Variola ret) writes: But did they have a military-trained dolphin? -- Locals: Falun Gong Hijacks China City's TV Airwaves Thu Mar 7, 6:42 AM ET By Jeremy Page BEIJING (Reuters) - Defiant members of the banned Falun Gong (news - web sites) spiritual

[Reformatted] Burning down the olympics

2002-01-11 Thread A. Melon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Major Variola ret) writes: Tuesday January 08 09:52 PM EST http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20020108/ts/olympicprotesters020108_1.html Olympics Officials Keep Eyes on Protesters By Geraldine Sealey ABCNEWS.com Security plan for terrorists and protesters. Security

Re: Pay per use remailers and remailer reliability tracking.

2001-12-21 Thread A. Melon
Ryan Lackey writes: 1) We don't yet *have* an electronic cash system with sufficient volume to cover this -- you'd want a general-use electronic cash system where purposes like this were a small part, otherwise the billing records show all remailer users. It's largely a myth that the set of

Remailers knowing about other remailers

2001-12-17 Thread A. Melon
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Trei, Peter wrote: Modulo the recent discussion of how some remailers treat traffic from other known remailers differently than mail from unknown addresses, remailers don't need to know about each other. What about remixing? There are other reasons for remailers to know

Re: Poor little child pornographer

2001-12-17 Thread A. Melon
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49141,00.html Incredible. Abso-fucking-lutely incredible. After telling us all about the poor little child pornographer, Larry Benedict, and how the mean old police are out to get him, Declan finally lets the other shoe drop in part 5 of this 5-part

Re: [Remops] And when he returns in February? (fwd)

2001-12-12 Thread A. Melon
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Eugene Leitl wrote: More drama unfolds. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.leitl.org 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3

[free-sklyarov] OT: [postmaster@eth.net: Mail Delivery Status Notification]

2001-11-16 Thread A. Melon
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:46:02 -0800 From: Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Free Sklyarov mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [free-sklyarov] OT: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mail Delivery Status Notification] --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type:

Life imitates bad S/F

2001-11-02 Thread A. Melon
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A report on this strange coincidence is at http://www.marsearthconnection.com/attack3a.html#foundation Color me skeptical, though, as there is nothing particularly odd about the foundation being the name of a group. The U.S. media translation into The Base is

Singing The War Prayer

2001-10-29 Thread A. Melon
but in all candor, dont ya think that if a guy is there who SHOULDNT be there, he wouldnt be there after a decent timeframe of investigation? notwithstanding other manners of recent injustices of justice, i.e., Mitnick et al, in this day and age, with '1000' under the microscope, doncha think

Need help hacking /root/pwd to constitution

2001-10-25 Thread A. Melon
take me to UR leader, i need his permission 2 ask the list a question need password in order to own/root constitution so i can slip in /bin/laden/findme.pl if U can do this 4 me it would B 3l33t any suggestions?

Re: Melon traffickers -- Soul traffickers

2001-09-06 Thread A. Melon
Tim May writes: I often talk about re-commenters (hyphen added to emphasize the commenter part). If I get mail, or letters, or e-mail, and then pass it along to my friends or others, WHERE IN THE FIRST does it say I need permission from government? You're absolutely right, no law could

Re: Moral Crypto

2001-09-05 Thread A. Melon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anonymity allows people to evade laws. Governments don't like that. Read the archives. It would be nice to see at least one example of something nasty that could be done with an anonymous remailer in the next few years where you couldn't get the same effect at the

Re: Moral Crypto

2001-09-05 Thread A. Melon
Tim May writes: It would be nice to see at least one example of something nasty that could be done with an anonymous remailer in the next few years where you couldn't get the same effect at the corner phone booth or dropping a letter in a public mailbox. Are you dense, or just ignorant?

Re: Official Anonymizing

2001-09-05 Thread A. Melon
John Young takes a courageous stand: I propose that all anonymizers adopt a code of practice that any sale to officials of anonymizers or their use be disclosed to the public (I suggested this to ZKS early on when first meetings with the feds to explain the technology were being

Re: Moral Crypto

2001-09-04 Thread A. Melon
At 12:38 PM 9/4/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: In the next five years or so, I would not be suprised to see a call for federal licensing of remailers. Some of the more mainstream remailer operators might even go along with it, eventually, calling for a voluntary-mandatory code of conduct and

Re: Gnutella remailers

2001-09-03 Thread A. Melon
I know this suggestion has been made before, probably by myself, but it seems the remailer programmers may be missing a good opportunity in not pursuing the inclusion of remailer code in the popular Gnutella cleints (e.g., LimeWire). They advertise they are looking for new content

The Tim May Question

2001-08-30 Thread A. Melon
In another message Tim wrote: On Sunday, August 26, 2001, at 12:11 AM, Reese wrote: It's easy to stay on topic, or on a topic, it's another thing to be appropriate. Tim is good, but easy improvement is within reach, as you sort of noted. Fuck off. I'll take constructive criticism from

Re: Anonymous Posting

2001-08-25 Thread A. Melon
Faustine wrote: I think you mainly have your bloomers in a bunch because I told your anonymous ass-kiss toady to get a spine. Why Faustine, you sound jealous! I'm flattered you hold my views in such high regard. I like Tim's posts for several reasons. They are to the point and often cut

Bomb Law Reporter Vol. 1 No. 1

2001-08-16 Thread A. Melon
Amusing, Aimee -- or is it Amusing Aimee? But the real discussion was about protected speech, was it not? You previously posted a piece on 842 as if that were an actual statute forbidding the teaching of info on explosives and bombs. Where is that law, actually? This case is about someone

Goodies To Go #139: Steganography

2001-07-18 Thread A. Melon
From: HTML Goodies to Go [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: ListManager Web Interface Subject: Goodies To Go #139: Steganography Burns is a computer science professor. No wonder students' heads are so often fucked up. # # #

Re: Most of a nation on probation (GPS convicts)

2001-07-12 Thread A. Melon
Bear saith: Right. Between all the offender databases and surveillance for your (cough) protection and so on, anyone who's got a record winds up so completely frozen out of normal society that it becomes impossible for them to get by without continuing as a part of criminal society. It's

Re: General Ashcroft makes his move

2001-07-12 Thread A. Melon
Those 3 things you mentioned violate the First on at least two counts, free speech and press, and also the Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof part --- the obscenity and kid porn stuff is pure Judeo-Christian

Re: freq meter vs. spectrum analyzer for sweeping

2001-07-11 Thread A. Melon
Thanks a lot -- that's a great help. And no, we weren't looking for rf from the infinity tranmitter, I knew they run on the phone line, but we were looking for other bugs. And I'm also aware of the great number of telemarketer autodialers (used to have one myself with a hardwired voice

Re: Meatspace

2001-07-10 Thread A. Melon
Faustine FUDed: And IMHO the best way to achieve anonymity in meatspace? A great place to start would be by not deliberately engaging in possibly illegal operations on the street in an environment full of police. You're doomed before you ever get started. But I could be wrong. Don't say I

No Subject

2001-07-10 Thread A. Melon
I've some friends who have, for a long time, complained about being surveilled, specifically phone tapped and/or house bugged. At first I thought it was just paranoia, but recent events have made me think otherwise. i One thing that happens almost invariably is that when groups meet at

Re: Meatspace anonymity manual

2001-07-09 Thread A. Melon
Ray Dillinger wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Sampo Syreeni wrote: the protection afforded by Black Blocs is quite thin (just indict them under organized crime or gang laws), The similar clothing is enough to charge with gang membership and invoke RICO. Also, the 'black bloc' tactic has

Can I reproduce out of print books?

2001-03-11 Thread A. Melon
Does anyone know the law regarding duplication of out of print books/other works? E.g. Stephen King withdrew his book 'Rage' (support your neighborhood second-hand bookstore) about a schoolkid who holds his class hostage at gunpoint, shortly after the Littleton shootings. King _does not_ want

Re: arrgh

2001-03-09 Thread A. Melon
Why was Jon Malkovich never charged with 'Threatening the life of a serving POTUS' for his role in In The Line Of Fire? Clint Eastwood _specifically_ told him in response to a telephone threat that "[Y]ou could go to jail for saying that, even if you don't really mean it". I thought there

Mixmaster ate my messages!!

2001-03-04 Thread A. Melon
What's up with the mixmaster list from publius.net? Why are half the remailers down, have the dead remailers been compromised? I'm down to using just five remailers if I want to get my message thru! Is there a better list? Can I make my own lists? This is the list of reliable mixmasters. Last

Software to Track E-Mail Raises Privacy Concerns

2000-11-22 Thread A. Melon
NYT Article By AMY HARMON It was during a recent job search that Donald Bell gave in to the temptation to bug his own e-mail. Mr. Bell, 55, had e-mailed dozens of rŽsumŽs to prospective employers and received scant response. Naturally he wondered: was he being rejected, or had his messages

Whistler To Block Unsigned Code

2000-11-20 Thread A. Melon
By David Raikow, Sm@rt Partner November 20, 2000 5:31 AM PT URL: Speaking at a London press conference earlier this month, Microsoft VP for IT Infrastructure and Hosting Jim Ewel announced that the upcoming Windows release known as "Whistler" will include a range of new security options,

Re: Gov. Bush links Columbine

2000-10-12 Thread A. Melon
Tim May wimps out: Normally I vote Libertarian. This year I may vote for Bush as a vote for who will do me, us, and the Constitution the lesser damage of the two. (All voting is about bang for the buck, about effectiveness of a vote...an election is not about "voting for the best man,"

On remaining silent.

2000-09-29 Thread A. Melon
I've just been doing a bit of research on admissibility of pre- and post-arrest silence of an accused in the US. In light of RIP, I dug through some info on the UK's Miranda equivalent: In the UK, Home Office guidelines for police formerly called for a warning upon arrest, "You do not have to

Choate physics again

2000-09-28 Thread A. Melon
By the time the coherent radiation (needed to make an image) passes Were not talking holograms, Jimmy-boy

visor phone vs. starium?

2000-09-28 Thread A. Melon
from the clueless dept: Why would I want a PDA-phone hybrid? Why do I have the uneasy feeling the newly announced Motorola/Palm product, due in 2002, may end up combining everything Palm knows about cell phones with everything

digsig frenzy follies

2000-09-28 Thread A. Melon
The label "digital signature" for nonrefutable cryptostrong sigs is going down in flames. A DTMF pulse counts as a signature Oct 2. Tuesday September 26 09:15 PM EDT E-signatures for 30 million laptops By Ben Charny, ZDNet News

intox

2000-09-27 Thread A. Melon
You know, I hope it passes. No, I havent taken leave of my senses. Ive just had it up to here with gradualism. Im really reaching the point of morbid curiosity to see exactly what the sheeple will tolerate. The United States is sick. Intoxicated on its own power, it has a serious case of

censorship $

2000-09-25 Thread A. Melon
Friday September 22 05:15 PM EDT COPA panel wants billions more for cops By Ben Charny, ZDNet News Also on the wish list: government-backed porn-filter testing, education programs and immunity for porn sites that follow the rules.

Qualcomm CEO loses laptop

2000-09-19 Thread A. Melon
"contained proprietary information that could be valuable to foreign governments." Kinda interesting statement about a telecoms machine. Foreign govts? PC with Corporate Secrets Disappears Qualcomm Chiefs Laptop Taken from Podium Sept. 18, 2000

RIAA seizures

2000-09-19 Thread A. Melon
Funny, the article doesnt say how the pirates subverted the encryption in order to make copies. Oh, you dont have to. Listening, Kaplan? RIAA Behind More "CD-Pirate" Busts 09-18-00 GARLAND, TEXAS, U.S.A., 2000 SEP 18 (NB) -- By Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes. The music industry announced

domestic bioterrorism incident in FLA school

2000-09-13 Thread A. Melon
Middle school student arrested in poisoning Wednesday, 13 September 2000 0:18 (ET) Middle school student arrested in poisoning Middle school student arrested in poisoning JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A 15-year-old Jacksonville, Fla., boy was arrested Tuesday for allegedly

Abortion Assasination Politics likely going to Supremes

2000-09-12 Thread A. Melon
So when is APster coming out, which lets you trade lists of deserving people? Tuesday September 12 5:11 AM ET Abortion Web Site Verdict Appealed By WILLIAM McCALL, Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Anti-abortion activists are asking a federal appeals court

VISA to smartcard the US

2000-09-12 Thread A. Melon
Sep 12, 2000 - 07:27 PM Visa USA to Launch Smart Card in the U.S. The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - After success with its smart card in Europe and Japan, Visa is aiming squarely at the U.S. market with an upgraded

why cops act that way

2000-09-08 Thread A. Melon
Sep 8, 2000 - 09:55 AM Man Who Scored Too High on Police Test Loses Federal Appeal The Associated Press NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an

Domestic surveillance: infilatration

2000-09-07 Thread A. Melon
State police infiltrated protest groups, documents show Search-warrant affidavits reveal an undercover operation aimed at activists in Philadelphia for the GOP convention. By Linda K. Harris,, Craig R. McCoy and Thomas Ginsberg

China puts '700,000 troops' on Sudan alert

2000-08-27 Thread A. Melon
By Christina Lamb, Diplomatic Correspondent TENS of thousands of Chinese troops and prisoners forced to work as security guards have been moved into Sudan. They have been sent in preparation for a big offensive against southern rebels to try to bring to an end one of Africa's longest-running

Carnivore review plans coming Thursday

2000-08-23 Thread A. Melon
By Reuters August 23, 2000 12:36 PM PT URL: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2618909,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01 U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno said on Wednesday that details for a planned review of the FBI's controversial Carnivore program designed to capture e-mail messages for

Firm Tracks Access of Medical Info

2000-08-17 Thread A. Melon
BOSTON (AP) -- Internet privacy advocates raised concerns Tuesday about a technology firm that is quietly tracking the information consumers are getting from pharmaceutical companies' Web sites. By using tiny computer files such as ``cookies,'' Pharmatrak can track people's movement

Germany Produces Electronic Signature Bill

2000-08-16 Thread A. Melon
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German cabinet Wednesday unveiled a draft bill to conform to a European Union initiative on developing a standard for electronic signatures in Internet commerce. The move follows EU approval of a directive on electronic commerce last year which required member states to