Re: Moral Crypto

2001-09-05 Thread Fisher Mark
> Killing remailers will be a by-product of regulating the net. Regulating the net to this extent would be a huge undertaking. Trying to regulate dead-tree publishers to this level would be a large undertaking, a task not likely to be accomplished without a lot of debate in Congress -- and there

Re: Moral Crypto

2001-09-05 Thread Fisher Mark
> Compare this with the original claim: "in a properly designed > anonymity > system the users will be, well, anonymous, and it should be impossible > to tell any more about them than that they pay their bills on time." > These examples illustrate the falsehood of this claim. Much more > is lear

An efficient Scheme for Proving a Shuffle

2001-08-31 Thread Fisher Mark
"An efficient Scheme for Proving a Shuffle", Crypto 2001, Jun Furukawa and Kazue Sako (NEC Corporation), apparently could be used to show that a remailer is processing all messages without revealing the header or contents of any message. (Apparently because I haven't read the paper -- just heard

RE: Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread Fisher Mark
Title: RE: Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot >When you were asked where were all the supposed wealthy freedom fighters >in communist controlled regimes, you came back with Osama bin Laden. Tim's point, which many seem to have missed, is that by design a tool that enforces the privacy

Re: The Privacy/Untraceability Sweet Spot

2001-08-31 Thread Fisher Mark
>When you were asked where were all the supposed wealthy freedom fighters >in communist controlled regimes, you came back with Osama bin Laden. Tim's point, which many seem to have missed, is that by design a tool that enforces the privacy, anonymity, and pseudonymity of a women striving for equa

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

2000-11-01 Thread Fisher Mark
>Radio is cheap and hot. When was the last time you heard a Libertarian >sentiment on radio (except talk radio). The closest I've heard are the "Vote >Freedom" ads by Charleton Heston. Last week I heard 2 different ads for Indiana LP candidates on a station that plays hip-hop, alternative, and

RE: ZKS economic analysis

2000-07-19 Thread Fisher Mark
> To help you understand this further, what it means is that if > there's a > database out there, somewhere, collecting personally > identifying information > about me, I should know about its EXISTENCE. The mere fact > that this database > exists should not be a secret to society at large (

security software: InTether

2000-07-18 Thread Fisher Mark
David Honig writes: >You want to overwrite a dozen times with random (each time) data. I'd be cautious about saying that. Way back when I held a security clearance, the instructions were: * Overwrite with patterns 99 times for SECRET materials; and * Overwrite with patterns 999 times for TOP SEC

RE: Nym meat (was RE: How to avoid participating in census legall

2000-03-28 Thread Fisher Mark
> Don't take offense at such personal deconstruction. I'm > merely pointing out what we *actually* know, vs. what > is claimed. Your reply was the funniest thing I've read today. "Group of ephemeral psyop pranksters" indeed! == Mark Leigh

RE: How to avoid participating in census legally?

2000-03-24 Thread Fisher Mark
Reese wrote: >Under the Buchanan admin, they probably will? > >And just wtf makes you think Buchanan has a candles chance in a tornado? > >The problem isn't what an un-electable candidate wants to do, a) Unless Gore or Bush declares themselves Dictator-For-Life, there will be elections again in 2

RE: CyberPatrol sues cryptanalysts who revealed flaws in

2000-03-24 Thread Fisher Mark
Reese wrote: >>What about if I purchase the Navaho module for my Dragon >>Dictate, voice input software, and have it translate the conversations I >>capture from by back porch? >> >IANAL. This may fall under illegal eavesdropping, whether you make a >recording MayOrMayNot be a determining factor

RE: U.S. Census questions

2000-03-24 Thread Fisher Mark
>What I object to is the _forced_ "kindness" based on mob rule, where >it is decreed that we must all donate money at the point of a gun to >support welfare bums who got high instead of reading and studying. Welfare may have started with the best of intentions, but the result is multiple genera

RE: CyberPatrol sues cryptanalysts who revealed flaws in itssoftw

2000-03-24 Thread Fisher Mark
> Ed Gerck wrote: > > As to the counter-example you ask, the general public profits by > > lack of disclosure of the algorithm that allows nuclear bombs > > to be made with 1 pound of enriched uranium. We have less > > nuclear powers. > I'd like one of the real physicists on the list to weigh i

RE: CENSUS INTRUSIONS ARE A THREAT TO FREEDOM By James Bovard

2000-03-20 Thread Fisher Mark
Relevant article: "Even Databases That Lie Can Be Compromised", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-4, No. 1, January 1978. == Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Indianapo

RE: Libraries - Re: LogJam

2000-03-10 Thread Fisher Mark
Tom Vogt wrote: > cataloging and database functions while you use some > computerized search > engine to sift through it. but any search engine relies either on the > meaningfullness of full-text search, which is questionable, or on some > kind of catalogue, even if it's just META keywords. in th