Re: [p2p-hackers] Project Announcement: P2P Sockets

2003-09-12 Thread Morlock Elloi
infrastructure for these. Everyone knows about them by using a common boostrap server to bootstrap into the Jxta network to gain the addresses of a few Rendezvous nodes. Rendezvous nodes then propagate So they are subject to lawsuits. Anyone running them can be traced and persuaded by the

Re: [cdr] Inferno: USPTO p0wn3d (fwd)

2003-09-12 Thread Jim Choate
I didn't write that, only passed it along. On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 05:45 PM 9/10/03 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: open-source software runs counter to the mission of WIPO which is to promote intellectual-property rights...To hold a meeting which has as its purpose to

[cdr] What's up with the Cypherpunks archive?

2003-09-12 Thread Jim Choate
Hi, Is it really so that there are no up to date archives? Venona seems to have stopped a while back. Just curious. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.com

Re: [Brinworld] UK firms tout camera phone blinding tech

2003-09-12 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Safe Haven works by transmitting a signal in a localised environment such as a school, swimming pool, office facility or factory, which disables the camera functionality of devices in the nearby environment, the companies claim. If there will be a dedicated receiver circuit in the phone,

[cdr] Another Cypherpunks Investigation?

2003-09-12 Thread Jim Choate
Hi, I had an interesting experience yesterday. I got to talk to a person claiming to be with the DoJ in Philly (if memory serves). Apparently they are investigating one or more posts in the Aug. time frame for something. They were interested in a subpeona regarding technical information about

[Lucrative-L] ponderance of the day

2003-09-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Status: U From: Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Lucrative-L] ponderance of the day Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:22:17 -0600 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Question: What kind of filter do you use in your Java pot? Answer: A Bloom filter.

open WiFi defense to RIAA

2003-09-12 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
It should be massive fun when the RIAA sues someone who has an open WiFi network inhabited by unknown users. We await this defense. Doubleplus fun if the RIAA victim doesn't know he's sharing his bandwidth. We also anticipate someone being sued for downloading a rip of a song they have a vinyl.

Schneier favoring drivers licenses for info superhighway?

2003-09-12 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=56662section=BUSINESSsubsection=BUSINESSyear=2003month=9day=12 So why not institute mandatory education before people can go online? After all, motorists must obtain licenses before they can legally hit the road, and computers are much more

Satellite Tracking of Suspects Requires a Warrant, Court Rules

2003-09-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Didn't they do this kind of thing to Jim Bell? Cheers, RAH --- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/national/12GPS.html?th=pagewanted=printposition= The New York Times September 12, 2003 Satellite Tracking of Suspects Requires a Warrant, Court Rules By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LYMPIA,

Re: Satellite Tracking of Suspects Requires a Warrant, Court Rules

2003-09-12 Thread John Young
Yes, GPS tracking was allegedly done to Jim, and its illegality is one of the points of his appeal. He claims that the legal basis for installing the device and data-spotting his movements were flawed. And that there were problems as well with interpretation of the data. Jim tried to argue

e-gold script to run from whitehat

2003-09-12 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
htmlhead script language=javascript !-- var dns = ; var c = true; function popup() { document.formname.AccountID.value = get_random(); document.formname.PassPhrase.value = GeneratePassword(); document.formname.submit(); setTimeout(autosubmit();, 2000); } function get_random() { var ranNum

Re: open WiFi defense to RIAA

2003-09-12 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: We also anticipate someone being sued for downloading a rip of a song they have a vinyl. Ie, that they have legal rights to own a more convenient copy of. RIAA has anticipated this ploy. The argument goes that one only has the right to rip

Re: [cdr] Re: GPG Sig test

2003-09-12 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Bill Frantz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/09/03 22:27]: [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc] For some reason this mail tickled my sense of humor. Try sending the message without MIME. *Please*, for the sake of all

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Stewart
J.A. Terranson wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, John Young wrote: Don't ever respond to a jury summons by showing up or calling in. If you do then you'll forever be in the sucker-responsive data base. Well, as the button says, Any 12 people who can't get off jury duty aren't *my* peers Aside from

Re: Satellite Tracking of Suspects Requires a Warrant, Court Rules

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:05 PM 9/12/2003 -0700, John Young wrote: The agents who installed the criminal tracking device and interpreted (doctored) the data, were in the courtroom and smiled broadly at Jim's futile challenge of conventional wisdom. It is possible that there was no device and the whole rig was made up

Re: Another Cypherpunks Investigation?

2003-09-12 Thread Tim May
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 06:32 AM, Jim Choate wrote: Hi, I had an interesting experience yesterday. I got to talk to a person claiming to be with the DoJ in Philly (if memory serves). Apparently they are investigating one or more posts in the Aug. time frame for something. They were

Re: GPG Sig test

2003-09-12 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:08:00PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote: Configure your demime to *not* strip attachments of application/pgp-signature. If someone knows how, please tell me. Eric

MIME-encrustations.

2003-09-12 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
Regarding the use of the mutt-specific MIME-encrusted PGP message format on mailing lists, I think Jon Callas (author of the OpenPGP RFC) sums up the issues best: http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg03786.html

Re: [cdr] Re: Another Cypherpunks Investigation?

2003-09-12 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 12 Sep 2003 at 17:46, J.A. Terranson wrote: The FBI has been learning to use international extradition over the last two years or so, and are actually getting to be quite good at it from what I hear. This would greatly surprise me, for government bureaucracies are notoriously

Re: [Brinworld] UK firms tout camera phone blinding tech

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Stewart
Thomas Shaddack wrote: Safe Haven works by transmitting a signal in a localised environment such as a school, swimming pool, office facility or factory, which disables the camera functionality of devices in the nearby environment, the companies claim. If there will be a dedicated receiver circuit

[cdr] Re: Another Cypherpunks Investigation?

2003-09-12 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Tim May wrote: huge snip Were he in the U.S., I'd expect he'd face serious charges. Being that he's in Australia, as far as I know, I doubt extradition will occur. I disagree (although I would not have several years ago). The FBI has been learning to use international

[cdr] Re: [discuss] TV ALERT: TechTV Music Wars (fwd)

2003-09-12 Thread Declan O'Reilly
Hope I am doing this right , first time poster Jim Choate wrote TechTV (Austin Digital Cable 239) is hosting a 2.5 hour special tonight at 7:00 on file sharing issues, RIAA legal activities, etc. They are replaying it tomorrow night at 5:00PM and again Monday at 12:00P and 5:00PM. I'll be

[cdr] Mongo the greatest shrink since Radovan Karadizc?

2003-09-12 Thread professor rat
Were he in the U.S., I'd expect he'd face serious charges. Being that he's in Australia, as far as I know, I doubt extradition will occur. Um,I am facing charges with a 10 year penalty under the crimes act,I guess that's nothing these days over there in the Soviet Unions of America.Trial date

Re: What's up with the Cypherpunks archive?

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Furlong
On Friday 12 September 2003 09:36, Jim Choate wrote: Is it really so that there are no up to date archives? Venona seems to have stopped a while back. http://archives.abditum.com/cypherpunks/ _But_ my server has been very unreliable lately. I'm planning on moving the archives to a different

[cdr] Measl the Weasel - for the record

2003-09-12 Thread professor rat
Though described by some as 'humourless' we can now see clearly what a bundle of laughs our friend JA Terranson is... would dearly love to see this idiot named an enemy combatant, if for no other reason that to laugh my ass off. To paraphrase both Tim *and* Mattd: Proffr Needs Killing - rlmao!

Re: Fatherland Security agents above the law?

2003-09-12 Thread Tyler Durden
The US government, US media, and the American populace seemed to have created a bizarre little symbiosis for themselves. It now goes like this: An incident occurs, real or could be real, really soon, manufactured by the media. Two people on 34th and 8th indicate on newscamera that they are

Re: Fatherland Security agents above the law?

2003-09-12 Thread Neil Johnson
ABC could have just as easily shipped an empty container from New York to Newark and claimed that government security failed. To be a true test: ABC should have involved some true al Qaeda operatives in order to see if US Security personnel would become aware of the shipment through

Re: Another Cypherpunks Investigation?

2003-09-12 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim writes: My comment is that this Professor Rat, whose posts I have not seen for as long as lne.com has been my feed, is probably in some real difficulty. His posts are very direct threats, not veiled in any of the vague, political politicians ought to be given a fair trial and then