Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-05-01 Thread Steve Furlong
Daniel J. Boone wrote: Don't forget, they arrested the guy who bought a truckload of candy at Costco just before Halloween If you're talking about the New Jersey man, he was (a) not Arabic (b) not a terrorist and (c) a candy wholesaler. He just wanted to turn a profit by making little

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-05-01 Thread Steve Furlong
Tim May wrote: On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 12:55 PM, Michael Motyka wrote: His credit card usage sometimes flips the stolen card bit But you make a good point, that the net to snare bad guys is snaring vastly more ordinary people. And most of the sheeple _like_ it. They'd rather be

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-05-01 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 02:29 PM, Daniel J. Boone wrote: From: Michael Motyka [EMAIL PROTECTED] I remember that in the weeks post 9-11 Safeway or one of the other grocery store chains offered to profile customers. What are they going to do? Question everyone who buys olive oil,

Re: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-05-01 Thread Julian Assange
L** G*** is a nice man. He wrote that the Cult of the Dead Cow were a bunch of barely literate mindless American teenage delinquents. Ken This statement is surprisingly close to the truth. In top black hat circles CDC people were always viewed as joke. They were loosely tolerated

Louis Freeh STILL wants your keys.

2002-05-01 Thread Trei, Peter
http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/04/30/elcock_terror020430 - start quote - In order to fight this threat, says Freeh, companies such as Microsoft must be legally obligated to hand over the keys needed to decipher encrypted messages. He says it could prevent al-Qaeda from maintaining encrypted

Re: Louis Freeh STILL wants your keys.

2002-05-01 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 09:27 AM, Trei, Peter wrote: http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/04/30/elcock_terror020430 - start quote - In order to fight this threat, says Freeh, companies such as Microsoft must be legally obligated to hand over the keys needed to decipher encrypted messages.

Meganet VME

2002-05-01 Thread CDR Anonymizer
/* * You might have heard of Meganet's Virtual Matrix Encryption. They've * had a series of crack this code contests, but won't tell us how their * code works. The program below was reverse-engineered from the shareware * software which is available on their web site, and can decrypt VME files. *

re: Satellite Hacking Article Now Free

2002-05-01 Thread mean-green
Seems to me that oneof the keys to permanently unlocking sat TV is to do away with the vendor's receiver. From my novice perspective, it seems many or most of the attacks against pirate devices are based on the assumption that the pirate must still have a set-top box which is still,