Re: Net Libel

2000-04-02 Thread Adam Langley
> >Now that you bring up this Godfrey matter I can see the similarities. > > Yes, but this is the Internet, and with both you and Phil's > longstanding reputations, it's easy to discount ridiculous hyperbole. > I doubt anyone take Phill seriously enough that you'd have any case. > I must confe

Re: Anonymous (real) mailings.

2000-04-11 Thread Adam Langley
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 12:33:35AM -0400, Missouri FreeNet Administration wrote: > If anyone on this list has received an "anonymous" diskette in the mail > recently (as I just did), would you please contact me *off list*? no, but be careful. You can do some very nasty things to disks (like put s

Re: crypto question

2000-04-11 Thread Adam Langley
> i've been thinking about this for a while, and i was wondering if it is > possible to use some form of crypto to allow someone to read and append to a > file, but force them to have a hard-to-crack private key if they ever want to > delete from it? > > thanks for the help > matt You are a l

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: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

2000-07-20 Thread Adam Langley
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:56:09PM -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote: > It is also not at all impossible that the government could be pissed off by > your anarchist tendencies and plant some encrypted stuff on your computer > (like, for example, sending you encrypted mail with a forged "from" address >

Re: John Young, Freedom Fighter Extraordinaire

2000-07-21 Thread Adam Langley
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 12:25:42PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: > [Normally, I detest 'me too' posts, but John needs to know that a lot of > people > back him up on this decision.] Same here (hating "me toos"), it's so nice not to see people rolling over for the govt. Thank you John. It's generally

Re: FBI Requests File Removal

2000-07-21 Thread Adam Langley
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 03:03:19PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Wildly extrapolating from cpunk subscriber numbers we can say that there > >are probably no more than 100 000 individuals worldwide that have sufficient > >understanding of the internet technology to adequatly protect themselves

Re: mail list server with PGP

2000-08-17 Thread Adam Langley
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 02:27:11AM -0400, Anonymous wrote: > Functionality: posters send e-mail encrypted with the (single) server's key. > Server decrypts, then encrypts with each recipient's key as it > explodes the mail. Sounds a little pointless. I guess it must be a closed list otherwise peo

Re: PGP keysigning email daemon?

2000-08-29 Thread Adam Langley
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:12:52PM -0400, David Marshall wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryan Lackey) writes: > > > Given the low percentage of "normal user" PGP keys which are anything > > but self-signed, would people actually use/give-appropriate-trust to > > a service which signed PGP keys belong

Re: StoN, Diffie-Hellman, other junk..

2000-09-08 Thread Adam Langley
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:12:27PM -0400, Bill Stewart wrote: > Servers are the price of scalability. Correction - servers are the price of *easy* scalability. See Freenet for an example of self-organizing networks that are efficient. But it isn't easy, self-org networks are complex and subtle be

UK Govt seeks to capture and store everything for 7 years

2000-12-03 Thread Adam Langley
There is an Observer artical at: http://www.observer.co.uk//uk_news/story/0,6903,406191,00.html The leaked report refered to is at: http://cryptome.org/ncis-carnivore.htm Choate: There's no need to post the whole thing to the list now. AGL -- In an orderly world, there's always a place for t

FCC Slaps Anti-Drug TV Shows

2001-01-03 Thread Adam Langley
Quotes from http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52094-2000Dec26.html "Federal regulators have ruled that the major networks should have identified the White House as a sponsor of programs such as "The Practice," "The Drew Carey Show" and "America's Most Wanted" when their plots included

Re: Article: The coming backlash in privacy

2001-01-14 Thread Adam Langley
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:21:38AM -0500, An Metet wrote: > Amazon.com, the worldÕs largest online retailer, relies heavily on its marketing >database to ÒpersonaliseÓ its interactions with its 20m customers. Loyal customers >swear by AmazonÕs uncanny ability to recommend genuinely useful purcha