Ambulance Chasing Lawyer sues M$

2003-10-02 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
Microsoft Sued for Weak Security http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60673,00.html Dana Taschner, a Newport Beach, California, lawyer who filed the lawsuit on behalf of a single plaintiff and a potential class of millions of Microsoft customers, could not be immediately reached for comment. Da

Re: Return of the death of cypherpunks.

2003-10-02 Thread John Young
James overlooks the agricultural virtue of cypherpunks death and rebirth for the natural cycle gets rid of old growth and allows for a new improved version. No doubt the old crop doesn't get much satisfaction being taken for manure, nor do the new sprouts see any reason to hail the shit doing

Re: [Remops] free hosting for cpunkly projects...

2003-10-02 Thread Tom
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:47:51PM -0700, Adam Back wrote: > http://www.1and1.com are offering: 1and1 seems to be a child of Schlund and Partner, who already have the largest german hosting service 1und1 (yes, that is german for 1and1). They're large and they have been around for quite a while.

Return of the death of cypherpunks.

2003-10-02 Thread James A. Donald
-- When a mailing list is full of crap, it dies, even though the regulars set killfiles to silence the offending posters. The reason is, no new people arrive. New people subscribe, see nothing but crap, unsubscribe. A mailing list or newsgroup needs a strong personality who is a prolifi

Your papers please? CAPSII and other abuses

2003-10-02 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
Note especially the high false-positive-to-hit ratio, and this: "Fatherland Security chief Tom Ridge, for example, has already approved the use of CAPPS II to identify fugitives wanted for violent crimes." Computer hunt for terrorists October 2, 2003 By Charles Piller and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar,

Re: [Remops] free hosting for cpunkly projects...

2003-10-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
I'm getting 30 EUR/month 100 GByte/month (0.9 EUR/GByte overtraffic) for a SuSE box at server4free.de, hetzner.de is 10 EUR more, has 80 GByte/month traffic and has Debian 3.0 as well as SuSE. How well is IPsec supported in 2.6 as compared to FreeS/WAN in 2.4 in regards to opportunistic encryption