Well, I never claimed to be Einstein, but your 3 simple steps sound a hell
of a lot like my recipe for making a ham sandwich:
First, order a steak in a restaurant.
Second, tell them to add two slices of bread.
Third, tell them you don't want beef as the primary meat of your steak, you
want
And I'd like to see their
adwords facility struggling to come up with something appropriate when
the only legible text is BEGIN PGP ENCRYPTED MESSAGE.
Wow are you non-commercial :-)
All the spy stores, sec phone makers, disk encryptors, VPN vendors, etc
will be paying top dollar to get seen by
Tyler Durden writes:
Ironically, some of the features of Gmail bear resemblance to BlackNet.
In particular, its claimed policy of retaining email indefinitely,
even after the recipient has stopped using the account, is reminiscent
of BlackNet's function as a data haven, as well as other
At 09:58 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
Well, I never claimed to be Einstein, but your 3 simple steps sound a
hell
of a lot like my recipe for making a ham sandwich:
Hardly. One could put together a very slick drop file here for
encrypted net storage
script in a day. One could even
I've been installing a Draytek Vigor 2900 router at work lately, and found a
line of models which do VoIP (router with analog phone jacks on them). They
also support VPN router-router, and come with DynDNS clients. I thought I've
seen VoIP over VPN being mentioned, but I can't find it right now.
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 03:29:58PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 11:28 AM -0700 4/8/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Geodesic means shortest path, and you'll note if you play with
tracert that the shortest path (as seen on Earth's surface) is rarely
taken.
A pretty densely distributed radio
RAH wrote...
At 10:43 AM -0700 4/9/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Meshnets (everyone's a router) is cool, admittedly. But are you going
to spend *your* battery life routing someone else's message?
Only if they pay me cash
Someone enlighten me here...I don't see this as obvious. I might certainly
Actually, to some extent I did realize this, though I couldn't resist the
droll troll urge.
And of course, perpetual storage isn't really any kind of end-goal
itself...the 'goal' of course is to be able to securely store and move
information without fear (or the possibility due to anonymity)
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 06:22:06PM +0100, Jim Dixon wrote:
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Internet is mostly a tree (if you look at the connectivity maps).
Not at all. A tree has a root; the Internet doesn't have one. Instead
you have several thousand autonomous systems
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB108137571973077200,00.html
The Wall Street Journal
April 8, 2004
PAGE ONE
For Guidance in Iraq,
Marines Rediscover
A 1940s Manual
Small-War Secrets Include:
Tips on Nation-Building,
The Care of Pack Mules
By GREG JAFFE
Staff Reporter of
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I think that those that advocate cryptographic protocols to ensure
voting
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Internet is mostly a tree (if you look at the connectivity maps).
Not at all. A tree has a root; the Internet doesn't have one. Instead
you have several thousand autonomous systems interconnecting at a large
number of peering points.
At 8:29 PM +0100 4/9/04, Jim Dixon wrote:
Traffic was following a geodesic --
but not a geographic geodesic.
Right.
Geodesic is a topologic content. In three (two?) dimensions, a geodesic is
a great circle route across a sphere. In higher dimensions, it's something
else.
No. I don't know the
At 05:16 PM 4/9/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
(As an aside, although debt has to be -forgiven- after 7 years,
contrary to
popular belief it is not true that a debt has to be -forgotten-...I
know of
one credit major card company that will not accept 'new' cardmembers
that
didn't pay back what they
Meshnets (everyone's a router) is cool, admittedly. But are you going
to spend *your* battery life routing someone else's message?
Fixed P2P energy costs are trivial. Not so for mobile P2P.
And if your meshnodes are mains-powered, you have wires going there,
so wireless is less useful. Solar
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On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Internet is mostly a tree (if you look at the connectivity maps).
Not at all. A tree has a root; the Internet doesn't have one. Instead
you have several thousand autonomous systems interconnecting at a large
number of peering points.
A
At 08:21 PM 4/9/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
It should look a lot like a Golgi stain of your neocortex, though, the
Sorry the below is long, but its subscription only, and the comparisons
to man-made networks are worth reading.
Science, Vol 301, Issue 5641, 1870-1874 , 26 September 2003
At 7:24 AM + 4/8/04, Popbitch wrote:
Shirley and Saddam
The spy who loved me
From the world of espionage we hear a fantastic
story that Shirley Bassey has been a spy for
Interpol since the early 1980s.
Shirley, apparently, has great contacts with
Arab
At 02:36 PM 4/10/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 9:03 PM -0700 4/9/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
So, get a clue. When your battery runs out, you
get *zero* benefit from the mesh. Or even your local
device *sans network*.
Yes, and as your battery starts to run out, you raise the price on
At 11:18 AM 4/10/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
What the law actually states is (basically) a defaulted loan must be
forgiven after seven years. In other words, it is illegal to continue
to
attempt to collect on a loan, 7 years after the default.
However, it is perfectly legal to remember that an
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 05:56:18PM -0400, sunder wrote:
I've not seen, nor played with any of these, *BUT*, heed this warning
which applies to all devices (and software?) that are 1) closed source and
2) offer some useful service which you'd be tempted to place inside your
network, 3) are
At 11:32 AM 4/10/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
So, get a clue. When your battery runs out, you
get *zero* benefit from the mesh. Or even your local
device *sans network*.
Well, as usual I don't think I'm understanding you here. In my example
I'm
imagining I'm a livery cab driver or something.
At 05:34 PM 4/10/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:03:35PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
One can run a P2P app from mains-powered home machine
and incur only a minor bandwidth penalty, which you can
possibly throttle when you're busy. But my
Most P2P clients don't
At 9:03 PM -0700 4/9/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
So, get a clue. When your battery runs out, you
get *zero* benefit from the mesh. Or even your local
device *sans network*.
Yes, and as your battery starts to run out, you raise the price on switching.
Your point is?
The cost of anything is
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:03:35PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
One can run a P2P app from mains-powered home machine
and incur only a minor bandwidth penalty, which you can
possibly throttle when you're busy. But my
Most P2P clients don't support this, so one better does QoS tweaks at
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Yes. I know what a tree is, and I am quite familiar with structure of
the Internet. These very pretty pictures certainly look like the Internet
I am familiar with, but don't resemble trees.
There's a continuum between a tree and a high-dimensional
A car is not what's meant by mobile. Think handsets, laptops, PDAs
with self-contained power.
Yes, of course. I assumed that was obvious. And of course, with a car the
PDA could be powered off of the cigarette lighter. Those weren't really
germane to my point.
-TD
From: Major Variola (ret)
Jim Dixon wrote:
Yes. I know what a tree is, and I am quite familiar with structure of
the Internet. These very pretty pictures certainly look like the Internet
I am familiar with, but don't resemble trees.
It is a tree. I'll give you a hint. Think of this:
God is like an infinite sphere,
Regarding the question of whether debt must be merely 'forgiven'
or actually 'forgotten', see http://www.epic.org/privacy/fcra for
information on the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970:
The FCRA limits the length of time some information can appear in a
consumer report. For instance, bankruptcies
So, get a clue. When your battery runs out, you
get *zero* benefit from the mesh. Or even your local
device *sans network*.
Well, as usual I don't think I'm understanding you here. In my example I'm
imagining I'm a livery cab driver or something. In that case, instantaneous
Tyler Durden wrote:
RAH wrote...
Only if they pay me cash
few miles. If I'm a router, I'm also sending that info behind me (which is
routing I'm paying for basically), but I will understand that the reason I
am getting my telemetry is precisely because there's a string of me's in
the
New DVD player cuts out the smut
By David Usborne in New York
11 April 2004
Like some kind of electronic air freshener, a new generation of DVD
players is poised to clear the smut, violence and bad language out of
living rooms all across America.
Thomson Inc is preparing to ship the
I don't know about your anecdote, but Mr. May's original point
was that the law *requires* companies to forget. Which is
of course an illegitimate intrusion of the state into private affairs.
Well, this is not well understood by those outside the credit world.
What the law actually states is
Hmm, it turned out my previous messages weren't going out
to the cpunk list. Trying again:
Call for Participation
THE FIFTH HOPE
July 9-11 2004
The Hotel Pennsylvania
At 08:54 AM 4/10/04 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
Wolfe is also scathing of steps taken post September 11 to protect
airports. It's not real security. This is eyewash security. This is
for
public consumption so that people think that they are doing
something.
Several years ago, on this list I
Dug this from my old archives, after finding out it vanished from the Net.
Decade-old, but more truthful than before.
May it provide some inspiration.
--
Title: The Criminal
Lyrics by: Steve Brinich
Tune: The Idiot (Stan Rogers)
Date:
At 01:47 PM 4/9/04 -0400, Adam Fields wrote:
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:46:47PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
I'm a technophile. I've loved technology all my life. I'm also a
As the supposed experts, how do we get the idea out of people's heads
that making everything electronic and automated is
Perry I agree with you on all *except* that you are prejudiced
against folks who are not mobile, have immobile dependants, are busy
or agoraphobes.
In-person voting doesn't resist graveyard voting much better than
lining up the meat.
One could say that in-person voting rewards those too lazy or
| privacy wrote:
| [good points about weaknesses in adversarial system deleted]
|
| It's baffling that security experts today are clinging to the outmoded
| and insecure paper voting systems of the past, where evidence of fraud,
| error and incompetence is overwhelming.
privacy wrote:
[good points about weaknesses in adversarial system deleted]
It's baffling that security experts today are clinging to the outmoded
and insecure paper voting systems of the past, where evidence of fraud,
error and incompetence is overwhelming. Cryptographic
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storyprint.cfm?storyID=3559809
New Zealand Herald Online - Newspaper
Sunday April 11, 2004
[An American flight crew member (left) is photographed and fingerprinted
with by an immigration official. Picture / Reuters]
Fortress America mans the ramparts
10.04.2004
Eugen Leitl wrote:
I've been installing a Draytek Vigor 2900 router at work lately, and found a
line of models which do VoIP (router with analog phone jacks on them). They
also support VPN router-router, and come with DynDNS clients. I thought I've
seen VoIP over VPN being mentioned, but I can't
Tyler Durden writes:
What the law actually states is (basically) a defaulted loan must be
forgiven after seven years. In other words, it is illegal to continue to
attempt to collect on a loan, 7 years after the default.
There are different levels of illegal. The most important one is the
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