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James A. Donald:
Seems to me that permanent civil war in Iraq provides
Americans with the same benefits as democracy in Iraq,
though considerably more reliably.
Steve Thompson
You might be more accurate to say that a permanent [civil]
war in Iraq benefits miltiary leaders
James A. Donald
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, for example the shelling of Kabul.
The relief that people expected to obtain by submitting to
Taliban rule was not relief from fighting each other, but
relief from indiscriminate Taliban attacks.
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James A. Donald
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Major Variola:
Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can
always be defeated by cranking up the police state a
notch.
This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems.
James A. Donald:
The problem is that any genuinely irrevocable payment
system gets
are
trivially protected, and the remaining third have done the
best they can under the circumstances
This may explain the lack of wardriving. Why bother to drive?
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James A. Donald
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James A. Donald:
The reason that taliban caught in Afghanistan, and people
with the wrong accent caught in Afghanistan, tend to wind
up in Guantanamo Bay is not because Afghan warlords are
taking orders from US overlords, it is because Afghan
warlords are fighting a holy war
is that it conceals your threat model.
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James A. Donald
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On 9 Dec 2004 at 19:47, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
In short, except for those few people who have some use for
MixMaster, MixMaster was stillborn.
As one of those few people who have had some use for Mixmaster,
it does not seem stillborn to me.
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James A. Donald
the street and steal some bandwidth just
because I find it a change to work in the open air.
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James A. Donald
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, at the same time he is busily subverting US enemies in
Iran. He has his own agenda, which on some matters agrees
with the US agenda, and others contradicts the US agenda.
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James A. Donald
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encryption/signing
technology.
Or in other words, due to the fact that PKI sucks, they have
left the door open for a replacement.
now the investment may finally be realized.
I don't think so.
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James A. Donald
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The title of this post is misleading: The protest is anti
government, and pro property rights.
For example:
[...] People can see how corrupt the government is while they
barely have enough to eat, said Mr. Yu, reflecting on the
uprising that made him an instant proletarian hero
If he was
Arabia, which are not
failing, but damn well should.
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James A. Donald
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James A. Donald:
Terrorists, as we discovered in Afghanistan, tend to piss
people off. They need a government that is strong enough to
intimidate the locals to refrain from killing them.
Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Since when did a few remote Al Q boot camps piss people
arms are good guys
and which are bad guys after the regime falls.
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James A. Donald
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James A. Donald wrote:
Oh wow, let us expand our current highly popular and
successful Iraqi operation to embrace a quarter of the
world. Wouldn't it be nice? No, come to think of it, it
would not be nice.
J.A. Terranson
Since Mein Fuhrer Bush is preparing to escalate to Iran
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James A. Donald:
Note that the main enemy it is aimed against is the CIA,
and it's existence was successfully kept secret from the
CIA for this time. (For had the CIA detected it, they
would have instantly leaked the information, the same way
they have leaked so much other
violence with impunity to
the one with the ability to convincingly tell the truth.
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James A. Donald
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There is nothing stopping you from writing your own operating
system, so Linus did.
If, however, you decline to pay taxes, men with guns will
attack you.
That is the difference between private power and government
power.
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James A. Donald
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James A. Donald
As governments were created to smash property rights,
they are always everywhere necessarily the enemy of those
with property, and the greatest enemy of those with the
most property.
Steve Thompson
Uh-huh. Perhaps you are using the term 'government
to a mere 2^109 or so.
So SHA256 should be OK.
2^69 is damn near unbreakable. 2^80 is really unbreakable.
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James A. Donald
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property rights. You want to steal something like
land or women, you need a really big gang.
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James A. Donald
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that they
are in danger of being forgetten.
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James A. Donald
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that a strong password (not your ordinary password)
is secure.
Can anyone suggest a well reviewed, unpatented, protocol that
has the desired properties?
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James A. Donald
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uploaders and storers,
and starving leachers, is pretty much central to the success of
a protocol and its software.
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James A. Donald
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and shaky dollars so abundantly
printed by the Bush administration, is that the chinese
banking system is even more dubious and shaky. Chinese
prefer to stash their wealth in America, rather than in
China.
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James A. Donald
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an
unobtrusive and easily ignored warning if he has
never received a signed message from that source, a
considerably stronger warning if he has previously
received signed mail from that source.
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James A. Donald
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obstacle is that 99% of
customers cannot understand WebMoney's security, or use
Pecunix's PGP based interface. If you try to sell them
Chaumian blinded transactions, the average mobster is
going to be seriously boggled.
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James A. Donald
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seem to be finding an ample
supply of Saudis in Iraq.
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James A. Donald
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James A. Donald:
While it doubtless would have been better to behead
the Saudi monarchy rather than the Iraqi
dictatorship, nonetheless American troops seem to be
finding an ample supply of Saudis in Iraq.
Major Variola (ret)
In what imaginary universe?
In the universe where
voted
against this decision.
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James A. Donald
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is
advanced by more boring stuff: standards, software, and
business. Excessive mention of the ideological
implications of certain standards and software would be
counterproductive.
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James A. Donald
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state area of our lives is the non
political area of our lives.
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James A. Donald
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James A. Donald
: So when I buy coffee, that is political?
Damian Gerow
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 coca plants
.
These various isms are not marxism, not exactly, but
they bare a striking resemblance to their parent.
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James A. Donald
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of the kulaks was self defense against a
vicious attempt by the peasants to starve the
proletariat. :-)
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James A. Donald
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targets that have been
hammered through Tor.
In the long run, reliable pseudonymity will prove more
valuable than reliable anonymity.
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James A. Donald
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no matter what you do.
Government regulators are a bigger problem, since they
are apt to forbid any business model they do not
understand, but they tend to be more predictable than
courts.
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James A. Donald
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, and
provides a secure channel to the user. So secrets
representing ID, and secrets representing value, can
only be manipulated by the software that is supposed to
be manipulating it.
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James A. Donald
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to be addressed on lists that are not
explicitly political, leaving cypherpunks with little of
substance.
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R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Intel doing their current crypto/DRM stuff, [...] You
know they're going to do evil, but at least the
*other* malware goes away.
I am a reluctant convert to DRM. At least with DRM, we
face a smaller number of threats.
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James A. Donald:
Since cryptography these days is routine and
uncontroversial, there is no longer any strong
reason for the cypherpunks list to continue to
exist.
John Kelsey
The ratio of political wanking to technical posts and
of talkers to thinkers to coders needs
James A. Donald writes:
Further, genuinely secure systems are now becoming available, notably
Symbian.
Chris Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What does it mean for Symbian to be genuinely secure? How was this
determined and achieved?
There is no official definition of genuinely secure
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