Re: Metaswitch cleared by FBI for spying

t's just something that happens automatically and painlessly.) --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: sic transit blix

At 10:58 AM 6/12/03 -0400, Sunder wrote: ... We were shocked--*shocked*--to discover that lying was being used in diplomacy. Oh, the horror! --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: An attack on paypal --> secure UI for browsers

ght ask the same rhetorical question about whether customers would sit still for buggy, insecure software. But nobody would ask that question these days, as the answer is so painfully obvious. ... --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

mously, but not to lie. "Fred, did you post that crap to cypherpunks?" --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: Cipher modes

At 01:56 AM 3/25/00 +0200, Marcel Popescu wrote: ... >More specifically, what mode should I use for 3DES in Yarrow? [The Yarrow >paper doesn't specify it.] The Yarrow-160 paper specifies using 3DES in counter mode. That is, you are encrypting a 64-bit counter with 3DES to generate an output. (Y

Re: Rijndael & Hitachi

c2.3.1 >I don't think either issues is reason to exclude DEAL in >this role, though if there were tweaks to DEAL that resolved >them, they might be worth including. The dings in DEAL wouldn't amount to much in this setting, in practice. (Okay, so the dings in DEAL wouldn't ev

Re: Deniable data storage

a problem with information leakage about number of channels here, if you had a message encoded in that block of bits, because you would know when you decoded it how often you'd had bits flipped, but maybe they resolved that somehow.) --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings

d (as far as I can tell) technology shut down. Of course, there's a more fundamental problem with surrendering to the lone warriors. Imagine that there's such a wave of pro-life terrorism that we finally agree to ban abortion. You're a fanatically committed pro-choice activist. W

Re:Textual analysis

od guess about the author, even if I tried changing terms, being more mathematical and less conversational, etc. (Though this is more of a problem with humans familiar with my writing style, rather than with automated analysis.) Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com --John

Re: Don't worry...it's just one of Saddam's doubles

ng in the press over the last few years), but he hasn't actually controlled things for a couple of decades. The Saddam we're really looking for is approximately Saddam #3, and he's still at large, and directing the insurgency. _The Boys from Baghdad_, coming soon to a theater near y

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings

At 12:34 PM 12/14/03 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 11:52 AM 12/13/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: ... >One interesting property of the lone warriors is that they can't >actually make peace. Good points, but not entirely true. For instance, we could stop the Jihad (tm) (including fu

Re: Vengeance Libertarianism

At 10:18 AM 12/31/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: It's not that just some humans are "useless eaters", it's that all are, and the Goddess Gaia is clearly hard at work trying to rectify this situation with a variety of new bioweapons, i.e., AIDS, ebola, etc. which will soon, I'm sure, reduce the huma

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

ssed Iraqi citizens. But I think using the same kind of language for interactions between individuals and between governments is a mistake. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: [camram-spam] Re: Microsoft publicly announces Penny Black PoW postage project

ainly, doing something that takes one second on a reasonably fast machine won't make sending e-mail unusable even for fairly slow machines, while it will make spamming require getting access to lots of other peoples' machines, either by paying them or by taking them over remotely. .

Re: Vengeance Libertarianism

e collector or as an electrical engineer, you're likely to expect those social security checks to roll in on schedule, along with medicare, the new prescription drug benefit, and any number of other goodies. ... --Tim May --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: DoS-ing fatherland goons

gence, and what we're seeing is the intelligence community's priors (in the Bayesian sense; their prior assumptions are swamping the effects of their meager data). ... --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: Palm Hack?

I think the notion of someone using your IR beaming capacity against your will is at least a possible threat (imagine what happens if I get a trojan onto your Palm that's supposed to leak data--it could just listen on the IR port, and hand over your data when I get it the right message.) Some p

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

>From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 9, 2004 1:19 PM >To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages .. >As recently as two years ago, I

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

are communicating with a lot of different people. If your stego is password-protected, some terrorist's laptop is going to have a post-it note on the screen with the password. ... >-TD --John Kelsey

Re: Flaw with lava lamp entropy source

>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 18, 2004 2:51 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Flaw with lava lamp entropy source ... >These days the video entropy source is not a lava lamp, but a >lens cap - in the dark, the ccds generate significant thermal >

Re: Israeli Airport Security Questioning Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2004

>The difference here is that Bad_Guy is visiting the >country for the first time. Now, there are fewer >questions to ask. But that's a common enough situation that the questioners are going to be ready for it. And I bet a lot of the point of their questioning is just to see if they detect signs

Re: Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 19, 2004 4:23 PM >Subject: Re: Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts >Before Throwing You in a Cell at the >Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put >You There? ... >Funny how most Americans only wake up after it happens to

Re: Israeli Airport Security Questioning Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2004

>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 21, 2004 10:20 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Israeli Airport Security Questioning Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December >15, 2004 >At 02:16 PM 12/20/04 -0500,

Re: How to Build a Global Internet Tsunami Warning System in a Month

>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jan 3, 2005 4:45 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: How to Build a Global Internet Tsunami Warning System in a Month ... >3. Homebrew warning systems will face the same problems as eg pro >volcano warning systems:

Re: California Bans a Large-Caliber Gun, and the Battle Is On

Interesting questions: How hard is it for someone to actually hit an airplane with a rifle bullet? How often do airplane maintenance people notice bulletholes? My understanding is that a single bullethole in a plane is not likely to do anything serious to its operation--the hole isn't big e

Re: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jan 6, 2005 11:47 AM >To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire ... >Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire > By ANNE EISENBERG I just wonder what the false negati

Re: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

>From: Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jan 10, 2005 7:35 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire ... >Some gun "accidents" are suicides reported as such to avoid >embarrassment to the family. I've heard this from other people, too--some in

Re: Secure erasing Info (fwd from richard@SCL.UTAH.EDU)

Just as a data point, PGPDisk works fine on CF devices. I use this for a CF card on which I keep a bunch of my work for movement between laptop and desktop machines. --John

Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

>From: Sarad AV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: May 5, 2005 8:43 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought Well, if it were generated by a random process, we'd expect to see every n-bit substring in there somewhere, sooner or later, since the seque

Re: [IP] Real ID = National ID (fwd from dave@farber.net)

>From: Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: May 9, 2005 3:55 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [IP] Real ID = National ID (fwd from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... >What do we need "security" for? We need security because a lot of >people hate the U.S., and because we won't close our borders, and >beca

Re: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]

>From: DiSToAGe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jun 2, 2005 5:05 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips] >I have read infos that say that audio and video drivers will be in the >trusted chain. If your hardware system is used by an os (i.e. win) on >which you can't creat

Re: Posion Pill for ED?

"Hey, I think I saw a bald eagle roosting up in that tree. You know, the one next to those buried Indian artifacts, right next to those rusting metal drums I got from Russel Bliss." --John

Re: Well, they got what they want...

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jul 23, 2005 9:17 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Well, they got what they want... ... >Saw a local security expert on the news, and he stated the >obvious: Random earches and whatnot are going to do zero >for someone dete

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wikipedia & Tor]

>Damn good point. Now that I think of it, all the classic examples of >"anonymous" publication were really pseudonymous. (Publius, et al) They have different requirements. Votes and cash transactions and similar things require no history, no reputation. They're one-shot actions that should n

Re: Judy Miller needing killing

>The question is, can >she defy a subpoena based on membership in the privileged Reporter class >that an "ordinary" person could not defy? It seems like the real question is how membership in the class is determined. If anyone who's acting like a reporter in a certain context (say, Adam Shosta

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

From: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Oct 24, 2005 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems On 10/22/05, Ian G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Note that e-gold, which originally sold non-reversibility as a key >benefit of the system,

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

>From: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 24, 2005 5:58 PM >To: John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like >Payment Systems ... >Digital wallets will require real security in user PCs. S

Re: On the orthogonality of anonymity to current market demand

e), someone finding a software bug, someone breaking a crypto algorithm or protocol). What makes one more secure than the other? ... >Cheers, >RAH --John Kelsey

Re: [PracticalSecurity] Anonymity - great technology but hardly used

point are pretty nice, for example), but Word is a disaster. >Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl --John Kelsey

Re: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

>From: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 27, 2005 9:15 PM >To: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems >On 10/26/05, James A. Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How does one inflate a key?

Re: Return of the death of cypherpunks.

olitical wanking to technical posts and of talkers to thinkers to coders needs to be right for the list to be interesting. ... >--digsig > James A. Donald > 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG > AnKV4N6f9DgtOy+KkQ9QsiXcpQm+moX4U09FjLXP > 4zfMeSzzCXNSr737bvqJ6ccbvDSu8fr66LbLEHedb --John Kelsey

Re: 1st amend, compelled speech in US

to sue to try to force AOL to put up some condom ads, though I can't see how they'd win in court. Just really stupid policy. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: Liquid Natural Flatulence

d think of that" or "but you're being unrealistic--real attackers will do this other thing (that we just happen to have defended against) instead." Cheers, RAH --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: legally required forgetting

futures[1] by now. But I at least expected my phone calls and e-mails to her not to be trivially tapable! [1] Classical reference --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

RE: voting

all over the country) is seriously scary. But it's sure not clear to me that adding computers to the mix must decrease security, or even must leave it unchanged. Peter Trei --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED], who is definitely speaking only for himself. PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: SASSER Worm Dude

fferent in that regard than fraud or theft. I think that's generally true. In some states, much younger people have been sentenced to death. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: CDR: Re: Can Skype be wiretapped by the authorities? (fwd from em@em.no-ip.com)

ransmitting to the satellites, but it may be a matter of transmitting to the van parked outside your house ~~brian --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

-Original Message- From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jul 30, 2004 10:25 PM To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies The "profitably" part is a non-issue when you have black bud

Re: On what the NSA does with its tech

ut then you've got to make sure that device is always available, or you're unable to get at your data. And if that device is an online server somewhere, then password encryptions become partly traceable. --John Kelsey

Re: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field

>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Aug 11, 2004 9:21 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field ... >Obvious lesson: Steganography tool authors, your programs >should use the worm/HIV trick of changing their signatures >wi

RE: Another John Young Sighting

27;ll bet the list of suspected terrorists never get a name removed other than by death, if then. Who wants to be the guy who correctly assessent the evidence to remove someone's name, only to have the same guy blow up a plane a year later? IMO, this seems like a fundamental problem with watchlists. >Peter --John Kelsey

Re: Seth Schoen's Hard to Verify Signatures

;ve seen this described in a paper by Abadi, Lomas & Needham as an alternative to a high iteration count for password hashing. >Hal Finney --John Kelsey

Re: BrinCity 2.0: Mayor outlines elaborate camera network for city

or Daley says the cameras will be located in public areas. Fortunately, all this is happening in a town noted for its trustworthy and honest government, and under a mayor with no tendency to use any excuse he can find to grab power, tear up airports he doesn't like in the middle of the night, etc. ... >R. A. Hettinga --John Kelsey

Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?

>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sep 13, 2004 3:50 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*? ... >AN is extremely deliquescent; perhaps the sulphate was for that? >Removing chunks with dynamite is tr

Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec

>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sep 17, 2004 10:27 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec >At 06:20 AM 9/17/04 +, Justin wrote: >>On 2004-09-16T20:11:56-0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: ... >>Oh, come on.

Re: Academics locked out by tight visa controls

>From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sep 20, 2004 8:33 AM >Subject: Academics locked out by tight visa controls > >Posted on Mon, Sep. 20, 2004 >Academics locked out by tight visa control

Re: Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas.

>From: Steve Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 9, 2004 7:44 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas. >On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 02:20, Nomen Nescio wrote: >> Mexican Attorney General, Staff Get Chip Implants >> >> Implant replaces ID cards

Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 12, 2004 1:43 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints? ... >Very interesting question. I'd bet almost any amount of money that it's >fairly trivial to simply alligator-clip-out the fingerprint's fi

Re: Airport insanity

>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 16, 2004 7:22 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Airport insanity ... >> Oh, and every white American (recall numerous references to >> Mr. McVeigh) >Mc Veigh did not target innocents, and if he did target a plane

Re: Airport insanity

>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 16, 2004 2:27 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Airport insanity >> For whatever reason, pictures of me always come out looking >> like some crazed religious fanatic. But that doesn't mean >> that I'm going to bomb anything. And I s

RE: Airport insanity

>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 16, 2004 7:01 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Airport insanity ... >On 15 Oct 2004 at 16:32, Tyler Durden wrote: ... >> He might have looked odd from the photo you saw circulated in >> the press, but I'd bet a lot of money no one wo

RE: Mystification of Identity: You Say Yusuf, I Say Youssouf...

er at spotting terrorists (at least not obviously Arab-looking terrorists). They just have more power, and fewer consequences when they screw up. ... >-TD --John Kelsey

Re: "ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen"

n skin and a Koran"--someone would leak it. Perhaps the written rules include things like this that they don't want to subject to court scrutiny, but then how do they get that down to the people doing the screening at the gate? The whole idea of laws that the citizens aren't al

Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

red isn't going to change that, right? (I know you've thought about this stuff a lot more than I have, so maybe I'm missing something) >Anyone want to pick up the other side of this and tell me why not? >No bugbears or horsemen need apply... >Cheers, >RAH --John Kelsey

RE: Airport insanity

ons" to sell any of them to any (other) crazies. Why the only other place where there's a risk of nuclear proliferation is in the old Soviet Union--and we all know *they* don't have any Islamic fundamentalist terrorists running about. So we can clearly rest easy. It's a good thing we've got an administration in the White House who cares about security and the war on terror. Otherwise, I'd be a mite worried about now ... >-TD --John Kelsey

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 19, 2004 10:23 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity) ... >In developing markets the US track record is terrible. The more we interfere >and set up puppet governments and petty

Re: Airport insanity

>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 20, 2004 3:10 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Airport insanity >Lots of murderous terrorists have been released from Guatanamo, >and in the nearly all cases the most serious of their >complaints make it sound l

Re: Airport insanity

em are associated with some action you really disagree with is just outside the realm of the sort of moral decision I can figure out. Just like flying planes into buildings full of people with almost nothing to do with what you're really getting at. > James A. Donald --John Kelsey

Re: Airport insanity

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 23, 2004 7:41 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Airport insanity >Let us not forget the more tangible 'value' in bombing the WTC and messing >up things downtown. First of all, the companies in the W

Re: Donald's Job Description

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 25, 2004 9:40 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Donald's Job Description >Well, the Bush "supporters" I've met aren't normally so sure. They'll kind >of hem and haw, or saw "Well, he's got advisors.

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 27, 2004 9:37 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity) ... >This is actually the running fantasy in Marxism since the 1950's, when it >turned out that that, instead of the "workers" eating t

Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 29, 2004 7:06 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire ... >It has always amused me that libertarians and anarcho-capitalists insist on >using the language of the left to describe the things they don't like. One >

Re: This Memorable Day

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 2, 2004 10:55 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: This Memorable Day ... >Expect more carnage than culture when Bush is elected. I gather we waited to start the offensive in Fallujah(sp?) until the polls were all closed. I'm not sure ho

Re: This Memorable Day

>From: Nomen Nescio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 3, 2004 6:50 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: This Memorable Day ... >The only way to move towards a more friendly world is to make >people feel they are able to share the wealth and prosperity of the >world. As long as there is one sin

Re: This Memorable Day

>From: Peter Gutmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 6, 2004 2:10 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: This Memorable Day >The figure that's usually quoted is that 80% of German's military force was >directed against Russia. Of the remaining 20%, a lot had already been engage

RE: The Values-Vote Myth

>From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 6, 2004 5:07 PM >To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: The Values-Vote Myth >On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: ... >> So: A 'moral values' question for Cypherpunks. Does this electi

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

>From: Eric Cordian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 6, 2004 5:57 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: The Values-Vote Myth ... >Also, voting is in some sense political manipulation to blame the population >for the >actions of their government. Everyone who votes is a co-conspirator, and the

Re: Gov't Orders Air Passenger Data for Test

News story quoted by RAH: >WASHINGTON - The government on Friday ordered airlines to turn over >personal information about passengers who flew within the United States in >June in order to test a new system for identifying potential terrorists. The interesting thing here is that they can't reall

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 21, 2004 9:23 PM >To: John Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report ... >By the way, John, did you know that Bush Is Going To Revive The Draft??? I know this is currently known to be false

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 22, 2004 11:35 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report ... >I'm pretty heretical about this. I think if we had decapitated Iraq, went >after our military objectives, like securing what was a threat to us, >in

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 24, 2004 1:02 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report ... >And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? At least three: a. The pottery barn theory of foreign affairs--we'd be blamed for making things wo

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 24, 2004 12:08 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report >James A Donald wrote... >>And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? >And the answer is: 9/11 sucked. >Oh wait, I guess I have to ex

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 4, 2004 8:33 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: "Word" Of the Subgenius... >I thought JR "Bob" Dobbs got beamed up to that comet with those LA Koolaid >kooks... No, but I do believe the comet kooks engaged in bobbitization (or perhaps, merely

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

>From: Steve Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 7, 2004 1:26 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius... ... >Tim May has probably gotten all strange in the last few years, living in >his remote hilltop home, waiting to see the end that will not come since >the y2k cris

Re: What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time?

enders and attackers--the defenders do 2^{25} work, and the attackers have to do 2^{75}, say, to break it. Merkle's puzzles and all the related schemes give you N^2, and that's not *quite* enough to be useful. ... --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

filling your paperwork out properly, but I'm afraid you're just not being effective enough at rooting out Al Qaida operatives. I'm sure you can do better, though--just find me five operatives in the next week" --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

At 10:40 PM 1/13/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:23 PM, John Kelsey wrote: ... Personally, I was shocked, *shocked*, to see the supreme court make a decision on the basis of politics instead of a careful reading of the constitution. Everything the Supreme Court

Re: Petro's catch-22 incorrect (Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants)

., we're not going to be cool with people invading Canada), and free trade with almost everyone (I'd like to see us not trade with countries with really bad human rights records, though that's not exactly the direction we're heading in now). ... --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desert Spam

out with a small banking matter. It all kind-of balances out. :) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deniable Thumbdrive?

its to the number ot password guesses allowed per day, number of invalid password guesses before the thing just zeros out the key and tells the person making the attempt it has done so, etc. Trust me, you *want* the server to loudly announce that it will zero the key irretrievably after the t

Re: Deniable Thumbdrive?

hard to misplace or lend to your friends. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNA evidence countermeasures?

DNA evidence implies that the police, prosecutors, judges, and juries just aren't all that careful about checking the plausibility of evidence anyway. ... --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits to invade your body!"

. Something like "The pieces surely aren't going to be dangerous, but moving them is going to mess up the investigation of the crash." Which presumably is what everyone with any technical background and common sense was thinking when they heard the original warning, right? --Tim May, Occupied America John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: patriot act and public key encryption

into your cell again, if you won't help us. What? You don't like Mongo as a cellmate? Pity, he sure seems to enjoy, er, like you." Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stupid security measures, a contest

hack and get checked for weapons, rather than around the shack to save time. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Science Journal 'Self-Censorship'

ral reaction to being frightened by the threats of new technologies. (Ironically, the nasty terror weapons we're all worried about are mostly 1940s or earlier technology. Stuff that even a third-rate starving dictatorship can cook up.) -pete --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Crypto anarchy now more than ever

ance. The saber-rattling serves both to communicate the threat and to advertise for buyers. James A. Donald --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

ms to be working much better than the attempts to reform farm subsidies, say. And even with Republicans in control of everything, I'll bet we don't see any major cuts to NEA, say. -TD --John Kelsey, kelsey.j@x

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

it. (Something pretty similar happens with the FDA, right? If you get the new cancer drug a year earlier, you get all the benefit (maybe you get to go on living); the FDA gets the added risk of their being some horrible side effect. So they force a different trade-off on you than you'd prefer.) >--Tim May --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] // [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Katy, bar the door

kind of response to prevent these planes being used as low-tech cruise missiles seems like a win. Maybe it would make sense to add some kind of remote surveilance of the cockpit, though I imagine this wouldn't be too popular with pilots, and they'd definitely need to secure the channel prope

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