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

2005-09-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- Steve Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Not that I'm particularly fond of the Prez, but I'm not one of the LLLs who say he's worse than Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Ronald Regan combined.) (Stalin doesn't go into that equation because he was, you know, a good guy whose actions have been

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

2005-09-22 Thread Riad S. Wahby
R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fixed *that*. I've had my location off (as much as is possible) since I had my first phone that had the option, a Samsung A500. Unfortunately, that phone had a firmware bug (never fixed while I had it) such that, when it was in non-location mode, upon

Wired on Secrecy Power Sinks Patent Case

2005-09-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Very interesting CPunks reading, for a variety of reasons. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68894,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 Of course, the fact that Lucent has been in shit shape financially must have nothing to do with what is effectively a state-sponsored protection of intellectual

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

2005-09-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:57:50 -0400 To: Ip Ip ip@v2.listbox.com Subject: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv] X-Mailer: Apple Mail

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2005-09-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
Why Brin is full of it, and reverse panopticon is a fantasy. - Forwarded message from David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:52:35 -0400 To: Ip Ip ip@v2.listbox.com Subject: [IP] OT: Canada: Sweeping new surveillance bill to

Re: Wired on Secrecy Power Sinks Patent Case

2005-09-22 Thread Justin
On 2005-09-20T12:14:13-0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Very interesting CPunks reading, for a variety of reasons. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68894,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 I'm sick of this mosaic theory being used to justify preventing access to unclassified information. -- War is

Re: GPS Jammer Firm nearly ejected from Russian air show.

2005-09-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:50:07PM +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: GPS frequencies are fixed, so they can be interfered with. Only in Military receivers are somewhat hardened at least against terrestrial jamming. It would be probably impossible to be immune to strong airborne (balloons and drones)

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always transmitting your location [priv]]

2005-09-22 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 2:59 PM +0200 9/22/05, Eugen Leitl wrote: For my Treo phone, I found the location option under Phone Preferences in the Options menu of the main phone screen. Bada-bing! Fixed *that*. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting

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2005-09-22 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 8:46 PM +0200 9/21/05, Eugen Leitl wrote: Why Brin is full of it, and reverse panopticon is a fantasy. Obviously Brin is full of it -- from my own personal experience, even, :-) -- but one should remember that law, much less legislation, is always a lagging indicator. Physics causes finance,

Re: Wired on Secrecy Power Sinks Patent Case

2005-09-22 Thread Tyler Durden
So if the state hasn't classified my data (and I kinda doubt they will), then it should be up for grabs by anyone suckin' down the dole? -TD From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wired on Secrecy Power Sinks Patent Case Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:54:23 + On