Re: Cell Phone Jammer?

At 04:19 PM 11/11/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Anyone know from first-hand experience about cellphone jammers? > >I need... > >1) A nice little portable, and >2) A higher-powered one that can black out cell phone calls within, say, 50 >to 100 feet of a moving vehicle. Cell Jammers do a DoS on th

Freedom of Expression

At 09:41 AM 11/10/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: >Those who love operas get what they want, and those who love rock and roll >get what they want, and both can live in peace with one another. Not if that manic-depressive, mother of controlled-substance-abusing spawn named Tipper Gore had maintained

Stewart, Esq

Moses Washington Sitting Bull Bin Laden Let my people go, Any Questions? >"I believe that entrenched institutions will not be changed except by violence," Stewart said. "I believe in the politics that lead to violence being exerted by people on their own behalf to effectuate change." Stewart ci

Collateral damage?

>How does this change if I'm a child whose trust fund contains the stock? Or if I hold a >mutual fund I inherited with a little Exxon stock What part of "collateral damage" don't you understand?

CIA Comic

At 06:59 PM 11/7/04 -0800, John Young wrote: >Remember the CIA Comic from the late 90s? Told hilarious >inside the agency jokes that made everyone outside the >cocoon blanche and puke, sorry, Bob blew coke through >his nose. Cointelpro If you don't know what it was Then it's still happening Coint

RE: Musings on "getting out the vote"

At 12:11 PM 11/2/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >And they seem to believe there's going to be a huge difference between Kang >and Kodos. If you vote for Kang, the terrorists have won! Besides, without paper (ie physical) evidence, how're you gonna prove that Kang won? At least I live in a blue st

The "plagues" are Mosaic asymmetric attacks, not biological

At 05:21 PM 10/31/04 -0800, John Young wrote: >To state the obvious to Major Variola, CDC will have first >indication of a devastating US attack, reported fragmentarily >under its links to hospitals, clinics and physicians, against >which the might military and law enforcement have no defenses. Yo

Re: Osama's makeover

At 12:03 PM 10/31/04 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: >At 08:23 PM 10/30/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >>And did you see the wire up his back and the earpiece? >> >>Or maybe its hard to get good tailors in Pakistan. > >Nah - he's allowed to use a Teleprompter, >un

Re: Winning still matters, etc...

12:22 AM 10/31/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: >Major Variola >> The large pit of smoldering radioactive glass is probably not >> an option.. > >Why not? They're called downwinders. Which way do the winds blow in the middle east? >You keep assuming that Muslims unite, escalate, etc, but if >the

Osama's makeover

At 05:23 PM 10/30/04 -0700, John Young wrote: >Which returns to the Osama make-over. His nose looks >much bigger, longer and wider, eyes closer together. The >sage-of-the-desert color combination of his face and hands, >beard, robe, hat and backdrop look as if it was shot in >New Mexico, or maybe

Re: Winning still matters, etc...

At 05:09 PM 10/30/04 -0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: >The terrorists cannot win either a conventional or an asymmetrical war >against the United States, should it bring its full array of assets to the >struggle. The large pit of smoldering radioactive glass is probably not an option.. >The improvised

Re: bin Laden gets a Promotion, UBL=Moses

At 10:16 PM 10/30/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 02:42:25PM -0400, Sunder wrote: > >> As usual, South Park is a great source of wisdom. So, are you voting for >> the Giant Douche or the Turd Sandwich? > >My candidate is Mr Hanky, Poo party. > I'm voting for Kodos. [Simpson

Ruling the planet

At 09:24 PM 10/29/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >Agreed. Our interest in not in Afghanistan/Iraq per se. Our interest is >in ruling the *planet*, rather than any individual pissant player. Silly JA, we want to rule the frickin' solar system. Give GWB a line of Peruvian and he'll go off on Mar

Re: 2000 curies of Ci

At 10:54 AM 10/29/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >At 09:19 PM 10/28/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >>Perhaps you meant Cs-137. Halliburton loses mCi of Am-241 etc monthly. > >MilliCuries? That's a bit surprising, >though losing microCuries of it would be more likely.

Geodesic neoconservative empire

At 10:07 PM 10/24/04 -0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: If the only way >to kill barbarians is to kill barbarians in their bed before they >kill you in yours, to pave over nation-states that support them, >starting with the easiest first, it can't happen fast enough, as far >as I'm concerned, and I'll gl

2000 curies of Ci

t 10:21 PM 10/24/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >This is idiotic. You're claiming that the definition of "terrorist" is >dependent not on the act, but on why the act was committed. So if I was >to go out tomorrow and spread 2000 curies of Ci into the local subway >system "As payback for Ruby R

Re: Airport insanity

At 01:03 PM 10/23/04 -0400, John Kelsey wrote: >Blowing up a building full of random people because a few of them are associated with >some action you really disagree with is just outside the realm of the sort of moral decision I >can figure out. Just like flying planes into buildings full of peop

Re: US enacts tough new security measures on visitors, foreign student pilots

At 10:42 PM 10/22/04 -0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > : > US enacts tough new security measures on visitors, foreign student pilots Also unmentioned: all foreign flight schools are now heavily bugged/surveilled and swarthy and/or moslem students have that fact added to their Permenant Record.

immune system diseases, TSA, false positives

An immune system is a great thing until it attacks the self. In part this can be due to the limited size of recognized motifs. For instance, the string "David Nelson" triggers the TSA goons. If you add the phonetic-similarity recognition (required when you transcode arabic names), the matching str

RF stories

Read a story about some college student whose plasma TV was emitting quite a lot of 121.5 MHz. He got a nice visit from S&R & Sheriffs types telling him to shut his TV off. Or else. 121.5 is a satellite-received distress freq. Toshiba will send him a new TV for free. Chatting with an Aussie fro

stealth

Various ways to stego pharmaceuticals: http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/bulletins_index.html

RE: Airport insanity

At 07:42 PM 10/16/04 -0400, Adam wrote: >First of all, there were 19 children killed in the OKC bombing. Were >these children guilty of some crime worthy of being killed by a truck >bomb? They were being used as human shields by the fedcriminals in the building. They were collateral damage, in th

RE: Airport insanity

At 04:01 PM 10/16/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: >Tim McVeigh did not target innocents, nor was he a suicide >bomber. Neither did M. Atta et al. target innocents, he targeted those who elected the Caesars. And they were not pursuing suicide (a Moslem sin), since they are enjoying a comfy afterl

RE: Airport insanity

At 12:14 PM 10/15/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: >-- >> >My profile is radically different from all those who killed >> >nearly 3,000 of my countrymen on September 11, 2001. My >> >"holy book" of choice is the Bible. My race is Caucasian. I >> >am a loyal, taxpaying, patriotic, evil-hating, >

Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA

At 10:57 PM 10/8/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >>At 04:35 PM 10/7/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >>A defense is a metal board in a wallet, close to the RFID chip's antenna. >>It is readable when the licence is taken out of the wallet. When inside, >>the antenna is quite effectively shielded. > >Tinfo

Re: City Challenged on Fingerprinting Protesters

At 05:06 PM 10/6/04 +0100, Dave Howe wrote: >Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> There is a bill in this year's Ca election to require DNA sampling of >> anyone arrested. Not convicted of a felony, but arrested. [as in arrested for protesting] >Doesn't surprise me - th

Re: City Challenged on Fingerprinting Protesters

At 10:49 AM 10/5/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >Now it looks as if much of the fingerprinting may not have been legal in >the first place. According to lawyers at the New York Civil Liberties >Union, the city may have violated state law by routinely fingerprinting >arrested protesters. There is

Re: Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

At 08:30 PM 10/3/04 +, Justin wrote: >On 2004-10-03T13:32:36-0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >> >> The US *is* the Fourth Reich. > >Personally, I will take what comes. You will make fine soap.

Re: Spotting the Airline Terror Threat

At 11:37 AM 10/3/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > Unlike the TSA's recently announced program to use computer databases to >scan for suspicious individuals whose names occur on passenger lists, SPOT >is instead based squarely on the human element: the ability of TSA >employees to identify suspicio

comfortably numb

t 11:22 PM 10/1/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >Questions were going through my mind. Would it hurt? What are the risks? >What if I want to get it out? > >I ordered another drink. In the US its generally illegal to tattoo someone who is drunk. >Comfortably numb In many ways this fellow is. -

Re: "ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen"

At 05:06 PM 9/30/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >I post this not as a refernce per se, but to ask the question: > >Exactly Why Does the Government Not Want to Reveal Their ID Rules? > >For instance, is it indeed possible that revealing this rule would pose an >additional security risk? If such a rul

Re: Spy imagery agency watching inside U.S.

You don't even need the Hubble-scopes pointed down that the NRO/NIMA/whatever the fuck they're called today has. Check out globexplorer.com; my patio is more than several pixels and a friend of mine saw his Bronco. You could probably make out the glint in JY's eyes. OTOH its really easy to signal

Re: How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond)

Personal aside. I've started working for a medical device company. This is not so far from security programming, as checking your inputs, robustness, and being able to justify time spent inspecting and testing are all common to both domains. But today I learned that a device that keeps you heart

Re: Mystification of Identity: You Say Yusuf, I Say Youssouf...

At 05:53 PM 9/27/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >and preventing you from flying means you can't carry out your >Clever New Hijacking Plan, such as converting that small guitar >into a set of six piano-wire garrotes or mixing that Organophosphates will still make it onto a plane, have been used in J

Individual Geopolitical Darwin Awards

At 10:00 AM 9/27/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >Don't forget, the World Trade Center management was on the Intercom trying >to tell everyone to "Remain inside the Building...It's safest Inside the >Building". > >Fuck. Here on Wall Street I'm a dead man. If you stay in NYC or DC, you are an individ

John Abizaid needs termination

Saw "general" Abizaid on the news. He was so obviously either experiencing pharmaceutically-induced nystagmus or reading from a teleprompter it wasn't funny. Methinks he's a robot, or taking too many go-pills. Lets hear 2K dead by the elections. We'll settle for less if they're in DC.

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

t 11:38 PM 9/20/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >At 8:11 PM -0700 9/20/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >>2. UBL's mom was a low-caste yemeni, dig? > >Actually, UBL's *dad* was a low-caste Yemeni, too. > >And your point is? That you can be wealthy and still find s

But they were using 3DES!

September 20, 2004 ATM Stolen in Third Such Theft in a Month An automated teller machine was stolen from a gas station early Sunday, the third such theft in Orange County since mid-August, police said. The machine was stolen from an Arco just before 4 a.m., using the same method as in the earlier

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

At 08:46 PM 9/19/04 -0700, John Young wrote: >Today, even the US uses children in war, 17 being the minimum >age to enlist. Others sneak in by lying about their age, some as >young as 14. Recruiters look the other way when the kids >and their parents lie. Been there, done that. Enlisted in the >arm

Disowned spooks get to be Mohommad's boyfriend for 10 yrs

http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=55256&SecID=2 Soviets:Chechnya::US:?

Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec

At 09:09 AM 9/17/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >> At 02:17 PM 9/16/04 -0700, Joe Touch wrote: >> >Except that certs need to be signed by authorities that are trusted. >> >> Name one. > >You don't

Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec

At 06:20 AM 9/17/04 +, Justin wrote: >On 2004-09-16T20:11:56-0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> >> At 02:17 PM 9/16/04 -0700, Joe Touch wrote: >> >Except that certs need to be signed by authorities that are trusted. >> >> Name one. > >Oh, come on

Re: public-key: the wrong model for email?

At 10:28 PM 9/16/04 +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote: >Because PKC works for this Alice&Bob communication scheme. If you >connect to a web server, then what you want to know, or what >authentication means is: "Are you really www.somedomain.com?" >That's the Alice&Bob model. SSL is good for that. What m

Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec

At 02:17 PM 9/16/04 -0700, Joe Touch wrote: >Except that certs need to be signed by authorities that are trusted. Name one.

Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?

At 08:59 PM 9/13/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >If a nuke goes off a few dozen meters under a mountain, is there anyone >there to see it? What is the sound of one mountain moving? You can get dust rising off the mountain ---find the video of the Paki tests. But not a big rising cloud. An und

Re: Nanometer Bamboo Carbon TEMPEST Protection

t 10:10 AM 9/14/04 -0700, John Young wrote: >From: "dumbshit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: effectively prevent computer radiation > >especially computer radiation, which does much >harm to human body. Yeah, it really taxes my feng-shei >The main material of FANGFUWANG is active nanometer >bamboo

Geopolitical Darwin Awards

At 09:27 AM 9/14/04 -0400, John Kelsey wrote: >>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Removing chunks with dynamite is trying rather hard for a Darwin award. > >As far as I can tell from what's reported in the new, a great deal of North Korea

Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec

Currently BGP is "secured" by 1. accepting BGP info only from known router IPs 2. ISPs not propogating BGP from the edge inwards Its a serious vulnerability (as in, take down the net), equivalent to the ability to confuse the post office machinery that sorts postcards. All you need to do is subve

Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?

At 06:23 PM 9/12/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >I had thought that one of the main tests was seismic...from what I >understood, Seismic monitors in the US can detect nu-cu-lar tests (above or >below ground) and even guess where and the size of the blast. Yes. Seismic sensors see some foreshock ac

Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?

At 09:53 AM 9/12/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 07:50:35AM +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote: >> >> > "No big deal"? Who are they kidding? >> >> A 2-mile wide cloud is WAY too big to be caused by a single explosion, >> unless REALLY b

Re: Call for 'hackers' to try to access voting machines draws stern warning

t 06:59 PM 9/10/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > >Call for 'hackers' to try to access voting machines draws stern warning > The warning came after Elections officials received a faxed document last >week stating that a $10,000 cas

Re: BrinCity 2.0: Mayor outlines elaborate camera network for city

At 12:50 PM 9/11/04 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: >So, since this is titled BrinCity, it surely means that the image >streams will be available from a web site and that we the people get >cameras in the emergency response center and the mayor's office? Is adultery a crime in Chicago? Given the predi

Re: Flying with Libertarian Hawks

At 07:53 AM 9/10/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > >Is it possible for one to be libertarian about policies at home and >neo-conservative about policies abroad? After all, isn't the principle of >non-coercion incompatible with the interventionist po

Re: Perplexing proof

At 08:23 AM 9/10/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > Perplexing proof > >E-commerce is only one mathematical breakthrough away from disaster >Robert Valpuesta, IT Week 09 Sep 2004 > >The fact that even experts often do not fully understand how IT systems >work

Re: Seth Schoen's Hard to Verify Signatures

At 11:48 AM 9/8/04 -0700, Hal Finney wrote: >Seth Schoen of the EFF proposed an interesting cryptographic primitive >called a "hard to verify signature" in his blog at >http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/weblog/nb.cgi/view/vitanuova/2004/09/02 . >The idea is to have a signature which is fast to make but

insider threat report, by SS

Insider Threat Study: Illicit Cyber Activity in the Banking and Finance Sector Marisa Reddy Randazzo, Ph.D. Dawn Cappelli Michelle Keeney, Ph.D. Andrew Moore Eileen Kowalski CERT® Coordination Center National Threat Assessment Center Software Engineering Institute United States Secret Service Carne

Re: Gilmore case...Who can make laws?

At 11:19 AM 9/8/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >Hum. I wonder. Do you think these secret regulations are communicated via >secure channels? What would happen if someone decided to send their own >regulations out to all of the local airline security offices rescinding any >private regs, particularly

Private GPS tracking

GLENDALE, Calif. - Police arrested a man they said tracked his ex-girlfriend's whereabouts by attaching a global positioning system to her car. Ara Gabrielyan, 32, was arrested Aug. 29 on one count of stalking and three coun

Re: The cages on the Hudson, AKA Little Guantanamo (fwd)

At 10:55 PM 9/1/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >Puerto Ricans in the ethnic neighborhoods along the shore >might get uppity and take over the naval base, which everybody knew >had Nuke-u-lur Weapons even though they'd never admit it, >and the naval base might not be able to defend itself against a m

Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

At 01:30 PM 9/1/04 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Yet we need >to make sure we're not abused too much since sooner or later laws >will catch up with the remailers should abuse sky-rocket. You need a Bill of Rights that specifies freedom of expression, and judges that understand it. Since you appear

Re: Backdoor found in Diebold Voting Tabulators

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/77 is up Seems its due to an intentional, insider job, and not just as an "engineering backdoor" (c) Cisco Consumer Report: Part 2 - Problems with GEMS Central Tabulator Submitted by Bev Harris on Thu,

sex & propoganda [psyops]

http://www.psywarrior.com/sexandprop.html "H.M.G.'s secret pornographer" http://www.seftondelmer.co.uk/hmg.htm

Welcome to the Church of Strong Cryptography.

At 01:26 PM 8/24/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >>PS: I thought Tyler had nominated himself as leader? :-) >No, almost the opposite. I propose that any 'Cypherpunk' can declare himself >to be leader and make 'official statements' at any time. Oh, then you'd be reformed cypherpunk. The orthodoxy i

Re: Digital camera fingerprinting...

printing (intentional or not) are always tasty subjects. One question for the court would be, how many *other* cameras have column 67 disabled? One of every thousand? And how many thousand cameras were sold? Pope Major Variola (ret)

worm uses webcams to spy

ok, from /., but highly amusing Meet the Peeping Tom worm A worm that has the capability to using webcams to spy on users is circulating across the Net. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/23/peeping_tom_worm/

judges who get it

Court rejects piracy claims against P2P file-sharing networks Friday, August 20, 2004 1:05:55 PM ET New Ratings NEW YORK, August 20 (New Ratings) – A federal appeals court in the US has declared that the online file-sharing software companies are not liable to copyright infringement charges. htt

Plonk this

At 09:20 AM 8/18/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >>Hey, I have an idea! Why don't I write a script crossposting >>everything from sci.crypt to cypherpunks! How about a few dozen >>other "on-topic" newsgroups and mailing lists too? > >Go ahead. Are you going to reformat them for legibility first, if

Israelis voting for Bush defeated Gore

Contrary to widespread belief, it was more likely American voters in Israel, not Florida, who put George W. Bush in the White House four years ago — a phenomenon that has Kerry's supporters in Israel vowing to do whatever it takes to make certain that doesn't happen again in November. Those who do

Trust no one: backdoored CPUs

We worried about compromized OSes, BIOSes, read last week about a PNG library bug that lets images run buffer exploits, now CPUs can be backdoored: >From Scheier's Crypto-gram: Here's an interesting hardware security vulnerability. Turns out that it's possible to update the AMD K8 processor (At

Re: yes, they look for stego, as a "Hacker Tool"

At 02:43 AM 8/15/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> It was disturbing that, as the bottom fell out of telecom, and handsets >> became commoditized, faceplates and ringtones were highly profitable. >> Faceplates are at least

Re: yes, they look for stego, as a "Hacker Tool"

At 01:48 AM 8/14/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >Then you have >the forest where every tree is marked and the leprechaun is laughing. Love that story. But the self-watermarking you later mention is a problem. Even if you map a particular hash into one of a million known-benign values, which tak

Re: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field (your teenage son's homemade porn)

At 10:07 PM 8/13/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: > >> And it seems to me to be a difficult task getting ahold of enough photos >> that would be believably worth encrypting. > >Homemade porn? Your 16 year old son's homemade porn. [google on Heidl & rape;

Re: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field

>On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >> In the world of industrial espionage and divorce lawyers, the FedZ aren't >> the only threat model. At 03:06 PM 8/13/04 -0400, Sunder wrote: >Right, in which case GPG (or any other decent crypto system) is just fine, >or you wouldn't be looking for s

Re: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field

At 02:11 PM 8/13/04 -0400, Sunder wrote: >If you're suspected of something really big, or you're middle eastern, >then you need to worry about PDA forensics. Otherwise, you're just >another geek with a case of megalomania thinking you're important enough >for the FedZ to give a shit about you. Pe

Re: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field

At 01:46 PM 8/13/04 -0400, John Kelsey wrote: >>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Obvious lesson: Steganography tool authors, your programs >>should use the worm/HIV trick of changing their signatures >>with every invocation. Much harder f

yes, they look for stego, as a "Hacker Tool"

>> A cool thing for this purpose could be a patch for gcc to produce unique >> code every time, perhaps using some of the polymorphic methods used by >> viruses. > >The purpose would be that they do not figure out that you are using some >security program, so they don't suspect that noise in the fi

Re: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field

Quoth Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Obvious lesson: Steganography tool authors, your programs > should use the worm/HIV trick of changing their signatures > with every invocation. Much harder for the forensic > fedz to recognize your tools. (As suspicious, of course). It should be enoug

Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field

Saint John of Cryptome has a particularly tasty link to http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts.html#sp800-72 which describes the state of the art in PDA forensics. There is also a link to a CDROM of secure hashes of various "benign" and less benign programs that the NIST knows about. Including

Re: A Billion for Bin Laden

>>With the possibility of earning a $1 billion bounty, however, professional Bin Laden hunting firms would form, allowing the U.S. to enlist the efficiency and creativity of the free market in our fight against Osama.<< This is brilliant, worthy of being called channelling Tim M. As it relies ent

Re: [osint] Al Qaeda's Travel Network

>>Al Qaeda operatives rarely travel directly from Point A to Point B. Instead, they jump from country to country, with each destination having its own end use and with multiple stops between beginning and end.<< Hey, don't they know that onion-routing was patented by the Navy? Or that the mix netw

Re: Is Source Code Is Like a Machine Gun?

Re "Is Source Code Is Like a Machine Gun?" A better thought experiment would be a numerically controlled machine and a control tape, which, when the machine is turned on, produces sculpture that is also a machine gun (or merely the sear for a machine gun which can be dropped into a semi-automatic

Bluesniper question

Why do the long range RF folks always use Yagis? Aren't Yagis supposed to be fairly broadband? Aren't there other highly-directional (ie high gain in one direction) antennae which (simply by virtue of being narrow bandwidth) would be better? Or is it that Yagi's broadband-ness allows for more sl

Re: Wired on Navy's new version of Onion Routing

At 04:58 AM 8/6/04 -0700, Sarad AV wrote: >Since they are using symmetric keys, for a network of >'n' nodes, each node need to know the secret key that >they share with the remaining (n-1) nodes.Total number >of symmetric keys that need to be distributed is >[n*(n-1)]/2. Key management is harder w

Simpson scores

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/08/wo_garfinkel080404.asp Good article re secure hashing

Re: On what the NSA does with its tech

At 02:23 AM 8/5/04 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > >The impracticability of breaking symmetric ciphers is only a comparatively >small part of the overall problem. Indeed. Following Schneier's axiom, go for the humans, it would not be too hard to involutarily addict someone to something which the

Re: Al Qaeda crypto reportedly fails the test

At 10:18 PM 8/3/04 +0100, Ian Grigg wrote: > http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jihad13chap3.html >[Moderator's Note: One wonders if the document on the "Smoking Gun" >website is even remotely real. It is amazingly amateurish -- the sort >of code practices that were obsolete before the Second W

On what the NSA does with its tech

At 02:39 PM 8/2/04 -0400, John Kelsey wrote: >This is silly. They have black budgets, but not infinite ones. Given their budget (whatever it is), they want to buy the most processing bang for their buck. Yes. They can't break a 128 bit key. That's obvious. ("if all the atoms in the universe w

Re: Giesecke & Devrient

At 05:17 PM 8/2/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >Assuming I generate a key on a RSA smart card made by G&D, what kind of >prestige >track do these people have? > >They seem to be pretty secretive, that's not a good sign. FWIW: They make the SIMs for T-Mobile (ie Deutsche Telecom AG) so they are part

Re: Al-Q targeting NY corporations...ah well.

At 09:53 PM 8/1/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >the following statements are officially* fairly cypherpunkinsh: >* Fuck you Variola...I just had a couple of dark Spatens ON TAP. I therefore >declare that any Cypherpunk is officially authorized to make an official >Cypherpunk statement, particularly

RE: On how the NSA can be generations ahead

At 05:23 PM 8/1/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > >No, the NSA is probably generations ahead in some areas, but their fabs >aren't much better than what's available commercially. Yes, upon consideration I agreed, re critical dimensions. That's why I brought up uneconomically sized chips, and the t

Re: Al-Q targeting NY corporations?

At 12:58 PM 8/1/04 -0400, Sunder wrote: >You Al-Qaeda types >hate us for having freedom, right? You're not taken in by that mularky, are you? Read the Fatwa. Best summarized by a line from a 'Floyd song, get your filthy hands off my desert. Go for the Baltimore/Maryland prep schools. Soft targ

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

At 12:36 PM 7/29/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >"Remember that the spookfabs don't have to contend with *economics and >yield*." > >Damn, this is precisely where I wish Tim May was still around. We are all just echoes of the voices in his head. But I did work for a company that owned fabs. And h

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

At 12:07 AM 7/29/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >> Did you know that your teeth enamel contain isotope ratios that >> encode regions where you might have grown up around age 6? > >Yes. I am also aware that tooth en

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At 09:47 PM 7/23/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >> What I meant was, Ames and that FBI dude Hansen (sp?), at least the KGB >> got Ames' wife as part of the package, whereas the FBI CI dude >> let his wife off as part of the deal he cut. Nice xian that he was, he >> was into strippers. > >Aren't w

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

At 12:39 AM 7/22/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >> I'm following the Principle of not underestimating the >> adversary, > >Don't go overboard: remember that there is a difference between >underestimating you

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At 10:27 AM 7/22/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >>Gilmore et al used a bunch of old Sun Chassis for his & Kocher's >>DEScracker. You think this is somehow more than 100 watts, in a >>diplo suitcase, nowadays? My point was, Gilmore et al were way behind what's capable. Proof of concept needn't be c

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At 10:12 PM 7/21/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> >> With all due respect, you think Ft. Meade uses the same COTS crap >> as you are forced to deal with? Bwah hah hah. > >Sorry Major, I'm gonna have to call

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At 11:28 AM 7/21/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > >As for the cable landings, likewise I've never heard anyone mention that >they saw any government equipment at the landings, so I suspect it's >relatively minimal. I'm sorry but I have to puke at your cluelessness. Do you actually think the folks

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At 10:09 AM 7/21/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >Variola wrote... > >Dark fiber. > >"Dark Fiber" ain't a talisman you merely wave at data to get it to magically >move to where you want it to.You've got to LIGHT that fiber, and to light >that fiber you need LOTS and LOTS of power-hungry, space-occupy

Re: Reputation Capital Article

At 01:43 PM 7/19/04 -0400, Sunder wrote: >Here's a paper/article/screed on reputation capital. A subject we >discussed here a long while ago back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, >etc... well, not quite that long ago. > >This doesn't seem to mention anything about anonymous users, however. > Then

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