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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:36:29 -0600
From: David Nunez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [discuss] Tue, Dec 16: EFF-A CyberDawg
Tuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday! Get ready for chills, thrills and
bone-crushing spills! More excitement and more mud
Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Neil Johnson wrote:
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.
Lambs can eat grass, which is usually unarmed.
It
At 01:09 AM 12/2/03 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
As reported today on Slashdot, in linux kernels prior to 2.4.23, it is
possible to map the kernel into user space with brk(), since apparently
no
one ever bothered to check that the argument passed was in the lower 3
gig
of the address space.
Query: What, nowadays, is *not* a threat to homeland security?
1. Airport drug bust heightens debate over non-federal forces
By Chris Strohm
A recent drug bust at Kennedy International Airport shows that the use
of workers from private companies in sensitive security jobs poses a
substantial
Infineon has just released new RFID silicon
with 25x the speed. Available in quantities
starting 2004.
It's 13.56 MHz (Phase Jitter Modulation, 8 channels),
and can read up to 500 tags/s (limit hitherto 30 tags/s).
No idea about the package size nor the reading range.
Use a dekrautizer of your
Eric Cordian wrote:
An interesting occurrence, because it demonstrates that massive numbers of
open source participants auditing the code aren't sufficient to ferret out
every giant coding blunder.
I've heard that argument before (last time I heard it was a problem with
a PGP
[cc'd to cryptography (where clues reside...), and to cypherpunks (yeah, I
know, don't feed the animals :-))]
At 8:32 PM -0800 12/1/03, Donald L. Luskin wrote:
I see that Krugman's column today is about Diebold and his voting
machines. I recall that this discussion group had a thread going about
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:23:29PM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Query: What, nowadays, is *not* a threat to homeland security?
Anything that advances the cause of repealing the Constitution.
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Roy M. Silvernail is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you're not
http://www.rant-central.com is the new
As reported today on Slashdot, in linux kernels prior to 2.4.23, it is
possible to map the kernel into user space with brk(), since apparently no
one ever bothered to check that the argument passed was in the lower 3 gig
of the address space.
This is almost as funny as early linux kernels in
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:09:31AM -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
An interesting occurrence, because it demonstrates that massive numbers of
open source participants auditing the code aren't sufficient to ferret out
every giant coding blunder.
I don't know that I'd call it auditing exactly; to my
At 1:09 AM -0800 12/2/03, Eric Cordian wrote:
As reported today on Slashdot, in linux kernels prior to 2.4.23, it is
possible to map the kernel into user space with brk(), since apparently no
one ever bothered to check that the argument passed was in the lower 3 gig
of the address space.
Rule 1:
Eric Tully writes:
I've heard that argument before (last time I heard it was a problem with
a PGP implementation) and I never understand what people are trying to
prove when they say it.
Let me simplify. I found it startling that a Redmond-level bug was in a
mature open-source project, the
http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/security/printfriendly.htm?AT=39159923-39001150t-3905c
Japan police arrest two P2P users
By Staff, CNETAsia
3/12/2003
URL: http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/security/0,39001150,39159923,00.htm
A Japanese peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network which claimed to
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:06:43PM +, ken wrote:
Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Neil Johnson wrote:
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
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