Re: A secure government

2003-02-07 Thread Dave Howe
David Howe wrote: at Thursday, February 06, 2003 4:48 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Another point is that ``normal'' constables aren't able to action the request; they have to be approved by the Chief Constable of a police force, or the head of a relevant Government

Re: Rep. Coble supports interning Japanese-Americans, Arabs

2003-02-07 Thread Bill Stewart
At 03:33 PM 02/06/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Holy sh*t is this guy stupid. Racist too. I guess anyone who doesn't look/sound/think like this MF is they. Better round up those blacks while we're at it. -TD Yahoo seems to have good resources liked to their political articles. Here's Coble's

Re: A secure government

2003-02-07 Thread W H Robinson
The view I get fed all the time is that crypto is, on the whole, in the hands of the terrorists, the anti-patriots, the paedophiles, et al. Correct. That it is a bad thing. We don't think so. Mr Robinson: we understand the Bill of Rights applies to some unsavory types too. Do you think

Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death... (fwd)

2003-02-07 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:34 AM 02/06/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: I've got a question... If you actually care about the NSA or KGB doing a low-level magnetic scan to recover data from your disk drives, you need to be using an encrypted file system, period, no questions. OK...so I don't know a LOT about how

Re: Rep. Coble supports interning Japanese-Americans, Arabs

2003-02-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
Here's a (not terrific, but usable) photo of Rep. Coble, also a DMCA fan: http://www.mccullagh.org/image/d30-22/howard-coble.html Folks should feel free to use it, and modify as appropriate, on websites that discuss the, ah, constitutionality of Coble's views. -Declan On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at

Re: What was really on that Shuttle?

2003-02-07 Thread Dave Emery
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:46:02AM -0800, A.Melon wrote: From: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/02/07/sprj.colu.secret.search.reut/index.html -- In and around the tiny Texas town of Bronson, near the Louisiana border, hundreds of National Guardsmen, federal agents, state troopers and

Re: Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits to invade your body!

2003-02-07 Thread Charley Musselman
yeah, spying is a much more sensible rationale than these stupid microgravity experiments for big infrastructure investments in low earth orbit... I debated a Boeing representative, gee, back in 89 or thereabouts at a AAAS meeting about payoffs of space station. (I had long been a NASA

patriot act and public key encryption

2003-02-07 Thread Michael Cardenas
If secret searches with secret warrants are legal now, what good is it to use public key encryption and keep a backup of your private key at home on a floppy? Is there a protocol to have a blinded private key, so you wouldn't actually have access to your own private key? -- michael cardenas

Re: password based key-wrap (Re: The Crypto Gardening Guide and Planting Tips)

2003-02-07 Thread Anton Stiglic
- Original Message - From: Adam Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter Gutmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Adam Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:07 PM Subject: password based key-wrap (Re: The Crypto Gardening Guide and Planting Tips)

Re: Boycott America

2003-02-07 Thread Pete Capelli
Yeah, sometimes I really wish that the US could be a more peace loving country, like our friends, the Germans. I find it especially humorous that, in the list of car makers to avoid (or to purchase from), Daimler-Chrysler was left out. I'm sure this will work as well as the 'Don't buy gas' day

Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-07 Thread Eric Cordian
An interesting story on future citizen-units being brainscrubbed in the lovely state of Pennsylvania. http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/5124933.htm - Pledge law brings out opinions of all stripes By Dan Hardy Inquirer Staff Writer A roomful of Coatesville Head Start students, ages 3, 4