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Gmail as Blacknet

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Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:03:13PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the well-...um...-dressed terrorist... Ammonium nitrate is an ionic solid. Diesel fuel or equivalent heavy oil fraction don't show up as something unusual. Ditto inorganic

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Hard drives leak from Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2004-04-08 Thread Pawe Krawczyk (IPSec.PL)
Polish journal Nie (means No) specialising in scandals has revealed partial contents from 12 hard drives that have leaked from Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. These drives contain more than 4000 documents from years 1992-2004, some of them labelled secret. After the Ministry and ABW (Agencja

Re: Hard drives leak from Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Ironically, some of the features of Gmail bear resemblance to BlackNet. In particular, its claimed policy of retaining email indefinitely, even after the recipient has stopped using the account, is reminiscent of BlackNet's function as a data haven, as well as other Cypherpunk projects like the

Fun with Lawyers

2004-04-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
What's annoying is that, given the kind of specious settlements in this field and other cases, the ambulance chaser in question could probably afford it. :-). Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text Subject: Fun with Lawyers Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:59:21 -0400 From: Somebody To: [EMAIL

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-08 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: Poo poo. The difference between a potential blacknet and Gmail is that there's little doubt that google will cough up the true names of objectionable posters, if and when anyone looking even remotely authoritative/governmental comes pounding on their

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:19 AM 4/8/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:03:13PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the well-...um...-dressed terrorist... Ammonium nitrate is an ionic solid. Diesel fuel or equivalent heavy oil fraction don't show up as

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:14 PM 4/7/04 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: At 07:03 PM 4/7/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the well-...um...-dressed terrorist... Nah, just a plastic shower cap during explosive handling. Yep. Everyone who's serious -from Dr. Kazcynzski to the

RE: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread Trei, Peter
Major Variola (ret)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 11:19 AM 4/8/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:03:13PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the well-...um...-dressed terrorist... Ammonium nitrate is an ionic solid. Diesel

Re: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:26 AM 4/8/04 -0400, An Metet wrote: The privacy news has been full of fuss and bluster lately about Google's proposed Gmail service. Cypherpunks have two somewhat contradictory positions on the issue. First, as lovers of privacy, they will share the concerns in the letter and they would be

Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies (Re: [irtheory] Re: Anarchy and State Behaviors)

2004-04-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 4:41 AM + 4/8/04, Daniel Pineu wrote: I am very curious about what are your views about the twin concept of hierarchy Hierarchy emerges as a result of the economics of information switching. When you have expensive nodes (brains) and

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 9:14 PM -0700 4/7/04, Steve Schear wrote: Nah, just a plastic shower cap during explosive handling. On your arms? Legs? Hands? Arabs in bunny-suits. Whadda concept. See Mr. Mathers, below... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:08 AM 4/8/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: And McVeigh used ammonium nitrate which wasn't tested, and as a highly soluable (in fact deliquescent) inorganic it probably won't persist like a nitrated organic. Also common as dirt in agville. He also added nitromethane to the mix, obtained

Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:56 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: [Nanotechology at least holds out the possibility of making Von Neumann machines, that is, switches which make copies of themselves, You mean Johnny's *replicators*, a vN machine is just one with a changable program store. But you mentioned Jared

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:06 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 9:14 PM -0700 4/7/04, Steve Schear wrote: Nah, just a plastic shower cap during explosive handling. On your arms? Legs? Hands? Arabs in bunny-suits. Whadda concept. Disposable clothes don't have to be bunny suits. Latex dishwashing gloves and

Von Neumann machine - Wikipedia

2004-04-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
As someone who was a Gerard O'Neill http://www.ssi.org/obit.html fan long before he even knew who Turing/Von Neumann/etc., were, of course, I was talking about the latter. Cheers, RAH --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_machine Von Neumann machine From Wikipedia, the free

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Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies

2004-04-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 11:28 AM -0700 4/8/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Geodesic means shortest path, and you'll note if you play with tracert that the shortest path (as seen on Earth's surface) is rarely taken. Measure the path in time? :-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL

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Re: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

2004-04-08 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:42:47PM -0400, Ian Grigg wrote: Trei, Peter wrote: Frankly, the whole online-verification step seems like an unneccesary complication. It seems to me that the requirement for after-the-vote verification (to prove your vote was counted) clashes rather directly

Re: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

2004-04-08 Thread Ian Grigg
Brian McGroarty wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:42:47PM -0400, Ian Grigg wrote: It seems to me that the requirement for after-the-vote verification (to prove your vote was counted) clashes rather directly with the requirement to protect voters from coercion (I can't prove I voted in a

Re: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

2004-04-08 Thread Paul Zuefeldt
I wasn't suggesting the authorities have access to your vote. The role of the authorities is to provide the polling/vote-verification facility and to enforce physical security. You would keep your receipt private, using it for two purposes: 1. To unlock a voter registration record to be used by

Re: voting

2004-04-08 Thread privacy.at Anonymous Remailer
Perry Metzger writes, on his cryptography list: By the way, I should mention that an important part of such a system is the principle that representatives from the candidates on each side get to oversee the entire process, assuring that the ballot boxes start empty and stay untampered with

Re: voting

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:16 PM 4/8/04 +0200, privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote: In the second place, it fails for elections with more than two parties running. The casual reference above to representatives on each side betrays this error. Poorly funded third parties cannot provide representatives as easily as

Re: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

2004-04-08 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:42:47 -0400 From: Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems to me that the requirement for after-the-vote verification (to prove your vote was counted) clashes rather directly with the requirement to protect voters from coercion (I can't prove I voted in a particular

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:03 PM 4/7/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the well-...um...-dressed terrorist... Nah, just a plastic shower cap during explosive handling. steve http://www.sciencedaily.com/print.php?url=/releases/2004/04/040406083933.htm Source: University Of

Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the well-...um...-dressed terrorist... Cheers, RAH --- http://www.sciencedaily.com/print.php?url=/releases/2004/04/040406083933.htm Source: University Of Rhode Island Date: 2004-04-06 URL:

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2004-04-08 Thread Gabriel Rocha
http://www.economist.com/World/africa/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=2559183 (it requires a login... article pasted below) I specially like the part about taxation and the difficulties of implementing it... Somalia Coke and al-Qaeda Apr 1st 2004 | MOGADISHU From The Economist print edition

[IP] Arrests key win for NSA hackers (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2004-04-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Dave Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Dave Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 04:41:45 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IP] Arrests key win for NSA hackers X-Mailer: munch X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.3.0 Reply-To: [EMAIL

Some more anarchy and capitalism -- Fwd: [dgc.chat] Starving the Bastards in Bolivia

2004-04-08 Thread Steve Schear
Bolivia is a poor country. Nevertheless, no one, however poor, ever starves in Bolivia: food is dirt cheap and readily available. In contrast, the government is starving to death. What joy! It is desperate for increased revenue and is preoccupied with schemes for new taxes etc. You may recall

RE: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

2004-04-08 Thread Trei, Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Trei wrote: Frankly, the whole online-verification step seems like an unnecessary complication. Except to those of us who don't trust the system. Implemented correctly it could be cheap and complications could be hidden

Re: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

2004-04-08 Thread Paul Zuefeldt
Maybe the receipt should only allow the voter to check that his vote has been counted. To get the detail you could require him to appear in person with his receipt AND a photo ID or some such, then only allow him to view his detail -- not print it. Paul Zuefeldt - Original Message -

Re: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

2004-04-08 Thread Roland C. Dowdeswell
On 1081373018 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch Paul Zuefeldt wrote: Maybe the receipt should only allow the voter to check that his vote has been counted. To get the detail you could require him to appear in person with his receipt AND a photo ID or some such, then only allow him to

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:08 AM 4/8/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: And McVeigh used ammonium nitrate which wasn't tested, and as a highly soluable (in fact deliquescent) inorganic it probably won't persist like a nitrated organic. Also common as dirt in agville. He also added nitromethane to the mix, obtained

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-08 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: Poo poo. The difference between a potential blacknet and Gmail is that there's little doubt that google will cough up the true names of objectionable posters, if and when anyone looking even remotely authoritative/governmental comes pounding on their

Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies

2004-04-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 4:43 PM -0700 4/8/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Feel free to ignore any constructive hints of course :-) your prose is more identifying than your pk sig. Apropros of actually something, that's how they used to go after Detweiller around here when

Re: Von Neumann machine - Wikipedia

2004-04-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 4:36 PM -0700 4/8/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: The L-5 dude? I never knew he dabbled in mental-nano-masturbation. I'm familiar with his macroscopic living-in-$pace speculations. No. He talked about Von Neumann machines. We don' need no

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:19 AM 4/8/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:03:13PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the well-...um...-dressed terrorist... Ammonium nitrate is an ionic solid. Diesel fuel or equivalent heavy oil fraction don't show up as

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Ironically, some of the features of Gmail bear resemblance to BlackNet. In particular, its claimed policy of retaining email indefinitely, even after the recipient has stopped using the account, is reminiscent of BlackNet's function as a data haven, as well as other Cypherpunk projects like the

RE: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread Trei, Peter
Major Variola (ret)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 11:19 AM 4/8/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:03:13PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the well-...um...-dressed terrorist... Ammonium nitrate is an ionic solid. Diesel

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 9:14 PM -0700 4/7/04, Steve Schear wrote: Nah, just a plastic shower cap during explosive handling. On your arms? Legs? Hands? Arabs in bunny-suits. Whadda concept. See Mr. Mathers, below... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer

Re: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

2004-04-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:03:13PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the well-...um...-dressed terrorist... Ammonium nitrate is an ionic solid. Diesel fuel or equivalent heavy oil fraction don't show up as something unusual. Ditto inorganic

RE: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies (Re: [irtheory] Re: Anarchy and State Behaviors)

2004-04-08 Thread Tyler Durden
The pre-microprocessor automation of telephony (pulse and then touchtone dialing) put expensive automation at the top of the hierarchy, and, as costs fell, moved down from there. Well, from the little I can understand of what you're saying, there seems to be some stuff worthy of at least cursory

We want everything, all the time...

2004-04-08 Thread Dave Emery
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Re: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:26 AM 4/8/04 -0400, An Metet wrote: The privacy news has been full of fuss and bluster lately about Google's proposed Gmail service. Cypherpunks have two somewhat contradictory positions on the issue. First, as lovers of privacy, they will share the concerns in the letter and they would be

Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies (Re: [irtheory] Re: Anarchy and State Behaviors)

2004-04-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 4:41 AM + 4/8/04, Daniel Pineu wrote: I am very curious about what are your views about the twin concept of hierarchy Hierarchy emerges as a result of the economics of information switching. When you have expensive nodes (brains) and

Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:29 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 11:28 AM -0700 4/8/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Geodesic means shortest path, and you'll note if you play with tracert that the shortest path (as seen on Earth's surface) is rarely taken. Measure the path in time? Yeah, some dead french dude

Hard drives leak from Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2004-04-08 Thread Pawe Krawczyk (IPSec.PL)
Polish journal Nie (means No) specialising in scandals has revealed partial contents from 12 hard drives that have leaked from Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. These drives contain more than 4000 documents from years 1992-2004, some of them labelled secret. After the Ministry and ABW (Agencja

Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:56 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: [Nanotechology at least holds out the possibility of making Von Neumann machines, that is, switches which make copies of themselves, You mean Johnny's *replicators*, a vN machine is just one with a changable program store. But you mentioned Jared

Re: Von Neumann machine - Wikipedia

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:36 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: As someone who was a Gerard O'Neill http://www.ssi.org/obit.html fan long The L-5 dude? I never knew he dabbled in mental-nano-masturbation. I'm familiar with his macroscopic living-in-$pace speculations. The term von Neumann machine also refers

Fun with Lawyers

2004-04-08 Thread R. A. Hettinga
What's annoying is that, given the kind of specious settlements in this field and other cases, the ambulance chaser in question could probably afford it. :-). Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text Subject: Fun with Lawyers Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:59:21 -0400 From: Somebody To: [EMAIL

Re: Hard drives leak from Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2004-04-08 Thread Marcel Popescu
From: PaweÅ, Krawczyk (IPSec.PL) [EMAIL PROTECTED] This case should teaches us a lot, indeed... First, subscribe to RISKS. = SUBSCRIPTIONS: PLEASE read RISKS as a newsgroup (comp.risks or equivalent) if possible and convenient for you. Alternatively, via majordomo, send e-mail requests to

Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-08 Thread An Metet
The privacy news has been full of fuss and bluster lately about Google's proposed Gmail service. The latest complaint comes at http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/GmailLetter.htm with an open letter from dozens of privacy groups to the Google founders asking them to revamp the service. Cypherpunks

Re: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

2004-04-08 Thread Paul Zuefeldt
I wasn't suggesting the authorities have access to your vote. The role of the authorities is to provide the polling/vote-verification facility and to enforce physical security. You would keep your receipt private, using it for two purposes: 1. To unlock a voter registration record to be used by

Re: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

2004-04-08 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:42:47 -0400 From: Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems to me that the requirement for after-the-vote verification (to prove your vote was counted) clashes rather directly with the requirement to protect voters from coercion (I can't prove I voted in a particular

Re: voting

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:16 PM 4/8/04 +0200, privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote: In the second place, it fails for elections with more than two parties running. The casual reference above to representatives on each side betrays this error. Poorly funded third parties cannot provide representatives as easily as

Re: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

2004-04-08 Thread Ian Grigg
Brian McGroarty wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:42:47PM -0400, Ian Grigg wrote: It seems to me that the requirement for after-the-vote verification (to prove your vote was counted) clashes rather directly with the requirement to protect voters from coercion (I can't prove I voted in a

Re: voting

2004-04-08 Thread privacy.at Anonymous Remailer
Perry Metzger writes, on his cryptography list: By the way, I should mention that an important part of such a system is the principle that representatives from the candidates on each side get to oversee the entire process, assuring that the ballot boxes start empty and stay untampered with

Re: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

2004-04-08 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:42:47PM -0400, Ian Grigg wrote: Trei, Peter wrote: Frankly, the whole online-verification step seems like an unneccesary complication. It seems to me that the requirement for after-the-vote verification (to prove your vote was counted) clashes rather directly