Re: The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail, by David Kahn

2005-01-09 Thread John Young
Kahn's is a quite interesting and entertaining book. Among other tales about Yardley and his admirable battles with the USG, Kahn tells how through hilarious Gonzales-grade legal shenanigans the only time a US law has been by enacted against revealing cryptological information, in 1933, to

Re: Tasers for Cops Not You

2005-01-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 03:55:33PM -0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 13:20 -0800, John Young wrote: Here are photos of the Taser in manufacture, sale, training, promo, and accidental misfire: http://cryptome.org/taser-eyeball.htm This came up 404 as of a few

The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail, by David Kahn

2005-01-09 Thread Bill Stewart
My wife was channel-surfing and ran across David Kahn talking about his recent book The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking. ISBN 0300098464 , Yale University Press, March 2004 Amazon's page has a couple of good detailed reviews

Re: Tasers for Cops Not You

2005-01-09 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 13:20 -0800, John Young wrote: Here are photos of the Taser in manufacture, sale, training, promo, and accidental misfire: http://cryptome.org/taser-eyeball.htm This came up 404 as of a few minutes ago. -- Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hamachi mediated peer-to-peer sounds interesting (fwd from meltsner@gmail.com)

2005-01-09 Thread Alex Pankratov
Hi guys, I look at the thread and I'd like to comment on this - I wonder why they didn't use IPSec. I know IPsec/IKE reasonably well, and I just don't like IKE. It's too generic, it's under-specified and it fairly big pain in the ass to implement (I wrote libike a couple of years ago). Except from

RE: Police seek missing trucker, nickels

2005-01-09 Thread Tyler Durden
OK...most of the time I understanding the relevance of the emanations from RAH, but this one I don't get. What's the relevance? Choate nostalgia? -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Police seek missing trucker, nickels Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:44:25 -0500

RE: Police seek missing trucker, nickels

2005-01-09 Thread Bill Stewart
At 01:36 PM 1/9/2005, Tyler Durden wrote: OK...most of the time I understanding the relevance of the emanations from RAH, but this one I don't get. What's the relevance? Choate nostalgia? Micropayments, of course :-)

Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

2005-01-09 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as if it's hard to discover what they are at this point.

Tasers for Cops Not You

2005-01-09 Thread John Young
NY Times reports today that SEC is investigating Taser for possible financial irregularity: as last day of business for 2004 racked up a $700,000 sale to an AZ gun shop which brags it sells to civilians, but only a few so far. And that the AZ AG is informally looking at sale of the stun guns to

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

2005-01-09 Thread Justin
On 2005-01-08T12:54:25-0500, Tyler Durden wrote: What else would the PATRIOT act do? That's a particularly malicious That was scarcasm. psychological trick on the part of the miserable bastards who named it. It doesn't so much matter that it's obvious. Somehow, I don't think the bastards

Re: Police seek missing trucker, nickels

2005-01-09 Thread Pete Capelli
Millions of micropayments lost? On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 16:36:25 -0500, Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK...most of the time I understanding the relevance of the emanations from RAH, but this one I don't get. What's the relevance? Choate nostalgia? -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL

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

2005-01-09 Thread Justin
On 2005-01-06T12:06:40-0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, I used to be pro gun-control prior to the Patriot Act. Guess the Patriot Act made me something of a Patriot. What else would the PATRIOT act do? That's a particularly malicious psychological trick on the part of the miserable bastards

Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

2005-01-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/09/1411242 Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2005-01-09 15:00:00 from the pick-a-password-people dept. An anonymous reader writes Blogs and message forums buzzed this week with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits [1]access

Re: The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail, by David Kahn

2005-01-09 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Stewart writ es: My wife was channel-surfing and ran across David Kahn talking about his recent book The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking. ISBN 0300098464 , Yale University Press, March 2004 Amazon's page

Re: Police seek missing trucker, nickels

2005-01-09 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 5:10 PM -0500 1/9/05, Pete Capelli wrote: Millions of micropayments lost? Billions. Billions. :-). Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ...

RE: Police seek missing trucker, nickels

2005-01-09 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 3:05 PM -0800 1/9/05, Bill Stewart wrote: Micropayments, of course :-) *Bearer* micropayments... :-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ...