On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 07:45:52PM -0800, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
Nokia E61: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E61
Apropos mobiles, I've terminated my phone service contract with
Vodafone because of German (EU, actually) data retention (starting 20080101),
and am switching to anonymous
Apropos mobiles, I've terminated my phone service contract with
Vodafone because of German (EU, actually) data retention (starting
20080101), and am switching to anonymous prepaid.
Won't help you. Kooky decisions like the Holger Voss case banning logging
for other than billing purposes are on
On Thursday 22 Nov 2007 2:18 pm, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
This happened to me once. It bricked a couple of thumb drives and
additionally an USB mouse. Later, I found that the USB interface was
wired badly. You might want to not put anything in that drive anymore.
After many years I find myself
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:09:31PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Won't help you. Kooky decisions like the Holger Voss case banning logging
They may log whatever they want, they still don't know
who owns the phone. And it just may happen that all they
log is a VPN tunnel. Hence the need
They may log whatever they want, they still don't know
who owns the phone. And it just may happen that all they
So you get asked to show ID when buying prepaid phones. If you aren't
already.
srs
On Nov 22, 2007 3:17 PM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:09:31PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Won't help you. Kooky decisions like the Holger Voss case banning logging
They may log whatever they want, they still don't know
who owns the phone. And it
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:21:59PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
So you get asked to show ID when buying prepaid phones. If you aren't
Not all prepaid contracts require that. It may be a temporary
loophole, and one I'll certainly will exploit.
Apart from that with a mobile flat rate I
On Nov 22, 2007 3:39 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For the sake of comparison: I've bought SIM cards in Malaysia, China,
Thailand and Singapore and would rate them in that order for ease of
activation, ranging from instant to half an hour in queue. All but
Malaysia required
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:34:44PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
I have this tinfoil hat somewhere around .. I will be glad to ship it to you
any time you like
You must be reading some different news than I'm reading.
Two is coincidence, three is enemy action. Seven, uh, I
guess it's
You must be reading some different news than I'm reading.
Two is coincidence, three is enemy action. Seven, uh, I
guess it's time to learn sniper shooting.
Just approaching it from a different angle. And having worked in cooperation
with / alongside law enforcement in various job related
i'm not sure what is sillier: the dutch testing potential immigrants'
reactions to images of topless women sunbathing and gay men kissing [1],
or the americans asking a world-famous (english) columnist to spell i
want to be a good american in order to get US citizenship [2].
-rishab
Roger Cohen
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:01:24PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Just approaching it from a different angle. And having worked in cooperation
with / alongside law enforcement in various job related situations
I live in one of the safest places on this planet. There's absolutely
no
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
i'm not sure what is sillier: the dutch testing potential immigrants'
reactions to images of topless women sunbathing and gay men kissing [1],
or the americans asking a world-famous (english) columnist to spell i
want to be a good american in order to get US
Eugen Leitl wrote:
I live in one of the safest places on this planet. There's absolutely
no reason to go police state (unless our rulers are preparing
Oh you do, with various eastern European scam artists and gangsters using
those phones to run scams, buy and sell cars on escrow etc. Among
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:37:01PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Oh you do, with various eastern European scam artists and gangsters using
When I ran a Tor exit node, I was cited to local police station
three times, in order to testify on the case to the BKA. All of these
citations but
On Nov 22, 2007 1:09 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For the sake of comparison: I've bought SIM cards in Malaysia, China,
Thailand and Singapore and would rate them in that order for ease of
activation, ranging from instant to half an hour in queue. All but
Malaysia required
On Nov 22, 2007 12:47 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
I must also get reasonably wealthy soon, it increasingly looks
as if Germany (EU?) is not the right place to retire, or even
to live long-term.
Any suggestions? So far Switzerland and some parts of Scandinavia
look reasonable. Apart from that,
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
i'm not sure what is sillier: the dutch testing potential immigrants'
reactions to images of topless women sunbathing and gay men kissing [1],
or the americans asking a world-famous (english) columnist to spell i
want to be a good american in order to get US
On Nov 22, 2007 3:28 AM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hope OpenMoko second hardware edition will be here soon.
I no longer trust mobiles devices with proprietary firmware.
PS. The FIC 1973 GTA02 also has closed source/binary GSM firmware, and
they're having a lot of trouble getting
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:09:50PM -0500, Aditya Chadha wrote:
PS. The FIC 1973 GTA02 also has closed source/binary GSM firmware, and
Yes, but that's not much of a problem in practice. GSM encryption
is effectively worthless (IMPI catchers, ahem), you probably can't
reflash GSM module over
Udhay Shankar N wrote: [ on 11:39 AM 11/19/2007 ]
So, I think it should be all right to go with twin-sharing, yes?
Show of hands of who's staying overnight?
OK, couple more admin points:
Fireflies is expecting 10-15 people to show up around 11:30 AM on 1st
December; and ~10 people to stay
On Nov 23, 2007 10:41 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 23, 2007 9:39 AM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 23, 2007 10:29 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Things to bring:
* Your beverage[s] of choice - enough for yourself, and some to share.
On Nov 23, 2007 9:39 AM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 23, 2007 10:29 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Things to bring:
* Your beverage[s] of choice - enough for yourself, and some to share.
My poison of choice is cholestrol, preferably in the shape of meat.
On Friday 23 Nov 2007 10:41 am, Deepa Mohan wrote:
BijuFireflies is some kind of ashram as far as I was able to
gather last time...so you would probably want o find out what stuff
they might object to...''
IIRC you people had Chicken a la car tire last time right? And some
fireworks to
I plan to join you as well will arrive with Danese on Dec 1st .
On Nov 23, 2007 11:10 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Biju Chacko wrote: [ on 10:39 AM 11/23/2007 ]
My poison of choice is cholestrol, preferably in the shape of meat.
What's the policy on bringing, say, shikampuri
Biju Chacko wrote: [ on 10:39 AM 11/23/2007 ]
My poison of choice is cholestrol, preferably in the shape of meat.
What's the policy on bringing, say, shikampuri kebabs? I undertake to
clean up after myself and not leave any non-veg garbage for the staff
of the veg venue to deal with.
From my
On Nov 23, 2007 10:29 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Things to bring:
* Your beverage[s] of choice - enough for yourself, and some to share.
My poison of choice is cholestrol, preferably in the shape of meat.
What's the policy on bringing, say, shikampuri kebabs? I undertake to
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