Bush's new plan for wealth transfer

2003-02-05 Thread Declan McCullagh
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: I am pleased to transmit a legislative proposal to establish the Millennium Challenge Account and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Also transmitted is a section-by-section analysis. The Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) represents a new approach

American Taliban Controls %60 of computerized voting machines?

2003-02-05 Thread jet
[This from www.bestoftheblogs.com.Haven't had a chance to track down the various bits to see if they're true/valid. It seems like a really bad idea for a single, privately held company to have a monopoly on computerized voting systems in the US. Well, unless your friends with the guy who ho

A secure government

2003-02-05 Thread W H Robinson
Removal of sensitive information, locking down of websites, securing otherwise accessible points of data. The .gov and .mil talk of cyber-homeland-defense-strategy blah doesn't make much sense, at least not from the admittedly media-derived POV I get. In amongst the proposals for screening peop

Re: \"Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits

2003-02-05 Thread John Kelsey
At 12:38 PM 2/4/03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not necessarily. It is a well documented phenomenon that people show up at hospitals with even some seemingly real conditions whenever there is a particular panic in the media, even in cases where it is simply not possible that they were made s

Re: Feds pull plug on suspicious "cyberwarfare" .gov site

2003-02-05 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:48:13AM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: > I followed down the page and found a name, then googled for it. Check > this out and laugh your butt off! > > http://www.manhunt.com/features/html/89.shtml Yep. My favorite URLs of the day are below. -Declan --- http://www.flash.n

Re: Transport, the near future

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:31 AM 2/5/2003 +, Peter Fairbrother wrote: It's a nice idea, but it needs a tensile-strength-to-mass ratio equivalent to holding a girl and her mother up by a single thread of her 10 denier stockings. Not easy to achieve. You'd need carbon nanotubes or the like, and at the moment we can'

Re: Feds pull plug on suspicious "cyberwarfare" .gov site

2003-02-05 Thread Mike Rosing
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote: > Wonder if any current .gov domains are owned by individuals pulling a prank? > > -Declan > > >Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:46:20 -0500 > >From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: FC: Feds pull plug on suspicious "cybe

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

2003-02-05 Thread Mike Rosing
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, AARG! Anonymous wrote: > The main features of TCPA are: > > - key storage The IBM TPM does this part. > - secure boot > - sealing > - remote attestation It does *not* do these parts. That's why IBM wants the TPM != TCPA to be loud and clear. That's why the RIAA can't expec

Re: mail weirdness

2003-02-05 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:05:04AM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:03:28PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: > > Well, of all the email lists I'm on, yours is the only posting > > that does what it does on a group reply. Like, why doesn't my > > "group" send a copy to you? A

Feds pull plug on suspicious "cyberwarfare" .gov site

2003-02-05 Thread Declan McCullagh
Wonder if any current .gov domains are owned by individuals pulling a prank? -Declan Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:46:20 -0500 From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FC: Feds pull plug on suspicious "cyberwarfare" .gov site I've placed a mirror of AONN.gov here: ht

Re: Putting the "NSA Data Overwrite Standard" Legend to Death...

2003-02-05 Thread mfidelman
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Peter Gutmann wrote: > Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Second, where did the number 7 really come from? > > >From the OSI 7-layer model, which took it from the fact that the number 7 is > sacred to a certain tribe in Borneo (see "The Elements of Networking Styl

Re: mail weirdness

2003-02-05 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:18:25PM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:53:58AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: > > Declan's postings are usually either normal postings to cypherpunks > > or else posted to his politech list (most of which have Subject: FC > > something.) I'm subs

Re: Duh, transport

2003-02-05 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:56:22AM +, Peter Fairbrother wrote: > > Railways: > Euro railways are better than US - but in at least the UK there is > "compulsory purchase", when they grab your land and pay you very little for > it, in order to build them. And too much government is involved.

Re: Putting the "NSA Data Overwrite Standard" Legend to Death... (fwd)

2003-02-05 Thread Morlock Elloi
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Transport, the near future

2003-02-05 Thread Peter Fairbrother
me again. Space transport: I like the two-stage-to-orbit solution for humans, with the booster stage piloted. The maths works well. I don't know about scramjets etc for the booster, but a few rockets would do, with an aero fuselage to take off and land. Using current airline technology mostly. Saf

The Crypto Gardening Guide and Planting Tips

2003-02-05 Thread Peter Gutmann
After much procrastination I recently put the Crypto Gardening Guide and Planting Tips online at http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/crypto_guide.txt, this may be of interest to readers. From the introduction: There has been a great deal of difficulty experienced in getting research pe

Re: Transport, the near future

2003-02-05 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Steve Schear wrote: > > My preference is the space elevator. In simple terms, the space elevator > is a ribbon with one end attached to the Earth's surface and the other end > in space beyond geosynchronous orbit (35,800 km altitude). The competing > forces of gravity at the lower end, and outwa

Re: Tiny whiskers make huge memory storage

2003-02-05 Thread Dave Emery
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:10:39AM -0500, Sunder wrote: > > My question is what's a reasonable order of magnitude of overwriting data > now, assuming you're not trying to hide data from, say the NSA. > This raises a question I've long had. ARE there actual systems for reading ove

Re: Putting the "NSA Data Overwrite Standard" Legend to Death... (fwd)

2003-02-05 Thread Peter Gutmann
Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Second, where did the number 7 really come from? >From the OSI 7-layer model, which took it from the fact that the number 7 is sacred to a certain tribe in Borneo (see "The Elements of Networking Style", by Mike Padlipsky). Peter.

Re: mail weirdness

2003-02-05 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:03:28PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Well, of all the email lists I'm on, yours is the only posting > that does what it does on a group reply. Like, why doesn't my > "group" send a copy to you? And why does it pick up > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and put it in the To: line? A

Re: Transport, the near future

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:17 AM 2/5/2003 +, Peter Fairbrother wrote: me again. Space transport: I like the two-stage-to-orbit solution for humans, with the booster stage piloted. The maths works well. I don't know about scramjets etc for the booster, but a few rockets would do, with an aero fuselage to take off

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

2003-02-05 Thread AARG! Anonymous
Mike Rosing wrote: > Thanks Eugen, It looks like the IBM TPM chip is only a key > store read/write device. It has no code space for the kind of > security discussed in the TCPA. The user still controls the machine > and can still monitor who reads/writes the chip (using a pci bus > logger for ex