Most Disturbing Yet - Senate Wants Database Dragnet

2004-10-07 Thread Sunder
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65242,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,65242,00.html Senate Wants Database Dragnet By Ryan Singel 02:00 AM Oct. 06, 2004 PT The Senate could pass a bill as early as Wednesday evening that would let government counter-terrorist

Re: City Challenged on Fingerprinting Protesters

2004-10-07 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:06 PM 10/6/04 +0100, Dave Howe wrote: Major Variola (ret) wrote: There is a bill in this year's Ca election to require DNA sampling of anyone arrested. Not convicted of a felony, but arrested. [as in arrested for protesting] Doesn't surprise me - the UK police collected a huge bunch of

Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas.

2004-10-07 Thread Nomen Nescio
Mexican Attorney General, Staff Get Chip Implants Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas. The Attorney General of Mexico, Rafael Macedo de la Concha, recently announced at the opening of Mexico's National Information Center that he and some of his staff had been implanted with

Re: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-07 Thread Tyler Durden
Oops. You're right. It's been a while. Both photons are not utilized, but there's a Private channel and a public channel. As for MITM attacks, however, it seems I was right more or less by accident, and the collapsed ring configuration seen in many tightly packed metro areas (where potential

Re: Most Disturbing Yet - Senate Wants Database Dragnet

2004-10-07 Thread Jack Lloyd
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 06:19:43AM -0400, Sunder wrote: SNIP To prevent abuses of the system, the Markle task force recommended anonymized technology, graduated levels of permission-based access and automated auditing software constantly hunting for abuses. {Huh? How would anonimized

Re: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-07 Thread Dave Howe
Tyler Durden wrote: Oops. You're right. It's been a while. Both photons are not utilized, but there's a Private channel and a public channel. As for MITM attacks, however, it seems I was right more or less by accident, and the collapsed ring configuration seen in many tightly packed metro areas

Re: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-07 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:50, Dave Howe wrote: The regular encryption scheme (last I looked at a QKE product) was XOR Well, if it's good enough for Microsoft, it's good enough for everyone. I have it on good authority that Microsoft's designers and programmers are second to none. (Microsoft's