Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-20 Thread Dave Howe
Steve Schear wrote: No, but this may be of interest. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_hellweg111903.asp Its closed source but claims to use AES. *nods* closed source, proprietory protocol, as opposed to SIP which is an RFC standard (and interestingly, is supported natively by WinXP)

Re: 9th Cir. lets prisoners get books, rejects encrypted claim

2003-11-20 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 3:17 PM -0500 11/19/03, Declan McCullagh wrote:

secure cellphones go commericial, part II

2003-11-20 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
Yes, from /. New Cellphone Offers Big Shots Eavesdrop-Proof Call Tue Nov 18,10:23 AM ET Add Technology - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Lucas van Grinsven, European Technology Correspondent AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A German company launched a new mobile handset on Tuesday targeted at business

Justice

2003-11-20 Thread Tim May
On Nov 19, 2003, at 6:37 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:31:24PM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Show off. ;-) Yeah, I need to find a better way to strip those internal links when forwarding. -Declan I assumed it was stego in long URLs, a staple of the Resistance. (More

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-20 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:59 PM 11/19/03 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: If and when this is accomplished the source could then be used, if it can't already, for PC-PC secure communications. They claim to be releasing code for PCs for free. A practical replacement for SpeakFreely may be at hand. The limitation of

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-20 Thread Neil Johnson
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 05:33 pm, Dave Howe wrote: Steve Schear wrote: No, but this may be of interest. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_hellweg111903.asp Its closed source but claims to use AES. *nods* closed source, proprietory protocol, as opposed to SIP which is an

Re: Ashcroft's bake sale, no questions allowed, gvt-issued photo ID required

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 19:49, Bill Stewart wrote: Too bad it's past tomato season on the East Coast Shit, we've (upstate NY, along the Mohawk River) already had our first snow. Didn't stick, but the chill in the air is literal, not figurative.

Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-20 Thread Bill Stewart
If and when this is accomplished the source could then be used, if it can't already, for PC-PC secure communications. A practical replacement for SpeakFreely may be at hand. The limitation of either direct phone or ISDN connection requirement is a problem though. While the phone hardware

How The Wright Brothers Blew It

2003-11-20 Thread R. A. Hettinga
For the better part of a decade, now, I've compared David Chaum to the Wright Brothers... Read the article, and try to keep from laughing -- or blushing in the shock of recognition. National monopolies only worked for dynamite. The Chaum patents expire in less than a year. Cheers, RAH -

Re: Cisco pushes for license to surf

2003-11-20 Thread roy
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:07:05PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Dumb, dumb idea. Almost as bad as Palladium. Worse than Palladium. With Palladium, you can opt out (using OSS or whatever) and you lose the use of apps that require Palladium. This plan has the same effect, but to opt out means

israeli torture center reason for no satellite pix?

2003-11-20 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
The US has restrictions on even commercial satellite photos of Israel. http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1084796,00.html might indicate why --the torture center is airbrushed out of other pix. The price of empire is death.

Re: Ashcroft's bake sale, no questions allowed, gvt-issued photo ID required

2003-11-20 Thread privacy.at Anonymous Remailer
Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2003-11-19: There will be no questions and answers. To a non native speaker, this phrase seems to imply a scary level of control over the media people. There will be no questions. Dissenters will be shot on the spot.