Re: News: 'U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship'

2001-09-01 Thread Faustine
> At 03:19 PM 9/1/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote: >> > >> > When you talk about "collaborating" and ZKS selling beta software to >> > the NSA, are you saying you've got information that ZKS gave the >> > NSA access to more information than the general public got, and/or >> > that the NSA got their

Re: News: 'U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship'

2001-09-01 Thread Greg Broiles
At 03:19 PM 9/1/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote: > > > > When you talk about "collaborating" and ZKS selling beta software to > > the NSA, are you saying you've got information that ZKS gave the NSA > > access to more information than the general public got, and/or that > > the NSA got their access

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-09-01 Thread Faustine
Tim Wrote: >> On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote: > >> Consistent with your misconception about big computers being useful for >> brute-force cryptanalyis, > > I never said that and you know it. Nice troll, though. >You did indeed. Several times you alluded to what big and po

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-09-01 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, September 1, 2001, at 11:30 AM, Faustine wrote: > On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 01:27 PM, Faustine wrote: > >> On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote: > >> Consistent with your misconception about big computers being useful for >> brute-force cryptanalyis, > > I nev

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-09-01 Thread Faustine
On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 01:27 PM, Faustine wrote: > On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote: >> Tim wrote: >>> But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design >>> eventually. >> If getting the design "eventually" were good enough, why the keen >> inte

Re: News: 'U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship'

2001-09-01 Thread Faustine
Greg wrote: > At 05:31 PM 8/31/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote: >>Sure. But to what extent can you collaborate without a)approaching >>full- blown collusion or b) getting taken for a ride in spite of your >>best efforts? > > When you talk about "collaborating" and ZKS selling beta software to > the N

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread Faustine
On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote: > Tim wrote: >> But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design >> eventually. > If getting the design "eventually" were good enough, why the keen > interest in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason.

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Faustine wrote: > Tim wrote: > > >But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design > >eventually. > > If getting the design "eventually" were good enough, why the keen interest > in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason. As I recall, t

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread Tim May
On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote: > Tim wrote: > >> But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design >> eventually. > > If getting the design "eventually" were good enough, why the keen > interest > in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread Greg Broiles
At 02:43 PM 8/31/2001 -0400, Fausting wrote: >Tim wrote: > >But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design > >eventually. >If getting the design "eventually" were good enough, why the keen interest >in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason. What's the rea

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread Faustine
Tim wrote: >But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design >eventually. If getting the design "eventually" were good enough, why the keen interest in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason. Maybe in the long run, it's right to view any objections as

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread David Honig
At 02:41 PM 8/30/01 -0400, Faustine wrote: >And by the way, if you're going to question >SafeWeb for cooperating with CIA, you might as well criticize ZeroKnowledge >for selling a boatload of the Freedom beta to the NSA in 1999 as well. What >did they think they wanted it for, farting around on

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread David Honig
At 02:52 PM 8/30/01 -0400, Faustine wrote: > >And as long as you have companies like ZeroKnowledge who are >willing/gullible/greedy/just plain fucking stupid enough to sell their >betas to the NSA, you never will. > >~Faustine. If knowledge of how something works breaks it, it wasn't worth hav

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread jamesd
-- On 30 Aug 2001, at 14:41, Faustine wrote: > Of course it has a trap door, that's probably the whole point > of getting it over there in the first place. And by the way, if > you're going to question SafeWeb for cooperating with CIA, you > might as well criticize ZeroKnowledge for selling

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread jamesd
-- On 30 Aug 2001, at 14:52, Faustine wrote: > And as long as you have companies like ZeroKnowledge who are > willing/gullible/greedy/just plain fucking stupid enough to > sell their betas to the NSA, you never will. There is nothing wrong with selling betas to the NSA. I make my crypto

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread David Honig
At 10:02 AM 8/30/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: >Alas, the marketing of such "dissident-grade untraceability" is >difficult. Partly because anything that is dissident-grade is also >pedophile-grade, money launderer-grade, freedom fighter-grade, >terrorist-grade, etc. > >--Tim May How about a marketi

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread Ken Brown
Faustine wrote: [...] > Of course it has a trap door, that's probably the whole point of getting it > over there in the first place. And by the way, if you're going to question > SafeWeb for cooperating with CIA, you might as well criticize ZeroKnowledge > for selling a boatload of the Freedom b

Re: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread Adam Shostack
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:14:46PM -0700, Tim May wrote: | A mixnet of the N extant remailers offers pretty damned good | untraceability. Needs some work on getting remailers more robust, but | the underlying nested encryption looks to be a formidable challenge for | Shin Bet to crack. http://

RE: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread Phillip H. Zakas
> Adam writes: > As far as your opinions of our business, well, I'm really uninterested > in getting into a pissing match with you. The reality is that customers > and investors give us money tp produce privacy tools, and they, not you, > are the ones I need to keep happy. The reality is that pe

Re: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-31 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, August 30, 2001, at 02:11 PM, Faustine wrote: > True, of course they do. "Technology is morally neutral," sure, > whatever. > Yay capitalism. I still think handing over your security product beta > on a > silver platter in exchange for a nice fat government contract is a > stupid,

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-30 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Faustine wrote: > And as long as you have companies like ZeroKnowledge who are > willing/gullible/greedy/just plain fucking stupid enough to sell their > betas to the NSA, you never will. Okay, that clinches it. You're a moron. Why *shoul

RE: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-30 Thread Phillip H. Zakas
> Faustine wrote: > I wouldn't trust either of them with anything significant. More importantly, the claims that safeweb/triangle boy actually works may be misleading to the people who will rely on its claims of securely circumventing government censorship in china. The entire in/out bound traf

Re: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-30 Thread Faustine
Mike wrote: "Faustine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >Adam wrote: >On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:02:54AM -0700, Tim May wrote: >| Alas, the marketing of such "dissident-grade untraceability" is >| difficult. Partly because anything that is dissident-grade is also >| pedophile-grade, money launderer-g

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-30 Thread mmotyka
"Faustine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >Adam wrote: >On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:02:54AM -0700, Tim May wrote: >| Alas, the marketing of such "dissident-grade untraceability" is >| difficult. Partly because anything that is dissident-grade is also >| pedophile-grade, money launderer-grade, freedo

Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-30 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, August 30, 2001, at 12:16 PM, Adam Shostack wrote: > As far as your opinions of our business, well, I'm really uninterested > in getting into a pissing match with you. The reality is that > customers and investors give us money tp produce privacy tools, and > they, not you, are the

News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

2001-08-30 Thread Tim May
ship (e.g., of talk by freedom fighters)? Or when Denmark finances a system to bypass crackdowns on teen erotica in the U.S.? And so on. Here's a brief excerpt: Thursday August 30 3:23 AM ET U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship -NYT NEW YORK (Reuters) - United States government agencies