Busted for hijacking web site (social engr)

Man Is Accused of Hijacking Web Site [*] He allegedly diverted Al Jazeera viewers to a bogus home page at the height of the war. By David Rosenzweig, Times Staff Writer A California man has been charged by federal authorities with hijacking Al Jazeera's I

unregistered shell

June 6, 2003 | WASHINGTON -- A man was arrested outside the Capitol Friday for carrying unregistered ammunition in his car, a police spokeswoman said. Capitol Police spokeswoman Jessica Gissubel said police stopped the car as it was traveling on Constitution Avenue on the north side of the Capit

IQ, g, flying

At 02:30 PM 5/30/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: >The second irony is that just today I took my first flying lesson, in a >Diamond Katana composite/carbon single-prop plane. I took off from the >Watsonville Airport, which is, I assume, the home airport of Adelman. Just FYI, if you read up on G (general

Re: Brinworld: Streisand sues amateur coastal photographer at californiacoastline.org

At 10:00 PM 5/30/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >You think that's bad? > >I know someone who was offerred $1,000 a night to play lead trumpet for >Streisand. When he heard that a major requirement was that he was not to >"lock eyes onto Streisand" (ie, look at her), he declined the offer. Who care

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

At 08:32 PM 5/31/03 -0400, Scott Guthery wrote: >Hello, Rich ... > >When I drill down on the many pontifications made by computer >security and cryptography experts all I find is given wisdom. Maybe >the reason that folks roll their own is because as far as they can see >that's what everyone does.

Re: "PGP Encryption Proves Powerful"

At 11:18 AM 6/1/03 -0400, Ian Grigg wrote: >There is a reason that the AK47 is the weapon of >choice: it is an extraordinarily simple weapon. >Training is probably about half the requirements >of say the M16. That makes a difference, much >more so than, say, the increased accuracy of the >M16!

Re: Nullsoft's WASTE communication system

At 01:09 PM 5/30/03 -0400, John Brothers wrote: > >> Any license that you may >> believe you acquired with the Software is void, revoked and terminated. > >Can you void and/or revoke the GPL? Who cares? There is *no* obligation that you check back with Nullsoft to re-read their terms. They c

[Brinworld] Neighbor's surveillance camera?

Authorities said they were considering the possibility that a second person might have been involved in the abduction, based on video from a neighbor's surveillance camera. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/06/09/california.abduction/index.html

Typical PGP user mistakes

I recall reading at least one study of learning PGP and its UI. I have had the chance to observe half a dozen (albeit, smarter than normal) others' (mostly engineers) learning curves. All are using PGP 7.03 and Eudora 3.05. We are not using public key servers. Mistakes include: * neglecting to enc

Re: unregistered shell

At 12:29 AM 6/10/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >At 09:48 AM 06/09/2003 -0700, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: >>the Capitol because it had a gasoline container strapped to its roof. >but this sounds like a case of Darwin catching up with the guy >in a way that only eliminates *him* fro

Re: SIGINT planes vs. radioisotope mapping

t 10:23 AM 6/6/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: >I certainly never implied in any way that a simple G-M tube would be >useful for this. Implicit in my radioistope mapping comment was that a >gamma ray spectrometer would be used. > >And note that this is just what can be easily bought on the open >market...

1st amend applies to video games

A federal appeals court panel has struck down a law that restricted children's access to violent video games, giving the software the same free-speech protection as that for works of art. A panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a St. Louis County, Mo., ordina

Re: An attack on paypal

At 03:39 PM 6/10/03 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: >At 5:12 PM -0700 6/8/03, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: >>somebody (else) commented (in the thread) that anybody that currently >>(still) writes code resulting in buffer overflow exploit maybe should be >>thrown in jail. Not a very friendly bug-submission

Re: Steganography and musical scores?

(resent) At 11:44 AM 6/13/03 -0400, Peter Wayner wrote: >At 9:27 AM +0200 6/13/03, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >>See also something about computer-generated music: >>http://brainop.media.mit.edu/online/net-music/net-instrument/Thesis.html >> > > >I'm told someone is trying to encode information by orde

You bought it, Who controls it? [TR Article]

article by Edward Tenner, Technology review, June 2003 p61-64 Also an article on "deceipt detector" p67-69 about using IR reflectivity of your frontal lobes to detect deceipt. Sort of a polygraph on steroids. (sorry, only cites, not URLs this time)

[Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

(ok, from slashdot..) http://www.newhouse.com/archive/jensen061203.html

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

At 11:16 AM 6/16/03 -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: >On Monday June 16 2003 09:59, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: >> (ok, from slashdot..) >> http://www.newhouse.com/archive/jensen061203.html > >I personally find the privacy implications of EDRs rather unsettling. >This story doe

PGP 8 flaw work-around

Someone posted a bug wherein PGP 8 (XP version) saw keys >4 years as expired. There is a workaround, merely change your passphrase and resend the key. (You may change the passphrase to the same passphrase.)

Hacking for pigs makes you a pig, trojans, 4th amend

June 18, 2003 Evidence Barred in Ex-O.C. Judge's Child-Porn Case Writings and photos were illegally obtained from Ronald Kline's computer, court rules. By Christine Hanley, Times Staff Writer A federal judge on Tuesday threw out most of the key evidence in a high-profile child pornography case a

1st amend, thoughtcrime, schools as pipelines to jail

To establish a criminal threat, it would have to be shown that he wanted the [threatened] officer to see the work, the court said. "The painting does not appear to be anything other than pictorial ranting," the court said. "The criminal law does not, and cannot now, implement a zero-tolerance pol

Re: Destroying computers

At 01:07 AM 6/19/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > Methinks Mr Hatch is not a very bright man. A Southern senator. Need I say more? Usual suspect wrote: >>If Orrin Hatch proposes such a thing, we can propose technologies which >>identify those from .gov or .mil or other Congress/Gov't. domains and

Senators from Utah being Southern

At 12:30 PM 6/19/03 -0500, John Washburn wrote: >Utah is Southern? I do not want directions from you. :-) Well, it is southern w.r.t. certain states, but yeah, y'all got me. But what I meant was, a jeebus-talking, flag-waving pinhead. A look at hatchmusic.com (while its still up :-) supports tha

Re: You Don't Say

At 10:00 AM 6/19/03 -0700, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > >thousands of Americans, and the Times is dismayed, perplexed, angry and shocked that some of them may have been >subjected to the sort of manhandling that occurs in the hallways of middle schools

Is Hatch a Mormon or a crypto Satanist?

At 07:36 PM 6/20/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >"Except Utah is not in the South by anybody's definition." > >Also as it happens I saw that WIERD Temple downtown there, and asked "Sister >Johnson" if she really believed God was a guy kicked back in a Laz-Z-Boy on >the planet Kolab. She could not te

Army patents biowar tech, aiding the enemy, indicting itself

Helping the Enemy? The U.S. Army is catching some flak for patenting two devices that could be used to launch bioweapons. Critics say the patents may violate a weapons-control treaty--and could give terrorists a blueprint for manufacturing the devices. The U.S. Patent and

Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

At 01:39 PM 6/25/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> At present, if the US wants someone terminally interrogated, >> they ship him to Egypt and ask the Egyptians to do the >> interrogation. More chance of a leak there; Mossad is highly recommended. But a terminal interrogation might bury some s

1st amend: non commercial publishers not liable for libel

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Tuesday that Web loggers, website operators and e-mail list editors can't be held responsible for libel for information they republish, extending crucial First Amendment protections to do-it-yourself online publishers. Online free speech advocates prai

Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC

At 01:05 PM 6/30/03 -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote: >"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote: >> >> I can pretty much guarantee that the IETF will never standardize that, >> except possibly in conjunction with authenticated dhcp. >> >Would this be the DHCP working group that on at least 2 occasions >when I

Re: Warchalking does not exist: a wager.

At 10:24 PM 6/30/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Don't know about warchalking per se, gpsdrive and kismet work a lot better, >and people trade the waypoints/nodes. Makes a hundred times more sense that >scribbling marks on buildings, especially that are hard to find and wash away. Publishing a

architecture as torture

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/27/1043534004548.html

Re: Reporter writing article on proffr/mattd and threats

At 04:09 PM 7/2/03 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: >I received a phone call today from a newspaper reporter who's writing an >article on mattd/proffr and wanted background on the cypherpunks group or >movement, as he put it. The reporter -- who covers crime, law enforcement, >and the courts How doe

talking to coworkers = deemed exports

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030623S0011 The Commerce Department considers some U.S. transfers of commercial technologies to foreign workers as exports. In some cases, U.S. companies may be required to obtain a deemed-export license before giving foreign-born employees access to sensitive tec

[Reverse panopticon] Govt Information Awareness

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,59495,00.html Researchers at the MIT Media Lab unveiled the Government Information Awareness, or GIA, website Friday. Using applications developed at the Media Lab, GIA collects and collates information about government programs, plans and politicians from

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

At 04:13 AM 7/6/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >Pondering. Vast majority of the CD/DVD "protection" methods is based on >various deviations from the standards, or more accurately, how such >deviations are (or aren't) handled by the drive firmware. > >However, we can sidestep the firmware. > >The

DNA of relative indicts man, cuckolding ignored

Slashdot pointed to this story of a man indicted via his *relative's* DNA sample: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3044282.stm But an interesting, unmentioned issue is this: in population DNA surveys you find that a lot of purported fathers *aren't*. So the possibility of indicting a cuck

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

At 03:08 PM 7/6/03 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: >. A writing drive capable of working at such a low level >could be used to experiment with new encodings beyond what standard CD's >can do -- say, substituting CIRC with RSBC and gaining some extra room on >the disc, getting rid of the subchannels, a

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

At 02:33 AM 7/7/03 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: >On 2003-07-06, Major Variola (ret) uttered to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >>There's a good reason why, viz: it would cost the drive developer to >>allow or export this flexibility. > >I'd guess either because of a) terminal

Re: Finding collision resistant hash functions

At 02:19 AM 7/7/03 -0700, Sarad AV wrote: or how are we supposed to >find collision free hash functions?What exactly is the >difficulty in finding collision free hash functions? Because there are no collision *free* hash functions, there will always be several domain elements that map to the same

Re: DNA of relative indicts man, cuckolding ignored

At 11:58 AM 7/7/03 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: >Major Variola (ret.) wrote: >> So the possibility of indicting a cuckolded man on the basis >> of nominal (only) relatives is quite real. > >Only he was convicted because he confessed. Yes, of course, in this *particular* case.

Re: Genetic engineering [was: RE: DNA of relative indicts man, cuckol ding ignored]

At 03:59 PM 7/7/03 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: >There are some things where nearly everyone will agree >a genetic fix is desirable - for example, suceptibility to >heart disease, cancer, dental caries, and myopia. Other >'vanity' fixes seem pretty harmless - being tall, busty, >or having a well-stuff

Re: DNA of relative indicts man, cuckolding ignored

At 08:36 PM 7/7/03 -0400, Stormwalker wrote: > >> What's wrong with voluntary eugenics? The invention of agriculture >> started a policy of negative eugenics that culminates with the >> industrial welfare state paying stupids to breed, while others chose >> birth control. And banning somatic or g

Re: DNA of relative indicts man, cuckolding ignored

At 08:53 PM 7/7/03 -0400, Stormwalker wrote: >On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Tim May wrote: >> No, it was NOT "all supposed to be a big pool that we would draw on >> when needed." You seem to be confusing medical insurance with >> nationalized social medicine. > > No, I am not confusing medical insurance wi

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

At 08:45 AM 7/7/03 -0700, alan wrote: >But the real issue is that all of these DRM methods rely on "security by >obscurity". Such methods eventually fail. Either the actual method is >discovered and published or the DRM method fails in the marketplace and is >never heard from again. Hilary R an

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

At 03:14 PM 7/8/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: >As for hearing heterodyning in 28 KHz and 30 KHz signals, maybe. CD >players have brickwall filters to of course block such frequencies. >Some analog groove-based systems can have some kind of signal up there >at those frequencies, but not much. Regular vi

MRAM, persistance of memory

The persistance of memory could be a problem if your melting clocks are swarmed by spooky ants. Wired has an article on magetic RAM http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59559,00.html that fails to mention security implications. Obviously nonvolitile RAM presents a different security risk than

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

At 07:15 PM 7/8/03 -0700, Mike Rosing wrote: >To produce 65kHz (for cats) my present boss prefers a 1 MHz sample rate. Do cats buy a lot of audiophile equiptment :8=|| >The human hearing system is capable of noticing phase relations at 100kHz >rates. Actually I thought humans are insensitive to

Re: [CI] Re: Finding collision resistant hash functions

At 02:59 AM 7/9/03 -0700, Sarad AV wrote: >hi, >> MV: >>There's nothing gained by >> increasing >> the input entropy (compressing > >I was looking for such a compression function such >that the chances of collision in the message digest >obtained by hashing these 2^80 messages is collision >free or

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool (meow)

At 11:45 AM 7/9/03 -0700, Mike Rosing wrote: >On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> Actually I thought humans are insensitive to phase relations, modulo >> inter-aural timing at low frequencies for spatial location. Perhaps >> that >> is what you meant?

Re: MRAM, persistance of memory

At 04:45 PM 7/10/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >run stripped-down Linux? Maybe something based on ARM or MIPS >architecture?) I'm familiar with 100 Mhz 32b MIPS cores that cost about $10 and include 2 ethernet i/faces. Intended for cheap SOHO routers, etc. Newer variants include IPsec support

Re: MRAM, persistence of memory

At 01:51 AM 7/15/03 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: >On 2003-07-14, Michael Shields uttered to Bill Frantz: > >>> Encrypted swap is a crypto sweet spot, because it has perhaps the easiest >>> key management of any crypto system. It seems that the BSD systems have it >>> while Linux still thinks it is

Re: MRAM, persistence of memory

At 09:29 AM 7/15/03 -0400, Sunder wrote: >So, the best way to avoid that situation and not being able to reach the >big red switch, is simply not to attract their attention in the first >place by not following the footsteps of Jim Bell. :) Stego + broadcast is indeed your friend. >A more likely,

MPAA vs. Net anonymity, AB 1143

Studios Stage Fight Against Internet Bill By Jon Healey, Times Staff Writer The Hollywood studios are fighting a behind-the-scenes battle in Sacramento to derail a bill they say would promote online piracy  though th

Re: Sealing wax, funny looking dogtags

At 12:08 PM 7/15/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: >On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 09:05 AM, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> Epoxy and other conformal coatings are also your friends. >> >Thinking about this brief comment, I assume MV means sealing a PC to >make black bag opening more

Re: Sealing wax & eKeyboard

(resent) At 11:15 AM 7/16/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: >We've talked many times about using laptops, heads-up displays (like >the Sony glasses), and even putting mesh bags over a user and his >laptop. Actual Faraday cage rooms are not really needed. Don't forget the 3M screen-addons which are basicall

Swiss cheese by Microsoft

Microsoft Admits Flaw in Windows Software WASHINGTON - Microsoft Corp. acknowledged a critical vulnerability Wednesday in nearly all versions of its flagship Windows operating system software, the first such design flaw to affect its latest Windows Server 2003 software. ... Microsoft said corpora

Re: Optical Tempest? I have my doubts...

At 03:15 PM 7/17/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >I dunno...I'm thinking that optical tempest is probably bullshit 99% of the >time, but what do I know? There was an article on optical tempest based on reading modem-LEDs, which are sometimes modulated with the data stream. For Mhz rates it works.

1st amend: fiction != reality, words not kiddy pr0n

Appeals Court Dismisses Ohio Man's Guilty Plea in Obscenity Case Involving Fictitious Stories COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A state appeals court on Thursday dismissed the guilty plea of a man imprisoned for writing fictitious stories of child torture and molestation. Lawyers specializing in the First Am

Unsubtle Wetwork

Weapons Adviser Named as Possible Source for BBC Story Disappears; Man's Body Found LONDON (AP) - Police searching for a missing Ministry of Defense adviser, who was named by the government as the possible source for a disputed news report on Iraqi arms, said Friday they have found a man's body ne

Re: Optical Tempest? I have my doubts...

At 01:33 PM 7/17/03 -0700, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: > >For what it's worth, a "secure viewer" that displayed text in red on a >black background should make an optical tempest attack much more >difficult. Why? On a black background you have higher contrast, which you don't want here. The eye is most

Re: [Dewayne-Net] RE: [IP] Gilmore bounced from plane; and Farber censors Gilmore's email

At 09:16 AM 7/20/03 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: >>>Guess he's never heard of US court's limitations against using 'free >>>speech' as a defense against the consequences of falsely yelling 'Fire' >>>in a crowded theater. > >Except when there really is a fire, which is certainly the case here. > >stev

Iraqi vs. Chechen efficiency

I read somewhere that the Russkies lose about 8 invaders a day in Chechnya. The Iraqis need to increase their productivity. Maybe take over a theatre or something. Have a nice day.

Re: Defeating Optical Tempest will be easy...

At 02:17 AM 7/21/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: >There is some minuscule proportion of X-rays produced by CRT displays. Produced by the ebeam decelerating on the shadow mask, but adsorbed by the glass.

Re: Fwd: [IP] Gilmore bounced from plane; and Farber censors Gilmore's email

At 11:36 PM 7/20/03 -0700, John Kozubik wrote: >On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Steve Schear wrote: > >> >remove a small 1" button pinned to my left lapel. I declined, saying >> >that it was a political statement and that he had no right to censor >> >passengers' political speech. The button, which was cre

Re: Defeating Optical Tempest will be easy...

At 07:49 PM 7/21/03 +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote: >a_b_sorbed. Absorb is a widely used word meaning 3to drink in, to soak up,2 >both literally and figuratively. Adsorb is a specialized technical term, >meaning only 3to collect a condensed gas or liquid on a surface.2 Thank you. Have a hard time

A tiny bit of karma for BA

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030722/ts_afp/britain_air_strike_company_ba_030722122901 LONDON (AFP) - British Airways was battling to clear a backlog of frustrated passengers stranded at London's Heathrow Airport, some of whom had been stuck there for four days after a wildc

Re: Dead Body Theatre

At 06:00 PM 7/24/03 +0100, Dave Howe wrote: >the new standard, I suspect a suicide bombing of >the white house (killing all the staff and the shrub) would now be "ok" >provided they shouted 'surrender or die' first, yes? Dude, if Julius Caesar had magnetometers we might all be speaking Italian no

Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

At 06:37 PM 11/7/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Apple is both a software *and* a hardware company, however, and they've >pretty much always been negligent about making sure that other vendor's hardware >worked with theirs and/or their OS. I thought that was half the point of Apple ---you play

Re: Disguising the Key length (Was...Has a change taken place in factoring RSA keys)

At 02:09 PM 11/10/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >My first question is, how easy is it for them to estimate the key size of an >encrypted message? Its not secret. But lets look at twiddling what the message header encodes. Suppose you relabel a 2Kbit key as a 1Kbit. Then what are the extra bits

Clipper for luggage

Fwded for your comic relief: -- From the New York Times. Any guesses on how long it'll take before your local hacker will have a key which will open any piece of your luggage? - Tim A Baggage Lock for You and the Federal Screeners By JOE SHARKEY Published: November 11, 2003 AIRLINE pa

Re: Jews Go Nuclear

At 01:44 PM 11/14/03 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: >http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,10613 >Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines You put nukes in subs to avoid getting them blown up esp. by a first strike. So whoever nukes Israel had best do so without a piece of real e

Re: Partition Encryptor

At 11:45 AM 11/16/03 -0500, Stirling Westrup wrote: >Does anyone know of a good partition encryptor for Windows? I know of an >accountant who would like to encrypt her client's financial data. She's stuck >with Windows until such time as a major company starts shipping yearly tax >software for linu

Pellicano: encrypted files, wiretaps, pacbell on the take

Pellicano Taking His Secrets With Him to Federal Prison Private investigator refuses to cooperate in FBI probe of alleged illegal wiretapping http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pellicano17nov17,1,3427559.story?coll=la-home-todays-times Federal agents searched Pellicano's offices three times

State to take innocent kids' DNA

FBI may collect juveniles' DNA By Richard Willing, USA TODAY WASHINGTON  DNA profiles from hundreds of thousands of juvenile offenders and adults arrested but not convicted of crimes could be added to the FBI's national DNA crime-fighting program under a proposed law moving through Congress. T

crypto, surveillance, RF for uk bush burners

Protest Is in the Airwaves on Eve of Bush UK Visit Mon Nov 17,10:46 AM ET By Bernhard Warner, European Internet Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - With President Bush (news - web sites) due to touch down on British soil Tuesday, Internet message boards, mobile phones and pagers are buzzing with the

Re: Freedomphone

At 12:59 PM 11/19/03 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: >If and when this is accomplished the source could then be used, if it can't >already, for PC-PC secure communications. They claim to be releasing code for PCs for free. A practical replacement for >SpeakFreely may be at hand. The limitation of eit

israeli torture center reason for no satellite pix?

The US has restrictions on even commercial satellite photos of Israel. http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1084796,00.html might indicate why --the torture center is airbrushed out of other pix. The price of empire is death.

can you hear me now?

"The ultimate in paranoia is not when everyone is against you but when everything is against you." ---PKD An appeals court this week put the brakes on an FBI surveillance technique that turns an automobile driver's on-board vehicle navigation system into a covert eavesdropping device, after findin

e voting

Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to produce a paper printout that voters can check to make sure their votes are properly recorded. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-shelley21nov21,1,84743

RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

At 01:04 PM 11/24/03 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >Thats not how it works. The idea is that you make your choices on >the machine, and when you lock them in, two things happen: They >are electronically recorded in the device for the normal count, and >also, a paper receipt is printed. The voter checks

RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

At 12:56 PM 11/25/03 -0500, Sunder wrote: >Um, last I checked, phone cameras have really shitty resolution, usually >less than 320x200. Even so, you'd need MUCH higher resolution, say >3-5Mpixels to be able to read text on a printout in a picture. > >Add focus and aiming issues, and this just won'

RE: C3 Nehemia C5P with better hardware RNG and AES support

>Also, Centaur indicated that with the SHA on die, they can produce >statistically perfect RNG output. No kidding. With any crypto-quality hash, I can produce statistically perfectly uniformly distributed pseudorandom data from *successive integers*. The von neumann whitener does let >a small bi

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

At 07:10 PM 11/25/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: >I have no problem with this free choice contract. The only ones allowed to buy votes are the ones running for office. And they are required to do it on credit. "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the vot

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

At 11:10 PM 11/26/03 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: >Cameras in the voting booth? Jesus Christ, you guys are morons. If you >want to sell your vote, just vote absentee. The ward guy will even stamp >and mail it for you. Happens every election. For some reason I don't understand, people actually dr

Re: Now how they do that ?

At 11:12 AM 11/28/03 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: >Investigators traced the computer to Krastof when he logged onto his own >America Online account at home through one of the stolen computers, White >said. That enabled authorities to connect the computer's Internet Protocol >address, a number that id

US spying, directv, shades of global crossing

The parent company of DirecTV, the home satellite service, has promised several federal agencies that it can address concerns about foreign ownership of sensitive U.S. communications systems if it wins approval of its proposed merger with Australian-controlled News Corp. ... But the merger also ha

Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

At 03:26 PM 12/7/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: >But even if crypto got trendy again, I just don't see the young >students of today flocking to our particular mailing list. Too many >other choices. Probably they'll read someone's daily blog A few observations. Nowadays, colleges offer courses in cr

Re: cypherpunks discussions

At 07:22 AM 12/8/03 -0800, Eric Murray wrote: >Other people have made the point that mailing lists are "old tech" >and I agree. I don't like the new replacements (blogs, web boards) >as much as lists, but perhaps that's because of what I used first. Its not just "the First is the Only Way" pheno

Re: cypherpunks discussions

At 11:24 AM 12/8/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: >No, I think few topics on the Cypherpunks list are taken private. > >My reasons are two-fold: First, to get them to stop lurking and >participate. Second, to work up the energy to compose an essay (or >mini-essay, whatever), I need some motivation. I am no

Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

I'd suggest "wget" for spidering sites. It can be told to ignore .robots files. It is good for mirroring sites which you suspect may be taken down. Win/Unix versions available.

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Anonymity)

At 06:22 PM 12/10/03 +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: >On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:20:20PM -0600, Declan McCullagh wrote: >> We have anonymity in Web browsing (more or less, thanks to Lance & >> co). It's not NSA-proof, but it's probably subpoena-proof. >> >> We have anonymity in email thanks to remail

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings [was: Re: (No Subject)]

At 03:04 AM 12/11/03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Nothing less than a guerilla war seems necessary to restore something akin to the original constitutional balance in the U.S. But where to recruit these people? My suggestion: the terminally ill. > >Many TI come to the table with a 'gift', the

LAPD captain busted for selling bootleg DVDs

December 10, 2003 Just days after Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton pledged a crackdown on motion picture piracy, department investigators on Tuesday helped arrest an LAPD captain suspected of selling bootleg DVDs. Julie D. Nelson, a decorated patrol captain and a 28-year veteran of the

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Clouds)

At 02:35 PM 12/11/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Variola wrote... > >"How do you know the signature of the unaltered carrier-medium? >E.g., have you measured the LSBit noise from my camera recently? >Under which lighting conditions?" > >Well, having done some optical signal processing (and getting

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings

At 10:12 PM 12/11/03 -0500, An Metet wrote: > >Given small numbers and absence of any other grouping factor there needs to be an "obvious" place for ZPs to refer to. Any obvious place that becomes even remotely attractive to ZPs will be immediately raided. Because ZPs have potential to be actually

RE: Stego worm

At 08:09 PM 12/11/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > >As for Variola's comment, you might be right. I just assumed there's some >kind of relationship between LSB and those spatial freuencies wherein image >information might be stored. Actually, I would still think there's a >relationship, in which cas

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings

(resend) At 11:52 AM 12/13/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: >At 09:19 AM 12/12/03 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >... >>You need to think about the "lone warrior" scenario that the Gang >>worries about. McVeighs and Rudolphs. >>They were influenced by memes whi

Hack the Vote: cause a blackout

(This inspired by comments in Scheier's cryptogram) Do all the newly electronic voting places have UPS? I doubt it. Think of the fun you could cause if you downed a few substations or poles. >> And because elections happen all at once, there would be no means of recovery. Imagine if, in the ne

Using PCR to find Hussein via the sewers? [GATTACA]

At 04:50 AM 12/15/03 -0800, John Young wrote: >There's a good possibility that Saddam was traced by Tempest >sensing, airborne or mundane. I wonder if you can trace DNA in sewers back to the source, esp. in an inbred locale? (Peter? PCR with Saddam specific primers?) Or did he just dig a cat-h

Re: cpunk-like meeting report

At 09:57 PM 12/14/03 -0800, Morlock Elloi wrote: >> Be sure and check the archive before posting. It is still small. > >Cookies, "members only" archive access. Bad deal. Will not happen. Very few >consumers here. But look how many IP addresses he got from members checking it out!

Re:Textual analysis

At 10:36 AM 12/14/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: >It's not obvious to me how you'd change your writing style to defeat these >textual analysis schemes--would it really be as simple as changing the >average length of sentences and getting rid of the big words, or would >there still be ways to determin

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