Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-10 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:11:26PM -0600, Wes Hellman wrote: Since terrorists are the enemy, and they (obviously) operate within our borders to do harm, it's not a terrible stretch to think that it won't be long before a US citizen who's actually here in the states could be designated an enemy

Re: bin Laden, Hanssen, Inslaw Promis, Oh My!

2003-01-10 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 09:58 AM 1/9/03 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20030106-75579570.htm --- Greets to the TLA moths flitting to the flame of keywords.. Though the article would be better if it had named the former NJ Governor Thomas H. Kean instead of David H.

Re: Pigs Kill Family Pet

2003-01-10 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
On 9 Jan 2003, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:35:38 -0500, you wrote: No they don't; or they wouldn't have had the balls to stop the car in the first place. Most cops in Cookeville, TN have dogs. I wonder if they would mind them being shotgunned to death. If the

Re: crypto car keys

2003-01-10 Thread Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 07:13:31 -0800 (PST) Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The dealer said it's a rolling code system, and from the white paper this includes a 40 bit challenge, an encryption operation on the key (!) then a 24 bit response from the key. Hi Mike, do you have an actual

Re: Pigs Kill Family Pet

2003-01-10 Thread lcs Mixmaster Remailer
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:35:38 -0500, you wrote: No they don't; or they wouldn't have had the balls to stop the car in the first place. Most cops in Cookeville, TN have dogs. I wonder if they would mind them being shotgunned to death. If the dog presents a threat of any type like running up

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-10 Thread Declan McCullagh
Here's a December ruling favorable to the gvt in the Padilla case: http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/12/04/padilla.ruling/index.html Note this has not been affirmed by an appeals court (yet). -Declan On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:25:42PM -0600, Wes Hellman wrote: Oh, it seems that I've missed the fact

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-10 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 9:17 AM -0800 on 1/9/03, Bill Stewart wrote: I've usually been the one wearing the fedora in cooler weather, and a few people wore Red Hats back in the day. Don't ever do it without your fez on? :-). Cheers, RAH Not that a fez would work very well for that kind of thing. Well, not *that*

Oooh, hackers are bad!

2003-01-10 Thread Bo Elkjaer
This is worth a laugh. I have never before heard of or seen a hacker as bad as this one. Oh my. http://www.andrews.af.mil/89cg/89cs/scbsi/images/poster8.jpg Yours Bo Elkjaer, Denmark -- EOT

Re: Subject: CDR: Re: QM, EPR, A/B

2003-01-10 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, blah wrote: From: Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, blah wrote: Not from the photons perspective, from a photons perspective there is -no- time. A photon has no perspective. Yes it does. It is a particle and it interacts with the rest of

Re: Let there be Blah

2003-01-10 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Anonymous wrote: As a (fellow) trained physicst, do you actually believe that quantum-encrypted signals are truly secure as a byproduct of basic physical law, or do even YOU believe that QM is merely a useful calculational tool, No 'label' is ever the thing it labels. QM

Re: Quantum suicide without suicide

2003-01-10 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Tim May wrote: -- Newcomb's Paradox (discussed in Pearl, Joyce, Nozick, etc.) This is no paradox, it is a silly question with an obvious answer that a lot of smart people have wasted a lot of time over. You mug the alien and take both boxes. Hence if the alien could

Re: Let there be Blah

2003-01-10 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, blah wrote: Blah wrote quite an excellent post. In fact, I've met few physics PhDs which would have been able to respond so well. So needless to say, my curiosity is peaked concerning who Blah is in the real world. (Tim May, Thanks. It's nice to run into

Re: crypto car keys

2003-01-10 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann wrote: do you have an actual specification of the algorithm used by the rolling code system or is that just another ingenious high-level whitepaper leaving out all the nice details ? No nice details, just whitepaper blurbs. That's why I'm asking! I

Re: It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack

2003-01-10 Thread Eric Cordian
michael cardenas wrote: What was the bit length of the rsa key that they factored? I probably should have highlighted this with more than an Oh my at the end of the exerpt, but the point of the quote was to poke some fun at the legendary ability of the British IT Press to get breaking computer

Re: Indo European Origins and other stuff

2003-01-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Major Variola wrote... Reference). Of course, the Bhagavad Gita is a subsection of the Maybe your highschool has firewalled off anything that will lead you to Hoffman, Ott, Huxley, etc. Yeah, read all a lot of that shit 25 years ago. Seems easier to ask in an email while making some

Re: Indo European Origins and other stuff

2003-01-10 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: I'd also point out the need to be deliberately oblique. I'm not sure we aren't actually headed towards a time where any of us can be carted away for expressing how we really think. I also don't kid myself about whether someone could be listening. And

Re: Oooh, hackers are bad!

2003-01-10 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:14 PM 01/10/2003 +0100, Bo Elkjaer wrote: This is worth a laugh. I have never before heard of or seen a hacker as bad as this one. Oh my. http://www.andrews.af.mil/89cg/89cs/scbsi/images/poster8.jpg Obviously the artist had been playing Quake or Ultima Online or whatever and just gotten

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Some guy wrote You are moron. Care to be a little more specific? (I'm not afraid of a little criticism, particularly if its constructive.) Even if true, I don't see how that comment pertains to my reply. For all I know, I've been posting on a list haunted by a bunch of crypto-white