RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

Sunder wrote: >I've been ignoring this list for a while, so sorry for the late posting. >I remember sometime in late 99, I had one of the early blackberry >pagers, the small ones that ate a single AA battery which lasted about a >week or so, and had email + a small web browser inside of it. I

RE: /. [Keyboard Sound Aids Password Cracking]

Eugen Leitl wrote > > Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/13/1644259 > Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2005-09-13 17:04:00 > >from the but-i-love-clicky-keyboards dept. >[1]stinerman writes "Three students at UC-Berkley used a 10 minute >[2]recording of a keyboard to recover 96% of

test of minder remailer

It looks like the minder remailer is under attack - I've gotten about 20 messages with little or not content, and a small zip file attached. PT

RE: [Ryan Lackey in Iraq] Wiring the War Zone

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Thoenen > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:31 PM > To: cypherpunks@minder.net > Subject: RE: [Ryan Lackey in Iraq] Wiring the War Zone > > > > What he's doing is supplying US soldiers with an ind

RE: [Ryan Lackey in Iraq] Wiring the War Zone

Eric Cordian writes: > RAW forwards... > >> Wiring the War Zone > >> It's a typical morning at Camp Anaconda, >> the giant US military base 50 miles north >> of Baghdad - light breeze, temperatures >> heading to 100 degrees, scattered mortar fire. >> Ryan Lackey is getting ready for today's

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Politech] Montana Supreme Court justice warns Orwell's 1984 has arrived [priv]]

Tyler Durden writes: > Yes, but the old question needs to be asked: How much of this > crime would go away if crystal meth were legal? Actually, if we ever managed to kill the culture of prohibition, I suspect that crystal meth would be about as popular is bathtub gin is today. It's terrible st

RE: Posion Pill for ED?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tyler Durden > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 2:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Posion Pill for ED? > > > Hey...can some clever Cypherpunk think of a nice poison pill for ED? > Theoretically, so

RE: Google prioritises results for firefox and mozilla users

Sarad AV > hi, > > news below: > > http://www.net4nowt.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=2809 > > Google is way too fast. Whats the difference seraching > using google in 10 milliseconds and in 5 > milliseconds?Perhaps they are taking some load off > their server? I fail to see how it is us

RE: AP For Starvation Judge

Major Variola (ret) > It would be very cool karma if the Pope were to > be vegetative but indefinately prolongable (thanks > of course to the fruits of the scientific method > which is the antiPope). One imagines this will > eventually happen. Or are there rules to replace > a useless Pope?

RE: What Will We Do With Innocent People's DNA?

Damian Gerow wrote: > Thus spake Tyler Durden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [22/03/05 16:12]: > : Easy to see where that's headed: > : > : 1. Joe Cypherpunk is doing 54 on Rt 95. > : 2. "Cops" (or guys in a black car claiming to be local > cops) stop Joe, make > : arrest based on "speeding" or what have

FW: on FPGAs vs ASICs

>From Major Variola (ret) > Tyler, Riad, etc: > FPGAs are used in telecom because the volumes do not support an ASIC > run. > Riad doesn't seem to appreciate this. He does understand that an ASIC > is more > efficient because its gates are used only for 1 computation, > rather than > most > (

RE: Jeff Jacoby: An inglorious suicide

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anonymous > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 3:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Jeff Jacoby: An inglorious suicide > > > R.A. Hettinga spoke thusly... > > >

RE: SHA1 broken?

Actually, the final challenge was solved in 23 hours, about 1/3 Deep Crack, and 2/3 Distributed.net. They were lucky, finding the key after only 24% of the keyspace had been searched. More recently, RC5-64 was solved about a year ago. It took d.net 4 *years*. 2^69 remains non-trivial. Peter -

RSA Conference, and BA Cypherpunks

Once again, the RSA Conference is upon us, and many of the corrospondents on these lists will be in San Francisco. I'd like to see if anyone is interested in getting together. We've done this before. At past conferences, we've had various levels of participation, from 50 down to 3. Since the BAC

RE: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

Erwann ABALEA > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Trei, Peter wrote: > > > Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly > > the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of > > your computer which you may not have full control over. > > Please stop relay

RE: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of your computer which you may not have full control over. Peter Trei Tyler Durden > ANyone familiar with computer architectures and chips able to > answer this > question: > > Th

RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Thompson > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder > > > --- Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [airport

RE: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:47:38AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: > > > I've actually seen these devices in operation. The thing > > that impressed me most was that the path need not be a > > single fiber from end to end - you can maintain quantum

RE: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

I've actually seen these devices in operation. The thing that impressed me most was that the path need not be a single fiber from end to end - you can maintain quantum state across a switchable fiber junction. This means you are no longer limited to a single pair of boxes talking to each other.

RE: [IP] No expectation of privacy in public? In a pig's eye! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

Bill Stewart wrote: > At 12:30 PM 1/12/2005, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: > >Just out of curiosity, if the man doesn't need a warrent > >to place a surveilance device, shouldn't it be within your rights > >to tamper with, disable or remove such a device if you discover one? > > Do you mean that if yo

RE: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

Justin wrote: > On 2005-01-11T10:07:22-0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >> Justin wrote: >>> >>> I don't believe the article when it says that smart guns >>> are useless if stolen. What do they have, a tamper-proof >>> memory chip storing a 128-bit

RE: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

Justin wrote: > > I don't believe the article when it says that smart guns are > useless if > stolen. What do they have, a tamper-proof memory chip > storing a 128-bit > reprogramming authorization key that must be input via computer before > allowing a new person to be authorized? And what's

RE: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

Justin wrote: > > On 2005-01-10T15:04:21-0500, Trei, Peter wrote: > > > > John Kelsey > > > > > >Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire > > > > By ANNE EISENBERG > > > > > > I just wonder what the false n

RE: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

John Kelsey > >Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire > > By ANNE EISENBERG > > I just wonder what the false negative rates are. Seem like a > gun that has a 1% chance of refusing to fire when you *really > need it* might not be worth all that much. Similarly, one > that you ca

Re: sitting ducks

Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > At 12:16 PM 1/4/05 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: > >Interesting questions: How hard is it for someone to actually > hit an airplane with a rifle bullet? How often do airplane > maintenance people notice bulletholes? > > > >My understanding is that a single bullethol

RE: Banks Test ID Device for Online Security

R.A. Hettinga wrote: > Okay. So AOL and Banks are *selling* RSA keys??? > Could someone explain this to me? > No. Really. I'm serious... > > Cheers, > RAH > The slashdot article title is really, really misleading. In both cases, this is SecurID. Peter

RE: California Bans a Large-Caliber Gun, and the Battle Is On

John Kelsey wrote > Interesting questions: How hard is it for someone to > actually hit an airplane with a rifle bullet? How often do > airplane maintenance people notice bulletholes? Damn hard. There's a reason winghunters use shotguns, and anti-aircraft guns are full auto. The only way a

RE: RAH's postings.

I wasn't actually expecting anonymity. I wrote directly to RAH, asking him politely to edit down his posts, and simply post a few lines and a pointer. Not pointing out his faults in public was simply good manners. His response boils down to 'fuck you'. Cypherpunks has a very loose charter, but it

RE: punkly current events

Eugen Leitl > You could claim your machine was infected with > mixmaster malware, or something. Now that would be an interesting worm - one which, instead of installing a spamalator, installed a remailer and posted public keys and contact info to usenet. (Disclaimer: No, I don't do things like th

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

J.A. Terranson wrote: > (4) I have yet to meet a full dozen people who share my > belief that while stego *may* be in use, if it is, that > use is for one way messages of semaphore-class messages > only. I really do not understand why this view > is poopoo'd by all sides, so I must be pretty de

RE: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil Johnson > Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 9:06 AM > To: R.W. (Bob) Erickson > Cc: Steve Furlong; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius... > > > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 08:46 -0500,

RE: Oswald

Steve Furlong wrote: > Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > Bill Stewart wrote: > > >Slsahdot reports that MSNBC reports > http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6549265/ > > >that there's a new video game "JFK Reloaded" > > http://www.jfkreloaded.com/start/ > > > > I'm waiting for Grand Theft Auto IV, Drunk Over the

RE: Another John Young Sighting

After some hiccups, I got a copy to Riad S. Wahby, and he has posted it at http://web.mit.edu/rsw/Public/JohnYoung040820.mpg Thanks, Riad! Peter > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Trei, Peter > Sent: Friday, August 20, 2

RE: Another John Young Sighting

I caught the rerun. I have John's appearence as an mpg; 13 Mb at VCD qual, ~65 at DVD qual. I think <2 minutes of a 30 minute show counts as fair use. If someone can take that much as a mail attachment, or has an acessible ftp site, I'd be happy to send it. I'd prefer someone who can post it for

RE: Texas oil refineries, a White Van, and Al Qaeda

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas Shaddack > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 3:48 PM > To: Justin > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Texas oil refineries, a White Van, and Al Qaeda > > > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Justin wrote: >

RE: vacuum-safe laptops ?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of An Metet > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 6:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: vacuum-safe laptops ? > > > > Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate > myself) which laptops, if an

RE: EU seeks quantum cryptography response to Echelon

Tom Shaddack wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: > > > "Monyk believes there will be a global market of several > million users once > > a workable solution has been developed. A political > decision will have to > > be taken as to who those users will be in order to prevent > te

RE: Lowering the Bar for Threats

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Cordian > > I wonder how long it will be until Americans get their houses > pushed over > with bulldozers for criticizing the government. Probably at > least until > after the election. Didn't

RE: [IP] One Internet provider's view of FBI's CALEA wiretap push

Tyler Durden wrote: > > "I wonder how quickly one could incinerate a memory card in the field > with high success rate? Destroy the data and the passphrases don't > help." > > Well, what if there were 3 passwords: > > 1) One for Fake data, for amatuers (very few of the MwG will > actually be

RE: voting

> Ed Gerck[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > John Kelsey wrote: > > > > At 11:05 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: > > > > >1. The use of receipts which a voter takes from the voting place to > 'verify' > > >that their vote was

RE: voting

"privacy" wrote: [good points about weaknesses in adversarial system deleted] > It's baffling that security experts today are clinging to the outmoded > and insecure paper voting systems of the past, where evidence of fraud, > error and incompetence is overwhelming. Cryptographic

RE: Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

> 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

RE: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

> [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

RE: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

> Ian Grigg[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 count

RE: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and k i ttens (and lions and bears, oh my!)

Major Variola (ret) wrote: >At 11:38 AM 4/2/04 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >>I haven't eaten domestic cat, but I have eaten lion. Suprisingly, >>it was a light tender meat, resembling veal more than anything >>else. Tasted good. >Just out of curiosity, how did you ve

RE: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and ki ttens

Steve Furlong wrote: >On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 16:21, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >> Tastes just like chicken? >Can we change the subject? My girlfriend is Chinese, I've already eaten >things that I wouldn't have considered to be food, she doesn't like my >cat, and I don't want her getting any ideas. >H

DoD advisor advocates piracy

No, seriously. ...the 'Yo Ho Ho' kind, that is. Peter Trei --- http://epw.senate.gov/hearing_statements.cfm?id=219545 U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works Hearing Statements Date: 03/24/2004 Statement of Peter Leitner Author Reforming the Law of t

RE: Liquid Natural Flatulence

RAH wrote: >Peter, I'm not going to get into a fisking match with you, but I >didn't just make this stuff up, and I resent you saying I did. OK, I agree I was a bit snarky. Mea culpas below. >At 10:26 AM -0500 3/31/04, Trei, Peter wrote: >>* Evaporating LPG (liquids

RE: Liquid Natural Flatulence

Bob wrote: >Justing wrote: >>Haven't you ever seen a phase diagram? >Sigh. Yes. Here's one, for water: > >And your point is? Let's see, if we rapidly cool boiling water by >dispersing it in supercold air... somewhere past the triple

RE: Liquid Natural Flatulence

R. A. Hettinga wrote: > A *cryogenic* liquid, mind you, meaning that you'd have to heat the > stuff up a lot, and very quickly, in order to set it ablaze, much > less blow it up. A liquid which is busily sublimating directly into > the gas that it is at room temperature, and diluting, accordingly,

Call to the Usual Suspects

I'll be in the SF/SJ area the week of the RSA conference. Anyone interested in getting together for dinner one night? We used to try to schedule a BA Cypherpunks Physical Meeting to match up with the event, but the PMs seem to have died out. Peter Trei

Free RSA Expo passes available

The RSA Security Conference in San Francisco is coming up: Feb 23-27. As in the past, free Expo passes are available if you register online at the conference site: http://2004.rsaconference.com/ (The expo is not open all days - check the schedule). Last year, getting a badge required an ID and ge

Howard Dean wants national IDs, internet drivers licenses.

I realize that there isn't a major party presidential candidate alive who gets approval from most of the people on this list, but it's worthwhile to note which ones are proposing explicitly poor internet and privacy policy. Peter -Original Message- From: Declan McCullagh [mailto:[EMAIL P

RE: spying on congress, by congress

Major Variola (ret.)wrote: >http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/22/infiltration_of_files _seen_as_extensive/ >WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary >Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring >secret strategy memos and periodic

RE: Lunar Colony

Justin wrote: >Does anyone think it will take less than trillions >of dollars to establish a moon base? The more realistic numbers I've heard are $400 billion for a moon base, double that for a Mars mission. I don't know the incremental cost to sustain the moonbase. Interesting OpEd piece in the

RE: Singers jailed for lyrics

From: ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Trei, Peter wrote: >> Bill Stewart wrote: >>> Michael Kalus wrote: >>>>>>Certain symbols (e.g. Swastika) are forbidden as well. >>>As Tim pointed out, the Swastika symbol had long use before the >

FW: [IP] FBI Issues Alert Against Almanac Carriers

My first thought on reading this was that it was from The Onion, but its real. I guess being well-informed is now a cause for suspicion, as it was in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Peter Trei -Original Message- From: Dave Farber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 29, 20

RE: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I would like to throw in with the OTO gunners here. [...] OTO Ordo Templi Orientalis? You don't mean *that*, do you? I suspect I'm suffering from acronym overloading. Peter

RE: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

I'm trying to think of a reason why a recipient of a image containing stego'd information would want to keep it around after reading the contained info, with the stego bits overwritten. Why not just (securely) get rid of it? There are tons of sources of unique ephemeral images, such as webcams.

RE: Zombie Patriots and other musings [was: Re: (No Subject)]

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nothing less than a guerilla war seems necessary to restore > something akin to the original constitutional balance in the > U.S. But where to recruit these people? My suggestion: the > terminally ill. > Many TI come to the table with a 'gift', the certaint

RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

Miles Fidelman wrote: >Peter Trei wrote: >> All I want is a system which is not more easily screwed around with then >> paper ballots. >I think it's called OCR Actually, I think its called 'Optical Mark Sense'. >Paper ballots, marked by the voter, not by software, then counted by >software: >-

RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

Tim May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Nov 25, 2003, at 9:56 AM, Sunder wrote: >> Um, last I checked, phone cameras have really shitty resolution, >> usually >> less than 320x200. Even so, you'd need MUCH higher resolution, say >> 3-5Mpixels to be able to read text on a printout in a pic

RE: e voting

cubic-dog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: >> Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as >> of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to >> produce a paper printout that voters can check to make

RE: Support the Bush-Orwell '04 campaign!

> From: Sunder[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Support the Bush-Orwell '04 campaign! > http://www.cafeshops.com/grandoldparty/76732 > Cute, but actually putting George Orwell on the ticket would actually be a very nice counterbalance to Ashcroft, etal (or course, he's dead, and fo

RE: Inferno: Cold War encryption laws stand, but not as firmly | CNET News.com (fwd)

> Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Inferno: Cold War encryption laws stand, but not as firmly | > CNET News.com (fwd) > > This is great news for crypto... > > http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5092154.html?tag=nefd_top > > [Judge Patel throws out Bernstein case after USG 'prom

RE: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

> Major Variola (ret)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > As far as I can tell, the EuroXian guilt after WWII > was shed by sending the Jews to a slice of desert that the Brits > had conquered previously. "Two wrongs not making a right" doesn't > seem to have occurred to them. [...] > Its a bummer that

RE: Liquidating the Mud People

> Tyler Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Matt Gaylor wrote... > > "That's what free people have and that's one of the reason's I'd never > move to Canada. Naturally my car got searched with a fine toothed comb, > but > I > added I wouldn't be stupid enough to bring my pistol. I spent considera

RE: Secure IDE? (fwd)

> Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Forwarded by request. > > -- Forwarded message -- > > sector address as the IV. IVs don't need to be > random, secret, or > unpredictable - they just need to be unrepeated. > (I'm > assuming > sector-at-a- > time encryption). > >

RE: Secure IDE?

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >It's a move in the right direction, but I wish they had followed through > and > >done the right things: > > > >* [AES | 3DES]/CBC > >

RE: Secure IDE?

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >No info on chaining modes, if any, nor of IV handling. > > DES/ECB, originally with a 40-bit key, more recently with 56-bit and 3DES. > Keys genera

RE: Secure IDE?

> Trei, Peter > > ABIT has come out with a new motherboard, the > "IC7-MAX3" featuring something called 'Secure > IDE', which seems to involve HW crypto in the > onboard IDE controller: > > From the marketing fluff at > http://www.abit.com.tw/abi

Secure IDE?

ABIT has come out with a new motherboard, the "IC7-MAX3" featuring something called 'Secure IDE', which seems to involve HW crypto in the onboard IDE controller: >From the marketing fluff at http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/english/news1.jsp?pDOCNO=en_0307251 "For MAX3, the ABIT E

RE: Someone at the Pentagon read Shockwave Rider over the weekend

> Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 09:26 AM, Bill Stewart wrote: > > > Also, NYT Article was > > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29TERR.html?th > > > > But it sounds like they've chickened out, because various people > > freaked > > about the impl

RE: GPS blackbox tracking

> Harmon Seaver[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Before this, AFAIK, we only had to worry about getting a GPS > transmitting > device planted on our vehicles, which would be bulky enough to spot fairly > easily by anyone checking out the cars underside, etc. Here's one that > doesn't > transmi

RE: Optical Tempest? I have my doubts...

> Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I dunno...I'm thinking that optical tempest is probably bullshit 99% of > the > time, but what do I know? My Optical specialities are ultrafast and > optical > networking. > > But I still don't believe that specular reflection of smallish type from a >

RE: Sealing wax & eKeyboard

> -- > From: Tyler Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Sealing wax & eKeyboard > > I don't think a virtual keyboard is necessar

RE: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

> Tyler Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Nobody wrote... > > "There is a loss of quality if you go through an analog stage. Real and > wannabe audiophiles will prefer the real thing, pure and undiluted by > a reconversion phase. These are the people who are already swallowing > the mark

Are the filters too restrictive on some CDRs?

> Gabriel Rocha[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > On Wed, Jul 02, at 10:55AM, Trei, Peter wrote: > | I have 9 real messages from July 1. > > What node do you subscribe to? I have three messages from July 1st. I > use lne. > I use minder.com, which does no

RE: test please ignore

> Declan McCullagh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Pretty quiet. I'm going through back messages now and only saw I think > three from July 1. > > -Declan > > > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:04:28AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: > > Is it really quiet in here, or does the fact that I've been > >

RE: Is Hatch a Mormon or a crypto Satanist?

> Declan McCullagh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To go back to the Subject: line of this thread, I recall that Hatch is > a former Mormon bishop. > > -Declan > In the LDS church, the title 'Bishop' is handed out pretty freely - I think it's roughly equivalent to 'lay preacher'. ...and it's not t

RE: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

Googling on ("event data recorders" automobiles) will give a lot of hits. For example: http://wpoplin.com/EventDataRecordersAutomotiveBlackBoxes.pdf These devices are a byproduct of the introduction of airbags - the airbag processor stores the data which led it to deploy the bag. This can inclu

RE: unregistered shell

> Major Variola (ret)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > At 12:29 AM 6/10/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: > >At 09:48 AM 06/09/2003 -0700, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: > >>the Capitol because it had a gasoline container strapped to its roof. > > But the real point is that ammo has to be registered. Amazing

Real Crypto Terrorists.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/21/HNpdapgp_1.html Red Brigades PDA highlights encryption controversy By Philip Willan, IDG News Service May 21, 2003 ROME - Italian police have seized at least two Psion PLC PDAs (personal digital assistants) from members of the Red Brigades terrorist or

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

> Kelsey[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >How ever I wonder if the report of an Apache > >helicopter being shot down by a farmer with his > >rifle-the chopper was certainly downed but I find it > >hard to beleive that a bullet brought it down. > > I heard (I think on BBC) that a whole bunch of the cho

RE: Run a remailer, go to jail?

Derek, etal If you (or anyone) goes, I'm sure we'd all appreciate some notes on what transpired. I understand 17 different bills are being considered at this hearing, so don't blink or you may miss it. Peter Trei > -- > From: Derek Atkins[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Dave Eme

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

> Gabriel Rocha[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > On Thu, Mar 27, at 06:33AM, Mike Rosing wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.aljazeera.net > www.aljazeera.net has address 216.34.94.186 > > This is from the US, fyi. It also works (and even resolves to the same > thing :) from ot

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

> Sarad AV[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > hi, > > it doesnt matter as long as Al-Jazeera is live and > kicking and the camera's are rolling. > > The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of > > microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind > > radar, silence radios, trigger cripp

RE: Using RFC 821 to despam open relays.

> Barry Shein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > This is a little like suggesting to the military that filling small > bronze tubes with gunpowder and plugging the ends up with lead might > drive the lead slugs, aimed with pipes, fast enough to penetrate Iraqi > soldiers' flesh. > > That is, the blin

RE: Using RFC 821 to despam open relays.

> Declan McCullagh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:29:36AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: > > If the mail server introduces an increasing delay (similar > > to the backoff mechanism in Ethernet) to it's response after the > > first 2 RC

Using RFC 821 to despam open relays.

Go to the spec, Luke! There's a way of preventing spammers from abusing open relays, involving a couple simple tweaks to sendmail. In RFC 821, individual recipients of an email message are specified by a RCPT command, one for each recipient. Each RCPT must by acknowledged by an "250" response.

RE: Unauthorized Journalists to be shot at

> Ken Brown[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This has now happened - Terry Lloyd one, of Britain's better-known > reporters, seems to have been killed by US marines. According to the > cameraman he was picked up by Iraqi ambulance, so its a fair bet they > weren't embedded in the COW (thanks for

RE: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

> Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: > > > 3) what about the Kurds? What about the Kurds? Does the US force them > > to rejoin Iraq? Does the US continue to deny them Kirkuk and other > > cities of their homeland? Does the US allow Turkish troops to in

RE: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

> Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yes, but many offices don't allow handguns inside, even if locked in a > case or backpack. > If people feel the risk is high enough, they could carry concealed. The number of non-governmental places which require staff to go a metal detector is miniscu

The War Prayer

As we stand at the brink of aggressive war, it's worth reading (or re-reading) Mark Twain's 'The War Prayer'. You might want to pass it on to some of your more hawkish friends. Twain wrote this in reaction to the Phillipines- American War of 1899-1902, which procured that country as an American co

RE: Brinwear at Benetton.

> Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Michael Shields wrote: > > > It adds up, especially in low-margin businesses. Groceries are a good > > example; unpacking every cart, scanning, and bagging is an expensive > > bottleneck. The process could be streamlined a lot if

RE: Brinwear at Benetton.

> Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > They don't want to deactivate them. Go back and read the SFGate > > article I linked in my initial post. They want to recognize when a > > loyal customer returns, so they can pull up his/her profile and give > > then "personalized" treatment. > > And

RE: Brinwear at Benetton.

> Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As Declan points out, the tags can be disabled at the counter. I would > think that since they have no internal power source, building something to > fry their innards would be easy, and you don't need a microwave oven. > > Just like they pass item

RE: Unauthorized Journalists to be shot at

> Eugen Leitl[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: > > > 1. An journalist doing what he was specifically told not to do? > > Most probably. Those pesky civilians. No backbone, no way to gag them by > extreme sanctioning after

RE: Brinwear at Benetton.

> alan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Tim May wrote: > > > > Regarding TEMPEST shielding - there is another, complementary approach > > > > for > > > shielding: jamming. There are vendors selling devices that drown the > RF > > > emissions of computer equipment in noise,

RSA Conference Awards Nominations now open.

I'm sure the folks on this list can come up with some interesting nominations :-) Peter Trei Deadline March 3rd Nominations opened today for the sixth annual RSA. Conference Awards. The Awards recognize individuals and organizations that make significant and o

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