Re: overcoming ecash deployment problems (Re: all about transferable off-line ecash)

2002-04-11 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:14 AM 4/12/2002 +1000, Julian Assange wrote: Patent's aren't the problem - price of royalty is. If Brands is willing No Patents are a problem. The total future cost, including the costs of all license negotiations and compliance burdens are unpredictable and consequently do not make a

Thatcher suggests Britain join NAFTA

2002-04-11 Thread Steve Schear
Vanguard of the Revolution http://www.theVanguard.org LADY THATCHER'S VALEDICTORY by Rod D. Martin, 10 April 2002 At the end of March, just before announcing she would never again speak in public, Margaret Thatcher capped off her remarkable career with the Times serialization of her new book

Re: another reason to avoid airbus: surveillance

2002-05-10 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:06 PM 5/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: Black-and-white images captured by the cameras will be fed to screens in the cockpit via the cables used to distribute pictures to seat-back video screens. Although only some lights will have cameras, potential terrorists will not know which ones.

Re: another reason to avoid airbus: surveillance

2002-05-11 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:59 PM 5/10/2002 -0700, you wrote: On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 05:32 PM, Steve Schear wrote: At 05:06 PM 5/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: Black-and-white images captured by the cameras will be fed to screens in the cockpit via the cables used to distribute pictures to seat-back video

re: A Faulty Rethinking of the 2nd Amendment

2002-05-12 Thread Steve Schear
be inconceivable that a private person could have any legitimate reason for having such a weapon. Right, what legitimate reason does Jack Rakov or Steve Schear have for keeping a fully armed tank in their back yard? While this certainly seems reasonable to most citizens, was this type of limitation

Re: Jupiter Analyst, RIAA Trade Barbs Over P2P Findings

2002-05-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:41 PM 5/13/2002 -0400, you wrote: http://www.newsbytes.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=newsbytesstory.id=176497 Jupiter Analyst, RIAA Trade Barbs Over P2P Findings By Kevin Featherly, Newsbytes WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 09 May 2002, 4:47 PM CST The industry

Re: NAI pulls out the DMCA stick

2002-05-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:03 PM 5/21/2002 -0700, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: NAI is now taking steps to remove the remaining copies of PGP from the Internet, not long after announcing that the company will not release its fully completed Mac OS X and Windows XP versions, and will no longer sell any copies of its PGP

Open-Source Fight Flares At Pentagon Microsoft Lobbies Hard Against Free Software

2002-05-23 Thread Steve Schear
Open-Source Fight Flares At Pentagon Microsoft Lobbies Hard Against Free Software http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, May 23, 2002; Page E01 Microsoft Corp. is aggressively lobbying the Pentagon to squelch

Anti-snooping operating system close to launch

2002-05-28 Thread Steve Schear
Anti-snooping operating system close to launch 16:28 28 May 02 NewScientist.com news service Computer activists in Britain are close to completing an operating system that could undermine government efforts to the wiretap the internet. The UK Home Office has condemned the project as

Re: Anti-snooping operating system close to launch

2002-05-28 Thread Steve Schear
An interesting thread concerning M-o-o-t can be found at http://www.topica.com/lists/m-o-o-t-os-group/read Of particular interest to cypherpunks may be the Threats and Weaknesses analysis begun in Dec 2000 Threats and Weaknesses == Workstation: ยท Hardware/firmware traps

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

2002-05-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:20 AM 5/30/2002 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: Peter Trei writes: My mind has been boggled, my flabbers have been ghasted. In the name of protecting their business model, the MPAA proposes that every analog/digital (A/D) converter - one of the most basic of chips - be required to

My published reply to Thomas Friedman NYT/SJM piece

2002-06-01 Thread Steve Schear
The San Jose Mercury News published my brief rebuttal to Thomas Friedman's recent Luddite piece discussed on the list. In the NYT it was titled Webbed, Wired and Worried, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/opinion/26FRIE.html, in the SJM it was called Terrorists shake high-tech's foundation

BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

2002-06-01 Thread Steve Schear
[This sort of thing is why I will never consider buying networked appliances that I don't feel are in my control. Has anyone considered reverse engineering Windows for an open source release?] BBC hijacks TiVo recorders By Andrew Smith Posted: 24/05/2002 at 23:22 GMT Users of the TiVo

Re: 2 Challenge Gun Cases, Citing Bush Policy

2002-06-02 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:36 PM 6/1/2002 -0400, Ed Stone wrote: At 07:36 PM 5/31/02, you wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/31/politics/31GUNS.html WASHINGTON, May 30 Two men charged with carrying pistols without a license in the District of Columbia have invoked the Bush administration's position on guns to

Another questionable decision from SCOTUS

2002-06-02 Thread Steve Schear
In an obscure tax case decided this term, United States v. Craft, http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-1831.ZS.html a husband owed money to the I.R.S. and the I.R.S. put a lien on some of his property. Michigan, like a number of states, has a concept called tenancy by the entireties, in

Re: Degrees of Freedom vs. Hollywood Control Freaks

2002-06-06 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:25 PM 6/6/2002 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: The official (legal) resolutions for optical media are: 720 X 576 (480 NTSC). Used by most DVD. ... Physical number of lines is far from being the only measure of quality. Compression has a huge impact, and so do other digital artifacts.

Fwd: VIEWER ADVISORY: C-SPAN2/BookTV to Begin Showing James Bamford's Independent Institute Talk on the National Security Agency This Weekend

2002-06-14 Thread Steve Schear
Dear Friend, With the recent revelations about U.S. intelligence failures regarding the tragedy of 9/11, we are pleased to announce that starting this Sunday, C-SPAN2/Book TV will begin showing our very timely Independent Policy Forum event, Big Brother is Watching,

Do we need a national ID plan?

2002-07-22 Thread Steve Schear
In this article http://news.com.com/2010-1079-945347.html?tag=politech you said: That's a reasonable position: The White House has never made an unequivocal statement against the scheme, and it's possible that America could edge toward a situation where the federal government devises an ID

GNURadio at Defcon 10

2002-07-24 Thread Steve Schear
I will be speaking about GNURadio at next week's Defcon convention in Las Vegas. http://www.defcon.org/dcx-schedule.html steve

Re: GNURadio at Defcon 10

2002-07-24 Thread Steve Schear
I'm scheduled to be interviewed live on CNET at 9:10 am Eastern tomorrow to discuss GnuRadio and broadcast DRM legislation. I'm boning up on the posted material and the stuff from EFF. Tune in an hear me stutter. steve

Learning to love Big Brother: George W. Bush channels George Orwell

2002-07-29 Thread Steve Schear
[Might be funnier if it weren't so true...] Learning to love Big Brother George W. Bush channels George Orwell Daniel Kurtzman Sunday, July 28, 2002 )2002 San Francisco Chronicle. URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2002/07/28/IN244190.DTL Here's a question for

Re: How to Defeat DVD Zone Controls

2002-07-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:44 PM 7/30/2002 -0400, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most players cannot be hacked. And many hacks do not operate properly. How about just rent or borrow DVDs, reprocess to remove the region controls and reburn to a DVD-R? DVD-Rs are only about $1.25 or less each. Test

Re: Hollywood Hackers

2002-07-31 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:01 AM 7/31/2002 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, James A. Donald wrote: The plan, already implemented, is to flood file sharing systems with bogus files or broken files. The solution, not yet implemented, is to attach digital signatures to files, and have the file

Re: A QA exchange between me and Eugene Volokh

2002-07-31 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:06 AM 7/31/2002 -0700, A.Melon wrote: What do you have to hide? If I have nothing to hide, nobody wants to know. steve

White House Sounds Call For New Internet Standards

2002-07-31 Thread Steve Schear
WHITE HOUSE SOUNDS CALL FOR NEW INTERNET STANDARDS The Bush administration's cyber security czar, Richard Clarke, said it might be time to replace the creaky, cranky 20-year-old protocols that drive the Internet with standards better able to accommodate a flood of new wireless devices. Wireless

For Telecom Workers, Burst Of Bubble Takes Heavy Toll (was: employment market for applied cryptographers?)

2002-08-21 Thread Steve Schear
[Because of its relevance and since most list members are probably not WSJ subscribers, I've taken the liberty of posting the entire article. sds] From the Wall Street Journal -- For Telecom Workers, Burst Of Bubble Takes Heavy Toll By REBECCA BLUMENSTEIN RICHARDSON, Texas -- Two years ago,

Re: The Liberty Dollar

2002-08-29 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:52 PM 8/29/2002 -0500, Gary Jeffers wrote: The money is backed by silver and gold and can be redeemed widely in America. True but only fractionally (i.e., the precious metal content is only a fraction of the face value). steve

Thwarting LE library fishing expeditions

2002-08-30 Thread Steve Schear
After reading this ALA document http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/usapatriotlibrary.html , I believe I have concocted a legal administrative measure to thwart the anonymous fishing expeditions (esp.those authorized under the USA Patriot Act). In a nutshell, libraries would create a database to

Re: The Liberty Dollar

2002-08-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:18 PM 8/30/2002 +0100, you wrote: Steve Schear wrote: At 03:52 PM 8/29/2002 -0500, Gary Jeffers wrote: The money is backed by silver and gold and can be redeemed widely in America. True but only fractionally (i.e., the precious metal content is only a fraction of the face value

Google mirror beats Great Firewall o

2002-09-06 Thread Steve Schear
Google mirror beats Great Firewall of China 15:55 06 September 02 NewScientist.com news service China's widely criticised blocking of the web's most popular search engine Google can be defeated by viewing a strange Google mirror site through a mirror, New Scientist has discovered.

Re: A message from Alan I. Leshner, AAAS CEO

2002-09-06 Thread Steve Schear
At 05:07 PM 9/6/2002 -0400, you wrote: Dear Colleague: As the anniversary of September 11th approaches, AAAS continues to be engaged in issues that relate to national security and the role of science and technology. One such issue is the safe and responsible conduct of research involving

Re: A message from Alan I. Leshner, AAAS CEO

2002-09-10 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:35 PM 9/9/2002 +0100, Peter Fairbrother [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's actually quite reasonable: below is the proposed new list, and except for malicious reasons I can't think why anyone would want to use them outside a fully-equipped lab (with an on-site medical presence etc).

Re: software-defined radio killer app

2002-09-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:23 PM 9/18/2002 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: Better than a radar detector for emissionless, but visible, cops. Over the hill coverage. Issues of This will be banned under WIPO and copyright laws - you may enjoy cop's presence for yourself, but transmitting it is same as broadcasting a

Court rules up-skirt peep cams legal

2002-10-01 Thread Steve Schear
Court rules up-skirt peep cams legal In a ruling that could change fashions in Washington state, the supreme court there has ruled that up-skirt cams do not violate voyeurism laws. The Washington Supreme Court judges said that two men who took surreptitious photos and video of women and girls

Re: [OT Canute] Re: [LINK] [Fwd: Interesting KPMG report on DRM]

2002-10-08 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:43 PM 10/7/2002 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: Perhaps the record companies need to see what equivalents of pilings or surfboards they can find for their business models. Eventually they will have to come to terms with the fact that what technology (e.g., Thomas Edison and the phonograph) can

Re: US developing untraceable weapons

2002-10-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:17 PM 10/12/2002 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, there was also some other details left out by that article. A 100kW beam doesn't tell you very much if you don't know the beam diameter. It tells you the output power, from which one may estimate input power requirements. A 1310nm

Re: US developing untraceable weapons

2002-10-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:10 PM 10/11/2002 -0700, Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theres no huge explosion associated with its employment, there are no pieces and parts left behind that someone can analyze to say, this came from the United States, explains an unnamed Lockheed Martin official quoted in

Re: Using mobile phone masts to track things

2002-10-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:33 PM 10/15/2002 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) wrote: Scribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The technology 'sees' the shapes made when radio waves emitted by mobile phone masts meet an obstruction. Signals bounced back by immobile objects, such as walls or trees, are filtered out

RE: nCipher crypto: FIPS 140-2 Level 3?

2002-10-24 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:00 PM 10/24/2002 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: Level 3 requires active response to attack - zeroizing data, for example. It also requires identity checks on operators, and loading of keys either encrypted, or through a separate port. It's an interesting document, and it would be nice to have

Re: internet radio - broadcast without incurring royalty fees

2002-10-25 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:21 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- On 24 Oct 2002 at 20:32, Morlock Elloi wrote: Napster clones, kazaa, gnutella et al. rely on end-users to upload stuff. These end users simply have no bandwidth available for that. Cheapo DSL lines have hundred or

Re: commericial software defined radio (to 30 Mhz, RX only)

2002-10-17 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:54 PM 10/16/2002 -0700, you wrote: Does this run on linux? Also, if regular cheapo PC sounboards can digitize 30 MHz (and Nyquist says this requires 60 MHz sampling rate) then some product managers need ... flogging. PC sound cards, which all sample below 100 kHz, are only adequate

Faraday cages go portable

2002-10-26 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.mobilecloak.com/ Looks like an expensive and stylish replacement for an aluminized mylar shield bag. steve

Re: Confiscation of Sensitive Video

2002-10-29 Thread Steve Schear
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 05:15 PM 10/29/2002 -0500, you wrote: In any event, not knowing who is an uplink, who is a buffer is very niceI wonder if there's some other way to accomplish this. Perhaps, but it would also make spoofing by LE or their supporters a lot

Re: Jamming (was Confiscation of Sensitive Video)

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:35 PM 10/30/2002 +0100, Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of jamming, I've thought for a long time that a portable jamming device would be very nice to have. Something that jammed *all* frequencies, or at least everything from 10 or maybe 6 meters on up, to a range of a mile or

Re: the police state vs. jury nullification

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:56 AM 10/30/2002 -0800, you wrote: South Dakota measure backs 'nullification' - http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-jury30oct30.story See also: http://www.ncpa.org/iss/leg/2002/pd082702b.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1591/a01.html?999

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-31 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:28 PM 10/31/2002 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote: At 1:52 PM -0800 10/31/02, Steve Schear wrote: At 11:37 AM 10/31/2002 -0800, you wrote: Another fix that is being used is passengers who will act to keep the plane from being used as a weapon. If the hijackers have to kill people with small sharp

Re: Katy, bar the door

2002-11-01 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:32 PM 10/31/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 05:09 PM, Steve Schear wrote: Unfortunately, there are many gasses which kill or disable with only a small dosage (e.g., VX). Unless the cabins are equipped with toxic air sensors (possible in a few years

Re: Sending bricks through the mail

2002-11-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:36 AM 11/3/2002 -0800, Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There exists a website by someone who enjoyed sending unusual things through the US mail. He once sent a brick, with proper postage, no envelope. Some friends used to wrap up bricks and returned them to companies they

Re: German Wiretappers Bill Victims

2002-11-06 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:09 AM 11/6/2002 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Bill Stewart wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/27917.html German secret service taps phones, bills buggees I wonder if its possible if this billing incident wasn't a mistake, but an activist pulling down the

Re: [perry@piermont.com: The FBI Has Bugged Our Public Libraries]

2002-11-06 Thread Steve Schear
[This evening I received the following from the author of the quoted article.] FROM Bill Olds RE: Libraries FBI DATE: Nov. 6, 2002 In the interest of good journalism, I feel obligated to report the following to you. The FBI released a letter today originally sent to the publisher of the

Hollings loss is our gain

2002-11-11 Thread Steve Schear
Those with an interest in consumer rights and DRM may take heart. With the Republicans taking control of the Senate, Sen. Ernst Hollings will no longer be Chairman of the Commerce Committee. His drive to sell out consumers for the special interests from Hollywood may now be blunted. It will

Re: [Dewayne-Net] RE: Hollings loss is our gain

2002-11-11 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:29 PM 11/11/2002 -0800, Dewayne Hendricks wrote: [Note: This comment comes from reader Chuck Jackson. DLH] At 11:00 -0800 11/11/02, Steve Schear wrote: With the Republicans taking control of the Senate, Sen. Ernst Hollings will no longer be Chairman of the Commerce

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-15 Thread Steve Schear
[A edited copy of a piece I published Oct 4th in the International Relations list. steve] I think that most Western nation leadership will eventually support the U.S.' military action against Iraq. However, they may do so not because they necessarily think Bush is right that Saddam's weapons

Re: [Htech] Lying With Pixels (fwd)

2002-11-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:37 PM 11/16/2002 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 09:28:46 -0600 (CST) From: Premise Checker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Htech] Lying With Pixels Jul/Aug 00: Lying With Pixels http://www2.bc.edu/~okeefew/349/rfppixels.htm

Re: News: House votes life sentences for hackers (fwd)

2002-11-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:59 PM 11/15/2002 -0500, Dave Emery wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:01:08PM -0800, Tim May wrote: Whilst hardly (understatement of the year) a Washington insider, I would speculate that perhaps someone in the DOJ has gotten concerned about recent white hat hacker projects like

Re: KK wired article on TOE etc

2002-11-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:48 AM 11/19/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 10:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And of course Wolfram's book is a big seller. I won't comment, except that I see no particularly strong evidence that he has changed the way science is done, or will be done. Others

Re: Microsoft on Darknet

2002-11-23 Thread Steve Schear
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 was part of the team and I respectively disagree. Sorry to sound a bit like

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:00 PM 11/25/2002 +, you wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: The Russians reputedly used sensory deprivation as a means of convincing western spies to talk. 24 to 48 hours in a tank broke nearly anyone. The effects are supposed to be a lot worse than you would imagine

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:42 PM 11/25/2002 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:00:57PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 22:18 Europe/London, Harmon Seaver wrote: Even if it were possible (which I doubt) what's the point in even mentioning it since most people tortured

Re: CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade - Nov. 29, 2002

2002-12-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:54 PM 12/3/2002 -0500, Sunder wrote: Simple. Signal strength from at least three access points will pinpoint your location. If any of the AP's have known GPS coordinates, your location can be interpolated. To fix this, change your MAC address (or whatever WiFi uses for that), randomly

DBCs now issued by DMT

2002-12-03 Thread Steve Schear
Digital Monetary Trust now supports Digital Bearer Certificates. https://196.40.46.24/dmtext/jog/dmt_bearercert.htm Although the DBC are not blinded, DMT claims it maintains no client data on its accounts so there is a modicum of anonymity in transactions. steve A State must pay attention to

Re: [e-gold-list] DBCs now issued by DMT

2002-12-04 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:45 PM 12/3/2002 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: I suppose that if it's not blinded, or at least functionally anonymous, like you'd get with statistically-tested streaming cash, it's not *that* bearer, but, hey, that's just *my* opinion, right? Since it has no payee or associated holder

Re: Balloon antennas

2002-12-04 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:14 PM 12/3/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 11:09 AM, Steve Schear wrote: In the late 70s, I was at TRW we built inflatable (beach ball) antennas for a black project. About 1/3 of the balloon's inside surface was aluminized and the feed was simply snapped

Re: Analysts Examine WiFi's Future: 3 simultaneous channels

2002-12-06 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:23 AM 12/6/2002 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Now I guess the question is, as users come on line, does the lack of a centralized wavelength authority mean significantly decreased performance, or is there some kind of self-regulation that will occur as, perhaps, users try one wavelength,

Re: How to Stop Telemarketers...

2002-12-06 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:08 PM 12/6/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 10:10 AM, Greg Pelcak wrote: The best way to say it is Please add me to your do not call list, you don't need any confirmation after that, you can just hang up. Some telemarketers will try to read you a disclaimer

Additional information on next week's FCC NOI

2002-12-07 Thread Steve Schear
OET's wireless item on the agenda for next week's Commission meeting is a Notice of Inquiry, which will ask general, open ended questions about the possibility of using 3650-3700 MHz, and using spectrum allocated to television broadcasting, for unlicensed operations along some of the lines

Re: If this be terrorism make the most of it!

2002-12-07 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:56 AM 12/7/2002 -0800, Morlock Elloi wrote: This, with obligatory cameras in cybercafes, is just plugging the anonymity holes. I haven't noticed any cameras in my neighborhood cafes. If they do install them you can usually stand outside and use the link. Also, one of unmentioned

If this be terrorism make the most of it!

2002-12-07 Thread Steve Schear
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,56742,00.htmlhttp://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,56742,00.html Feds Label Wi-Fi a Terrorist Tool By Paul Boutin SANTA CLARA, California -- Attention, Wi-Fi users: The Department of Homeland Security sees wireless networking technology as a

Re: The trend toward signing away rights

2002-12-10 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:24 PM 12/9/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: Last night had a plot device on The Practice (a generally bad show...I ought to stop watching) where nearly all residents in an upscale burbclave had signed a pledge--reminiscent of my opening point--where owners of cars would invite the police to

Re: Satellites to challenge Pentagon Spin

2002-12-11 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:43 PM 12/11/2002 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Publically available, high-res satellite imagery... http://www.msnbc.com/news/845811.asp?0cv=CB10 Since 1994, when the U.S. government officially surrendered its domestic monopoly on satellite imagery, the world has seen an explosion of

Re: Libel lunacy -all laws apply fnord everywhere

2002-12-11 Thread Steve Schear
At 11:28 AM 12/11/2002 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Internet Libel Fence Falls Court in Australia Says U.S. Publisher Can Be Sued There By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 11, 2002; Page A10

Re: [IP] The TIA and fighting terrorism

2002-12-13 Thread Steve Schear
-- Forwarded Message From: Marc Hedlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:13:11 -0800 (PST) To: Dave Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The TIA and fighting terrorism We could be taking this approach, but we're not. We could be improving the ability of local law enforcement to

Re: Gilmore's response

2002-12-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:43 PM 12/13/2002 -0500, you wrote: Gilmore's legal response to secret laws, etc. http://cryptome.org/gilmore-v-usa-god.htm I have a possible trip coming up soon. I intend to have my tickets purchased by a third party and fly under an assumed name (maybe Tyler Durden ;-) I will carry

Re: Gilmore's response

2002-12-14 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:47 PM 12/13/2002 -0800, Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a possible trip coming up soon. I intend to have my tickets purchased by a third party and fly under an assumed name (maybe Tyler Durden ;-) I will carry no ID on my person

Re: Suspending the Constitution

2002-12-15 Thread Steve Schear
Correction From my review Great cinema, poor history, of the movie Glory: If not for the foolish chivalry of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, in not following up their rout of the Union Army at the war's first big battle of Bull Run (called First Manassas in The South) just outside

Re: Suspending the Constitution

2002-12-15 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:45 PM 12/14/2002 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: On Saturday 14 December 2002 18:18, Mike Rosing wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote: Lincoln's notion that the Constitution is suspendable during a war, or other emergency conditions, was disgraceful. Nothing in the Constitution says

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-15 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:09 PM 12/14/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:47:25AM -0800, Tim May wrote: Secret trials are on the rise. Inasmuch as the U.S. is now throwing its full weight behind secret evidence, secret prosecutions, secret trials, secret appeals courts, suspension of habeas corpus,

Re: [IP] more on keep them ignorant -- ElcomSoft Jury Asks for Law Text - judge refuses

2002-12-17 Thread Steve Schear
In cases where the statues might appear to reasonable people, otherwise ignorant of the judicial process, to be made from whole cloth or contrary to fairness or a plain reading of the constitution, denying juries access can help thwart nullification. Its un-American and downright anarchistic

Verdict's in: Elcomsoft NOT GUILTY of criminal DMCA violations

2002-12-17 Thread Steve Schear
[I'm more convinced than ever that nullification figured into the verdict. If so, bravo for the jury. steve] http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978176.html SAN JOSE, Calif.--A jury on Tuesday found a Russian software company not guilty of criminal copyright charges for producing a program that can

Salon - Radio Free Software

2002-12-18 Thread Steve Schear
[This is one of the projects I've been working on, though only the two key technical contributors get a mention. steve] http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/12/18/gnu_radio/index.html Radio Free Software Call them hackers of the last computing frontier: The GNU Radio coders believe that any

Re: Using Brin to thwart ISP subpoenas

2002-12-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:59 AM 12/20/2002 -0500, you wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:10:18 -0500 Subject: Re: Using Brin to thwart ISP subpoenas From: Charles Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] How long do you think it would be before the ISP described below would receive a cease and

Re: Using Brin to thwart ISP subpoenas

2002-12-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:16 PM 12/22/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Sunday, Dec 22, 2002, at 21:28 US/Eastern, Steve Schear wrote: At 09:59 AM 12/20/2002 -0500, you wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:10:18 -0500 Subject: Re: Using Brin to thwart ISP subpoenas From: Charles Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: R. A. Hettinga

County votes for land use anarchy

2002-12-30 Thread Steve Schear
Georgia County Fed Up with Too Many Rules and Regulations Excerpt: Fed up with the complexity of zoning ordinances and various other land use restrictions already in existence, and a new raft of rules handed down by the state government, elected officials in Habersham County, Georgia, took a

Automakers Block Crash Data Recorders

2002-12-30 Thread Steve Schear
Matt, In your Dec 23 piece http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/29/national/29CRAS.html you cited concerns that there might be privacy and legal issues regarding ownership of data acquired by their auto's recorders. I agree. If the industry adopts open standard between the senor and data recording

Americans Revolt in Pennsylvania - New Battle Lines Are Drawn

2003-01-01 Thread Steve Schear
[It will be interesting to see where this could go if Nadar, Demos and other anti-corporate types take up the banner.] Corporations shall not be considered to be 'persons' protected by the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania within the

Re: I Crypto U and your files

2003-01-02 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:40 PM 12/27/2002 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Anonymous wrote: to have an encrypted tunnel materialize through blacknet, but I strongly doubt this will scale to millions of users very well. Instead of doubting, try creating a model that might work, and test drive it in

Re: FC: Will this column land me in federal prison under the DMCA?

2003-01-03 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:52 AM 1/2/2003 -0800, Declan McCullagh wrote: http://news.com.com/2010-1028-978636.html Perspective: Will this land me in jail? By Declan McCullagh December 23, 2002, 4:00 AM PT WASHINGTON--It's not every day that I fret about committing a string of federal felonies that

Re: Using Brin to thwart ISP subpoenas

2003-01-04 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:41 PM 1/3/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:16:48PM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: A year or two ago, I suggested to someone associated with http://www.thebunker.com (an ISP based in an underground ex-RAF bunker in Britain) that they set up a web-accessible camera on the

Tarzan swings

2003-01-07 Thread Steve Schear
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 04:12:41 -0500 (EST) From: Michael J. Freedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tarzan code Hi everybody, So tonight I threw up a tarball of Tarzan's code, after finally updating it against new releases of its dependencies. It's released under the GPL.

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-09 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:41 PM 1/8/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, James A. Donald wrote: In today's Vietnam women commonly dress like Ninjas, completely covering every square inch of skin. Even the eyes are covered with dark glasses. The costume however is tight, covering the face but revealing

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:35 PM 1/8/2003 -0800, Michael Cardenas wrote: I think you're overreacting a bit. The actual case involves someone who was in a foriegn country for years, and was in the war zone at the time he was fighting the US. The ruling says that he was squarely in teh war zone and discusses the issue

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-14 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:40 PM 1/13/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:23 PM, John Kelsey wrote: At 10:44 AM 1/13/03 -0800, you wrote: If you've got your brother counting the votes, and you can prevent anybody else from counting them, then you don't need to cancel elections.

Re: Chad Gore wants a chance to vote a second time!

2003-01-14 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:28 PM 1/14/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 08:29 AM, Steve Schear wrote: Everything the Supreme Court did in the 2000 election was fully justified. The Dems lost, then tried to change the rules. Perhaps its my lack of depth in understanding the Constitution

Re: The Plague

2003-01-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:46 PM 1/15/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 07:18 PM, Andri Isidoro Fernandes Esteves wrote: A huge fraction of the population wasn't in the cities and town at all, where the plague spread most virulently, and so their survivors didn't inherit immunity. The

Re: An Alternative Police Force (was Re: RFE/RL Crime and Corruption Watch Vol. 3, No. 2, 16 January 2003)

2003-01-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 02:46 PM 1/16/2003 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 4:10 PM + on 1/16/03, RFE/RL List Manager wrote: AN ALTERNATIVE POLICE FORCE By Roman Kupchinsky A good related paper can be found at http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/jointsessions/grenoble/papers/w8/armao.pdf entitled, A STANDARD

Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-20 Thread Steve Schear
A recent news article described the nationwide strike in Venezuela, in protest against the nascent dictatorship of Hugo Chavez, as seeming like something from fiction. Well, yes, it seems very similar to one work of fiction in particular: Ayn Rand's prophetic 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged. The

Re: Supremes and thieves.

2003-01-20 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:54 AM 1/20/2003 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: How can it dwindle? The public domain can only increase or hold steady. All this ruling does is damp the rate of increase. Marc de Piolenc It dwindles because the rate at which the copyright period is increasing averages more than 1 year/year.

Homemade GPS jammers raise concerns

2003-01-22 Thread Steve Schear
By Bob Brewin JANUARY 17, 2003 http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/technology/story/0,10801,77702,00.html?f=x596 Government officials and communications experts are assessing the public safety and security implications of a newly posted online article that provides directions for

The Digital Evolution: Freenet and the Future of Copyright on the Internet

2003-01-24 Thread Steve Schear
IMHO, the article is the most reasoned, complete and balanced legal (and commonly accessible technical) analysis of the P2P scene. The direct link is http://www.lawtechjournal.com/articles/2002/05_021229_roemer.php Conclusion More legal questions and conundrums are raised with a technology like

Re: ATTN: John Walker - RE: [speak-freely] Speak Freely for Windows and Speak Freely mailing lists (fwd)

2003-01-27 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:38 PM 1/27/2003 +0100, you wrote: How would you do it? Would you lift public key exchange from OpenSSL or GPG? Or just package a snapshot of GPG with Speak Freely, and adapt the call syntax? I'd love to use SpeakFreely but one of its quirks is that it uses two different ports to initiate

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