Beware JobsOnloneine.com

2002-04-18 Thread An Metet
Maybe the subject line should actually be Die, Spammer, Die. Don't go to JobsOnline.com -- it's a scam. They inundate you with pop up ads while you're there, the kind that just don't quit, like the porn sites, and once you've registered (which you have to do to look at their job ads), you

Die, moron, die (was: Beware JobsOnloneine.com)

2002-04-18 Thread An Metet
Maybe the subject line should actually be Die, Spammer, Die. Don't go to JobsOnline.com -- it's a scam. They inundate you with pop up ads while you're there, the kind that just don't quit, like the porn sites, and once you've registered (which you have to do to look at their job ads), you start

Tax consequences of becoming a US citizen.

2002-07-09 Thread An Metet
What are the tax implications of a US resident green card holder, with substantial assets both in his original nation and in the US, of becoming a US citizen?

Re: Policing Bioterror Research

2002-12-22 Thread An Metet
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:22:17 -0800, you wrote: On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 10:07 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2002/1217/1 Policing Bioterror Research One of science's hottest fields is now becoming one of its most heavily regulated, too.

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

2003-08-22 Thread An Metet
It would be easy for me to say that all of the operators connected with JPE Maybe this is the place to post their names, for posterity.

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread An Metet
Tim May: If cops ask local neighborhood members to report any suspicious activity, the folks know that any benefits they gain from acting as informants tend to be a lot smaller than the danger of being beat up or even killed by the Mafia. When the cost of acting as an informant is zero,

a study in efectiveness of medication in Corralitos area

2003-09-09 Thread An Metet
http://recall.archive.org/?query=tim+maysearch=goafterMonth=1afterYear=1996beforeMonth=TodaybeforeYear=%A0

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings

2003-12-12 Thread An Metet
The devil is in details. Given small numbers and absence of any other grouping factor there needs to be an obvious place for ZPs to refer to. Any obvious place that becomes even remotely attractive to ZPs will be immediately raided. Because ZPs have potential to be actually dangerous to the

Re: Earthlink to Test Caller ID for E-Mail

2004-03-09 Thread An Metet
Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a writes: The passphrase locking idear won't fly, but a biometrics-lockable wallet could. Isn't part of Pd envelope goal establishing a tamper-proof compartment? We know Pd is evil, but once hardware support is everywhere, one can as well use it for

Anonymizer employees need killing

2004-03-26 Thread An Metet
Anonymizer is working with the FBI on international blackmail cases - no subpoena required! From http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36485.html : To download the online picture, he used the Anonymizer.com service, believing the companys privacy policy would protect him. Not so. Dutch

Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-08 Thread An Metet
The privacy news has been full of fuss and bluster lately about Google's proposed Gmail service. The latest complaint comes at http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/GmailLetter.htm with an open letter from dozens of privacy groups to the Google founders asking them to revamp the service. Cypherpunks

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-10 Thread An Metet
Tyler Durden writes: Ironically, some of the features of Gmail bear resemblance to BlackNet. In particular, its claimed policy of retaining email indefinitely, even after the recipient has stopped using the account, is reminiscent of BlackNet's function as a data haven, as well as other

Re: legally required forgetting

2004-04-10 Thread An Metet
Regarding the question of whether debt must be merely 'forgiven' or actually 'forgotten', see http://www.epic.org/privacy/fcra for information on the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970: The FCRA limits the length of time some information can appear in a consumer report. For instance, bankruptcies

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-13 Thread An Metet
Really, what's the difference between scanning the message in order to, say, render HTML tags it may contain, and scanning it in order to generate targetted advertising based on keywords it contains? That's irrelevant. These arguments that Gmail is just like other services are nothing but red

Re: On Killing Blaster

2004-04-13 Thread An Metet
Major Variola writes: Language is how you manipulate people from a distance. Much more convenient than hitting them. Crypto *can* keep bits free. And so maybe language. But Men with Guns control physical reality, which limits what those bits can do. Read the archives on the problems

Re: Anonymity vs reputation question

2004-04-19 Thread An Metet
Thinking about something, I found an interesting problem. It is possible to set up a reputation-based system with nyms, where every nym is an identity with attached reputation. Is it possible to have a system where nyms can share reputation without divulging the links between them? That

Re: What Should Freedom Lovers Do?

2004-04-20 Thread An Metet
Lew Rockwell had written: The Rothbardian approach to a pro-freedom strategy comes down to the following four affirmations: 1) the victory of liberty is the highest political end; 2) the proper groundwork for this goal is a moral passion for justice; 3) the end should be pursued by the

Blind signatures with DSA/ECDSA?

2004-04-24 Thread An Metet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here is the blind DSA signature based on MacKenzie and Reiter, http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~reiter/papers/2001/CRYPTO.pdf, in graphical form. Recall that a DSA public key is p, q, g, y; private key x; signature on hash h is: Choose k q r = g^k mod p mod

Re: Lowering the Bar for Threats

2004-04-29 Thread An Metet
Eric Cordian quotes: FBI Shill: Are we gonna exterminate the rat? Hale: I'm going to fight within the law and, but, ... if you wish to, ah, do anything, yourself, you can. You're such a liar. I don't know why I even bother to respond to you. You left off the next few lines: So

no anon conversations?

2004-04-30 Thread An Metet
What technologies currently exist for receiving a/psuedononymous message? With Mixmaster, sending mail, posting news, and even blog posting are possible, However, receiving replies securely or, better, holding a private conversation is difficult or impossible. Best bet seems is to encrypt and spam

Re: no anon conversations?

2004-04-30 Thread An Metet
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 14:12, An Metet wrote: What technologies currently exist for receiving a/psuedononymous message? With Mixmaster, sending mail, posting news, and even blog posting are possible, However, receiving replies securely or, better, holding a private conversation is difficult

Re: Is there a Brands certificate reference implementation?

2004-04-26 Thread An Metet
Steve Furlong writes: Does anyone know of a reference implementation for Stefan Brands's digital certificate scheme? Alternatively, does anyone have an email address for Brands so I can ask him myself? (I haven't gotten anything back from ZKS's contact us address. But I don't know if Brands is

Simplified base64 conversion

2004-06-11 Thread An Metet
I know there are readers here who are good at optimizing code. Here are my attempts to make simple and short versions of base64 encode/decode in C. I'd like to hear suggestions on how to simplify them even more. Base64 encoding is a way of turning arbitrary binary data into printable

TCG(TCPA) anonymity and Lucky Green

2004-06-30 Thread An Metet
On August 6, 2002, Lucky Green wrote a reply to Anonymous (whom I will now come clean and admit was none other than me), about the suggestion that TCPA (now called TCG) could incorporate anonymous cryptographic credentials to protect users' privacy, rather than the cumbersome privacy CA mechanism

vacuum-safe laptops ?

2004-07-16 Thread An Metet
Does anyone *know* (first or second hand, I can speculate myself) which laptops, if any, can safely go to zero air pressure (dropping from 1 atm to 0 in, say, 1 minute.)