Re: Michael Riconosciuto, PROMIS

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 20:58 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: I've only read vague hints and rumours concerning its implicit design philosophy and architecture from the rare instances where it is mentioned at all. Yes, he code is probably classified (blah, blah, blah), but its actual use must

Re: Michael Riconosciuto, PROMIS

One the claims I have problems with (from the WIRED article): But the real power of PROMIS, according to Hamilton, is that with a staggering 570,000 lines of computer code, PROMIS can integrate innumerable databases without requiring any reprogramming. If this were true, I can guarantee that

Re: Word Of the Subgenius...

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 08:46 -0500, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote: To be bobbed is never the goal, but bobless fear steers the undifferentiated bob along conventional paths, to the abattoir Where is Tim May when when you need him? :-)

Re: Tenet calls for Internet security

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 20:57 -0500, R.A. Hettinga quoted: The national press, including United Press International (UPI), were excluded from yesterday's event, at Mr. Tenet's request, organizers said. Yessiree, he sure knows how he wants it done, too!

Good Quote!

They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years, and Hell, we're not using it anymore. -Jay Leno -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Now how they do that ?

that identifies a computer on the Internet, to Krastof's home address through his AOL account, White said. (snip) My guess that there was some sort of application (maybe an internally based IM client) that phoned home when the thief started up the computer. Or at least I hope -- Neil

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 11:18 am, Tim May wrote: Liberty is characterized in the .sig below: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! -- Ben Franklin And if they are all armed ? They all starve. -- Neil

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

and claiming to be someone else at a different address other than the if the person has already voted or by relying on steel-trap memory of the volunteer elderly ladies than man the poll (of course in our small town that can be pretty effective) :) . -Neil -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP

Re: Freedomphone

Streaming Protocol (RTSP), one stream for each direction. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Political Hyprocrisy in action.

I'm surprised no one has commented on Al Gore's speech (http://www.moveon.org/gore/speech2.html) where he talks about all the evil things that the Bush administration has done to to undermine our civil liberties. Got two words for ya Al: Clipper Chip -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

On Friday 31 October 2003 10:55 pm, Tim May wrote: .. (Standard Tim May Anyone who doesn't agree with me deserves to die a horrible death rant) ... --Tim May I figured that was coming. Chuckle. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

the Election with a National Lottery with local, state, and national prizes. With appropriate delink of voter's identity from the way they voted of course. (I'm not claiming that this would actually improve things overall, just increase voter turnout). -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key

ECC and blinding.

Will ECC work with blinding (Chaum, Brands, etc.) techniques? Just curious. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

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

get a subpoena you know about it. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Software protection scheme may boost new game sales (fwd)

a handsome profit before selling the company to larger outfit. I think they also sold other software the same way, they sold it cheap enough that people just spent the money to see if it was worth it. -Neil (who still runs Quicken 99 under windows 95 'casue it does everything I need to do) -- Neil

Versign creates man-in-the-middle attack on DNS

. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Versign creates man-in-the-middle attack on DNS

, which may be of interest to the NANOG community, is available here: http://www.verisign.com/resources/gd/sitefinder/bestpractices.pdf Matt -- Matt Larson [EMAIL PROTECTED] VeriSign Naming and Directory Services -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Always check the lug nuts !!

for the bolts before attempting to moving the satelite. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Fatherland Security agents above the law?

intelligence efforts. or Shipped it using a forged From: address of an organization remotely linked with al Qaeda. Of course then the FBI would have had something to REALLY visit with ABC about... Another sheeple scare tatic by the media. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available

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

of going to trial as a negotiating tactic. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Missile -launchers in iraq

unintentionally. - Most important, using Biological or Chemical Weapons is a two-edged sword. They could do just as much damage to their own troops as to the US and UK troops if they make a mistake. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Things are looking better all the time [TERROR ALERT: Cerenkov Blue]

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 08:50 pm, Neil Johnson wrote: When I went to work for the University I graduated from. I discovered all sorts of interesting things and even more when my sister enrolled.

Re: Quote of the Day

I heard this quote from a Marine today on NPR talking about the sucide bombing earlier and how they are now dealing with IRAQI citizens. We've been told to be professional and polite, but prepared to kill anyone we meet. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Enraptured in Babylon

banking foretelling of THE MARK OF THE BEAST ? (I always thought RAH might be an agent of Satan :) ) Guess the revenue from Left Behind Books is starting to slip... -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Boycotting the Unwilling

a bit of a double standard to me. This is the U.S.: we live and die by the double standard. A Google search turns up this straight from our crypto export control friends: http://www.bxa.doc.gov/AntiboycottCompliance/OACRequirements.html -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available

Russian opposition to Iraq war not all altrustic

://www.gazeta.ru/2003/03/26/NohopeforRus.shtml -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Things are looking better all the time

and taken out six sites where GPS jammers were being used. He claimed one site had been taken out with a GPS guided weapon. Kind of Ironic I beleive he said. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: About Christers versus Ragheads

(No, 11!, there's another coming out in April !) books in the Left Behind Series. I've read a few chapters and decided I liked Stephen King's, The Stand better. -- Neil Johnson

Re: Orwell's Victory goods come home

we tell you to do if you love freedom. Americans tend to also forget that the French provided a lot of support for the colonies during the American Revolution. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

+FC_AZZWCATCDE:+FC_AW_KEYMSCD:+FC_SW_PRDBBID:7483 So the man can now know what books you taking on the flight (Hopefully not the flight training manual for the aircraft). -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

to those Hane's T-shirt commericals starring Jackie Chan and Michael Jordan during the Superbowl. They were advertising their Tagless T-shirts. I see an upsurge in handmade clothing coming too. (of course that will have to be followed by homemade cloth, etc.) -- Neil Johnson http

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

On Wednesday 12 March 2003 09:13 pm, Neil Johnson wrote: RFID technology for libraries ... http://www.demco.com/CGI-BIN/LANSAWEB?PROCFUN+LWDCWEB+LWDC025+PRD+ENG+FUNCP ARMS+ZZWSESSID(A0200):29762251880047332521+ZZWNAVPAG(A0100):PROMO+DATESEQ(A0 140):31210321918+FC_AZZWHDRCMP:DEMCO_HEADER

Re: interesting (fwd)

I think Tim hit the nail on the head: http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=938 -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: The next time you see someone on TV in a newsroom

or something. Then they edit the video to insert the reporter into the middle so it looks more realistic. -- Neil Johnson, N0SFH

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

impression :) -- Neil Johnson PGP key available on request.

BS or Not ?

. This is how we the people of the United States can rob these people of their most desired goal, your terror. SFC Red Thomas (Ret)Armor Master Gunner Mesa, AZ -- Neil Johnson, N0SFH http://www.iowatelecom.net/~njohnsn http://www.njohnsn.com/ PGP key available on request.

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

for a shale oil extraction facility. Of course they were abandoned. The towns folk were still paying off the bonds they floated to pay for the streets and sewers that they built to support the hoardes of workers that were supposed to move in. -- Neil Johnson, N0SFH http://www.iowatelecom.net

Re: Who feigned Roger Rabbit?

to Chicago for our one year anniversary. I remember an article in the paper (David Barry ?) in the 80's that thought that Amtrak would be perfect for moving missiles around because you could never guess what their schedule was going to be. -- Neil Johnson, N0SFH http://www.iowatelecom.net

Re: The Plague

people realize that one of the reasons we live so long today is because of the lowly toliet. -- Neil Johnson, N0SFH http://www.iowatelecom.net/~njohnsn http://www.njohnsn.com/ PGP key available on request.

Re: Bruce Schneier Hullabaloo

. Let's just get rid of the middle-man (government) and then the corps can take take of enforcement directly (pirate a song, get whacked). Much more efficient I would guess. -- Neil Johnson PGP key available on request.

Re: Microsoft on Darknet

On Saturday 23 November 2002 11:32 pm, Steve Schear wrote: At 04:59 PM 11/21/2002 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: Mojo was intended to do this but it failed, I think it failed because they failed to monetize mojo before it was introduced as service management mechanism. I failed because it had

Re: Why is a Georgia Tech machine the nameserver for pipeline.com?

On Monday 07 October 2002 02:04 am, Bill Stewart wrote: What's strange is that there are three nameservers for pipeline.com, at least according to the nslookup that I did. Two of them are itchy and scratchy.mindspring.net, which sound reasonable, but the first one is burdell.cc.gatech.edu.

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

Hey don't forget you can still buy a smart card reader from that most cypherpunkish of babes BRITNEY SPEARS ! Only $30 ! https://www.visiblevisitors.com/mltest/order_form.asp

Re: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D

it think it's in, Government Snoop mode ) ? Then the watermark can be removed. Remember it only requires ONE high-quality non-watermarked analog to digital copy to make it on the net and it's all over. -- Neil Johnson, N0SFH http://www.iowatelecom.net/~njohnsn http://www.njohnsn.com/ PGP key

Re: another reason to avoid airbus: surveillance

with my Leatherman Micra and my nail clippers :) -- Neil Johnson, N0SFH http://www.iowatelecom.net/~njohnsn http://www.njohnsn.com/ PGP key available on request.