Re: Schneier at toorcon 2003

At 02:44 PM 8/25/03 -0700, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: >On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >> I'm told by an organizer that >> Bruce Schneier will be speaking at toorcon in San Diego this year. >> See www.toorcon.org for info. > >This is of interest why

Re: "domestic terrorism", fat lazy amerikans & ducks

At 01:11 PM 8/26/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >PS: Anyone else getting tired of the term "terror"? Back when we all hated You're out of the loop. Here's how you play the propoganda drinking game: You and a friend get a bottle of and watch a Bush speech. *You* drink whenever he says "terror"; *

earthstation 5

>>Ras says that once the privacy features are fully utilized by the end-use then no one in the world can figure out who you are.<< Right. And I bet you can get a good deal on a Hamas leader's used cell-phone... >>Despite what Ras might say about ES5, there is a large element in the P2P commun

Re: traffix analysis

At 08:14 PM 8/27/03 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: >Using random "throwaway" WiFi neighborhood hotspots can blunt this type of >attack. Even if they trace the link back to the consumer who lent his >bandwidth it may provide scant information. Yes, but remember to wear a disguise/cloak and be careful

Re: traffix analysis

At 06:11 PM 8/28/03 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: >A 18-24" 2.4Ghz grid dish (available for less than $70-90) with 18-21 dB gain >will associate at 11 Mb/s with consumer-grade APs with diversity antennas at >2-3 miles. Yes; for naif readers note that the "grid" means that you don't worry about wind

Re: The Word Spy for 08/28/2003 -- darknet

At 09:47 AM 8/29/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: >Certain Californians will say that the "Darknet" allegedly coined in >2002 by these guys is clearly a misspelling of "Blacknet," coined for Maybe the NAACP got upset... - Sure Arnold gangbanged a chick, but it was a *black* chick, it just shows he's

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

At 06:54 PM 8/29/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: >On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 03:28 PM, Steve Schear wrote: >> All covered in my previous postings. This approach should be >> particularly applicable to ISPs as they generally have billing >> arrangement and can add this on as an extra service fee for

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

At 12:02 PM 8/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: >He said: "An ISP is free to say "anyone requesting a tap is required to >pay a fee," just as any ISP is free to say that it will handle >installation of special Carnivore equipment for a certain fee." > >A customer of the ISP is certainly _not_ the one re

RE: DoS of spam blackhole lists

At 11:03 AM 9/1/03 +0200, Andrew Thomas wrote: >> b) realize that the distributed method you suggest already >> exists - it is called procmail(*). >Procmail serves no purpose by itself. It requires no small >amount of effort on the part of the administrator to utilise >for any type of systems implm

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

At 01:54 AM 9/1/03 -0400, An Metet wrote: >Here's a clue. If and when crypto anarchy ever becomes a reality, >Tim May is going to be one of the first ones killed. He's pissed off >too many people. Once they can get retribution anonymously, his days >are numbered. What, exactly, has Tim done tha

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

At 08:06 PM 8/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: > >The Mob doesn't actually have to kill too many stoolies for it to be >widely known that ratting can be a very dangerous business. > Ask David Kelly. Or his associates. Reputation is a tool.

Best social engineering of the year?

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/04/1062548967124.html On the night of Wednesday, August 27, two men dressed as computer technicians and carrying tool bags entered the cargo processing and intelligence centre at Sydney International Airport. The men, described as being of Pakistani-Indian-A

Re: Random musing about words and spam

At 09:09 PM 9/4/03 -0700, Eric Murray wrote: >(it's one of >about 200 checks my program makes). Can we assume that the spam is generated by regexp-type programs? If so, are there good methods for inferring the regexp from examples, and using this to infer spamfiltering rules? Good project for a

More recall.archive.org fun

Enter "george w bush" and look at the categories to the right.

The Catheter and the Blizzard

>>The obvious example is Unix, in its variants including Linux, despite the attempt by SCO to collect $1000 per CPU or whatever silly number they have floated in their lawsuits.<< Anyone discussing this particular bit of corporate hallucination is encouraged to put Frank Zappa's "Penguin in Bondag

Your papers please [what color is John Gilmore?]

Most people will be coded green and sail through. But up to 8 percent of passengers who board the nation's 26,000 daily flights will be coded "yellow" and will undergo additional screening at the checkpoint, according to people familiar with the program. An estimated 1 to 2 percent will be labe

Re: cats

At 08:12 AM 9/9/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: >On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:15:31AM -0700, Tim May wrote: >> "Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." --David >> Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11 > > > Cats always have an alpha cat. And they often have pissing contests t

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

At 11:53 AM 9/10/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >California's law against Driving While Speaking Spanish is only >about 10 years old, and was a Pete Wilson thing. >It happened about when I moved here - did other states start >doing similar things in the mean time? >The Feds started bullying states i

Re: Anyone Remember Zero Knowledge Systems?

At 05:44 PM 9/10/03 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: >The problem with running Napster over Freedom was bandwidth costs. >Users may be more willing to pay today, given the clear risk of paying >$10,000 or more in fines. I'm sure that ZKS would be happy to sell >someone a commercial use license. Depen

Fatherland Security agents above the law?

U.S. agents also sought, without warrant or subpoena, to obtain ABCNEWS field tapes. Two agents showed up at night at the San Diego home of a freelance cameraman, Jeff Freeman, who worked on the project. "They first identified themselves as FBI agents, which it turns out they weren't," said Freema

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

At 03:38 PM 9/10/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >(And it's probably a bit too much cognitive dissidence for them >if you simultaneously want a parking pass for your car >and don't have your DL because you took the bus :-) The DL stays in the car, the only place it is needed. I've heard that during

[Brinworld] UK firms tout camera phone blinding tech

Safe Haven works by transmitting a signal in a localised environment such as a school, swimming pool, office facility or factory, which "disables the camera functionality of devices in the nearby environment", the companies claim. The snag is that Safe Haven technology needs to be integrated at th

Re: Fatherland Security agents above the law?

At 10:41 AM 9/11/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: >* depleted uranium (DU) is essentially pure U-238, with very low >specific activity (decay rate); removal of the 2-3% of the higher >specific activity U-235 lessens the overall decay rate of the original >metal substantially. Commericial airliners often c

RIAA lawsuits harming public knowledge of law

Saw this in an editorial: "Sure, technically, it's stealing. But so is dubbing a tape, which we all did back when cassette tapes were all the rage. " http://www.thenews-messenger.com/news/stories/20030911/localnews/239711.html It is unfortunate that the RIAA's terrorism has caused people to forget

Re: [cdr] Inferno: USPTO p0wn3d (fwd)

At 05:45 PM 9/10/03 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >"open-source software runs counter to the mission of WIPO which is to >promote intellectual-property rights...To hold a meeting which has as its >purpose to disclaim or waive such rights seems to us to be contrary to >the goals of WIPO." Not surprising

open WiFi defense to RIAA

It should be massive fun when the RIAA sues someone who has an open WiFi network inhabited by unknown users. We await this defense. Doubleplus fun if the RIAA victim doesn't know he's sharing his bandwidth. We also anticipate someone being sued for downloading a rip of a song they have a vinyl.

Schneier favoring drivers licenses for info superhighway?

http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=56662§ion=BUSINESS&subsection=BUSINESS&year=2003&month=9&day=12 So why not institute mandatory education before people can go online? After all, motorists must obtain licenses before they can legally hit the road, and computers are much more comp

Mary Beth Buchanan, raping the constitution

"Obscenities have always been a priority of the attorney general," said Mary Beth Buchanan, U.S. attorney for western Pennsylvania. "[A]nd he has asked each U.S. attorney to make that our priority as well." Buchanan is the lead prosecutor on the case against Zacari http://www.abcnews.go.com/secti

Power Grab: Ashcroft overturns 4th Amend

Administration Calls for Unprecedented Subpoena Powers http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-subpoena14sep14,1,689004.story?coll=la-home-todays-times Unlike in ordinary criminal investigations, Ashcroft would not need the approval of a grand jury or a judge to order witnesses to ap

Police state

Good article at http://wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,60440,00.html on abuses of anti-terrorism (tm) laws. - The unit of coercivity for magstrips is being changed to the "Ashcroft"

snooping cell phone pictures via URLs?

I received a few URLs pointing to cell phone pictures stored at pictures.sprintpcs.com. The URLs contained long seemingly-random strings, though with my sample (of 2) I only saw 5 identical characters in the same locations. Has anyone done any less casual cryptanalysis on these kind of URLs? One

Re: Verisign's Wildcard A-Records and DNSSEC Plans?

At 08:38 AM 9/16/03 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: >and probably sell or rent the "typo name space" - ie. Airborne Express could >buy *f?*e?*d?*e?*x?*.com address space, so fredex.com would lead to airborne's >web site. You need to include adjacent-letter permutations at least, in that there regexp.

Duck Freedom Fighter (Terrorists), Euler SUV Graffiti

This is *not* a spoof. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-foiegras18sep18,1,7982772.story?coll=la-headlines-california Activists Take Ducks From Foie Gras Shed FARMINGTON, Calif.  With only the dim light of a half-moon to guide them, four self-proclaimed "duck freedom fighters" made their

careful with that nym, eugene

The man who e-mailed The Times and claimed credit for the attacks used the name Tony Marsden, which he said was a pseudonym. The man also said that one of his hobbies was math and that he and his accomplices had painted Euler's Theorem on the side of one of the cars. FBI Searches Computers at Calte

Walker: NAT means you are a consumer, not a peer

(from /.) http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol/ has a good rant by John Walker on how NAT turns users into consumers. Also Speak Freely maintenance is ending. Sic transit unix to PC secure vox. Note that PGPfone devel ended a while ago, unsupporting PC to Mac secvox. Nautilus is AFAIK PC to PC

Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

At 06:27 PM 9/20/03 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote: >News services are reporting that US Troops, who have been holding regular >drunken parties at the Baghdad Zoo, have shot and killed the Zoo's rare >Bengal tiger. 1. The grunt found out that cats have no alpha cats 2. Nothing like boozing it up in a

Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

At 06:35 PM 9/21/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >"I no longer consider 9/11 a terrorist act." > >Fuck. I've been nearing a similar conclusion, though from an entirely >different, uh, line of approach. Though I don't consider having quite >crossed that line yet. > >I guess in the end we are responsib

Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

At 07:18 PM 9/21/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: > >> Give part of germany to the jews, and give palestine back to the arabs > >Give the Jew invaders of Palestine a 10-minute lesson in swimming, hand >them a pair of water wings, and tell them to swim for their lives. > >With luck, only one in 100 will ma

Re: Duck Freedom Fighter (Terrorists), Euler SUV Graffiti

At 03:05 PM 9/22/03 +0100, ken wrote: >Major Variola (ret.) wrote: >> This is *not* a spoof. > >Why should we think it a spoof? Maybe the USA is just catchiung >up. In my home town, Brighton in Enlgand, people calling >themselves the ALF used to do this sort of thing pretty r

Ca passes car data recorder privacy law

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22  California today adopted the nation's first law meant to protect the privacy of drivers whose cars are equipped with "black boxes," or data recorders that can be used to gather vital information on how a vehicle is being driven in the last seconds before a crash. Gov. Gray

Re: DC Security Geeks Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System

At 02:48 PM 9/24/03 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > >Cryptonomicon.Net - > >Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System Someone needs to inject a story about e-voting fraud into the popular imagination. Is Tom Clancy availa

Terror status: urine-colored

These Passenger Stability Indicators Include : Social Security Number, Length-of-Residence, Income, and Home Ownership. Two Additional Elements If Available Would Likely Be Good Indicators: Namely, Miles Flown Annually and Lifetime. "Homeland Security - Airline Passenger Risk Assessment" Torchc

When the brownshirts come for your underwear

http://www.regen.org/raid.htm This is the commune of the guy charged and released for toasting some Hummers. Getting RichardJewell'ed by the FBI. Oh yes, he is "a peace activist who has protested the war in Iraq and actions of the Bush administration" which is surely coincidental. CNN interview

vehicle tracking from inductive signatures

The loops in the road are, after all, analogue: A general vehicle reidentification system using inductive loop signatures to uniquely but anonymously track individual vehicles, has been formulated and tested in recent years at the University of California, Irvine. By using non-obtrusive and anonym

Patriot act power grab in progress

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27  The Bush administration, which calls the USA Patriot Act perhaps its most essential tool in fighting terrorists, has begun using the law with increasing frequency in many criminal investigations that have little or no connection to terrorism. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=

Wipe your Lamo notes now

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/187 The Subpoenas are Coming! By Mark Rasch Sep 29 2003 05:00AM PT Frequent readers of this space know that I am no apologist for hackers like Adrian Lamo, who, in the guise of protection, access others' computer systems without authorization, and then publ

Re: Motorola Security Chips

At 03:58 PM 9/29/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >These seem to be actual chips. Anyone know of companies selling Crypto apps >for Network processors? What do you mean "crypto apps"? In some cases you can get support for the crypto hardware in a version of say VxWorks etc which makes it easier. Per

Your papers please? CAPSII and other abuses

Note especially the high false-positive-to-hit ratio, and this: "Fatherland Security chief Tom Ridge, for example, has already approved the use of CAPPS II to identify fugitives wanted for violent crimes." Computer hunt for terrorists October 2, 2003 By Charles Piller and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar,

Ambulance Chasing Lawyer sues M$

Microsoft Sued for Weak Security http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60673,00.html Dana Taschner, a Newport Beach, California, lawyer who filed the lawsuit on behalf of a single plaintiff and a potential class of millions of Microsoft customers, could not be immediately reached for comment. Da

more unconstitutional things (FBI vs. 4th amend)

Court says prisoners cant be ordered to give blood samples A THREE-JUDGE PANEL of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the first federal appeals court to address the federal DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act, said requiring convicts to give blood for a criminal database was a violation of th

On suing Marcy Hamilton for being a bimbo

Dear Dana Taschner, Esq, We'd like to file a class-action suit against MARCY HAMILTON 2804 MCCONNELL DR LOS ANGELES CA 90064 (310)202-6333 For abusing the law, and holding toolmakers responsible for what lusers do with them. You will, of course, get your 1/3 contingency fee. We realize she has

U FLA castrates students, turns them into consumers

Here, its not NAT turning people into consumers (cf Walker's Speak Freely rant), but a no-server policy which seems to be too broadly implemented --legit uses are also blocked. Maybe time for UDP protocols, or TCP-to-UDP proxies. Over DNS ports :-) When SYNs are outlawed, only outlaws will SYN.

Re: On suing Marcy Hamilton for being a bimbo

At 05:50 PM 10/4/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: > >> We'd like to file a class-action suit against >> MARCY HAMILTON >> For abusing the law, and holding toolmakers >> responsible for what lusers do with the

Re: On suing Marcy Hamilton for being a bimbo

At 10:17 AM 10/5/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >> So don't use their tools. > >You don't know how much I'd love to. Ditto, sir. Along with the amazingly irregular "English", and various other sys

Marcy Hamilton suing the disco where she got STDs

(resent) At 09:22 PM 10/4/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >I also have a >firewall and a router, neither of which I have truly geek-levels of intimacy >using. True. Not even expensive. Don't even need hardware. Marcy is blaming the Redmond disco for the STDs she picked up by banging anything th

Re: Nuking USG: not just for cypherpunks anymore

At 09:08 AM 10/11/03 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: >Interesting that the State Department goes after Robertson rather than >Mowbray. Could it have anything to do with the idea that few(er) people know >who Mowbray is? Perhaps Mr. Rosenthal or Mr. Chong might have an opinion on this...

clicking on ads = funding terrorists

Excerpted from politech. Consider the 1st Amend implications, and how clicking on a banner ad (which automatically would pay the source site) makes you a terrorist supporter. Got assets? Subject: US State Department extends FTO list to include Internet sites Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:20:23 -040

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales

At 04:22 PM 10/13/03 -0400, Sunder wrote: >The luser will think it's worth buying their own copy after getting >addicted to the game. .. >So the rub, is that copies are allowed to be made, but unless cracked, the >copies are nothing more than time limited demos. What's wrong with these things? T

Judge Orders Reporters (TM) to Reveal Sources

Judge Orders Reporters to Reveal Sources 4 News Organizations Told to Identify Officials Interviewed in Wen Ho Lee Reports .. His lawyers have encountered what the judge described as "a pattern of denials, vague or evasive answers, and stonewalling" on the part of the government officials they que

Re: C3 Nehemia C5P with better hardware RNG and AES support

At 11:06 PM 10/15/03 +0200, Ralf-P. Weinmann wrote: >On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:14:17PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> latest VIA C3 C5P does 1 GHz at 7 W power dissipation, >> has now two hardware RNG engines (and two x86 opcodes to >> read them), and an Advanced Cryptography Engine >> which can do

Re: LOCAL Mountain View, California, USA: events this week

At 02:04 PM 10/18/03 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >It takes a broken P2P service to be brought down by a few unkosher binaries. >Trust accounting and agoric load levelling don't take Pd hardware. Nice translation. Main Entry: ag7o7ra Pronunciation: 'a-g&-r& Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -

Al Q easy meat for NSA

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jihad13chap1.html

RE: C3 Nehemia C5P with better hardware RNG and AES support

At 11:04 PM 10/22/03 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: >I fail to understand why VIA bothered adding AES support into the CPU. >When was AES last the bottleneck on a general-purpose CPU? The >bottleneck tends to be modular exponentiations, yet VIA failed to >include a modular exponentiation engine. Strange

RE: C3 Nehemia C5P with better hardware RNG and AES support

At 07:04 AM 10/23/03 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: >At 11:04 PM 10/22/2003 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: >>bottleneck tends to be modular exponentiations, yet VIA failed to >>include a modular exponentiation engine. Strange. > >Cylink made it mark in the early 90s by building the first commercial >modular

Re: Palladium/TCPA/NGSCB

At 11:06 PM 10/22/03 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: >Mark Miller pointed out to me that currently much of our protection from >viruses comes from people at the anti-virus companies who quickly grab each >new virus, reverse engineer it, and send out information about its payload >and effects. You could

Re: "If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!"

At 07:43 AM 10/24/03 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: >At 06:28 AM 10/24/2003 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: >>The problem with the central premise, of course, is that without some Big >>(Brother) Central Server, there's just no way to track simultaneous usage, so >>there's no way to assure that the num

Re: "If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

At 02:52 PM 10/24/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: >The U.S. had plans >for the contracts to deploy cellphones to go to American companies, but >the local puppets must have had no fear of the Americans, as they went >with a better bribe: mostly Arabic cellphone providers will deploy the >initial system.

Re: "If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!"

[Chronic readers can skip this..] At 12:08 AM 10/25/03 -0400, BillyGOTO wrote: >On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:11:27PM -0700, Tim May wrote: >> On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 02:04 PM, BillyGOTO wrote: >> >Not really. Libraries have to pay more than we do for their >> >subscriptions. > >> Be carefu

Re: "If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win" [Reply to Durden]

At 05:27 PM 10/25/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >frontol assault. Also watch carefully for hole-pokers...I'd bet their's also >been disinfo campaigns to get the public to think that no crypto is secure >(every ask anyone if they believed there was such a thing as effectively >'unbreakable' encrypti

Re: "If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!" [reply to Sunder]

At 07:01 AM 10/25/03 -0400, Sunder wrote: >If you bought an audio DVD and your car doesn't have a DVD player, or your >only portable stereo system can only play tapes, you're not allowed to >legally copy the music off the DVD onto other media to play in other >devices. IANAL so I'm not actually su

Re: "If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

At 12:57 PM 10/26/03 -0800, Jurgen Botz wrote: >Wasn't there a Mafioso who got busted and convicted based on >evidence that had been PGP encrypted and where they stole the >key with a keyboard dongle? Nicodemo Scarfo. He used his Dad's federal-prison ID number, but the Feds couldn't guess that, s

Re: NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption

At 11:00 PM 10/26/03 -0800, Morlock Elloi wrote: >Isn't it really simpler to use RSA and DH and ECC in series ? Why choose ONE ? >There is no good reason for that. 1. Silly Elloi, you can only use DH when both parties are online. And of course RSA and DH have similar failure modes -ie factoring.

Re: NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption

At 10:01 PM 10/26/03 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: >On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > >>In the case of the NSA deal, the agency >>wanted to use a 512-bit key for the ECC system. This is the >>equivalent of an RSA key of 15,360 bits." > >Am I the only one here who finds this "re

Re: "If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

At 03:12 PM 10/27/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >spend pennies. Eventually you gotta figure that'll eat into the invasionary >funds, no? (Or am I being naive?) To a troll-like extent. The government left the gold (etc) standard so they could print money to fund wars. They will also not hesitate t

Chaumian blinding & public voting?

Is is possible to use blinding (or other protocols) so that all votes are published, you can check that your vote is in there, and you (or anyone) can run the maths and verify the vote? Without being able to link people to votes without their consent. Currently voting is trusted because politica

Re: Chaumian blinding & public voting?

First, much thanks to Howie Goodell for his reply. (Note that printing stuff on transparencies was proposed (by Shamir?) some time ago, perhaps for quorum-required info.) At 09:17 PM 10/31/03 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: >On Friday 31 October 2003 12:10 pm, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >&

Re: Spelling corrections are now export-controlled

At 04:05 PM 11/2/03 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote: >Still... it occurs to me that the State >department is setting itself up for a DOS attack -- what would happen if 10% >of all US academics were to apply for one of these licenses? It would facilitate the blacklisting and later roundup. And hmm, whe

Re: Spelling corrections are now export-controlled

At 11:12 AM 11/2/03 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: >At 01:47 AM 11/2/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >>"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or >>prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of >>speech, >>or o

Re: [s-t] needle in haystack digest #3 (fwd from Nick.Barnes@pobox.com)

At 08:22 PM 11/6/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: >I heard ten years ago that the National Semi fab on-site was a lowly >2-micron fab. Which was enough for keying material. And rad-hard circuits for their buddies at the NRO. And 2 mics is fine for certain esoteric processes. Got GaAs? That's done on 6"

Re: [s-t] needle in haystack digest #3 (fwd from Nick.Barnes@pobox.com)

At 06:00 PM 11/6/03 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: >I guess I didn't make myself clear. I wasn't hypothesizing an attack >against a fab. I was saying that The focus on Thomspon-trojaned tools and Chipworks-style reverse engineering is silly. There are plenty of folks who need green cards, or whose r

Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

At 06:37 PM 11/7/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Apple is both a software *and* a hardware company, however, and they've >pretty much always been negligent about making sure that other vendor's hardware >worked with theirs and/or their OS. I thought that was half the point of Apple ---you play

Re: Disguising the Key length (Was...Has a change taken place in factoring RSA keys)

At 02:09 PM 11/10/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >My first question is, how easy is it for them to estimate the key size of an >encrypted message? Its not secret. But lets look at twiddling what the message header encodes. Suppose you relabel a 2Kbit key as a 1Kbit. Then what are the extra bits

Re: Jews Go Nuclear

At 01:44 PM 11/14/03 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: >http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,10613 >Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines You put nukes in subs to avoid getting them blown up esp. by a first strike. So whoever nukes Israel had best do so without a piece of real e

Re: Gestapo harasses [BUGS] John Young

At 02:07 PM 11/15/03 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> They showed up without warning, no call ahead, got >> >Why open the door to them? I have a few friends who as a matter of principle >do not open their doors to people they do not know. Letting a Fedgoon in is >akin to inviting a vampire into you

Re: Partition Encryptor

At 11:45 AM 11/16/03 -0500, Stirling Westrup wrote: >Does anyone know of a good partition encryptor for Windows? I know of an >accountant who would like to encrypt her client's financial data. She's stuck >with Windows until such time as a major company starts shipping yearly tax >software for linu

State to take innocent kids' DNA

FBI may collect juveniles' DNA By Richard Willing, USA TODAY WASHINGTON  DNA profiles from hundreds of thousands of juvenile offenders and adults arrested but not convicted of crimes could be added to the FBI's national DNA crime-fighting program under a proposed law moving through Congress. T

Pellicano: encrypted files, wiretaps, pacbell on the take

Pellicano Taking His Secrets With Him to Federal Prison Private investigator refuses to cooperate in FBI probe of alleged illegal wiretapping http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pellicano17nov17,1,3427559.story?coll=la-home-todays-times Federal agents searched Pellicano's offices three times

secure cellphones go commericial, part II

Yes, from /. New Cellphone Offers Big Shots Eavesdrop-Proof Call Tue Nov 18,10:23 AM ET Add Technology - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Lucas van Grinsven, European Technology Correspondent AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A German company launched a new mobile handset on Tuesday targeted at business executives

Re: Freedomphone

At 12:59 PM 11/19/03 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: >If and when this is accomplished the source could then be used, if it can't >already, for PC-PC secure communications. They claim to be releasing code for PCs for free. A practical replacement for >SpeakFreely may be at hand. The limitation of eit

israeli torture center reason for no satellite pix?

The US has restrictions on even commercial satellite photos of Israel. http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1084796,00.html might indicate why --the torture center is airbrushed out of other pix. The price of empire is death.

can you hear me now?

"The ultimate in paranoia is not when everyone is against you but when everything is against you." ---PKD An appeals court this week put the brakes on an FBI surveillance technique that turns an automobile driver's on-board vehicle navigation system into a covert eavesdropping device, after findin

e voting

Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to produce a paper printout that voters can check to make sure their votes are properly recorded. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-shelley21nov21,1,84743

Re: Toronto man charged with wardriving, possession of child pornography

At 02:32 PM 11/22/03 -0500, Tim Meehan wrote: >On Wednesday November 19th, 2003 at approximately 5:03am, Sgt. Don Woods (7167) >of 11 Division observed the accused driving his car the wrong way on a one way >street in a residential subdivision in Toronto. The accused was investigated and >observed

RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

At 01:04 PM 11/24/03 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >Thats not how it works. The idea is that you make your choices on >the machine, and when you lock them in, two things happen: They >are electronically recorded in the device for the normal count, and >also, a paper receipt is printed. The voter checks

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

At 11:10 PM 11/26/03 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: >Cameras in the voting booth? Jesus Christ, you guys are morons. If you >want to sell your vote, just vote absentee. The ward guy will even stamp >and mail it for you. Happens every election. For some reason I don't understand, people actually dr

RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

At 12:56 PM 11/25/03 -0500, Sunder wrote: >Um, last I checked, phone cameras have really shitty resolution, usually >less than 320x200. Even so, you'd need MUCH higher resolution, say >3-5Mpixels to be able to read text on a printout in a picture. > >Add focus and aiming issues, and this just won'

RE: C3 Nehemia C5P with better hardware RNG and AES support

>Also, Centaur indicated that with the SHA on die, they can produce >statistically perfect RNG output. No kidding. With any crypto-quality hash, I can produce statistically perfectly uniformly distributed pseudorandom data from *successive integers*. The von neumann whitener does let >a small bi

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

At 07:10 PM 11/25/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: >I have no problem with this free choice contract. The only ones allowed to buy votes are the ones running for office. And they are required to do it on credit. "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the vot

US spying, directv, shades of global crossing

The parent company of DirecTV, the home satellite service, has promised several federal agencies that it can address concerns about foreign ownership of sensitive U.S. communications systems if it wins approval of its proposed merger with Australian-controlled News Corp. .. But the merger also has

Re: Now how they do that ?

At 11:12 AM 11/28/03 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: >Investigators traced the computer to Krastof when he logged onto his own >America Online account at home through one of the stolen computers, White >said. That enabled authorities to connect the computer's Internet Protocol >address, a number that id

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