Jim Choate forwarded:
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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:23:49 -0500
From: Arnold G. Reinhold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Outside of the good possibility that they might be quotations from
Islamic religious texts, why would you think Arabic passwords are any
easier
David Honig wrote:
At 02:42 PM 12/18/01 -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, David Honig wrote:
Can't spam be repelled by not forwarding email not encrypted to
the remailer's key?
Who is to say that spammers won't use remailer clients that automatically
encrypt to the
Iggy River wrote:
subscribe
That should be subscrive.
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Gil Hamilton wrote:
Karsten Self writes:
Defeat: create a log buffer file of fixed size, logged activity changes
its contents, but not the size of the file. E.g.: a filesystem image
file under GNU/Linux. Techniques could be used to maintain a constant
global MD5 checksum to defeat
Tim May wrote:
On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 04:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Have any of the shootingpunks on the list heard of constructing a
firearm from something akin to a internal combustion chamber?
HK was a prime contractor on the caseless ammunition system being
"James A.. Donald" wrote:
If Churchill really said such a thing, we would have some source better
than Chomsky for it, and if Churchill really did say it, Chomsky would have
given us a source that was possible to verify.
But if Chomsky were in the habit of making up or "massaging" quotes,
Schools must give police blueprints
ALBANY - Schools will be required to submit copies of their building
plans to local police and fire departments under legislation recently
signed into law by Gov. George Pataki.
The legislation, proposed by Assemblyman Ronald Canestrari, D-Cohoes,
was
David Honig wrote:
In yesterday's news the FAA was getting abuse for hiring lots
of furriner-contractors with lapsed clearances to do y2k and other work.
The feds fear the same subversion that citizens fear of the NSA.
I didn't see yesterday's news, but I've been watching this little
would-be
Steve Thompson wrote:
To correct my ignorance on current cryptography issues, I have been browsing
the archives. Some time ago, there was quite a bit of talk about the MISTY
algorithm, although I did not chance upon any pointers to an actual
implementation. Since the character of the
Tim May wrote:
At 9:23 PM -0400 9/27/00, Steven Furlong wrote:
Tim:
The point being that civil cases for damages should not be allowed
for NONCRIMINAL issues. That is, a "matter of law" should be involved.
So, you're setting yourself up as the sole arbiter of the right?
sunder wrote:
Another option would be to get big huge water circulators and call it
art - there are a few restaurants here in NYC where they have water
running over glass panes. It's a nice calming waterfall effect. :)
That's a good idea. It should stop the laser-off-the-windows accoustic
Tim May wrote:
At 8:45 AM -0400 9/27/00, Steve Furlong wrote:
I do not think the woman should be filing suit. She should have ignored
the boor or, if her command of invective sufficed, told him off
scathingly. I do, however, support the right of people to take matters
to civil court if
Jim Choate wrote:
First there is no 'freedom of association' in the Constitution.
Assuming that you're talking about the US Constitution, shall we start
with the 9th Amendment?
Or you can refer to the writings of people with more legal educution
than you:
Tim May wrote:
We as a culture have swung far away from "sticks and stones may break
my bones but names will never hurt me" toward a culture of lawsuits.
And the lawyer lobby supports and embraces this culture, getting laws
passed making it easier every day to suppress speech.
For my first
Tim May wrote:
Why in the name of all that is good and interesting would you train
to become a _lawyer_?
grin I make my living as a programmer, and plan to continue to do so.
I want a law degree to help defend techies and free software projects
from big-bucks corps and govts who feel
Tim May wrote:
...
Lee spent 9 months in solitary confinement and lost significant
salary and retirement benefits.
This makes it a moral requirement that former Defense Secretary
William Perry face a similar period of confinement and similar loss
of benefits. Perry has acknowledged
"James A. Donald" wrote:
At 09:20 AM 9/9/2000 -0700, A. Melon wrote:
Some of that cat hair winds up at crime scenes, and can provide
important clues to solving a crime if it can be traced to an
individual cat, and from there to its owner. The DOJ is asking cat
owners to
"Marcello 'R.D.O.' Magnifico" wrote:
I'm telling you I'm leaving, and why.
Don't let the doorknob hit you in the ass on the way out.
That being said, you make some points worth addressing.
1. The list appears to be USA-centric, and Internet covers the whole world.
True, both parts.
Ray Dillinger wrote:
"Poor Man's Crypto", possibly even better than digital crypto,
may consist in creating an artificial language together, and
then using it whenever you don't want to be eavesdropped on.
cf my remarks and questions on the use of Lojban for a personal log.
Lojban is an
David Honig wrote:
At 09:14 AM 9/2/00 -0400, Steven Furlong wrote:
begin quoted material
As the President has made clear, encryption software is
regulated because it has the technical capacity to encrypt data and
by that jeopardize American security interests, not because of its
Ray Dillinger wrote:
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Steven Furlong wrote:
Gary Jeffers wrote:
I was aware that posting binary/executables of crypt code from the
U.S. was illegal. Is source posting of crypt from U.S. illegal too?
That issue is highly contentious. The summary is: encryption
David Marshall wrote:
The boom of molecular biology may very well throw drug enforcement for
a loop. For a simple example, assume that a drug-friendly biologist
isolated the gene for THC, and spliced it into some other kind of
plant. The result is a fruit or vegitable which has THC in it,
Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Tom Vogt wrote:
would put it at about 26^3200, which is on the order of 2^12000. Go
ahead, I await your method of brute forcing that.
yes, but would you TYPE 3200 characters every morning to log in?
Besides, it is quite likely that such
David Honig wrote:
At 06:42 AM 9/1/00 -0400, Steven Furlong wrote:
oranges with THC
I think this is a net.legend
Could be. If so, a major news service was taken in, at least briefly.
Not that that's never happened before.
, the plant's synthesis of that complex
molecule would require
Michael Motyka wrote:
Petro wrote:
What do you expect from a bunch of whipped Europeans?
To quote T. Pratchett "They don't need chains, they have obedience."
The only difference is that they know they are whipped. We have the
chains but no obedience. Chains paid for by our own money.
Tim May wrote:
At 1:32 PM -0400 8/31/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you know any child porn sider i beg you please send me some!
I see the cops in Smalltown, U.S.A. have returned from their
Conference on Law Enforcement Advanced Tactics and are practicing
their newfound skills in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Honig wrote on Tue, 29 Aug 2000:
The fathers of the two babies, Jacques Robidoux, the sect's reputed
leader, and David Corneau, are among eight sect members who are behind
bars for refusing to cooperate in the investigation.
One wonders what 'refusing
Greg Newby wrote:
I was forced to remove my copy of the DeCSS code this spring by UNC as
a result of a complaint by the MPAA.
Now, the MPAA is trying to force me to remove a LINK to the code from
my class page. This is enough to make me want to throw up.
Can you simply remove the HREF
Marcel Popescu wrote:
Would a public PRNG (Yarrow?) server be of any use?
...
I'm asking this because I think that a big problem with PRNGs is that the
application is the more difficult part - securing the seed file, making sure
the entropy into the system is correct, and any other issues
Tim May wrote:
At 5:29 PM -0500 8/19/00, Adam Back wrote:
mailcrypt patch
Dimitri,
I ran the mailcrypto-3.5.x patch on our systems, and now our hard
drives have been erased.
Why did you attach the name "Adam Back" to your message, by the way?
(My point being that I wonder why
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
could you tell me where to buy any books on how to make pipe bombs
First post an MPEG of you making love to a llama (that's two Ls) as
evidence of your bona fides. Once the International Cypherpunk and
Bomb-Making Conspiracy has verified that it's really you, we'll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://cryptome.org/
I tried to access the archives and got the attached jpg.
I wonder if fumble, bumble and inept is involved with this?
Use http://216.167.120.50/ instead. There were "problems" a few weeks
back, caused by asshole, jerkoff, and dickhead.
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jon lebkowsky wrote:
All of these options suck.
Yeah, and so does a list that's heavily spammed. But whatever. I know how to
deal with spam, I was thinking more of the character of the list.
So am I. *ploink*
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Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel
Declan McCullagh wrote:
Nope, I wrote "confidential" since it was, um, confidential.
Put another way: They weren't handing it out to reporters who asked.
Ok, I didn't say anything before, but I now have to jump in.
There are several levels of restricted information in the US:
For Official
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34253-2000Aug3.html
Reno said, "I will be ultimately responsible for it." Unfortunately,
it was referring to the review of Carnivore's source code, not
Carnivore itself. Even more unfortunately, its history of "taking
responsibility" seems to
petro wrote:
What is not specifically permitted is allowed.
Er...maybe "what is not specifically prohibited is allowed"?
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518-374-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tim May wrote:
At 9:58 PM -0700 7/31/00, Ray Dillinger wrote:
Try completely ignoring your paper mail sometime and see how
long it is before you're in trouble with the law for missing
a jury duty summons or a bill or some legal action or other.
I was called _once_ for jury duty, in
petro wrote:
someone wrote
You are hereby sentenced to read thirty hours of Hettinga-rants on
settlement costs in digital commerce transactions.
Doesn't the constitution ban cruel and unusual punishments?
No, that applies only to actions by the government. Other bans on
cruel and
Anonymous wrote:
Fuck, no traffic on cpunks except this ...
Actually, it is the U.S. Postal Service. Officials there are planning
to offer people living at all 120 million of the nation's residential
street addresses free e-mail addresses. It would link the e-mail and
The stupidity of
Ray Dillinger wrote:
No one has yet died of spam, one case of an irate recipient
murdering a spammer notwithstanding.
!!!
Do you have any details? A URL would be perfect. I'd include a one-
liner and the URL in my friendly warnings to annoying spammers. (Yes,
that's redundant.) If they don't
Declan McCullagh wrote:
When it comes to maintaining the size of government or giving more
money to police, there is rarely gridlock. Look at the ever-increasing
FBI budgets, for instance.
If there were a terrorist attack that the FBI says could have been
prevented by Carnivore, I
Marcel Popescu wrote:
Anybody seen http://www.kuro5hin.org/ lately? I went today to see what's
new, and I didn't like what I saw...
Undergoing a DoS. See
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/07/26/1155243.shtml
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Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel
518-374-4720
Tim May wrote:
Well, the best way to increase signal is to--drum roll--increase signal.
...
I don't want to belittle you, but it is passing strange when folks
who aren't contributing signal then complain that there is not enough
signal!
I sympathise a bit with people who don't really want to
Anonymous wrote:
Bill Stewart wrote:
And US public schools can ban funny-colored hair,
Has this actually happened?
Short answer: Yes.
One kid when I was in high school (early '80's) was forced by the
school administration to shave his head after he dyed his hair (blue?)
(green?).
"Benjamin M. Brewer" wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Trei, Peter wrote:
It's my understanding that there's a precedent in which
a government audit of a merchant was halted, or at
least seriously delayed, when it was discovered that all
of his business records where in Hebrew. The court
Anonymous wrote:
not revealing fed agents' names
The rationale is obvious - Tims may ambush them if their whereabouts
become known.
In classical Athens, the definition of a tyrant was a ruler who needed
bodyguards because the people didn't like him.
What do you call it when the
Tim May wrote:
Well put. (This is the second fine essay from Gil Hamilton this
morning...I hope this signals more signal in the S/N ratio is coming.)
Recall the case around October or November of last year when the FBI
applied pressure to an ISP to get a "Y2K training tape" yanked off
My fingers did me wrong and sent this during editing. Please
disregard the immediately preceeding post --- SRF
Tim May wrote:
Well put. (This is the second fine essay from Gil Hamilton this
morning...I hope this signals more signal in the S/N ratio is coming.)
I've noticed that, too. Hardly
Marcel Popescu wrote:
goat porn g
That's not as funny as you think it is.
I used to joke at work about spending all my time looking at porn.
Then I started to receive porn by email at work. (Best guess is that
spammers scooped my name from usenet postings; no matter.) OK, so
then I started
John Young wrote:
I have agreed with your request not to identify the two FBI Special
Agents to whom I spoke today.
Why did they request that, and why did you agree? It's not like they're
undercover cops infiltrating a drug ring. More like secret police, in
this ignorant layman's opinion.
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Tim May wrote:
"Contempt of court" is the catchall.
Along with "conspiracy". DAs are throwing that in for just about every
crime involving more than one person. Bought a gram of heroin from
a dealer you've just bumped into and whom you've never seen before?
Conspiracy. I don't think that, in
Kevin Elliott wrote:
(regarding collection of personal data by corps)
The
information being gathered is not secret, nor is the information
being gathered (generally speaking) using inherently illegal (or
immoral) techniques.
Agreed. The only reason it's a serious problem that needs to be
Oakland is giving Pentiums in exchange for guns
Can we cut out the middleman? I have a Pentium laptop I'd love to
trade for a decent gun.
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Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel
518-374-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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