Re: California Bans a Large-Caliber Gun, and the Battle Is On

2005-01-06 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, I used to be pro gun-control prior to the Patriot Act. Guess the Patriot Act made me something of a Patriot. And come to think of it, Bowling for Columbine has the accidental affect of making it clear that Guns themselves are not the problem in the US. -TD From: Major Variola (ret)

RE: Police seek missing trucker, nickels

2005-01-09 Thread Tyler Durden
OK...most of the time I understanding the relevance of the emanations from RAH, but this one I don't get. What's the relevance? Choate nostalgia? -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Police seek missing trucker, nickels Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:44:25 -0500

RE: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

2005-01-10 Thread Tyler Durden
And we'll probably have many years of non-Smart-Gun type accidents...eg, Drunk guy at party put gun to his head and blew his own brains out, assuming it was a smart gun, or, trailer park momma gives gun to toddler assuming its a safe smart gun. -TD From: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John

RE: To Tyler Durden

2005-01-13 Thread Tyler Durden
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT! THIS IS MY REAL NAME GODDAMMIT!!! Wait, I'm getting sleepy...gotta take a nap... -TD From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: To Tyler Durden Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:02:14 -0800 TD, I just watched _Fight

Re: Searching with Images instead of Words

2005-01-14 Thread Tyler Durden
Expecting a front view of an image to match with a side view of the same image is impossible. They are both disjoint sets of information. If all the images are frontal images, we can match them with a hight probability, otherwise I doubt this technology has a future. You are applying pure logic to

FW: Securing Wireless Apps in Vertical Markets Webinar from Unstrung

2005-01-18 Thread Tyler Durden
Sometimes these webinars can be informative, sometimes they're thinly disguised marketing efforts (that can still have some small value, though). Dear Colleague, As an industry professional, you may be interested to know about an upcoming online event being presented by Unstrung

Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, I think you've been a little too harsh on Scientific American. In the past a lot of the best articles were written by the pioneers in their fields. In fact, it's where I believe Wittfield and Diffie wrote a great piece on their work. And don't expect anyone (not even a math major) to go

RE: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Tyler Durden
What do you mean? By a physical fiber switch? That's certainly possible, though you'd need a very good condition switch to be able to do it. I'd bet if that switch switched a lot, the QCrypto channel would eventually be unusable. If you're talking about a WDM element or passive splitter or

RE: Ronald McDonald's SS

2005-01-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Military and civilian participants said in interviews that the new unit has been operating in secret for two years -- in Iraq (news - web sites), Well hell, it's doing such a good job already it should definitely be expanded! -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Securing Wireless Apps Webinar from Unstrung

2005-01-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Should be of interest to someone on this list. -TD Dear Colleague, As an industry professional, you may be interested to know about an upcoming online event being presented by Unstrung (www.unstrung.com), the worldwide source for analysis of the wireless economy. This free Web seminar -

RE: Ronald McDonald's SS

2005-01-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Were you pissed when you found out? -TD From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Ronald McDonald's SS Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:51:07 -0800 -- On 24 Jan 2005 at 10:34, Tyler Durden wrote: Military and civilian participants said

RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder

2005-01-26 Thread Tyler Durden
: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:01:26 -0500 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder

2005-01-26 Thread Tyler Durden
More indications of an emerging 'Brazil' scenario, as opposed to a hyper-intelligent super-fascist state. -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED], osint@yahoogroups.com Subject: Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005

RE: Terrorists don't let terrorists use Skype

2005-01-27 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, I think Skype is also truly Peer to Peer, no? It doesn't go through some centralized switch or server. That means it can only be monitored at the endpoints, even when it's unencrypted. -Emory From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Terrorists don't let

Re: MPAA files new film-swapping suits

2005-01-28 Thread Tyler Durden
That's an interesting point. They seem to be attacking at precisely the correct rate to forcibly evolve P2P systems to be completely invulnerable to such efforts. Hum. Perhaps Tim May works for MPAA? Nah... he wasn't THAT bright, was he? -TD From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Le no-no

2005-02-01 Thread Tyler Durden
2005 01:11:38 + Tyler Durden wrote: Huh? There are IBM laptops with dedicated crypto chips? Although I don't claim to be any kind of an expert, I think this has to be wrong. Anyone know any different? well, certainly some thinkpads have encryption of the hard drive; if you take the hard

RE: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-01 Thread Tyler Durden
ANyone familiar with computer architectures and chips able to answer this question: That chip...is it likely to be an ASIC or is there already such a thing as a security network processor? (ie, a cheaper network processor that only handles security apps, etc...) Or could it be an FPGA? -TD

RE: Jim Bell WMD Threat

2005-02-03 Thread Tyler Durden
Some of that is actually pretty funny, like Mixed in with food served to ex-girlfriend. It really boils down to drumming up a stable gig for yourself. -TD From: John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Jim Bell WMD Threat Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:43:52 -0800 The FBI continues

RE: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-07 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, I agree with the general gist of this post though not it's specific application. OK...a Cypherpunk ultimately believes that technology and, in particular, crypto give us the defacto (though, as you point out, not dejure) right to certain levels of self-determination and that this 'right'

Re: RSA Conference, and BA Cypherpunks

2005-02-09 Thread Tyler Durden
How 'bout laying siege to May's compound as a Cypherpunk 'team-building' excersize? -TD From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], cryptography@metzdowd.com Subject: Re: RSA Conference, and BA Cypherpunks Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:19:30 -0600

Re: [FoRK] Google (fwd from rst@ai.mit.edu)

2005-02-14 Thread Tyler Durden
But I think you'd still need a securely pseudonymous throwaway email address to set up the gmail account. And the lack of searches on that cookie would let them know, at least, that they're dealing with a privacy freak. Hum...I've been thinking about that...seems to me one could set up anonymity

Re: How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp

2005-02-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Wrong. We already solved this problem on Cypherpunks a while back. A spammer will have to pay to send you spam, trusted emails do not. You'll have a settable Spam-barrier which determines how much a spammer has to pay in order to lob spam over your barrier (you can set it to 'infinite' of

Re: How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp

2005-02-17 Thread Tyler Durden
, we have a postal system which manages postage, rather than some scheme whereby every paper mail recipient charges every paper mail sender etc etc etc. On February 16, 2005 at 12:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tyler Durden) wrote: Wrong. We already solved this problem on Cypherpunks a while back

RE: [osint] Switzerland Repatriates $458m to Nigeria

2005-02-18 Thread Tyler Durden
. In exchange for your services I am prepared to pay you 2.5% of the amount reclaimed. Please contact me at your soonest convenience. I am sure we can make an equitable arrangement that will benefit us both. God Bless you and your family. (forwarded by Tyler Durden) From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Code name Killer Rabbit: New Sub Can Tap Undersea Cables

2005-02-22 Thread Tyler Durden
When I was in Telecom we audited pieces of an undersea NSA network that was based on OC-3 ATM. It had some odd components, however, including reflective-mode LiNBO3 modulators and even acousto-optic modulators. (Actually, one of the components started dying which put them into a

Re: palm beach HIV

2005-02-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Sheeit...I'm starting to think May was no longer all that interested in the Crypto stuff...seems he really just wanted to rant and terrify the clueless... -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: palm beach HIV Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:53:29 +0100 On Mon, Feb

Re: Code name Killer Rabbit: New Sub Can Tap Undersea Cables

2005-02-23 Thread Tyler Durden
No! Undersea? Do you take a copy of EVERYTHING and send it back? That might have been more feasible in the old days, but when a single fiber can run 64 wavelength optically amplified 10 Gig traffic, I really really doubt it. Or at least, this would require an undertaking large enough that I

Re: Code name Killer Rabbit: New Sub Can Tap Undersea Cables

2005-02-23 Thread Tyler Durden
DWDM certainly makes it more complicated. Of course, that same technology allows them to send much more back. (Regarding the single OC-3 mentioned previously.) Well, DISTANCE makes it more complicated first of all. You need undersea repeaters and/or OFAs in order to get traffic from most parts

RE: George Will: Taking the streets back

2005-02-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Uh...lemmee guess...Force monopolies? No wait, I think the word micro occurs on line 36 and then the word payment appears on line 78... -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: osint@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: George Will: Taking the streets back Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005

TCPA: RIP

2005-02-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Good presentation. I liked the boot diagrams quite a bit. Prediction (and remember you heard it here first): TCPA will fail. Oh it'll see some spot uses, don't get me wrong. These spot uses might even remain for a while. But the good thing is that Microsoft is probably going to have to carry

RE: Anguilla on $1000 a day - NYTimes

2005-02-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Wanna cut to the chase here? I don't think Jennifer Anuston is a cryptographer, and I got bored hacking my way through this reporter commiserating at being at a high-end clip joint. -TD From: Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anguilla on $1000 a day - NYTimes Date:

John Gilmore and Open Source

2005-02-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Are they just basically saying we just can't travel without identity papers? If that's true, then I'd rather see us go through a real debate that says we want to introduce required identity papers in our society rather than trying to legislate it through the back door through regulations that say

RE: I.R.S. Accuses Man of Hiding $450 Million

2005-03-02 Thread Tyler Durden
But later, questioned by reporters, Mr. Everson noted that the I.R.S. law enforcement staff has been cut by at least a quarter in recent years. Mr. Wainstein, the United States attorney, said one of his prosecutors had spent a year developing the case. Anyone gigling? Notice that the amount he

Re: [IP] Books -- The New Hows and Whys of Global Eavesdropping (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2005-03-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Keefe says of Cryptome: The site is a good litmus test for your attachment to freedom of speech. He is not happy about excessiveness of any kind. Attachment to freedom of speech? 'NK'. -TD

Re: SHA1 broken?

2005-03-07 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, what would you call a network processor? An FPGA or a CPU? I think of it as somewhere in between, given credence to the FPGA statement below. -TD From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SHA1 broken? Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 06:51:24

Re: SHA1 broken?

2005-03-09 Thread Tyler Durden
to an FPGA, though, for reasons above. -TD From: Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SHA1 broken? Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:26:48 -0600 Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, maybe I misunderstand your statement here, but in Telecom most heavy iron has plenty of FPGAs

Re: on FPGAs vs ASICs

2005-03-21 Thread Tyler Durden
FPGAs probably make more sense for routers, because you want the ability to change the firmware more often, and a router has a bunch of other parts as well, and realistically, cypher-cracking is not an economically viable activity for most people, so the cost-benefit tradeoffs are a bit twisted.

Golden Triangle Drug Traffic Arbitrage?

2005-03-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Hey...had an interesting idea I've been discussing. Actually, no way it's crypto but it's certainly markets/anarchy, so read on if you wish. I'm thinking that that Drug Trafficking in the Golden Triangle might actually be a form of arbitrage. Let me explain... China pegs it's currency to US

RE: What Will We Do With Innocent People's DNA?

2005-03-23 Thread Tyler Durden
The simplest solution is to systematically spread one's DNA everywhere, thus making 'discovery' of it meaningless. Yes, this is what I've been endeavoring to do, but my potential partners don't seem to understand the urgency. -TD

Re: Golden Triangle Drug Traffic Arbitrage?

2005-03-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Hey...I never said May was an idiot. In fact, quite the opposite. His issues with race and violence, I feel, don't emanate from stupidity by any means, but are rather codifications of some kind of issues into his thinking. Get him away from human matters and on the technical level he was

Re: WiFi Launcher?

2005-03-28 Thread Tyler Durden
From: Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WiFi Launcher? Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:50:04 -0500 Thus spake Tyler Durden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [25/03/05 10:30]: : Has anyone heard of a utility that can search for a WiFi hotspot while : driving and then launch an email? I

Re: WiFi Launcher?

2005-03-28 Thread Tyler Durden
through. Which leads to the possibility of perhaps attempting both strategies simultaneously, but on different frequency bands. -TD From: Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WiFi Launcher? Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:21:09 -0800 Thus spake Tyler Durden ([EMAIL

What's Packed in Variola's Suitcase?

2005-03-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Interesting. Gives a lower limit to certain storage questions. Guess it's no suprise IBM's SAN product handled things here, it's been field-tested after all. -TD GENEVA -- IBM and CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, today announced that IBM's storage virtualization software

Re: WebMoney

2005-04-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Are you continuing those dots correctly? I assumed they were leading to the words Russian mob, which has become quite the powerful force in Brooklyn these days. -TD From: Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WebMoney Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:15:06 -0500 On Wed,

Re: Email Certification?

2005-04-28 Thread Tyler Durden
them to give up their 'phishing' expeditions. -TD From: Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Email Certification? Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:04:54 -0700 I'm still having trouble understanding your threat model

RE: zombied ypherpunks (Re: Email Certification?)

2005-04-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Eh...for email you may have a point, but I'm not 100% convinced. In other words, say they want to monitor your email account. Do you really believe they are going to tap all major nodes and then filter all the traffic just to get your email? This is that whole, The TLAs are infinitely powerful

RE: Stash Burn?

2005-05-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Hum. Well, maybe. I guess a dual use argument wouldn't fly. Wait...that furnace should be able to reheat burgers also. -TD From: R.W. (Bob) Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Tyler Durden' [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Stash Burn? Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 12:34:15 -0400

RE: [Politech] Customs-proofing your laptop: Staying safe at border searches [priv] (fwd from declan@well.com)

2005-05-04 Thread Tyler Durden
I checked out those links...hilarious! Check this out (remember, this gal is running for Senator of Alabama!): On the way to the hotel my cab driver, having heard the conversation with the Border Guard, expressed an interest in learning more about my work. So I filled him in as much as I could

Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

2005-05-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Cypherpunk: While I respect your forthrightness you are unfortunately wrong. Read the chapters on Randon Mumber generation from Numerical Recipes in C and you get just a small glimpse of how sticky the issue is, particularly when it comes to computers (which are innately non-random, by the

Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

2005-05-06 Thread Tyler Durden
Yes, but only provided the universe lasts long enough for those digits to be computed! -TD From: John Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sarad AV [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 09:42:09 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

Re: [rationalchatter] Interesting Trial - IRS trial - July 11th (fwd)

2005-05-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Yeah...it's pretty fuckin' pointless. Tantamount to proving a guy pointing a gun at you is actually pointing a gun at you, TO the guy pointing the gun at you. -TD From: Gil Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [rationalchatter] Interesting Trial - IRS trial - July 11th

Re: [Politech] Passport RFID tracking: a between-the-lines read [priv] (fwd from declan@well.com)

2005-05-10 Thread Tyler Durden
I dunno...I don't see a ton of Leitl stuff on the al-qaeda node. That which does come through seems fairly relevant. I'm thinking Choate and RAH are tsk-ing his failed attempt at pure stream-of-consciousness posting. -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: [rationalchatter] Interesting Trial - IRS trial - July 11th (fwd)

2005-05-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Man, that chic's a little dizzy. Good sweater meat, though. -TD From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [rationalchatter] Interesting Trial - IRS trial - July 11th (fwd) Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 19:46:34 -0500 (CDT) -- Forwarded message

RE: Terrorist-controlled cessna nearly attacks washington

2005-05-12 Thread Tyler Durden
new terrorist target: Union Station You used a remailer for THAT?!! -TD

RE: Terrorist-controlled cessna nearly attacks washington

2005-05-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Relax, dude. It was a joke. The point was that in the US there's hardly anyone (TLAs included) that would not have snickered at the original joke, given the brood that was holed up in Union Station. -TD From: Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Terrorist-controlled

RE: Len Adleman (of R,S, and A): Universities need a little Limbaugh

2005-05-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Now that was an enjoyable and even marginally relevant piece of RAHspam. From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Len Adleman (of R,S, and A): Universities need a little Limbaugh Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:39:56 -0400 A little humor this

RE: [Dissidents Seeking Anonymous Web Solutions?]

2005-05-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... Three minutes. This is it - ground zero. Would you like to say a few words to mark the occasion? Narrator: ...i... ann... iinn... ff... nnyin... Narrator: [Voice over] With a gun barrel between

Re: Lions and tigers and iraqi minutemen

2005-05-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Wow! 16 Saudis! A veritable tidal wave. -TD From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lions and tigers and iraqi minutemen Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 09:03:17 -0700 -- James A. Donald: While it doubtless would have been better to behead

RE: /. [CIA's Info Ops Team Hosts 3-Day Cyber Wargame]

2005-05-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Other versions of the press release are fairly amusing, and can be paraphrased as follows: Imagining a world where most nations are allied against the United States, the CIA is currently... -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: /.

Anonymous Site Registration

2005-05-26 Thread Tyler Durden
OK, what's the best way to put up a website anonymously? Let's assume that it has nothing to do with national security...the Feds aren't interested. BUT, let's assume that the existence and/or content of the website would probably direct a decent amount of law-suits. Presumably there's no

Re: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]

2005-05-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Eugen Leitl wrote... Online activation of software is already quite widespread, so it seems customers are willing to accept restriction to ownership and use. Well, that's an interesting phenomenon. In industrialized nations where the price of software is fairly low compared to the wages,

RE: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]

2005-05-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Eugen Leitl wrote... from the get-you-where-you-live dept. Badluck writes Microsoft and the entertainment industry's holy grail of controlling copyright through the motherboard has moved a step closer with Intel Corp. now embedding [1]digital rights management within in its

e-gold exchange

2005-05-31 Thread Tyler Durden
OK...what;s the best exchange service for transferring dollars (perhaps via paypal or credit cards) into egold? -TD

RE: [dave@farber.net: [IP] Cell Phones Now Playing Role of Wallet]

2005-06-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Sounds great. Citigroup couldn't be bothered to encrypt millions of their customer's detailed data prior to shipping them out via UPS, so I'm SURE they won't screw this up. -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Cell Phones Now Playing

RE: [jrandom@i2p.net: [i2p] weekly status notes [jun 21]]

2005-06-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Any idea how much it would cost? How much time is involved? (My constraint is the latter and not so much the former.) -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [i2p] weekly status notes [jun 21]] Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:28:21 +0200 Speaking

Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy crap. Some shitty little township can now bulldoze your house because someone wants to convert the space into a Waffle House. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8331097/ Where's Tim May when you need him? Where's the RAGE? How do you take out a bulldozer? (Remember, bulldozer operators can

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Yeah, but this steps crosses a line, I think. Before, your home could be taken for a public project. Now, the supreme court has ruled that your home can be taken for a public project that consists entirely of private development, in the name of the public good, which is supposed to equal

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-28 Thread Tyler Durden
What the hell are all of you smoking? This court has *talked* about restricting inappropriate use of the commerce clause, but when it comes to *doing*, they're 100% behind 100% Federal expansion *through* the Commerce clause. Doesn't anyboy actually LOOK at whats going on anymore, or are we all

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, James Dobson (right wing Christian evangelical) is targeting some of these same judges, so I don't think the Democrat Republican division you're pointing to here is all that valid. In other words, some of those same judges are hated by the right. -TD From: James A. Donald [EMAIL

Live Free or Die

2005-06-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Ya' knew that had to happen! Funny but, reading it, it seems like it would be fairly easy to convince the Town board of 5 people that this is a good idea, and from an economic standpoint it just might be!. In much of New Hampshire any revenue at all from something like this is going to

Posion Pill for ED?

2005-07-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Hey...can some clever Cypherpunk think of a nice poison pill for ED? Theoretically, something like that is possible, but my only ideas aren't so hot. For instance, and elderly couple could sow some form of radioactive substance into their grounds, in quantities that would take longer than

RE: Interesting article

2005-07-08 Thread Tyler Durden
That is interesting. One wonders if in certain circles of Russia people are much more careful with their data and encrypting it. Who knows? A country like that might evolve some fairly rigorous privacy procedures. Here in the US it's, Our data is safe because people will go to jail if they hack

Reverse Palladium?

2005-07-12 Thread Tyler Durden
How secure can I make a Java sandbox from the rest of the network I'm on? Can I make it so that my network administrator can't see what I'm typing? In other words, a secure environment that's sitting on an insecure machine. And of course, there's a short term 'solution' (which will work until

RE: Paintball Terrorist Sentenced

2005-07-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Quit inciting me to bake US troops into pies. I didn't want to do it, but you made such a convincing argument that I just had to. it's all your fault: You FORCED me to bake Corp Anderson and Lieutenant Sanders into pies. (Well, I actually didn't bake them in pies but baked some GI Joe action

Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-22 Thread Tyler Durden
..I'm sure most are aware that random searches has begun here in NYC, at subway stations and in the LIRR. Contraband (drugs, etc...) can get the owner arrested. The next step, of course, will be to start grabbing anyone carrying terrorist propaganda, such as the Qu'ran, leaflets, or even the

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-24 Thread Tyler Durden
From: Steve Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Well, they got what they want... Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:01:30 -0400 (EDT) --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...I'm sure most are aware that random searches has begun here in NYC, at subway stations

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-25 Thread Tyler Durden
John Kelsey wrote... I think the reality is a bit different. The random searches won't keep someone who's planning an attack from trying to carry it out, but it may delay their attack, if they made plans based on the old security setup, not the new one. It may also convince them to shift the

RE: [Clips] Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment

2005-07-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Any indication he was bludgeoned with a can of spam? -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Clips] Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:09:11 -0400 --- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-26 Thread Tyler Durden
This premise, however, depends somewhat on the observation that the so-called left and right-wing divisions of the political spectrum are largely illusory. The most strident critics of diametric political opposites in the press and elsewhere would disagree, but their very occupations are

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, apparently you haven't been getting any of my posts to the Al-Qaeda node, otherwise the context would be clear. As for... Local authorities, however, can take these differences as meaningful and act upon them. Yes they can. But should they? From their perspective? Of course.

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Well, they got what they want... Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:32:57 -0400 (EDT) --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, apparently you haven't been getting any of my posts to the Al-Qaeda node

RE: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out

2005-08-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Gee, that's great. A global organization that has taken the task of worldwide censorship into its sweaty little hands. Did the google cache'd versions of these sites dissappear too? Tor networks, anyone? -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL

Re: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out

2005-08-01 Thread Tyler Durden
: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 17:15:17 +0200 On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:54:26AM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Tor networks

Re: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out

2005-08-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, I did know that 300Mb/sec isn't super-huge for Denial of Service attacks at least, but this is an obscure Tor node. Someone attacking it at this stage in the game has a real agenda (perhaps they want to see if certain websites get disrupted? Does Tor work that way for short-ish

RE: [fc-announce] CFP FC'06: Financial Cryptography and Data Security

2005-08-03 Thread Tyler Durden
Your telling me there's someone in Telcordia these days that does something interesting in the cryptograhy field? Or is that his personal hobby... -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [fc-announce] CFP FC'06: Financial

RE: Prosecutors: CIA agents left trail

2005-08-03 Thread Tyler Durden
Reverse Rendition? Here's where Liberals can take a stand...let's round up some of these fuckers and stuff 'em in a shipping container on a Chinese barge to Italy. I've done a quick google search and I've only found a couple of the names. Is the complete list available? -TD From: Eugen

Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-09 Thread Tyler Durden
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68451,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 And since one's passport essentially boils down to a chip, why not implant it under the skin? As for the encryption issue, can someone explain to me why it even matters? It would seem to me that any on-demand access to

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Whaddya know. Thompson said something that didn't make me want to beat him to death... I have a different threat model. I suggest that incompetence is _often_ deliberate and, at least to those who orchestrate such things, is designed to leave or provide cracks in arbitrary systesm that will

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-17 Thread Tyler Durden
...I'm the guy even the locals won't fuck with. -Tyler Durden From: Steve Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID... Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:20:54 -0400 (EDT) --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-19 Thread Tyler Durden
. -Tyler Durden Remember, L-IIIa is your friend. :-) And SG IIIb yours. -TD -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0xBD4A95BF I like the idea of belief in drug-prohibition as a religion in that it is a strongly held belief based on grossly insufficient evidence and bolstered

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Sorry. Got you mixed up with the other dude. You seem willing to back up any slams with facts quotes, so all respect is given. A good fight strengthens us, a sniper smells of MwGs. Sorry again. -TD From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL

Re: no visas for Chinese cryptologists

2005-08-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Hey...this looks interesting. I'd like to see the email chain before this. While living in China I learned that whatever Jong Nan Hai most vociferously denies will almost certainly be true, so even Chinese Government propaganda is very interesting. -TD From: Dave Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Politech] Montana Supreme Court justice warns Orwell's 1984 has arrived [priv]]

2005-08-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy Fuck we need some smarter people in this society. OK, you threw away your trash. I see no inherent reason why someone else can't grab it. But INFORMATION about you isn't trash. Then again, you do throw away the photons that exit through your windows, so I guess cops should be able to

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Politech] Montana Supreme Court justice warns Orwell's 1984 has arrived [priv]]

2005-08-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Coderman wrote... the state of oregon just passed a law (yet to be put into effect) that requires a prescription from a doctor for all sudafed (pseudo ephedrine) purchases. the problem isn't drug addicts killing themselves with corrosive fluids, as this would be a problem that solves itself

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Politech] Montana Supreme Court justice warns Orwell's 1984 has arrived [priv]]

2005-08-24 Thread Tyler Durden
some of those growers are good customers of RSA products! -TD From: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED], cypherpunks@minder.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Politech] Montana Supreme Court justice warns Orwell's 1984 has arrived [priv

Re: Tor VoIP, etc...

2005-09-06 Thread Tyler Durden
SQ wrote... A Houston (TX, USA) public library? Could be next to impossible, as well as excellent cause for revocation of your library card Oh no! Loss of the Houston library card! My passport to knowledge!!! criminal prosecution if caught. Well, the idea would be not to get caught. I'm

Re: Tor VoIP, etc...

2005-09-06 Thread Tyler Durden
Shawn Quinn wrote... For the people that only route stuff like HTTP traffic through your Tor node, it will be a benefit. If I'm IRCing and get routed through your node, that's a different story (but it's no different than the bad old days of IIP where people dropped off by the dozens when

Re: Perhaps the real reason why Chavez is being targeted?

2005-09-06 Thread Tyler Durden
While the US certainly has been interfering with Chavez and generally trying to mess around in Venezuela for a while, most of what's happening here is just that Chavez is running off at the mouth for domestic political reasons. (Pat Robertson was partly doing that also and partly just

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Tor on USB]

2005-09-06 Thread Tyler Durden
Fascinating little gizmo. Got a question...sorry I'm just too f'in busy to keep up with this side, but... How long will it take the Greater Tor Network to notice the existence of this little node? In other words, if I go into a Starbucks with this thing, can my laptop or whatever start

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Internet phone wiretapping (Psst! The FBI is Having Trouble on the Line, Aug. 15)]

2005-09-07 Thread Tyler Durden
Like I said: We need a WiFi VoIP over Tor app pronto! Let 'em CALEA -that-. Only then will the ghost of Tim May rest in piece. Then again, the FBI probably loves hanging out in Starbucks anyway... -TD From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

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