Re: It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Cardenas
week and publishing >the factors on the internet, Neo Project announced that it would focus >on Microsoft's implementation of the algorithm used for digital rights >management in its Xbox console." > > Oh my. > -- michael cardenas | lead sof

Re: Life Sentence for Medical Marijuana?

2003-01-31 Thread Michael Cardenas
a, that he was growing the stuff legally under a > 1996 state law, or any other mitigating factors. > >"There is no such thing as medical marijuana," said > Richard Meyer, a DEA spokesman. "We're Americans > first, Californians second.&

patriot act and public key encryption

2003-02-07 Thread Michael Cardenas
If secret searches with secret warrants are legal now, what good is it to use public key encryption and keep a backup of your private key at home on a floppy? Is there a protocol to have a "blinded" private key, so you wouldn't actually have access to your own private key? -- m

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-05 Thread Michael Cardenas
;t see things as they are, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > we see them as we are. www.ssz.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Anais Nin www.open-forge.org >

Re: Bruce Schneier hullabaloo

2002-12-20 Thread Michael Cardenas
de is taken away, I'm not sure its all going to mean much. -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted mail preferred "Be the change you wish to see in the world" -Mahatma Gandhi

Re: BigBrotherWare

2002-12-20 Thread Michael Cardenas
d Hollywood, and the Nation States, will be most concerned about. So I would expect this "opt in" approach to not be the full picture.) Microsoft is pushing hard to get palladium into the silicon, with intel and amd happy to comply. It's hard to imagine how it will be voluntary aft

Re: Misconceptions about how remailers work

2002-12-20 Thread Michael Cardenas
Tim May wrote: On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 12:34 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote: Anonymous wrote: Like I said before, P2P, Crypto, WiFi and cheap chips will turn everything upside down. I'm curious as to what makes you, or anyone on this list, think that these technologies by thems

Re: Dossiers and Customer Courtesy Cards

2002-12-31 Thread Michael Cardenas
s, box cutters, and kitchen knives can be purchased at a grocery store, which combined with case data could be useful in framing, aka finding, the suspect. -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mb

biological systems and cryptography

2002-12-31 Thread Michael Cardenas
o, it seems that the brain has immensely powerful visual processing power, without having millions of lines of code written to do so. I only ask this because I'm deciding whether to study computational neuroscience or cryptography in grad school. -- michael cardenas | lead softwar

Re: Dossiers and Customer Courtesy Cards

2002-12-31 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:12:02PM -0800, Tim May wrote: > On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:32 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote: > >But what if this data is used as part of a larger picture, such as in > >TIA. It definitely can be used, along with gas purchases, to track > >w

Re: Recommended: "Catch Me If You Can," a film

2002-12-31 Thread Michael Cardenas
om time to time with the > blood of patriots & tyrants. "--Thomas Jefferson, 1787 > > I actually found a beautiful mind to be a disappointment. I was hoping for a movie more about math and crypto, but it turned out to be a movie about schizophrenia. Did you not find the same thing

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-31 Thread Michael Cardenas
generate the signals which allow the lobster to digest things. He mostly does research into the nonlines dynamic properties of neurons. I'm hoping to work in his lab next year. michael -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-01 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:23:51PM -0800, Tim May wrote: > On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:41 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote: > > >How do you all see the future use of biologically based systems > >affecting cryptography in general? > > > >By biologically based s