Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-16 Thread Justin
On 2005-02-15T21:40:34+, Justin wrote: On 2005-02-15T13:23:37-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: --- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] As governments were created to smash property rights, they are always everywhere necessarily the enemy of those with property, and the

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-16 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 9:40 PM + 2/15/05, Justin wrote: I think it's fair to say that governments initially formed to protect property rights (although we have no historical record of such a government because it must have been before recorded history began). BZZZT. Wrong answer. Governments first steal

SHA-1 broken?

2005-02-16 Thread James Brim
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html damn chinese.

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-16 Thread Justin
On 2005-02-15T13:23:37-0500, Steve Thompson wrote: --- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] As governments were created to smash property rights, they are always everywhere necessarily the enemy of those with property, and the greatest enemy of those with the most property.

Re: How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp

2005-02-16 Thread Barry Shein
Oh no, the idiotic penny black idea rides again. Like the movie War Games when a young Matthew Broderick saves the world by causing the WOPR computer to be distracted into playing itself tic-tac-toe rather than launching a pre-emptive nuclear strike. It was a MOVIE, made in 1983 nonetheless,

Re: How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp

2005-02-16 Thread Peter Gutmann
Barry Shein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eventually email will just collapse (as it's doing) and the RBOCs et al will inherit it and we'll all be paying 15c per message like their SMS services. And the spammers will be using everyone else's PC's to send out their spam, so the spam problem will