RE: Trusting HavenCo [was: Sealand Rant] CPUNK

2000-06-13 Thread petro
> >Simply fill one of the lower legs of the platfrom with > >mercury, and a little high explosives. Have a panic button in the ops > >center. The SAS lands, and 1000 gallons of pure mercury are blasted > >out into the channel. That wouldn't be nice. > >Plays heck with your mercury delay li

Re: jolly roger

2000-06-13 Thread David Honig
At 05:46 PM 6/12/00 -0400, David Marshall wrote: >Libertarian ideals are something altogether different as are, I would >assume, the more refined anarchist ideals. A libertarian accepts a minimal government to protect against nonconsensual acts (violence, fraud) and invasion. An anarchist favors

Re: Trusting HavenCo [was: Sealand Rant] CPUNK

2000-06-13 Thread David Honig
At 06:34 PM 6/12/00 -0400, David Marshall wrote: At the press conference, the government just >tells the truth: Gimme a break. The crater was a 'federal day care center', at least on the first floor...

losing laptops, opsec

2000-06-13 Thread David Honig
When you read about losing laptops in Los Alamos (and London), you have to wonder: why don't those folks encrypt their drives? They are somehow thinking physical security is sufficient, and slacking off otherwise.

Re: losing laptops, opsec

2000-06-13 Thread Adam Langley
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 12:12:01PM -0400, David Honig wrote: > > When you read about losing laptops in Los Alamos (and London), you have > to wonder: why don't those folks encrypt their drives? They > are somehow thinking physical security is sufficient, and slacking > off otherwise. > The lap

RE: ZKS makes the WSJ (again)

2000-06-13 Thread David Honig
At 02:20 PM 6/13/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> While we're fantasizing, let's imagine that it uses some kind of crypto >> credential system to prevent abuse. Is this feasible? > >What do you mean by "abuse"? Abuse in such a system definable, e.g., someone who pretends to be someone els

Re: ZKS makes the WSJ (again)

2000-06-13 Thread Harmon Seaver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Criticizing the company is not disloyal. Turning up the heat when they > fail to follow through on their promises is not unfriendly. Cypherpunks > are actually helping their friends and allies within ZKS when they plainly > state how unacceptable is the current state

Re: ZKS makes the WSJ (again)

2000-06-13 Thread Harmon Seaver
Tim May wrote: > (Is it readily available now? Is the Mac version out yet? I know > someone was talking about using the Windows version running inside a > password-secured Windows session on a Mac--using either Virtual PC or > SoftWindows--but I haven't seen this user mentioning this in a while.

Re: losing laptops, opsec

2000-06-13 Thread David Marshall
David Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When you read about losing laptops in Los Alamos (and London), you have > to wonder: why don't those folks encrypt their drives? They > are somehow thinking physical security is sufficient, and slacking > off otherwise. The recent uproar over two hard d

Help add strong crypto to AirPorts

2000-06-13 Thread Lucky Green
Apple is taking a customer survey which features to add to the next generation Apple AirPort (IEEE 802.11). The current version only does weak crypto. You can cast your vote for strong crypto here: http://survey.apple.com/AirPort/ --Lucky

Re: Musings on the Economics of ZKS

2000-06-13 Thread petro
Mr May: >Will they sign up tens of millions? > >Myself, I'm wondering if they'll sign up a fraction of the 300,000 >they need at minimum. Ever, not just per year. "Freedom 1.1 is currently available for Windows 95 or 98 only." It's been what, a year now? No Unix/Linux/Solaris cl

RE: ZKS makes the WSJ (again)

2000-06-13 Thread petro
>I hate press releases more than most folks. A well-known >Cypherpunks-dominated company used to issue press releases in which >the press release would have commentary from the president, almost as >if a reporter was writing the story. You probably know this already, as I assume it was be

RE: ZKS makes the WSJ (again)

2000-06-13 Thread Lucky Green
Declan wrote about the ZKS burn rate: > Offsetting that, as an income stream, would be the deals with ISPs and a > probably relatively small revenue stream from individual subscribers. I > don't see either as generating tens of millions of dollars. In a pinch, > they could raise more cash in a hur

RE: ZKS makes the WSJ (again)

2000-06-13 Thread Lucky Green
Anon wrote: > The well intentioned kindness and patience which cypherpunks have > expressed towards ZKS is undoubtedly a major contributing factor for > why so little has been done to address the privacy lapses which Tim > May describes. Cypherpunks have themselves to blame for allowing this > to

Re: Trusting HavenCo [was: Sealand Rant] CPUNK

2000-06-13 Thread David Marshall
petro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the SAS are coming through the front door, you just went bankrupt. > > If England, France, Belgium etc. *new* that you would dump a > massively toxic witches brew into their fishing waters, they might > make sure that you weren't invaded by gu

Re: Trusting HavenCo [was: Sealand Rant] CPUNK

2000-06-13 Thread petro
>petro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If the SAS are coming through the front door, you just went bankrupt. >> >> If England, France, Belgium etc. *new* that you would dump a >> massively toxic witches brew into their fishing waters, they might >> make sure that you weren't invaded b