re: Reputable E-Gold Funded Debit Cards?

2002-04-03 Thread Bill Stewart
On 2 Apr 2002 at 10:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been monitoring the e-gold discussion list for some time and this guy appears to be legit (i.e., a lack of negative comments). I have not purchased from him, but am considering obtaining one of these. Would be most interested in your

Re: brilliancy

2002-04-09 Thread Bill Stewart
At 07:59 AM 04/08/2002 -0600, Anonymous wrote: Any attacker who can control 100,000 machines is a major force on the internet, while someone with a million or more is currently unstoppable: able to launch massively diffuse DDOS attacks, perform needle in a hayfield searches, and commit all sorts

Tim's occasional .signature

2002-04-11 Thread Bill Stewart
At 06:53 PM 04/10/2002 -0700, and a number of other times, Tim May wrote: --Tim May Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat. --David Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11 I've got three cats, and one of them very definitely is the alpha cat. On the other hand, there's a

Re: Coins vs. bills

2002-04-12 Thread Bill Stewart
Ken Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For some reason the mention of a Susan B Anthony dollar stuck in my brain as an Alice B Sheldon dollar. Susan Anthony is a person who I've never heard of. I'm almost tempted not to find out who she is or was to preserve a nugget of delicious cognitive

Re: Coins vs. bills

2002-04-12 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:00 PM 04/11/2002 +0100, Ken Brown wrote: Trei, Peter wrote: Mea culpa. It's been a long time since I read 'Dangerous Visions'. Must be, seeing as Harlequin was published in Galaxy magazine, then reprinted in Ellison's Paingod and other Delusions, not in DV which was an

Re: Die, moron, die (was: Beware JobsOnloneine.com)

2002-04-19 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:41 AM 04/18/2002 -0400, An Metet wrote: Maybe the subject line should actually be Die, Spammer, Die. Don't go to JobsOnline.com -- it's a scam. They inundate you with pop up ads while you're there, the kind that just don't quit, like the porn sites, and once you've registered (which you

Re: Spam and Porn from EINSTEIN

2002-05-05 Thread Bill Stewart
At 05:06 PM 05/04/2002 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: Slightly unrelated, sort of poll: Would anyone object if mail list software would limit number of daily messages from the same source* to an arbitary percentage of total messages from all sources ? Yes - that's a job for client-side filters, not

Bay Area Cypherpunks - Claremont Hotel, Saturday May 11, 2002, Berkeley

2002-05-09 Thread Bill Stewart
%2fa1qhqHICeS9a7ai2OltFkZiYgPDszCFjxJvJ3UztMHzmFTCWjOQiJv2UTeibsDTf5lX9Oul8Duzz5H7zRf28q5W1dNWEBuSwmIPN5CsnCBt%2fxKER0o8urmuYY0JLBD%2bcq4kxukn3wumZakgMOfn1A8xylUh5faGP64S6LM40YY9rGDpd4sUKuLClF5LIam8E%3d Weather Forecast: high 70s. --- Contact information, or if lost Bill Stewart - +1-415-307-7119 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave

Re: More weirdness from Choate Prime

2002-05-12 Thread Bill Stewart
At 03:50 PM 05/12/2002 -0700, Tim May wrote: On Sunday, May 12, 2002, at 07:00 AM, Jim Choate wrote: On or about Sun, 12 May 2002, somebody wrote: People don't actually have to understand it as long as they get paid, of course. People who are getting paid want to get paid as cheaply as

Re: NAI pulls out the DMCA stick

2002-05-23 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:43 AM 05/22/2002 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 11:49 PM -0400 on 5/21/02, Luis Villa wrote, on FoRK: Well, yes, but you seem to be implying some sinister motive that not all of us are reading between the lines clearly enough to see :) I mean, otherwise, this just seems like a fairly

Re: sources on steganography

2002-05-30 Thread Bill Stewart
Peter Wayner has a few books that deal with this and related topics. Search for them on Amazon or wherever. At 11:19 AM 05/29/2002 -0400, you wrote: I am writing my dissertation on steganography. Basically I'm writing a technical monograph that would be of use to undergraduate instructors. What

Re: F.B.I. Given Broad Authority to Monitor the Public

2002-05-31 Thread Bill Stewart
F.B.I. Given Broad Authority to Monitor the Public By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General John Ashcroft on Thursday gave the FBI broad new authority to monitor Internet sites, libraries, churches and political organizations, calling restrictions on domestic spying

Entertaining Entrapment Email Effort

2002-06-09 Thread Bill Stewart
Vitas - I hope you're enjoying your stay at the Millenium Copthorne Hotels, where you're using the internet service. You can find all the cracking tools you need for Jane's at 128.11.100.130 and 167.216.248.42. Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Originating-IP: [195.224.80.50] From: cristian

Re: Brin

2002-06-29 Thread Bill Stewart
Bob - I'm not sure if you copied David separately/Bcc on your reply, and I've dropped Cc:s to some of your lists that I'm not on, and I missed your original message that David flamed you for which you're flaming back about, but Perhaps I've missed some really critical things the time or two

Re:

2002-06-29 Thread Bill Stewart
At 03:31 AM 06/29/2002 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bill, for passing on your message, along with the news that I've been dissed and discussed by R.A. Hettinga. Naturally, he never informed me, nor copied me his missives, nor invited me to answer. This appears to be quite typical.

Re: We have always been at war with Oceania

2002-07-06 Thread Bill Stewart
The Indianapolis Star newspaper ran the NYTimes version of this story with the headline Drug Peddling Pilots May Get Wings Clipped. I was assuming it would be about revoking their pilots' licenses or confiscating their airplanes, but no, it was about shooting them down and machine-gunning any

Re: Jonathan Zittrain on data retention, an awful idea

2002-07-06 Thread Bill Stewart
standards for link layer and addressing formats and pricing, though I'm not directly familiar with standards for shipping containers where data encapsulation is required. Thanks; Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jon Zittrain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FC: Data

RE: Revenge of the WAVEoids: Palladium Clues May Lie In AMD Motherboard Design

2002-07-06 Thread Bill Stewart
At 10:07 PM 06/26/2002 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: An EMBASSY-like CPU security co-processor would have seriously blown the part cost design constraint on the TPM by an order of magnitude or two. Compared to the cost of rewriting Windows to have a infrastructure that can support real security?

Cracking Dead People's Passwords

2002-07-06 Thread Bill Stewart
One of the usual arguments for key escrow was always what if your employee dies and you can't get his data? Secret Sharing techniques are of course a better approach, or at least storing sealed envelopes in company safes as a much better approach than pre-broken crypto. There've been a couple of

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-06 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:43 PM 06/28/2002 +0200, Thomas Tydal wrote: Well, first I want to say that I don't like the way it is today. I want things to get better. I can't read e-books on my pocket computer, for example, which is sad since I actually would be able to enjoy e-books if I only could load them onto my

Re: Closed source more secure than open source

2002-07-08 Thread Bill Stewart
At 06:31 PM 07/06/2002 -0700, Joseph Ashwood wrote: First, closed source testing, beginning in the late Alpha testing stage, is generally done without any assistance from source code, by _anyone_, this significantly hampers the testing. This has led to observed situations where QA engineers sign

Re: to outlaw general purpose computers

2002-07-10 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:49 PM 07/09/2002 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 03:17:52PM -0400, Sunder wrote: Sure, you can revive old hardware with Linux, but you'll find it runs KDE 3.0 or GNOME slower than windows 95 did on the same hardware. So unless you're willing to also go to older

Re: get me the fuck out of oz

2002-08-20 Thread Bill Stewart
Click your heels together three times and say There's No Place Like Home and you'll be back in bed in Kansas. And yer little dog, too

RE: Seth on TCPA at Defcon/Usenix

2002-08-21 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:58 AM 08/11/2002 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: BTW, does anybody here know if there is still an email time stamping server in operation? The references that I found to such servers appear to be dead. The canonical timestamping system was Haber Stornetta's work at Bellcore, commercialized at

Re: Welcome to Amerika: precrime squads

2002-08-26 Thread Bill Stewart
Sounds like libel to me. So there's a published list, even if it's only published to cops, saying This person is likely to commit a crime. Leave aside the obvious civil liberties issues for the moment - this seems like simple libel to me. At least for the Usual Suspects who haven't yet been

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-24 Thread Bill Stewart
At 04:34 PM 09/23/2002 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: The biggest application of smart cards that I know of are anonymous phone minutes. They're also used for non-cellular phone minutes - Ladatel in Mexico is a big user, and I've worked with some British Telecom folks whose business cards are

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-28 Thread Bill Stewart
At 07:53 PM 09/27/2002 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: Forget the pencils and pens, just ban paper. Or perhaps a step in the right direction would be to ban all paper except that made from hemp, thereby solving numerous problems at the stroke of a (gasp) pen. You don't need to do that - just

Re: Anyone can get a clearance these days...

2002-09-30 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:38 AM 09/27/2002 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: The US Government has mistakenly given secret documents to the only man charged so far in connection with the 11 September attacks, Zacarias Moussaoui. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2284325.stm That wasn't because they gave him a security

Re: Real-world steganography

2002-10-01 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:38 PM 09/30/2002 -0700, Bram Cohen wrote: Peter Gutmann wrote: I recently came across a real-world use of steganography which hides extra data in the LSB of CD audio tracks to allow (according to the vendor) the equivalent of 20-bit samples instead of 16-bit and assorted other

Re: fun w/ the SS chalk

2002-10-02 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:11 AM 10/01/2002 -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: After reading the last paragraph in the excerpt below, it occurs to me how much fun could be had in DC with some chalk, even without an 802.11blah receiver :-) Depending on how well-read the security folks are about warchalking, you can

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-02 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:05 AM 10/01/2002 -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: So yes Alice at ABC.COM sends mail to Bob at XYZ.COM and the SMTP link is encrypted, so the bored upstream-ISP netops can't learn anything besides traffic analysis. But once inside XYZ.COM, many unauthorized folks could intercept Bob's

Re: JYA ping

2002-10-07 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:38 PM 10/06/2002 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen wrote: It seems to be strange that he wrote at [EMAIL PROTECTED], an address which is also given on his web page, but ping pipeline.com doesn't work. Lots of machines don't accept pings anymore, either for security reasons or whatever. That's

Re: [OT Canute] Re: [LINK] [Fwd: Interesting KPMG report on DRM]

2002-10-08 Thread Bill Stewart
Robin Whittle[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: . [lots of good stuff about the music business clipped] I think this is an accurate analysis of a really sad situation. Like King Canute, the record companies are devoting most of their thinking and resources to holding back the tide. As

Re: Why is a Georgia Tech machine the nameserver for pipeline.com?

2002-10-09 Thread Bill Stewart
At 06:53 PM 10/08/2002 -0500, Neil Johnson wrote: Many major net service providers (ISP's and Web Sites) try to host at least one of their DNS servers at different sites and on different network providers (some are paranoid enough to use different implementations of BIND and different OS

Trojan-modified Sendmail floating around - 8.12.6 - Since Sept. 28th or earlier.

2002-10-09 Thread Bill Stewart
Somebody backdoored the source code for Sendmail on the official server. So if you recompile from scratch, your sendmail is 0wned. Another reason not to run mail systems as root http://rss.com.com/2100-1001-961311.html?type=ptpart=rsstag=feedsubj=news By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET

AF developing DEA Wiretap Echelon-like Development Projects

2002-10-09 Thread Bill Stewart
The following web page is about recent projects at the Air Force Research Laboratory. Item 8 is about new wiretap technology, designed to monitor large numbers of conversations for drug activity. The accompanying artwork has a large and small version of a wiretapper logo, which should be

Re: Usenet vs. web for avoiding censorship

2002-10-13 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:01 PM 10/11/2002 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: There are two advantages of web-based discussion fora over usenet: propagation time and firewalls. On the other hand, few discussions are so urgent that they need near-real-time reparte, and participants shouldn't be cruising usenet from work.

Re: was: Echelon-like resources..

2002-10-13 Thread Bill Stewart
Our bombing of the sudanese pharmacuetical factory? Yes: The factory was bombed, but actual deaths were one night watchman, not tens of thousands, If so, that's gross incompetence on the part of the US military, since the official rationale for why we were cruise-missiling it was that we

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-13 Thread Bill Stewart
packaging strong crypto inside weak crypto At 01:06 PM 10/13/2002 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Oh yeah. Interesting. Of course, this would be done only. if the sender knew or supected how mass-scanning might be done. And so the existence of another level of heavier encryption ... might be a tip off

RE: One time pads and Quantum Computers

2002-10-16 Thread Bill Stewart
David E. Weekly[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] As for PKI being secure for 20,000 years, it sure as hell won't be if those million-qubit prototypes turn out to be worth their salt. Think more like 5-10 years. In fact, just about everything except for OTP solutions will be totally, totally

Satirewire: HACKERS BEG BORING PEOPLE TO STOP ENCRYPTING EMAI

2002-10-23 Thread Bill Stewart
http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml HACKERS BEG BORING PEOPLE TO STOP ENCRYPTING EMAIL Security Experts Concur Most of You Have Nothing Worth Encrypting Anyway San Jose, Calif. (SatireWire.com)  In an unusual worldwide appeal, the International Brotherhood of Computer Hackers

Re: One time pads

2002-10-18 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:16 PM 10/17/2002 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: I have a working OTP system on $40 64 Mb USB flash disk on my keychain. Cute. Is it available? How do you prevent other applications from reading the file off your USB disk, either while your application is using it or some other time? That's

Re: One time pads

2002-10-19 Thread Bill Stewart
At 10:52 PM 10/17/2002 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: I have a working OTP system on $40 64 Mb USB flash disk on my keychain. Cute. Is it available? $39 + tax in Fry's. I don't mean the disk - there are lots of those. I mean your software. Also, can your tool use floppies instead of USB keys?

Re: One time pads

2002-10-19 Thread Bill Stewart
At 02:04 PM 10/17/2002 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: It is important to note that currently NMR bases systems only allow for 6 qubits. Only very recently we're getting practical qubits in solid state. . Everybody realizes that we're discussing currently completely theoretical vulnerabilities,

Finland considering new internet speech restrictions

2002-10-20 Thread Bill Stewart
Subject: Fwd: BNA's Internet Law News (ILN) - 10/18/02 FINLAND CONSIDERING NEW INTERNET SPEECH RESTRICTIONS Finland is considering establishing changes to its freedom of speech laws that focus on the Internet. A proposed bill would allow a court to order an online publication to remove messages

Re: Intel Security processor + a question

2002-10-20 Thread Bill Stewart
[There's been some discussion of whether you can trust hardware crypto.] At 11:54 AM 10/18/2002 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: OK...a follow up question (actually, really the same question in a diferent form). Let's say I had a crypto chip or other encryption engine, the code of which I could not

Re: One of Brinworld's uglier moments, no rights for immies

2002-10-24 Thread Bill Stewart
At 06:02 PM 10/21/2002 -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: So two illegals are going back because they were in a white van near a pay phone. They're fortunate, they only got the 12gauge in the face and the asphalt facial; in a month it'll be a cruise missile first, forensics later. If this were

Re: One time pads

2002-10-17 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:20 PM 10/16/2002 -0400, Sam Ritchie wrote: ACTUALLY, quantum computing does more than just halve the effective key length. With classical computing, the resources required to attack a given key grow exponentially with key length. (a 128-bit key has 2^128 possibilities, 129 has 2^129,

Re: FC: Privacy villain of the week: DARPA's gait surveillance tech (fwd)

2002-10-27 Thread Bill Stewart
[Sorry about any duplicated - lne.com spam-blocked me the first time.] At 01:34 PM 10/27/2002 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Advent of another technology wide deployment of which we must delay as long as possible. ... Unfortunately, brinistas welcome this development because they idiotically assume

Re: FC: Privacy villain of the week: DARPA's gait surveillance tech

2002-10-27 Thread Bill Stewart
[Hmm. lne.com spam-blocked me on the first attempt. Given the identity of the research group, I forgot to add the obvious The computer says he's a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech. ] At 01:36 AM 10/27/2002 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: See also:

Re: What is the truth of the anti war rallys?

2002-10-28 Thread Bill Stewart
Estimating crowd sizes is difficult even if you don't have good visibility, and for most events, there are at least two or three sets of people estimating crowd size who have axes to grind that bias their results. Washington DC's especially bad about that. According to the newsblurb we heard in

Re: Details on lne.com's blocking of Cypherpunks posts??

2002-10-28 Thread Bill Stewart
At 06:31 PM 10/27/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 01:04 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: [Hmm. lne.com spam-blocked me on the first attempt. Can you provide details? If lne.com is blocking posts, I will have to find another CP node. I don't think Eric will mind me

German Wiretappers Bill Victims

2002-11-06 Thread Bill Stewart
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/27917.html German secret service taps phones, bills buggees By Tim Richardson Posted: 04/11/2002 at 14:30 GMT A software error is being blamed for an incident in which mobile phone users discovered they were being bugged by German secret squirrels.

Re: Cointel is back: meet any new arabic-speaking guys in shiny shoes?

2002-11-06 Thread Bill Stewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Major Variola ret) writes: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20021104-81830128.htm Officials attempt to get inside cells of al Qaeda in U.S. At 11:09 PM 11/04/2002 -0500, Elyn Wollensky wrote: your point would be ;~) If people start showing up at Cypherpunks

Amsterdam loses electricity, lots of internet service

2002-11-06 Thread Bill Stewart
Reported on the NANOG list There's been an explosion in a power distribution center in amsterdam, over half the city is without power, and, as far as I know, the Nikhef building is competely powerless, Telecity is running on backup generators. Redbus building seems at least partially up, but

Re: Amerikan Military: All Your Children Are Belong To Us

2002-11-07 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:20 AM 11/07/2002 -0800, our local weapon of mass destruction forwarded: Sharon Shea-Keneally, principal of Mount Anthony Union High School in Bennington, Vermont, was shocked when she received a letter in May from military recruiters demanding a list of all her students, including names,

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

2002-11-14 Thread Bill Stewart
At 10:51 AM 11/12/2002 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: Alleged attempts to introduce internet currencies have a ninety percent humbug and fraud rate. And the other 10% have unsustainable business plans :-)

Re: Poker

2002-11-15 Thread Bill Stewart
James Donald writes: In principle it should be possible to create poker playing software where the server cannot cheat, but it is not obvious to me how this can be done. Does anyone know of a cheat proof algorithm? At 05:40 AM 11/15/2002 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: Sure, there are any

Re: FC: Weekly column: Washington's new role in computer security

2002-11-19 Thread Bill Stewart
At 01:02 PM 11/18/2002 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: http://news.com.com/2010-1069-966164.html Perspective: Say hello to Big Brother By Declan McCullagh November 18, 2002, 7:05 AM PT WASHINGTON--Like it or not, the proposed Department of Homeland Security firmly establishes

Re: Retry: Yet another attempt to defraud egold!

2002-11-19 Thread Bill Stewart
At 02:27 PM 11/18/2002 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote: At 10:42 AM -0800 11/15/02, Sunder wrote: What's disturbing about this is that we are on someone's list as e-gold customers or something, and this is very likely the same spoofer that had earlier set up e-golb.com and attempted the same kind of

Re: stego building

2002-11-24 Thread Bill Stewart
That, or it's a dot-com that didn't make it, or an office-space construction that someone hoped to sell to a dot-com but missed the boom. There's huge amounts of that in SF. At 05:37 PM 11/24/2002 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: On Sunday 24 November 2002 04:49 pm, Tarapia Tapioco wrote: There is a

Re: Video Mules: (Was: Re: Psuedo-Private Key (eJazeera) )

2002-11-26 Thread Bill Stewart
At 10:23 AM 11/24/2002 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: (Referring to previous thread about capturing video.) As I sit here looking at a 64 MB SD Card that I just picked up for $28 at my local Wally World, I was wondering why it (or it is larger capacity brethren) couldn't be used to record video and

Re: Vengeance Hacking the Watch List-- Monkeywrenching the Police State

2002-12-04 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:36 PM 11/19/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 11:20 PM, Tim May wrote: * Add additional names...perhaps some in-laws, relatives, college friends, or colleagues of those who are responsible for this Witch Hunt. It may be unfortunate to implicate some

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-08 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:38 PM 12/06/2002 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: You should have tried this back in the late 80's with a single frame VHS recorder and an Amiga Video Toaster...one frame at a time, thank god for AREXX ;) If you were actually using the Video Toaster, and not just the Amiga's CPU, you had what

Re: DBCs now issued by DMT

2002-12-09 Thread Bill Stewart
At 02:17 AM 12/05/2002 +, Peter Fairbrother wrote: OK, suppose we've got a bank that issues bearer money. Who owns the bank? It should be owned by bearer shares, of course. Why? Or the propounders wanting to: make a profit/control the bank? There are two main reasons honest people start

Re: Akamai

2002-12-10 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:52 AM 12/09/2002 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Anyone know anything about Akamai (www.akamai.com, also akamaitechnologies.com)? I was getting about a zillion hits on my web server from them this morning. They seem to offer services to gov't agencies according to their website. Akamai's

TIVO radio

2002-12-11 Thread Bill Stewart
At 10:00 PM 12/10/2002 -0600, Jim wrote: On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote: (Sidebar: I often wish for TIVO radio. It's called cron and your friendly TV card w/ FM radio. There are also USB-controlled external radios from people like D-Link. (They don't use the USB for audio, just for

Re: Anonymous blogging and unlicensed medical advice.

2002-12-11 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:43 AM 12/11/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 01:31 AM, Morlock Elloi wrote: In a way, Mathew's and Choate's attack upon the list has done us a favour. The list is now effectively restricted to those with the will and ability to use filters, which raises the

Re: [MPUNKS] Cypherpunks December Mtg: HIGHFIRE Design Session

2002-12-13 Thread Bill Stewart
At 05:21 AM 12/13/2002 +, Peter Fairbrother wrote: Dave Del Torto wrote: Resumes should be in plain ASCII text format with a PGP signature (detached sigs are OK) and on floppy disk or CD-R also containing a copy of the applicant's PGP public key. Fuck off. If you think that a PGP key

RE: Libel lunacy -all laws apply fnord everywhere

2002-12-21 Thread Bill Stewart
At 6:11 PM -0800 on 12/12/02, Lucky Green wrote: Agreed. A few years ago, some would advocate that on the Internet, no national laws apply. This was, of course, nonsense. Instead, every single national, regional, and local law in effect today anywhere in the world applies to anything you do to

Re: Nobel laureate Ronald Coase on rights, resources, and regulation.

2002-12-29 Thread Bill Stewart
From 1997 Reason Interview... LOOKING FOR RESULTS Nobel laureate Ronald Coase on rights, resources, and regulation Interviewed by Thomas W. Hazlett Again, in 1960, Coase rearranged the study of economics with his essay The Problem of Social Cost. It analyzed what happens when economic

Re: Constant Encrypted Stream

2002-12-29 Thread Bill Stewart
At 01:35 PM 12/20/2002 -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: The moral equivalent of the pre-telegraph French semaphore soldiers doing the macarena... :-) To the tune of I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok. :-) Hey, you're hearing that more and more often in

Re: [e-gold-list] Announcing Seagold.net: E-mail Privacy, Secure, Encrypted, accepts e-gold

2002-12-31 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:50 AM 12/13/2002 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: ...It had to happen sooner or later, I suppose... --- begin forwarded text From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [e-gold-list] Announcing Seagold.net: E-mail Privacy, Secure, Encrypted, accepts e-gold ... Introducing Seagold.net, a secure web-based

Re: Privacy qua privacy (Was: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures...)

2002-12-31 Thread Bill Stewart
At 03:57 PM 12/19/2002 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:56:12PM -0500, John Kelsey wrote: | I think this would help, but I also think technology is driving a lot of | this. You don't have to give a lot more information to stores today than | you did twenty years ago for

re:constant encryped stream

2002-12-31 Thread Bill Stewart
At 03:07 AM 12/21/2002 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: hi, Don't encrypt, post it by snail mail. I remember reading this in pgp's help document. It addresses why we glue over our envelope and seal it. It ofcourse is concealing (for the govt) and privacy (for the user). The govt. never asks letters not to

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2002-12-31 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:41 AM 12/31/2002 -0800, Michael Cardenas wrote: I only ask this because I'm deciding whether to study computational neuroscience or cryptography in grad school. Are you planning to get a PhD and/or do research, or just a terminal master's degree to do engineering? If you're planning to

Re: Dossiers and Customer Courtesy Cards

2002-12-31 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:27 PM 12/31/2002 -0800, Michael Cardenas wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:12:02PM -0800, Tim May wrote: On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:32 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote: As for your point about prescription drugs, box cutters, kitchen knives being trackable, I assume this is a troll

Re: Privacy qua privacy (Was: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures...)

2002-12-31 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:49 AM 12/31/2002 -0800, Kevin Elliott wrote: Interesting point on grocery cards... Why do they have your name at all? Remember when people used checks and had check cashing cards at grocery stores? Some grocery store chains used courtesy cards to replace that function. More

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-03 Thread Bill Stewart
At 02:18 AM 01/03/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 08:55 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote: People do break cyphers, by finding weaknesses in them. Are you saying that you think that current cyphers are unbreakable? You know not whereof you speak. Breaking RSA or similar

Re: Liars Paradox Fermi paradox

2003-01-04 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:39 AM 01/04/2003 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: There has been much speculation around Fermi's famous question: Where are they? Why haven't we seen any traces of intelligent extraterrestrial life?. One way in which this question has been answered (Brin 1983) is that we have not seen any traces of

Re: Singularity ( was Re: Policing Bioterror Research )

2003-01-07 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:42 AM 01/07/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 05:14 PM 1/6/03 -0800, Michael Motyka wrote: BTW, I think I read somewhere that when the water gets too hot the frog just leaves. It was in print, it must be true. Perhaps it is. But if you put a TV in the pot with the frog, he gets

Re: Cryptome Log...A nice opportunity!

2003-01-08 Thread Bill Stewart
At 01:14 PM 01/07/2003 -0600, Some troublemaker Anonymously wrote: So if someone generated a nice-looking fake log this would be legally binding in court? Please don't. John has to put up with enough hassles as a result of running a valuable and controversial web site. He doesn't need your,

Re: Cypherpunk fashions for the New Ashcroft Era (Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary)

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Stewart
At 03:14 PM 01/08/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 11:34 PM 1/8/03 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: I don't know the weaknesses of gait-observing systems, so I can't suggest anything. Kilts for men (over the knee, please, and not for aesthetics). Hoop-skirts for women. A heavy backpack

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Stewart
At 05:10 PM 01/08/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Tim May wrote... Cowboy hats are much more common in Cypherpunks Bay Aryan meetings And for that matter, what about cypherpunks of non-aryan descent? We've had some Branch Dravidian folks around as well I've usually been the one wearing

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Stewart
At 10:11 AM 01/09/2003 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote: It's a good thing he was captured by the Feds instead of a militia or a Private Defense Force of some sort. Note that such forces are not required to accept surrenders and can simply kill enemy forces (and vice-versa of course). Private

Re: [Fwd: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action t aken.]

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Stewart
The most likely explanation is that some subscriber to one of the cypherpunks lists is using an account on some machine at USPTO.GOV (which is the Patent and Trademark Office, not the Post Office), and their mail server not only has an antivirus filter but also a bad language filter. While I don't

Re: Oooh, hackers are bad!

2003-01-10 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:14 PM 01/10/2003 +0100, Bo Elkjaer wrote: This is worth a laugh. I have never before heard of or seen a hacker as bad as this one. Oh my. http://www.andrews.af.mil/89cg/89cs/scbsi/images/poster8.jpg Obviously the artist had been playing Quake or Ultima Online or whatever and just gotten

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:33 PM 01/10/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: For all I know, I've been posting on a list haunted by a bunch of crypto-white supremists (crypto, as in secret, hidden). And if that's the case, then I want to know. Figured I'd ask for clarification on this issue. (And from some of May's

Re: It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack - NEO Project and other distributed computing

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Stewart
At 04:23 PM 01/11/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 03:47 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: - A distributed computing like this needs several parts: - A problem to solve - they seem to keep waffling on this; their FAQ really needs to be upfront

Re: washingtonpost.com || Bush To Name Tech Security Leaders (fwd)

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Stewart
An interesting article, with some information on the people who'll probably be appointed to run the Department of Homelands Security's division of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection. But somebody has to make the bad pun, because otherwise it's just sitting there - we fought

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-13 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:40 PM 01/09/2003 +, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: If Bush can decide alone whether or not we are at war, and if Bush can decide alone with whom we are at war, and if Bush can decide alone what the boundaries of the war zone are, and if Bush can decide alone what behavior makes one an

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-14 Thread Bill Stewart
At 10:44 AM 1/13/03 -0800, [Bill Stewart] wrote: If you've got your brother counting the votes, and you can prevent anybody else from counting them, then you don't need to cancel elections. On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:23 PM, John Kelsey wrote: Personally, I was shocked, *shocked

Re: Brinworld: Samsung SCH-V310 camcorder phone

2003-01-14 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:31 PM 01/14/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: I saw mention on the Yahoo news site that some health clubs and gyms are already taking steps to limit the types of cellphones allowed in the changing areas (and maybe elsewhere). Hey, some people get their privacy by going to places that have Rules

Re: Brinworld: Samsung SCH-V310 camcorder phone

2003-01-14 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:39 PM 01/13/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: Hardly Brinworld. And T-Mobile has had it for awhile. Why is warmed-over technology news given headlines? Because all of us phone company stockholders hope maybe warmed-over headlines will get them to buy the stuff this time? Less cynically,

Re: Indo European Origins

2003-01-14 Thread Bill Stewart
At 04:25 PM 01/14/2003 +, Ken Brown wrote: All contemporary natural languages, like all biological species, are the same age. This statement is so silly it leaves me speechless... [] Nonsense. Icelandic is little changed from the Old Norse of 1000 A.D. Icelanders can easily read the

Stanford Talk - Solving High Technology Crime * 4:15PM, Wed Jan 22, 2003 in Gates B03

2003-01-19 Thread Bill Stewart
[Stanford's ee380 class often has interesting talks. This one sounds like it's by the Bad Guys :-) There's a parking building nearby where the public can park after 4:00, but construction has eaten most of the other parking lots.] Subject: [CSL Colloq] Solving High Technology Crime * 4:15PM, Wed

Re: Small taste of things to come if the war on Iraq happens.

2003-01-20 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:11 AM 01/20/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:45:56AM -0500, Jay h wrote: The obsession with Starbucks really puzzles me. Starbucks is one of the few mass retailers that actually offers medical coverage to even part timers, it allows people to move from

Re: Supremes and thieves.

2003-01-20 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:54 AM 01/20/2003 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: It dwindles because the rate at which the copyright period is increasing averages more than 1 year/year. Quite a number of works which had been in the public domain fell out of it when the 20 year extension went into effect. The public domain

RE: Supremes and thieves.

2003-01-21 Thread Bill Stewart
At 03:36 PM 01/21/2003 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote: But after making this dead actor sing a different song, it would a new work, and the copyright clock would be reset. Now if someone wants to do the work on an open-source-like basis... It's obviously a job for an Alan Smithee film... you can

Re: Big Brotherish Laws

2003-01-24 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:45 AM 12/18/2002 +, Adam Back wrote: If I recall some time ago (years ago) there was some discussion on list of using non-US drivers licenses or out-of-state drivers licenses I think to get around this problem. I thought it was Duncan Frissell or Black Unicorn who offered some opinions

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