Re: DNA evidence countermeasures?

2003-01-28 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:13 PM 1/28/2003 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: But now how to avoid leaving random DNA traces? What about giving up on NOT leaving traces and rather just use eg. a spray with hydrolyzed DNA from multiple people, preferably with different racial origin, thus still leaving fragments like hair

re: handhelds and crypto anarchy

2003-01-29 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:13 AM 1/29/2003 -0800, Michael Cardenas wrote: While identity verification using handhelds seems to have some use, as has been pointed out, you're really just verifying that they have the same key. A far mroe exciting idea to me is how handhelds like palms, ipaqs, etc, could beused to

Re: [DIGRESSION] RE: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:59 PM 1/29/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:38:11PM -0800, Tim May wrote: Diesel, Tim, they run on diesel. Too bad MB won't import any of those hi-tech diesel they make to the US because of the crummy fuel here. I had an '87 MB 300D terrible-diesel for about

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:08 PM 1/29/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim May wrote... Ask why the U.S.S.R., which depended essentially solely on federal funding, failed so completely. Hint: it wasn't just because of repression. It was largely because picking winners doesn't work, and command

Re: [DIGRESSION] RE: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:23 PM 1/29/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:36:20PM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: Although canola oil is a much better source for fuel. And diesels a much better IC engine for hybrids. Even in non-hybrids, VW builds

Re: Who owns stuff that falls onto someone's property?

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:01 PM 2/1/2003 -0600, John Bethencourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:31:16PM -0800, Tim May wrote: Expect the first EBay auctions of debris from the Columbia to be a constitutional issue soon. (Actually, the censors at fascist EBay have probably already flagged any

Rocket Man

2003-02-02 Thread Steve Schear
Rocket Man By Tom Rapp (from the Pearls Before Swine album The Use of Ashes, 1970) My father was a rocket man He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars My mother and I would watch the sky And wonder if a falling star Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside My mother and

U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Schear
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ The Outstanding Public Debt as of 04 Feb 2003 at 08:34:50 AM GMT is: $ 6 , 4 1 2 , 1 7 4 , 6 9 0 , 4 3 5 . 4 1 The estimated population of the United States is 289,066,595 so each citizen's share of this debt is $22,182.34. The

Re: Transport, the near future

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:17 AM 2/5/2003 +, Peter Fairbrother wrote: me again. Space transport: I like the two-stage-to-orbit solution for humans, with the booster stage piloted. The maths works well. I don't know about scramjets etc for the booster, but a few rockets would do, with an aero fuselage to take off

Re: Transport, the near future

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:31 AM 2/5/2003 +, Peter Fairbrother wrote: It's a nice idea, but it needs a tensile-strength-to-mass ratio equivalent to holding a girl and her mother up by a single thread of her 10 denier stockings. Not easy to achieve. You'd need carbon nanotubes or the like, and at the moment we

Re: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-08 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:18 PM 2/7/2003 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: Leaving aside the issues of forcing kids to recite something they don't understand or affirm something they don't believe, there's the little problem that if the teachers are going to pledge their allegiance to the Republic, they need to start

Implementation of Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks against PGP and GnuPG

2003-02-09 Thread Steve Schear
[Apologies if this item was passed through the list. It was news to me.] Implementation of Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks against PGP and GnuPG K. Jallad, J. Katz, and B. Schneier Information Security Conference 2002 Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, 2002, to appear. ABSTRACT: We recently noted that

Re: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-09 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:34 AM 2/9/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 10:57 AM, Bill Frantz wrote: Unfortunately having started to question the relation between the pledge and the ideals of the country, I started to wonder why I was pledging to the flag, instead of the country. So over

NYT: The Wimps of War

2003-02-11 Thread Steve Schear
[use login: cyberpunks/cyberpunks] By PAUL KRUGMAN George W. Bush's admirers often describe his stand against Saddam Hussein as Churchillian. Yet his speeches about Iraq  and for that matter about everything else  have been notably lacking in promises of blood, toil, tears and sweat. Has

The logistics of a black bag job

2003-02-15 Thread Steve Schear
The logistics of a black bag job 1. Identify the subject. 2. Determine target's place of employment and type of employment. 3. Identify the mode of transportation. 4. Identify other residents of the household. 5. Determine whether target has any other visitors in the residence such as relatives,

Re: The practical reason the U.S. is starting a war

2003-02-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:37 PM 2/16/2003 -0800, you wrote: The essay on Jefferson is the slightest. Bailyn draws attention to the ambiguities in his thought -- his glimpse of what a wholly enlightened world might be versus the compromises he made as a politician and an administrator to advance his agenda of the

Re: Science Journal 'Self-Censorship'

2003-02-17 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:58 PM 2/16/2003 -0500, Pete Capelli wrote: http://abc.net.au/news/scitech/2003/02/item20030216103135_1.htm Self-governance, the editors say, is an alternative to government review of forthcoming journal articles. I don't edit any science journals, but I would expect there is no law

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minorities

2003-02-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:43 PM 2/18/2003 -0600, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: Tim May wrote: It goes beyond just the black leaders thing--it's also about black pride. My eye-opening experience was my arrival in college (as Brits would say, at university) in 1970. Well, this post explains a lot about Tim's attitude.

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minorities

2003-02-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:00 PM 2/19/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Steve Schear and Tim May mention some interesting incidents. In Steve Schear's case, there's a mysterious absence of response: No one asked me about him, I never saw him again and none of the students said a word. Several days later three

Re: eBay's Patriotism

2003-02-20 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:42 AM 2/20/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 11:17 AM, Eric Cordian wrote: There's an interesting story on the home page of http://www.haaretzdaily.com/ disclosing eBay's policy of giving all information they have on a user to any guvment-appearing person who

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minorities

2003-02-20 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:50 AM 2/20/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Any idea of why the fucker started up with the punching? I did turn around in line-up and ask the student why he was punching me and to stop. He simply gave me a smug grin and continued. As I remember, Schear described himself as 5'2 at the

Re: GNURadio enable HDTV

2003-02-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:57 AM 2/23/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: So how soon do we get the hardware? 8-) The HDTV receiver was constructed using a commercial (albeit expensive, ~~$1200) board. A low-cost ($250) A/D-D/A peripheral, I believe using USB 2.0, is in the design/fabrication. I haven't seen

GNURadio enable HDTV

2003-02-23 Thread Steve Schear
Kudos to the GNURadio team! Over a year of diligent effort has been rewarded with an open source and open hardware implementation of a PC-based HDTV ATSC receiver. Hopefully, this represents the anarchic nose under the FCC regulatory tent. A recent /.

Re: Homeland Security Act Affects Amateur High Power Rocketry

2003-02-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:15 AM 2/24/2003 +0100, you wrote: Including making the charcoal and the potassium nitrate? Black powder is rather poor fuel for homemade rocket engines. According to what I know, much better fuel is made from about 60/40 mixture of potassium nitrate and sorbitol. Reportedly it should be

Re: Citibank Tries to Suppress ATM Hacks

2003-02-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:50 PM 2/22/2003 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: Declan McCullagh wrote: The other interesting thing to note is why Citigroup permitted one card to make $80K of withdrawals from one account (which was allegedly closed at the time anyway) in a weekend. The answer seems to be almost certainly a

A Drug War Carol

2003-02-25 Thread Steve Schear
Great piece exposing the fallacy of the War on Some Drugs http://www.adrugwarcarol.com/ The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H.L. Mencken

Mischief afoot in Bolivia from IMF et al U.S. proxies?

2003-02-26 Thread Steve Schear
[Translation via Craig Spencer] http://www.buscabo.net/20030223/economia_8.html The Hidden Agenda of the IMF The IMF has been urging an income tax (on Bolivia) for 4 years. ...which included provisions for progressive rates between 13% and 25%... ... according to this document

Re: Be careful about technological self help methods

2003-02-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:46 AM 2/26/2003 -0500, you wrote: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-booby25.html Family of electrocuted thief gets $75,000 February 25, 2003 BY DAN ROZEK STAFF REPORTER The family of a convicted burglar who was electrocuted in 1997 when he tried to break in to a bar in Aurora

Re: Press Coverage, Snarky Media Personalities, and War

2003-03-02 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:30 AM 3/1/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 08:40 AM, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: The Republican ideology of limited government, of fiscal conservatism, and of not running around doing nation-building, all of this is now in the dustbin of history. Republicans now

Re: interesting (fwd)

2003-03-03 Thread Steve Schear
don't use that quote...though it's been floating around the Net for many years. I realize you are referring to Tim May included quoted text from Steve Schear who used a quote by Heinlein, but your form above suggests I was using the quote. I rotate a lot of quotes, but not that one. A minor nit

Re: CAPPS II protest - Vandalizing collaborating airlines

2003-03-04 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:49 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, you wrote: Just some out of the box thinking here about Delta... I wonder. Is there some form of petty vandalism that can be performed by a Delta passenger that would make his flight MUCH less than profitable for Delta? (I mean, one that probably won't get you

Re: GNUradio and optical TEMPEST

2003-03-06 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:37 PM 3/6/2003 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Musing over http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ieee02-optical.pdf Using the software-DSP approach of GNUradio project and replacing the tuner part of the hardware with the photomultiplier, we can do all the image processing - filtering, integrating -

New release of Invisible IRC available

2003-03-11 Thread Steve Schear
IIP 1.1.0 (stable) is released. (2003-03-10) Invisible IRC Project is a three-tier, peer distributed network designed to be a secure and private transport medium for high speed, low volume, dynamic content. Features: * Perfect Forward Security using Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Protocol

IIP 1.1.0 released

2003-03-12 Thread Steve Schear
Changes: In this version the installation for Unix is enhanced, entropy generation is improved and a few bugs are fixed. Background The Invisible IRC Project (IIP) was originally created so that people interested in facilitating privacy and free speech could work to these ends in an equally

Re: FC: TradeSports.com lets you bet on Saddam's survivability

2003-03-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:59 AM 3/13/2003 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: At 01:43 AM 03/12/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh forward to his Politech list: Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:28:57 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Buy a contract on Saddam's life At TradeSports you can buy

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-14 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:38 AM 3/14/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:40:27AM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:24:35AM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: I think economics would be a better argument. If the manufacturer can recycle the tags for inventory control they

Re: CIA breaks terrorist encryption found on seized laptop

2003-03-14 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:31 PM 3/14/2003 +0100, you wrote: On a sidenote: I'm researching for an article on the history of export regulations. I seem to remember that a couple of years ago there was an incident where some cypherpunks(?) 'exported' encryption to Mexico by missile, thereby exploiting a loophole in US

Western Corporations That Supplied Iraq's Weapons Program

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.thememoryhole.org/corp/iraq-suppliers.htm War is just a racket ... something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small group knows what its about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. --- Major General Smedley

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:08 PM 3/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: Steve Schear wrote... A detector that is only sensitive to this spectral region has the capability to operate in the daylight, even while pointing at the sun, and pick up little background radiation How much are UV receivers (note, not the same thing

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:13 PM 3/17/2003 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Using a powerful high-frequency modulated infrared source (eg, a bank of LEDs) located on a highly visible place, it couldbe possible to facilitate local community broadcasts, effectively sidestepping all FCC regulations. Better to ignore low

Re: Spammers Would Be Made To Pay Under IBM Research Proposal

2003-03-22 Thread Steve Schear
Spammers Would Be Made To Pay Under IBM Research Proposal By Tony Kontzer, InformationWeek, InternetWeek Mar 20, 2003 (8:45 PM) URL: http://www.internetweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=7900141 Companies and consumers alike have been looking to two primary aids in the battle to stem the

Re: Spammers Would Be Made To Pay Under IBM Research Proposal

2003-03-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:01 PM 3/21/2003 -0500, Jamie Lawrence wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Steve Schear wrote: Steve, I've been watching your views on ASRG, and honestly, I have to say Sender Pays is top on my list for Bad Ideas for reforming email. We all want to get rid of spam. I think most folks on this list

Re: Spammers Would Be Made To Pay Under IBM Research Proposal

2003-03-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:24 PM 3/22/2003 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: The intention is sender pays, recipient is paid, reflecting the real scarcity of readers time. Mailing lists would be sent out without postage, but with cryptographic signature, and subscribers would have to OK it. Letters to the list

Re: [1st amend] cyber cafe law struck down

2003-03-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:30 PM 3/22/2003 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: Not only does the LA Times web site want you to register, it doesn't like something about my brower's support of cookies or scripts or whatever so I can't even register there :-) Try JAP in conjunction with CookieCooker. Between proxied IP

Fwd: Re: CDR: Re: Spammers Would Be Made To Pay Under IBM Research Proposal

2003-03-22 Thread Steve Schear
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 14:18:10 -0500 From: Jamie Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CDR: Re: Spammers Would Be Made To Pay Under IBM Research Proposal Mail-Followup-To: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Spammers Would Be Made To Pay Under IBM Research Proposal

2003-03-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:24 AM 3/23/2003 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, J.A. Terranson wrote: To date, my personal pet has been payment in computationally intensive solutions to questions posed by the recipient. This forced expenditure of effort, even if minor, removes the spammer's

Re: The spam problem (was: re:fwd:re:cdr:etc.)

2003-03-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:12 PM 3/23/2003 -0500, Jamie Lawrence wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Steve Schear wrote: Unless MTAs can reject mail for lack of postage, this approach will not fix a large majority of the problems of spam. Unless clearing is built into the protocol, sender pays is a non-starter. I

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-25 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:03 AM 3/25/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: Someone else pointed out that this has been discussed in a novel (wasn't aware). I hardly mean to say my prediction is unique. It's just one response to the question that the counterterrorism folks must ask themselves all the time: How to

World Book Encyclopedia, 2004 Edition: Iraq

2003-03-26 Thread Steve Schear
Iraq, the proud new 51st state of the USA, was once a seething hive of freedom-hating terrorists linked to international terrorism. American-led nation building projects begun after the 2003 War of Liberation have transformed a population of terrorized victims into members of an open society

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:40 AM 3/26/2003 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: Sarad AV[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, it doesnt matter as long as Al-Jazeera is live and kicking and the camera's are rolling. The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-27 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:53 PM 3/27/2003 +0100, you wrote: It's definitly jammed in the US. I get 503 - out of resources error. Maybe you guys can set up a mirror that isn't jammed and the US can see it that way (at least until the feds catch wind of it). At this moment, http://english.aljazeera.net/ shows some

Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem

2003-03-27 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:26 PM 3/27/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 04:45 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Couple ideas. I am interested in peer reviews. :) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 01:43:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [gulfwar-2] Al-Jazeera Calls... -

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:51 AM 3/28/2003 -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: It looks like they were blocked in the USA (or else suffered reallly badly from hacking) and have maybe re-established the service in the Land of Freedom. aljazeera.net, www.aljazeera.net, and

Practice to Deceive Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario--it's their plan.

2003-03-29 Thread Steve Schear
... the administration sees the invasion as only the first move in a wider effort to reorder the power structure of the entire Middle East. Prior to the war, the president himself never quite said this openly. But hawkish neo-conservatives within his administration gave strong hints. In

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?

2003-03-31 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:34 PM 3/30/2003 -0500, stuart wrote: On Sunday, March 30, 2003, Harmon Seaver came up with this... You give too much credit to the Romans. Catholicism worked so well because it is a virus, and conversion was often forced upon heathens by their fellow countrymen. Interestingly though,

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort

2003-03-31 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:39 PM 3/30/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Very, very few religions, other than the judeo/christer/islamic, are interested in forced conversions, or even do any proselytizing at all. Nor do they usually persecute women. The entire christer theology makes persecution inevitable. Any

Re: Logging of Web Usage

2003-04-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:05 AM 4/3/2003 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Relying on httpd operators to protect those who access is plain silly, even if echelon (funny how that word dropped below radar lately) did not exist. Echelon could be grouped together with Carnivore and CALEA devices into the group of Generic

So, if Arnold wins can he claim Total Recall ;-)

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Schear
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the

Distributed Denial of Existence, the makings of an AP opportunity?

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Schear
and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

Re: Someone at the Pentagon read Shockwave Rider over the weekend

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:21 2003-07-29 -0700, Tim May wrote: The problem is not with the idea of using markets and bets and Bayesian logic to help do price discovery on things like when the Athlon-64 will actually reach consumers, or when the new King of Jordan will be whacked, and so on. The problem is, rather,

Re: Popular Net anonymity service back-doored (fwd)

2003-08-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:39 PM 8/21/2003 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: However, perhaps the JAP team at TU Dresden hadn't much choice. I haven't seen the court order, but I could imagine that they weren't allowed to inform the users because it would have harmed the criminal investigation. Following the order

Re: Is it time to kill the JAP backdoor cretins and their families?

2003-08-26 Thread Steve Schear
by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

Re: [dave@farber.net: [IP] blackmail / real world stego use]

2003-08-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:36 PM 8/25/2003 -0400, you wrote: To be real clever, he did not approach the website with the car adds directly. Police found out the add was approached trough a US anonymizer called SURFOLA.com. SURFOLA.com claims on their website : We will not give out your name, residence address, or

Re: domestic terrorism, fat lazy amerikans ducks

2003-08-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:11 PM 8/26/2003 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: So... how many people does one have to terrorize in order to be a terrorist? PS: Anyone else getting tired of the term terror? Back when we all hated Osama bin Laden (remember that guy?) Osama was promoted from Terrorist to terror mastermind to

IRS loses a big one?

2003-08-28 Thread Steve Schear
is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

Some new problems uncovered for short latency mixes

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Schear
Probabilistic Analysis of Anonymity by Vitaly Shmatikov Abstract: We present a formal analysis technique for probabilistic security properties of peer-to-peer communication systems based on random message routing among members. The behavior of group members and the adversary is modeled as a

Re: Terror Reading

2003-08-29 Thread Steve Schear
that there are no investigations, it can serve as a clue that something may be happening. http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/1706/1/41 steve A foolish Constitutional inconsistency is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-08-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:54 PM 8/29/2003 -0700, you wrote: Stopping your notification that the service is not monitored can be forbidden by a strict enough secrecy order. It may be the least legally risky of the options. The fact that you will stop notification should be included in your terms of service. All

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Schear
devices (which to be effective must be capable of destroying the entire building). steve A foolish Constitutional inconsistency is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

Re: JAP back doored

2003-09-02 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-02.09.03-005/ German police have searched and seized the rooms (dorm?) of one of the JAP developers. They were on the look for data that was logged throughout the period when JAP had to log specific traffic. The JAP-people say that the seizure was not

Digital cash and campaign finance reform

2003-09-08 Thread Steve Schear
statesmen. - Steve Schear

Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform

2003-09-08 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:51 PM 9/8/2003 -0700, Joseph Ashwood wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [anonymous funding of politicians] Comments? Simple attack: Bob talks to soon to be bought politician. Tomorrow you'll recieve a donation

Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform

2003-09-09 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:28 AM 9/9/2003 -0700, Tim May wrote: On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 08:39 PM, Steve Schear wrote: At 04:51 PM 9/8/2003 -0700, Joseph Ashwood wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [anonymous funding of politicians

Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform

2003-09-09 Thread Steve Schear
. steve A foolish Constitutional inconsistency is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored by judges and demagogue statesmen. - Steve Schear

Re: Satellite Tracking of Suspects Requires a Warrant, Court Rules

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:05 PM 9/12/2003 -0700, John Young wrote: The agents who installed the criminal tracking device and interpreted (doctored) the data, were in the courtroom and smiled broadly at Jim's futile challenge of conventional wisdom. It is possible that there was no device and the whole rig was made up

Neocon flashbacks

2003-09-17 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm Notice the date and signatures... ...if America were tempted to ''become the dictatress of the world, she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.'' What empires lavish abroad, they cannot spend on good republican government at

Plain talk from Bush

2003-09-19 Thread Steve Schear
Either Bush's ignorance or hubris is showing again. You decide. In the CNBC interview, Mr. Bush also criticized China for manipulating its currency in order to boost sales of Chinese exports. The president told CNBC's Ron Insana that Treasury Secretary John W. Snow had failed during recent

[cdr] Political cartoon says it all: Saddam falls

2003-09-22 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.courier-journal.com/nick/2003/09/0912.html The guerrilla wins by not losing, the army loses by not winning -- Henry Kissinger

Jack(ass) Valenti stirs up a storm in L.A.

2003-10-08 Thread Steve Schear
The Motion Picture Association of America's decision to ban DVDs of Oscar contenders for Academy Awards voters has developed into an industry cat fight, (as) distributors and publicists of smaller films, who fear that their pictures no longer will have a shot at a gold statuette. The MPAA

EU directive could spark patent war

2003-10-09 Thread Steve Schear
[I wonder what if any effect this might have on crypto patents, e.g., Chaumian blinding?] The European Parliament's decision to limit patents... risks creating a patent war with a fallout that could make it illegal to access some European e-commerce sites from the United States... Pure

Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Schear
[Can remote soldiering and amplified Terminators be too far away? Steve] Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 13, 2003; Page A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17434-2003Oct12?language=printer Scientists in North

Re: Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants

2003-10-14 Thread Steve Schear
A pointer to the original journal article http://www.plos.org/downloads/plbi-01-02-carmena.pdf steve

Remarks by U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd on Final Passage of Iraq

2003-10-20 Thread Steve Schear
[For all the good it will do, one of the few Senators to stingingly rebuff the Administration's Iraq position and demand for tribute to support their further misadventures. However, there are equally large lies and tribute being supported by Byrd and others upon which they are silent. Besides

Re: [mnet-devel] DOS in DHTs (fwd from amichrisde@yahoo.de)

2003-10-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:21 PM 10/20/2003 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: Looks like the only way to shield from DOS is to raise the cost of DOS. This will eventually eliminate the low cost of Internet bandwidth, one way or another. You don't get nearly the same amount of DOS on your telephone as you do on Internet,

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

2003-10-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:04 PM 10/22/2003 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: Peter wrote: In case anyone's interested, there's a cpu die photo at http://www.sandpile.org/impl/pics/centaur/c5xl/die_013_c5p.jpg showing the amount of real estate consumed by the crypto functions (it's the bottom centre, a bit hard to read the

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

2003-10-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:00 PM 10/24/2003 -0400, Cael Abal wrote: What *is* a library? 1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state entity. 2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is that I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that license at a

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

2003-10-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:28 AM 10/24/2003 -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: Someone else must have thought up this idea, but I don't recall seeing it. Please inform me nicely if you have seen it proposed before. This sounds a lot like the SunnComm DRM system that got so much publicity recently. (the one that

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

2003-10-25 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:00 PM 10/24/2003 -0400, Cael Abal wrote: What *is* a library? 1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state entity. 2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is that I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that license at a

Re: Spelling corrections are now export-controlled

2003-11-02 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:47 AM 11/2/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Of course there are limits in regards to freedom of speech. They are as follows: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the

Re: FLASH: DHS wants info on store refunds?

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:11 PM 11/1/2003 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: Well, when I brought back the returns, they wanted a drivers license. Odd, considering it was a cash sale and I was holding the receipt. It's required by the Homeland Security Department says the kid behind the register. Sorry. I need ID, and I

F.B.I.'s Reach Into Records Is Set to Grow

2003-11-12 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/12/politics/12RECO.html November 12, 2003 F.B.I.'s Reach Into Records Is Set to Grow By ERIC LICHTBLAU ASHINGTON, Nov. 11 A little-noticed measure approved by both the House and Senate would significantly expand the F.B.I.'s power to demand financial records,

Re: Gun ownership == using it in crime, Texas court rules

2003-11-12 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:01 AM 11/12/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: Appellant does not deny that the shotgun was a deadly weapon or that he was in possession of it. Rather; he argues that there was no evidence to support the jury's finding that his possession of the shotgun facilitated the associated felony

Re: 'Smart stamps' next in war on terrorism

2003-11-13 Thread Steve Schear
The postal notice itself says this is the first step to identify all senders, so this is not a matter of paranoia, this is reality. The post office is moving towards identification requirements for everyone, said Chris Hoofnagle, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

Stego SPAM

2003-11-18 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.spammimic.com/index.shtml Not new to this group but interesting. steve

Re: [Politech] Congress finally poised to vote on anti-spam bill [sp]

2003-11-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:13 PM 11/21/2003 -0600, Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A copy of the bill is here: http://news.com.com/pdf/ne/2003/FINALSPAM.pdf I interpret paragraph 1037(a)1 - 5 as possibly prohibiting the use of anonymous remailers, or proxies and nyms in registering email accounts, for the

Re: Appeals court OKs no-knock warrant as perfectly appropriate

2003-11-25 Thread Steve Schear
We have recognized that, HN6[]under appropriate exigent circumstances, strict compliance with the knock and announce requirement may be excused. United States v. Grogins, 163 F.3d 795, 797 (4th Cir. 1998) (holding no-knock entry justified where officers had reasonable suspicion that entering

Fwd: Bedazzled Log-in Method Whitepaper

2003-11-25 Thread Steve Schear
Bedazzled Log-in Method Whitepaper Author: George Hara (http://www.filematrix.xnet.ro/ideas/whitepapers/login.htm) Introduction Using strings of characters as passwords has always been a security issue because they are hard to remember and can be stolen by key-loggers or screen-text

Re: U.S. in violaton of Geneva convention?

2003-12-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:18 PM 12/16/2003, Jim Dixon wrote: You should try to remember how the US Civil War ended. The armed forces of the South surrendered. Lee handed his sword to Grant. I believe that Grant returned it - and allowed each Southern soldier to keep a rifle and a mule. Lee and the other leaders of

Re: [dgc.chat] Fwd: [NEC] #2.12: The RIAA Succeeds Where the CypherPunks Failed

2003-12-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:39 PM 12/17/2003, Patrick Chkoreff on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Clay Shirky has done it again, writing a very insightful article on the current digital scene, this time on the unintended but beneficial consequences of RIAA's crackdown on file sharing. Here is one particularly

Re: [dgc.chat] Fwd: [NEC] #2.12: The RIAA Succeeds Where the CypherPunks Failed

2003-12-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:39 PM 12/17/2003, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: Well, Clay Shirky has done it again, writing a very insightful article on the current digital scene, this time on the unintended but beneficial consequences of RIAA's crackdown on file sharing. Here is one particularly telling excerpt: Note that the

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