Out of nowhere cometh Steve Thompson, and sayeth he all manner of things.
But, while his mouth moveth one way, he seemeth to move the other.
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=%22steve+thompson%22start=0hl=ensafe=off;
What hath suddenly attracted our AUK creep?
At 02:29 PM 12/11/2004, James A. Donald wrote:
If Afghanistan was subject to US jurisdiction, it would not
have a bumper opium crop. If Saudi Arabia was subject to US
jurisdiction, they would not be funding terrorism. [...]
The reason that taliban caught in Afghanistan, and people with
the wrong
On 2004-12-11T06:48:41-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 09:47 PM 12/10/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
Now we're back to the MixMaster argument. Mixmaster was meant to be a
Napster-level popular app for emailing, but people just don't care
about anonymity.
Mixmaster is the most
* Adam Shostack:
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:24:09PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
| * R. A. Hettinga quotes a news article:
|
| There have been numerous media reports in recent years that terrorist
| groups, including al-Qaida, were using steganographic techniques.
|
| As far as I
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/weekinreview/12bigp.html?oref=loginpagewanted=printposition=
The New York Times
December 12, 2004
To the Computer, You're Still Beautiful
By MATTHEW L. WALD
UNATTRACTIVE passport photos, once merely traditional, may become
mandatory. The reason is that
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, James A. Donald wrote:
If Afghanistan was subject to US jurisdiction, it would not
have a bumper opium crop.
This assumes that the US wants the opium trade stopped. Be serious.
--
Yours,
J.A. Terranson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
0xBD4A95BF
Civilization is in a tailspin -
--
On 11 Dec 2004 at 8:29, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Looking out of my fifth floor window I can connect to ~20
802.x nets *without* directional antennas or high powered
cards. With extra gear, I can hit almost 50, and in both
cases, roughly a third are completely open, another third are
--- Justin Guyett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2004-12-11T08:10:27-0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
[snip]
This is what happens when one picks up ideas from people who present
them
second-hand (or at even greater distances from their origin) and who
do
not make proper footnotes.
That's
--
James A. Donald:
The reason that taliban caught in Afghanistan, and people
with the wrong accent caught in Afghanistan, tend to wind
up in Guantanamo Bay is not because Afghan warlords are
taking orders from US overlords, it is because Afghan
warlords are fighting a holy war
--
On 9 Dec 2004 at 16:15, J.A. Terranson wrote:
(3) The other camp believes that stego is a lab-only toy,
unsuitable for much of anything besides scaring the shit out
of the people in the Satan camp.
I have used stego for practical purposes. The great advantage
of stego is that it
At 12:01 AM 12/13/04 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Interestingly, I don't
know of anyone who still actively wardrives at random (as opposed to
against specific targets) for this same reason.
I've met some people this year who war-fly SoCal: a cessna, laptop, and
regular dipole
suffices, and a GPS
--
On 9 Dec 2004 at 19:47, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
In short, except for those few people who have some use for
MixMaster, MixMaster was stillborn.
As one of those few people who have had some use for Mixmaster,
it does not seem stillborn to me.
--digsig
James A. Donald
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:17:32AM -0600, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
This seems like a peculiarity of your location. Here in Austin almost
all of downtown is covered by free wireless.
I wonder how much of it is deliberate. I run my AP open for any passerby, and
expect similiar in return when I pass
The need for a coherent framework to hang our speculations on is obvious.
The impossibility of any consensus based prototype is pure politics.
We need a way out, and that way is to take a lesson from the theory of
evolution.
The lucky semantic construction is tested in practice by a virtual swarm
--
On 10 Dec 2004 at 21:47, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
Wardriving is also basically dead. Sure there are a handful
of people that do it, but the number is so small as to be
irrelevant.
I regularly use the internet through other people's unprotected
wireless networks, simply for convenience
Anyone surprised that the US spooks are admitting to wiretapping
UN people? If they really had info they'd state it but refuse to answer
how they got it.
Somehow I doubt that UN officials and the people they might
chat with will get the secure phones they need.
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
computer chip. In airports and at border crossings, a machine will read the
chip to see if the information there matches the bearer's face. But the
machine can be flummoxed by smiles, which introduce teeth, wrinkles, seams
and other distortions.
At 06:01 PM 12/11/04 +, Justin wrote:
On 2004-12-11T06:48:41-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Mixmaster is the most godawful complex thing to use, much less
administer, around. Even Jack B Nymble is complex. It needs a
simple
luser interface and something to piggyback servers on.
Not
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:24:09PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
| * R. A. Hettinga quotes a news article:
|
| There have been numerous media reports in recent years that terrorist
| groups, including al-Qaida, were using steganographic techniques.
|
| As far as I know, these news stories can
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Mixmaster is the most godawful complex thing to use, much less
administer, around. Even Jack B Nymble is complex.
It needs a simple luser interface and something
to piggyback servers on.
Mixminion is a little better, but needs more market penetration and
still has
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Justin wrote:
Not necessarily. Mixmaster is trivial to use with Mutt.
1. Compile Mixmaster
2. Put the binary in some directory somewhere.
3. Configure Mutt with --with-mixmaster (sadly not enabled by default)
4. add the line 'set mixmaster=/location/to/bin/mixmaster'
--
On 10 Dec 2004 at 6:53, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Name a place which is not subject to US juridiction? Ok,
Iran, N Kr, until we pull a regime change (tm) on them. Yeah,
they have a lot of 'net bandwidth, right.
If Afghanistan was subject to US jurisdiction, it would not
have a
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 06:39:13AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
I agree, with the additional constraint that mix functionality piggyback
with a more popular feature. Most folks won't install even the most
benign, easy to use mixer; but include a mix server in a jazzy
IM or next-gen
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Can you use UDP broadcast on cable or xDSL?
Completely provider dependent. For instance, I have SWB DSL as my work
provider, and (AFAICT) am free to use whatever I want. My home cable
connection prohibits any standard form of traceroute, but allows
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Psyops ain't just for the (overt) military you know...
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/10367781.htm
Truth be told, lies are part of Pentagon strategy
By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - The
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:
Out of nowhere cometh Steve Thompson, and sayeth he all manner of
things. But, while his mouth moveth one way, he seemeth to move the
other.
At 10:08 AM 12/11/2004, J.A. Terranson wrote:
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Justin wrote:
Not necessarily. Mixmaster is trivial to use with Mutt.
1. Compile Mixmaster
.
You just made my case for me. Joe Sixpack will not wtf you are talking
about. Hell, half the RedHat users won't know either
--- J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Bill Stewart wrote:
The more serious problem is what this means for computer evidence
search and seizure procedures - the US has some official rules about
copy the disk and return the computer that came out of the Steve
--- J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:
Out of nowhere cometh Steve Thompson, and sayeth he all manner of
things. But, while his mouth moveth one way, he seemeth to move the
other.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/peninsula/10399522.htm
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/11745531p-12630606c.html (AP Storty)
Gary Webb, 49, former Mercury News reporter, author
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST WROTE CONTROVERSIAL SERIES
By Jessica Portner
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, James A. Donald wrote:
On 11 Dec 2004 at 8:29, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Looking out of my fifth floor window I can connect to ~20
802.x nets *without* directional antennas or high powered
cards. With extra gear, I can hit almost 50, and in both
cases, roughly a third
Quadrafecta!!!
Horse Number Four, Paedophilia, or Pokey, to his friends...
Only took 36 hours, true to his namesake... Or something.
Cheers,
RAH
---
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/10/kazaa_p2p_trial/print.html
The Register
Biting the hand that feeds IT
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On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Bill Stewart wrote:
The more serious problem is what this means for computer evidence
search and seizure procedures - the US has some official rules about
copy the disk and return the computer that came out of the Steve Jackson
case, not that they're always followed;
For instance, a seemingly innocent digital photo of a dog could be
doctored to contain a picture of an explosive device or hidden wording.
Of course, the _real_ message wasn't hidden in subtle stego bits -
it was whether the picture was Bush's dog, Cheney's dog, or Blair's dog.
It recommends
* R. A. Hettinga quotes a news article:
There have been numerous media reports in recent years that terrorist
groups, including al-Qaida, were using steganographic techniques.
As far as I know, these news stories can be tracked back to a
particular USA Today story. There's also been a bunch
It seems consistent that Al Qaeda prefers being 'fish in the sea' to
standing out by use of crypto. Also, given the depth and breadth of
conspiracies they believe in, it seems that they might see all us
cryptographers as a massive deception technique to get them to use bad
crypto. (And hey,
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