Re: Identification of users of payphones

2003-03-17 Thread John Kelsey
May "That government is best which governs not at all." --Henry David Thoreau --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and "minoritie s"

2003-02-24 Thread John Kelsey
centralized decision-making makes larger projects possible sometimes, especially ones involving big, long wars. -- Vincent Penquerc'h --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-21 Thread John Kelsey
ms to be working much better than the attempts to reform farm subsidies, say. And even with Republicans in control of everything, I'll bet we don't see any major cuts to NEA, say. -TD --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Blood for Oil (was The Pig Boy was really squealing today

2003-02-20 Thread John Kelsey
nvesting my own money in than an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. Lots of money invested up front, literally hundreds of small groups who could threaten to damage it as a way of demanding a share of the loot, very hard to defend, etc. What an opportunity! --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stand back or I'll jump....

2003-02-19 Thread John Kelsey
ed the "Blazing Saddles" strategy. -TD --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Crypto anarchy now more than ever

2003-02-19 Thread John Kelsey
ance. The saber-rattling serves both to communicate the threat and to advertise for buyers. James A. Donald --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Science Journal 'Self-Censorship'

2003-02-19 Thread John Kelsey
ral reaction to being frightened by the threats of new technologies. (Ironically, the nasty terror weapons we're all worried about are mostly 1940s or earlier technology. Stuff that even a third-rate starving dictatorship can cook up.) -pete --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stupid security measures, a contest

2003-02-12 Thread John Kelsey
hack and get checked for weapons, rather than around the shack to save time. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: patriot act and public key encryption

2003-02-08 Thread John Kelsey
into your cell again, if you won't help us. What? You don't like Mongo as a cellmate? Pity, he sure seems to enjoy, er, like you." Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: \"Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits

2003-02-05 Thread John Kelsey
ll," it's not a surprise if some of those people assume they're sick because of the dangerous space chemicals, rather than because of that potato salad they had at the picnic last Sunday. ... Jay --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits to invade your body!"

2003-02-03 Thread John Kelsey
. Something like "The pieces surely aren't going to be dangerous, but moving them is going to mess up the investigation of the crash." Which presumably is what everyone with any technical background and common sense was thinking when they heard the original warning, right? --Tim May, Occupied America John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNA evidence countermeasures?

2003-01-30 Thread John Kelsey
DNA evidence implies that the police, prosecutors, judges, and juries just aren't all that careful about checking the plausibility of evidence anyway. ... --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deniable Thumbdrive?

2003-01-26 Thread John Kelsey
hard to misplace or lend to your friends. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deniable Thumbdrive?

2003-01-26 Thread John Kelsey
its to the number ot password guesses allowed per day, number of invalid password guesses before the thing just zeros out the key and tells the person making the attempt it has done so, etc. Trust me, you *want* the server to loudly announce that it will zero the key irretrievably after the t

Re: Petro's catch-22 incorrect (Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants)

2003-01-18 Thread John Kelsey
., we're not going to be cool with people invading Canada), and free trade with almost everyone (I'd like to see us not trade with countries with really bad human rights records, though that's not exactly the direction we're heading in now). ... --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desert Spam

2003-01-18 Thread John Kelsey
out with a small banking matter. It all kind-of balances out. :) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-16 Thread John Kelsey
At 10:40 PM 1/13/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:23 PM, John Kelsey wrote: ... Personally, I was shocked, *shocked*, to see the supreme court make a decision on the basis of politics instead of a careful reading of the constitution. Everything the Supreme Court

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-14 Thread John Kelsey
filling your paperwork out properly, but I'm afraid you're just not being effective enough at rooting out Al Qaida operatives. I'm sure you can do better, though--just find me five operatives in the next week" --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-02 Thread John Kelsey
rpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dossiers and Customer Courtesy Cards

2003-01-02 Thread John Kelsey
this search for your top 16 suspects today, you'll be able to do it for your top thousand suspects in less than ten years, just assuming processing and storage gets cheaper at current rates --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-17 Thread John Kelsey
At 02:10 PM 12/15/02 -0500, cubic-dog wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, John Kelsey wrote: ... > running on a pro-freedom slate, politicians will be found to do that. Note > that guns are still legal in the US, despite the fact that armed private > citizens are apparently *very* unpopular

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

2002-12-17 Thread John Kelsey
ds can come up with?) ... Adam --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-15 Thread John Kelsey
ul combattant), and even security measures that are likely to make citizens less safe from terrorist violence (like invading Iraq). Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Katy, bar the door

2002-11-02 Thread John Kelsey
kind of response to prevent these planes being used as low-tech cruise missiles seems like a win. Maybe it would make sense to add some kind of remote surveilance of the cockpit, though I imagine this wouldn't be too popular with pilots, and they'd definitely need to secure the channel prope

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-31 Thread John Kelsey
it. (Something pretty similar happens with the FDA, right? If you get the new cancer drug a year earlier, you get all the benefit (maybe you get to go on living); the FDA gets the added risk of their being some horrible side effect. So they force a different trade-off on you than you'd prefer.) >--Tim May --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] // [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: employment market for applied cryptographers?

2002-08-17 Thread John Kelsey
it may cost a lot later, but they're going broke *now*. >-David --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] // [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: employment market for applied cryptographers?

2002-08-17 Thread John Kelsey
ou're really looking or not.) I feel very fortunate to still have a job, given all that's going on in this industry. >Perry --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] // [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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