When Will Terror Videos be Banned

2002-05-25 Thread Eric Cordian
The FBI currently has its shorts in a wad over the numerous Web sites featuring the short but poignant last moments of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Clearly, as our War on Terrorism(tm) progresses, it is not unlikely that terrorists will kidnap and kill more Americans and email

Re: S/MIME and web of trust (was Re: NAI pulls out the DMCA stick)

2002-05-25 Thread Adam Back
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:40:36PM -0700, Eric Murray wrote: Additionally, there is nothing that prevents one from issuing certs that can be used to sign other certs. Sure, there are key usage bits etc but its possible to ignore them. The S/MIME aware MUAs do not ignore the trust delegation

Jim-Bell-in-prison update

2002-05-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52781,00.html Jim Bell update: Way back in the 1980s, entrepreneur Jim Bell owned a company that sold computer storage devices. Now Bell works in a California prison, demolishing computers and their monitors at the handsome wage of 46

MCI, Bob Hilby, Eric Hughes, and Simple Access...

2002-05-25 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Yes. It's the whole article. Life is hard. If you don't want to troll the entire thing :-), just search for Hilby, below. Whew. It's looking like an ur-cypherpunk or two dodged a bullet, even if some of them did end up getting ripped off themselves, from, you guessed it, non-payment of

Geopolitical Snuff Film, 2002; Rating: 3 jets

2002-05-25 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:03 PM 5/24/02 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: The FBI currently has its shorts in a wad over the numerous Web sites featuring the short but poignant last moments of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. It seems unlikely that creation, sale, or possession of depictions of Americans being

Re: NAI pulls out the DMCA stick

2002-05-25 Thread Jack Lloyd
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Eric Murray wrote: 3. Is a relavent developer reference is available for X.509? X.509 is an ITU/T standard, which means, among other things, that they charge money for copies. You can find copies on the net though. Depending on how good your local library is, they