Re: DoD badly protected web form lets users administer .mil domain names.

2003-01-26 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:05:45PM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: A well-known non-US journalistic source reports: [...] By Thomas C Greene in Washington The company may be incorporated overseas, but Thomas lives not that far up the street from me. I'm not sure what having an overseas HQ gains him

Torturing the Detainees - A Special Report

2003-01-26 Thread Eric Cordian
If Bush fails in his quest for world domination, and is put on trial at The Hague for Crimes against Humanity, will not the Americans whose tax dollars funded Bush's human rights violations, with full knowlege of the abuses, be equally guilty? How many civilians will die when Bush orders the

sql worm part of anti-war protest?

2003-01-26 Thread Harmon Seaver
There's a report on indymedia that the lastes worm is part of an anti-war tactic which will escalate if Iraq is attacked. http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=231141group=webcast -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com

Re: Deniable Thumbdrive?

2003-01-26 Thread John Kelsey
At 06:05 PM 1/24/03 +, Ben Laurie wrote: ... Nice! Get them to cut _all_ your fingers off instead of just one. Just say no to amputationware. This whole idea was talked to death many years ago on sci.crypt, and probably before that other places. The good news is that it's not too hard

Re: Deniable Thumbdrive?

2003-01-26 Thread John Kelsey
At 10:06 PM 1/24/03 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: ... Frankly, the fingerprint is a lousy secret: you leak it all over the place. You can't help it, unless you're wearing gloves all the time. Ditto DNA. That's generally true of biometrics. Unless taking the measurement is so intrusive it's

Re: Deniable Thumbdrive?

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Rosing
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, John Kelsey wrote: I think the best way to think about any biometric is as a very cheap, moderately hard to copy identification token. Think of it like a good ID card that just happens to be very hard to misplace or lend to your friends. Like an implant in the forehead.