Health care privacy/HIPAA

2000-02-14 Thread Greg Broiles
to regulate information practices within the healthcare and health insurance industries. A summary of the draft regulations is available online at http://www.jhita.org/hipprs.htm, for those who would like to read more about these regulations. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cypherpunks List Turns to Shit: Film at 11

2000-02-20 Thread Greg Broiles
is that the physical meetings in the SF Bay Area have been much better lately - their content is considerably more interesting than most list traffic. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

3Com 3DES PCI Ethernet card

2000-03-08 Thread Greg Broiles
the card to handle DES, 3DES, MD5, and SHA-1. I don't know if I trust it and Win 2000 to provide real security .. but even if it's just a $90 3DES coprocessor, that would still be an interesting result for people working on hobbyist brute-force crack boxes. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Digital Cameras, and Pocket Video Camcorders

2000-03-02 Thread Greg Broiles
At 11:43 AM 3/2/00, Tim May wrote: There are plenty of fine small 35mm cameras. One I liked several years ago was the Yashica with a ground-glass focussing screen which could be viewed for candid shots (camera held at a distance or at waist level) and a fine Zeiss lens. I assume something like

Re: U.S. Census question

2000-03-14 Thread Greg Broiles
At 08:45 AM 3/14/00, Duncan Frissell wrote: There were no prosecutions for census resistance in 1990 or 1980. Five people were prosecuted in 1970 (mostly libertarians). [...] I don't know what happened to the 5th person who was on the mainland somewhere and was an Objectivist. There's also

Re: FBI gets new hacking tools - any ideas?

2000-08-11 Thread Greg Broiles
xpected entropy as a function of filetype and size, then look for out-of-profile traffic. See above for practical limits. Yesterday's Murky News (I left my copy on the train, alas) said that they got special access to the plea agreement in the Naughton case via a motion before the sentencing judge. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Risk and insurance

2000-10-22 Thread Greg Broiles
? Insurance is a good idea for the insured because it takes money to make money. On the topic of risk and insurance, and apropos discussion of reading lists, cypherpunks may find the book "Against the gods: The remarkable story of risk" by Peter Bernstein of interest. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Denver Judge rules Cops can seize bookstore records

2000-10-25 Thread Greg Broiles
le from another source? 4. Is the intrusion limited in scope so as to prevent exposure of other constitutionally protected matters? Copyright 2000 The Denver Post. All rights reserved. Related: Bookstore fights search warrant http://www.denverpost.com/news/news1018d.htm -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Zero Knowledge changes business model (press release)

2000-10-31 Thread Greg Broiles
en can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." Building the kind of trust that's needed to do the sorts of things ZKS proposes to do takes years or decades; and maintaining good security and a good reputation across that long period of time is very difficult, as Sun recently demonstrated in t

Re: California bars free speech of those cutting deals on votes

2000-11-01 Thread Greg Broiles
to use civil suits; against federal agents, it's not a 1983 action, but one under federal common law, a la _Bivens v. Six Unknown Agents_, a Supreme court case whose citation eludes me at the moment. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 897 Oakland CA 94604

Re: Nader

2000-11-02 Thread Greg Broiles
od for him - but it makes me wonder where he'd draw the line between "wealth that's deserved" and "wealth that's not deserved." -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 897 Oakland CA 94604

Re: Declan on Bell

2000-11-11 Thread Greg Broiles
it is used as an additive to natural gas to make gas leaks distinctive and noticeable. I don't remember whether or not Jim has taken credit for the stink-bombing in a non-coercive environment. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 897 Oakland CA 94604

Re: identity-as-bits vs. identity-as-meat

2000-11-16 Thread Greg Broiles
say) than an ultra-high-security, backed-with-a-bond key which Boeing's Legal Department uses to digitally sign sensitive papers. I believe Greg Broiles is still working for Signet Assurance, www.sac.net, which is one company tackling parts of this problem. Whether they will be a domin

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-16 Thread Greg Broiles
the risks they face in a transaction. That feeling is unrelated to what's actually happening, but it does serve to lubricate the wheels of commerce. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 897 Oakland CA 94604

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-16 Thread Greg Broiles
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 08:11:25PM -0600, Mac Norton wrote: Of course not. Unilateral offers can be made to a defined class of persons and accepted by action thereon. An old principle, but valid still. MacN On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Greg Broiles wrote: It has been conventional wisdom

Re: Keystroke-monitoring in NJ Mob Case

2000-12-05 Thread Greg Broiles
/665.html if you care to meditate a little on the old "quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" question; or at 923 F.2d 665 for the old-fashioned. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 897 Oakland CA 94604

Re: Missed News: US Adopts Euro Cyber Crime Proposal ...

2000-12-05 Thread Greg Broiles
. But most of the left is too superstitious about having a personal relationship with violence for a likely suspect to emerge - they don't really embrace it until they're already in power, and then they're happy to use the existing institutional providers of force. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: IBM Uses Keystroke-monitoring in NJ Mob Case (was Re: BNA'sInternet Law News (ILN) - 12/5/00)

2000-12-05 Thread Greg Broiles
tracks when they're not following the rules. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 897 Oakland CA 94604

Re: Knowing your customer

2000-12-06 Thread Greg Broiles
s they're sometimes used instead of banks to avoid the KYC rules. Or am I thinking of something else? -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 897 Oakland CA 94604

Re: Masks [was: Re: About 5yr. log retention]

2000-12-09 Thread Greg Broiles
the laws of the United States. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 897 Oakland CA 94604

Re: Perry's Paint Fable comes to mind...

2000-12-14 Thread Greg Broiles
it themselves if they order it from a spy catalog. Everyone can afford it at Fry's - and learn thing about their friends and neighbors that they'll someday wish they hadn't. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 897 Oakland CA 94604

Re: nambla

2000-12-14 Thread Greg Broiles
of thing was predicted in Isaiah 19:9 " .. and they who weave networks shall be confounded." Don't get too wound up about it. -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 897 Oakland CA 94604