Other uses of TCPA

2002-08-03 Thread Nomen Nescio
I think that people are beginning to understand that TCPA is not a black and white issue. It is neither the overwhelming threat that some activists are describing, nor the panacea that the vendors are selling. It is a technology with strengths and weaknesses. As an exercise, try thinking of

RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-03 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 2 Aug 2002 at 14:36, Trei, Peter wrote: OK, It's 2004, I'm an IT Admin, and I've converted my corporation over to TCPA/Palladium machines. My Head of Marketing has his TCPA/Palladium desktop's hard drive jam-packed with corporate confidential documents he's been actively working on

info-theoretic model of anonymity

2002-08-03 Thread Adam Back
Just read this paper published in PET02 Towards an Information Theoretic Metric for Anonymity [1]: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~gd216/set.pdf or http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~gd216/set.ps it uses a Shannon like entropy model for the anonymity provided by a system uses this model to analyse

RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-03 Thread Albion Zeglin
Quoting Jay Sulzberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: b. Why must TCPA/Palladium be a dongle on the whole computer? Why not a separate dongle? Because, of course, the Englobulators proceed here on principle. The principle being that only the Englobulators have a right to own printing presses/music

RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-03 Thread AARG! Anonymous
Peter Trei writes: It's rare enough that when a new anononym appears, we know that the poster made a considered decision to be anonymous. The current poster seems to have parachuted in from nowhere, to argue a specific position on a single topic. It's therefore reasonable to infer that

Re: CDR: RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-03 Thread Alif The Terrible
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, AARG! Anonymous wrote: I have sent over 400 anonymous messages in the past year to cypherpunks, coderpunks, sci.crypt and the cryptography list (35 of them on TCPA related topics). I see you are no too worries about traffic analysis? -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL

RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-03 Thread AARG! Anonymous
Peter Trei envisions data recovery in a TCPA world: HoM: I want to recover my data. Me: OK: We'll pull the HD, and get the data off it. HoM: Good - mount it as a secondary HD in my new system. Me: That isn't going to work now we have TCPA and Palladium. HoM: Well, what do you have to

RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-03 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Albion Zeglin wrote: Quoting Jay Sulzberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: b. Why must TCPA/Palladium be a dongle on the whole computer? Why not a separate dongle? Because, of course, the Englobulators proceed here on principle. The principle being that only the Englobulators