bbc cell phone tracking story

2000-08-15 Thread No User
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_874000/874419.stm Video postcards can be sent with 3rd-Generation phones By BBC News Online internet reporter Mark Ward The next generation of mobile phones will make it much easier for the police to carry out covert surveillance of citizens, s

The Sound Of Security?

2000-08-15 Thread A. Melon
New credit-card technology uses sound waves to enforce security By Jathon Sapsford THE WALL STREET JOURNAL August 14 Ñ An Israeli start-up has created a bit of gadgetry that uses sound waves to address some of the biggest issues of e-commerce: fraud, privacy and convenience TO DEMONSTRATE, Ala

Privacy Groups Say Cell Phone Rule Gives Police Wider Powers

2000-08-15 Thread No User
Eric Rosenberg c.2000 Hearst Newspapers WASHINGTON - In what privacy rights advocates say is a significant threat to civil liberties in the digital age, law enforcement agencies may soon be able to turn the cellular phone into a ready-made tool for nosing around in private lives. J If a

horseflesh und piggies

2000-08-15 Thread Anonymous
At 05:46 PM 8/14/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If you are going to go to all of that trouble you might >as well just shoot the horse and its rider. But remember, in California, you can't sell the meat for food. (Of the horse, that is; the recent "you can't sell horses for food" referendum

Mail-order cat piss (was Re: Trolls)

2000-08-15 Thread David Honig
At 07:03 PM 8/14/00 -0400, Steven Furlong wrote: > >I could probably come up with uses for cat pee if I set my mind to it. >I'm having considerable difficulty with the idea of commercially- >available cat pee. Is it sanitized? Are Dept of Health certificates >needed? How on earth can you make a pr

Re: The Sound Of Security?

2000-08-15 Thread David Honig
At 04:25 AM 8/15/00 -0400, A. Melon wrote: >New credit-card technology uses >sound waves to enforce security So now in addition to shoulder-surfing we worry about ultrasonic tape recorders...

Mail-order cat piss (was Re: Trolls)

2000-08-15 Thread David Honig
At 09:36 PM 8/14/00 -0400, Eric Murray wrote: > Horses are much more visual than >anything else In that case the polihooligans should dress up in strange costumes. Only the horses that have worked the SF parades (or certain parts of Hollywood) would be able to deal with the sights...

Mail-order cat piss (was Re: Trolls)

2000-08-15 Thread David Honig
At 12:56 AM 8/15/00 -0400, Reese wrote: >Horse manure accomplishes the same thing, if used instead of cattle manure >as a fertilizer. Well just as the hoohah got started, someone from PETA dropped a ton of horse manure on the hotel steps. Didn't keep the pigs or horses away. (The activist was dr

Re: AOL and "hate speech"

2000-08-15 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "petro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> In any case, I never suggested that MenWithGuns should force AOL to > >> modify its hate speech policy. > > > >It could have been easily interpreted as such (and it has been). > > Anyone who has been reading Mr. May's missives for any l

C2NET

2000-08-15 Thread Steve Schear
We have another winner! Red Hat adds Web server software with C2Net buy By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 14, 2000, 10:20 a.m. PT Red Hat has agreed to acquire C2Net in a stock deal worth about $44 million, expanding its domain from Linux to another major open-source packa

ADV: High Search Engine Placement

2000-08-15 Thread mike898
Removal instructions below I saw your listing on the internet. I work for a company that specializes in getting clients web sites listed as close to the top of the major search engines as possible. Our fee is only $29.95 per month to submit your site at least twice a month to over 350 search

Re: Quantum Cryptography and resistance

2000-08-15 Thread David Honig
At 01:37 PM 8/15/00 -0400, Timothy Brown wrote: >Hey, folks - > >Can anyone provide pointers for the layman to documents describing >theoretical cryptosystems resistant to quantum cryptanalysis? The >assumption is made that those systems would be implemented on quantum >computing devices. > >Esse

Re: Quantum Cryptography and resistance

2000-08-15 Thread dmolnar
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, David Honig wrote: [original poster asks :] > >Essentially what i'm asking is: How would cryptography evolve once a > >quantum computer is available? > > > > Simple. Use bigger keys. Bigger by the work-factor that quantum > computation gives you (see Grover's algorithm)

Re: horseflesh und piggies

2000-08-15 Thread anonymous
> But remember, in California, you can't sell the meat for food. > (Of the horse, that is; the recent "you can't sell horses > for food" referendum You can't *sell* horses for food, but could you host a free BBQ? (Imagine protesters making signs for "Official DNC BBQ -->" and serving up horse

Re: user name and password?

2000-08-15 Thread Steven Furlong
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > http://cryptome.org/ > > I tried to access the archives and got the attached jpg. > > I wonder if fumble, bumble and inept is involved with this? Use http://216.167.120.50/ instead. There were "problems" a few weeks back, caused by asshole, jerkoff, and dickhead.

Mail-order cat piss (was Re: Trolls)

2000-08-15 Thread Richard Crisp
This is legitimate, the urine of foxes and bobcats is regularly used to keep pests out of gardens such as squirrels, moles, voles, and other such critters. I understand that Skunks can be kept away with such products too. rdc Harmon Seaver wrote: > Heck, you can get some pretty nice scents

Mail-order cat piss (was Re: Trolls)

2000-08-15 Thread Reese
At 09:48 AM 15/08/00 -0400, David Honig wrote: >At 12:56 AM 8/15/00 -0400, Reese wrote: >>Horse manure accomplishes the same thing, if used instead of cattle manure >>as a fertilizer. > >Well just as the hoohah got started, someone from PETA dropped >a ton of horse manure on the hotel steps.