Re: Weird message from someone named "NIPC"

2001-07-27 Thread Alan Olsen
little, well, unusual. --Declan "A mind-fuck is a terrible thing to waste." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman

Re: Lasers and ICBMs

2001-07-27 Thread Alan Olsen
ently hit that communications satilite. Sorry!" "Oops! Accidently hit that densely populated urban area!" Oops! "Accidently" hit Tim May's house!" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman

Re: Airline passengers, revisited

2001-07-27 Thread Alan Olsen
he proper authorities and favored trading partners. To opt out of this program, just poke your eyes out with the tool provided at the desk." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "Al

Re: turning off your computer turns away hackers

2001-07-27 Thread Alan Olsen
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Subcommander Bob wrote: > "turning off your computer turns away hackers" Not if I have an axe. ]:> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All powe

Re: Congress hard at work: Cereal box regulation

2001-08-01 Thread Alan Olsen
Safeway is going to start carrying "PornoPops" any time soon. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman

RE: Laws of mathematics, not of men

2001-08-01 Thread Alan Olsen
do fuck us > so badly, please. Better to take steps that put us outside of their reach. "The first rule of not being seen is ''Don't stand up''." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit th

Re: Laws of mathematics, not of men

2001-08-02 Thread Alan Olsen
es wounded kittens or battered small children. (Deep fried in a light tempura...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman

RE: Congress hard at work: Cereal box regulation

2001-08-02 Thread Alan Olsen
eep a straight face in the building, let alone in front of those goons...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman

RE: Congress hard at work: Cereal box regulation

2001-08-02 Thread Alan Olsen
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Steve Schear wrote: > At 01:40 AM 8/2/2001 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote: > >On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: > > > >It would be worth it to go just for the purpose of asking what they were > >going to do about cereal killers. > > You me

Re: Criminalizing crypto criticism

2001-07-31 Thread Alan Olsen
helps if you can get a prosecutor that is working on a promotion to help out.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman

Re: Criminalizing crypto criticism

2001-08-01 Thread Alan Olsen
(Something like "If I do my job, you might decide to put me in jail on a whim".) > At 05:43 PM 7/31/2001, Alan Olsen wrote: > > >All they have to do is make a messy example out of one or two. (It also > >helps if you can get a prosecutor that is working on a promotion

Re: AMD to incorporate EMBASSY technology (maybe)

2000-03-28 Thread Alan Olsen
At 07:40 PM 3/28/00 -0500, Wei Dai wrote: >I've already decided not to buy anything from Intel again (more because >of their lack of driver support than anything else). If AMD really >follows though on this deal I'm going to have a really hard time buying >my next computer. Linux runs on the alp

Re: Slander & Defamation?

2000-03-28 Thread Alan Olsen
At 06:46 PM 3/28/00 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: >Actually Mattel yesterday was talking about a class action suit against >the *cphack mirror site operators*. Another example of "Law in the Corporate Interest". And people wonder why I am an anarchist... --- | Terrorists - The Boog

Re: Help add strong crypto to AirPorts

2000-06-14 Thread Alan Olsen
/ There was an article that showed up on Slashdot a while ago that showed how to upgrade the AirPort to strong crypto. (It uses a standard PCMCIA crypto card.) I will see if I can dig up the URL. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my

Re: "Microsoft crap" considered disingenuous

2000-06-22 Thread Alan Olsen
At 07:11 PM 6/22/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >(Not to say that Linux doesn't have some advantages, obviously. > > > > The main advantage the Linux has in this regard is that the "average user" > > cannot modify system binaries. This makes worms of this sort more > > difficult to perpet

Re: Crypto Typing ID

2000-06-29 Thread Alan Olsen
goes to show that reporters are getting lazy again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: More trolling from cops?n

2000-06-29 Thread Alan Olsen
; > *If* it was a crime, *then* the cops/feds explanation would be most > fitting. But it is not. Since when did cops need to know the law or follow it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del

Re: "ChronoCryption" algorithm - $50 reward for spotting a flaw

2000-09-04 Thread Alan Olsen
; the sociopolitical rants and spam. You are not paying attention. Actually the spam is an experiment is stegonography. (But only some of them.) How to tell the difference is left as an exercise for the reader. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen

Re: domestic bioterrorism incident in FLA school

2000-09-13 Thread Alan Olsen
ey will buy more papers, watch your news programs, and be led by the nose into giving up whatever rights and property demanded by those in power. Of course in Congress they think "Domestic Bioterrorism" is the day the maid serves the chicken sushi with sun-ripened mayonaise for

Re: More Columbine fall-out

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Olsen
wonder if they will practice their raids by converting the plans into Quake III levels... [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: RC4 - To license or not?

2000-10-08 Thread Alan Olsen
At 09:27 AM 10/8/00 -0700, Greg Broiles wrote: >On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 03:12:20AM +0200, Stefan Arentz wrote: > > Real-To: Stefan Arentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Applied Crypto says this about RC4. > > > > So what's the deal with RC4? It's no longer a trade secret, > > so presumably anyone

Re: How the Feds will try to ban strong anonymity

2000-10-08 Thread Alan Olsen
At 04:30 PM 10/8/00 -0400, you wrote: > -- >At 03:33 PM 10/8/2000 -0400, David Honig wrote: > > Wasn't a "license to drive" on the "info superhighway" bandied about > > when the latter term was sickeningly popular? > >Everything on the internet is a packet with a destination address and a >re

Re: How the Feds will try to ban strong anonymity

2000-10-08 Thread Alan Olsen
At 03:33 PM 10/8/00 -0400, you wrote: >At 02:39 AM 10/8/00 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: > >Require ISPs to get a license to operate. Terms can be set arbitrarily > >high. (Bonus points if you make them pay for the monitoring hardware, > >software, and governmental labor.) > >Wasn't a "license to dr

Re: US report urges Arafat to use torture for peace

2000-11-05 Thread Alan Olsen
obert Fisk in Gaza > "If you can't beat em, beat em!" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: Courts interfering with election

2000-11-07 Thread Alan Olsen
At 10:10 PM 11/7/00 -0500, David Honig wrote: >At 09:31 PM 11/7/00 -0500, Tim May wrote: >If they work hours such > >that they cannot be at the polling places during these hours, they > >obtain absentee ballots. Or they take personal time off of work. Or > >they go in an hour later. Etc. > >Califo

Re: A strange election scenario.

2000-11-08 Thread Alan Olsen
At 11:28 AM 11/8/00 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >It looks like Gore has won the popular vote, and >that Florida is more likely to tip to Bush than to >Gore. If this happens, the show is not >necessarily over. > >If Bush wins Florida, and Gore wins Oregon, >the electoral college will stand at Gore 26

Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online

2000-11-22 Thread Alan Olsen
ng. True, some good would come out of them. A whole bunch of bad would come out of them as well. Just because you can do something, does not mean that you should. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: Electric Kettles

2001-01-04 Thread Alan Olsen
ths... [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: MS Product Activation for Windows (licensing)

2001-01-09 Thread Alan Olsen
hem to the machines. Microsoft is just trying to squeeze every last dollar from their customers. Many of them are going to get tired of it and tell them where to go. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: "Information wants to be free"

2001-02-27 Thread Alan Olsen
ot; (*) and _someone_ will make > the songs or images or whatever available for absolutely nothing. > Good examples of this are Napster, of course, and the > alt.binaries.erotica.* Usenet newsgroups. "Information *actually* wants to be tied up and spanked." [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Can I reproduce out of print books?

2001-03-11 Thread Alan Olsen
n the feds are taking, all forms of censorship will have copyright violations attached for extra jail time added. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: did cryptome.org lose it's name?

2001-03-29 Thread Alan Olsen
ask!" It would help if you spelled it correctly... "cryptome.org", not "crytpome.org". [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Re: Rogue terror state violates Geneva Convention

2002-01-13 Thread Alan Olsen
ovies, we are either seeing a remake of "Dave" or "Weekend At Bernies". -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman