Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

2005-09-19 Thread Bill Stewart
Eran Tromer of Weizmann Institute gave a talk at MIT on special-purpose factoring machines, and Intrepid Reporter Bob Hettinga summarized to Perry's List. Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:12:30 -0400 To: cryptography@metzdowd.com From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MIT talk:

Tor Webhosting?

2005-09-19 Thread Tyler Durden
A few more Tor questions.. Are there yet commercial Tor web hosters? How much would this cost vs hosting one's own node? Since I assume the website actually resides on a single node, there is the slight problem of the node owner knowing, at least, that he had been paid to host X sites, on

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-19 Thread ken
R.A. Hettinga wrote: You're damn right it's political. Especially if you're a Marxist, or some, shall we say homeopathic variant thereof: after all, the personal is political, right? Assuming that you mean feminism is a variant of Marxism, what exactly do you mean by Marxism?

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-19 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 2:31 PM +0100 9/19/05, ken wrote: Assuming that you mean feminism is a variant of Marxism, what exactly do you mean by Marxism? Exactly what you do. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-19 Thread ken
James A. Donald wrote: -- From: ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you really think that politics only exists where there is a state? I'd have thought the opposite is true. Most states actively prevent most people participating in politics. The more authoritarian the state, the

Mass. Gov. Romney suggests Wiretapping Mosques, Domestic Spying

2005-09-19 Thread Bill Stewart
Of course, had he suggested wiretapping Catholic churches in Boston because there might be people raising funds for terrorist groups like the IRA, he'd have been run out of town on a rail. Of course this month it's Protestants who are doing the terrorism in Northern Ireland, and the IRA's gone

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- From: ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you really think that politics only exists where there is a state? I'd have thought the opposite is true. Most states actively prevent most people participating in politics. The more authoritarian the state, the more in compells people

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-19 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 2:03 PM -0400 9/17/05, Damian Gerow wrote: You're damn right it's political. Especially if you're a Marxist, or some, shall we say homeopathic variant thereof: after all, the personal is political, right? Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-19 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake James A. Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [17/09/05 03:56]: : So when I buy coffee, that is political? Is it organic, fair-trade, shade-grown coffee? Locally grown? Locally roasted? Purchased through StarBucks or a local coffee shop? Do the growers use their profits to help the growth of